NYX Professional Makeup Soft Matte Lip Cream Review

These are some of my favourite lip products. So inexpensive, but so good!

The packaging is nice - I don't feel like it looks or feels cheap, despite the small price tag.

These also smell really good! I personally find yucky smelling lipsticks really off putting and end up giving them away or throwing out.

I love that these are matte, but don't dry my lips out. They still feel quite creamy, they are so easy to apply and glide on really smoothly and without any chunky bits (which I have experienced with some other matte lip creams from other brands).

There is a great colour selection to choose from as well. I find the staying power of these quite good - if you aren't eating and drinking up a storm you will be fine. I do find after eating they definitely do need a touch up, but it is no hassle to do so as these remove easily and can be reapplied.

I am obsessed with matte lip products, they are my absolute favourite and I wanted to jump on the matte liquid lipstick band wagon as soon as it became popular but I didn't have much luck with them. Australis Velour Lips burnt my lips and made them sting/itch like crazy! MUA Velvet Lips were far too dry and uncomfortable for my liking and those popular ebay Lime Crime dupes never dried down and stayed uncomfortably sticky. So when my friend gave me one of these NYX ones I was very, very sceptical but boy was I pleasantly surprised! These last up until you eat, any oils will deteriorate the formula but that's okay, I don't find these hard to remove so it's easy enough to reapply. The NYX formula isn't overly drying, you can still mush your lips together without it flaking off and it smells AMAZING. I do find that the shade I have needs some building up as it's not very opaque but the formula is thin enough that you can easily layer it. I am super impressed by these and already have a list of the other shades I want.

I think I discovered these because I wanted to buy LimeCrime, but didn't want to pay the big bucks for something I wasn't sure I was going to like. After hours (maybe an exaggeration) of trawling the internet for dupes and swatches I came across these, and I purchased my first color from eBay after much mental debate. So far I have gotten my little hands on four of the shades from NYX. I have and will be reviewing: Ibiza, Antwerp, Prague and Copenhagen.

I'm amazed. I've never owned a matte anything, except nail polish which hardly counts here. The formula is smooth and creamy and it slides on easily with the angled applicator. Leave it to dry and it goes matte on your lips. And I've found it lasts all day (although I didn't eat much that day and drank through a straw). It lasts a while, though!

They smell so good, like sugar cookies or candy or something. The tubes they come in are cute too, I really like how they're packaged. I find that Antwerp and Ibiza (both pinky kind of colors) highlight where my lips are chapped or just not nice looking. Prague, a dark fushia color, and Copenhagen, a dark purple, do not highlight the chapped lips, but they cover it.

Copenhagen, being as dark as it is, probably needs to be dried after the first application before you apply another one. It doesn't go as opaque as the others, and is darker in some places other than others, and that's really frustrating.

Overall, I'm in love with these, and I'm probably going to buy more. It's the only product I've ever bought that I've had more than two of, at any one time. Its a really fun obsession!

So far, these are the best drugstore liquid lipsticks I have used, but they're still not perfect. I have the shades Antwerp, Sydney, Tokyo, Istanbul and Buenos Aries. The formula is slightly different with all of them. They do apply super smooth and soft, they are a joy to apply and feel really luxurious. The lighter pinks (Sydney, Tokyo, Istanbul) dry fastest, and can look a little dry and highlight any chapped areas, so you have to exfoliate really well for these to look nice. Buenos Aries is a light peach, and dries to a slightly nicer finish than the pinks, but can wear off a little patchy. Antwerp is the best out of the ones I own, it dries to an awesome matte finish and doesn't highlight any dry areas, which is nice. It is the darkest of the ones I own, a dark pink with a touch of red/orange. I think the darker shades in this line will look nicer for a longer time. However, they do all dry very matte, so if you have well exfoliated lips and are looking for a really matte, highly pigmented liquid lipstick, these would be perfect for you. For the price as well, these are pretty amazing quality.

I was so excited to receive this product, one of my favourite youtubers raved about it, unfortunately when I tried it I found the product to be horrendously drying on my lips (and I am used to Matte formulas, I own a variety of other Matte lip products) I actually found them uncomfortable to wear. The shade I got was Buenos Aries and to be honest I wasn't that fussed on the colour. As for moisturising, NYX please! Definitely not!