‘I tried Rhode’s viral lip contour and it’s changed the way I do make-up forever’

Hailey Bieber's quality marque Rhode has conscionable dropped its much-hyped Peptide Lip Shapes, but tin they person our lipstick-averse quality editor? We enactment them to the test...

Let maine commencement by saying that, contempt being a beauty editor for implicit 12 years, launches of caller articulator products never, ever excite maine (unless it's an untinted balm promising to cure adust lips for good). While I volition sometimes scope for a wide gloss, I ne'er deterioration lipstick, articulator liners oregon adjacent tinted articulator balms arsenic I genuinely deliberation I look amended without them.

However, I person been truly impressed with the products from Hailey Bieber's quality marque Rhode (the Pocket Blushes are the champion I've ever used), truthful erstwhile I saw that she was bringing retired Peptide Lip Shapes, £24 – pitched arsenic chunky, easy-to-use crayons that sculpt and contour the lips alternatively than precisely specify them – I conscionable had to spot if they would marque maine alteration my mind. And the results wholly took maine by surprise...

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Pros

• Really casual to usage – they glide connected smoothly and you don't request to beryllium precise
• The 3 shades I tried are precise flattering
• Make the lips look plumper if you overdraw them a little
• Look precise earthy – perfect if you don't usually similar the look of lipstick

Cons

• I find the smudging instrumentality connected the extremity a spot pointless
• Wear disconnected aft a fewer hours
• If you're already assured astatine applying and wearing lipsticks and articulator liners, I don't deliberation you'll beryllium a spot underwhelmed by these

On archetypal impressions, Rhode's Lip Shapes bash look rather unique; not a lipstick and 'creamier and much seamless than a articulator liner', they're enriched with skincare ingredients and designed to contour the lips alternatively than neatly enactment them, giving the effect of a fuller pout with ease. Rhode recommends drafting them connected and astir the articulator edges past blend inwards (you can, of course, besides use them each over).

Despite hardly ever wearing immoderate benignant articulator merchandise beyond basal balm, I realised that I person unwittingly been liking the 'contoured mouth' look for immoderate time; I'll often tally my favourite Victoria Beckham Contour Stylus lightly underneath my bottommost lip, and 1 of the fewer lipsticks I do similar is Giorgio Armani Colour Sketcher successful the now-discontinued mauve-y shadiness 6 Nuda, which isn't excessively dissimilar successful plan to Rhode's. So I thought if immoderate articulator merchandise was going to marque its mode into my make-up bag, it would beryllium these.

And I was right. As idiosyncratic with perfectly nary skills astatine make-up application, it's intolerable to spell incorrect with these; the colours look truthful natural, and they glide connected truly smoothly with a velvety finish, earlier blending easy with fingers. I similar to tally them a millimitre implicit my earthy articulator line, and you hardly adjacent request to usage a mirror.

The 3 colours I was sent retired of the 11 – Lift, Press and Bend – were spot-on for my just complexion. Lift is the lightest, astir neutral of the clump and the nearest to my earthy articulator colour, and astir apt the 1 I'll scope for astir often; it makes my rima look subtly poutier and much defined.

I tin spot Press being precise fashionable too, particularly with immoderate fans of Charlotte Tilbury's iconic Pillow Talk lipstick; it's a small spot deeper and pinkier than Lift, and gives a bully flushed look.

Bend is billed arsenic 'soft peachy beige' and, contempt looking rather lukewarm connected my hand, actually truly suits maine too. I tin spot myself reaching for this 1 much successful summer, erstwhile my skin's a small much golden.

My 1 insignificant downside is that I find the silicone smudger connected the different extremity reasonably useless. Rhode advises utilizing it to diffuse the merchandise into the centre of the lip, but I find your fingertip is amended for this. Hailey demonstrates that it tin besides beryllium utilized to neaten up edges.

Peptide Lip Shape besides isn't the cheapest articulator merchandise you'll find, particularly for 1 that you can't effort the shadiness of beforehand. However if, similar me, you similar the thought of a modern, fuller pout but don't similar the look and consciousness of accepted lipsticks, I deliberation these are worthy a try. As a lipstick-phone, this Rhode crayon has go an unexpected caller favourite successful my make-up bag.