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If you could create any lip color, what would it be and what would you call it?


If you could create any lip color, what would it be and what would you call it? Share!

A pink-leaning coral with fine coral, gold, and copper pearl with a luminous sheen–not quite glossy but glossier than a satin. (A Guerlain Gems but perfected.) I’d call it Sundazzled! (That’s all I got right now… it’s early.)

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Katherine T. Avatar

Oooh, Violetta is really pretty! Hope MAC is reading this blog — if they issued a LE Heroine with gold and purple shimmer, I’d bet it would sell out in a nano-second, or have mercy on us and just make it permanent. Or maybe that BITE Lip Lab can come out with one–hey BITE, my birthday is in Sept LOL

Arianna Avatar

I think I have found the lipstick I’ve been looking for for EVER in Revlon’s Toas of New York. Only thing I would add is the slightes copper pearl in it! I would call it Gathering! Because it’s a color that reminds me of cozy times with loved ones and friends, not sure why or how! 😀

Floortje Avatar

No doubt it would be a dark matte red lipstick (straight up red, not leaning pink, or brown or orange, etc). I’d probably name it Godot, after my favourite play Waiting For Godot. Or, OR. A lipstick that’s a perfect balance between dark blue and purple, I’ve never seen something like that. I think I would call that one Midnight Madness, or something. Dang, I should start a makeupline y’all.

Susan Dowman Nevling Avatar

Somehow I messed up my answer but Waiting for Godot. Love Shakespeare. I saw Tom Hanks make his stage debut at the Great Lakes Theater in that play many years ago. He had been working backstage prior. Met him again looking for a home to buy. Truly gracious and well mannered.
Anyway, I would buy it based on the name alone.

Reggi Avatar

Deep bold, bloody red, dark but not a trace of purple. It’d be red, not brown, not pink. Matte, but tiny specks of ruby red shimmer in it. That would be my perfect lipstick.

A Avatar

My perfect MLBB colour – a shade between Nars Isola Bella and Clinique Curviest Caramel, with the formula of a Givenchy Le Rouge. I seem to be out of name ideas right now. Sunset Rose? Sleeping Dragon? This is harder than I thought.

Marissa Avatar

if i were in the future i would create a lipstick that changes to any color you want.

… more realistic, a soft, not drying formula… a brown-ish nude with little gold shimmer and i would call it ‘sand’ or a purple based fuschia with blue undertones… and i would call it ‘chesire’

Erica Avatar

I would create a peachy caramel color with finely milled copper and gold specks. It would be moisturizing, no discernible scent and opaque, slightly metallic. I would call it “Queen’s Nectar”. The closest dupe I have are 2 discontinued MUFE lippies that I wear together in the summer.

xamyx Avatar

It would be the color of blood, just before it begins to dry, with a creme finish. I’d call it Emma’s Rose (after my daughter, Emma Rose). I’d also like to build a line around it, with other products in the same color (ala NARS Orgasm), and all the proceeds would go to aid families of children with Autism, so they can be provided with services (legal, educational, etc…).

Rachel R. Avatar

I love your idea for the makeup and the cause. My two sons have Asperger’s Disorder. I’d like to see the blood red lipstick, but I think the color would also be stunning in an eyeshadow, eyeliner and mascara. (I love your daughter’s name, too. Beautiful.)

Nancy T Avatar

Amy, I am all for your idea here! My older child, now turning 29 in August, has Asperger’s, with his original Dx at 3 1/2 yrs. old being Autism. He is currently very high functioning, but it took a ton of my blood, sweat and tears to get him all the necessary services through the NJ public school system and outside sources. I fought like hell to make sure Kyle got what he needed to have the best possible chance. But, I would love to see this fight not having to be so profound for future parents of children on the spectrum. Btw, as a child, I too had a Dx on the spectrum. Now told I have it too, but a bit milder.

xamyx Avatar

My daughter was diagnosed as “atypical autism” when she was 2, and she will be 9 in August. She started out in the Los Angeles public school system, and by the time she finished kindergarten, we were told *every* suppotive service would no longer be available to us, essentially due to cuts in the budget (although we were told otherwise). She even had speech therapy taken away. She has language, and is doing well academically (she even represented her school & grade in the district-wide Spelling Bee!), but she has difficulty with pragmatic language & social language. We just happened to move to a different, smaller school district right before she started 1st grade, where she was reevaluated, and was given speech therapy *twice* a week. We’ve been fortunate in many ways, and she’s been given opportunities to really grow, but we had to fight for a lot, and the resources are sooo limited…

Emma just completed 3rd grade, and is fully integrated into a general education classroom, but the struggles continue. Fortunately, we’ve had the knowledge & drive to fight to find the resources/advocates to be part of her team. I’ve met so many families over the years, from every walk of life, who just get lost trying to navigate the system (which I think is often intentended to be difficult)

xamyx Avatar

and I make it a point to help everyone I meet who seems new/lost, and share all of my previous experiences & resources. I’ve learned a lot from others, and always make sure to pay it forward.

Fionn Avatar

A rose-taupey creamy lipstick with gold shimmer! I bought the Body Shop’s antique rose lipstick from their discontinued line and I’ve been a bit sad i haven’t seen the colour anywhere else 🙁 but something leaning more taupe or greigey would be absolutely lovely. I think I’d probably name it Mucha or Art Nouveau.

Lulle Avatar

A reincarnation of an old discontinued Nars lip lacquer that was called Butterfield 8. It was my perfect MLBB shade, a medium beige with a hint of pink (but it was horribly sticky like all the brand’s lip lacquers). I would make it in a satin liquid lipstick formula, kind of like Too Faced Melted, and call it Perfectly Polished. Or I’d probably find a better name if I spent time thinking about it!

Teresa Avatar

A very pale but bright beige color with a lip balm like finish. I know it sounds quite boring, but I always want an almost-not-there lip color!!

Nancy T Avatar

Oh, Christine, your creation DOES sound like the most perfect lipstick ever!!! Those gold glimmered pinky-corals are so flattering and glam! I would so gladly buy your version!

My creation would be a dark, rich plummy red with rose-gold and plummy-copper micro-shimmer in it, but not frosty though, in a hydrating, rich creme formula that would last 4-6 hrs. I’d name it “Bella Diva”.

WildDove Avatar

Love your idea, Christine!

I love heavily frosted lipcolors, especially with goldtone shimmer, in red-oranges, mochas, peach, pink.

Brooke Avatar

A creamy sheer liquid lipstick in a dusty rose shade. It would have irredecent sparkles in it. The sparkles would be soft pink, and gold. I’d call it “After Dusk”

Victoria Avatar

First would be a pinky brown lipstick with a cream finish and I’d call it “LA in 2001”, for nostalgic reasons. Second would be a raspberry pink with really vibrant gold glitter with a glossy finish and I’d name it “Dazzleberry”.

Brittany Avatar

I’d want to make a medium-darkish, very grey-toned purple. Kinda like Illamasqua Kontrol, except more grey, slightly lighter, and without the blue tones. I’d want it to be a tube lipstick with a pointed bullet shape like MAC or similar lipsticks, and similar to MAC’s matte finish (applies smooth, dries down after a while and lasts several hours). Not sure what I’d name it, though. Maybe “No Name” or “Already Dead,” which are some Kittie songs I like.

Kat Avatar

What a fun question! I’d probably say a soft, mid-to-light tone, neutral pink, that doesn’t pull brown or red or peach or mauve, just a true romantic soft pink. I’d make it a creamy/comfortable matte formula. I’d probably call it Coryphée, which is a ranking within ballet companies above a corps de ballet member but below a soloist as well as being a really pretty word.

Chloe Avatar

A metallic sky blue in a traditional lipstick! I’m not very clever at names, so for now I give it the tentative name of “Heaven”.

doroffee Avatar

There are some.

The perfect greige.
A range of satin shimmer matte colors without any shine that is too tacky and too glittery for my taste (for example a slightly muted purple leaning fuchsia pink would be pretty)

Susan Dowman Nevling Avatar

Hard questions. I would like a semi transparent raspberry or cherry color with a bit of sparkle that would last. Naming I would leave to more creative ppl.

debra Avatar

Years ago Chanel made a glossimer shade called “Black Tie”… A soft pinky nude. I’ve missed it ever since they discontinued it…and have been searching ever since. It was so versatile, it changed depending on whatever lip liner or stain you layered it with, and looked great on its own…

Blue Avatar

Bah so fun!

A color similar to Chanel Ming (DC) but with liberal sparks of violet microshimmer. This would be opaque with a comfortable, non-sticky liquid formula. I’d call it… Haunted or Lenore or some other spooky goth name and it would have heafty, luxurious packaging.

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