Review: YSL Tatouage Couture Matte Stain

To those who know me, they would know for sure that I'm all about matte looks. I can't stand having makeup with gloss/shimmer/glitter. It just doesn't feel like me 😋 and that's why I'm so excited about this YSL Tatouage Couture Matte Stain. 💋

I have 6 of them. Let me introduce the colours:

01 Rouge Tatouage

07 Nu Interdit

11 Rose Illicite

16 Nude Emblem

19 Fuchsia Intime

20 Pink Squad

They're all highly pigmented, last really long, and don't smear or stain your cup. By that, I mean they still do stain my cup a little bit if I drink my water right after I put them on. But after letting them set for a couple of minutes, they don't stain anymore.

This is a huge deal for me because I like to drink and watch my water intake, and usually my lipstick stains my cup all the time and it makes the colour fades pretty quick. I couldn't find any matte lipstick that's exactly what I wanted. I even tried the famous Kylie matte liquid lipstick but it was too drying. Seriously, my lips couldn't handle how drying it was and I changed to Korean lipstain ever since.

Let's have a look at how each of them looks on me! Remember, these are all matte but they might look glossy in some pictures because I always wear lipbalm before applying matte lipstick to prevent drying.

I believe shade 01 is the most vibrant, true red in the entire range. It's the colour that every girl would want to wear confidently. It looks so bold and daring, and I wish to be able to pull off a look with a vivid red lipstick. Thank goodness for YSL! This is the first red lipstick that I dare to put on my whole lips, not with gradient style. I feel so much confident because it stays in the shape of my lips and doesn't bleed. 👄

Shade 07 and 16 are the nude colours. 07 is really nude, the colour is just like our natural lips. In the tube it looks brown but actually it isn't. It doesn't give your lips much colour, but it's tinted enough to make your lips not pale. My boyfriend loves it when I wore no.07 because he likes my natural look and doesn't like me to have heavy makeup on. Shade 07 is just perfect to make your lips look nice, not pale, all natural. 

07 is perfect according to my boyfriend but not for me because I don't look like wearing lipstick with it. I put lipstick on because I want to have some colour on my lips, right? On the other hand, 16 is nude but with much more prominent tint. To me, it still looks natural. You can tell that I definitely wear lipstick but not that much because it still looks nude, nothing near shade 01. In fact, shade 16 was the first one I bought in this collection because I just fell in love in how beautiful it is.

I don't have much to say about shade 11. It's a nice pink, but a weird pink. It looks so obviously pink, but so light and almost pale. I prefer either the prominent pink like 20 or just nude like 07. Well, I mean 11 turned out nice on me as well after a couple of time wearing it, but not every time. I guess I have to put different eye makeup to compliment it better.

Shade 19 and 20 look similar as well, especially if you wear it thin and make it into gradient lips like Korean style, they end up looking very similar. But if you fully colour your lip, they have very distinct shades. 19 is fuchsia which means cooler tone, while 20 is warmer and more like magenta shade. I personally like 20 better because I've always known that warm colours compliment my skin tone so well.

So yeah.. If I could rate from which I love the most to the least, it's: 16, 01, 20, 07, 11, 19. I'd probably do a swatch review in the future...maybe if I have the will and time lol. But this time I just wanted to share how wonderful my collection is! 💄