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Beauty Blog (Archive)
Friday, August 29, 2003
posted by TheBroadroom.Net at
1:10 PM (Pacific)
Hummm...well then, it's the same with me. Red doesn't fit in with my real life either. I love the idea, buuuuut...
And, I can't do dark lipsticks either. They just don't look right.
I went through years...literally...fiddling around with lipsticks. I've come to believe that finding the right lipstick is like finding the right perfume, hair or clothes: fundamental.
Men will scoff...*phhhhht* then again what would a man be doing, reading this?! lol but I see it this way. We're still living in a man's world. Other species, you will note, have brightly colored males, not females. It's the men who should be fretting about finding the right lipstick then right? :)
MAC Delish is really good. I tried Eden Rocks but liked Delish better. Eden Rocks is pretty...it's lighter, pinker and more neutral than Delish. Delish is sort of peachy-rose with a brown base and pink shimmer. It's not super shimmery, on. It's a sort of lips color.
Likewise, Ecco Bella Peach Frost...I like that one too. Somewhat more color than Delish but similar. My local Whole Foods decimated the makeup aisle...they put up three aisles of supplements instead. *pffffft* So all I got to try was Ecco Bella Cafe au Lait and the Peach Frost. Expensive--same price as MAC. But good quality.
Maybelline Wet Shine Sweet Sorbet was a cheap thrill. But it's good...it's a soft rose, really natural looking. It doesn't turn a funny color when it fades, either. Maybelline now is really good for the price.
I still have that Bonne Bell Gotta Date? that Becky gave me. That's the closest to red I have. It's sheer, got some brown in it...quite wearable.
Do I need another lipstick? I really don't. It's odd. When I pitched Rizzo, I felt like replacing it with something else. As if five is the right number, not four or six.
What about Twig? Is it all that? How brown is it, on? Or is it just straight medium pink? I've tried Spirit...definitely too brown. But I'd want something brownish.
Or maybe it's well to look at the Amplified stuff?
Hummm...I don't have an oval face, either. It used to bother me a lot. All the magazines back then ('70's, '80's) maintained that you had to have an oval face no matter what. There were lots of instructions and diagrams on how to attain this oval face using contouring makeup.
At one point I realized how ridiculous it was. Even back then, many of the models and actresses did not have oval faces. Ingrid Bergman, Lauren Hutton, Faye Dunaway, Jodie Foster, Grace Kelly, Sophia Loren...it seems to me fall under the squarish face category.
Currently: Reese Witherspoon, Julia Stiles, Cameron Diaz...heart-shaped. Devon Aoki (my fave model)...diamond-shaped. Penelope Cruz, Gwyneth Paltrow, Thandie Newton...square.
I think I will wait until later to get any more new makeup...I'm pondering the lipstick now...
--Josephine
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