I’d Circumnavigate the globe for the NYX Soft Matte Lip Creams

forget “champagne wishes and caviar dreams.” I like “makeup wishes and Soft Lip Creams.”

In my wildest appeal nerd dreams, I’d check out each of the 11 cities featured in the new NYX Soft Lip Creams line ($6 each) just to be able to wear each color in the city it belongs. first London, then Amsterdam, Antwerp, Stockholm, Monte Carlo and Milan. From there it’s across the Adriatic to Istanbul, down to Abu Dhabi, additionally down to Addis Ababa, way, way east to Tokyo, and then all the way across the Pacific to end in Sao Paolo, Brazil.

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Of course, to complete the fantasy, I’d fly service class, and Ben McKenzie would accompany me on the journey (sorry, El Hub!). On planes, in trains and automobiles, we’d talk for hours about The Hunger Games, and then, somewhere over the Mediterranean, he’d reveal his secret fetish for crazy cat ladies.

But seriously, here’s what really happened…

Today I wore Addis Ababa (a matte hot pink), Antwerp (a matte coral), Milan (a matte peach) and Amsterdam (a matte red) — not at the same time, of course — as I tooled around the sleepy northern California town of Novato, dodging cookie-pushing girl Scouts (OMG! thin MINTS!), and walking a chubby cat named Tabs.

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Okay, so that wasn’t extremely exciting, but these Soft Matte Lip Creams are. NYX, a budget-minded, cruelty-free brand, just released the new line of creamy, long-wearing matte lipsticks for spring.

NYX Soft Matte Lip Creams from left: Addis Ababa, Amsterdam, Antwerp and Milan

From left: Addis Ababa, Antwerp, Milan and Amsterdam

Swatches from left: Addis Ababa, Amsterdam, Antwerp and Milan

They look like glosses with their tubes and doe-foot applicators, don’t they? What’s inside, however, is something entirely different. They feel nearly like whipped cream on the lips and spread just as easily, too. and I love their featherweight, non-sticky texture; it’s a great departure from the thick and heavy matte lipsticks I’ve worn in the past.

NYX seems to like lippies with bold scents, and these Soft Lip Creams absolutely fall into the “Wow, this stuff is STRONG!” kategori. whenever I open a tube, the vanilla buttercream frosting scent hits me like a ton of bricks. It’s something I think of will either absolutely float your boat, or absolutely gross you out. I happen to like that it doesn’t smell synthetic (my pet peeve), but you might want to give these a cautionary sniff before taking the plunge.

As for pigmentation, IT’S OFF THE HOOK! NYX packed plenty of rich, lively color into these tubes. One layer delivers wonderfully opaque coverage that, incidentally, also looks pretty terrific in pictures.

Antwerp

Milan

Amsterdam

Addis Ababa

I worry a bit when it pertains to new mattes because lots of tend to dehydrate my lips, but these Lip Creams appear to hold their ground in the hydration department. They’re a teeny, tiny bit drying, but not so much to turn me off. A small amount of lip balm layered underneath them must help.

NYX bills these as long-wearing lip products, and I get about five hours total, which isn’t bad at all. There is a catch, however: the colors go away mad, which is to say that my lips look terrific for the first 2-3 hours of wear before color begins to vanish at the edges. By the fifth hour, what remains doesn’t look nearly as nice. It’s an unattractive, thick ring of color left in the inner part of my lips.

They’re higher maintenance than I thought they’d be, but that just indicates a lot more touch-ups throughout the day. At $6, the price is right. If/when NYX finds a way to get the Soft Creams to fade a bit a lot more evenly (something the new matte L’Oreal Lipsticks do remarkably well) throughout the day, we might be checking out the next breakout drugstore makeup star.

PRICE: $6 each
AVAILABILITY: available now at select drugstores, Ulta and nyxcosmetics.com
MAKEUP and appeal blog RATING: A

Let the record state…

I can’t wait to see Take Me home Tonight. It’s a new ’80s coming of age flick starring Topher Grace, but judging by this trailer, it may not be the most historically hair accurate film (can a motion picture like this still be called a film?). The coifs are nowhere near as high or as “spiral permed” as I remember them being!

Oops! now you’re probably going to have Eddie money stuck in your head for the rest of the day.

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Ta meg hjem i kveld! I don’t wanna let you go till you see the light!

Din vennlige appellavhengig i nabolaget,

Karen