Lipsticks!

I am getting rubbish at updating this thing.

However I do feel compelled to write about lipsticks. I've never been mega into lipsticks, I stick to glosses and an embarrassing amount of lip balms. It's a fetish. I seriously think I have more lip balms than everyone I know put together.

I do tend to suffer with chapped lips so I do stick to more moisturising lip products. I did once go into MAC to buy Russian Red, but two weeks later I left it on the train. Seriously gutted, and I wasn't forking out for another one.

Recently thought I managed to actually use up enough MAC products to stomp into House of Fraser and take advantage of Back to MAC. Some people still haven't heard of Back to MAC; basically if you take back 6 empty containers (empty eyeshadow pots, lipsticks, primers/foundation bottles etc) you get to pick a lipstick for free.

So this time I was adventurous and decided to pick Myth:



It's a really nice nude, if a little bit dramatic. I do feel it's a bit too dramatic for everyday, it might just be my skin.

First of all here's my nudey lips:



And here is Myth on the lips:



I do find Myth to be quite drying in comparison to other MAC lipsticks I've tried, so I usually slap some gloss over it. This is what it looks like with Love Nectar over the top:



I find this makes it more wearable for me, although I think putting gloss over it might be cheating...

Once I felt I was well and truly broken in with lipsticks, I had to try one of the much-talked-about Barry M Lip Paints. At roughly £4 these are a total bargain as they are so creamy and last for ages.

I went with no 147 - Peachy Pink:



I love this as you can really build up the colour with it, or be subtle and dab it on and it still looks gorgeous on the lips:



I am highly impressed with something that is such a bargain. The lip paints come in about 30 colours and are really highly pigmented so I definitely want to try more of these.

The icing on the cake for this week was when the best friend in the whole wide world (she's MY best friend) came home from her holiday in NY with a MAC Amplified Creme Lipstick for meeee! The colour is Impassioned and it's a stunning bright fuschia:



I applied this sloppily last night and it clung on despite a munchy dinner and copious snacking throughout the evening.



To conclude this ramble I can safely say I am sold on lipsticks in general. I might branch out and try some other brands. I always get overwhelmed by the colours so I will play around at the counters to find something interesting! Also, how asymmetrical are my lips? Raging.