Gives a bold, nice colour.
But the texture of the lipstick becomes very dry if you haven't applied a lip balm or gloss on top.

In my infinite search for a long lasting, truest blue red lipstick, I purchased my first MAC product. All excited to try MAC after hearing so many friends talk about how much they love their products, I made the expensive purchase of MAC Retro Matte Lipstick in Ruby.

The colour looks good in the tube and really is a great blue red. Unfortunately, the lipstick is so dry that applying it is absolutely outrageous! It pulls and stretches my lips trying to apply it. I'm very disappointed and never use this $20 tube of fabulous colour :(

Anyone who enjoys wearing deep dark colours on their lips, understands that it's important to be able to apply lipstick easily enough to follow the lip line so they aren't trying to fix the line with concealer after application.

Disappointed that my first MAC purchase wasn't what I'd expected.