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Rant & Rave: Nude Lips

Monday, November 1st, 2010

This Week’s Topic: NUDE LIPS!

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To me, nude lips has it's place, for example, when doing dramatic eye makeup. I love this look but it's hard to find a nude lip color for my complexion that doesn't make me look like I have concealer lips which looks awful. So what I end up doing is mixing two colors or lining my lips with MAC Spice and then dabbing a nude lip color on top. The best I've found are sheer nudes that lets my pigmented colored lips show thru a bit.

I just tried MAC Myth and Passing Fancy Dazzleglass Creme from the Tartan collection. It's the perfect warm nude that I've been looking for.

I ADORE nude lips. I have very big, full, Angelina Jolie-like lips, along with big, wide eyes, so going nude on the lips always looks good (for me). I tend to do dramatic, smokey eyes at night so the nude balances it out. Also, I like not having to constantly worry and check my teeth to see if any of my beloved brights are smeared all over them! If done right, a warm nude lip - not deathly pale or the dreaded "concealer lip" - will always be my favorite and my go-to.

I love nude lips. I usually use a nude lipstick when I am doing a smoky eye. I do one or the other, when I do a bold lip I go light on the eye makeup. As far as nudes, I like NARS Belle de Jour and MAC Creme de Nude or just a gloss like MAC dazzleglass in Baby Sparks

I love nude lips. I have naturally small lips so using a nude, peachy or beige colors makes them look slightly bigger and lush. My favorite shades are Guerlain Guerlinade, Shiseido Spiced Cream & NARS Tashkent

I'm just going to come out and say it- I think nude lips look horrible. On everyone. Don't get your feathers in a ruffle, it's only an opinion. They're not as bad as say, coral lipstick. :)

I love nude lips but I just found out that in photographs my top lip disappears if I go for nude!

Hate hate hate hate nude lips! They look so gross and unnatural. It's a very rare occasion that I think a nude lip looks good (it does happen though, however rare it may be), but it has to look REALLY good for me to like it. I have really intensely pigmented lips so I'm completely unable to wear nudes, or even light pinks. I've definitely embraced it and embraced bright, funky lip colors instead. I'm absolutely more of a hot fuscia, deep purple, bright red kind of person. :)

I am a big fan of the nude lip, but it can be difficult. I am very fair (NC15) with highly pigmented lips (their natural color is bordering on plumish-mauve). Creme d' nude works pretty well for me, but Myth can make me look too washed out. For me, it is a harder look to pull off because to keep the color even and covering my natural lip color I have to reapply lipstick fairly often. I do like doing the nude lip though because of my brightly colored lips and heart shaped face with am angular jaw, it is nice to be able to pull attention elsewhere in my face by muting out my lips every once and awhile. Hue is a nice one, too, since it just mutes out the natural color just a bit.

I have never gone for the nude lip look because I find it so unappealing. I don't know if pale lip colors like caramel light tan and light pink fall under the nude umbrella but if so, those are the ones I really dislike. I think people with deep complexions or yellow-toned skin pull nudes off best.

I love love love nude lips because I hate my natural lip color, it errs on the darker side which I dislike. I find Creme d'Nude does the trick because it still lets my natural lip color show a bit while lightening it. It's just my thing. I try not to do lips that are too pale/corpse like, but sometimes I fail (like today lol).

i know many of us love nude lips. personally, i hate beige/skin color opaque lips that u can clearly see the paint and lipgloss that settles into those lil lines. gross. slight pink or peachy coral toned semi-opaque lip creams r the way to go

LOVE nude lips. Pinky nude, peachy nude-- whatever-- I always pair it with whenever I do dramatic eyes - even when I'm just wearing eyeliner and mascara, I'll wear nude lips. (I always do thick eyeliner tho)

I absolutely love a nude lip but I am a woman of color and it is sooooo hard to find a color that is opaque and complemetary to my skin color. I have so many nice nude lip glosses but I would love a HG nude lipstick... If anyone can recommend/suggest a color I would be ever greatful... Im shade NW45 (dark/warm - yellow undertone)

I only like Nude lips if they are in the cremesheen formula. Creme Cup, Innocence Beware, and Creme D' Nudeare my favorites because of the creamy texture!

I really dislike dead pale nude lips; I don't get that trend at all. But I love subtle nudes that equate to my lips but better shades. I'm all for natural - I think those are the easiest to wear. Especially in a rush!

MAC Delish is about as close as I can get to a nude lip.

I love nude lips. I just use a nude liner and then top it with a nude gloss.

if you go to pale in colour then you will look ghostly but i love nude lips and i think mac brave would mirror my lips quite well .aim for your lip colour not a super light colour i think ... :) i feel that it would look most natural

I like nude lips when done properly, with a gloss, lipstick, or lipstain, but I HATE concealer lips. Really, what's the appeal!? It just makes people look dead =S

I look so much younger with pale/nude lips then dark or strong lip color. Nude lips is awesome!

I love nude lips. I wear a nude lip pretty much everyday. I naturally gravitate toward nude lipsticks and lip glosses anyway. Great!

i love nude lips. i'm an nc25-30 and my fave is mac myth. it is a little concealer looking so i pair it with mac oak lip liner and i love it! i also love peachstock. mac siss lipstick has too much gray in it, it makes me look dead.

I love love love love love nude lips, but everyone is right by saying it can look amazing, or really really crap depending on how it is done. And I have racked by brains (and read many of the comments below) to figure out why it looks good on some, but not on others…. 1. you have to have full makeup (foundation, concealer, powder etc) on. Someone earlier said that you had to have perfect foundation/base, which is true - otherwise nude lips look just look wrong. 2. you have to have played up another feature - usually eyes, but heavy blush could do instead. Nude lips have to be the compliment to something else, otherwise they it just looks wishy-washy. 3. you have to pick the right tone. If you are a cool toned skin and are wearing a warm or yellow based nude (i.e Mac "Freckletone") it won't look right , or if you are a warm/yellow toned skin wearing a pink based nude (i.e Mac "Blankety") is just isn't right….if not complementing your skin tone, then complement your shadow/blush tones 4. sometimes overly matte or overly glossy nude lips can be OTT, so stick to a satiny/cream finish. My favourite nudes are: YSL rouge volupte #2 Mac creme de nude or 3N Gosh Darling Mac Brave New Bronze Revlon Soft Nude HTH's someone….

I think a nude lip can be pulled off by anybody if you find the right color and sometimes, the right application technique. I'm a very fair NW20 with red lips. I can't pull off certain colors like Myth without being completely washed out. Hue even makes me look like a joke when I just lather it on. With that said, Hue is my FAVORITE nude. The trick for me is to *dab* it on, then blend with my finger. That makes it look more natural.

I can't really pull off nude lips! Nude lips makes me look really pale and sick. The nicest nude I can go with is MAC Shygirl lipstick.

i love this look for an everyday look for school. its perfect. i wear it with soft eyes. love angle and creme de nude.

Not a big fan of nude lips especially on me, i've quite naturally pigmented lips and i think anything paler than my natural lip tone on me just looks weird.

I looooove nude lips!!! My signature makeup?! Brown smokey eyes with pale nude lippies!!!

I... am mostly indifferent to the nude lip. It certainly has it's place, but it's not a style I often go for unless I've done my eye make-up a bit TOO dramatic for work. Then I go for the nude lip to tone things down some. Otherwise, I very much prefer more dramatic lip colours. Mind, my lips, despite me being an NC15, are quite pigmented, so finding a nude that doesn't wash me out is a bit difficult. As far as nudes go, I am a fan of MAC's Hot Tahiti. It's a slightly ruddier and more intense version of my lip colour, and does go well with just about everything. I also like, for a closer to flesh-tone nude, Celebutard from the Kat Von D line. It's more flesh toned without being concealer lips on me.

I have yet to try a real Nude lipstick. But the `nudest ive gone so far is Creme Cup, Nude Rose, Shy Girl and Florabundance. I think that next time im gonna try Hue and Creme d´nude! I have Gosh Darling, but i find it very hard to work with... XOXO

I have several shades of nude lipsticks. But I don't rock it. Sadly. However, I think it's very sexy on darker skin girls or blondes with a tan. I am neither. :)

I love nude lips of any kind! Pink nudes, brown nudes, MLBB nudes, super light nudes; I think they all have their uses and places! I'm not a bright/red/hot pink/purple lips person, so any variation of nude is what I do. And hey, to each her own, right? Makeup is not about rules, it's epxression!

I don't particularly love them or hate them. They are a bit of a hassle for me because I have pigmented lips so I do need a lipliner so I don't get that "rim" of my lips. I prefer pinky-nudes because that looks the most natural on fair to light skin (which is me). Caramel Nudes are good for the medium-darker skin. Nudes the same colour as your skin? Looks great on the runway but not real life.

I love nude lipsticks but they don't love me. :( whenever I try one on at sephora, my lips get dried out and the color just looks wrong. I will keep searching though, to find some suitable nudes fir me because I love the look.

So I've always LOVED nude lips (not the deathly kind though)...however I'm pale (NC15) so I've always had trouble finding a good one. Anyone got some ideas?

MAC Honeylove (M), Blankety (A), Jubilee (L)?

MAC Creme de Nude (CS), being a NC10 we probably share the same problem.

I like wearing a nude lip with heavy eye makeup. However I have a hard time finding ones that I like. Most of them turn my lips an almost orange nude and I hate orange lips. Creme De Nude looks awful on me.

I recently fel in love with nude lips.My favorite lipsticks are L'Oreal's In the Buff or MAC Creme d'Nude with BE Buxom Sandy gloss on top.

Looooove! I have very small lips so I preffer to have bold eyemakeup and let the lips in second place! =)

I hate when I see people with nude lips that are an unnatural color. Pale pink nude lips don't go with a dark tan. Personally, while I'll do nude lips for certain looks, I prefer a nice twinkly or lushly colored lipstick.

I am still trying to figure this one out. I have naturally pigmented lips, and whenever I try a nude lip it looks weird to me.

I wish I could wear nude lip colors. Even though I adore it, it doesn't look good on me. But I couldn't stop buying nude lipsticks!!

I have not so pigmented lips and I have pretty fair skin tone. I like using nude lip color with glossy finish because if I use very light and matte nude lip color (ex. Revlon matte lipstick in nude attitude ), I will look very sick. I prefer peachy nude or pinkish nude or any nude lipstick with a hint of brown. Nude that is too dark does not look good on me.

There is NOTHING like a nude lip!! Since my eyeshadow is usually dramatic I always go with a nude lip. I use Mac Touch and Urban Decay Lip Junkie gloss in Heavy. Perfection! :-)

Nude lips is all I wear. Love!

Mostly a rant sice it took me years to fink a nudelipstick that didn't make me look dead with my fair skin. I tried Mac's Myth, Angel, Blankety, and Peach-stock as well as NYX's Rea, Circe and Echo. Creme de Nude turned out to be the perfect shade with my skin tone. NYX's Orange Soda also worked along with Pumpkin Pie.

I love nude lips, but I hate when you get the wrong tone and it makes you look like a dead person because your lips are way too light.

Love a nude lip. I usually go for a nude lippie that leans a bit pink or peach so I have some color. A great look with a smokey eye/ dark eye colors.