This is a really dry lipstick. Its texture is creamy smooth, but it's sort of like a dry crayon when applied. The pigment is great, but I felt like it was really hard to blend the two colours. The red was a vibrant scarlet which applied unevenly across the lip on first go and then when I tried adding the gold in the centre of my lips it sort of looked like I'd put a glob of gold crayon on top of the scarlet. I think the issue is that the gold is super matte and opaque. You could wear each shade alone, but layering just looks terribly fake.
The lipsticks also crumble and break off way too easily which meant I lost like half the stick, sad face. There's also not that much product. It looks like one long flipstick, but it's more like two lip balms glued together.
Also, no amount of lip stain or lip pencil can keep this lipstick lasting beyond two hours even without eating or drinking. It all just sort of flakes off bit by bit, which is not an attractive look.
The colours are bold, but the product's consistency and unblendability really let it down.
I found these to be somewhat dry and did not apply smoothly. The color was more vibrant, too fire-engine red and less subtle than I had hoped. They work okay, just not quite the product I was expecting.