The truth about… Lipgloss

For my next post I wanted to look at Lipgloss. I was never much of a fan as it seemed whenever I tried wearing it, the wind would suddenly get up out of nowhere and take a great delight in blowing from all angles and wrapping my hair across my face and trying to stick as much of it as possible into my newly applied lipgloss; not a game you normally have to play with the old school glamour of matt lipstick.

Every so often however, I have some sudden rash urge to indulge in a smart test-tube like bottle full of pearly coloured gloss and to give it a brief reprieve (which sadly and predicably, normally always ends in a wind-wrapping moment). This time, things were different. The gloss in question is made by Revlon, and in my case was colour 14 (or ‘Shine That Pink’) and turned out to be not nearly as gloopy or heavy as normal, and therefore did not feel like I had coated my lips in a treacle mixed with paper glue combo.

I always blot my lips once with the back of my hand after applying gloss, which I’m sure everyone will tell me might defeat the point a tad -but I find this takes down the super-shiny, super-fake look of lipgloss and gives the lips a seductive dewy sheen that could almost be natural (natural in a Herbal Essence – ‘I’ve just had a shower in a waterfall’ kind of way). The colour I also found (after blotting) was just a shade darker than my lip’s original colour and therefore defined my lips quite nicely. I was suitably impressed and gave it the honour of a place in my makeup box and a deserved 78%!

(Fine and dandy illustration by Vicky Newman)