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This Week’s Topic: NUDE LIPS!
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I love love love nude lips but becuase my lips are naturally very pink its hard to achive that brownish pink nude thats so pretty. Blah!
I think the key to a successful nude lip is to pick a color that has the same undertone as your complexion. That will prevent you from looking unnatural or like death warmed over! Also, unless you’re embracing the opaque nude lip of the mid 60’s, a lighter formula that lets a bit of your natural lip color peek through will result in a beautiful nude look.
I love the 60s mod nude lips though and the dead cadaver nudes. I’m not into MLBB for some reason.
I simply cannot pull it off 🙁
Love them, specially with a smoky eye.
I don’t really like the feel of lipstick/lipgloss on my lips allday, so yes- I’m a fan of nude lips! Some conditioning balm with little or no tint is good enough for me!
I adore nude lips because I think it is a shade that complements almost anyone. Of course there is such a thing as too nude, aka dead. But MAC Creme d’Nude or Hue, ELF Nicely Nude are some of the perfect nudes that anyone can pull off in my opinion.
I think I was doing it wrong, but for some reason I could not pull off Hue, so I haven’t even tried Creme d’Nude. But I can wear Innocence Beware! for some odd reason. 😛
Not a huge fan of nude lips unless it’s something that slightly makes my natural lip color a little more pink as opposed to my natural lip color, which is almost red. I find a lot of nudes, even if applied lightly make me look sorta dead. I do really love MAC Fleshpot though. I just sort of blot it on with my finger and it looks so pretty under MAC Spirited lipglass.
i love a nude lip for most days great with smokey and dramatic eyes. Also great for the days you dont want to look like you have tons of makeup on
I LOVE nude lips. Lately I have been going really light on the eyes with bronzed cheeks and a peachy nude lip. Revlon Soft Nude, NARS Belize, BUXOM Lola, MAC Frankly Fresh… are all some of my favorites!
I love nude lips! I have very thin, pigmented lips. A nude lipstick and gloss instantly makes them look more plump.
Love! Especially with a smokey eye..something like Creme de Nude or Blankety with wildly lush plushglass or revlon peach petal
I have tried all kinds of nude lipsticks & I look dead. People loveeee Creme De Nude and I wanted to love it too. I adore the look of nude lips on pretty much everyone; somehow it does not work out for me
I bought MAC’s Myth because people loved the way it looked and it makes me look dead, but a friend of mine has MAC’s Cherish and it looks great w/ Big Baby gloss over it…try it!
I love a nice nude gloss, especially when I’m wearing a strong or bold eye color, but I hate when nude lips make me look deathly or look cakey.
Depending on the look, a nude lip can be great. With a really sultry smokey eye, a nude lip just puts the finishing touch onto the look. For more simple eyes, a nude lip can look too washed out. I think that for a nude lip to work, it has to look like you MEANT to do it. It can’t look like you accidentally smeared your foundation or concealer all over your lips, but like you actually took the time to apply a nude lipstick, nude gloss, or whatever you have used. As far as favorite nude lip looks, I love MAC’s Creme de Nude. For a completely nude look, just a simple nude gloss over it looks fantastic. For a more neutral daytime nude lip, I like to use either MAC’s Hue Lipstick, or Creme de Nude with Nars Easy Lover Gloss over it.
as long as I don’t use a colour I look dead with… love them!
LOOOOOVE THEM!
When I was younger (than my now early -gulp- 30’s) I liked a brighter pout; I’m not sure what it is, but I don’t really go that route anymore. A medium Pinkish is the darkest I’ll go. I tend to really play up my eyes more now, and go nude -or just gloss on the lips.
Besides, while I had braces, I nevvvver wore my bottom retainer and my teeth aren’t as straight as I’d like them to be. A darker mouth would draw attention to what I did to my poor parents checkbook all those years ago!
When I think of nude lips, I think of something that matches my natural lip color or something that’s brown based. That’s my kind of nude =D. Some looks require a pale/nude lip and I think it looks nice, but what I hate is the corpse-like nude lip with everyday neutral makeup. Especially when the lipstick is about 10X light than your skin…I think it looks horrible…really horrible lol. I see girls sporting this look way to often, the ‘nude lip’ is overrated. Just my two cents =).
I love nude lips. Can’t stop buying MAC nudes. My absolute favorite is MAC Viva Glam II. Perfect nude for my completion. Another similar one that I love is Blankety. Honey Love is also nice when I am a little more tan.
Meant to say “complexion”, not “completion”. Mind must be too focused on work today. 🙂
LOVE the nude lip. Best accessory to the smokey eye.
I wouldn’t exactly say this is a hate, but it’s nearly impossible to find a nude lip for my coloring that isn’t too light or doesn’t make my lips blend in with the rest of my skin.
I hate that a lot of people think “nude” means “concealed” because frankly those concealed lips look bad on 99% of the people wearing them.
I feel bad for people who have concealer lips…I just don’t understand how someone can look in the mirror and think it looks good.
agree with you there. i like pinky nudes, but not the white-out look. when people just load concealer on their lips, it looks really bad and tasteless.
i love nude lips in terms of a clear shimmery gloss, but NOT in terms of nude-colored lipsticks (pointless and dead-looking in my opinion). my lips are naturally pigmented a mauve-y color so i can really pull off a clear shimmery gloss… intense smokey eyes and nude glossy lips is such a sexy look.
NOT a fan at all. Mostly I cannot stand the offshoot of nude lips that involves completely erasing them. I love wearing color, nudes I just feel are pointless. And, if I want to take a break from lipstick, I’ll just wear chapstick.
I love it when done successfully. I’ve only own lipgloss and I tried it with cthru lipglass and it looked like concelear lips. There is a thin line between nude and concelear lips lol
I love nude lips, they can either break or make a look though but i find if you choose the right shade of nude, beige brown rosy or pink shades depending on your skintone then you got it right, it also means you can really go big on eyes!
i have a huge wardrobe of nude lipsticks in my kit more than anythin else i love them!
PLUS THEY WILL ALWAYS LOOK HIGH FASHION =D
Best nudes i thin kare MAC Equality, Pretty Please & Myth (ish even tho myth is quite yellow based lol)
And Lancome, Chanel, Dior, Body Shop, E.L.F & Ysl all do my favourite nudes, love them!
BEST LISPTICK IN THE WORLD IS YSL ROUGE in TEA ROSE (omg its perfect!!!)
I rarely wear them. I have very fair skin, a fairly founded face shape, strong eyes and rbows, and full, pigmented lips. But with the face shape, my cheeks are full enough that I need stronger defined lips and eyes to balance them. I also have a very overstated use of “nude” eye makeup too.
I own nude lipsticks, and occasionally wear them, but it really IS hard for me to NOT look disproportionate while doing so.
I am glad someone has created a concealer to erase my naturally dark lip color and create perfect nude lips)
only wear them with a heavy/colorful eye. i have brownish nudes, peachy nudes, pink… love ’em!
i only wear nude lip colors. i’m just not into the bright lipcolors at all. nude is sexy and subtle and since i frequently wear dramatic eye looks, it balances it all out.
Nude lip : as in me just wearing clear or a pinky brown gloss on my already pink bottom lip – I approve. Or as in me making my lips match the rest of my skin – fail . If I want a nude lip – I just wear clear gloss
I’m VERY indifferent towards them. On one hand they can look absolutely beautiful, but so many people pick the wrong colour. For me nude is the colour of my lips, just better. That it looks like I’m not wearing anything! But these concealer lips and way too light shades some girls are wearing just looks unflattering. :/
Im loving nude lips at the moment! I’m really pale so I find a lot of colours hard to pull off but nudes just suit me. Also perfect with dark eyes. My fave at the moment is Innocence, Beware!
If it’s nude as in close the natural lip color, I’m all for it. If it’s nude as in porn star/Snookie lips, I think it looks horrible and really dated.
I LOVE a nude lip! I cant get out of it, it’s like my signature color lol
My manager (I work at a makeup counter) is always yelling at me for never wearing color she is threatening to strap me down to a chair wipe off the nude lip and add some color haha
I love nude lips! In fact, it is what I wear almost all the time. It is the perfect complement to any eye look.
I love nudes and their subtle variations, specially in matte and satin finishes.. Can’t get enough of the MAC ones… I already have: Velvet Teddy, Spirit, Kinda Sexy, Taupe, Brave, Twig, Cherish, Jubilee, Honeyflower. Sounds crazy, but they all are different for me. Sooner or later I will have Viva Glam II. I tried Honeylove but it was too light for me (NC30 in winter, but already tanned to NC40/42 in brazilian spring). Any recs?
I’m NC30 and I love Blankety
I’ll try it next. Thanks!
LOVE LOVE LOVE
I think nude lips only look good when you have perfectly applied foundation – like airbrushed perfect. Most ladies I’ve seen, including myself, just can’t seem to pull it off.
Using a lipstick to get a “nude” color just seems pointless to me, but nude as in not wearing color is great. Most of the time I wear lip balm and my lips are pinkish (redder when I’ve been licking/biting them too much). To me the whole point of lipstick (and makeup in general really) is to make your mouth look different than normal.
It’s a personal choice but what I don’t understand is the TV makeup artists who send those talk show guests on with a beautiful face of TV- appropriate glamorous makeup until you get to the lip which looks pale & dry & it’s as if they forgot the lips. The nude lip does not work the same on TV!
Since I typically do my eyes up all the time, whether it be eyeshadow or eyeliner, I am a huge fan of Nudes and I love collecting new nude shades for my lipstick collection. I have a few “concealer” looking ones that basically fade your lips into your skin’s color, but my favorite nudes are any with a pink or peach undertone to them. I tend to wear more peach shades on days where I like to look more natural. I am a huge fan of Shy Girl from MAC. That is my number one go to color for an everyday look, it never does me wrong. Some other notable MAC faves are Angel, Myth, Fleshpot, & Creme d’Nude. Revlon also makes a gorgeous affordable shade called Soft Nude. 🙂
I’m generally a fan of nude lips; I like it paired with dramatic eyes.
PEACHSTOCK AND CHERISH are the best nude l/s. all the others suck tbh
I LOVE nude lips! All day, every day:)
Agh I cannot STAND concealer nude lips. I’m only in high school,and today a girl in my class smeared foundation all over her lips. She looked like the equivalent of dead, and by the time the day was over it was crusting off her lips. *cringes* There should be a rule against it.
but i love love love natural nudes! Like pinkish peachy nudes.
I like nude lipsticks, but my lips don’t. All of what I´ve prooved look awful
I’m not really a fan of ‘nude’ lips (other than truly nude lips, i.e. no makeup on them at all) and definitely not a fan of ‘concealer’ lips. I’m pale skinned as it is, and don’t want to look anaemic
Not a nude lip person. :/ My lips are naturally so pigmented it just looks weird, and I don’t usually wear a lot of eye make up so a statement lip colour works better for my style.
If I DO wear a nude lip, I layer a sheer pink gloss over it to keep from looking so dead.
ehh i don’t like completely nude lips! i love to have a bit of brown/gold or pink so it’s not tooo nude
I don’t have a problem w/ nude lips. I discovered that my perfect nude lip is a very small amount of my liquid or CtP foundation on my lips w/ Clinique’s ‘Bamboo Pink’ gloss on top. I like this lip look with eyes that are more heavily made-up.
I absolutely love nude lips, but I gave into the hype and bought Myth lipstick. I have to use a darker lipliner or a gloss to make it work, which is sometimes a pain. I much prefer High Tea (favorite lipstick EVER) as a nude.
I love nudes! They’re the only kind of lipstick a boy can pull off without looking overdone haha.
The Guerlain Giny Lipstick you reviewed recently is GORGEOUS. Despite the cost, it looks like it has the perfect color as well as having a fantastic performance on the lips (in terms of application, wear, etc.)
Love it, but still can’t find the perfect nude lipstick. Ones I’ve tried either turn into salmon-y orange or look like a concealer.
Love: Look fantastic with a dramatic, dark eye
Hate: Trying to find the right shade!
I quite like nude lips. I used to be all opposed to them (and I still usually just go without a lip product), but I realized from blogs, mainly(and you’re partly to thank, Christine) that nude lips look lovely with more intense shadow looks. I’m still more likely to slick on some lip balm, or go without anything on my lips, but when I’m going somewhere more special than the grocery store, I like to wear my HG nude, Benefit Lady’s Choice.
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.
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.
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.
Nude lips is all I wear. Love!
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! 🙂
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.
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 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 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.
Looooove! I have very small lips so I preffer to have bold eyemakeup and let the lips in second place! =)
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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 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 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… 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 looooove nude lips!!!
My signature makeup?! Brown smokey eyes with pale nude lippies!!!
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 love this look for an everyday look for school. its perfect. i wear it with soft eyes. love angle and creme de nude.
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 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 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 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 nude lips. I wear a nude lip pretty much everyday. I naturally gravitate toward nude lipsticks and lip glosses anyway. Great!
I look so much younger with pale/nude lips then dark or strong lip color. Nude lips is awesome!
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
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 love nude lips. I just use a nude liner and then top it with a nude gloss.
MAC Delish is about as close as I can get to a nude lip.
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!
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 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)
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 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
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 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 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.
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 love nude lips but I just found out that in photographs my top lip disappears if I go for nude!
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. 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 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 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 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.
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.