Choosing the right red

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Hoyden
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Re: Choosing the right red

Post by Hoyden » Tue Oct 04, 2011 12:26 pm

I was Golden Fair in EDM too and I LOVE reds because I love that 1950's pin up girl look, but I do wear muted reds a lot because I like them.

My favorites right now are:

- Dixie with either Blaze or Allure over it.
- Blaze over a nudish pink lip pencil
- Blaze by itself or over lip balm
- Temptation over a nudish pink lip pencil, the pink in the pencil pulls the color more to red vs. orange.
- CRIMSON over a nude lip pencil and blotted
- Crimson over lip balm.

I put the lip balm on first, do the rest of your make up while it sinks in, then put on the Crimson or whatever lipstick, then blot to mute the color a bit if it's a really BOLD color.

One thing I have learned about reds is that you can alter how they look using different color lip pencils under them or putting them on lightly over well moisturized lips so you can blend the color in.
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Re: Choosing the right red

Post by Oxana124 » Tue Oct 04, 2011 12:38 pm

Thank you for all those wonderful ideas!
Since you are the same skintone as me, how red does Blaze look on you? I was thinking of getting it hoping it would be a golden peach rather than red, is that not the case?

Temptation is the only one I have of those mentioned, and it is a pretty color, but something about it just doesn't look good on me.
I don't own any lip pencils, SN should totally make some, that would be awesome!
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Re: Choosing the right red

Post by frckls » Tue Oct 04, 2011 1:25 pm

Hoyden wrote: - Dixie with either Blaze or Allure over it.
SUPER CURIOUS! Will try this on soon.
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Re: Choosing the right red

Post by egerandi » Tue Oct 04, 2011 3:02 pm

frckls wrote:
Hoyden wrote: - Dixie with either Blaze or Allure over it.
SUPER CURIOUS! Will try this on soon.
That's one of my favorite combos: Dixie + Blaze :)
Judging from your photos, it will look lovely on you.
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Re: Choosing the right red

Post by frckls » Wed Oct 05, 2011 2:41 pm

egerandi wrote:
frckls wrote:
Hoyden wrote: - Dixie with either Blaze or Allure over it.
SUPER CURIOUS! Will try this on soon.
That's one of my favorite combos: Dixie + Blaze :)
Judging from your photos, it will look lovely on you.
Don't have Blaze. Darnit. Will try it with Allure, though. Or get myself a Blaze. Teehee. :mrgreen:
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Re: Choosing the right red

Post by catlover » Thu Oct 06, 2011 7:31 pm

I love hot blooded, it was my first Sn red. Its very classy and its also flattering I don't think you can go wrong with hot blooded. I recently got Tango and I really like it too.
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