Yves Saint Laurent Gloss Volupte

Gloss Volupte

A sensual and intense 'Bouche A Bouche'

Scandalously shiny.
Extremely creamy.
Sensual to ecstasy.
Irresistibly tempting to kiss.

Yves Saint Laurent offers lips a totally unique experience with its new sense - stimulating gloss, the latest in the Volupté family.

A revolutionary formula, luscious nectar, with an extreme high shine. Its heavenly light texture, creamy beyond compare, embraces the lips like a sensual 'bouche à bouche" thanks to its patented kiss shaped applicator.

Lips are lathered in intense glossy colour with golden, iridescent or pure colour, outlining an irresistible smile that stirs the desire for more.

Indulge in the sensual pleasure of its sumptuous texture, luscious colour and dazzling shine.

Gloss Volupte
An invitation to kiss

DESIRE
Hidden in a precious jewel, crowned in gold and belted with a silver ring engraved with the legendary Cassandra logo, it elegantly unveils its colours in transparency and attracts the eye like an irresistible magnet.

SENSUALITY
Ultra intuitive and a delight for the senses, the kiss shaped applicator caresses the lips like a sensual embrace.

SCENT
Its juicy, fruity mango scent the Volupté family's distinctive signature wets the appetite and intensifies the pleasure of applying and wearing it day after day.

PLEASURE
Like a creamy balm infused with colour, it instantly melts on the lips, coating them in a gleaming, feathery veil.

Gloss Innovation

A New Generation Forumla

No more sticky gloss that doesn't hold. Airy light yet intensely shiny, the new GLOSS VOLUPTÉ ultra slim, nongreasy, nonsticky texture coats and defines the lips in a high fidelity veil of dazzlingly wet colour to create extremely sensual, deliciously alluring lips.

The Secrets Of The Forumla: 'All of the lipsticks in the VOLUPTÉ family are endowed with exceptional textures that literally melt onto lips, creating an intense sensation of comfort and well being. Ten times creamier in contact with the lips than a classic gloss, GLOSS VOLUPTÉ new generation formula has successfully met the challenge of combining smoothness and lightness to instantly add the most exquisite wet looking shine to the lips. Thanks to the patent pending Light Kiss System technology, it coats lips in an ultra thin, non sticky, velvety veil." - Caroline Negre, Scientific Communication Manager Yves Saint Laurent Beauté

The Light Kiss System: This patent pending technology is the perfect combination of a gelifying system and oils for a truly sensual application every time. The texture transforms, melting onto the lips, covering them in a heavenly veil infused with a cocktail of balm like care. Thanks to this unique technology, the lips are wrapped in an ultra thin, ultra lightweight film that holds without smudging or feathering. The lips are drenched in pure, non sticky, absolutely sheer colour.

The Glossy Optimzier: The Glossy Optimizer is made with lightweight, shiny oils and a vinyl polymer that form a thin veil on the lips' surface to boost their lustrous appeal. It wraps the lightweight, shiny oils creating a perfectly smooth, consistent mirror like surface for optimal light reflection and a volumizing 3D optical effect. The lips are plumped with exceptionally dazzling, ultra glossy shine.

A Cutting-Edge Applicator

A 'Bouche A Bouche' Caress
Designed in the shape of pouting lips, the patented applicator mimics the experience of a tender kiss. Unlike any other applicator, with its evocative shape and delicate foam, it embraces every curve of the lips in a naturally intuitive, ultra sensual gesture. A sensory, feminine caress. A sensual, intimate pleasure.

The Secrets Of Its 3D Design: 'The unique shape of this patented applicator was designed in three dimensions so that each application can be equally:
Precise: thanks to the tapered tip that creates a clean edge along the contours and corners of the lips.
Ergnomic: thanks to the wider, curved mid section that perfectly shapes the lips in a single, intuitively guided wave of the wand.
Sensorial: thanks to the exceptional flexibility provided by the suppleness of the applicator's material and hollow section.
Adapted: thanks to the mini reservoir in its core that provides just the right amount of gloss which is then generously yet consistently spread across the lips' broadest surfaces."
- Caroline Negre, Scientific Communication Manager Yves Saint Laurent Beauté

A Profusion Of Colours
24 Shades and 3 Types Of Shine
To fulfill the desire for pure colour and all the wild whim for extreme shine, the exciting new GLOSS VOLUPTÉ is available in an infinite array of irresistible shades, and three types of shine. A profusion of iconic Saint Laurent colours that invite women to experience the delicious game of seduction.

SCANDALOUSLY GOLD
10 remarkably shimmering golden shades.
Shades ranging from nude to fuchsia are infused with the warm glimmer of gold flecks, creating a truly precious light. Scandalously sensual.

N° 1 GOLD
N° 2 OR SAHARIENNE
N° 3 ROSE FUSION
N° 4 FUCHSIA VERMEIL
N° 10 OR ROSE
N° 15 GRENADE PÉPITE
N° 19 ROSE ORFÈVRE
N° 20 NUDE CARAT
N° 30 CORAIL LINGOT
N° 49 TERRIBLEMENT FUCHSIA
N° 206 FUCHSIA ORAN
N° 207 ROUGE VELOURS
N° 208 FAUVE
N° 209 SMOKING
– Série Limitée 5 sparkling couture shades.

Enriched with tone on tone, pearlescent flecks, the colours become even more lustrous yet subtle, without any sequin effect. Extremely captivating.

N° 101 IRIDESCENT N° 102 ROSE SATINE
N° 103 OPIUM PERSAN
N° 104 PRUNE ORGANDI
N° 105 BRUN LAMÉ – Limited Edition

Irresitibly Pure
9 sheer mirror like shades.
Totally pure, these shades do not contain any sparkles or flecks, for a sheer, lacquered, sherbet effect on the lips, like a pristine essence of colour. Deliciously irresistible.

N° 201 PURE
N° 202 ROSE JERSEY
N° 203 CORAIL GANDOURA
N° 204 CORAIL TRAPÈZE
N° 205 ROUGE SHANTUNG

Gloss Coats
Iconic YSL colours, black and gold team up with pure transparency and play the role of high fashion lip accessories. Three tantalising gloss coats to be used alone or as top coats, creating one of a kind colours and customised shine.

N° 1 GOLD: an extremely sophisticated touch of gold
N° 201 PURE: a colour and shine booster
N° 209 SMOKING: a luminous, rock - style tint

'These three very Saint Laurent shades can be applied as a top coat over a GLOSS VOLUPTÉ or a ROUGE VOLUPTÉ, on the entire mouth or just a dab in the middle of the lips. When used over another colour, the black, for example, creates a luminous shadow steeped in deep light." - Lloyd Simmonds, Creative Director Make-up Yves Saint Laurent Beauté

Interview with Lloyd Simmonds

Creative Director Make-up Yves Saint Laurent Beauté

Question:Is this the big come back for gloss?

Lloyd Simmonds: 'The recent arrival of new generation formulas is enabling gloss to regain a prominent position in the make-up world. More sensual and more sensational than previous options, GLOSS VOLUPTÉ provides a new way to enjoy shiny lips with an unlimited sensation of freshness but without the inconvenience of greasiness or stickiness."


Question:Tell us about YSL's new GLOSS VOLUPTÉ.

Lloyd Simmonds: 'GLOSS VOLUPTÉ offers women a new way to play with and wear gloss. Incredibly thinner and lighter than any other gloss, its formula contains the essence of a colour infused in an ultra-shiny, deliciously creamy texture."


Question:You liberate women who are intimid ated by colour and bored with gloss!

Lloyd Simmonds: 'It's not always easy for people to wear a gorgeous Opium red, tuxedo black or flashy fuchsia on their lips. The subtlety of GLOSS VOLUPTÉ fulfills women's desire to be sensual. They can play with the colours and types of shine – golden, iridescent or pure – and make them their own."


Question:How did you create these 24 new shades?

Lloyd Simmonds: 'There are many shades, like a walk - in closet! I wanted to create a range of iconic colours. So I drew my inspiration from the historic Saint Laurent colour codes: pale pink, bright fuchsia, coral, black... And a core collection with an extra hint of gold as a nod to the House legacy."


Question:Which is your favourite shade?

Lloyd Simmonds: 'The N° 49 TERRIBLEMENT FUCHSIA is so YSL! I also love the darker colours like N° 209 SMOKING – it's totally rock, very dramatic, but somehow subtle on the lips."


Question:How should GLOSS VOLUPTÉ be applied?

Lloyd Simmonds: 'I like to apply it all over the lips. I start in the middle of the upper lip and glide out toward the edges and then repeat the gesture on the lower lip."


The Volupte Saga
Total indulgence for the senses

The thrill of pure, fresh colours, an ultra-sensual, melting formula and extremely intense shine. Yves Saint Laurent created the VOLUPTÉ family with a distinctive, irresistibly mouth - watering mango scent. Fresh new ways to play with colour and make it your own. For lips that crave endless pleasure.

2008:
Launch of ROUGE VOLUPTÉ, the first lipstick to offer an incredibly creamy texture that instantly fuses with your lips thanks to an exclusive 'back injection" manufacturing process. A veil of exceptionally shiny, ultra - pure colour and an extremely comforting melting texture.

2011:
Creation of VOLUPTÉ SHEER CANDY, a balm that creates a tasty bitten lips effect. It's moisturizing like a balm, plumping like a gloss, crystal clear like sugar candy – its texture swathes lips in well - being and dresses them up in tangy, colourful yet sheer shine, as if they just bit into a juicy piece of fruit.

2013:
ROUGE VOLUPTÉ SHINE, luminous, sensual colours in a unique formula enriched with a nourishing cocktail of lip care. Thanks to its high concentration of soft waxes, it instantly melts In contact with the lips sheathing them in an ultra - shiny, protective veil as crystal clear as water. A sumptuous formula for deliciously desirable lips.

2014:
The saga continues with GLOSS VOLUPTÉ. A patented applicator that mirrors a 'bouche à bouche". A revolutionary, incomparably creamy, never sticky formula that becomes an extremely shiny, transparent veil. An infinite array of irresistible colours and three types of shine. A genuine invitation to kiss.