Sephora Collection - Cream Lip Stain Matte - An Honest Review

 

Welcome back, 

Today I have a review of two of the Sephora Collection Cream Lip Stain Matte liquid lipsticks for you. 

Previously,  Sephora was not available to buy in the UK, but they now have two stores in London, one of which opened in 2023, and they are opening a new store in the Trafford Centre in Manchester in the summer of 2024. But if like me, you can't get to any of the stores, fear not, in 2022, Sephora took over the Feel Unique website and is now online so we can shop til we drop at Sephora without needing to travel to their stores. 

Sephora Collection: 

The Sephora Collection is Sephora's own brand beauty range. Sephora's Sephora Collection is a diverse and extensive range of beauty and skincare products developed and curated by Sephora and typically includes makeup, skincare, beauty tools and haircare. 

The Sephora Collection offers a wide array of products at various and mostly affordable price points. Sephora has a commitment to cruelty-free beauty and many of the products in the Sephora Collection have been formulated without animal testing. The packaging of the products is sleek, modern and simple, nothing fancy just simple but it looks great, I have tried a few products from their makeup range and so far so good, I shall be writing more about the other products I have tried soon.

Sephora Collection Cream Matte Lip Stain:

What Sephora Says:

"Sephora Collection Cream Lip Stain Liquid Lipstick is ultra-matte, full-coverage, long lasting, doesn’t transfer, and is very comfortable to wear.

Celebrate 10 years of no-transfer, extremely matte, and high-payoff colour with Cream Lip Stain.

SEPHORA COLLECTION transfer-free liquid lipstick, power in a bottle since 2011.
- The power to resist thanks to a long-lasting, maskproof, no-transfer makeup result.
-The power of extreme matte colour in a comfortable, non-drying velvet texture.
- The power of intense pigmentation in a thin but high-coverage colour layer.

You’ll never need to wonder how to make a matte liquid lipstick stay put: the answer is all in the long-lasting formula of SEPHORA COLLECTION cream lip stain lipstick. With a texture that feels creamy upon application, before melting into a light velvety veil of long-lasting lip colour.

Cream Lip Stain is:
- A non-drying lipstick with a comfortable and velvety texture that provides great coverage. Thanks to its formula enriched with avocado oil, this matte liquid lipstick provides comfort upon application."

My Thoughts:

I have really liked wearing liquid lipsticks for a number of years now and having tried a couple of the Sephora Collection Long Lip Last lipsticks quite a few years ago (which I cant find on the website, so I think they must have been discontinued) and trying one of the Cream Lip Stain Matte a couple of years ago and liking it, when shopping on the Sephora website, I thought I'd get a couple and see what I thought.

Swatch Photographs Are Not Edited 

I bought two of the lip stain matte, one in the shade Hippy Pink which is shade 69 and the other in the shade Watermelon which is shade 09. The swatches above don't really show how they look on my lips but that is my problem 100%, I have very blue lips due to a medication I use and because of this my lips can throw the shade of lipstick and it can look quite different on me than the swatches I take or I see online.

However, when I look at the lip swatches on the website, they do look very similar to how they look on me. Hippy Pink is more of a peachy pinky nude and Watermelon is a bright orangey shade with a hint of red. Both are lovely colours and to be honest nicer than I expected so I am not upset about it at all.

The lipsticks come with a doe foot applicator and are easy to apply without any messiness at all. They feel very comfortable when applying and do dry down to a matte finish, they don't feel uncomfortable on the lips once dry but if a matte finish isn't for you, applying a lip balm over the top helps but doesn't spoil the colour payoff or how lovely the lip stain mattes look.

I am really impressed by the lip stain mattes, and will be picking up a couple more shades, I like the look of First Dates and Pinky Red but to be honest with there being 40 shades to choose from I think I'll end up trying more than a couple. The lip stains do last well and didn't move throughout me drinking, but I did need to top up after eating which isn't a problem, they aren't huge and fit into my bag nicely with a compact mirror.

I have been looking for photographs of me wearing the lip stains and I have found one of me wearing the shade Watermelon 09 when we had gone away for the weekend to a Butlins 90's Reloaded weekend, so I shall pop that picture below for you.

Please excuse the matching t-shirts and my headband, this was one of the things we did to celebrate my 50th Year. I am wearing the shade Watermelon 09 in this photograph and as you can see, it is quite a bright orangey shade with a hint of red in it. It's a lovely colour though and I do love it, and I love the Hippy Pink too, they are both very "me" shades and I get a good amount of wear from them both. Hippy Pink is a good daytime shade, so I'll wear it if I'm going to the shops or out for lunch, but I'll wear Watermelon more in the evenings or on a summers day. 

I am really pleased with the Sephora Collection lip stain matte and think you would be too, especially if liquid lipsticks are your thing, and if you would like to give them a try, you can find them on the Sephora Website by clicking HERE priced at £12.99 each, you can often find discounts on the Sephora Collection own brand products, and if you have any specific discounts for example, teaching or NHS discounts, you will be able to save some pennies which is always a bonus. 

Have you tried the Sephora Collection Lip Stain Matte? Let me know in the comments, or if you haven't, check them out on the website and let me know if you could pick two shades up, which two shades would they be? 

Thank you for reading

Zoë x