Review: Bourjois Rouge Edition Velvet 03 Hot Pepper

You know I'm a huge fan of red lips. It's a lip colour that never seems to go out of fashion, and I hope it never does, so when I stumbled across this little beauty, I knew I had to have it. 

It's kind of a small tube, around the length of my thumb, but I really like how sturdy it feels. 

A quick swatch on the back of my hand... I love this colour, it's an orange-based red, and because I wear fake tan, this colour is best suited to me (without fake tan I need blue-based reds).

The application is easy enough, and it doesn't set so fast that you don't have time to play around with it. But once it is dry, it goes beautifully matte without drying out my lips. This is a big thing for a matte lip colour. Every matte lipstick/lip colour I've ever tried has made me go running for my lip balm, with ill-made promises never to do it again.

This lipstick states it has "light texture, extreme comfort and 24hr hold". 

I love putting these things to the test - let's do this!

 Above: my lips after 6hrs. I'd had two cups of tea and a huge Sunday roast. It actually looked better from a distance (my camera was around 4-5 inches from my lips) and still felt comfortable. 

Above: my lips after almost 8hrs. It definitely wore away on the insides of my lips and at that point I decided to take it off with an oil-based makeup remover. 

Light texture: Most definitely. 

Extreme comfort: It wore comfortably for a long period of time without drying out my lips (now that is comfort to me).

24hr hold: That's always a very bold claim, but for it to hold up through eating and drinking and still look pretty darn good, well, let's just say I'm pretty impressed. 

Red Lip Month: Rimmel Colour Rush Balm in The Redder The Better

So it's February (on Blogger it's still January 31st but in the UK it's the 1st Feb '14 lol), the month that contains the dreaded day of Valentines. Now, because I'm the least romantic person on the planet I won't be blogging about anything to do with Valentines Day. Instead I'll be uploading every week for the whole month to show you all my 7 most favourite red lip colours (Yup, the colour red is the closest I'm going to get to blogging about Valentines Day lol).

Yes, I have mentioned this lip colour in a previous blog, but I feel it deserves a blog all of it's own. 

This is a balm/stain of the most gorgeous colour that moisturises with high pigmentation and leaves the most beautiful red stain on the lips so it wears off evenly and slowly. 

It has been my go-to red lip colour of the winter. It glides on smoothly, smells of vanilla (yum!) and costs around £6.50 so it definitely won't be breaking the bank. It's light, non-sticky formula leaves my lips feeling pampered and soft and it's a great neutral red that will suit lots of skin tones too, so if you're into red lips... Then you might want to give this little beauty a go :)