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
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
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
From Sleep and Water, a wonderful Australian beauty blog I just discovered. I would love to see other people do this—seriously, I never get tired of hearing about lipstick. 1. How many lipsticks do you own? 49, plus five glosses. I plan to get rid of about ten lipsticks after I finish my chronology. 2.… Read More Lipstick Tag!
Name: Revlon Colorburst Lipstick in Fuchsia Date of Purchase: May 2011 Grade: A Notes: Just over a year ago, I went into town for some post-Thanksgiving shopping. I was wearing one of my first high-end beauty purchases: YSL Glossy Stain in Rouge Gouache, a bright pink-based red. A middle-aged saleswoman with a Jersey accent complimented… Read More Lipstick Chronology #4: A Tale of Two Undertones, Part 1 (Revlon Colorburst Fuchsia)
Name: Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick in Mauvy Night Date of Purchase: June 2011 Grade: A- Notes: I promise that this tumblr will stop being a Revlon blog very soon; I just bought a lot of Revlon lipsticks in my early days of makeup collecting. No regrets, though. Drugstore lipsticks are great for figuring out what colors… Read More Lipstick Chronology #3: Revlon Mauvy Night
Name: Revlon Moon Drops Lipsticks in Orange Flip and Persian Melon Date of Purchase: April 2011 Grade: B- Notes: I’m painstakingly, ploddingly moving my Tumblr posts onto Blogger, which means that several of these posts will feature my old hair (which got pixied on January 30) and less-than-ideal lighting. Not that a month of beauty… Read More Lipstick Chronology #2: Revlon Orange Flip and Persian Melon
Name: Revlon Matte Lipstick in Really Red Date of Purchase: Late 2010 Grade: A- Notes: The first lipstick I ever bought was Revlon Certainly Red, a magenta-leaning red. I admire 22-year-old me for bypassing nudes and neutrals and diving straight into the loudest reds, but I had no idea how to wear red lipstick, or… Read More Lipstick Chronology #1: Revlon Really Red
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