Exhibitionist 24Hr Ultra Matte Lipstick - 690 Soloist by CoverGirl for Women - 0.09 oz Lipstick

It's beautiful and stays like no other. I'm very happy i found a beautiful product.

It was old, as soon as I opened it the lipstick came out of the packaging and fell to the floor. So dry, wouldn't spread. I google it and asked how to soften old lipstick. Soak in warm water for 15 minutes. Didn't work. love the color, but won't buy it from Amazon again.

Seems dried out.

I bought this in spite of the reviews complaining about color and texture, and I'm glad that I did. It's interestingly matte but metallic, which may or may not be your jam if you have highly textured lips. However, I have scars on my lips and have had lines around my lips since my early thirties that otherwise feather lipstick badly, and this doesn't feather on me at all. I also have about 2mm of lip beyond the vermillion border on the bottom lip that I've only ever been able to cover with a longwear liquid in the past, not even stains. This covered it, and it stayed covered. The texture IS stiff going on, and if you try to put it on like a regular bullet, it will seem to be dried out or defective, but it isn't. It's just a matter of how you apply it. I found that applying it slowly in one coat, letting it drag the lip while you apply works to put down a good layer of color, but the most effective application was layering up multiple thin transparent layers of color until you're satisfied. I bought it to use over pudding pot lip color for color alteration and ombre effects, and it works amazingly for that as long as you're patient and just build up the color gradually. All pictures are unretouched in different lighting: warm artificial light (high and low), white artificial light, shadow mimicking night lighting, and daylight through a window. No primer. No lipliner. No topper. Wear has been impressive: - After eating pasta with oily sauce: Lightened fairly evenly all over, and only the very inner rim came off. - Applying over itself after eating the pasta: went on just as it did before, perfectly even, same texture. - Kissing skin with a fresh application. No transfer at all. - Full night's sleep wearing: still significant color in the morning, a little patchy on the bottom lip where I have scars, but nothing that couldn't be smoothed out, and the top lip just lightened. Most impressive part: no feathering into the lines around my lips. - Wiping off with nothing but a tissue or paper towel: some of it wiped off, but largely, the color stayed put unless I applied enough pressure and enough wiping to hurt. Feeling on the lips: - Not gonna lie, it is dry, but that's the price you pay for heavily pigmented long wear twist up lipstick. - There's none of the silicone slip feeling from brands like Fwee or the original Revlon Colorstay (for the 40+ crowd). - You *can* put a balm over the top for a slightly more moist look (very slightly--I wouldn't bother, personally.) - If balm is applied over the lipstick, it makes the lipstick feel like a normal matte bullet lipstick, but then it also performs like one by feathering, transferring, and wiping off easily. Oddities and (minor, IMO) issues: - Yes the stick is more brittle than a bullet lipstick typically is. Mine arrived with the lipstick loose inside the tube and lost its tip to being mushed against the top of the cap during shipping or storage. The problem was easily solved by pressing the lipstick gently but firmly against the base (in 70 degree temperatures) until they adhered. There have been no problems since. - The color is super interesting in the way it shifts. With direct artificial lighting, it tended to look like a mid-denim blue-gray. In low or warm lighting, it looked black. And in daylight through a window, it shows the color it looked most like to the naked eye which is a dark super-saturated blue, but it just does not photograph well in that color. In the sample photo, that's the top right image. The shine of blue in the middle is the color the lipstick looks like all over to the naked eye. -Wiping the color off, it is BLACK. I tried enhancing the saturation, vibrance, exposure, and nothing would bring out anything but black against the white paper towel. (See image)

Color stays well but very dry.