It's National Lipstick Day

Hey guys!  Happy National Lipstick Day!

I rounded up 10 of my favorite lipsticks to show you in honor of the day.

Left Column top to bottom:
    --- Maybelline Color Sensational in Pink Freeze
    --- Clinique Pop Lip Color + Primer in Bare Pop
    --- Elizabeth Arden Ceramide Plump Perfect Lipstick in Perfect Blossom (discontinued)
    --- Lipstick Queen Let Them Eat Cake
    --- Maybelline Color Sensational in Strike a Rose (limited edition)

Right column top to bottom:
    --- Estee Lauder Pure Color Envy Shine in Pink Dragon
    --- MAC Lustre Lipstick in Viva Glam V
    --- Urban Decay Revolution Lipstick in Lovelight
    --- NARS Audacious Lipstick in Brigitte
    --- Rimmel Moisture Renew Lipstick in Coral Shimmer

from left: Pink Freeze, Bare Pop, Perfect Blossom, Let Them Eat Cake, Strike a Rose
Pink Dragon, Viva Glam V, Lovelight, Brigitte, Coral Shimmer

This is definitely not a complete list of my favorite lipsticks, but I tried to narrow it down somewhat.

What are some of your favorite lipsticks?

First Day of Spring Look of the Day

Happy Spring Equinox!!  Who else besides me is absurdly excited about spring?

I matched my eyeshadow to the top I'm wearing.  And, yes, my hair is pulled back in a clip again.  And I forgot to put in some earrings.

The Darkside Face of the Day

Uh oh.  Another attempt at a creative blog post title.  This one is based on the shade "Darkside" in the Urban Decay Naked 3 palette that I used.  This isn't a dark look, so the name doesn't really fit, does it?

Fall Favorites: Lipsticks

It's officially the first day of autumn!  Fall always feels like lipstick time to me, so I'm wrapping up my "fall favorites"  series (I should have named it "colors I plan on wearing" or something) with lipsticks (or tinted balms, as the case may be).  My favorite lip colors for autumn tend to be berries and nudes.  I don't wear dark lip colors, but I do think deep, vampy lips in the fall are really cool.

MAKE UP FOR EVER Rouge Artist Natural Lipstick in N1---light, pearly nude

Lipstick Queen Jean Queen Lipstick--rosy, berry pink

Clinique Chubby Stick in Super Strawberry--sheer berry pink

Pur Minerals Mineral Shea Butter Lipstick in Golden Zincite--shimmery warm slightly reddish pink (it looks warmer on the lips due to the golden shimmer)

Revlon Lip Butter in Berry Smoothie--deep berry



from left:  MAKE UP FOR EVER N1, Lipstick Queen Jean Queen, Clinique Super Strawberry Chubby Stick, Pur Minerals Golden Zincite, Revlon Berry Smoothie Lip Butter

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I didn't realize how similar color-wise a couple of those lippies are (Lipstick Queen Jean Queen and Revlon Berry Smoothie Lip Butter... and maybe even the Clinique Super Strawberry Chubby Stick).  I've never thought of them as dupes, but they look awfully close.

What are your favorite lip colors for fall?

Lipstick Queen Jean Queen Lipstick and Gloss Swatches and Quick Review

Poppy King is an Australian lipstick entrepreneur.  Lipstick is her passion and she couldn't find a perfect lipstick for herself, so she decided to create her own line.  Her original line included very pigmented lipsticks, but she has branched out into sheerer lipsticks and glosses.  She wanted to create a lipstick and gloss that would be a perfect color to wear with jeans.

The lipstick is packaged in a very pretty metallic blue tube, and the gloss is a squeezy tube with a brush that makes precise application easy.

These both have a lovely rosy pink color that to me has little berry in it to my eye.

from left:  Lipstick Queen Jean Queen Lipgloss, Lipstick Queen Jean Queen Lipstick
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The gloss is quite shiny, very slightly thick, but not goopy or sticky at all.  It feels nice and moisturizing during wear.  The lipstick is fairly sheer and has some nice shine to it.  It also feels nicely moisturizing.

The gloss definitely gives me a my lips but better look, but the lipstick gives my lips a little more color.

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Lipstick Queen Jean Queen Gloss

Lipstick Queen Jean Queen Lipstick

Lipstick Queen Jean Queen Lipstick and Lipgloss together

I actually think these are great for fall when rosy-berry colors fit with the cooler weather.  I know I'll be wearing these frequently then.

Both the gloss and the lipstick are $20 and can be found at beauty.com.