Thursday, May 24, 2012
Trouvé's envelope bag
Almost giving up on lipstick
Tonight was a busy night at home. First, I feng shui-ed the guest room, which is where I keep my clothes and shoes because the master bedroom closet is too small, and then I did some spring cleaning in my Caboodle. That's right, Caboodle. I've had that green and purple box since I'm 18. It was a gift from my grandmother that I bought at the local Eckerd on Key Biscayne.
I wanted to try on my lipsticks, wanted to do a run through of the colors I had and see how much I really liked them. I threw almost all of them out (a couple of Laura Merciers, a Chanel and Chantecaille), and when I was done, I almost declared I would never use lipstick again. No way do my lips, with makeup, look as good as Kate Moss' in the latest Harper's Bazaar. My lips aren't as firm, and plus, they are a dark flesh tone. The lipsticks I had some color but were very sheer (except for the bright pink Chanel, don't know what I was thinking), and I determined my lips looked better with nothing on.
The ones I did keep where two perfectly textured lip glosses from Three Custom Color, in pink and nude warm tones. They give just the right amount of color. But I even pondered doing away with those. I'll keep them for nighttime outings.
It was in the midst of all this cleansing that I had this epiphany: it's better to wear bold colored clothes than bold colored makeup. Much, much easier to deal with. And now I want that colorful Ostwald Helgason dress I saw in this month's Harper's Bazaar.
I think I'll just go back to what I was doing five or six years ago: black eyeliner and nothing else.
I wanted to try on my lipsticks, wanted to do a run through of the colors I had and see how much I really liked them. I threw almost all of them out (a couple of Laura Merciers, a Chanel and Chantecaille), and when I was done, I almost declared I would never use lipstick again. No way do my lips, with makeup, look as good as Kate Moss' in the latest Harper's Bazaar. My lips aren't as firm, and plus, they are a dark flesh tone. The lipsticks I had some color but were very sheer (except for the bright pink Chanel, don't know what I was thinking), and I determined my lips looked better with nothing on.
The ones I did keep where two perfectly textured lip glosses from Three Custom Color, in pink and nude warm tones. They give just the right amount of color. But I even pondered doing away with those. I'll keep them for nighttime outings.
It was in the midst of all this cleansing that I had this epiphany: it's better to wear bold colored clothes than bold colored makeup. Much, much easier to deal with. And now I want that colorful Ostwald Helgason dress I saw in this month's Harper's Bazaar.
I think I'll just go back to what I was doing five or six years ago: black eyeliner and nothing else.
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