I started wearing makeup only 2-3 years ago (spent the first months of the quarantine learning, mostly from online tutorials and forums), and I went and bought the NYX Butter Gloss in Cinnamon Roll after having read rave reviews. I was SO confused when Cinnamon Roll turned out to be absolutely not what it sounded like online, it was half invisible half unflattering on me, and I decided this was clearly because I was a noob and hadn’t understood the online lessons as well as I thought.
TWO YEARS LATER I find out that Nyx absolutely discontinued a popular shade, put out a completely different shade with the same name, and then renamed that shade something else and sent back the original… and I happened to be one of the people who picked up the mistake and had no idea! 🤯 How does such a big drugstore brand do that?!
I still have my un-Cinnamon Roll which I’m now holding on to in the hopes that it’ll be worth millions one day. What are the odds for that? 🤞🏽
The Cream Stain Liquid Lipstick (basically a liquid matte) is great compared to mattes you find in the market! Caveat only because I’m personally trying to get out of wearing matte lip color altogether, but I really enjoyed this line for a long time. Affordable and HUGE shade range. The shade 01 Always Red is a super popular classic red. The other shade I repurchased often is a cool-toned plum brown (they have about five of these!) that’s my closest mlbb. A lot of the shades in this line can pass as dupes of expensive lipsticks, I think.