Autumn
– the favourite season of every beauty blogger and tumblr hipster
girl there ever was, is and will be – is here, people! I actually
just edited an article about why the human brain likes Autum so much
for work, it's pretty interesting. (It's because our brain likes the
temperature because it's neither too hot or too cold so it has time
to enjoy life and doesn't have to warm/cool down our body. Plus it
also likes change, but only change that is already familiar – so
since the seasons change regularly, our brain is pretty chuffed with
that. Cool stuff, right?) ... Anyways, this post is about lipsticks.
Dark lipsticks, to be precise!
I
wear dark lipstick all year around, but come Autumn I always feel the
need to acquire new ones for my collection. This summer, I spent four
glorious days in London with my friends, and naturally we went to
Selfridges to stare lovingly at the Charlotte Tilbury range. Since her Matte Revolution lipsticks are really as
amazing a everyone always claims (I already owned Amazing Grace), I
invested into another one from the line – Glastonberry. A
beautifuly dark berry shade. Sometime in August, MAC extended their
range of matte lipsticks, and they made the shade Instigator
(originally from the Punk Couture LE) permanent. It's a beautiful
dark violet lipstick and I love it.
The
reason why I'm putting these two lipsticks into the same post is my
friend Dani. When we were at the MAC store together and I swatched
Instigator, I remember her saying something like, "Pretty, but
isn't that very similar to Glastonberry?" Since I
was convinced that Instigator was way more puple and cool-toned, I
bought it anyways – because nobody can have enough dark lipsticks.
But I thought a comparison would still be nice for everyone that's
looking for a vampy lipstick and needs some inspiration.
So
as you can see from the swatches, Glastonberry is a tad warmer-toned
and lighter than Instigator – it's a bit less "out there",
a classic Autumn berry shade. Instigator ends up pretty purple on the
lips and is obviously more cool-toned; I really like it as a
statement lip paired with less eyeshadow/eyeliner than I usually
wear. I think Charlotte Tilbury and MAC both have great matte
lipstick formulas – they're both pretty long-lasting and still
creamy at the same time. I will say that Charlotte Tilbury lipsticks
feel like actual velvet when you apply them to your lips, which is a pretty satisfying feeling ... but in the end, we all know that MAC's matte
lipsticks kick ass as well.
There
is no better or worse here, they're both great products. I mean,
Charlotte Tilbury lipsticks unfortunately come with a ridiculous
price tag while MAC lipsticks are still somewhat reasonably priced
for what they are ... but if you're a sucker for rose-gold and
absolutely beautiful retro packaging, Charlotte is your girl. At the
end of the day, there's only one thing that matters: Dark lipsticks
rock and so do you, so you should wear them! (Seriously, I've
converted so many people to dark lipstick, it suits everyone!)
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