My camera and lighting in my house are both awful and it's a rare day I can get accurate color reproduction. A picture says a thousand words, though so I've gotten over my pickiness and if the photo is way off, I'll just write a few comments along with it.
Don't say "ugh"!! Those lips of yours are beautiful au naturel! When you're a certain age and still have full, colorful lips, it's a major feature - as much as I love lipstick, I have to admit that when there's a day I want to look especially youthful, I do best to wear some eye makeup and leave the lips perfectly bare. That's also why I've been gravitating more and more to pale lipstick colors, since they enhance the shape and fullness so strongly. Lipstick is love, but when you've got it, flaunt it, baby!!!
Gunmetal is literally the only EL lipstick I own. I RUSHED to a store and grabbed one as soon as that collection came out. The sad thing is, i hate that strong, suffocating fragrance they use in their lipsticks. I barely wear Gunmetal, even though it's a perfect dream lippie for me in color and texture, because smelling that horrible smell all day makes my stomach churn. If MAC did something similar (Grey Friday was too opaque), I would hoard the hell out of that puppy.
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Funny you say that…that's actually where the "juicy flocked lips" came from. We were all talking in the Buzz thread about what lipstick textures would be new and unique and something we've never really seen before, and I brought up matte, flocked texture, like old Liberace flocked wallpaper as something that'd be unique. HG popped in and said "well, as a matter of fact….." and spilled the beans on the juicy flocked lips and ever since, I've gone kookoo for cocopuffs every time she teases us with more. It's seriously been 3 or 4 years now, I think…time flies.