A month or so back, I told you about the black lip trend this Fall and gave some options for lipsticks and glosses, should you care to venture onto the dark side. I spent the better part of yesterday deciding whether there were any circumstances under which I could wear black lip gloss (Halloween withstanding).
Especially for small lips, it helps to layer a pearly shade on top of a black lip gloss, which is not an easy feat as the result is usually a weird shade of greige, which is even more zombie looking than straight up black. But there's hope: At the Spring shows, Vivienne Westwood sent teal-black lips down the runway and models for Topshop Unique wore a purple ebony color, hinting that wearable black is in our future.
So for now, my secret concoction for a shimmery black cherry is as follows: Two layers of Benefit Benetint ($28) followed by one layer of Armour Beauty Femme Fatale Lip Gloss ($19) followed by a dollop of Yves Saint Laurent Beaute Touche Brilliance in Pure Diamond ($29). Except it's not a secret anymore, because I just told you.
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OOh - sounds interesting! Do you have a pic of how this looks on? I'm fascinated by a really dark lip and can't imagine how it could be wearable.
1i tried the dark lip thing many many years ago and it didn't work for me. i have full lips, so when they're too dark they seem to take over my whole face.
2yes, please show us a picture of the final result!
3I don't think this would ever work for me.
4This would never work for me.
5Black lip gloss? Really? That would never ever work on me. I'm way too pale.
6Black lips is not something I am remotely interested in. I looove Benetint though!!!
7Black lip gloss, eh? I'm kinda entrigued. I wonder how that would look on my caramel-colored complexion
8Bella please post pics! We're all interested to see how it looks!!
9I'd love to see a picture of this.
10It sounds horrible, but I'd love to see a picture of it too...prove me wrong!
11I would love to be able to duplicate the look of Lancome's Piha black gloss layered over red lipstick. You can see a picture here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26440425/displaymode/1176/rstry/26438054/
I'm pretty sure the Piha Black sold out -- does this look the same?
12I have tried the black YSL gloss the other day and didn't find it attractive at all. It is a pure runway look and nothing more. If I want a deep red lipcolor I can just buy a lipstick in that very shade and top it off with a touch of gloss(NARS has some great shades)I draw a line at 3 products for my lips and in this case one will need a lip liner which would make it 4 all together, who has the time?
13i LOVE this!
14Will def. try this out!
15how to wear black lipgloss: don't!!
16Wow, I'd never even heard of black lip gloss.
17Sounds intriguing!
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