If you take a look at my lipstick and nail polish drawer today you might find it hard to believe, but I only began using strong shades on my lips and nails recently. I started the nail polish colors earlier, but the famous red lipstick only really came into my life in 2010, when I got the beloved Ruby Woo.
The day I purchased it, after requesting the color at MAC’s Macy’s counter, the lady answered me automatically: “you’ll need Cherry”. Cherry, my friends, is a lip pencil, and my biggest secret when applying strong shades of lipstick. In fact, not only mine! When I was in SP a few weeks ago I asked Lavoisier, Eudora’s cute and super competent makeup artist, to teach us the trick to perfect red lips… Take a look (added bonus for my beautiful face at the video’s still frame):
I really like the pencil/lipstick durability. That day, I left Proença to attend another event, then to the airport, where I had a little snack (leaving several red kisses on my napkin, lol) and arrived in BH still with red lips! A little faded, of course, but red!
Besides applying, another thing that I think influences a lot when accepting red as a usable color is the lipstick’s texture. If you take a quick look, these three Illamasqua shades look completely the same (don’t they? Am I crazy? Not even at live I can see so much difference!).
But Box is more liquid, Sangers is dry and intensely pigmented, and Tramp is less pigmented and even more dry. From all of them, Sangers is my favorite that just as Ruby Woo is a little harder to apply, but since it’s dryer it lasts a little longer… Besides the fact I that I think the mate red effect is beautiful!!! Which one is your favorite red?? Any other tricks while applying it??
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I spent the last week in Buenos Aires, taking my time to do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. It’s such a delight to have vacation like these, without the obligation of a thousand activities, schedule and etc, you know? The idea was to take advantage of all the best that the city has to offer, and like the pictures portray, the food is exquisite! Lol! I love Argentinean desserts; they can use vanilla like no one else! And ahn, the Margarita picture is already here at BH, but I was still feeling like on vacation… Right?
The activity I liked the most in this trip was the San Telmo tour… I had already been to Argentina’s capital in 2008, but it was short and busy and I had no time to enjoy the little fair and the stores around it… I love antiques, objects and etc, I came back home with more Coke bottles for my collection and a chandelier. Yes! A CHANDELIER! LOL! But it was Just too beautiful and too cheap, it was worth the trouble to bring it back =)
Another thing I love in Buenos Aires: the cheesiness! LOL!!! I’m sorry guys, but exaggerate a lot in certain things!!! But it is so FUN! I went inside a store and came across two giant flamingos, covered in pink glitter… How not to love?? LOL!!! And what about Sanjuanino’s ( a great restaurant to eat emapanadas), viño jar, which is a penguin?? Is too bizarre not to love!
This time I could finally fulfill my promise, which I make at every trip, to not buy any makeup or cosmetics… What a shame that as soon as I got to BH I ran to L’Occitane! Lol! I came home with a hand cream and a perfume (vanilla, of course), but only because it was on sale, I swear! And two fashionista purchases from the trip: absurd glasses from the Prada baroque collection(that I have been in love with since the release, remember??) and a shiny oxford ( the store is called Sibyl Vane, at the pretty mall on Recoleta), just because if I didn’t get a pair of shoes on a trip, it wouldn’t have been me… You get me, right?
