Dominique33
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Me ? No way LOL
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Name that Lippie !!!!
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CrimsonQuill157
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User38
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lovely! you look great in deep vampy shades!
User38
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I just had cofee with mom and she was rockin a red lippie.. I asked her for it and lo! it's Revlon Fire and Ice.. from the 50s I think.. anyway, did a quick swipe and wanted to show you guys. It's a Revlon luster and it's a gorgeous colour imo. A classic. I still prefer heavy mattes for me. This gives good coverage and is a red orange with a bit of frost .. tiny. Skin NC 15-20, mauvey pink lips.
CrimsonQuill157
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What a gorgeous color, and it looks so nice with your skintone!I just had cofee with mom and she was rockin a red lippie.. I asked her for it and lo! it's Revlon Fire and Ice.. from the 50s I think.. anyway, did a quick swipe and wanted to show you guys. It's a Revlon luster and it's a gorgeous colour imo. A classic. I still prefer heavy mattes for me. This gives good coverage and is a red orange with a bit of frost .. tiny. Skin NC 15-20, mauvey pink lips.
liba
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Makeup rules are meant to be broken, if only for variety and fashion. Not to mention, every time there's a new leap in technology, that throws the old rules out the window right there, too. Whee, makeup is fun!As do I HG. I don't think these "rules" are accurate in all situations. I go with what looks good on me--age defying bold colors that brighten my face!
Meeeeee toooo!!!!
Absolutely Dolly
User38
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Thank you liba! you make me think straight.. lol.I am really not sure what route I'm going to take when I go grey. If I stay naturally grey, that's probably going to look authoritative but also a little bit like a poodle or poorly sheered sheep with the curliness. It'll probably be the most flattering to the rest of my coloring, though. When I was a kid, I always wished I could have lavender hair, but I'd never allow myself the insane bleaching that'd need to be done to get it prepped for that, so maybe when it's all white I can do my lavender and periwinkle dreams on it.
The one picture I remember of you posting your whole face, your hair was very very light - platinum blonde or very pale white grey? I thought that looked super striking and awesome with the red lips. All this hair dying is only worth it if you have the time for it plus the inclination to enjoy the pampering feeling of spending the day at the salon. Still, I could picture you looking faaaabooo with deep scarlet henna red hair. Trying for a naturalistic hair color is sort of an unnecessary bother if you already have a striking style and attitude - just go all the way blatant is what I say. At least scarlet will be more generally flattering to your skin tone than trying to get just that right shade of brunette, brown or blonde.
Most internet "gurus" are 25 years too young to be able to have an informed opinion about what works best for older women, lol. It's not your age that determines what you should wear on your lips as much as it's your lip shape. If you are young but have thin lips like you go around clenching your teeth all day, do yourself a favor and avoid dark colors, unless you want to play up the witchy-poo effect to scare people with. If you have full lips, especially when you're getting older, by all that is holy, play them the hell up with every kind of lipstick humanly possible (although you'll need to be careful to apply with a carefully rounded edge to capture the entire lip contour with color). To me, the only thing that's changed is with some colors and textures, they look best if I use foundation to perfect my skin tone so that there's no blotchiness around the nose, chin or mouth area that would detract from the strong, perfect lips. I have to do this with a variety of different colors, though, not just brights or darks.
I have been finding myself wearing much lighter colors comfortably in the past couple of years, but I think that's primarily the whims of fashion and my own tastes changing a bit. I would probably have looked equally good in them years ago, although there's something to be said for the fact that today's new technology allows for much more natural, skin-like textures and less of that heavy white pigmented ingredient list that made pastels much harder to pull off for everyone.
I can 100% vouch for the fact that the women my age and older who I know who still wear makeup of any kind are much more in tune with their beauty and youthfulness than the ladies who decided it was too frivolous to wear makeup anymore. Also, beyond that, the women I know who still wear dramatic makeup are mostly the most artistic ones who will love color, drama and and exciting aura about them until the last day. The only women I know who do wear makeup who aren't happier are the ones who mostly wear it because they never felt happy with their natural looks in the first place, and that's sort of sad to see in a 50 year old woman - by that age, you should know that it's the real you that makes life the most fun and beautiful!
I'm in the same boat - I've always looked best keeping that high contrast effect accentuated. I do great with just the right MLBB shade (like MEHR!!!!! I know everyone's been going on about that one lately in this thread. It's definitely a miracle color), but that's frankly a pretty new development. When I was younger, there was zero need for MLBB lipsticks because I could just skip lipstick entirely and still look very put together. Now, it pays to have a little lipstick going on, if only to conform to society's definition of what a well-turned out woman of a certain age should look like. I don't have anything against that concept, btw, if it helps me get what I need out of the world with a little extra advantage. Machiavellian Makeup Team, assemble!
Since you're NC, you should try light shades that are much more yellow than you'd expect would be flattering. I've been loving these really warm but light pinks like Sweet Experience and kooky apricots like Sweet & Sour or Sushi Kiss or even crazy Playland, which I've been wearing at night to go out to really super sexy and dramatic effect, are what it takes for me to pull off the pale lip look. I get lots of male attention with this sort of look - a surprising amount, compared to just the plain old everyday amount…it was actually very unexpected. I avoid any blush with these yellowish colors unless it's almost colorless tan or gives the bronzer look. On the eyes, these lip colors are so retro, I think they look best with a 60's cat eye and maybe a bright color on the lid only to go with it. The standard smokey eye looks overdone with these pale lips nowadays. I only do an eye look like that if I'm wearing red lips or vampy lips (I actually despise a sharp cat eye with red lips - that's one thing that not only looks aging to me, but also sort of over the hill, fashion wise. It looks good on young rockabilly girls and that's about it, lol)
Makeup rules are meant to be broken, if only for variety and fashion. Not to mention, every time there's a new leap in technology, that throws the old rules out the window right there, too. Whee, makeup is fun!
I agree on the greying hair.. I have had fits and starts of going grey, going crazy with 1 inch roots and dying again. It's a hard rollercoaster to get off from. I am thinking i might stay dark brown for awhile and see how the greys come back. lol. As for my pic, I have had platinum blonde and blonde hair for years and years.. it goes with my skin and affords me the leeway to really play with mu.. but I am at a cross in the road (I know, Yogi Berra not the Bear would tell me to take it). But I am a stubborn broad who has to overthink most things. lol.
thanks for the AFU pic, I think it looks great on you despite the aggravation .. I love my AFU and wear it often. I just found my lost one in a purse I wore when I was travelling.. lol. Typical too.
it's my modus operandi with lippies I use a lot.. I leave them in known places and they find their way back after a brief hiatus.
I like the idea of colour on the eyes. I have been toying with Teals, and some greens.. but still not steady on my fingers after so many years of neutrals neutrals and neutrals.
i will take it as it comes.. for now!
thanks for posting.. you look awesome as always!
liba
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Thanks sweetie! My hair was always so dry and grew so slowly, that kept me away from hair dye like the plague. Not to mention, I have seriously orange undertones in my hair - when the summer sun hits it from behind, it looks bright carrot top red. If I tried to bleach that, it would be an unholy mess. Now, very soon you will have tons of free time on your hands and I encourage you to dye your hair every high maintenance color of your dreams then! You will go to some nice salon, or maybe you will know a hairdresser who will come to your house, then you crack open the wine, lounge around waiting for it to cure while gossiping and having a pedicure and so on! It'll feel divinely decadent, instead of this burden of "there is not enough time in the universe to wait for all this junk to be over". You do have the perfect look to just let it go 100% grey and then just do some severe black streaks instead, like a reverse Lilly Munster - that would be awesome as hell worn down or up in a twist!
About those colorful eye shadows: I really need to post a look with Playland - I thought that color would get limited use, even though it was a better gold for me than most others, but I am totally loving it with deep bottle green or sparkling teal or purplish navy blue shadow on the lids. I skip liner with those shadows and instead just use a good thick coat of mascara (I'm loving that new Studio Sculpt mascara, because it makes my lashes really thick around the roots - no need for extra liner with that). Gel liner + colors like that on the lids starts getting too far into the goth zone, especially with red lips, although I really like bright pastel colors on the lids with winged gel liner. I skip using a contour color in the crease with these looks, so it stays a little underdone and stark - this style look so much better when you leave bits out and keep it very throwaway and underdone, like "I don't NEED makeup, I just slapped this on because I'm wild 'n crazy! Where's my catwalk at?"
liba
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I hate doing selfies when I'm trying to get that lipstick looking accurate, but if you like it, I won't act like a rabid opossum raccoon about it!
User38
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ooooo I like the Lily munster look..!! Goes with my Uncle Fester vibes.. lol.
I have done pastels on eyes..since last year and they worked well (liner always!) but I am in a slump for the neutrals. Yes, no contour.. it's just too heavy and "done" with contour.. since I have a large space on my upper lids, I sometimes use Kid or Naked or just bronzer to contour a tiny tad.. not more. but I need the lashes and liner. ha.
Can't wait till I am so free that I can have my hair cravings, foot massages and mani pedis anytime all the time!
mosha010
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Hahaha I know what u mean. It takes me forever cause I want the picture to accurately portray the closest of a lip color. But you're rocking it!!! Even if u were a rabid opossum!!!!! Liba for girl crush of the dayyyyyy! All in favor say aye!Quote:Originally Posted by mosha010
Liba for girl crush of the day!
I hate doing selfies when I'm trying to get that lipstick looking accurate, but if you like it, I won't act like a rabid opossum raccoon about it!
User38
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liba
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Aye Aye, me matey!
ooooo I like the Lily munster look..!! Goes with my Uncle Fester vibes.. lol.
I have done pastels on eyes..since last year and they worked well (liner always!) but I am in a slump for the neutrals. Yes, no contour.. it's just too heavy and "done" with contour.. since I have a large space on my upper lids, I sometimes use Kid or Naked or just bronzer to contour a tiny tad.. not more. but I need the lashes and liner. ha.
Can't wait till I am so free that I can have my hair cravings, foot massages and mani pedis anytime all the time!
Actually, I like a neutral eye shadow with noticeable contour worn with a very neutral lip - like a tinted sheer gloss instead of lipstick. Those AA glosses are perfect for that sort of thing.
I'm only not a fan of the black wings + neutral shadow + strong lip thing. If you're going to wear a strong lip, just get those wings going on and skip the shadow, or do lots of texture (I adore my dearly beloved Deeply Dashing pressed pigment with pencil liner and any kind of strong lip) but no powdery fake natural skin look on those lids.
We don't exactly live in the eye shadow era currently, with all this subtle no-makeup makeup, so if you're gonna wear it, there has to be some sort of heightened reality going on, plus the lips have to be right. Take those Patentpolish pencils, for example - they all look hideous with any kind of eye shadow or even with gel liner. They only start looking gorgeous with just mascara on the eyes or maybe some pencil liner with a lived in look. I don't quite understand why. Maybe the sort of vinyl finish?
Quote: Originally Posted by mosha010
Hahaha I know what u mean. It takes me forever cause I want the picture to accurately portray the closest of a lip color.
But you're rocking it!!! Even if u were a rabid opossum!!!!! Liba for girl crush of the dayyyyyy! All in favor say aye!
mosha010
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I had to have the buttons redone with the netting ON them cause I only did satin the first time. And I still haven't picked out the lace. I have a few contenders. I still have time but I have to hurry up and choose it so I can work on the veil. I have a fitting of the muslin version (mock version of dress) for Saturday and I'm going tomorrow to yet another lace place to look ..... It has to be the right one! Lol. I'm bridezillaing this part I knowQuote:Originally Posted by mosha010
Hahaha I know what u mean. It takes me forever cause I want the picture to accurately portray the closest of a lip color.
But you're rocking it!!! Even if u were a rabid opossum!!!!! Liba for girl crush of the dayyyyyy! All in favor say aye!
AYE!!!!
Mosha dear, how is your dress coming along?
xoxo
geeko
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Yeah , i like the patent lip polishes but i do agree with u that when i wear them i have to put very little eye make up or neutral eye make up, anything more.. it looks jus weird. but i m loving my Go for girlie patent lip polish lip pencil though
liba
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If you're not bridezilla-ing the dress, there's no point in being a bridezilla at all, darling!
When exactly is the big day?
User38
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mosha010
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I know! The thought is making me hyperventilate ..Quote:Originally Posted by mosha010
I had to have the buttons redone with the netting ON them cause I only did satin the first time. And I still haven't picked out the lace. I have a few contenders. I still have time but I have to hurry up and choose it so I can work on the veil. I have a fitting of the muslin version (mock version of dress) for Saturday and I'm going tomorrow to yet another lace place to look ..... It has to be the right one! Lol. I'm bridezillaing this part I know
just breathe.. lol
don't worry it will all be perfect!
