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Lips by Season

If you read the magazines, you know that the trendy makeup
looks change with the weather, and the clothes. In general,
the color palette for autumn features colors of pumpkin and
spice, with bronzes, browns, taupes and dark reds. Lipstick
follows along, with darker tones, golden hues and brown
touches.

Winter usually sees a return to clearer, more gemstone-type
colors, including black and white. Lips for daytime are often
seen in reds. Spring comes in pastels and pale but bright
tones, pinks, light green, lots of white and off-white,
mimicking spring flowers. Lipsticks are usually paler too, in
pinks and corals, often in translucent glosses.

In summer, you'll usually see the brightest colors in clothing.

Hawaiiana, vacation-type clothing and playclothes fit the
season. Lips can be any number of colors--usually brighter and
more translucent than fall and winter looks, but bolder than
spring.

When it comes to choosing lip color, there are two schools of

thought. The magazines choose to match lip color to the
clothes (which are also matched to the coloration on the
models). But if your facial and hair coloring isn't suited to
a particular lipstick shade, it doesn't make sense to wear
that shade just because it matches your sweater. The second
(and I think, more effective) idea is that your lipstick
should match you first and foremost.

There are general ideas about which lipstick colors look good
on which people, but lipstick for evening often ignores the
precepts of daytime lip color. That's okay: nighttime lighting
is vastly different, it's okay to upsize the dramatic aspects
of makeup at night, and if you like a certain shade, why
shouldn't you wear it?

Matching lip color to hair color is kind of weird, because no
two redheads (or blonds, or brunettes) have the same hair and
face tones. It's best to suit your lip color to your face. It's
not brain surgery; most faces have either warm undertones or
cool ones, and lipstick can either play up your natural
coloring or clash with it. If you want a lipstick that plays it
safe while adding just a little boost of color, find a shade
that is just a tad brighter than your natural lip color.


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