I don't usually get that excited when beauty brands release new limited edition collections however the latest one from Chanel was such an exception for me that I had to purchase at least one product from it so I bought one of the Rouge Allure Velvet lipsticks. I decided to get the shade 58 Rouge Vie which is a gorgeous wine coloured dark red. This is the perfect shade to transition into autumn and winter but you could easily wear it all year round if dark reds are your thing anyway. At first I was worried that this would look horrible on me and come out as too dark, but luckily I made the right choice as it suits my light-medium warm skin tone really well.
I tested it out yesterday evening for the first time and I have to say that it holds up well (it should really for £26!). I applied it at 6pm, looked at it after 2 hours and it looked the same as I put it on and then I had some tea and biscuits (chocolate digestives of course, my food obsession haha) and surprisingly only a tiny bit came off around the edges. I then last checked it out at about quarter pass 10 before I went to wash my makeup off and that's when the centre of it started to disappear, but then again the majority of the colour was still there, so I was super impressed with that! I took it off with the rest of my makeup after that but knowing that it lasts so long it makes me so happy that I bought it now. It does have a comfortable matte finish which must be why it lasts so long which is great. I honestly do recommend this lipstick if you haven't tried a Chanel lipstick before and you like your reds or dark reds and even if you're not comfortable with dark reds this is a great one to go with as it's not super dark or intimidating to wear at all.
I'll put some swatches of it below
What it looks like on the lips
I hope you found this review helpful if you're interested in purchasing something from the Le Rouge No1 Collection. If you have something from the range let me know what you got and what you think of the products, I'd love to know.
Thanks for reading
Chantal x
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It took me such a long time to try Topshop makeup for some reason but I'm so happy I eventually did because so far I'm impressed with what I've tried. I have two of their lipsticks so far, but today I'm going to concentrate on the one I've had for quite a few months now which is the Rio Rio lipstick. I had been looking for an affordable matte red lipstick for ages and luckily I found this one. It's a warm toned/an orange toned red lipstick that applies really easily even though it does have that matte formula which sometimes makes things harder to apply, but this is great to apply and the pigmentation is really vivid and strong giving you the colour you would expect from looking at the lipstick. On me the colour lasts pretty well, around 5 hours or so of moderately great colour then after that it would need topping up just to keep that bright red colour alive and kicking. Overall I'm really impressed with the quality of Topshop lipsticks, especially as they are really a fashion brand and not a beauty brand so they've done really well. I know that not too long ago it was their 5th birthday of their makeup range and you could buy a few of their most popular products with limited addition packaging and the Rio Rio lipstick was one of them, so if you can get your hands on that version of it I suggest you do before they all sell out. Otherwise the one with the normal packaging is of course just as good, I mean they are literally the same product just slightly different on the outside, that's all really.
What it looks like on the lips
Topshop lipsticks retail for £8 and you can buy them either in store or online.
I hope you liked this review.
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