Silk Naturals

lwoodall10 wrote:I use ELF's studio lip primer and blot it and it blocks out my natural lip color. Then I can use whatever lippie I want. I do this with Precious a lot because I really like the color, but if I put it on my bare lips all you can really see is the shimmer. Just a thought...

That's a really good idea! And yet another wish list item for Karen : Lip Primer!

Modern Poet is light and so is Ice Princess. I also have Sparkle that I use under other colors to lighten them. The only other color that kinda lightens my lips is Peace: lighter pink with a bit of frosted sheen if that makes sense

lwoodall10 wrote:I use ELF's studio lip primer and blot it and it blocks out my natural lip color. Then I can use whatever lippie I want. I do this with Precious a lot because I really like the color, but if I put it on my bare lips all you can really see is the shimmer. Just a thought...

(sorry to hijack) I just bought that and tried to use it, with some success. How do you apply and blot? Are your lips dry before you apply or use a lipgloss first? One layer? I'm curious, because even the half success I had with it opened up many options for the lippies I just kept pushing aside. I'm wearing Figment today on top of it and love the light sheen. I also like the way it looks without the primer, so it's win win

No idea if it's lip safe or not - what about the SN eyeshadow primer? It's a pure white base. Could that work under lippy?

I'll have to check out Peace, I'd love to find a frosty lippie, I thought Bloom would be frosty (maybe its just my sample thats wacky, I think I will still get Bloom to try, because it says it is almost milky in the description, which is what I am looking for).
By the way, I tried to use concealer as a primer on my lips, and while its not the best primer because it made my lips look super dry and cracked, it did work well to make my Precious lippie show up as a really pretty pink, ususally it doesn't show up at all. So definatley need a lip primer now, I asked about it on the Wish List section. I'd love to have one that is as natural as possible and also paraben free.

Cupcake wrote:No idea if it's lip safe or not - what about the SN eyeshadow primer? It's a pure white base. Could that work under lippy?

I wonder too if it is safe and if it wouldn't be too drying. It has Aluminum listed as an ingredient, that's wierd, like it has the actual metal in it?

Oxana124 wrote:I'll have to check out Peace, I'd love to find a frosty lippie, I thought Bloom would be frosty (maybe its just my sample thats wacky, I think I will still get Bloom to try, because it says it is almost milky in the description, which is what I am looking for).

My lips are medium pigmented and Bloom doesn't seem that milky on them. The look is very natural - like MLBB. It's definitely not frosty on them either, but some girls do claim it is. I wonder what that might depend on!

If I were you, I'd still give it a try I think. It's really a sweet looking pink :)

As for Peace, it does show quite frosty on me. Unfortunately for me because I don't wear frosty lippies at all (luckily, my mum does!).

egerandi wrote:

lwoodall10 wrote:I use ELF's studio lip primer and blot it and it blocks out my natural lip color. Then I can use whatever lippie I want. I do this with Precious a lot because I really like the color, but if I put it on my bare lips all you can really see is the shimmer. Just a thought...

(sorry to hijack) I just bought that and tried to use it, with some success. How do you apply and blot? Are your lips dry before you apply or use a lipgloss first? One layer? I'm curious, because even the half success I had with it opened up many options for the lippies I just kept pushing aside. I'm wearing Figment today on top of it and love the light sheen. I also like the way it looks without the primer, so it's win win

I usually apply a thin layer and then take some tissue and blot and then I do the rest of my makeup and by the time I am ready to put my lippie on the primer is set. I found if I just put on the primer and then put the lippie on directly after the two colors mix together and you get kind of a milky look. That has worked on some occasions, but not all

Tender did not lighten my lips. I have similar issues. The only ones that did were Gleaming, Mirage (a little), and XXX. I think Sparkle would be good for that but I haven't tried it.

When I read a lippie is "frosty" I think of tons shimmer that it makes the lipstick almost "white".

To me, Bloom is not frosty at all. I don't see any shimmer which I'm so glad because I much prefer my lipsticks to have no shimmer whatsoever.