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Hi BIC!
A lot of us have talked about our huge lipstick collections, and with the passing of another National Lipstick Day, I took stock of mine. I have about 200 lipsticks and glosses and realized, I only wear about 20 of them! So I'm challenging myself (and whoever else wants to join) to use more of them. I'm going to try to wear a different lipstick every day for the next 100 days.
@WinglessOne I can only recommend the Rouge Allure Ink line. I had actually another color from this range but my mom stole it from me😆 also this line is slightly cheaper than rest of Chanel lipsticks.
Today I chose a mine-but-better lip color to wear during all my pre-workout errands. No sense wearing a bolder shade since I was just gonna wipe it off 2 hours later. (I also shouldn’t have worn concealer; habit got the best of me.)
This is Lipstick Queen Chinatown Glossy Pencil in Mystery. I’d never tried any of the Chinatowns before. This one’s kinda like a tinted semi-glossy balm. It’s comfy to wear but not as creamy feeling as Frog Prince. I like the color it gives me, though. Color doesn’t survive many cups of coffee, so I’ll just treat this like a tinted balm.
2 hours later, I was still in errands mode. Came home for a pit stop and swapped Mystery for Huda Beauty Demi Matte in Lady Boss, added some blush, then went back out for more errands. Lady Boss isn’t as resilient as Provocateur, the first Huda Demi Matte I tried a few days ago. It transfers much more and wears down faster, though it doesn’t completely disappear from my lips. An opaque coat of color stays on everywhere but the interior (“water line,” I guess) of my lips, where it’s completely gone. This shade also feathered a lot during my meal, so I’ll have to wear a lip liner with it next time. I have 2 more of these and hope they perform more like Provocateur than Lady Boss.
Errands morphed into aimless wandering and, um, I never got my workout in. 😄 I’ll have to do it tonight. I see a HIIT routine in my immediate future.
EDIT: Forgot to post my running list of lipsticks worn for this challenge, since I’m at another 10th shade.
146. Lancôme L’Absolu Lacquer in Rose Rouge
147. Pat McGrath LuxeTrance in Wrecked (repeat)
148. NARS Powermatte in Paint It Black
148a. Paint It Black topped with NARS Triple X lip gloss (clear)
149. Lipstick Queen Chinatown Glossy Pencil in Mystery
150. Huda Beauty Demi Matte in Lady Boss
Thanks @lmaster @ather @faeriegirl @Anonymous @2manyperfumes (ha, pet typos are the best)!
I was responding to @WinglessOne but my dog’s ginormous head bunked me lol. She’s the size of a Dane so last time she flipped my bowl of ice cream 🍨 on purpose. Sigh
Both are beautiful shades on you @snoflakefaerie . I have Provacateur and another shade in the Demi mattes but not Lady Boss. I have Catwalk Killa and Showgirl (matte formula). Her Demi’s are very whipped and heavily pigmented. Love Lady Boss on you. ❤️
You just make them all look so beautiful @WinglessOne
Are the Chinatowns still out? I’m still trying to find my way with Lipstick Queen even though I’ll admit I liked the way Frog Prince felt. Both look good on you @WinglessOne . Then again I haven’t seen you in a bad lipstick. 🙂
@divaknits I got my Chinatown pencil from Space NK, but they’re sold out now. 😞 Not sure if Lipstick Queen direct has them in stock anymore. Some of the LQ transformer lipsticks don’t do much for me; Hello Sailor was my biggest disappointment. A couple others (besides Frog Prince) work well on me, like Blue By You which gives me a sparkly semi-sheer raspberry look.
LQ does also make fully pigmented, non-transforming lipsticks, like their Lipstick Chess line of bullets, and the Sinner bullets. I want to try their Rear View Mirror Lip Lacquer. Ulta has all of those LQ lines. 🙂 I’d order them from Ulta before Space NK, mostly because Ulta’s return policy is better.
I love that colour Mystery on you- it's so pretty!
@WinglessOne Both shades are lovely on you. I think I want to try exercising in lipstick...maybe it will be motivational in some way?
Thanks @PrettyPaint ! And honestly, I can’t exercise in any makeup except brow pencil. 😂 (And even then, it’s gotta be a brow pencil that can survive a lot of sweat.) That’d be a fun lipstick wear-test, though: can it withstand 1 or 2 bottles of water, increased body temp, and buckets of sweat? 😄
@WinglessOne I think I’m up for the challenge! And I do tend to wear brow pencil when working out as well. That’s the number one product I need...brow product!
@PrettyPaint I hear you. I won’t leave home with undone brows unless the building’s on fire or I’m being chased by zombies (the fast moving kind, not the slow lumberers), or some other emergency requiring immediate evac. I don’t know how I manage to wipe my forehead during/after workouts without obliterating my brows. I must subconsciously wipe around them. 😂
Lol I cannot live without my eyebrow pencils so I’m laughing my head off. Yes that sums it up. It’s taken years for them to somewhat grow back. I used pure castor oil on them nightly for over a year and multi vitamins. Don’t know if it works but mine are better now still pretty thin. Plus they are lighter because my real hair colour is auburn. Lol so I have reddish eyebrows and lashes.
@2manyperfumes Sadly, my brow tails—actually, the entire back half of both brows—have always been sparse. At least I can blame that on genetics instead of overplucking, which I was also guilty of for a year. 😞 My brows mostly grew back on their own, except for the tails which have never been full.
I keep saying I’ll have my brows microbladed someday. I know it’s not permanent, but it’d be kinda nice to go a while without having to do my brows at all. The only thing stopping me is fear—not of pain (psh, I have enough tattoos to know microblading won’t hurt), but of the microblade person giving me the wrong brow shape or completely messing one brow up. 😂