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Our unique Ultra Blotted Lip creates a soft, diffused, just-blotted look with its comfy, matte, longwearing finish.
For that soft, diffused just-blotted look, our medium coverage liquid lipstick dries matte, doesn’t budge, and feels soft and comfy on the lips.
A medium coverage matte lipstick that creates a soft, diffused look. It is completely transfer-proof and long-wearing but also lightweight and comfortable. No cracking or flaking! Leaves lips smooth and fresh.
Application tips
Apply your ultra blotted lip in a thin layer for most comfortable wear.
 To intensify your look, line your lips with a matching lippie pencil, this will help you achieve the perfect finished look and it will also give the appearance of fuller lips.

- I mean the description says it all. These are long lasting matte liquid lipsticks, but with sheer medium coverage.

- They come in the same clear plastic packaging as their other liquid lip and lip gloss formulas, silver lid and have a standard doe foot applicator. The shade name sticker is on the base. I do find like most Colourpop products the writing tends to fade off the packaging after a few uses. Wish they'd up the quality because the packaging looks so battered and tacky after a short while.

I've taken lots of pictures under various lighting Right-Left: Starlet, Tattle Tail, Zuma, Halo Effect, Vitamin Sea, Doozy, Soda Pop, Sleepy Eyes, Cypress Chill, Cherry On Top

- 3g of product for $7. Which is approx £5.67. Creamy thin formula.

- No added scent, just a bit of a plasticky smell but not at all strong or overpowering.

- They have a tonne of colours and are always adding new shades to the range. I'd love to own them all as I find all the shades have worked for me because of how sheer and forgiving the formula is. Also should mention that they set to a slightly more muted tone on the lips, not as bright or vivid as how they appear in the tube or when they're still wet, so bare this in mind.

I have the shades:

Starlet - diffused deep yellow nude - One of my personal faves, perfect neutral nude, this with a nude gloss on top is perfection.

Tattle Tail - diffused rose pink - Cute candy pink on my skin tone, pair with a darker lip liner

Zuma - warm nude - My holy grail, my love, my life! Perfect warm nude pink on my skin tone.

Halo Effect - warm nude with a hint of coral - Exactly that, peachier, coral version of Zuma

Vitamin Sea - orange terracotta - I pair this with Toffee to tone down the brightness, really nice for spring/summer

Doozy - warm rose - My go-to bright yellow pink, so so cute and pretty on the lips

Soda Pop - plummy rose - Exactly that, a plummy toned pink.

Sleepy Eyes - warm rose nude - I would say this is a rosy reddish mlbb colour on me. I reach for this a lot as well as the next one.

Cypress Chill - sheer brick rose - Deeper and a bit more burgundy than Sleepy Eyes, another go-to.

Cherry On Top - blackened plum - Gorgeous wearable vampy cherry bitten lips. The amount of times people have asked me what I have on my lips when I've worn this...! Can apply streaky so take your time with this shade in particular.

- Unlike other liquid lipsticks I don't wipe off the excess back into the tube, one doe foot application is enough for me and I don't need to dunk the wand back in and put on a second layer. They apply fairly easily, but I will say you have to take effort to ensure you apply the product as evenly as you can and blend out any streaks because the streaks will set too and will be visible.

This is the shade Zuma- my fave!

- I would say you have about 40 seconds to apply and spread the product around before it starts to set and they do set rather quickly. I personally don't think they layer very well so would suggest to only apply one layer or it starts to feel quite thick and rough on the lips and the product gets very crumbly. If you want to layer then I suggest you let one layer dry completely before applying the next.

While it's still wet...

Once it's dry, it's completely matte, no shine whatsoever

- They feel super lightweight on the lips for a liquid lipstick. I despise the sticky, tackiness of some liquid lipstick formulas, or when I rub my lips together and can feel that dry rough layer of product on my lips.
What I actually do with most of my liquid lipsticks (and I've shared this trick on my Instagram before) is apply a tiny amount of a pore filling primer to my lips before applying the liquid lipstick to prevent any tackiness.
I don't have to use any primer with these Ultra Blotted Lips, they feel so soft and smooth and I can feel my own lips when I purse them together. 

The bottom picture shows the thicker areas that were still wet and you can see they flaked off in those areas once they'd dried down in the top picture. Like I mentioned, one layer is best.

- Another quality I love about these are how soft, diffused and smooth they look on my lips. I have a lot of lines on my lips and find most liquid lipstick formulas highlight these lines and I don't get a smooth plump pillowy finish. Which is also why I use the primer step with traditional liquid lipsticks, using a pore filling primer smoothens and fills out the lines on my lips and gives me a much smoother fuller finish.

However I don't need to use any primer for the Ultra Blotted Lips, they give the lips a very smooth pillowy finish on their own.

- These are waterproof and smudge-proof. I love that these last as long as your traditional liquid lipsticks and because of their sheerness they wear off better too. Like liquid lipsticks they fade on the inner parts of your lips after eating but it’s not as prominent as a super pigmented liquid lipstick.

- I don’t have any negatives apart from the obvious that they’re not the most hydrating lip products and lips can feel dry after a while, but for a long lasting matte product they are immensely comfortable. You can apply a balm underneath or a gloss on top if you like, this will obviously compromise longevity.

- Another negative is that they do dry up quicker in the tube compared to normal liquid lipsticks.

- Another negative is that they’re unfortunately not easy to get hold of here in the UK as Colourpop are based in the USA and shipping can take between 2-3 weeks.

- Even though they are very affordable products, shipping to the UK is a flat rate of $10 for orders under $50. They offer free shipping for orders over $50 and thankfully customs and taxes are paid for at checkout so no surprises at your door. I usually make my $50+ orders during their sale period.
One thing I should mention is that I just noticed a lot of their shades in this line are missing, I really hope they aren’t discontinuing them...

- To summarise I love these Ultra Blotted Liquid Lipsticks, I love the shades and how wearable they are on me, these work so well with my brown girl lip issues. If you love matte stained lips you will love these! I can tell you one thing, whenever I’ve had one of these on, I've always been asked what I’m wearing on my lips, always! So that should convince you if this review hasn’t. It took me forever to make this post haha but I hope you enjoyed this review.

Have you tried the Ultra Blotted Lips? Share your thoughts!

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I have the shades: Stockholm: Which is a pale peachy nude, I was obsessed with this shade before I bought it but was a bit disappointed because it was too light and bright for my complexion, especially my top lip, it didn't look anything like the way I saw it on others. I like pairing this with a lip liner and much prefer it like this.

Colourpop

The Suede Creams are much thinner and liquidy in consistency than the Soft Matte Lip Creams, pigmented yet feel soft and comfortable on the lips, though I find they take quite a while to dry down completely. Like the name suggests it's a suede like finish and feel on the lips. Once dry they do last a while. The formula is actually really really good but it's because they take so long to dry why they've been pushed this far down in my list plus they have the least exciting range of shades in my opinion, I think if they had more wearable shades then I would have liked them more, the shades they have are more suitable for those who like wacky vibrant shades and that's just not my cup of tea.

I have the shade: Soft Spoken: It's another "Lolita dupe" type of shade (Mauvey pink). If you own this you don't need to own Rome or vice versa. 

NYX Liquid Lingerie

I have been so impressed with NYX lately. Their recent lip product launches have been a HUGE HIT in the beauty industry, causing waves of happiness and joy and I can totally understand why!

I guess I was probably devastated enough to decide to make my own version. I was just experimenting, a casual pass time experiment, I wasn't going to blog about it or upload it on to my Instagram, but I think it's turned out quite well! So I decided to put it out there for anyone interested. I think you'll need a bit of patience to do this if you're interested, I am quite patient when it comes to these things and am always mixing my own lipstick colours and pouring into empty lip balm tubes. I love a bit of experimental DIY-ing, so pass me the finickety tools and spanners any day! 

Keep wet wipes/oil based MU remover and dry tissues on hand, you'll need them! 

Lolita is a dusty rose, mauvey pink ish colour. I've never really come across a colour like this so I guess that's why people love it so much.

For this DIY I examined Lolita and looked closely at the colour and tone, I used Sleek Matte Me in Birthday Suit for the base colour, I found this colour had the right dusty pink undertone to work with and it was obviously a matte liquid lipstick. I compared it to Birthday Suit, I saw it was darker than Birthday Suit and had a bit more reddish pink mauve brown in it. So I looked through my makeup stash and picked out a couple of colours that I thought would make this transformation work. 

I chose Sleek lipliner in Chestnut, it had that brickish red tone in it which would add more colour to the dull and flat Birthday Suit and I chose Rimmel Lipliner in Cuppuccino to darken it as it was a browny mauve colour.

To take out the contents of Sleek Birthday Suit, I took off (with an old pair of tweezers) the little plastic ring that is attached to the mouth of lipglosses so that the hole was bigger, I scooped out as much of the lipstick with the doe applicator and scraped it into a little metal scoop/deep spoon. Use clean fingers to get as much product off the applicator.

I then cut off however much of Sleeks Chestnut that I thought was necessary and added that to the spoon. Because it's a twist up liner it was easy to cut off.

Taking out the crayon from the Rimmel pencil took a little longer, you basically have to snap the pencil with a nut cracker or sharp knife to get the crayon/lipliner out. I added that to the spoon too. Since it's cheap and widely available I wasn't worried about ruining the pencil. 

I placed the mix over a candle and stirred until the mixture was melted, it's best to keep it on a low heat and let it melt gradually or you might risk changing the formula or burning it. I tested the colour and compared it to Lolita, observed and analysed and tweeked it here and there by adding more of a certain colour till I got something that came very close to Lolita! 

Once that was done, using the doe applicator I scraped and pushed it down back into the matte me tube and put the little plastic ring back on. You do waste a itty bitty bit of the mix but nothing drastic. I think this colour is amazingly close to Lolita! I added a good few swatches and think they look pretty identical, my DIY version takes a little longer than KVD to dry fully but it actually stays put longer than KVD!