Our colors are earth tones, right? What are we supposed to do? For example, such color schemes would be aging on an Ingenue, and too heavy on an Ethereal.īut hey - some of us are Autumns. Some Style Identities call for you to steer clear of 'earth-toned' color schemes. This post was originally published in March of 2017. Just check the computer image to make sure the hue and value of the lippy seem right for your lips. (Computer images aren't completely color-accurate, but you don't need them to be if you have the seasonal makeup list if it's on the list, it's a color from your season.) When you know your MLBB, use your seasonal makeup list and a computer to find the lippies from the list that will look the most natural on your face. :-)Īnd if your MLBB is a violet, experiment with your reds and purples - but don't stray all the way to orange. But I won't stray super-far from this central MLBB hue, and I won't go lighter in value, unless it's a gloss.Īnd this is what I recommend you do as well:įind the hue that looks most natural on your lips, and choose lippies that stay relatively close to that hue.įor example, if your MLBB is an orange, experiment with your reds - but don't stray all the way to a violet, unless you want to make a statement. If I feel like it, I''ll go somewhat warmer or somewhat cooler within my palette. You will find less luck with one of BSp's orange lippies, because orange is pretty far from fuchsia.

So if you're a Bright Spring whose MLBB is on your fuchsia strip, you may indeed be able to wear one of Bright Spring's violets as a lippy the violets are close in hue to the fuchsias. The other colors that will look most natural on your lips will be the colors closest in hue to your MLBB, and as dark or darker. In general, avoid opaque colors that are lighter than than your MLBB. Going very dark within your MLBB hue might be your evening lip, but it won't look unnatural. Additionally, colors that are the same hue as your MLBB but darker will also look natural on you. (Your natural lip color will be less saturated than any of these palettte colors you're basically finding the more saturated version of your natural lip.)Ī lippy that's an MLBB will always look natural on you. If you don't, stand in front of a mirror with your palette and locate the peach, pink, red, or violet that is precisely as dark as your lip and the closest to it in warmth or coolness. You may already have a lippy in your stash that you know is your MLBB. Your MLBB is your 'my lip but better' lip color. a handful of colors very close in hue and value to these In a nutshell, the colors that will look most natural on your lips are Now I want to describe a good way to figure out which of your palette colors are best on your lips. Last week I talked about the fact that, though all of your palette colors are gorgeous on you somewhere, they don't all look natural on your lips.

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