RSSProduct Review : Estee Lauder Double Wear Lipstick
November 1, 2009
You just really have to try this. I swore I’d never buy another long last lipstick again because they all crumble off eventually. I can’t describe how much they irritate me. They peel, dry weirdly, fade more weirdly, ugh, just hate them. Anything in a double-ended tube now repels me. This new Estee Lauder Double Wear lipstick has changed that.
Despite the $30, which I have not regretted, I had to buy it for 2 reasons:
- Paula Begoun wrote a special post about it on her blog. I found it funny that she bought Rose and Coral, but I couldn’t ignore the recommendation.
I bet Paula is a Dark Winter. To achieve what she has, against those odds, would take a resolve and determination that no other season as a group could match. In the words of Color Me A Season’s Bernice Kentner, whom I hold in the highest esteem, in her book A Rainbow In Your Eyes, “there is nothing that these individuals cannot achieve”. If I would choose a colour for her, it would have been Plumberry, but maybe it went on too dark.
Paula’s issue with lip colour is bleeding. Mine is comfort, colour, and lasting strength.
2. The colours are gorgeous. In general, EL is good at lipsticks in clear colours.
My great friend, Gina, and my best ambassador, wrote it better than I could in a recent comment :
I bought Stay Ruby….I know I am a Deep Autumn but this colour looks fabulous! That being said the texture is not too dry and not too moist ( my hair can still get stuck on it at dance class but that is forgivable). Here’s the kicker…..this stuff does not move….SERIOUSLY it doesn’t feather, bleed, leak, run, walk, saunter, promenade….it is as sedentary as cream cheese on a knife that has gone through the dishwasher. I LOVE LOVE LOVE it…Lord have mercy! I am saved!
This is an interesting product in many ways. I think it looks different on whoever tries it. It changes depending on how many layers you apply, as it dries, and when gloss is added. Don’t discount a colour till you try it. The saleswoman here wore Stay Ruby and, like on Gina, it’s a red-brown. On me, the same colour is a strong pink-red.
Any product with staying power has a strong colour imprint. Blue pigments can seem too blue, and browns too brown. For fair complexions, it’s challenging to find a shade that doesn’t look too opaque or colorful. Here, even a single coating will feel good, last well, and look light. I like this product as a base for a lipstick or gloss. The gloss lightens the effect, helps it look less flat, makes the colour more interesting, and still hangs on forever. Pink and Pinkberry are very beautiful shades for light complexions.
It fades some, who really thinks comfortable lipstick is going to last all day, but it does not crumble. It leaves great colour even after you think it must all be gone. You go to the washroom and you’re surprised at how much colour is still there.
I apply the slightest lip liner after this lipstick just to refine the shape. There’s no need for any more. It won’t move. A gloss over top might try to slip between the lines, but it’s controlled far more than with lipliner alone.
You would not apply it without a mirror. The tip is wide. You won’t be reapplying often once it’s on, but it’s not for a day at a picnic. Use this as the base, and reapply a lighter product over top. You’re good till the next meal.
I bought Mauve and Ruby. The mixture becomes a colour that moves nicely into red-violet terrain, very much a signature colour of the Winter group. Let’s hope they add more colours to the range. Could I cast a vote for Mulberry?
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Wow, this sounds like a lipstick to try! Any shade suggestions for Summers? I probably fall in the soft summer/soft autumn, but closer to summer (blue-grey eyes, light brown hair, fair skin).
Thanks!
Mary-Ellin
You mention that EL is good with CLEAR colors – are these too clear for True Summers? I am ivory fair (no pink), blonde by virtue of ash highlights in mousy brown hair , green eyes. Any suggestions from this line that might work?
Searcy and Mary-Ellin,
This type of lipstick, and the Maybelline Color Sensational is the same in this regard, is that it deposits a lot of pigment. It looks like a strong version of what’s in the tube, as opposed to most lipstick that deposits a diluted version of the stick. This also intensifies certain pigments, so blue-toned shades seem very blue and the browns are sometimes very brown. This makes it harder for light complexions to balance.
I think you need to try it. Searcy, Pinkberry is worth a try, and also Pink which is lighter but still not warm. Mary-Ellin, look at Rose.
I have thin lips so I try to avoid dark, opaque, flat colour. I just put on 1 layer of the EL and often use a light gloss over top. I get the advantage of long, LONG!, colour duration, very little migration, and a lighter effect than what’s in the stick.
Just bought the Ruby colour this morning. Absolutely a great colour. I have since had lunch and some of the lipstick has come off but it is not bleeding!!! All my other lipsticks bleed even with liner and Elizabeth Arden’s Lip Fix. Luckily my Bay is having a gala in a couple of weeks so when I go to buy more colours I will get a bonus!
I’ve always hated lipstick! It makes my lips dry, chapped, yucky! This sounds like it might be a winner!! I’m excited to try it since EL came up with the first mascara I’ve liked (smudge-proof). I’m a very light spring (green eyes, lots of yellow in skin). Do you think Pinkberry is the warmest color for natural warm blondes? I would love to know!
Following Gina’s comment (above) I tried Stay Ruby, hoping that it would suit another Deep Autumn. It looks amazing. It really is the colour of those star rubies you see sometimes, a pinkish plum with a slight sheen. It is a major departure from all my other lipsticks, and I don’t think I would have had the courage if I hadn’t had the sales assistant and my friend saying how much it suited me. Then I got outside and had a look in daylight, and WOW. Great staying power too, hardly transfers and doesn’t bleed or feather. Still going strong without a touchup 7 hours later.
I have had the Stay Mocha for a while, and that is a great success too.
I just wish they had more colours.
They do need more colours. I put MAC Scant or Merle Norman Stolen Berries over the Ruby-Mauve combined, just to soften it a bit.
SUCH a good product.
Oh, I forgot to say – I have found the PERFECT blush to go with Stay Ruby – it is Laura Geller’s Sugar Free Raspberry. It comes in a kit with 3 other sample blushers called Baby Cakes Baked Blush Palette, all quite lovely in their own right, but the raspberry I just ignored, thinking thinking that it was just too cool and… well… raspberry. But it ties the whole face together with the Stay Ruby.
I got this for my mom in Stay Rose and she really likes it. She might be a Soft Summer, but it’s hard to say. Christine, any recs on this one for other seasons? Thank you.
Stay Rose is Lilly -Pulitzer -pink. It’s a fun Light Summer color. MAC Lusterglass in Instant Gold makes it a tad more believable.
Jo,
Thanks for the blush info. I’ll add it to my pages.
VE,
Stay Rose is lovely. It could well do for Soft Summer. I thought about matching them to Season, but like the Maybelline Color Sensational, these products go on with such intensity that it can make it look much darker just because of the heavy pigment deposit. I still think about it – and will probably go ahead if they come out with more colours.
I went to try this line of lipsticks, bearing in my mind your recommendation for Stay Rose for summer and wondering if indeed I am a summer after all (in case I’d be the wintery summer type). The assistant tried Stay Rose on me but then decided for Stay plumberry. It looks nice and it’s not too dark, it doesn’t overwhelm my natural colors (fair complexion, ash brown hair, hazel eyes) even if it’s LOUD!, much more than I’m used to, but that’s because of the pigment and me being more used to glosses than lipsticks.
And now I read that you thought plumberry to be suited for dark winters. I noticed that this lipstick brings out a lot the green in my eyes, which feels nice, but I never seriously considered before the possibility of being a dark winter because of my overall medium (and not strong) level contrast.
Which seasons do you think might wear the Stay plumberry? It’s true that it changes on the lips: on mine it turns really sort of a cold intense magenta, not too deep.
I like the idea of putting a gloss over it , it makes the colour much more interesting, because it’s too matte for me otherwise, and it opens up a lot of possibility depending on which gloss you put upon it. I even tamed it down with a rosewood one and it works very well.
On second thought, the colour of this Stay plumberry reminds me very much of another Estee Lauder product, the Berry Pink Pure Color Gloss Stick that you had suggested for Clear winters and that fits me perfectly. Maybe Plumberry is more suited for clear winters?