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While it was crumbling by the end, it wasn’t unbearably dry while it was on and it didn’t transfer while I was eating or drinking. Even if the rest of the face is bare, a simple crimson stain has that street-style power to make one feel instantly put-together or going out-ready in just a few swipes and blots. It is the most velvety finish I’ve ever seen from a matte lipstick, and the color is truly stunning. So for me, the trick of blending the lines with my finger and doing a blottish application was the way I approached this. Second, it lasted way longer than I expected considering I was eating some pretty oily foods and drinking coffee.

I always prep with a tiny bit of lip balm before lipstick application of any kind; enough to hydrate my lips but not too much that the liquid formula can’t adhere to my lips. Matte liquid lipsticks can tend to be on the dry side, but this one was pretty comfortable to wear and lasted for a while without having to touch up.

While no one will ever mistake me for French (I'm far too Southern and clumsy to ever smolder with mystery) I definitely knew I wanted to try the supposedly perfect French lip color. While Refinery29 is always covering the best red lipsticks on the blazin' market, the quest for the perfect rose-petal red is actually never-ending because there are so many variables to consider: Do you go with liquid or crayon?

It also faded nicely: instead of coming off in patches or leaving an unflattering ring around my outer lips, it wore evenly and left a very mild red stain behind. As the former Global Beauty Director at Estée Lauder, Violette is no newb to the French-girl aesthetic (it also helps that she is French herself) and what she's captured in Petal Bouche Matte is a soft, velvety blue-red that's so often sought out by the effortlessly chic set (or those who aspire to be). I do like how the red looks when it’s settled down, but I didn’t love the dry feeling of lips that comes with wearing a matte gloss. Even if one lipstick looks crimson-red on a friend, it would generally look orange-red on me — which, sometimes there's a time and place for that, but usually I'm gunning for a sickeningly vampy red at all times. I’ve never been a big lipstick gal before, but every now and then I live for a bright red power lip.The color is a brilliant, true red —not too warm but not too blue –and is buildable enough to create a deeper color if desired. I would have thought of this as more of an evening/nighttime color, but seeing it in brighter light makes me think it could totally work for daytime as well.

We may have found a new fave in the form of Violette_FR's Petal Bouche Matte liquid lipstick, which already boasts a 4.Granted, I didn't eat or drink anything THAT messy, but it survive through a Chipotle burrito bowl and soda, so there's that.