Summer Lovin' April 1, 2016

I am obsessed with instagram.  Not only is it thick with beauty, fashion, and makeup bloggers, its covered in just regular ladies who are killing it.  And I get to pick up on all the cool stuff they're doing.

I love my red lipsticks, but I feel like, going into summer, a lot of them are a little too severe in color for this time of year.  I have a hard time, because I am really pale, and the warmer summer colors don't really work on me.  I've said it before, you need warm skin to go with warm lipstick and I don't have it.

I have been seeing coral lipstick pop up a lot lately, and somehow got it into my head that I could wear it.  I saw it on Melissa McCarthy and loved it, and then the other day, I saw it on one of my favorite beauty/regular lady instagrammars.

 

The other nice thing about regular people on instagram is that if you ask them what they are wearing, more often than not, they will tell you.  Actual celebrities will not.  Hayley Atwell told the world on twitter what lip she wore on Peggy Carter (which was awesome of her) and Besame sales went through the roof.  So, I get why actual celebrities would not want to respond, because it could probably be construed as an endorsement, and I am sure they want that $$$.  Sucks for me though, since I cant ever find out what they're wearing.  I'm sure Taylor Swift gets big bucks whenever she sings the praises of Ruby Woo but nobody else even talks.

 

Anyway, this lady, the Spookyfatbabe, otherwise known as Minerva, seems like her coloring is kind of like mine, and I love this color on her.  I asked her on instagram, and she graciously responded in short order that she was wearing Ouji by Colourpop, which is a brand that I REALLY WISH was available in stores!!  I mean, look how pretty that is on her!

 

I have kind of a coral-like lipstick in my arsenal that I wrote about last year.  I still don't love it, but I found that if I put the right amount on, its sort of coral.

 

 

I still don't love it.  What's a girl to do?  Especially when she has a $10 off coupon?  Head to Ulta, of course, and try and find something that's red, but summery, but also looks good on me, and is maybe a little bit pink, but not really.  Easy, right?

 

I enlisted my bestie to go with me, and we tried on about six different shades, that were all pretty, but not exactly what I was looking for.  I seriously considered the beso I tried before.  I figured with the coupon it was a good time to splurge, since it would end up costing me the same as a lower cost brand without the coupon.

 

The very helpful sales lady- as the sales ladies at Ulta always are- suggested I try out a color from Smashbox, which is a brand I have never tried before.  She suggested a color called Bing which the website describes as a "classic red" but to me, it feels like it has a little bit of pink to it. It is really light and bright and summery.

 

 

And I love it!

 

 

I felt like the application was really smooth and I didn't feel like it was overly drying either.  I was really pleased for the rest of the afternoon at how well it stayed on. 



At least until I ate my salad.  The oil from the salad ate the lipstick right off my face, but that's kind of always the truth.  Oil and citrus are lipstick killers and I just have to accept it.  It still made me kind of sad though.

Womp womp.

 

 The nice thing about it not being a liquid is that you don't have to take the last vestiges off and start over.  You can just re-apply.

 

 

 

The packaging is little, only .1oz, but it would be really easy to put in a small bag for a night out.  It runs you $21.00, so it is definitely on the pricier side, but Ulta is fantastic with coupons.  I really feel like this is a fantastic color for summer, especially if you have pale skin like I do, I think this is a great buy.