If you started fresh today, what five lip products would you purchase first?
Sara Happ Luxe Lip Balm, Fenty Beauty Fenty Glow Lipgloss, ColourPop Heavy Petal, Pat McGrath Flesh 7, Pat McGrath Bronze Divinity Gloss.
Sara Happ Luxe Lip Balm, Fenty Beauty Fenty Glow Lipgloss, ColourPop Heavy Petal, Pat McGrath Flesh 7, Pat McGrath Bronze Divinity Gloss.
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Elizabeth Arden Lip Fix, MAC Craving (if only….) and Full Fuchsia; Givenchy Fuchsia in the Know (also an “if only”); MAC New York Apple (is that discontinued yet?)
Dior lip oil in Rosewood, Mac Modesty, Mac lipglass in Spite, Fresh sugar balms in Petal/Peony, Rare Beauty lip soufflé (in almost any shade).
Paulas Choice lipscreen, MAC Hug Me, Lancome Mademoiselle Amanda, UD Depends on Traffic, NYX Madeline butter lip gloss.
Merit Marrakech Lip Oil, Chanel Rouge Coco Flash in Boy, Gucci Brilliant Shine in Peggy Taupe, Clarins Natural Lip Perfector in Rosewood & MAC Velvet Teddy
This is a hard one…Pat McGrath Soft Core matte trance lipstick, Pat McGrath lip fetish color balm in Love Supreme, MAC lip primer, PML Divine Rose Gloss….and I know it makes 6 but have to include my Nars lip liner in Marnie which I’ve been using for years!
Milani Color Statement Matte Lipstick in Matte Naked, Fenty Beauty Gloss Bomb in Fenty Glow, Burt’s Bees Lip Shimmer in Fig, Sephora Collection Rouge Lacquer Long-Lasting Lipstick in Squad Goals, and Seraphine Botanicals Vegan Berry Tint Natural Liquid Blush for Lips & Cheeks in Cherry Cream.
Urban Decay DTLA
Bobbi Brown Crushed in Italian Rose
MAC pencil in Subculture
MAC Love Me in Tres Blase
MAC Frosted in Skew (which is unfortunately discontinued, I think)
Pat McGrath Flesh Fantasy gloss,
Chanel Rouge Allure A Demi-Mot,
Chantecaille Sunrise Lip Chic,
YSL PurCouture Nu Transgression,
Chanel Rouge Allure Velvet Essentielle.
Besame Red Velvet, Revlon Cherries in the Snow, MAC Girl About Town, Clinique Black Honey, and Charlotte Tillbury Glowing Jen.
1.) Fenty Gloss Bomb in Fenty Glow
2.) Laneige Lip Mask in Gummi Bears
3.) MAC Paramount lipstick
4.) MAC Ruby Woo lipstick
5.) Hourglass Satin CremĂ© Lipstick in Cypress, or perhaps Fauna (I think that’s the name of the dark plum-berry shade?)
Paula’s Choice Lipscreen (and I’d repurchase it in a big hurry, gotta have my balm and sun protection)
MAC Diva, Brave, Velvet Teddy and Marrakesh
Fresh Advanced Therapy balm, Lisa Eldridge Velvet Blush, Rare Beauty Glossy Balm Nearly Berry, Gucci Sheer Louisa Red and Clinique Almost Lipstick Black Honey, my love of 25 yrs.
Chanel Lip Balm in Deep. Gucci sheer in Marina Violet and Louisa Red. Fenty Goji Gang.
The 5 lipsticks I would choose if I were starting anew would be:
Maybelline’s Spice for Me
Maybelline’s Mauve for Me
MAC’s Fresh Moroccan
CP’s Foolish
Milani’s Cinnamon Spice (sadly d/c)
I’m obsessed with Sara Happ, too! She’s hard to find these days…
Fenty Lipgloss in Fu$$y
Charlotte Tilbury lipstick in Very Victoria
Glossier Balm Dot Com in Coconut
Gucci Beauty in Call it a Day (skinny tube)
Revlon super lustrous in Glazed Mauve
Besame Noir Red, Melt Bane, Illamasqua Kontrol, Black Moon Murmaider, and it would be hard for me to pick between Melt Dark Room and BareMinerals Juju.
I agree with every single item on Christine’s list. I love Pat McGrath lip products (everything but the matte lipsticks, but I hate ALL matte lipsticks).
I used to hate all mattes as well, but Chanel luminous matte changed my mind. The finish makes the lips look more full.
1. MAC Retro Matte in Relentlessly Red
2. MAC Retro Matte in Ruby Woo
3. Clinique Black Honey
4. Gucci Rouge a Levres in The Painted Veil
5. MAC Lip Pencil in Dervish
That pretty much covers my bases with reds, nudes, and MLBB!