I have raved about the Fyrinnae liquid matte lipsticks…a lot. They’re some of my absolute favourite liquid mattes, and that is said by someone who has - well, let’s just be honest here - far too many liquid matte lipsticks for someone with just one mouth. That said, they aren’t all equal in excellence. As someone who over-analyses everything, let’s take my standard too-close look at a good product.

I have all of the shades excluding Ablaze and Delicious, the orange and the bright purple. On the far left is the new packaging. It contains 5mL as opposed to 9mL of product, which the original tubes contain, but the price has gone down with that so no need to fear. Most of the colours cost $10USD (at the moment, $12.85AUD), while the colour-change ones cost $12USD ($15.42AUD). The new tubes feel really substansial, they’ve got a really nice heft in your hands. You might be able to tell that most of the labels on my original tubes have worn off - thankfully I feel like the new tubes won’t have that problem.

Shipping is pretty decent, which I love - I’ve ordered from Fyrinnae enough times to have total confidence in it. They claim a huge TAT period, but I’ve never had them take anywhere near there claims of 8-10 possible weeks - I generally find shipping rather fast, for international. They also always include a little sample, which has been a way for me to discover some really stellar products (Zanzibar shadow, you’re gorgeous). Unfortunately, Fyrinnae do close fairly often, but they are always back open soon after - I promise. I bought all of these myself (as I do with 99.99% of products, because I am a baby blogger who does this for fun and love of lipstick), with the exception of Kitten, which was sent to me purely because I kept ordering every new shade.



L-R: Warp Speed, Volcanic, Naughty & Nice, Vixen, Kitten, Desire, Wizardry, Sinister, Graffiti, Dublin, Interstellar



Most of them contain a fine micro shimmer or are mate metallic, with a few of them being flat mattes (Vixen, Desire, Dublin and Interstellar. The two I don’t have are also flat mattes). Wear time on them differs and I’ll go into more detail when talking about the shades individually, but generally speaking they aren’t the longest wearing liquid mattes (though some of them are right up there), but they wear on my longer than something like an Anastasia Beverly Hills liquid matte. They also tend to wear away quite naturally, not just leaving a lip line but rather fading quite evenly. They’re extremely comfortable, some of the most comfortable I’ve tried - my lips don’t feel dry when I wear these, which is a common problem with liquid mattes. They aren’t transfer-proof - you’ll get blue marks on your cup - but they’re transfer resistant and they don’t smudge super easily.



They are some of the most liquidy of this kind, very thin, although it seems they’ve thickened up the formula recently along with the packaging change. Because of this, some colours need more work than others on application, with the worst offenders being Desire and Wizardry. They can tend towards uneven, but others apply completely opaque and even on first swipe. Make sure you shake them gently before application.



With all that said, let’s look at the shades individually. I’ll give info on wear time and application, opacity, finish, all that jazz.

Warp Speed is a metallic true silver. This is two coats - one coat is vaguely sheer, but it’s intended to be: it can be used over another lipstick as a metallic top coat, according to the website. This is the only one I haven’t worn for a full day yet, just because my work hours have been ridiculous, so I can’t comment on wear time.

In two coats it was almost completely opaque. It’s not too blue, which is nice - it’s just pure silver. Very alien chic.

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Volcanic is a cool toned light red with a silvery, kind of greeny shift? Not as intense of a shifter as Wizardry, and at first I was confused by the colour changing description because it didn’t seem to shift (even though the shift is never as pronounced to your own eyes). When I tried to photograph it, you do get a better impression. Wear time is decent, but not the longest of the bunch - wears away very naturally five or six hours in.



The greeny silver isn’t too evident here, but in trying to get a true-to-colour swatch photo the struggle kind of highlights it. I don’t love it as much as its partner shade, Naughty & Nice, but it’s quite lovely. Compared the Naughty & Nice, it is pinker, more silver toned, more metallic.

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Naughty & Nice is a bold, even bombshell red with a fine micro shimmer. This is one of my favourite red shades in the world, and I own a lot of reds. When layered over a liner or another lipstick, the shimmer becomes more of a metallic finish. It performs perfectly without a liner - this was one coat. It’s also incredible on the wear time front - I get eight-nine hours from this, and it stands up pretty well even to fast food.

Note the subtlety of the shimmer when worn alone - just a perfect, matte red with a little extra dimension. Pulls less brown on me than the website swatch would indicate. 100% love this shade, and it’s near-impossible to make a statement like this, but it’s probably my absolute favourite of the bunch, but only by an inch.

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Vixen is a deep, dark browned red with no micro shimmer. So in love with this shade, it’s probably tied for my most worn with Graffiti and Naughty & Nice. I spent a long time looking for a perfect dark red, and I continue to search for ones to add to my collection, but this is the one I reach for consistently. It has a little bit more of a learning curve, as it takes slightly more work to get even (it’s a very thin formula) but this was one coat and once you’re used to it, it becomes habitual.

You can see the slight unevenness where the colour wasn’t spread around evenly, but it’s barely noticeable here and if I wasn’t going so quickly in this swatch session. If you’re uncertain of having a tougher time with it, I tend to wear this over a dark red lip liner to eliminate the possibility of patchiness, but again, not wholly necessary. I love this colour with all my heart. I’d say six-seven hours generally on this one.

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Lighting change! My swatching was interrupted by a lunch date with a friend so my makeup was a little dodgy and the lighting got weird.

Kitten is a lavender grey taupe hybrid with no micro shimmer. It’s commonly compared to Lime Crime’s Cashmere velvetine, which I don’t own, for a whole host of reasons. It’s a total corpse colour and I love it. This one has the shortest wear time of the lot, three to four hours, but apparently they were reformulating it for longer lasting power?

It’s a morpher - it looks totally different on different skin tones. On me the lavender tones are quite noticeable, and I like it. It’s probably my least worn shade, after Desire, but mostly because it’s more neutral than I tend to go for.

Desire is a dark, cool blackened purple with no micro shimmer. This is a pretty awful photo of it, but it does give you an idea of the problems with application on this colour. I love the colour - dark purples speak to me - but I tend to not wear it without a liner.

Because it’s a thin formula in a dark colour, it’s really difficult to get even. When I wear it over a liner and spend more time on it, I can get it quite nice, and I do wear it occasionally, but I have to work at it and I have similar colours in other formulas that I tend to reach for over this.

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Wizardry is fascinating - on me, it’s a deep cool toned purple with a blue shift. I don’t own their Wicked eyeshadow, but it seems to be the lipstick version of it. I took a couple of close ups of this one.

And another shot to highlight the shiftiness

The base colour can be a little patchy but it’s barely noticeable. This is one coat, but I find to get the most out of this shade, you want to wear a few thin coats (allowing to dry completely in between) or wear this over a liner. I like playing with different liners to bring out different parts of the colour - the blue or the purple tones.

I have noticed that this shade looks very different on different people - on me, this is clearly a purple shade with blue shift, but on others it can look more blue at the base.

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Sinister is a matte metallic turquoise blue. It’s gorgeous and smooth, applies like a dream and is completely opaque. I get six-seven hours from this one, generally speaking.



It is lighter and has slightly more green tones than Graffiti. I love the formula on this one, and I love mixing it with Wizardry to bring out the aqua shift in that colour.

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Graffiti is a matte metallic bal;anced blue. My most worn shade, along with Naughty & Nice and Vixen, because I am powerless to blue lips. This shade has such depth to it and goes on super opaque and easily. I get six to seven hours of wear on this one, and always touch it up after eating because with any irregular colour, wear on the lips is more obvious.

Just…look at it. Unf. Darker and more of a true blue than Sinister. Totally unique in my collection, like a lot of these shades, and one of my absolute favourites. Would recommend.

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Dublin is a dark forest green with no micro shimmer. My application here is horrific (my lips were getting angry), but I love this colour. I get five to six hours from this one.

As you can see, when applied thinly it can veer towards uneven. This is resolved by applying two thin coats (this will be completely opaque) or by layering over a liner. I also find that if you apply fairly carefully, unless you’re up close it tends to look pretty flawless. It reminds me of LA Splash’s Nagini, but without any shimmer and much thinner and more comfortable, as well as slightly more yellow toned.

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Interstellar is a deep black, no micro shimmer. This application is fucking atrocious because my lips were dying, but this shade is generally completely opaque and easy to apply. Definitely take a bit more care with application than my shocking job here. Five to six hours on this, which is excellent for a matte black.



Just due to lip lines showing through, I usually apply this in two thin coats. It’s one of my favourite blacks, but as always with black, care with application is important and a liner or a brush application will probably help with neatness. This one does have a tendency to get everywhere, including the teeth, so assure it’s dry completely before closing your mouth.

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And that’s my collection of Fyrinnae liquid mattes! I’d definitely recommend them, because a comfortable liquid matte with good wear time is difficult for anyone with an affinity for this product type to pass up. It’s a great introduction to liquid mattes as well, and I love that they have such a wide variety of colours from different families. I’ll continue to buy all the new releases and cry over my bank balance.