Lipstick Chronology #14: Three Mod Pinks (MAC, Maybelline, Revlon)

Names: Maybelline Color Sensational Lipstick in Make Me Pink; Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick in Primrose; MAC Cremesheen Lipstick in Creme Cup Date of Purchase: Spring-Summer 2012 Grades: A-, A, A- Notes: Auxiliary Beauty lives, barely. I suspect that I surrendered my beauty-blogger credentials this past week, while scrambling to finish a fellowship application that was… Read More Lipstick Chronology #14: Three Mod Pinks (MAC, Maybelline, Revlon)

March 7, 2014April 28, 2021 auxiliarybeauty6 Comments

Lipstick Chronology #13: Two Black Cherries

Name: Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick in Black Cherry; NYX Round Lipstick in Black Cherry Date of Purchase: Summer 2012 Grades: C+, A- Notes: Why are there so many lipsticks called Black Cherry? Can makeup companies really not come up with another name for a blackened red? As fall 2012 approached, I began searching for a… Read More Lipstick Chronology #13: Two Black Cherries

March 3, 2014May 2, 2021 auxiliarybeauty4 Comments

Lipstick Chronology #12: Revlon Raspberry Pie

Name: Revlon Colorburst Lip Butter in Raspberry Pie Date of Purchase: Summer 2012 Grade: B+ Remember the rapturous hype when Revlon released its Lip Butters in late 2011? More moisturizing than a lip balm! More pigmented than a sheer lipstick! Burn all your other lipsticks in a colossal auto-da-fé, these are the only ones you… Read More Lipstick Chronology #12: Revlon Raspberry Pie

March 1, 2014April 29, 2023 auxiliarybeauty3 Comments

Lipstick Chronology #11: L’Oreal Fairest Nude

Name: L’Oreal Colour Riche Lipstick in Fairest Nude Date of Purchase: Summer 2012 Grade: B Notes: A white lady complaining about a dearth of cool-toned nude lipsticks will not, and definitely should not, get much pity. Nonetheless: why are there so few cool-toned nude lipsticks pale enough for me? I’m not even the coolest of… Read More Lipstick Chronology #11: L’Oreal Fairest Nude

February 26, 2014May 8, 2021 auxiliarybeauty2 Comments

Lipstick Chronology #10: MAC Up the Amp

Name: MAC Amplified Creme Lipstick in Up the Amp Date of Purchase: April 2012 Grade: A- Notes: Lots of purple lip colors on the blog recently! Up the Amp was my very first, inspired by tumblr bloggers like Arabelle Sicardi of Powder Doom. In that post, Arabelle is wearing OCC’s lip tar in Belladonna, but… Read More Lipstick Chronology #10: MAC Up the Amp

February 23, 2014April 28, 2021 auxiliarybeauty2 Comments

Lipstick Chronology #9: NARS Flamenco

Name: NARS Sheer Lipstick in Flamenco Date of Purchase: Feb. 2012 Grade: A Notes: NARS was the first beauty brand I fell in love with, and it remains my favorite to this day. (That said, my experience is limited; with the exception of two YSL lip products and two Chanel nail polishes, I haven’t made… Read More Lipstick Chronology #9: NARS Flamenco

February 18, 2014May 2, 2021 auxiliarybeauty4 Comments

Lipstick Chronology #8: Laura Mercier Bare Lips

Name: Laura Mercier Sheer Lipstick in Bare Lips Date of Purchase: Late 2011 Grade: B+ Notes: Bare Lips was my first high-end beauty purchase, and my first purchase—though, sadly for my grad-student wallet, not my last—from the Bluemercury a few blocks from campus. Unfortunately for poor Bare Lips, it’s become linked in my mind with… Read More Lipstick Chronology #8: Laura Mercier Bare Lips

February 17, 2014May 8, 2021 auxiliarybeauty2 Comments

Lipstick Chronology #7: MAC Capricious

Name: MAC Lustre Lipstick in Capricious Date of Purchase: August 2011 Grade: B Notes: Capricious was my very first non-drugstore lipstick, purchased from the MAC counter at the Nordstrom near my old high school in San Francisco. (How’s that for a panoply of prepositional phrases?) Capricious has a lustre finish, which means that it’s glossy… Read More Lipstick Chronology #7: MAC Capricious

February 16, 2014May 8, 2021 auxiliarybeauty4 Comments

Lipstick Chronology #6: Revlon Cherries in the Snow

Name: Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick in Cherries in the Snow Date of Purchase: August 2011 Grade: A Notes: It’s snowing! I didn’t plan for this post to intersect with Winter Storm Janus, but isn’t it nice how that worked out? (Addendum, a month after writing the post: If I’d reposted it on blogspot yesterday, or… Read More Lipstick Chronology #6: Revlon Cherries in the Snow

February 16, 2014April 29, 2023 auxiliarybeauty7 Comments

Lipstick Chronology #5: A Tale of Two Undertones, Part 2

Name: Revlon Colorburst Lipstick in Soft Nude Date of Purchase: September 2011 Grade: B+ Notes: This was one of many Tumblr-induced lipstick purchases at the CVS across from campus. That summer, I’d kept coming across images like this one, from Creatures of the Wind Spring/Summer 2012: Now, if I asked you how you’d replicate this… Read More Lipstick Chronology #5: A Tale of Two Undertones, Part 2

February 16, 2014April 28, 2021 auxiliarybeauty2 Comments

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