Makeup Monday

As everyone who knows me can attest, my favorite color is, in typical girly-girl style, pink. If it’s available in pink, I buy it in pink (remember?). I love nearly every shade of this fab hue, except perhaps those “dusty rose” ones.

Early this spring, I decided, despite my reservations, to give fuchsia lipstick a try. This classic-with-a-twist trend takes the classic red lip and gives it a more youthful spin. Red lips are kind of the older sister of pink lips: red is sophisticated and classic, while hot pink is sassy and spontaneous.

Whitney Port, just one of aprox 9,000 celebs who can be seen
rocking the magenta lipstick trend.

There is no shortage of tips and tricks online for selecting the perfect shade for your skin, many of them contradicting. The best way to find if this look is to go cheap; you don’t want to spend $30 on a Chanel lipstick, only to discover that the fuchsia lips trend is not really for you. Since most (read: all) drugstores aren’t crazy about you just ripping open tubes of lipstick and trying on a million different shades in the aisles, head first to a department store or Sephora. Here, you can try on multiple shades with the color advice and assistance of knowledgeable clerks. When you’ve found the perfect shade, swab some on a tissue. Head to Target and compare these tubes to your tissue sample; you may need to buy one or two tubes to get the right shade. I bought a color that was a bit too magenta before settling on a bit warmer shade, Revlon’s “Colorburst Lipstick” in Fuchsia 030.

Looks a little wonky here, but on my lips it's marvelous.

One final note: With lips this fab and bold, you’ll want to keep the rest of your face neutral. This is the time for mascara and, at most, eyeliner. Your clothes should also be a little staid; this isn’t the time to break out your Pucci. You can definitely still wear color (a nautical inspired look will be especially fab), just keep your outfit color palate to one color and one or two neutrals.