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Here’s a thing that sort of haunts me, since I’m on a fashion kick here and thinking about it.
Years ago, literal years ago, on this hellsite, I posted about how I’m continually frustrated in my quest for genuine red lipstick. I want Agent Carter red lipstick, and I compulsively buy True Red lipsticks every time I see them, and yet. Always, always, always, pink. I put them on, pink.
I know it’s that my lips are naturally pretty bright pink, that’s just my coloring. I get it. But I don’t want a pink lipstick, I want a red one.
(Dark reds turn pink too. Amazing.)
And I bitched about this, and this was back before xkit had any reply to replies function. Someone replied, someone I didn’t follow, I don’t remember who it was, they said, “Oh, I know a lot about that! Tell me what colors you have that didn’t work, and i can advise you!” or something to that effect.
But I lost the notification, I don’t remember when I made the post, I don’t know who it was.
But. Is– is that a thing? Is there anyone who can tell me how to find a shade that will genuinely be red on my actual face??
(I am a cheap bitch who continually buys $3-5 lipsticks at drugstores so that might also be the problem, but I am not going to splash out twenty fucking dollars on yet another tube of gloriously red-with-yellow-undertones lipstick only to put it onto my face and have YET ANOTHER SHADE OF FUCKING PINK.) (And I’ve considered buying the orangey shades, but I happen to know they turn fucking fuschia, so, not a success story so far.)
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Here are a few things I know about this from working with make up artists. I hope any of this is helpful.
1. A lipliner, just a smidge darker than your lip color, will make lipstick look much darker and fuller right away. I’ve also seen some MUA fill in a model’s lips completely with lipliner before applying lipstick. A lip pencil is like, a dollar, so that’s cheaper than most primers.
2. Layering colors helps a lot. I have a very vibrant fuschia-colored Urban Decay color that I put on as a stain. Then I layer cheaper, smearier colors over that.
3. Cheaper products–and even some of the more expensive ones–change and degrade over time. So if your lipstick is more than 6 or 8 months old, the color may shift slightly. Also things like bacteria and degrading heavy metals (in sparkley eye shadows, or anything metallic) posit concerns when using expired products. But that’s sort of irrelevant to color.
4. For only 99$ you can buy a special effects palette at Sephora. That’s like a painter’s palette of pretty much straight pigment. I don’t think it’s advisable to wear pure straight undiluted pigment on your face every day, but lots of people use those on Halloween.
5. This isn’t something I learned from MUA as much as just being an anti-capitalist garbage-person, but you can buy makeup at MAC or Sephora and then return them within 30 (it might be 60, even) days of purchase.
6. You can also theoretically go in, buy a $20 tube of lipstick, walk out, grab your old used $20 tube of lipstick, and return the old one with the receipt of what you just bought. That would be dishonest though.
7. Red lipstick looks redder if you use a foundation primer with a green tint to cut the red in your face.
These are all excellent suggestions, so I’m reblogging for reference. ( @torrilin added a few more suggestions and pointed out that the serious brands will have dozens of shades of red as opposed to the 3-4 of cheaper brands, and also suggested swatching on one’s thumb, but I’ve found that my thumb is enough of a different color than my lips to make this not really a very useful test for me. But then, I’m doing it alone and not with the supervision of anyone knowledgeable, so I dunno.)
I am the WORST at throwing away expired shit. I needed eyedrops the other day, and dug around and found a bottle and ALMOST USED THEM but at the last moment checked the expiration date on the bottom of the bottle.
2003 i shit you not. Found another bottle. “I remember buying this one,” I thought, “this one is much more recent,” and I wasn’t wrong, it expired in 2009. I actually fucking thought oh hey, that’s not so long ago, until I remembered that’s like nine years ago what the fuck, and threw it out too. Thankfully.
But. Yeah. I’m real bad at paying attention to that. Sometimes I go to use makeup and it’s all dried up or has changed texture and I’m like How Could That Happen and then I try to remember when i bought it and it’s like, bitch, I was in college that shit is old enough to vote throw it out you’ll die of an eye infection!!!
I also am addicted to layering shit but it never turns out how I intend.
But. I do Know A Guy (if by guy you understand young woman I met doing roller derby) who Works At Sephora, so, I should go there. It’s like. Half an hour away. Forgive me if I wait until after the holidays to go anywhere fucking near that mall, though.
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salamanderinspace:
bomberqueen17:
Here’s a thing that sort of haunts me, since I’m on a fashion kick here and thinking about it.
Years ago, literal years ago, on this hellsite, I posted about how I’m continually frustrated in my quest for genuine red lipstick. I want Agent Carter red lipstick, and I compulsively buy True Red lipsticks every time I see them, and yet. Always, always, always, pink. I put them on, pink.
I know it’s that my lips are naturally pretty bright pink, that’s just my coloring. I get it. But I don’t want a pink lipstick, I want a red one.
(Dark reds turn pink too. Amazing.)
And I bitched about this, and this was back before xkit had any reply to replies function. Someone replied, someone I didn’t follow, I don’t remember who it was, they said, “Oh, I know a lot about that! Tell me what colors you have that didn’t work, and i can advise you!” or something to that effect.
But I lost the notification, I don’t remember when I made the post, I don’t know who it was.
But. Is– is that a thing? Is there anyone who can tell me how to find a shade that will genuinely be red on my actual face??
(I am a cheap bitch who continually buys $3-5 lipsticks at drugstores so that might also be the problem, but I am not going to splash out twenty fucking dollars on yet another tube of gloriously red-with-yellow-undertones lipstick only to put it onto my face and have YET ANOTHER SHADE OF FUCKING PINK.) (And I’ve considered buying the orangey shades, but I happen to know they turn fucking fuschia, so, not a success story so far.)
Keep reading
Here are a few things I know about this from working with make up artists. I hope any of this is helpful.
1. A lipliner, just a smidge darker than your lip color, will make lipstick look much darker and fuller right away. I’ve also seen some MUA fill in a model’s lips completely with lipliner before applying lipstick. A lip pencil is like, a dollar, so that’s cheaper than most primers.
2. Layering colors helps a lot. I have a very vibrant fuschia-colored Urban Decay color that I put on as a stain. Then I layer cheaper, smearier colors over that.
3. Cheaper products–and even some of the more expensive ones–change and degrade over time. So if your lipstick is more than 6 or 8 months old, the color may shift slightly. Also things like bacteria and degrading heavy metals (in sparkley eye shadows, or anything metallic) posit concerns when using expired products. But that’s sort of irrelevant to color.
4. For only 99$ you can buy a special effects palette at Sephora. That’s like a painter’s palette of pretty much straight pigment. I don’t think it’s advisable to wear pure straight undiluted pigment on your face every day, but lots of people use those on Halloween.
5. This isn’t something I learned from MUA as much as just being an anti-capitalist garbage-person, but you can buy makeup at MAC or Sephora and then return them within 30 (it might be 60, even) days of purchase.
6. You can also theoretically go in, buy a $20 tube of lipstick, walk out, grab your old used $20 tube of lipstick, and return the old one with the receipt of what you just bought. That would be dishonest though.
7. Red lipstick looks redder if you use a foundation primer with a green tint to cut the red in your face.
These are all excellent suggestions, so I’m reblogging for reference. ( @torrilin added a few more suggestions and pointed out that the serious brands will have dozens of shades of red as opposed to the 3-4 of cheaper brands, and also suggested swatching on one’s thumb, but I’ve found that my thumb is enough of a different color than my lips to make this not really a very useful test for me. But then, I’m doing it alone and not with the supervision of anyone knowledgeable, so I dunno.)
I am the WORST at throwing away expired shit. I needed eyedrops the other day, and dug around and found a bottle and ALMOST USED THEM but at the last moment checked the expiration date on the bottom of the bottle.
2003 i shit you not. Found another bottle. “I remember buying this one,” I thought, “this one is much more recent,” and I wasn’t wrong, it expired in 2009. I actually fucking thought oh hey, that’s not so long ago, until I remembered that’s like nine years ago what the fuck, and threw it out too. Thankfully.
But. Yeah. I’m real bad at paying attention to that. Sometimes I go to use makeup and it’s all dried up or has changed texture and I’m like How Could That Happen and then I try to remember when i bought it and it’s like, bitch, I was in college that shit is old enough to vote throw it out you’ll die of an eye infection!!!
I also am addicted to layering shit but it never turns out how I intend.
But. I do Know A Guy (if by guy you understand young woman I met doing roller derby) who Works At Sephora, so, I should go there. It’s like. Half an hour away. Forgive me if I wait until after the holidays to go anywhere fucking near that mall, though.
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