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Diva by MAC is on its last legs and always on rotation..
Tom Ford Blush Nude or Hourglass nude 1. Loooove opaque pinky nudes!
I would say , Dior Backstage Pink and MAC Sweetie 🙂 they are the oldest so guess thats the reason 😀 😀 and i love them a lottt
Urban Decay Revolution lipstick in Naked …. Love it!
I have several favorites that I rotate around – NYX Extra Creamy Round in B52, Maybelline Touch of Spice, Clinique Chubby Stick in Broadest Berry, Revlon Lip Butter in Candy Apple
Not sure since I just do not know how to be loyal to just one…or even two! I pretty much have several shades in steady rotation! It all depends on what I’m wearing on both the rest of my as well as clothing. And my mood, too. So it’s been all MAC most days: Marque, Maria Moretti ( they seriously NEED to make this shade in THIS formula permanent!), Diva-ish, Sunny Seoul, Make Me Gorgeous. I love that Guerlain Gems! They should make THAT one permanent, too!
Currently Jordana Twist & Shine in Terra Crave.
Tom Ford Matte Velvet Cherry! Runners-up: Tom Ford Matte Pussycat, Nars Velvet Pencil in Dolce Vita and Ellis Faas in Ellis Red!
I’m on a ‘no buy’ period until the end of the year so that i can use up some of these 50 MAC lipsticks i have. So i’m picking the ones that are the most used up and finishing them. I’m on Cut a Caper and Ravishing.
I am doing this too!!!
What a good question 🙂
Well, it’s something along the lines of MAC’s Hue (or Japanese Maple at the moment) or NARS’s Roman Holiday. I don’t think much of my lips, so I usually try to accentuate eyes, although I have been venturing out of my comfort zone with NARS Niagara once in a while 🙂
MAC Viva Glam V!
I don’t usually like the lustre finish to much, but I find this lipstick to be the perfect everyday color 🙂
Ive been using liquid lipstick “Sweet talker” by Anastasia beverly Hills alot lately
And Impassioned by MAC
MAC Russian Red! My first lipstick and it has been loved to death. Well, not really death yet, because there is still a teeny tiny amount there!
Bitch Perfect by Charlotte Tilbury or Darling by Gosh are the ones I’ve been wearing a lot lately.
Mac Faux! Best nude ever!
While I haven’t worn it recently, I’d have to say NARS Dolce Vita. It’s the only lipstick I’ve repurchased *multiple* times.
M•A•C – Hue
MAC Craving – perfect colour for me and lasts a long time.
MAC’s Ruby Woo. I’ve been wearing it regularly for about 6 years now! I’m on my third tube of it.
2nd Ruby Woo. I’ve used up one full tube and am about half way through my second. I’m even a little tired of it at this point, but it’s a beautiful red that wears impressively–hands down it’s the workhorse of my lipstick arsenal.
MAC Viva Glam IV
At the moment probably See Sheer from MAC.
Nars Audacious lipstick in Juliette!
TF Spanish Pink
It’s definitely Mac Touch lustre lipstick – my perfect nude colour
My most used lipsticks are my trusty nudes! My top 2 used are M.A.C Viva Glam Gaga 2 or NYX Circe, both beautiful beige nudes!
MAC Plumful, NARS heatwave
Ah….Plumful would be my 2nd most used lipstick. In fact, I nearly put it as my most used but for the past few weeks, Craving has been my go-to (mostly because it’s on the top of the pile of lippies in my little bin)
These are my most used too! Heat Wave more than Plumful these days and Nars Anna has a reserved place in that rotation too.
Maybelline Touchable Taupe . I love nudes and I havent found one better than this one for my skin. Its a cool toned brown with a touch of pink.
I have been looking for a matte version of it though.
MAC Sophisto!
MAC Rebel
Mac Angel. It goes with everything and is really wearable.
Touch of Spice from the Maybelline Color Sensational Matte collection! It only came out last year, but it’s been my go-to neutral/MLBB every day color.
Clinique Nude Beach.
Fyrinnae Pigmy Hippo lip lustre.
Wins for best name 😀
no. 1 dior cherie bow (I’ve used 2 but probably not gonna purchase more because clarins nude rose is better in shade and lasting power).
No. 2 clarins nude rose. best shade ever for my skin tone and everything
No. 3 too faced melted peony
Stila Stay All Day in Bellissima
Lately , Guerlain Gracia. But probably because it’s my newest Guerlain and those are easy for me to throw on and wear all day because of the hydrating factor. Garance is also a go to for me. Gems was a LE ,is that right?
Mac See Sheer and Urban Decay Liar are both very nearly used up. Givenchy Brun Createur is sadly getting there too.
I just checked to see what Gems looked like and OMG that is so my color!! You said it’s not available now right? Guess I will have to go out and get Too Faced Debutante since it’s a dupe!
I’ve bought MAC’s Crosswires 3 times so I’d have to say that is one of my most used lipsticks and I get so many compliments when I wear it. I can’t say I’ve repurchased many lipsticks twice, so three times means it’s pretty special.
During this autumn and Winter my go-to lipstick has been MAC Capricious. Right now, I’m changing to a more spring shades and I’m using different lipsticks all the time.
I dunno, creme cup maybe? I use buxom lip polish in Sandy and nyx pale pink a lot but as for lipstick I’m not sure but I pare those two with every thing I can lol
MAC Après Chic is my favorite lipstick ever and I’m on my last tube of it. I’ll be so sad when I’m out of it for good. i bought this tube from someone in the Netherlands!! That’s how much I love it!! The closest dupe I found is Chanel’s Vendome, but it’s not the same.
Oh wow, I have Apres Chic and it’s just a little too warm for my cool complexion. I’ve only swatched it. Let me know if you would like it, I almost Back-to-Mac’d it recently. jennibell72@gmail.com
That’s MY favorite lipstick too! I’m NC 15 brown hair and eyes for ref. I try to use it only for special occasions.
Makeup Forever’s Rouge Artist Intense Lipstick in the shade 3 – matte caramel, and Nars Velvet Matte Lip Pencil in the shade Walkyrie 😀
Rimmel Naked (a disc’d moisturizing lipstick in a pink tube) or Mac Patisserie. I don’t even have to think about how they look, just put em’ on and go 🙂
Mac Pure Zen! It is barely hanging strong. I bought it when I first started my makeup collection and it was the first nude I found that really complimented me. Since then, I have found others I like more, but it is still certainly my most used!
I keep 3 tubes of pure Zen at all times. One in my purse, one in my desk at work, one in my stash at home. Try topping it off with London Lip Butter gloss in “tea with the queen.” Perfect compliment.
MAC Daddy’s Little Girl. I’ve been holding on to the same tiny nub for like ever lol. I just can’t bare to finish it
Just in case you don’t know, Nars Audacious in Angela is VERRRRY similar. After I bought Angela and swatched them both on the back of my hand when I got home I was so annoyed I duped something in my collection, especially for that kind of $$!
MAC Hot Tahiti.
Estee Lauder Pure Envy in Eccentric and Revlon Pink in the afternoon. Love my pinky corals.
Hi Christine, sorry to go a bit off topic but if anybody knew the answer to my query, it’s you. May I please ask you if you know if the MUFE Plexi glass glosses have replaced the lab shine ones? The lab-shines were full of emollients and hyaluronate, I loved them. Nothing is aspired to any lip care in the descriptions for the plexi gloss and no ingredient list can be found to elude to otherwise. I’d really appreciate anything you could please offer me in the way of an answer. Thank you so much.
Currently my most used lipsticks are all by Lipstick Queen and then I’ve brought also brought out the Bite Beauty Matte Creme Lip things in Blood Orange & Satsuma. 🙂
My guess is they’re discontinued, but I haven’t heard anything from the brand directly. Sephora doesn’t have them on their site any more, but MUFE’s website still shows them, along with three other gloss formulas (and those aren’t at Sephora) – but they don’t appear to have the Plexi gloss up yet. I’d try calling a MUFE boutique as they probably would be trained on what’s in the full line (including if Lab Shine was sticking around at boutiques only).
Thank you so much for responding to my query! I sooo appreciate it as I noticed they disappeared on sephora! I have a couple backups but.. It’s heart breaking. May I also ask your opinion of how the formulas compare? Thank you kindly! Happy Hump Day! 🙂 xo
I remember the Lab Shines being less tacky, a little smoother, though they had similar sheer/unevenness depending on the shade. These definitely have a heavier, more gel-like texture, I think, but they seem to wear a little longer.
Christine,
Thank you so much for the information. I guess I’ll have to try one as it may just be alright, especially if longer lasting! My concerns lay where they do not promote hydration with the plexiglass. Yet, who knows? 🙂 Oh, also, just in case any readers are extremely pale/fair and cool toned, the Hourglass Luminous (Lighter one) Bronzer looks amazingly natural. I’m the lightest & coolest possible colored skin and I think their transparency will adapt to each unique color tone. As you are quite warm, even if neutral leaning warm, they showed up quite warm on you, though lovely, and I think it scared people away. I’m not one to bronze, but felt an instinct to go ahead with this one just to add a little look of being sun kissed, and it turned out blatantly perfect. Application was an ooh aah experience. Lol! 😛 It is pricey, but SO natural, I cannot recommend anything else more highly. I hope that helps any on the fence as well as lend to you information that on very cool tones, the coolness controls the bronzer. 🙂 Loving it. Will try a plexiglass. Love to you! ~ Lotus
I think MAC Russian Red is probably my most used-up, but I don’t wear it nearly as much as I used to! I have quite a few that I rotate, and Fanfare is getting down there too since it’s my favorite ‘work-appropriate’ lipstick.
MAC Sweetie….it’s more than halfway gone, I am never able to finish a lipstick it seems and that might have to do with the fact that I just keep buying lipsticks cause they’re my favorite beauty product
I would have to say either Revlon Kissable Balm Stain in Honey, MAC’s Chatter Box, or NARS Dragon Girl.
I went through a couple of the Revlon balm stains in honey when I was on Accutane (twice!). It was the only thing I could wear that both hydrated enough and gave me good color.
Not including my Accutane days, I used to be addicted to MAC’s Chatter Box. I still really like the way it looks on me, especially with blue eyeliner.
When I was younger I was addicted to NARS Dragon Girl for years and years. Now that I think about it, I might have to go with that one for all time most used. It was my first high end lipstick, and I still love it.
I change up lip colors almost every day, so by the end of the week I always have 10+ (ie $100s of dollars worth of) lipsticks in my purse. I have to remember to empty it out on a regular basis. Choosing a most used is pretty difficult, but I will stick to these three for now.
For now, YSL’s Nude in Private 🙂 not only is it the perfect MLBB shade on me, it feels like lip balm to my very dry lips. I reach for it at least 3x/week, which is an accomplishment since I own over 70 lip colors o.0
Probably NYX Pops
Lately I’ve been carrying ColourPop’s Lumiere with me everywhere. It’s a great go-to that seems to go with most of my looks pretty effortlessly. Love NARS Dragon Girl for a bright lip though!
I’m not sure if they qualify as lipsticks but Fresh Berry and Revlon Lip Butter in Sugar Plum.
Most used of all times is MAC Dubonnet. Most used these days is Givenchy Frambois Velours.
Mac Hue! It’s amazing!
Sex machine by Nars! Its a lipstick pencil but it still counts Lol.
Mac Angel!!!!
Mac Faux.
While i’m currently reaching for MAC Velvet Teddy every chance I get, my darling Girl About Town is a few uses away from giving up on me.
Guerlain Rouge G Gaela (no. 61) and it’s discontinued. Been trying to find it everywhere and I can’t. 🙁
Airy Fairy by Rimmel! I have too many lipsticks to count, but that is by far the best and most flattering lipstick I have ever tried.
MAC Sin and Make Up For Ever rouge artist intense #14.
MAC Creme de la Femme!
Currently it’s NARS Damage which goes with just about anything and Besame’s Red Hot Red for a bolder look.
Ever? Probably MAC Velvet Teddy or Kinda Sexy. Just recently, though, I’ve been wearing ColourPop Cookie almost every day for weeks and I’m almost done with it already (though, it isn’t hard to use up only 1g of product).
Revlon smitten and Mac plumful. I’m all about plums:)
For a softer look I’m obsessed with MAC’s tinted lipglass in Nymphette. When I like to be bolder my go to is LASplash Ghoulish.
Heroine by MAC!
Mac Ruby Roo and NYC Blue Rose #405.
Most used lipstick ever would be MAC lipsticks in Mocha (satin) or Touch (lustre) or Taupe (matte). I’m on my 3rd Touch lipstick and its halfway gone but haven’t touched it much this year. I’m on my second tube of Mocha…3rd if we count the LE version I got in 2011 Surf Baby release – i refuse to finish it…it’s so pretty. For most used lipstick right nooow…it’s been all about Revlon for me. I’ve been rotating between dabbing on Revlon’s Ultra HD Lipstick in Primrose or Revlon’s Colorstay Moisture Stains in Miami Fever and Cannes Crush or Holika Holika Holy Berry Tint in #3 Orangeberry. I’m not into full pigmented lips right now. I’m loving how dabbing on lip products looks…so my lips look kind almost naturally stained that specific color.
This isn’t a fancy answer, but I almost always use Loreal Color Riche in Mica. I’ve tried others and for my complexion it’s the best choice.
The Maybelline lipstick in the color Warm Me Up. Oh my God it’s so perfect!
MAC Cosmo for sure!
Mine would be Lancome It Girl – its 2/3 gone 🙁
I wear a lot of different lipsticks – and usually choose one based on what I am going to wear. I usually have a favorite but I just can’t seem to find the perfect one.
Swinger from Buxom… love the subtle orchid pink shade! Day or night… it’s beautiful!
For me it was MAC’s Please Me, that I completely finished a couple months back (which I documented in my blog about project pan) and now it’s MAC Myth, which is also being documented in my blog. I guess I really do like my MAC lipsticks…
MAC Hightea
Kat Von D’s Bachelorette. It’s a make-me-happy color.
MAC Touch and Clinique Pure Posh and Tenderheart, Paula’s Choice In the Nude, Clinique’s Bronze Leaf for something brighter, and MUFE’s Naturals in # 7 and 9.
So many old loves have been discontinued: Nars Corinthe, Bobbi Btown Malted, Mocha Stain and Walnut stain, and her thin liipstick in btownie nude, and most recently, Smashbox’s Legendary lipstick in Chai!! Why, Why, why??
It’s got to be the Revlon Lip Butter in Pink Truffle, and once it’s done, I think I’ll trade up for Nars Dolce Vita or Tolede
Tarte – Park Avenue Princess. Classic, natural nude pink lip
MAC pillow talk. I use it everyday !
Mac Mehr, Mac Velvet Teddy or Mac Speed Dial. These 3 totally fits my shade 🙂
MAC Brave and MAC Enchanted One!
Modesty by MAC. I have over 50 lipsticks and that’s the only one I’ve ever had to replace.
Revlon lip butters i Berry Smoothie and Pink Truffle
Maybelline Wet Shine Diamonds Lipstick in Pretty Knit; Max Factor Moisture Rich Lipstick 537 Creme Rouge; Sephora Collection Rouge Cream Lipstick in Cougar; Wet n Wild Megalast Lipstick in Bebop; MAC La Vie En Rouge; Nyx Wicked Lippie in Trickery.
Rimmel in Paradise
Nyx whipped caviar, Mac velvet teddy, Kat Von D love craft, recently Nars Anna
Lancome The New Pink–on 3rd tube so far]
new favorite MAC Syrup
In the rotation–Revlon Sassy Mauve–love them pinky purples
My most used lipstick is ‘Undressed’ by Calvin Klein CK One Pure Color. It’s a pinky nude! I absolutely love it but there are no reviews on it via blogs or vlogs that I’ve seen! It’s definitely one that gets no attention!
My go to lipstick is Make Up For Ever Artist Rouge Lipstick in M3-Matte Caramel. It’s versatile and a great nude to wear everyday all year round. I wear it all the time when I don’t feel like wearing my reddish brown lipstick.
I love reddish brown lipsticks – which one do you use?
Lipstick Queen in Hello Sailor and MAC Midimauve are both down to millimeters, have to use them like they’re lip balms now!
It was NARS Velvet Matte Lip Pencil in Dolce Vita before I developed an allergy to it. STILL looking for a dupe.
Stilla liquid lipstick in pantina and runner up is besso by stilla
Milani Teddy Bare and a Christian Dior one in an orangey-red. I love them both.
MAC bombshell and lovelorn. But now I’m into fuschia pinks so, MAC Lickable. And my current most used red is Elizabeth Arden matte lipstick in Bold Red. EA’s matte lipstick range is so underhyped! It’s amazing and the formula is even better than Nars matte lip pencils!
Kat von D’s Lolita. I keep telling myself I will buy a backup, but I haven’t made it to the mall lately and I am trying to resist shopping online (because I will feel compelled to buy enough to get free shipping. LOL)
MAC Velvet Teddy and Up The Amp
Revlon Champagne on Ice
Nars Audacious in Anita. It’s my go-to lipstick now! I love the formula of those so much 🙂 … Also Mac Twig paired with Whirl lipliner is another combo i use a lot.
YSL Rouge Volupte Shine in No. 19, ‘Fuchsia in Rage’ is the only lipstick I’ve ever used up and re-purchased, but Make Up For Ever Rouge Artist Natural in No. 27, Iridescent Blue Pink, is close behind, and is a color that always looks good on me, no matter what else I’m wearing. Bright, cool, blue/purple-ish pink lips just light up my face like nothing else!
I’m so bad at wearing lipstick regularly. They always feel like too much of a fuss for this lazy girl. With that said, most used of all time is probably Shiseido Baby or Revlon Peach Parfait.
My mom had had several lipsticks that she used completely. I mean like she used a lip brush to grab what was in the tube part that holds the lipstick until that was clean. She’s done that with several YSL and MAC lipsticks. I’m always like HOWWWWWWW?!?! But she has also used an entire Bobbi Brown Shimmer Brick JUST FOR EYES. I understand nothing.
Mac Morning Rose
Mac creme in your coffee. On my 3rd tube. I ♡ it.
I have to say Blankety by MAC is my #1 most used I am on my 3rd tube! Perfect nude for me.
In high school, I went through at least 2 tubes of Prescriptives Chili – a beautiful matte brick red. Now, I’m so addicted to makeup that I can’t remember the last time I finished a tube! Anastasia Pure Hollywood is definitely getting the most use as of late, it matches all the eye looks I’m doing with my ABH Artist Palette and TF Sugar Pop Palette.
elf Studio Matte Lip Color in Tea Rose
I have tried Lancome’s Bi Facil, and it works ‘okay.’ Are the other oils any better than this? I have been lurking for years but I thought I would mention what I use because no one has mentioned it so far to my surprise. It’s not the latest thing, but you get a decent bottle for a decent price and it does a great job.
Whereas with the Bi Facil, I had to do a lot of rubbing to get my eye makeup off, with Cetaphil I pat a bit of water on my mascara and then gently rub the Cetaphil around and remove it with more Cetaphil on an eye makeup remover pad.
If there are any ladies out there that are worried about pulling too much on their eye area, or on a budget, I recommend it, because there is so much slip there’s very little pulling on the skin in comparison to Lancome’s (and I’m wondering if perhaps the other oils mentioned as well?) The one caveat is that it doesn’t remove waterproof mascara. It’s also considered a waterless cleanser.
It’s available from any drugstore and probably most grocery stores.
Oops, not sure what happened but this is in the wrong spot! Could you move it Christine, to ‘Best Cleanser for Removing Makeup’ please? Thank you!
MAC See Sheer, I have the last of my last tube in a little pot so it doesn’t go to waste… and my other tube it almost used up as well. It’s such a gorgeous, wearable light coral.
Rimmel Kate Moss lipstick in 12. I’ve gone through two tubes already, and have two waiting in the wings. It’s a great coral “red”, it’s the one color I get compliments on and it can be super vibrant or dabbed on in a subtle, matte stain. The Urban Decay Bang lipliner under it is awesome!
i’m surprised no one says mac creme cup and rebel; they’re my first and most loved of all mac lipsticks.
otherwise now also loving: nars audacious (i loooove the pinks and nudes), shu uemura lacque supreme (ALL), ysl lipsticks (especially fuchsia in excess and tender peach), and mac pink nouveau
It’s been Urban Decay Gash forever. I just stocked up on it as well as a bottle of the nail polish. It’s my favorite summer toe color and my backups were desperately low. They are exclusive to urbandecay.com. The other one I used to wear until it was discontinued was Chanel Portofino. When I am not wearing Gash, I wear Urban Decay Mrs. Mia Wallace. I love my reds.
Mac Lady at Play
Sephora Color Lip Last in 07 Natural Pink (been a favorite since the line was called Maniac Mattes or something!) and Mac’s Cosmo 🙂
Like e/s and blush, I switch up l/s (and l/g’s) all of the time, but my oldest HG is MAC Violetta, however, I am really liking it’s slightly pinker dupe of Milani Violet Volt. I also reach for Revlon Colorburst Lip Butter in Lollipop (which is fully pigmented) and EL Pure Color Violet Crush. See a theme here 😉
Since I often wear e/s in pinks/mauves/purples/plums, I love those shades in lippies and blushes too. They are the most flattering on me.
My coloring is fair to light cool/pink NW15-20.
Make Up For Ever Rouge Artist Natural N9
Mac candy Yum Yum!
MAC’s Viva Glam 3 and Taupe lipsticks.
In the winter months I use Mac Freckletone as my everyday lipstick and in the summer time I use Mac Coral Bliss 🙂 Its nice to have a pop of coral instead of my regular nude when the weather is nicer!
Hmm…lately I’ve mainly been switching between Maybelline Touch of Spice and Wet N’ Wild Coming in Latte.