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Posted by Dain, Saturday, September 15, 2007 10:04 AM (Eastern)
All of the primary colors are attention-grabbing, but none have the sexy intensity of red. As such, its use is powerful, but limited. This isn't to imply that the color doesn't have complexity, as devotees of red lipstick well know, there's a vast difference between the orangish tomato red and the blue-tinged garnet. There are four families of reds: pure reds, pink-reds, orange-reds, and blue-reds. Pure reds include: the brightness of cherry, poppy, apple, pin-up, or fire-engine reds, and the darker versions of crimson, blood red, and burgundy. Pink-reds are very wearable, softer but still neutral, from the extremely pink watermelon (a close cousin to coral), the shimmery rose-touched redcurrant, to the beautifully classic rose petal shade. Orange-reds are warm: tomato red, scarlet (similar to crimson but with a touch of orange), brick (a substantial amount of brown in it), and rust (plenty of brown, and enough orange that this might be considered orange rather than red). Blue-reds are quite cool, so can resemble purple, and they range from the subtly blue ruby to the rather purplish claret, to the somewhat deeper, subdued garnet, and the darkest bordeaux.
I refrained from mentioning brown-reds. It's not really an undertone with reds, it mutes the brightness of the red, and deepens the color. Brown can be added to red lipsticks of any undertone, from orange (brick) to neutral (blood-red) to blue (garnet) to pink (currant).
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