All of the lippies in this series are recs from the ladies of the 12 Blueprints Facebook page, Christine Scaman, or my own swatches.
If you're a Bright Winter, most of these colors will work on your lips - and your cheeks too, if you use them as blush. Some may be a touch too warm, too cool, too light or dark. This is normal, because the variation of human coloring within a season means that not all women in a season wear the same colors on the face equally well. Some of these are discontinued. Check eBay. Try before you buy, if possible. Please do share feedback on the recs, or additional recs, in the Comments section. :-) Clinique Butter Shine in Raspberry Rush. Elizabeth Arden Perfect Scarlet. Estee Lauder Gloss Stick in Berry Pink Estee Lauder Gloss Stick in Golden Violet Estee Lauder Long Last in Candy Estee Lauder Signature in Rich Berry L'Oreal Sea Fleur (also TW?) MAC Brave Red MAC Chatter box (also LSp?) MAC Girl About Town (also TW?) MAC Ladybug (also TSp?_ MAC Lickable MAC Lustering MAC Media MAC Ruby Woo MAC Russian Red MAC Sheen Supreme New Temptation MAC Slimshine Grenadine (also TW?) MAC Speak Louder (also BSp?) MAC Utter Fun MAC Viva Glam IV (also rec'd for TW and Tsu) (discontinued) Milani Rose Hip NARS Strawberry Fields lip gloss NYX Electra NYX Louisiana Revlon Cherries in the Snow Revlon Fuchsia Fusion Revlon Really Red Matte Revlon Sugar Poppy Revlon's Fire & Ice Rimmel In Vogue Wet n' Wild Candy Apply gloss YSL Rouge Volupte 09 Caress Pink Clinique Colour Surge Butter Shine Lipstick in Fresh Watermelon Kanebo Sensai Lasting Treatment Rouge LT04 Rimmel Lip Gloss Timeless Allure Rimmel Lip Gloss Fuchsia Fever Cover Girl's Natureluxe Gloss Balm in Peony Benefit Cosmetics Silky Finish Lipstick in Frenched Maybelline Color Sensational lipstick in Very Cherry Revlon Colorburst lipstick in Fuschia Revlon Super Lustrous Love That Red Clinique Butter Shine in Fresh Watermelon Clinique Chubby Stick in Chunky Cherry Estee Lauder Pure Color Crystal lipstick in Wild Orchid Dior Addict Collection 865 Chanel Scarlet Gypsy MAC New Temptation Bourjois lip gloss 90Artdeco lip gloss 58 Revlon Colorstay Overtime Non-Stop Cherry
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All of the lippies in this series are recs from the ladies of the 12 Blueprints Facebook page, Christine Scaman, or my own swatches.
If you're a True Winter, most of these colors will work on your lips - and your cheeks too, if you use them as blush. Some may be a touch too warm, too cool, too light or dark. This is normal, because the variation of human coloring within a season means that not all women in a season wear the same colors on the face equally well. Some of these are discontinued. Check eBay. Try before you buy, if possible. Please do share feedback on the recs, or additional recs, in the Comments section. :-) Benefit Sassyfrass Bourjois Lovely Rouge in 15 Rouge Best Chanel Provocative Clinique Ice Bloom Cover Girl Outlast in Hottie CoverGirl Wet Slicks Amazemint Red Riot Elizabeth Arden Cranberry Cream (may be too brown) Estee Lauder Pure Color lipstick in Plumberry Estee Lauder Pure Color lipstick in Candy (may be too light) Estee Lauder Gloss Stick in Wild Plum Estee Lauder Long Last in Red Apple Estee Lauder Pink Pink Shimmer 14 Estee Lauder Pure Color Long Last Rubellite 188 Estee Lauder Signature in Lush Rose Estee Lauder Signature Lipstick in Brilliant Pink 59 Illamasqua Lipstick Resist Illamasqua Lipstick Welt Lancome Berry Noire L'Oreal Sea Fleur (but may be more BW than TW) MAC Lickable MAC Lustreglass in Venetian MAC Plumful MAC Pro Longwear Perpetual Flame MAC Rebel MAC Sheen Supreme Quite the Thing MAC Slimshine Grenadine, MAC Viva Glam IV (also Tsu?)(discontinued) MAC Girl About Town (but may be more BW) Maybelline Color Sensation lip gloss in Cranberry Cocktail 605 Maybelline Yummy Plummy (might be better for Tsu) Milani Rose Hip NARS Scarlet Empress NARS Strawberry Fields Neutrogena Moisture Shine gloss Nutri Berry 130 Prestige Aftershock Revlon Colorburst Fuchsia (will need to blot; bright; works for BSp too?) Revlon Colorstay Mineral lipglaze Endless Lilac Revlon Colorstay Mineral lipglaze Perennial Pink Revlon Fuchsia Fusion (may be more BW) Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick Wild Orchid Rimmel In Vogue Shiseido Lip Crayon in LC3 Shiseido Perfect Rouge in R516 and RS320 Stila Convertible Color in Fuchsia Stila Phenomenal YSL Rouge Volupte 8 (Fetish Pink) Victoria's Secret Beauty Rush red lip gloss Loreal HIP Liquid Lip Color Turbulent Dior Addict Perfecto Dior Addict Rose Shocking MUFE 42 MUFE 43 MUFE 46 MUFE gloss S6 Chanel Fatale Rimmel Stay Glossy lip gloss in Timeless Allure (also BW) All of the lippies in this series are recs from the ladies of the 12 Blueprints Facebook page, Christine Scaman, or my own swatches. If you're a Dark Winter, most of these colors will work on your lips - and your cheeks too, if you use them as blush. Some may be a touch too warm, too cool, too light or dark. This is normal, because the variation of human coloring within a season means that not all women in a season wear the same colors on the face equally well. Some of these are discontinued. Check eBay. Try before you buy, if possible. Please do share feedback on the recs, or additional recs, in the Comments section. :-) Benefit Breathless Benefit Good To Go Benefit No Competition Body Shop 05 Burt's Bees Fig Burt's Bees Raisin (can be bright though) Clinique Black Honey lip gloss Clinique Heartfelt Covergirl Lipslicks in Hipster Covergirl's Natureluxe gloss balm in Cabernet Elizabeth Arden Sugar Plum Shimmer (or TW? or SSu?) Estee Lauder Berry Truffle Estee Lauder Double Wear in CranberryEstee Lauder Double Wear in Ruby Lancôme Aubergine Velvet Laura Mercier Dry Rose (Ssu also?) Laura Mercier Shimmer lipstick in Plum Wine Loreal Color Juice gloss in Candy Apple MAC Slimshine in Scant (discontinued) Maybelline's Summer Sunset Merle Norman Amber Rose (may be light) Merle Norman Claret Crème Merle Norman Stolen Kisses NARS Dolce Vita Sheer lipstick and lipgloss Revlon Black Cherry (may be too sat for daytime though) Revlon Blackberry (may appear too bright red) Revlon ColorBurst Lipstick Plum Revlon Rose Velvet Revlon Superlustrous Plumalicious Rimmel Stay Glossy in All Night Long Stila's Longwear in Paramour L'oreal Pure Burgundy MAC lipliner in Half-Red Revlon's Colorburst in Crimson Estee Lauder Maple Sugar MAC Can't Resist? Dior Addict Stiletto Dior Addict Fourreau All of the lippies in this series are recs from the ladies of the 12 Blueprints Facebook page, Christine Scaman, or my own swatches. If you're a Dark Autumn, most of these colors will work on your lips - and your cheeks too, if you use them as blush. Some may be a touch too warm, too cool, too light or dark. This is normal, because the variation of human coloring within a season means that not all women in a season wear the same colors on the face equally well. Some of these are discontinued. Check eBay. Try before you buy, if possible. Please do share feedback on the recs, or additional recs, in the Comments section. :-) Cover Girl Toasted Almond long-lasting Clinique Bronze Star Lancôme Color Fever Gloss in Hotspell Lancôme LaLaque in TechnoBrick MAC Shag MAC Brickola MAC Coconutty MAC Honey Flower MAC Pro Longwear Extended Play MAC Strength (but may be better for TA?) MAC Touch Revlon ColorBurst Lipstick Plum Clinique Merlot Clinique Quickliner in Honeystick Dior Brun Tumulte Estee Lauder Autumn Estee Lauder Double Wear Stay Mocha Estee Lauder Stay Ruby Laura Mercier Bronzed Berry lip plumper MAC Fresh Moroccan MAC Taupe YSL Rouge Pur in Ultra Flame Revlon Ripe Raisin Revlon Spicy Cinnamon YSL #131 Opium Red YSL Rouge Pur FARD À LÈVRES Wet n Wild Penny 225B MAC Viva Glam I MAC Dubonnet? MAC Dare You? MAC Del Rio? Covergirl Bistro Burgundy 430 Revlon Rum Raisin Clinique Go Fig Clinique Rum Kiss Clinique Surprise Clinique Sassy Spice Clinique Rosette Maybelline Hooked on Pink Loreal Everlasting Plum Clinique Cider Berry Revlon Peony lip gloss Loreal Naturally Nude Maybelline Tinted Taupe Dior Addict Rouge Podium NARS Gipsy The pics in this collage are close-ups of the lips of Soft Autumn celebrities wearing natural-looking makeup in good light. The colors you see in this collage are pulled from the lips themselves. The collage actually started as an experiment to see whether the colors I pulled out would match colors in the Soft Autumn swatchbook. In fact, they do match several of Soft Autumn's light-to-medium peaches and pinks. Notice that some of the pinks read as quite cool, while some of the peaches seem inarguably warm. This is a neutral, neutral season. Some of you SAs might find the shades at one end of this season's thermometer slightly more flattering than those at the other; that's normal. Others of you can wear the peaches and the pinks equally well.
Several Soft Autumns pointed out to me that SA can go deeper than this. It's true. This is more your I-woke-up-looking-this-fantastic lip than your sexy lip. (Yes, we all get a sexy lip. But Soft Autumn's sexy lip color would barely register on a Bright Winter, while Bright Winter's sexy lip color would look clownish on Soft Autumn. It's all relative.) Celebrity lips featured here include those of Drew Barrymore, Mischa Barton, Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Ferrin, Naima Mora, Valeria Golino, Natasha McElhone, Gisele Bundchen, and Kelly Macdonald. (Doesn't that sound romantic?) From talking and listening to Winter women, particularly on the 12 Blueprints Facebook page, I've learned that deep, vivid Winter colors can take some getting used to. It can be difficult for a newly identified Winter to see past the intensity of the color in a swatchbook and imagine how normal it will look on a Winter face. Even seeing the color on the lip, it can be hard for a Winter woman to take in how the color is balancing the rest of the face. Let's start with True (Cool) Winters. ![]() The beauty industry has trained us to believe that a natural lip will necessarily be a medium peachy-beige color. Hence all the tubes of this shade that are called Nude Something. A True Winter might believe such a color is the only hue that can create a natural look. Nude = natural, right? ![]() Not in your case, True Winters. On a woman who needs both coolness and depth, this color looks anything but natural. What will read as natural on you is a color you might not expect: ![]() You know those cool, fairly bright, medium pinks in your swatchbook? The ones that look like Barbie cars? They look absolutely normal on a True Winter face. Match the swatch; don't be afraid. In the tube it may seem very, very pink, but on your lip it will be natural. ![]() Doesn't this look loads more normal? True Winter, when you see a shade that's supposedly "nude" or "flesh-toned," stay away from it. That's not your natural look. (Probably it's True (Warm) Autumn's. Seems like all their best lippies are called Creamy Nude, Rosy Nude, Nude in the Afternoon, Nude at Breakfast, etc. A very sexy season, apparently.) ______________________________________________ Now, Dark (Deep) Winter... you are a Winter of another sort altogether. A light lip won't cut it for you. ![]() Consider this particular light, cool pink. It might look natural on a Light Summer: |
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