Hello Friends! Giorgio Armani Beauty recently released another lipstick to love and itโs matte. Iโve been dying to try this Rouge DโArmani Matte Lipstick (0.14 oz: $38) for some time and Iโve got some shades swatched for you all in this review. To tell you honestly, Iโm a big fan of Armani Cosmetics and there isnโt one product from their line that I donโt love. From their beautiful foundations down to their gorgeous lipsticks, Iโm a sucker for anything Armani Beauty, LOL, and this new Rouge DโArmani Matte Lipstick has truly captured my heart.
At first glance, this lipstick is beautiful and it screams โSi Passioneโ with its sleek matte red-black casing and a magnetic closure. It has a bit of a flattened oblong-shaped case that youโd find typical in most Armani lip products, like the Lip Magnet (swatched and reviewed HERE). It also feels slightly heavy with an overall robust solid feel.
This Rouge DโArmani Matte is a full-coverage lipstick that feels incredibly smooth and easy to swipe on the lips. It is extremely pigmented and itโs one of the most pigmented lipsticks Iโve ever tried. Such intense pigment that you only need to swipe it once on the lips and youโll get maximum color that will last for pretty much the whole day. This never dried my lips and this feels really weightless. Itโs hard to define this lipstickโs texture and I actually find it to be quite fascinating because this feels light yet also thick and creamy, but its finish is totally matte and it doesnโt dry nor emphasize the lip lines that much. In other words, itโs complicated, LOL, but itโs a beautiful well-done matte lipstick with a breakthrough formulation that truly delivers what itโs supposed to be, and it exceeded my expectation being it as a matte lipstick.
Here are my favorites
102 Androgino โ Antique Rose, great as an everyday lip color this season.
201 Nightberry โ Described as Scarlet Red, but looks more like a vamp.
400 Four Hundred โ Red Crimson. This is a muted scarlet red with a hint of orange, quite similar to the Chanel no. 5 lipstick (seen HERE). I prefer this shade better than the Chanel one because this has a bit more red that is intense yet more muted, and its texture is more matte.
501 Milano โ Smokey rose. Had mixed emotions about this shade at first because it looked like a mauve rose when I swatched it on my arm, but when I tried it on my lips, I kinda looked half-dead, or in need of resuscitation, LOL. Without much light, this shade looks greige and I canโt pull off greige, but on a bright light, this actually looks still greige but with a bit of rose, which I then realized that I could still manage to pull off after all.
502 Kimono โ Muted pink with a bit more rose.
Two things I wanna point out about this Rouge DโArmani Matte Lipstick. First, this lipstick tends to lose its shape easily after a few applications because itโs actually soft so itโs kinda hard to accurately line your lips with just this. You may wanna need a lip liner or a lip brush in the long run. Second, the colors of this lipstick at a glance may look pale in comparison to its actual application in which itโs actually super saturated in color. So itโs always a good idea to try to swatch this in store or look at online swatches very carefully. Other than that, this lipstick is one of my favorites this Fall/Winter season and Iโm not kidding when I said that this lasted the whole day on me, even after lunch and dinner plus a couple of teas and coffees without any reapplication. Now thatโs marvelous!
Giorgio Armani Rouge DโArmani Matte Lipstick is currently available at Sephora, Nordstrom, Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, Harrods, Bloomingdaleโs, Barneys New York and GiorgioArmaniBeauty.com