NYX Professional Makeup Lip Lingerie Push-Up Long-Lasting Lipstick, Push-Up

i cant believe it's always the best stuff getting discontinued. it was so good. long lasting. amazing shades. complimenting and actually plumping. my heart aches :/ please consider making it again

I honestly have little to no bad things to say about this product. The shades (after hours and teddy) I chose are my perfect nudes for a deep dark skin tone and just perfectly melt into my skin. In the swatch pictures I'm going to show, the skin on my hand is about 2-3 shades lighter than on my face so it might not seem like a great color match but it was perfect. About the actual product: like any matte lipstick a smooth canvas is important. This finish and comfortability of these are phenomenal, but still, it just looks/feels that much better when the lips are hydrated and smooth. They apply creamy like a bullet lipstick but dry down to an insanely comfortable matte finish, are 98.9% smudge proof, and literally feels like you have nothing on your lips. They smudge a little but it's barely noticeable. I accidentally took a 2-hr nap in after hours today and woke up and it hadn't budged at all. Some matte lipsticks suck the life out of my lips and these just feel comfortable and aren't drying at all and are insanely long lasting. If I end up putting a picture of my lips notice how they don't crack and cling to any dry patches or lip lines. Now I will say after about hour 5-6 hrs my lips start to feel a bit dry but I'm not expecting a matte lipstick to Be moisturizing after having just it on my lips and nothing else for hours on end. And it's more my lips just getting naturally dry like they do throughout the day even without lipstick instead of the lipsticks themselves making them dry. And even when it starts getting dry it's quite slight (in my experience). I don't remember these being advertised as lip plumpers when I first bought them so the mint tingling sensation when you first put them on freaked me out, but it dissipated within minutes and now even when I first put them on it's no big deal. They look like markers and come in a little screw up type mechanism and the bottom ends have sharpeners attached. Because of the packaging it can get a bit messy around the top, but it's really not that big a deal. Bought them 2 days before black Friday (approx a month ago) and I honestly can't put them down. I've been using and loving them for weeks and don't usually leave reviews but nyx will keep emailing me to leave a consumer review and I actually genuinely love them so here's the review. They're amazing & a solid 9/10 from me and a great value too.