This product is the solution to my lipstick woes. I really don't like lipstick. I don't care for the taste or smell of it and they tend to get melty and messy in the summer heat. This lip pencil solves 2 problems: needing to have an additional lip liner on hand, having to deal with nasty lipstick. It has a lip liner on one end, and the lip color on the other. It's a fat enough pencil that it's easy to locate in your purse! The lip liner is soft and glides on easily for quick lining. The lip color is moist and does not dry out my lips at all. And it lasts for hours. I only need to touch it up a few times a day - like after I eat. The color doesn't run, bleed, or crack. Desert Rose is a warm copperized rose color.