Lipstick

Sounds good to me Specki will give it a go !!

The best lipstick - and I love the stuff - is Christian Dior Diorific - horrible price but well worth it.

Here's my foolproof plan for long lasting bright lips. First step a slick of foundation - then a pinky brown liner (a natural colour like lips - it stops the colour bleeding) then put the lipstick on with a brush, blot, smooth a tiny amount of baby powder over with your finger. then follow with another brushed on coat; then use a brighter pencil to define the shape in the same colour as the lipstick or just a tiny bit brighter. Done - and will stay on for hours unless you do a lot of snogging or eating doughnuts.

The second liner defines your mouth shape, so that it doesn't look like a red gash.

I love all kinds of lipsticks, they can cheer you up amazingly. As long as you get the shade right for your own colouring of course. If I'm just around the house I will use a nivea type gloss to help combat dryness, but I always wear a colour to go out.Yes, you DO get what you pay for, but an expensive lipstick will last quite a long time, and better to have 6 good ones than twenty cheap ones.Does anyone remember Yardley lipsticks in the 60's and early 70's?I loved the smell of them.

The only thing I find with lipstick that stays , it is very drying to the lips !
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The only one I can get to stay on these days is Urban Decay. And they do a fab, rather scary red.

I chose the green, white and peach, so we shall see !

They go different colours on different people, so I couldn't advise.

Sel and janerowena - thanks for the information on Magic Lipsticks. I have just ordered three from amazon. Wasn't sure which colours to go for, but look forward to trying them out

I don't blame you, I feel evangelical about them too but because they were cheap - about £2, 20 years ago which goes to show how long 6 lipsticks lasted me - none of my friends would buy them! I could only buy them directly from Ultraglow in boxes of six, I remember now, I panicked when Superdrug stopped stocking them and tracked them down, but forgot the contact details. It's lovely to know they still exist. If I buy 10 this time, that should see me out. Or at least get me to the stage where I shan't care.

janerowena yes, those are the ones, glad you are as impressed as me. It is possible to buy them direct - I've just bought several, a variety of three in a pack, as small Christmas gifts. Crikey I realise I sound evangelical. The company sells the 'beauty without cruelty' range so they must be nice

Ooh they are! Thank you, I couldn't remember who made them and my label had worn off. They have some on Ebay and on amazon. The darkish green one comes out a deep bright pink and lasts and lasts, I have never found anything to beat it. Just apply lightly with a lip brush and it lasts for years.

Sel are those weird lipsticks the ones that look green, but then turn pink and last all day? There were called Magic something and I have been trying to track them down for years, since superdrug stopped stocking them. Luckily I bought 6 the last time I saw them, but I am now down to my last eighth of an inch. I wear them under other colours, so that when my expensive ones wear off I still have some cheap lip stain left underneath. I like brown shades usually, and save the bright colours for the summer because I am too pale to get away with bright red. I think I would just look like a pair of walking lips. I love lipsticks though, and despite all the advice I never throw them out. I've never had any weird and wonderful skin infections either.

That must have gone some way to help the ladies NELLIE , after what they had been put through !

And to me. What a wonderful man.

But it was about lipstick, and it was moving to say the least! Seems appropriate to me.

Oh got to keep to the subject have we? Slapped wrist. Surely there is only so much one can say about lipstick colours

I stopped wearing lipstick a few years ago and instead, outline my lips with Chanel Mordore/Nude lip pencil, then fill in my lips with the pencil. Finish off with a few light dabs of Elizabeth Arden 8 hour cream. Lasts a lot longer than lipstick.

Soooo, back to lipstick. No offence Soutra but the OP was about that, maybe why Ana's

I've always bought the expensive stuff, beautifully packaged and would make sure I got every last smidge of it by digging it out from the holder with a brush. I was caught short a few months ago, no lipstick so nipped into a small chemist on Baker St in London. They had no make up but a small display of weird lipsticks called 'Magic Lips' With no option I bought one for £5.

I'll never buy a lipstick again for £20+. I've ordered more, in weird colours, they last all day, amazing value.

Why the Ana??

A very moving story. Thank you Nellie
I alternate lipsticks with lip gloss all the time. If we are shopping together DD steers me towards a gentle gloss, not too gloopy or sparkly over a lipstick. But I have a lovely Dior nude number 459 lipstick, it's really flattering. And I love Estee Lauder gloss 05 Nude Rose. Those 2 are really my favourites and when I want to glam it up Clinique Long lasting lipstick, Dubonnet. I'm one of those who wears make-up every day, even if I'm at home, by myself all day. I just love make-up.
I was one of those little girls who loved watching their Mum apply make-up.

A propos of not very much my father was among the first troops to liberate Bergen-Belsen. He never talked to any of us about it, indeed I only found this out after he had died and I had a phone call from Tam Dalyell who wanted to write an obit of him for The Independent. My father had said to him, "I have never spoken of what I saw there and I never will."

How wonderful it must have been to be given something that made you feel female again.Man does not live by bread alone .......

It takes my breath away

Nellie that is such a moving story