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starlikesilences
replied to your post “Here’s a thing that sort of haunts me, since I’m on a fashion kick…”
I know you’re looking for inexpensive but the lipstick that was used in the Agent Carter series is Red Velvet by Besame (25$ish). They do a bunch of different vintage shades if you want something darker too :)
I remember she said as much when the series first came out, and I’ve hovered my finger over the buy button a bunch of times on the Red Velvet, but I’ve hesitated because I have SO MANY TUBES OF DISAPPOINTING LIPSTICK and it would KILL me to spend the $25 on this Special Tube and put it on and look in the mirror and say “oh boy another shade of pink!” and throw it in a drawer again. SIGHH.
For the record, I *have* spent more than $5 on tubes of lipstick in the past, which is why this burns particularly. I am not always good with money.
torrilin replied to your post “Here’s a thing that sort of haunts me, since I’m on a fashion kick…”
Basically, the thumb swatch isn’t to find the color. Say you’ve got 20 swatches on your hand, and there’s 3 maybes. So you test those on your thumb, and maybe one gets ruled out. So you’ve saved yourself a lip test slot and you can look for a few more colors. On a serious quest, that adds up.
I suppose that’s fair. I guess I’ve never Seriously Quested before! LOL
thebyrchentwigges replied to your post “Here’s a thing that sort of haunts me, since I’m on a fashion kick…”
MAC is my go-to for industrial-strength, unchanging true reds. The lipsticks also last forever, unchanging. NARS is a close second for softer more everyday reds. MAC for statement lip/burly-q and NARS for slightly more understated.
I am so intimidated by cosmetics counters. I need a buddy to go with me. Those all sound fascinating but I know those are expensive brands which is why I don’t own any, because I’d need to try those because I’m not going to buy the wrong $25 lipstick ugh. I wish I ever went places where I required a Statement Lip because I find those are the only shades I ever really want. The ones that look natural and just accentuate my real face or whatever– I get it, and those should be more attractive to me since as a person who isn’t sure how to do makeup, I’m better off with more subtle looks so it doesn’t show so much if I screw up– but lord, all I ever want is a Statement Lip, LOL.
bebeocho replied to your post “Here’s a thing that sort of haunts me, since I’m on a fashion kick…”
i’m not good at lipstick, but i’m just here to say that i love that scarf!!
Why thank you! I have an embarrassingly large collection of scarves, including about four of that exact pattern in different shades. (That’s red, then I have purple, navy blue, and baby blue shot with gold. It covers almost every outfit need, you’d be surprised.) For a hot minute this summer I had draped most of the interior of the yurt with them, which was lovely, but I’m not much for decoration really. Still, it was handy to always have scarves around. If I had a proper blanket fort the entire interior would be my collection of scarves and I’d pull them out and wear them all the time.
redlipstickandhairbows replied to your post
“Here’s a thing that sort of haunts me, since I’m on a fashion kick…”
Blue based reds work best for me. Not sure about your skin tone, though. NARS Dragon Girl is my go to, but Beseme has a victory red that’s nice too
I may have been wrong all along– I do have one very good red lipstick, and it is Rimmel’s Kate, which I guess is a Kate Moss thing? and it’s shade 01, and it actually looks pretty red on me, and guess what? Blue undertones.
photo behind cut. i also need to find out how to use blush because on the rare occasions i use foundation (increasingly necessary; i don’t have zits anymore, hallelujah! but now my freckles are coalescing into constellations of age spots, boo! they’re not age spots yet but they’re gonna be!) i wind up with this weird flat pancake face and it’s hilarious to me to consider needing blush, as a person who has spent most of her life bright fucking red, but yeah if you put foundation on you then need blush, so. here’s the thing though i put on makeup like three times a year so I don’t want to Invest In It. Ugh. I don’t need it for my job, I don’t need it for interviews or being respected in my professional life, I just like it because it’s interesting to try out and I want to know how to do it properly should an occasion arise, and there’s just always more to it.
(it was Date Night last night and I got Extremely dressed-up and we intended to go to a couple of places for particular specialty drinks, but we wound up just having dinner and going home because everyone in the world was out on the town last night and we couldn’t get in the door of the one place we’d meant to have a post-dinner drink. which is fine, it was a fine time. i look fat in this dress but it turns out i *am* fat so I realized it was weird to be upset about that.)
Bonus shot of looking fat in the dress, with filthy mirror and chaotic bedroom:
The belt helps, I think. But either way– yes, it’s a large expanse of human swathed in black lace, because I’m a large expanse of human swathed in black lace, why is this something that a positive or negative value needs to be applied to? Good Lord what a weird culture we live in.
(Ha note the enormous color laser printer on the dresser behind me. We print like two things a year. Amazing.)
(What’s in the cocktail glass? Oh gosh, nothing, just some moonshine Dude distilled out of fermented jerusalem artichoke roots we dug out of our lawn, it’s amazingly good.)
(Your picture was not posted)
starlikesilences
replied to your post “Here’s a thing that sort of haunts me, since I’m on a fashion kick…”
I know you’re looking for inexpensive but the lipstick that was used in the Agent Carter series is Red Velvet by Besame (25$ish). They do a bunch of different vintage shades if you want something darker too :)
I remember she said as much when the series first came out, and I’ve hovered my finger over the buy button a bunch of times on the Red Velvet, but I’ve hesitated because I have SO MANY TUBES OF DISAPPOINTING LIPSTICK and it would KILL me to spend the $25 on this Special Tube and put it on and look in the mirror and say “oh boy another shade of pink!” and throw it in a drawer again. SIGHH.
For the record, I *have* spent more than $5 on tubes of lipstick in the past, which is why this burns particularly. I am not always good with money.
torrilin replied to your post “Here’s a thing that sort of haunts me, since I’m on a fashion kick…”
Basically, the thumb swatch isn’t to find the color. Say you’ve got 20 swatches on your hand, and there’s 3 maybes. So you test those on your thumb, and maybe one gets ruled out. So you’ve saved yourself a lip test slot and you can look for a few more colors. On a serious quest, that adds up.
I suppose that’s fair. I guess I’ve never Seriously Quested before! LOL
thebyrchentwigges replied to your post “Here’s a thing that sort of haunts me, since I’m on a fashion kick…”
MAC is my go-to for industrial-strength, unchanging true reds. The lipsticks also last forever, unchanging. NARS is a close second for softer more everyday reds. MAC for statement lip/burly-q and NARS for slightly more understated.
I am so intimidated by cosmetics counters. I need a buddy to go with me. Those all sound fascinating but I know those are expensive brands which is why I don’t own any, because I’d need to try those because I’m not going to buy the wrong $25 lipstick ugh. I wish I ever went places where I required a Statement Lip because I find those are the only shades I ever really want. The ones that look natural and just accentuate my real face or whatever– I get it, and those should be more attractive to me since as a person who isn’t sure how to do makeup, I’m better off with more subtle looks so it doesn’t show so much if I screw up– but lord, all I ever want is a Statement Lip, LOL.
bebeocho replied to your post “Here’s a thing that sort of haunts me, since I’m on a fashion kick…”
i’m not good at lipstick, but i’m just here to say that i love that scarf!!
Why thank you! I have an embarrassingly large collection of scarves, including about four of that exact pattern in different shades. (That’s red, then I have purple, navy blue, and baby blue shot with gold. It covers almost every outfit need, you’d be surprised.) For a hot minute this summer I had draped most of the interior of the yurt with them, which was lovely, but I’m not much for decoration really. Still, it was handy to always have scarves around. If I had a proper blanket fort the entire interior would be my collection of scarves and I’d pull them out and wear them all the time.
redlipstickandhairbows replied to your post
“Here’s a thing that sort of haunts me, since I’m on a fashion kick…”
Blue based reds work best for me. Not sure about your skin tone, though. NARS Dragon Girl is my go to, but Beseme has a victory red that’s nice too
I may have been wrong all along– I do have one very good red lipstick, and it is Rimmel’s Kate, which I guess is a Kate Moss thing? and it’s shade 01, and it actually looks pretty red on me, and guess what? Blue undertones.
photo behind cut. i also need to find out how to use blush because on the rare occasions i use foundation (increasingly necessary; i don’t have zits anymore, hallelujah! but now my freckles are coalescing into constellations of age spots, boo! they’re not age spots yet but they’re gonna be!) i wind up with this weird flat pancake face and it’s hilarious to me to consider needing blush, as a person who has spent most of her life bright fucking red, but yeah if you put foundation on you then need blush, so. here’s the thing though i put on makeup like three times a year so I don’t want to Invest In It. Ugh. I don’t need it for my job, I don’t need it for interviews or being respected in my professional life, I just like it because it’s interesting to try out and I want to know how to do it properly should an occasion arise, and there’s just always more to it.
(it was Date Night last night and I got Extremely dressed-up and we intended to go to a couple of places for particular specialty drinks, but we wound up just having dinner and going home because everyone in the world was out on the town last night and we couldn’t get in the door of the one place we’d meant to have a post-dinner drink. which is fine, it was a fine time. i look fat in this dress but it turns out i *am* fat so I realized it was weird to be upset about that.)
Bonus shot of looking fat in the dress, with filthy mirror and chaotic bedroom:
The belt helps, I think. But either way– yes, it’s a large expanse of human swathed in black lace, because I’m a large expanse of human swathed in black lace, why is this something that a positive or negative value needs to be applied to? Good Lord what a weird culture we live in.
(Ha note the enormous color laser printer on the dresser behind me. We print like two things a year. Amazing.)
(What’s in the cocktail glass? Oh gosh, nothing, just some moonshine Dude distilled out of fermented jerusalem artichoke roots we dug out of our lawn, it’s amazingly good.)
(Your picture was not posted)
