If you could only use three lip colors for a year, what would they be?
Urban Decay Rebel Vice Lipstick, Fenty Fenty Glow Gloss Bomb, Pat McGrath Flesh 3 Blitztrance.
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MAC Craving, MAC Craving and MAC Craving! Okay – in reality, it would be MAC Craving, Givenchy Fuchsia in the Know and Smashbox Red Rage or Legendary.
I’ve just jumped on the MAC Craving train. So good!
Mariella, I like Craving too. Have you tried Twig. Its a bit more brown, but far from brown. Its like Cravings conservative employer approved sister.
I tried Twig years ago, when it seemed to be everyone’s favourite colour. I hated it. I think it was a Matte (which is the kiss of death for me in any case) and the shade itself was not flattering. I don’t know if I just got a bad one or what but it sat virtually unused for ages and then I Back to Mac’d it. As I say, so many people love it so to this day I wonder if I got a lemon. But on me, Craving IS the conservative, employer approved lipstick. If they discontinue it, I’ll be in serious trouble.
I’m sorry it didn’t work for you, but I think so often with lipstick your true lip color can play a part.
Nyx Matte- Natural, Nyx Butter Gloss- Tiramisu, and Nyx Matte- Perfect Red.
Lisa Eldridge Velvet Beauty, Velvet Blush and Rose Official!
Fenty Fussy, DC Narz Belize gloss (new Belize is not the same) and Victoria Beckham’s lip tint in Cherie.
Lisa Eldridge’s Velvet Beauty, Velvet Blush, and Dance Card.
Beauty and Blush are two of my picks as well! Her lipsticks are just the best.
They’re so great! And honestly so versatile; they really complement different makeup looks and can be applied in different ways.
Maybelline Pink for Me
MAC Milan Mode
Chanel Les Beiges in Deep
UD Vice Lipstick in Sheer Rapture (DC), UD Vice Lipstick in 1993, and MAC Von Teese (LE).
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I light a candle in hopes Sheer Rapture will return. What a uniquely flattering shade and finish.
Me, too. A bought a couple back ups when I learned it was being discontinued.
Tower 28 Lip Jelly in Cashew, YSL Tatouge Liquid Matte Lip Stain in Neutral Underground & Bobbi Brown Lipstick in Blondie Pink
Mac Spirit or Soar (can’t decide between them)
Chanel Pirate
KVD Bow ‘n’ Arrow
I just love Pirate. It almost made my list…almost!
Bite Beauty Toasted Cardamom
Charlotte Tilbury B*tch (hate that word) Perfect
UD Super Saturated lip pencil in Naked
MAC Mehr, Tarte Lippie Lingerie in Whisper, and Fenty Fenty Glow Gloss Bomb
Besame Noir Red, Melt Stepford, Bite Kale.
1995 (Pat McGrath)
Flow (Milk x Wu-Tang)
Ruby Slipper (Chanel)
sadly, 2 have been discontinued but this is a hypothetical…
Honorable mentions:
Pale Fire Nectar Gloss (Pat McGrath)
Fawn (Lisa Eldridge)
Fenty Glow Gloss Bomb (Fenty)
I keep thinking about getting Fawn. I am concerned it would pull orange on me but darn it my brain won’t evict the thought. It looks like such a lovely tawny-rose (in some pictures) shade.
A deep burgundy: MAC Diva
A beige my-lips-but-better: MAC Velvet Teddy (or similar)
A plum my-lips-but-better: MAC Brave or MEHR (or similar)
My picks are: Fenty Gloss Bomb in Universal Glow, Nudestix Cream Lip + Cheek in Sin and Bite beauty Outburst Longwear lip stain in Sangria Slush. Love them all!!
This is super hard, because masks are ba-a-ack. If not, then Fenty Gloss Bomb in Fenty Glow, MAC La Vie En Rouge or Chili, and PML She’s Heaven.
Fenty Spanked, MAC Craving, ColourPop Berry Me in Lipsticks.
Besame Victory Red.
That’s it. 🙂
ColourPop The Rabbit (it is a color that has a lot of dupes though, but I wish CP would bring this back)
Bite (old Bite, good Bite) Sour Cherry
BECCA Nectar
Honorable Mention for a gloss would go to Fenty Mauve Wives.
Revlon Blushing Mauve, Revlon Blushed, MAC Girl About Town.
1. Becca Sugar
2. Fenty (Slip Shine) Makeout Break
3. Tie: My own personal blend from Bite Beauty called “Diva” & CT Pillow Talk
That’s a fairly easy question for me to answer!
1. Maybelline’s Spice for Me
2. CP’s Foolish
3. CP’s Tea Thyme
Honourable mention would go to Milani’s Cinnamon Spice, Clarin’s Joli Rouge Spicy Cinnamon and MAC’s Fresh Moroccan
Burberry Kisses in Garnet, Mac Modesty, and Coco Rouge Flash in Deepness (which I use and love as a stand alone lip colour). Reaching for them the most these days.
So many from the Bite Beauty of yesteryear though… *sigh*
Urban Decay Rebel (in this fantasy I’m able to replace it, lol), Lancome Absolu Amande Sucree and Lancome Absolu Rose Crystal. I dont think the Lancome Absolu line gets the attention it deserves, but its great for someone that doesn’t like desert dry lipstick.
Lisa Eldridge Rose Official, Love of My Life and Velvet Ribbon.
As a lippie lover this is hard – but if I had to…
1) Charlotte Tilbury Bond Girl
2) Dior Lip Glow in Lilac (DC)
3) Lancome Poeme
This is so hard to answer. I love my lipsticks and don’t want to be without them, any of them. 🙂
For a year I might be able to make do with:
UD F-Bomb
MAC Hey Frenchie
CT Bond Girl, now called MI Kiss for some reason she renamed a lot of her products.
This would leave me without a fuchsia so an honorable mention to UD Firefly.