NYX lip liners are great at any price. They have a great color selection, great color payoff, great lasting power and they aren't extremely dry like other pencil liners. Despite feeling a little dry, these glide nicely and stay on the lips without pilling.I apply a thin layer of lip balm, then a thin (or thick) layer of the lip pencil before deciding if I really need lipstick or can just go with lip gloss and go. Plush Red is the blue-toned magenta/red of NYX that goes with the Plush Red lip products as well as a lot of their blue-toned reds (Chaos being my favorite so far). It doesn't feather by itself and doesn't like to let the lipsticks feather, either. I used this with Clinique's Ginger Flower (a more matte magenta-tinged red color) and it looked fine and worked well.