July 23 - Are there any shades that you would like to add to your collection?
I’d like to have more greens in general, including an olive green and another good hunter green. And since green bleeds into teal: I’m always interested in another dark teal lipstick. Oh, and greys! I have just one or two grey lipsticks and a couple greiges. I’d love to have a warmer toned grey and a cooler toned grey, plus a good charcoal grey.
The only colors I don’t want, because they usually don’t play nice with my skin tone, are pink corals (as opposed to orange corals which do work on me) and anything in the beige range that completely washes me out. I am not a fan of mannequin lips on myself.
July 24 - What are you favourite lip product brands?
MAC is my first lipstick love. In my middle/jr. high and high school years, I only wore Revlon Milani, and Wet ‘n’ Wild lipsticks. But trying MAC in the early ‘90s sealed my lipstick addict fate. I still love their Satin and Amplified bullet formulas. I’ll forever mourn the end of their Liptensity formula. I like some of their Frost and Matte bullets, but not their Retro Matte bullets which are much too drying for my lips to handle—which means I’ve never been able to wear Ruby Woo. Their Lustreglass formula’s a nice reboot of their old Lustre line of bullets. I wish MAC would release more unconventional shades like they used to.
[ EDIT: Thinking back, I’m not sure Milani was around in the ‘80s…? I definitely wore some of their lipsticks but that might’ve been during college, which would’ve been the early ‘90s. Does anyone over age 35 remember how long ago Milani was available in US drugstores? Now I feel like I’m confusing them with another drugstore brand. ]
Other favorites in no particular order (excluding brands that are no longer available):
- NARS - mostly the Audacious creams
- Pat McGrath - every bullet, including the sadly discontinued LuxeTrances; also like her glosses
- Guerlain - still love my Rouge G creams, and I also like the few Kiss Kiss bullets I own
- Gucci - I had low expectations of their bullets but wow was I wrong 😂
- Sephora Collection - Lipstories are one of my favorite low-cost lines
- ColourPop - Lux cream bullets are my other fave low-cost line (wish they’d bring back more of the fun shades, they had some killer blues), and I like their Lux liquid lipsticks
- Givenchy - every now and then they surprise me with some very fun shades and formulas, but I also like some of their more conventional items
- Shu Uemura - any bullet formula except Kinu Satin (that one irritates my lips), and they’ve made very good liquid satins and glosses
- UOMA Beauty - love the Badass Icon mattes, the original Black Magic metallic bullets, and their lip glosses
- Lancôme - I’m very sad to see the L’Absolu Lacquer glosses being discontinued (no other brand’s gloss comes close), but I do still like their cream satin bullets
- Fenty - I keep hoping they’ll release more of the old fun Mattemoiselle shades to the new Icon line (the recent Miss Candy Venom shade gave me hope!); also still a Gloss Bomb fan
- Lisa Eldridge - both her bullets and her glosses are great
I’ll stop the list there. Honorable mentions: YSL now that their bullets are less fragranced (thank goodness), Chanel Le Rouge Duo liquid lipstick, Stila Calligraphy lip stain, Glossier G Suit, and of course Danessa Myricks Colorfix for when I wanna custom-blend my own shade.
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