Revlon's Smoky Rose Lipstick is a bit like Hole

Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick in Smoky Rose - £7.49

It's rare that it takes a while for a product to grow on me. Usually I love something immediately and maintain an adoration for it, like The Beatles, or I start off loving something and end up going off it, like The Voice*. Although, there are some cases where I'm just a bit indifferent or I don't majorly love something but I don't dislike it. Like 90s grunge band Hole, I had listened to a couple of songs by Hole and I thought they were alright. I didn't think the songs I had listened to were bad, but I wasn't rushing to listen to every other song they had made. However, for some reason, I returned to them quite a long time after and listened to the Celebrity Skin album and I really liked most of the tracks on it. It's a similar situation with Revlon's Super Lustrous Pearl lipstick in Smoky Rose - I bought it quite a few months ago and liked it but I wasn't crazy about it, and it was by no means a shade I reached for regularly, but times have changed.

I know you're probably thinking this isn't a particularly interesting lipstick shade, but it just adds something. It's quite sheer but you can layer it up to get a lovely rose-brown type colour. It's a pearl finish which, from what I gather because I haven't tried any, is quite similar to MAC's frost finish lipsticks. So it's not super glossy but it does have a bit of a sheen to it, which makes your lips look plumper without the use of lip liner if that's the look you're after. Due to the fact that it's not matte, it only lasts for a couple of hours before fading, but that's not so much an issue for me and if you use a lip liner underneath it will last a lot longer.

What's your favourite everyday lipstick?

*I watched The Voice the first year it was on but when it ended I just couldn't be bothered with reality television anymore, it was goodbye X Factor, goodbye The Voice, and goodbye Britain's Got Talent - I've never looked back since.

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Review | Revlon Super Lustrous Matte Lipstick in Really Red

For a person who doesn't like looking too over the top for everyday, I sure do love me a red lip (as my growing collection would surely indicate)

As you may have seen in this haul, I picked up a Revlon lipstick in a deal at Boots (spend £9.99 and get a ColourBurst Matte Balm free, seriously it would have been offensive to refuse that). I picked up Really Red as I had read on many reviews of it that it was a dupe of Mac's Russian Red, me being Miss Stingey I can't verify that as I haven't splashed out and bought any Mac lipsticks (commence the mob of beauty bloggers coming after me with pitchforks)

Revlon Super Lustrous Matte Lipstick in Really Red - £7.49

The packaging is really nice and classy, it's very basic but it's nice all the same. It's a matte lipstick, but amazingly this isn't drying at all for the most part (at about the 7-8 hour mark, it started to feel a little dry but not too badly). It didn't cling to any dry patches, although I make an effort to exfoliate my lips and balm up those bad boys before applying lipstick in general so there weren't really dry patches to be clung onto.

It appears a little more orange on the picture but it doesn't come out orangey at all in real life.

As you can hopefully see, it's really pigmented (perhaps not a colour for the faint-hearted) - as the name would suggest, it is indeed 'Really Red'. It's a blue-toned red so it makes your teeth appear slightly whiter, although don't expect to put it on and instantly become Simon Cowell.

Overall, I absolutely love this product - I actually think it's my favourite matte red lipstick that I own (not that I own loads, but I do now own a fair few).

What's your favourite red lipstick?

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