Dear "long-wear" liquid to matte lipsticks,

Hey there, you guys. It's me, Sarah. You know, the person who spends way too much money she doesn't have on you guys? Anyway, I just wanted to check in to remind you guys it's 2016, and if you claim to be long-wear, you should not be coming off on anything my lips touch.

I'm not just talking about kissing and "kissing" here, you tubes of expensive lip color that bleed everywhere. When I take a sip of coffee, I don't want bright purple marks all over the cup. I don't want to worry about accidentally moving around a cup while I'm drinking out of it and ending up with red smears on my nose. I definitely don't want to eat and thinking that my lipstick has preserved itself, go throughout the day without reapplying only to look in a mirror hours later and see all the lipstick except the edges are gone. So thanks for that true advertising.

And we can't forget how drying these lipsticks are. You can have the prettiest lip color in the world, but it'll look like crap if it cracks my lips because the formula is more drying than aiming a hair dryer at my mouth for two hours.

I am tired of spending too much money in Sephora hoping whatever Kat Von D or Anastasia Beverly Hills lipstick promises to keep my lipstick perfect (or as close to perfect as I can get with a very shaky hand and never enough time to fix my lipstick properly) only to find it smeared all over my lunch and leaving my lips cracked and sad.

So, please, for the love of Colourpop, make a lipstick that'll actually last for more than two seconds while not giving my lips more cracks than a sidewalk.