silly Homeric catalogue of lipsticks, glosses and balms
Wednesday 8 March 2006 | I like a cookie
2. Wet ‘n’ Wild MegaFlavors Lip Gloss: Vanilla
3. Fruits & Passion: Honeydew Melon (small pot)
4. Fruits & Passion: Mango & Cherries (ginormous pot)
5. the good old original Molton Brown mystery lip goo from British Airways first-class, which has no label anymore so I know nothing about itSolid (basically colorless) balms in tubes:
6. Nanak’s Lip Smoothee, SPF 10: Almond
7. Nanak’s Lip Smoothee, SPF 10: Coconut
[made at the Golden Temple in Taos, NM, Ten Gurus-jii!]
8. an ancient ChapStik with no label either: Cherry Liquid (definitely tinted) gloss with applicator:
12. Rimmel Lasting Finish Lipstick: Birthday Suit
13. Rimmel Lasting Finish Lipstick: Scream
14. Jean-Michelle Moisture-Rich Lip Color: Whisper Pink
15. Neutrogena Lip Boost Intense Moisture Lipstick, SPF 20: Petal
16. Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick: Love That Red (and yet I really don’t)
17. Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream Lip Protectant Stick SPF 15: Sheer Blush (from my mom)
• Colors that look the most natural: Neutrogena’s First Blush (gloss) and Petal (lipstick)
• Best packaging: hands down, the subtle Neutrogena, whether in a tube or a pot or a gloss stick
• Neutrogena lip products I wish I had: Sheer Suede (the palest lipstick they make) and any of those fabulous creations in pots I don’t have yet (pomegranate, mango, vanilla, honey…)
• Best for serious nighttime repair, especially with a cold or allergies, can go on nose too: the Molton Brown mystery goo
• Most suspiciously tasty: Wet ‘n’ Wild Vanilla (which must just have pure sugar in it), Jaqua Pink Buttercream Frosting, Nanak’s Lip Smoothee
• Most hideous colors: tie between Scream (we do) and Love That Red (we really don’t), neither of which come off easily thanks to scary secret permanent dye ingredients
• Things we really wish we hadn’t spent money on: Revlon ($7), Rimmel Scream ($3.50), Jean-Michelle ($5) or big F&P Mango & Cherries ($2) which (oddly) just tastes like old wax
• Lip product we’re most likely to grab when presented with all these absurd options: small Fruits & Passion Honeydew Melon, and we don’t even know why, because it’s green
• Store I’m grateful we don’t have one of in Santa Fe: Shu Uemura (though I wonder what color Mandarin bought from them?)
• Female performer known to pause her concerts in order to reapply lip gloss: Tori Amos
• What Tori said when asked which she would give up: lip gloss, wine, or high-heeled shoes:
“Which one I would give up? Lip gloss is not an option…I would die. No, because there’s no point in wearing high-heeled shoes without lip gloss, because your lips are dry. If you have wet lips, you can have bare feet, that’s fine. If you have wine and dry lips, that’s awful.”
• Favorite Tori lipbalm-addiction anecdote: “I arrive at her flat, which is in a big white house on an expensive road in Holland Park. She has just returned from Los Angeles and her living-room floor is strewn with the contents of five gaping suitcases. […] Her hair is dyed red and she has a lot of make-up on. She has large blue-grey eyes and a wide glossy mouth. In her bathroom there are seven little pots of kiwi-fruit lip balm.” (London Independent, 1994)
• Really sad fact: I’ve been wondering for over a decade now what kind of kiwi lip balm that was…from the Body Shop? Neal’s Yard? Boots?
• What I need to do right now: stop mooning over my piano, computer and lip-balm collection and write a fucking article about DVDs for Saint Padraigh’s Day.
• Burning question in my mind at this exact moment: when will I get to talk to Mandarin?
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