I feel as though I came out of the womb searching for the perfect nude lipcolor. Yes, it’s true. Even as an infant, my magenta-baby lips were simply too berry for my complexion. I wanted to focus more on eyes. Somehow it made more sense with my onesie and pacifier.
Great news! After an exhausting thirty year search, I’ve done it. Leave it to my beloved Stila to create the perfect nude lip. It has addressed and solved the two, classic nude dilemmas—the Nude-lemmas, if you will:
1. Normally, the color is too opaque and thus becomes sort of chalky, resulting in the washed-out corpse look.
2. The colors themselves tend to be either too mauvy, pale or orange rendering the overall face to appear clownish—appearing as if you may have mistook some eye colors for lipcolors.
Stila will be having none of this. Their product is called Clear Color moisturizing lip tint. The genius is in the word “tint”. While it’s enough color to give a true hue, it still has the look and feel of a sheer. This SPF 8 is a lovely plus, as well. I've used it on a couple of shoots, and it seems to be ideal with every complexion, fair to dark.
Plus, good ol’ Jeanine Lobell (creator of Stila, of course) doesn’t mess around with any cutsie names. The color is called, appropriately, “Nude”.
1 comment:
Good words.
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