There comes a time when a girl needs to add some 'regular' colors to her selection of hot pinks and red lipsticks. My time came about a year and a half ago when I realized that I need to start looking for nude lip things.
After running around Ulta trying tons of products with a nice sales rep who has a very similar skin tone to myself, and explaining what I'm looking for, she brought me over to the NYX section and showed me 2 colors that she likes herself...
NYX Soft Matte Lip Cream in Stockholm ( left ) and Abu Dhabi ( right ) $6
Right, Stockholm. Left, Abu Dhabi
But before I get into it, let me tell you thee most important information about these tiny tubes.
They smell....like CAKE BATTER!! I'm not even joking. I would never joke about cake batter. I was so pleasantly shocked that I almost lost all my big girl self control and licked the sponge applicator. Almost.
Ok, down to business....NYX Soft Matte Lip Cream actually says it all. The finish is a very soft matte. It doesn't have that dry finish that makes you look like you've been deprived of water for 2 days. It's a nice even matte, like natural lips with no balm. However, it's not very drying on the lips which I was shocked about. I was expecting to hate it but it actually glides between your lips like a regular lipstick. My lips remained soft the whole time, just never looked glossy.
This is not a stick, not a gloss, not a lacquer, cream is the only word to describe it. It's thick and opaque like a cream, without being heavy like a concealer. I like the opacity because it conceals just enough of my natural lip color to give me a true nude lip. Since it's rather opaque it will show any creases in your lips, so I recommend exfoliating your lips really well before wearing this and/or using a waxy balm before hand to give you a nice smooth finish.
Stockholm is a pink based nude while Abu Dhabi is a tan base. Both are very natural colors with undertones that could really go cool, warm or neutral very easily. At the moment Adu Dhabi is almost my actual skin tone, which I'm just not used to. I've been using it as a base to layer other colors on top and it's perfect for that! The Stockholm has some pink in it so looks more deliberate so I tend to be ok with wearing that on it's own, but we'll see over time. This is still a big step for me. My lipstick drawer is full of intimidating colors who shunned these little tubes at first, but they're making fast friends in there.
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