You know how when autumn starts everybody starts wearing dark lipstick. Well at least I suppose it is so, all youtubers and bloggers are doing it. I like dark lipstick, but haven't found the perfect one for me jet. I have an image in my mind, how my perfect autumn lipstick should look like. It should be dark red, with a little bit of brown and violet in the mix. And the lipstick should be from the drugstore department.
So the other day I was looking trough some Catrice lipsticks and I saw this lipstick that was dark, although I knew the colour wouldn't be what I'm searching for, but it has a name that sugest an autumnal colour so I bought it anyway.
The lipstick I bought is from the line Ultimate Stay. The charateristic of this line are intensive colours and a trendy satin-matt finish. The highly pigmented, longlasting texture has a convincing high coverage without drying out the sensitive skin on your lips. So it says on the official Catrice site. The colour that I bought is 070 Plum & Base.
The first thing I noticed when I opened the bullet was how undone the lipstick looks. As you can see from the photo above the edges aren't smooth and there are lines visible on the surface, like it was cut with a knife. I know this is not a big deal, but for me was a little disappointing. At least the smell is amazing (for me). It smells like confetti (a little problem with translation here. I think confetti is actualy an italian word, what I mean with confetti are those candies that you get at a wedding, an almond coated in sugar).
The aplication is nice, no draging on the lips at all, and the feeling on the lips is not drying. The finish should be satin-matte. But what is satin-matte finish anyway? Is not matte, that I can tell you, it is also not ultra shiny, so maybe this is satin-matte finish :) And the colour, well the colour you can see for yourself. At this point I won't try describing the colour. On the lips it lasted about three hours, then I ate something. It wasn't all gone, but I would need to correct the aplication otherwise I would look silly, like I aplied just the lipliner and this looks just hideous. The lipstick survived drinking just fine.
Since I got this lipstick I tought that I would make a comparison with a lipstick that I already own and in the bullet is the perfect shade, just what I'm searching for. Too bad is not the same colour on the lips. The lisptick is Milani 21 Sangria.
The most dissapointing thing about this lipstick is the colour. Look how dark is in the bullet and how different is the colour on the lips. Sure, if I could try the tester on my arm I would see that the colour is lighter, but the fact is that I bought this lipstick in America and there were no testers. Can you imagine that? Just some plastic squares with presumable colour. Ummm, that is not very helpful (imagine buying foundation or concealer). I bought it in a drugstore, unfortunately I forgot the name of it. That is why I don't know the name of the line of this lipstick. On the tube it doesn't say anything. I looked online and there are two possibilities. Is it Color Statement Moisture Matte Lipstick or Color Lipstick? I don't know, because there is no colour Sangria in any of them and the packaging of both is the same.
The second dissapointing thing is the aplication. It is uneven, emphasize dry patches and you have to go over lips multiple times if you want decent results. On my lips the lipstick felt drying and because all of the above I usually put lipbalm underneath it when I'm wearing it. Unfortunally the colour gets then even brighter and the lasting power diminishes. Otherwise it last good, it survives eating better that the Catrice one, but I think some correction would be needed. It smells so good, it has some kind of lemony scent that I can't describe properly and is not typical for lipsticks. Other positive qualities are also the price, which is unexpensive (don't know anymore how much it was, I think around 7 $) and the colour, which is nice, just not what I expected.
Here are the swatches of both lipsticks next to each other. They look similar, but are not dupes. I would say that the Catrice one has a blue undertone.
The search for my perfect dark lipstick continues. Stay tuned ;)
Have a great day!
