Lipstick Basics
19 articles
Max Factor Sr. gets the credit for inventing lip liner. He was a cosmetics chemist working in Hollywood, and the…
A tinted lip balm moisturizes and protects the lips while leaving a sheer, buildable wash of color. It lands somewhere…
Nothing on the packaging will tell you much here. "Tint" and "lipstick" are marketing words, and what you actually get…
What makes a lipstick nude is how close it sits to the wearer's natural lip color or skin tone. The…
Editors call it frosty lipstick, or pearl lipstick, and the names are interchangeable. What you get is an icy, metallic-pearl…
People usually land on cream lipstick because their lips are dry, or because a matte feels like too much effort…
The usual red lipstick meaning is some mix of confidence, power, femininity, allure and defiance, and the mix changes with…
Lipstick leaves a wax-and-oil film with pigment in it on the lips, and what that film does depends mostly on…
Lipstick is one of those products people own for a decade without ever being taught to use it. The tutorials…
The phrase how long does lip liner last covers two questions that have almost nothing to do with each other.…
Two lipsticks, one blurry line between them, and somehow it never looks like the tutorial. Almost all of the trouble…
Your lip liner is gone by lunch. The cup has a ring on it, the center of your lower lip…
Most people own one lip liner and use it wrong. The pencil drags on the way on, bleeds by mid…
Half the lip liners that snap inside a sharpener were doomed before the blade touched them. Warm core. Dull blade.…
Most people draw a line around their mouth and hope for the best. Where the pigment sits relative to the…
The lip pencil spent about fifteen years as the thing you owned but never reached for. That changed. Sales grew…
Lip liner is supposed to be the part that survives. Lipstick fades, gloss disappears, the border holds. That's the deal…
Turn a lipstick carton over and count the ingredient panel. Somewhere between 15 and 30 entries, and the color sits…
Walk into any beauty aisle and half a dozen products are calling themselves the same thing. Sorting them out gets…