Vice Lipstick – Bad Blood

3 Reviews

1. 

   wearyMussel9

   Reply

   Really pleased with this one! I have fair skin with warm/muted/olive undertones, MAC Face&Body in C1 is one of my best foundation matches, and lipstick shades tend to read a lot more blue on my lips than they do in the tube. MAC Russian Red is very blue on me, for example, veering almost towards magenta, so I always look for warm undertones in lip colours.

   I love red lipstick, I wear it a lot and because of the way my undertone messes with the colour of everything, I do a lot of fiddling with it. I mix shades, I correct shades with lip liners in a different undertone, I often use a black khol pencil to deepen and dirty up shades a bit without adding purple tones, and so on. The one constant in my rotation of reds this far is MAC Lady Danger, which I’ve been through two tubes of by now, but never wear on it’s own. It’s too orange and bright for me on its own, but it’s amazing worn over a cooler, blue red lip liner. I often add a little of it on top of other lipsticks to warm them up, too.

   I’ve been wanting a darker red lately, though, still red, not burgundy, and still pretty bright, but a deeper shade. L’Oreal x Isabel Marant Palais Royal Fields is close, and nice, but it’s still a tiny bit blue and I don’t like the L’Oreal lipstick scent. Bad Blood looked promising in swatches, so I took a chance and ordered it, and it’s pretty much the holy grail, in a way: it’s a red lipstick shade that I can happily wear on its own, without futzing about with liners and other shades to correct it. It’s a fantastic deep red, blood red is apt, and it reads pretty much like a true neutral red on me, which is fantastic. I think it’s probably neutral leaning warm, but that’s such an unusual beast, in my experience – most true reds lean slightly cool. Bad Blood doesn’t. I’m very happy with it, and although I do still mix it with Lady Danger and other stuff, I can definitely see myself using up and repurchasing this.

   The Comfort Matte formula is lovely too, very smooth. It’s not a flat matte, it does have a slight creamy sheen, but it’s beautiful, wears well and it really is comfortable on the lips. I have a hopelessly shiny nose, so I do prefer the slightly creamier satin mattes to formulas like MAC Retro Mattes, both for comfort and because the true mattes look slightly odd against my always much shinier skin. No detectable fragrance, which is great, the staying power is very good, on par with MAC regular mattes and other similar formulas, pigmentation is fantastic and I love that there are so many shades of red. I’m interested in trying more shades in the same formula.

2. 

   importedLlama4

   Reply

   Actual review is 4.5 lippies. Bad Blood is a darker blood red satiny matte that looks pretty dramatic and almost vampy on my pale skin. It wears nicely, doesn’t overdry the lips, and does not bleed. There are deeper reds out there that I like better, but this one is very nice to have in my collection.

3. 

   outlyingIguana7

   Reply

   My red lipstick was MAC Opera (which is a better Ruby Woo), but it was part of a limited collection. So, you know the drift of limited makeup. You love something and then boooooooooooom it is gone because it is not permanent.

   Since my Opera tube is ending, i had to find something to replace it. I just didn’t want MAC again. Loooooooove their lipsticks, but I wanted to see what other brands had to offer, mainly because of the Cruella i won for my happy birthday, which has a different formulation/application that is amazing (except for the paraben in it).

   My disappointment with Instigator and Antique Velvet played a part in my search of other brands. You know that moment you do realize there is something more out there than your brand of choice.

   Again, research and the discovery of UD’s vice lipstick. I’ve never thought of buying UD because their things are expensive even for USA standards, let alone Brazil.

   I fell in love with the ingredients in their formulation. There goes my search for a red among their many reds. After a lot of picture seeing, i fell in love with Bad Blood (comfort matte) from the pictures I’ve seen.

   It has everything that Opera/Ruby Woo have:
   1. Same price
   2. Matte
   3. Lasts for 4-5h (remove lippie to eat so don’t know if lasts longer)
   4. Low transfer if any
   5. Butter application that feels like nothing on the lips (like Opera/Cruella)
   6. Blue based, so it goes beautifully with my olive NC43-45 skin
   7. Great pigmentation, so it cover lips well on the first pass
   8. Don’t bleed or feather (my MAC lip pencil Cherry goes with it too)
   9. No parabens in the formulation
   10. No smell ( i can’t perceive MAC famous vanilla scent, but i can’t smell well)
   11. No taste too (same with MAC). Why do some brands add sugar/sweeteners to their lipstick?

   More important, Bad Blood has the exact same color of Opera on my lips. I tested both of them, one in each side for my lips, and there is no visible difference to me. Regarding Ruby Woo, I’d say it is 95% similar, being a smidge darker.

   Obs.: UD says it doesn’t test in animals.