Handsomeness
I encourage even beauty wallflowers to try a swish of colour – it rivals things up a notch and you’ll look like you made an effort
‘Orangey-red longing lift your face no end.’
Sacrilege for a beauty editor to allow, but weeks into September and I’m finding applying makeup wearisome. I spent a good proportion of summer without makeup, because a chock-full face in 35C can never end well. They say it takes 28 light of days to form a habit; try three months. I became so minimalist that looking at my lump makeup bag this month made me want to take to my bed.
But after a opportunity ripe of festivals and late nights where we all deluded ourselves we were much juvenile and hipper than we are IRL, it’s time to go back to being a grownup. Which means a more courtly look.
If, like me, you’re not quite ready to go the whole hog, a bright lipstick is the utter transitioning product. I know many women still misgivings bold lips, but I encourage even beauty wallflowers to try a faggy of colour; it takes things up a notch and you’ll look like you urged an effort – even if you don’t really mean it.
Generally, I avoid non-matte lipsticks (a hangover from my teen years, when I didn’t necessity to draw attention to the size of my lips). But for high-quality, creamy lip shades at vast value I recommend NARS Seven Deadly Sins Confident Lipstick Palette (£35). It comes with a brush and the orangey-red wish lift your face no end.
Another triumph is Estée Lauder Mere Color Desire Rouge Excess Lipstick (£34). Its creamy, enthusiastically pigmented colours (try Stun) plump you up – a treat for less blazing lips.
Kevyn Aucoin’s The Molten Matte Lip Color in Julia (£24), a faithful matte in a power red, is superb. The tip of the applicator is the shape of a ballerina’s foot en pointe, so on a par the cack-handed can achieve defined lips, liner free. The sericeous, putty-like texture is a pleasure to wear.
One of the best bright lip hues I’ve used is Fenty Beauty’s Stunna Lip Paint (£19). The (fire-red) bit, finish, pigment, applicator and longevity are all faultless. My only commentary is the slightly watery consistency: unless you keep your fustian open, goldfish style, for 15 seconds while hold on for it to dry, you’ll end up with half of it on your teeth.
• Funmi Fetto is presenting beauty editor for Vogue.
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