After my post on bad trends in lipstick, I spent part of the weekend looking for a dark lipstick that wouldn't age a person.
The other part of the weekend was pinning New York Fashion Week runway looks.
I explained what I was looking for to the MAC rep, and she pointed me to their new Style Seeker collection.
The color pictured here, Eden Rogue, has enough red and pink (I guess that would make it a rose), to keep it
looking youthful, but enough berry to give the darkness that's in style.
If you're looking for a dark color, ask the counter rep for a grape, berry, or rose shade without any brown in it.
I'm pretty sure it's the brown in the in the lipstick that gives that aging factor.
And now, for a debate:
I read on a blog last week that women 30 and over should wear lipstick or stains instead of gloss. The main reason that the shiny/sparkly nature of gloss wasn't professional. Personally, I'm not a fan of gloss. I don't like the "wet lips" look and it doesn't last very long. My other issues with gloss is that a lot of it is unnecessarily sparkly, or it has this weird streaky milk look on my lips.
But to stop wearing gloss altogether after 30? I'm not so sure. Yes, it's inappropriate if you put it on every 15 minutes at work.
Would I question it on a 40-something lawyer I may have to work with? No, unless it's sparkly and then I would start to get all fashion-judgey.
What do you think? Is gloss just limited to teens and college kids?
