Mmmmm. I can't WAIT to get those blue lipglosses! I'm more or less unknown here (probably because I never have anything worthwhile or interesting to say and tend to ramble, har har) but in nearly every post I've made, you can find something about my obsessing over blue lipgloss/lipstick. I'm utterly in love with the shit. I've got strange coloring for a hispanic girl: I've got tons of cool violets and reds in my skin with blues as well, so I love the look that a good ultramarine lipgloss/lipstick brings out on me. It will showcase the violets in my skin and it brings out my eyes.
The problem being is this: most companies
DO NOT MAKE ULTRAMARINE. They tend to only make blues on the warm side of the color scale--ceruleans and cobalts, usually. That's what Benefit's California Kissin' looks like to me: a cobalt. And warm blues give me the dreaded 'blue lipstick look'. Y'know the one I speak of. The 'dead body in the river for a couple of weeks' paled out dreadful zombish look. And while that's awesome when I'm doing special effects makeup artistry (I went as a strangled-drowned-then-reanimated zombie one Halloween and the look was fantastic) it sucks when I actually want to wear it out of the house. And yes, I'm one of those rare specimens that actually wears a strong blue lipstick in public. I like it.
That's why I'm so rabid about finding MAC's Blueberry Fizz. It's an actual ultramarine, goddammit! I don't care that it's sheer! I could care less about Blue Eve--it's just another cerulean with sap green undertones in the pictures I've seen--and the upcoming Blast O' Blue looks like it'll be a cobalt. Granted I'm still going to buy it but my frustration level is just about peaking with the cosmetics companies of the world. (not that they care) MAKE SOME ULTRAMARINES, GODDAMMIT! For the past few years, I've just made my own blue lipsticks/lipglosses.
The best blue lipstick I've been able to find so far is Shu Uemura's BL 040 in the Rouge Unlimited line. It's a bright strong cobalt that goes on exactly how it looks in the tube. It's beautiful, but I usually have to mix it with something to cool it down before I can successfully wear it.
Earlier someone mentioned that Lancome makes a blue. They've actually made several in their Juicy Tubes line. I'm planning on getting Blueberry Blast and Icy Pop rather soon; they're light ultramarine and dark cobalt, respectively.
And Kevyn Aucoin makes a beautiful looking set of blues: the Cyber Lip one looks like neon cerulean (but since it probably goes on clear I don't care all that much), and the Liquid Patent I'm going to buy simply because it looks like it's an indigo with cerulean glitter.
See? It's certainly the most unique blue I've ever seen and I must make it mine simply on that principal alone.
(and Urban Decay made a delectable blue gloss that had blue/violet reflective glitter in it; they discontinued it in favor of tan and bronze colored glosses. y'know how some girls can't fathom why someone would wear a blue that reads as blue? well I can't fathom why anyone would want to put tans/browns/bronzes on their lips. then again I never did understand the whole fake/self-tanning thing that's so popular nowadays.)
Well, my rambling has gone on long enough. So now I leave you all with this:
Guerlain's light blue-green viridian glitter lipgloss that will most assuredly be
MINE rather soon.
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if anything's been misspelled, oddly-worded or words are left out, you have my apologies. I haven't gotten any sleep in about thirty-six hours now.)
