Here are five lipsticks I’ve been digging a lot lately!
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NARS Little Darling
Love them all 🙂
Mac’s creme cup, viva glam gaga 1, and pink nouveau.
Viva Glam Gaga 1 rules! 😀
I’m not a lipstick girl by any means, so I really only have one favorite – MAC Hue!
Funny, I’m a lipstick girl by all means and hue is my favourite too. 🙂
1. Estee Lauder – Bitten Fig
2. MAC – Mehr
3. Lancome – Love It
4. Too Faced – Drop Dead Red
5. Guerlain – Forever Beige
Bitten Fig is beautiful! Great choice.
I love my GOSH Intense Lip Colour in 301, it’s sort of liquid lipstick and it’s the perfect medium mauvey/neutral pink!
neutral, everyday: chanel rouge coco egerie
brights: chanel rouge allure insolente, lancome color design matte corset
nude: dior addict rose lingerie
red: MAC matte lipstick ruby woo
Mine are:
Shu Uemura Rouge Unlimited PK 316
Shu Uemura Rouge Unlimited PK 369
NARS Honolulu Honey
Guerlain Rouge G Gardenia
Chanel Rouge Allure Laque Santal
My favorites lately are MAC Syrup and Viva Glam Gaga 1 (the pink one)
wow, i love every single one of those! Make Up For Ever Blue Red 205 and Sephora Mr. Lover are my favorites lately
That Maybelline Caramel Kiss Looks really nice – I’ll have to check it out next time I’m out
My favourites (almost all MAC):
Clarins Rouge Prodige in Redwood
MAC Plumful
MAC Craving
MAC Capricious
MAC Dubonnet
So nice to see another fan of that Clarins Redwood. It’s a beautiful color, and one of my top five now, too. (We must have similar coloring; I like all your other choices also, and ditto on the Caramel Kiss.) My other four would be:
Lipstick Queen Saint Rust (probably my all-time fave)
Estee Lauder DoubleWear in Stay Honey
NARS Beautiful Liar
MAC See Sheer
I’d like to find a Shiseido Perfect Rouge that works, because I love the finish and wear, but none of the shades are just right.
Do you know whether Maybelline Caramel Kiss Lipstick is still on shops or not? And the rest of them? Or at least some very similar ones. Some of them aren’t very affordable for me.
I love all of them!!
They should all be permanent!
It is… I just picked it up the other day. Gorgeous color!
My favorite lately has been MAC’s Baron’s Rose.
baron rose is great!! also “O” is too if u like that kind of color
Yummy! All of this look tempting! My fav. is CdP one 😀
I’m surprised that most of these are pink, not coral, since you sound like coral fanatic girl (according to most of your posts).
Guerlain Giulette has been on my wishlist for long, but I didn’t manage to grab one coz I wear bright color occasionally, not often, so I’d rather go for nude or pink when it comes to luxury product (such as Guerlain Gabrielle, CdP T1, or CdP 106).
I don’t know why, but I always like to read your post that show what product is your favorite(s). So please keep on posting when you have time 😀
MAC Blooming Lovely
MAC Gulabi
MAC Patisserie
Kiko #11
and I leave an empty space for the red lipstick i’m gonna buy very soon!
Chanel Rouge Coco #05 (Mademoiselle) and #11 (Legend).
MAC Russian Red, Lady Bug, Viva Glam 1 and 2, High Tea, and givenchy Rose Caprice 🙂
Mac creme cup, Bobbi brown soft coral and bikini pink and bare pink, makeup forever intense rouge lipstick in #33 and one more that would six hehehhehhe Anna Sui lip rouge G in #371
I so wanna buy the Bobbi Brown Soft Coral, thank goodness it’s permanent unlike the Lilac which I don’t really need anyway. But I just bought the Givenchy Candide Tangerine and I gotta slow down at some point man!! LOL 2011 has been the most lipstick-y year of my whole life. Recession man!
i have heard that lipstick sales are up ever since the recession started!! Lol we ladys got to have something to cheer us up
Thanks to you darling has been milani berry rich!
Yay!
I bought Giulette the other day because of your review on it (and because I FINALLY had the money to spend on it haha) and I LOVE it 🙂 I think it might be my favourite these days 🙂
Aww, yay!! 🙂
My favorites lately are both Chanel….rouge Coco in Mademoiselle and rouge Coco Shine in Boy.
Suprised these didn’t make your list…or any Chanel?
These are only five at the moment!
I don’t like Boy and Mademoiselle is just okay to me, though. They’re not my taste 🙂
Do you find that the Maybelline lipstick has a strong odor? I bought it ages ago because I loved the color, but I find the smell completely unbearable — it smells like scented plastic. Other people don’t seem to mind, though, so I’m trying to figure out if I got an extra-stinky one or if I’m just really fussy about smells!
Here’s a full write-up: http://www.temptalia.com/lipstick-comparisons-under-12
Some smell syrupy sweet (very synthetic) and others more like plastic – which tells me that they should smell sweet but that the scent doesn’t last long within a tube (it doesn’t mean the lipstick has turned, but perhaps the quality of the fragrance is lower).
I love plumful too – together with rouge g gaela, rouge g gigi, rouge dior in devilish pink, tom ford pure pink! Love my pinks!!!!!
I love all those colors 🙂 They suit me very well too.
Right now I love:
W7 matte lips, matte liquid lipstick
Paul & Joe ‘red tomato’
MAC:
Bare Again
Heartless
Petals and Peacocks
Girl About Town
Viva Glam Cyndi
Love the Cle de Peau Baby Julia lipstick colour! I’ve been looking for an orangey-peachy brown midtone. Also love the Shiseido Tawny (BR735) lipstick you reviewed. Are there any less pricey dupes?
Oops, just saw from following the links you recommend MAC’s “Brave” as a dupe for the Cle de Peau Baby Julia colour. Sorry for asking something that was already answered elsewhere!
No prob!
Dolce N Gabanna fix- all the reds….Magnifica, Ruby, Scarlett, Ultra
Those are beautiful colors. I only have nine lipsticks, but my favorites are Benefit’s Jing-a-Ling, NYX’s Tea Rose, and Avon’s Perfect Pink.
I love macs supreme sheen lipstick in supremely confident! Although it’s super pale. It’s sheer and glossy enough so that it doesn’t look concealor like. It works on my nw15 skin well ad most nudes look orange brown on me
I love Plumful! Lately, I’ve also been loving NARS Tzigane, MAC Bare Again, Impressive, Marquise d’, Till Tomorrow and Sweet Ever After.
Mufe Moulin ROuge
Mac Show Orchid
Mac Honeyflower
Chanel Chalys
Nars Roman Holiday
I’ve been using my Chanel Flash Quartz, Biarritz, Desireable and of course my MAC Hug Me lately.
Guerlain Rouge G Serie Noir #45 (I think it’s orange euphorine). Love the orange color. It feels lightweight and stay put really well.
1. MAC See Sheer
2. MAC Touch
3. MAC Fresh Brew
4. MAC Capricious
5. Loreal British Red
I am an NC 42.
MAC Yash
MAC Mehr
MAC Empowered
Illamasqua Sangers
Illamasqua Disciple
I sorta wanna make the list longer I think…LOL
Mine are
MAC Viva Glam Cyndi
MAC Viva Glam Gaga2
CHANEL Rouge Coco Shine #54 Boy
CHANEL Rouge Coco Shine #62 Monte-Carlo
MAC Speed Dial
Yesterday, I ordered Guerlain KissKiss Lipstick – Rose Entetant 569 from Sephora and I’m hoping it will be my new fav. 🙂
I just bought Cover Girl Rose Quartz yesterday (on clearance at Kroger and used a $1 off coupon, so I paid $1.50) and I LOVE this color. Its a beautiful bubble gum pink, not rose at all on me anyway with shimmer. Great price and I’m going back for a backup.
Current top picks:
NARS – Funny Face
L’Oreal Infallible Le Rouge Lipstick – Blazing Sangria
Stila Long Wear Lip Color – Lover
Lancome – Curtain Call
Chanel Rouge Allure Laque – Dynastie #74
MAC: Lavender Whip, Marquise ‘d, Masque (I hope they relaunch this, I’ll run out soon!!!)
Boots: Nude
And my E.O.S. lip balm in mint and lemon for moisture lol
My current faves are:
Julie Hewitt Oona Noir (beautiful, sheer blue-ish red)
Lipstick Queen Saint Nude
Smashbox O-gloss
MAC Funbathing
MAC Hug Me
MAC – Fleshpot, Russian Red, Lavender Whip, Saint Germain, and Freckletone!
1- Dior Rita Beige
2- Guerlain Rouge G Gracia
3- Guerlain Rouge G Gems
4- Dior Rouge action
5- Chanel Rouge Coco Perle
Maybelline Mineral Lipstick in NUDE SHELL
Rimmel Lipstick in WILD THING
Revlon Lustrous in MAD ABOUT MAUVE
NYX in THALIA
NYX in CIRCE
MAC chile (matte)
MAC Russian Red
Make up Forever #37 ( hot pink)
Make up Forever Moulin rouge
Funny, I was thinking about how I hadn’t used MAC’s Faux (and others, but this is the one I chose today) in such a long time because I’ve been tending to other lipsticks.
Since I saw Rose Dentelle (Chanel) on your swatch, I didn’t rest until I got it. I just knew it’d be the perfect pink and was I right! It’s my favorite and I have to restrain from just using it whenever I want a pink lipstick. 🙂
But other favorites are: Creme Cup, Patisserie and Ravishing (all MAC).
Nyx’s Round in Rose Bud…it’s a nice pink with a great golden shimmer to it, and it seems to last for ages on me.
Nyx’s Diamond Sparkle in Sparkle Nude…just shimmer and nothing but shimmer for me (but my lips are pretty pigmented).
Maybelline’s Color Sensational in Pink Please or Warm Me Up, both are close to my lips’ natural pigment, but the former is a little coolerand the latter a little warmer.
My favourites are
#1-Cle de Peau Extra Rich Lipstick in Red Abundance (Which I lost two weeks after I got it…so bummed…but it was the best lipstick I’ve ever used)
#2-Chanel Rouge Allure Laque in Coromandel (Lovely full-powered red!)
#3-MAC Ruby Woo (Began my love affair with red lipstick the instant I swiped it on when my mum wasn’t looking at age 12)
and some non-reds…
NARS Senorita (the perfect spiced rosey chocolate shade)
Chanel Rouge Allure in Attitude (An extremely elegant berry)
and NARS Schiap (The iconic porn-lip pink)
1. Maybelline Pink Please
2. Clarins Instant Light Lip Perfector in 01 (pink)
3. MAC Impassioned
4. Revlon Soft Nude
5. MAC Beach Bound
MAC Syrup, MAC Marquise ‘D, Clinique Bamboo Pink, Revlon Primrose
WOW these are absolutely beautiful!
The Korres Lipstick looks AMAZING!
It’s lipstick and NOT lipsticks… just like furniture and NOT furnitures. Always without the ‘s’ whether you are referring to 1 or 10.
According to the following resources, the usage of lipsticks as plural is acceptable:
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/american/lipstick
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lipstick
http://www.learnersdictionary.com/search/lipstick (Merriam-Webster)
http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861698920/definition.html
MW & Encarta are enough for me to feel comfortable in continuing to use the word lipsticks! “Lipsticks” is such a commonly used term within the industry that I have never seen it used without the “S.” This is a blog, which is informal and conversational. Funny enough, while researching, furnitures was part of standard English until the end of the 19th century. 🙂
The word ‘lipsticks’ is widely used in the industry because people do not know the correct grammar is actually singular and not plural. If you look online for example MAC site… when you shop for ‘Lipsticks’ …. it’s referred to as ‘Lipstick’.
I provided links to several reputable dictionaries, so if you would like to continue to debate grammar on a beauty blog, please provide a resource that explains your view. I would point out that if you shop on MAC’s website, they list product categories in the singular, not plural – powder, primer, foundation, shadow, liner, etc.
NARS Dolce Vita
Clinique Tenderheart
Clinique Black Honey
MAC Spice is Nice
Hmmm, I haven’t tried enough to actually have a no. 5…
Okay, here is a list of my favorite ‘latelys’ (my all-time favorites would be another list entirely!) 🙂 :
1) Kat Von D’s Cathedral (so surprisingly beautiful for a pale gal like me)
2) NYX – Pandora
3) MAC – Coral Polyp
4) MAC – Morange
5) MAC – Lady Danger
i LOOOVE MAC’s Plumful and See Sheer. 2 perfectly beautiful colors for spring/summer!
1. Viva Glam 1 (MAC)
2. Girl about town (MAC)
3. Kiss me Coral (revlon)
4.Russian Red (MAC)
1) Viva Glam 1 (MAC)
2) Girl About Town (MAC)
3) Russian Red (MAC)
4) Kiss Me Coral (Revlon)
** Bonus: 5) Wonder Woam lipglass in Wonder Woman (MAC)
MAC syrup
MAC honeyflower
MAC high tea
MAC fresh brew
Rimmal birthday suit
I just recently got into makeup, so i do not have many lipsticks except for mac
SO far my faves are madly magenta,gulabi,yash,woo me and up the amp
MAC hug me
MAC strayin (hello kitty collection)
KORRES guava lipstick no13 (natural pink)
l’oreal (jane fonda)
i loveeeeeee the korres berry you are wearing…but saddly we don’t have that shade in greece…:(((( :((((which is sad and weird cause korres is a greek brand!
but thankfully i have the fuschia one!:D
Merle Norman Age defying lipstick in Tangerine!
It’s a misleading name because it looks like a pinky-peach beige to me. I’m in my early twenties and don’t normally buy anti aging stuff, but this formula rocks! It feels like a silky lipbalm that leaves my lips plump and moist hours after it wears off. With such a dewy formula, you do have to reapply, but with the petite gold case with the raised letters MN on the cap, it is something I’m proud to pull out in public.
1. Illamasqua Sangers
2. Laura Mercier Poppy
3. Bobbi Brown Wild Rose
4. MAC Baby’s On Fire
5. Nars Rouge D’Enfer
1)NYX Heredes
2)NYX Frappucino
3)some Dior High Shine lipstick
4)NYX Terra Cotta
5)Bobbi Brown Pink Guava
Korres Wine Red (Guava Lipstick)
Clinique Merlot (Long Last Softshine Lipstick)
Chanel Dragon (Allure Laque)
Maybelline Feel Pink (Color Sensational Lipstick)
MAC Cockney (Lustre)
viva glam gaga 2!!!!!!!!! last year it was viva glam gaga the origonal. amazing both are perfect for my nw35 skin tone!!!
Dior Adict High Shine in 554 Backstage Pink. Gorgeous pink-fuschia colour (brightens fair skin instantly), scentless, lasting and hydrating.
Also, Shiseido Maquillage glossy lipstick in PK203. Sheer coral-pink colour, slightly shimmery, very glossy and so, so pretty!
Bought my 1st Guerlain Rouge G Lipstick because of your swatches and reviews Christine. OMG you’re absolutely spot-on about how good they are! Now I own seven of them and love them all! Thanx for my new addiction ;oP
Haha!! Which is your favorite so far?
Urban decay gravity
MAC Russian red/ brave red/ viva glam 1 (tie!)
MAC jubilee
MAC on hold
Urban decay sellout
MAC Viva Glam V
NARS Cruising
Chanel Rouge Coco Shine Boy
Laura Mercier Brown Sugar
Origins Rain and Shine Brilliant Bronze
And, just for the record, 5 lip glosses (man, it was a lot harder getting these down to just 5!!):
Lancome Juicy Tubes Moulin Rose
Smashbox Limitless Longwear Endless
MAC Lipglass Evolution Revolution
Lancome La Laque Fever Feverish
Stila Lip Glaze Mango