Poll Posted by BR Kellie
Once upon a time I was a lipstickless lass. The stuff never really hit my lips. Even when going out I would choose a gloss rather than a stick to add colour to my lips, and rarely if ever did it get reapplied once I passed through the doors of a restaurant, café or bar. My how times have changed…
These days I won’t leave the house to do the daycare drop off without a hint of something on my lips. It might only be the nudest nude in a shade darker than my own lip colour, but if something’s not on the kissers, well, I feel nude. Lipstick has become part of my daily ritual. Although I hate having to remember to reapply it because lord knows how patchy and feathery and ‘someone just scoffed a bucket of berries and has the stains to prove it’ it can get if I don’t.
I was pondering this change of heart the other day. How did I go from nudie to not? All I could think of was that back in the day I was happy to wear tinted moisturiser, and concealer on my spots, and that was it. Of course, wearing such a little amount of makeup meant my natural lip colour looked normal. Now? Well, ageing and the continuation of pimples have me putting on foundation, concealer and blush – because otherwise I look like a ghost – on an almost daily basis. I can go without eye makeup on lazy days, but my lips? With that much makeup on they look washed out when they’re a la naturale, so on goes a lippy.
It got me wondering… what if I was forced to make a choice? No lippy (including glosses/balms/anything that goes on the lips and has colour in it). Or lippy forever.
No lippy would mean never buying a colour that looks great under dodgy department store lights only to get it home and be disappointed when the shade is so wrong for my skin tone. Reapplication would be a thing of the past. As would lipstick on my snaggletooth that likes to come to the party and get coloured in no matter how careful I am with my lipstick application.
But… but… no lippy would mean seeing the same old lips I’ve always had forever. No lippy might not mean never wearing full makeup, because it would well mean looking ridic (seriously, I look like a beige ghost whose had a toddler colour in my cheeks when I’m made up and lipstickless). No lippy would mean less experimentation. Less fun! I don’t think I could do it.
Could you? If you had to make a choice: no lipstick forever or lipstick every single day of your life, which would you choose? And why?!
Can't live without it!