Hi loves :)
You'd know if you've seen my most recent webcam vlog (you can find it here) that I'm currently cleaning out my makeup collection for spring & IMATS. While doing so, I was organizing my lipsticks and came across my one luxury lipstick, my YSL Rouge Volupte lipstick in the color 13, which is a peach color.
I'll start with the packaging.
The packaging is gorgeous, gold top and bottom and middle design, that has a YSL thingy on it and the color of the lipstick as the center of the tube. It's heavier than my mac lipsticks but not as heavy as other higher end ones. It's +$30 which is outrageous for a freaking lipstick.
Pros: packaging
Cons: price
Now onto the formula.
The color, like I said, is a really nice peach color. I have a weird skintone, I'm really really pale (Chanel Vitalumier Aqua B10, Clinique Superbalanced Makeup in Breeze, paler than mac NC20) but I have an olive skintone, therefore I have a bit of yellow in my body, but my face is pink, even though I have broken capillaries and acne scars. When I first tried the lipstick on in the store I didn't know if it looked good on me, my Revlon lipsticks, even in really cool colors, looked good. This is a warm coral peach, which the lady at the counter convinced me that it looked great on me, so i bought it. My lips have lines in them so sometimes, most of the time actually, my lipstick catches in the lines and after a few minutes of wear, or a lip primer, it smooths out. The formula is so so so so so so SO creamy that it doesn't settle in my lips/smooth out like all other lipsticks. This makes me not want to wear it at all to be honest.
Pros: packaging, color
Cons: price, color, formula
I tried pairing this lipstick with lipglosses or lipstains underneath and, unfortunately, it made it worse. Obviously it altered the color but it didn't help the wear at all. The lipstick doesn't work with other lip products and it slides around on your lips, even if they're moisturized.
Pros: packaging, color
Cons: price, color, formula x2
Basically, I'm really disappointed with this lipstick.
All in all: Don't get it.
xxx,
Ashley
