I wear a lot of oranges, browns, and dark purples in the fall, and these look so good with matte shades. As plants lose their glossiness in fall and turn to flat colors, my matte lips fit in more with the environment, too. I think that matte lipsticks look best with items in my autumn wardrobe. They are most akin to matte lipsticks, and this is really the only time I wear the matte style. The colors are understated, like nudes and subtle pinks, but you can definitely tell I'm wearing some sort of lipstick. They look like matte lipsticks when I put them on, because the color is flat and not shiny at all. I rely on tinted lip balms with sunscreen in them. I also want to protect them from the sun, and regular lipstick can't do this. I spend a lot of time at the beach in the summer, and I like to have a bit of color on my lips. At least crushed up bugs probably won't poison and eventually kill me! Crushed up bugs are gross, but I would prefer that over lead any day. In the meantime, I think I might look into one of those lipsticks with all-natural ingredients. Fish scales? Crushed up bugs? Lead?! I really only wear matte finish lipstick for work these days (I'm a bartender, and the better I look, the more tips I get) but seriously, whenever I quit bar-tending, I think I'm going to quit lipstick too. Wow, I had no idea so many of the ingredients in lipstick were so gross. But beeswax has been around pretty much forever (and so has vanity), so I guess there's no reason why someone wouldn't have thought of lipstick in 900 A.D. May 4, - I think this an age-old problem for women: be healthy, or look good? Sometimes it seems like you can't have both! I know a lot of makeup in the Victorian Era had lead in it, and women used to actually get seriously ill and even die from it.Īnyway, I am surprised that the idea of lipstick originated so long ago! For some reason, I thought lipstick was a more modern invention. I will take a regular, non-drying lipstick any day over matte! Yes, their lips have some color, but they still look weird and cracked.
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Since matte lipstick is so drying, I feel like most people who wear it end up with dry, cracked lips. In fact, one of my good friends swears by Revlon matte lipstick nude, and I think it just looks plain awful. I don't think I've ever really seen someone wearing matte lipstick and thought it looked really good. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say I pretty much hate matte lipstick.