Last weekend over a belt-bulging burger, me and one of my best mates Lauren discussed life, love and long-wearing lipstick. Lauren is my bold lip buddie – she’s always rocking the red lacquer – so with her in tow we both felt it completely necessary to crack out the colour for a casual trip to GBK. While we chomped away, her lipstick stayed intact (one of the Rimmel Kate Moss Matte ones – I think someone may have been ready my blog, eh Lauren?!), while I despaired at having to reapply mine a total of five times while we were out to avoid the porn star liner look as my lippie wore away (Illamasqua Magnetism I’m looking at you). Our natter moved onto to her favourite long-lasting formulas and being the brave lip one out of my mates, I listened up. So the next day her top pick, YSL Rouge Pur Couture Vernis A Lévres Glossy Stain in #9 was purchased (and with my Boots points too – score!)…
The YSL Glossy Stains are a pretty unique formula and a class example of a brand identifying and gap in the market and going for it. A shiny finish, liquid lipstick that’s long lasting all wrapped up in the fancy dancy packaging we’ve come to expect from YSL. The idea is you layer on two coats form the heart-shaped applicator – the first dries matte and stains the lips, and the second gives the glossy finish. I gave this a go, and to my surprise it worked. It feels almost like skin on the lips, not a horrible gloopy finish at all which I half expected, and most of all it lasted. For a peek at what it looked like, check out Gemma’s photo here. I did gobble my way through a ginormous amount of food at Wahaca (god help my waistline at the moment), so it did require a quick touch up to revive the colour in the centre of my lips, but I think without the feast it would have lasted the whole evening no worries. I would suggest using a lip liner with it, I went for MAC Cherry Lip Pencil, just to neaten up the edges, but if you’re a more expected bold lip wearer than myself with a steady hand, just throw it on straight from the bud-like applicator.
A Glossy Stain will take you back £22.50 and there are a whopping 26 shades to choose from – how is one to pick? From reviews I’ve read, the neutral colours don’t seem to work as well in this formula, so stick to the boldies and be brave. So cheers Lauren – lets get glossy (and more importantly, long lasting!).
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