An Ode to Maybelline 24 Hour Lipstick

Okay so my last ode was to a political figure, I never said there was going to be a set genre here!

This post of admiration is dedicated to a friend that has always been there for me, through thick and thin, through good times, bad times but definitely no ugly times.

That’s right, Maybelline 24 Hour Lipstick. 

(Cue an angelic chorus)

 It does what is says on the tin.

Look at it in all it's glory!

It's been there for me through selfie times:

  

It's been there for me on nights out.....

......and lasted longer than I did

It's been there for me through stupid dressing up:

 

though it kinda blends in with the blood on the last one!

It's lasted through festivals, as the pictures get blurrier and I get drunker it's STILL hanging in there! After torrential rail! (Gawd that Leeds was awful)

   

It saw me all the way through the ups and downs of Uni till I arrived at the finish line in a bedraggled mess:

Heck, it even makes eating a take-away in an onesie more glamorous:

You can even wear it to compliment your friends hair!

I was wearing it the first time I met my now living-with boyfriend (first ever picture together.....and it's awfully cringe and taken in a basement room. One guy is having a whale of a time on his own and the other two are discussing last Sunday's football results)

And he's seen the lipstick many many many more times since then, and also ruined many many many a potentially good photo:

This bad boy lipstick can go through a whole meal (oily foods galore), then a night out drinkin' and kissin', then survive a walk home in the rain (see fig. 1), survive a washing of the face AND I will still wake up the next day with it on and not a single smudge of lipstick on the pillow! Lets not mention the mascara smudges......

Aformentioned Fig. 1

It is the cockroach of the lipstick kingdom. That sounds gross, but I mean it in the best way possible.

I absolutely love it. I talk so fast and eat and drink so much that a normal lipstick cannot do it for me. I need the liquid ones that do everything they can to stay on your lips and you don't need to think about it for the rest of the night. I mean, I have better things to take my mind up, like have I took enough embarrassing pictures? Have I danced embarrassingly enough? Have I shouted in people's ears so loud that I'll remember and regret it the next morning?!

The only catch is that I would buy the whole line in a SECOND, if it wasn't the only colour in the line that was ANY GOOD.

The pinks are nowhere near as opaque, the light colours flake off, the other colours are so dulllllll and browny and neutrals (some people's heaven, I know). The reds are absolutely amazing, but I'm not totally satisfied. 

I have ticked off finding the perfect red that stays on forever, and next, NEXT is....the perfect peach.

 This colour is notorious for being hard to pull off as a never-smudging lipstick. The light colours just cannot do it well. I've bought cheap stuff, I've bought more expensive brands, I've bought what looked like perfect dupes...and nothing to report :(

And then I saw the Anastasia Beverly Hills Liquid Lipsticks, and there are colours that look AMAZING. But then there are the prices and shipping fees and customs charges that look so UN-AMAZING. 

But next pay day, I'm determined to finally splash out and get one. Retro Coral I'm coming for you!
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