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I always think they look better on everyone else.
Ha! I love this reference! I hate Great Lash with a passion. I think I was reading some "Beauty Cult Favorites" article a few years ago and repurchased it because I thought maybe it wasn't as bad as I remembered. It was. (And yet there are other drugstore mascaras in a similar price range that are great!)The old fashion chestnut that "everyone looks faaaaaaabulous in red! " is a load of horsehockey! Remember, these are the same fashion-bots that claim Maybelline Great Lash (the horror, oh the horror) is wonderful.
I'm NC15 and as I was starting out in my makeup journey people told me I was too pale for red lips so I stayed away for a bit. But as my style matured into what it was supposed to I realized I love red lips and started wearing different reds to experiment. Turns out people are wrong. My pale self can wear many many different reds. My personal favorites though are of a more darker nature, but that fits my punkish/ grunge whatever you want to label it style the best. But I can rock a true red like OCC NSFW.
I think it just comes down to experimenting. IF you want to rock a red lip than rock it. I think a big factor is confidence. Something could look fabulous, but if you lack confidence it will show. Red lips should be worn with confidence. Like you could rip a mans heart out kind of confidence. So yea. I personally believe everyone can rock a red lip. Just have to find the right red.
Challenge accepted? /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />I can find a red for everybody.
The problem with the wrist method is that it's not accurate for everyone due to discoloration of the arms to neck. I know in the summer my wrists and arms become very, very dark compared to my face and this is due to driving. In fact my left arm is always darker than my right. The BEST place for most people is the decolletage area as in most cases it is the least exposed to light (and closest to the face). I always match my foundations to my decolletage since it also allows for blending of the face and neck down to be more natural looking.There are various methods to do this, but for me, I prefer the wrist method (which I actually learnt from Michelle Phan and various other makeup artists a long time ago). Check the inside of your wrists and look at your veins. If your veins show up blue, then you're cool tone. If they show up in an olive shade, then you're warm tone.
Match cool tone reds to cool tone skin, as this will brighten up the natural pinky hue of your skin. Match warm tone reds to warm undertoned skin. It can be that you have neutral undertoned-skin, meaning that you can pull off both cool and warm tone reds! How lucky are you!
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