I've been feeling like maybe to get the most out of liquid lipstick you need to travel into a higher tax bracket. I really (like, really really) love the idea of liquid lipstick, but neither of the shades I have are exactly right, and they don't have the staying power that I imagine a good liquid lipstick should have.
This weekend was Valentine's Day and so, of course, I asked Joe for makeup. Or rather, if I'm being honest, I bought makeup and said," thanks for the makeup babe!!" We ended up going back because Joseph wanted some beard care stuff as his gift. We ended up getting him some beard wash and conditioner from the billy jealousy line.
*As a side note, if you have a man with a beard, especially a thick one, these products are stupidly amazing. The transformation to Joe's beard after one use was unreal. It looked like a totally different beard. You can buy all the products here in a kit. You really should. Seriously, what are you still doing here? Go buy it now.
ANYWAY.
We were in Ulta, and I saw one of the employees wearing the most fabulous lip color. It looked exactly how I picture lipstick should look, and though I was just lamenting to Joe that I literally own all of the red lipstick and there is no more, hers caught my eye. I asked her what she was wearing and it was a Stila All Day Liquid Lipstick (my buzzwords) in a color called fiery. She had dark hair and sort of olive skin and the color looked cramazing on her. Since it is kind of an orangey-red/ true red, I figured it would be about the same color as my NYX Kitten Heels liquid. Its so pretty, but its a little too bright for me. She showed me a color very close to the fiery though, except with a bit of a blue undertone, called "Beso." Yes. Beso is definitely the color to go for.
You can find it right over here.
At $24 a pop, this would definitely be considered a luxury brand, and in case there was any question, Ulta keeps it on the luxury brand side of the store. Which is why I had never seen this brand before, because I stay on the drug store side.
As luck would have it, I found myself back at Ulta today. I totally didn't mean to go, but I was meeting my bestie to drop of Halo, and, as my good fortune would have it, she was in Ulta. Mondays are great days for Ulta, in case you were curious. Mondays are blah, so you can just drop by and get a nail polish or a new lippie. Day made. (If you aren't getting Ulta reward points, you are really missing out. Its free to sign up and you get $10 off your first purchase if you use this link: http://refer.ulta.com/v2/share/6251729806000613717)
I decided I would give the Beso a test run since I was there. $24 is a lot to spend on one tube of lipstick, especially when I have 37 that are similar in color. But I wonder if the higher price point would give me the staying power I want. So, I decided to give it a shot. Stila promises 6 hours of wear, and I decided to put it to the test.
Here is the color, newly applied:
I'm feeling sick off my ass and none too cute, but when I put this on, Ann immediately told me what a great color it was. And it definitely is. Blue reds are universally flattering, but especially if you have cool tones, which I do. How do you know cool from warm tones, you may ask? Look at the veins in your wrist. If they are blue, you are cool toned, and if they are green, you are warm toned. Warm toned people will tend to have more yellow in their base skin color, and cool toned people will be more pink. There's your science lesson for today.
This smells amazing. I will say that all of my high end products smell fantastic. That must be what the extra money gets you. And while my NYX liquids take a few minutes to dry, this one is in place instantly. And it is kiss proof. I'd show you the picture of the kiss mark on my hand, but there isn't one, and I pressed hard. We were off to a good start.
I had a hot pocket for lunch. We really need to go to the grocery store and I am classy like that. I snapped another picture after lunch, and I was really impressed with how well it stuck around.
Its pretty much exactly like it was before. I was also doing a good bit of drinking and I didn't see any transfer. I was really starting to think that there was something to this, and then I decided to put it to the real test.
In the afternoons I like to eat oranges. Its a good pick me up, and when you're sick, as I am now, the vitamin C feels good on the throat. But it is also super wet and acidic, both of which are big ol' lipstick killers. I decided that if it withstood the orange, I would need to buy one in every color.
I am making this goofy face so that you can see that the color is basically gone from the interior part of my lip. The orange won. The orange always wins. There is still a lot of color left, and it doesn't look horrible or anything, but the search continues for something that really isn't going anywhere. This was about three hours after I put it on.
5:30 pm on my way home from work. At this point, the lipstick is about 6 hours old. Is it still there? Yeah, mostly. Is it pretty? Uhhhh.....
This weekend was Valentine's Day and so, of course, I asked Joe for makeup. Or rather, if I'm being honest, I bought makeup and said," thanks for the makeup babe!!" We ended up going back because Joseph wanted some beard care stuff as his gift. We ended up getting him some beard wash and conditioner from the billy jealousy line.
*As a side note, if you have a man with a beard, especially a thick one, these products are stupidly amazing. The transformation to Joe's beard after one use was unreal. It looked like a totally different beard. You can buy all the products here in a kit. You really should. Seriously, what are you still doing here? Go buy it now.
ANYWAY.
We were in Ulta, and I saw one of the employees wearing the most fabulous lip color. It looked exactly how I picture lipstick should look, and though I was just lamenting to Joe that I literally own all of the red lipstick and there is no more, hers caught my eye. I asked her what she was wearing and it was a Stila All Day Liquid Lipstick (my buzzwords) in a color called fiery. She had dark hair and sort of olive skin and the color looked cramazing on her. Since it is kind of an orangey-red/ true red, I figured it would be about the same color as my NYX Kitten Heels liquid. Its so pretty, but its a little too bright for me. She showed me a color very close to the fiery though, except with a bit of a blue undertone, called "Beso." Yes. Beso is definitely the color to go for.
You can find it right over here.
At $24 a pop, this would definitely be considered a luxury brand, and in case there was any question, Ulta keeps it on the luxury brand side of the store. Which is why I had never seen this brand before, because I stay on the drug store side.
As luck would have it, I found myself back at Ulta today. I totally didn't mean to go, but I was meeting my bestie to drop of Halo, and, as my good fortune would have it, she was in Ulta. Mondays are great days for Ulta, in case you were curious. Mondays are blah, so you can just drop by and get a nail polish or a new lippie. Day made. (If you aren't getting Ulta reward points, you are really missing out. Its free to sign up and you get $10 off your first purchase if you use this link: http://refer.ulta.com/v2/share/6251729806000613717)
I decided I would give the Beso a test run since I was there. $24 is a lot to spend on one tube of lipstick, especially when I have 37 that are similar in color. But I wonder if the higher price point would give me the staying power I want. So, I decided to give it a shot. Stila promises 6 hours of wear, and I decided to put it to the test.
Here is the color, newly applied:
I'm feeling sick off my ass and none too cute, but when I put this on, Ann immediately told me what a great color it was. And it definitely is. Blue reds are universally flattering, but especially if you have cool tones, which I do. How do you know cool from warm tones, you may ask? Look at the veins in your wrist. If they are blue, you are cool toned, and if they are green, you are warm toned. Warm toned people will tend to have more yellow in their base skin color, and cool toned people will be more pink. There's your science lesson for today.
This smells amazing. I will say that all of my high end products smell fantastic. That must be what the extra money gets you. And while my NYX liquids take a few minutes to dry, this one is in place instantly. And it is kiss proof. I'd show you the picture of the kiss mark on my hand, but there isn't one, and I pressed hard. We were off to a good start.
I had a hot pocket for lunch. We really need to go to the grocery store and I am classy like that. I snapped another picture after lunch, and I was really impressed with how well it stuck around.
In the afternoons I like to eat oranges. Its a good pick me up, and when you're sick, as I am now, the vitamin C feels good on the throat. But it is also super wet and acidic, both of which are big ol' lipstick killers. I decided that if it withstood the orange, I would need to buy one in every color.
I am making this goofy face so that you can see that the color is basically gone from the interior part of my lip. The orange won. The orange always wins. There is still a lot of color left, and it doesn't look horrible or anything, but the search continues for something that really isn't going anywhere. This was about three hours after I put it on.
5:30 pm on my way home from work. At this point, the lipstick is about 6 hours old. Is it still there? Yeah, mostly. Is it pretty? Uhhhh.....
Getting ready for bed. Makeup free except for the remainder lipstick.
I really want to try Kat von D's "Outlaw" and I think that one will be next. The color is almost exactly identical to Beso, but I want to see about the formula. Outlaw is a little bit cheaper ($20, rather than $24) and with Outlaw, you get over twice as much product (.22 oz, to Beso's .10) but they dont sell Kat von D at Ulta, and so I will have to venture out to Sephora. Kat's colors are known for staying though, so I want to give it a try too, and see if it can out man the orange. I will report back.
Overall though, I have to say, this is a great product. Its a fab color and it goes on like a dream. It has a doe foot applicator (most liquids do) but I found it really easy to maneuver. It smells fantastic. It has good staying power, it just doesn't stay pretty for six whole hours. What does though, honestly? I think this is a good buy, if $24 for a lippie is how you roll.
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