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What's Your Ideal Glam Lip Color?

Take this quiz to find out which lipstick shade reflects your personal taste

Soft on the inside yet bold on the outside, highly pigmented lip colors can speak volumes about your personality -- before you've uttered a word. Find out which shade of the beauty editor- and consumer-favorite MAX Factor Vivid Impact Lipcolor you should be wearing.   (Mother Blogger just took the quiz and the answer was correct (Plus, you gotta love the name of the lippie!):   Your ideal Vivid Impact Lip Color: Ms. Terious Some might describe you as demure, but if they really knew you, they'd see the fire within. A die-hard romantic, you prefer to express your emotions through your eyes, and on most occasions, a sultry smokey eye. Keep this mauve-y nude shade, one of 20 highly pigmented colors, on hand for muted (yet soft and kissable) lips.   Let us know if you agree with your answer.  Smooches! Take the quiz

The Perfect Pink for Spring can be found in Max Factor Vivid Impact Pure Pigment Color

Reviewed by Jamie
 
Max Factor has introduced the average woman with not-so-average taste to a luxurious line of lipsticks at an affordable price.  Vivid Impact Pure Pigment Color offers a conditioning lip treatmentwith shea butter and 20 hot hot hot colors to choose from that rival the expensive designer lipsticks 

I slathered it on to see for myself and went ga-ga for the stuff.  My lips never dried out or got the   oh-so-awful creasing of lipstick mixed with dry skin.   Not a good look.   

# 4 Pin-Up Girl Pinkadded color to my White House Black Market wardrobe while still remaining subtle enough for my work environment.  And, it could definitely give some professionally "done-up" celebutantes a run for their money. 

Spring weather is finally here and I am celebrating with my Pinkster lips.   
 
To prevent feathering of your favorite lippie, Max Factor is also giving us gals a coordinating lip liner to choose from.

Voted by Marie Claire as a Best Beauty Buy!

Pucker-up on Valentine's Day with lipsticks that look exactly like Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent lipsticks at drugstore prices!

Celebrity makeup artists Molly Stern and Fiona Stiles shared their favorite lipstick look-a-likes with Total Beauty.  One our favorites, CoverGirl Incredifull Lipcolor in Warm and Rosy, made the list, but we discovered nine other drugstore brand lippies that made us want to kiss and tell. See products

Beauty Product Review:  Tickled Pink RAW Color Lipstick ($20)  Like candy, lipstick is also ingested.  A woman who wears lipstick five days a week over 20 years can ingest more than a couple of pounds of lippie!  That's why we were tickled pink to discover RAW Color.

Christina Marccacini, founder and creator of RAW Natural Beauty, created a company to offer women safer beauty products.  After working for more than 10 years as a product developer for several large cosmetic companies, she grew frustrated with the widespread use of potentially harmful chemicals contained in beauty products.

Spending three years searching for the most innovative natural ingredients that would still deliver superior performance, Christina created RAW Natural Beauty. 

All RAW Natural Beauty products are free of parabens, petrochemicals, and synthetic dyes and fragrances. Unlike some beauty products, all of their ingredients are listed on each product.

Because Christina feels it's important that you know about what you put on your skin, she believes *Skin Deep, a cosmetic database, to be an invaluable resource and is proud that RAW Natural Beauty products are listed in their registry.

We have tried many so-called natural products and many have fallen short of getting a rave review.  We were very impressed and tickled pink with the creamy, long-lasting, and vibrant color in the RAW Color lipstick in Tickled Pink.  The color is pink with a touch of muddiness that would be flattering for any woman.  Tickled Pink is reminiscent of Bobbi Brown's Tulle,  Laura Mercier's Champagne Pink, or Chanel's PhiPhi. 

Other features of RAW Natural Beauty lipsticks:

• Helps prevent transdermal water loss that causes dry, chapped lips
• Proprietary botanical blend designed to hydrate and soothe the delicate skin of the lips
• Contains antioxidants like vitamins A, C and E proven to protect lips against toxins and free radical damage
• Hypoallergenic Free of chemical dyes and chemical preservatives

 

*Skin Deep is a comprehensive database which pairs ingredients in more than 25,000 cosmetic products against 50 toxicity and regulatory databases. The FDA doesn't require companies to test their own products for safety so this website makes it possible for you, the consumer, to research the ingredients in the cosmetic products that you use.

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Beauty Product Review of Larua Geller Bestseller Lipstick Trio ($28.75)

Having not given much thought to my lipstick wardrobe this holiday season, I was excited by the three beautiful shades in Laura Geller's Bestseller Lipstick Trio in which to dress my pout.

My holiday attire needed to be kicked up a notch, and Coral Chiffon, a tender shade of peach and pink, Make It Mauve, a fresh and delicate shade of pink and lilac, and Safari Blaze, a brownish-berry shade with a luminous kick, took me from mundane to marvelous. The colors are flattering on both pink-toned skin and peach-toned skin.

The lipsticks feature a lightweight high-shine that is soft but adds some holiday spirit.  The harsh winter weather is trumped by the lipsticks' formulation of vitamins E and C, shea butter, and cocoa butter.

This would be a perfect holiday stocking stuffer for the woman that is looking for the perfect pout.