It’s National Lipstick Day! It’s the perfect opportunity to celebrate our love of lipstick with clean beauty brand VIOLA ROUGE. VIOLA ROUGE lipsticks are GMO-free, cruelty-free, and vegan. It’s a smooth, creamy, long-lasting, and clean waterless beauty formula. It is not only flattering, but it is good for you too, as it contains a powerhouse cocktail of lip-enhancing ingredients. And bonus: The color holds true on Zoom video conference!
About Viola Rouge
VIOLA ROUGE is a clean beauty brand that makes eye cream shadows and clean formula lipsticks.
Ever try a recommended color cosmetic that is supposed to be a flattering color for you, but it just isn’t? VIOLA ROUGE knows color matching involves more than just your skintone.
VIOLA ROUGE considers your skintone and more importantly the pigment and the UNDERTONE. Undertone is a combination of hereditary and environmental factors that together impact what looks best on your skin. VIOLA ROUGE empowers your beauty decisions with their SKIN TONE & UNDERTONE GLOSSARY to best understand your unique coloring.
Take the Viola Rouge Pick Your Favorite Shade quiz to see what would work best for you.
The Lipstick
VIOLA ROUGE is a clean beauty lipstick formulation with an exceptional creamy finish.
It also contains the ingredients of a natural lip treatment with multiple skin revitalizing ingredients.
VIOLA ROUGE lipsticks are:
- GMO-free
- Leaping Bunny cruelty-free certified
- Vegan
- Good for your lips
Viola Rouge Packaging
The lipstick is packaged in non-reflective glossy cardboard boxes. There are multiple lipstick lines within the VIOLA ROUGE range. Each with its’ distinct vibrant imaging and branding. Shown here are the boxes for the Iceland Collection (left) and Morocco Collection (right).
The Lipstick case
The lipstick case is a silvertone sparkle with a subtle purple shift on a raised, variegated pattern texture paired with a smooth solid cap.
The lipstick case cap is smooth with the VIOLA ROUGE branding in a slightly raised embossed logo. Here is a close up of the logo on the cap:
The inside of the bullet is a sleek non-reflective shiny silver that also bears the VIOLA ROUGE branding in violet lettering.
The lipstick bullet itself is contained in a semi-opaque white mold. The lipstick is the classic angled tip.
The Shades
VIOLA ROUGE lipsticks come in 24 shades of satin or shimmer finish. We got to try two of them, Status Symbol and Blueberry Flower.
The smooth, creamy, long-lasting, and clean beauty formula is good for you, too. Not only is it creamy, but it also contains the ingredients of a natural lip treatment.
Ingredients
Organic blueberry seed oil
Blueberry Flower lipstick uses Organic blueberry seed oil to minimize fine lines on lips. It promotes skin elasticity for firmer, youthful skin.
Black Cumin seed oil
Black Cumin Seed Oil is featured in the shade Status Symbol. Black Cumin Seed Oil comes from the seeds of the flower Nigella sativa, commonly called virgin in the green flower. Black Cumin Seed Oil locks in moisture. It is also an excellent antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant.
Camellia Oleifera Seed Oil
Camellia Oleifera Seed Oil revitalizes skin, smooths rough skin patches, and repairs the skin barrier.
Castor Seed Oil
Castor Seed Oil is a humectant that moisturizes the skin.
Castor Seed Oil has a mildly plumping action on lips without stinging.
It reduces inflammation, heals scars, and hydrates. Castor Seed Oil is rich in vitamins and fatty acids to nourish.
Saffron
Saffron flower extract diminishes hyperpigmentation. Saffron also protects against UV radiation.
Rice Bran Extract
Rice Bran Oil is a gentle anti-inflammatory oil that promotes hydration. It is a vital source of vitamins A, B2, B1, squalene, and two types of Vitamin E. This combo can hydrate, heal and soften skin while making scars and burns more pliable. It is high in fatty acids including Omega 6 and 9, both of which give skin a healthy glow.
It is rich in ferulic acid (used in facial creams to support Vitamin C), plus inositol and gamma oryzanol, anti-oxidants, and nourishing moisturizers. [1] Rice bran evens out skin tone and reduces dark spots. [2] It is excellent for tackling lip lines and wrinkles [3] that often belie age.
Shea Butter
Shea Butter treats acne scars, including cystic acne dark scars. Shea can feed the skin and overhaul the skin texture, even on deep burns.
Sunflower Extract
Sunflower is hydrating and nourishing. It functions as a lipid buffer and retains moisture in the skin. Rich in vitamin E, it can repair damaged skin. [4]
Rosemary Leaf Extract
Rosemary Extract combats dry skin. It naturally protects skin from sun damage and free radicals. It also has natural antiseptic properties and is a gentle exfoliant for dead skin flakes.
Rosemary Extract is soothing and helps reduce puffiness and lightens dark spots.
It is stimulating and promotes better blood circulation to deliver the nutrients necessary to build collagen, elastin and to encourage scar repair.
Safflower Seed Oil
Safflower Oil is high in Omegas 3, 6, and 9. It hydrates dry skin, soothes irritation, and enhances skin texture and appearance. It delays premature aging, tightens and brightens the skin.
Vitamin E
Vitamin E softens skin texture and reduces acne scars. Vitamin E makes old acne scars softer and more pliable.
Vitamin E makes rough, sunburned, scarred, or otherwise damaged skin soft and pliable. Once the skin is pliable, other treating ingredients can work their magic.
Jojoba Esters
Jojoba removes impurities and flakes, reduces inflammation, and soothes skin. Jojoba oil is an emollient, made of 98% monounsaturated fats.
Jojoba gives elasticity and softness to the skin. Jojoba is a carrier oil, increasing the efficacy of other active ingredients.
what It Does NOT contain
It’s formulated without:
- paraffin
- gluten
- mineral oil
- nanoparticles
- parabens
- phthalates
- sulfates
- ureas
- silicone D5
- polyfluorinated /perfluorinated compounds.
THE EXPERIENCE
Thanks to the VIOLA ROUGE Pick Your Perfect Shade Quiz, I found two lipsticks that are perfect for my skin tone. I can’t count the number of lipsticks I have tried over the years trying to find a shade like Blueberry Flower, but as soon as I applied it I knew it was what I have been looking for. The same is true of Status Symbol. Having found two shades that are an exact match for my skin’s undertones, I can’t wait to try the others that the quiz recommended for me!
The texture is silky, weightless, and glides on evenly and with precision.
It is transfer-resistant and long-wearing, but not at all drying. Quite the contrary in fact: I found it exceptionally hydrating all day long without the need to reapply.
Blueberry flower lipstick is a deep fuchsia pink with a satin finish. It works for Pink, Blue, & Olive skin undertones.
Where to Buy It
Find these clean beauty lipsticks at Viola Rouge
Stay tuned for a future post on VIOLA ROUGE Eye Creams
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References
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- Marto, Joana; Neves, Ângela; Gonçalves, LÃdia M.; Pinto, Pedro; Almeida, Cristina; Simões, Sandra. 2018. “Rice Water: A Traditional Ingredient with Anti-Aging Efficacy. Cosmetics 5, no. 2: 26.
- Rigo, L.A.; da Silva, C.R.; de Oliveira, S.M.; Cabreira, T.N.; de Bona da Silva, C.; Ferreira, J.; Beck, R.C. Nanoencapsulation of rice bran oil increases its protective effects against UVB radiation-induced skin injury in mice. Eur. J. Pharm. Biopharm. 2015, 93, 11-17.
- Darmstadt GL, Mao-Qiang M, Chi E, Saha SK, Ziboh VA, Black RE, Santosham M, Elias PM. Impact of topical oils on the skin barrier: possible implications for neonatal health in developing countries. Acta Paediatr. 2002;91(5):546-54. doi: 10.1080/080352502753711678. PMID: 12113324.
About This Post
These VIOLA ROUGE lipsticks were submitted to Style Chicks for consideration purposes.
The Style Chicks team personally tests and thoroughly evaluates each product before it is featured.
Style Chicks independently researches product ingredients to understand how every featured product works. We show our research in the References section of each article.
All opinions and experiences are 100% our own.
Kylie says
So pretty!
Hannah says
Never knew abt blueberry oil