We’re At It Again

We know we talk about red lipstick a LOT. Like to the point where we imagine eyes glazing over, and people start to whisper, she's at it again. But here's the thing – as we've mentioned more than once, we're low maintenance. We like to put on mascara and lipstick and call it a night. We've also mentioned multiple times that we're clumsy and a bit, well, unmotivated. We have other lipsticks that we love that just can't hang with that. We need lipstick that can survive a bottle of Diet Coke every hour or so, loads of smiling, laughing and talking without constant touch ups required.

We went shopping last weekend and found ourselves trying to find another nude lipstick in Sephora. We finally realized – really, it was like being beaned on the head with a pan – that nude lipstick just. Does. Not. Look. Good. Red is what we look best in, and if we're going to wear lipstick at all, we need it to be red. We already have a few reds – Sephora brand (super slick but nice enough, and reasonably inexpensive), and two from MAC (MAC Red and Red something or other – basically the cream and matte version of the same color. It's great, but a bit on the pink side – so it's pretty shockingly bright. The matte is awesome but super drying, and the cream is pretty but slippery). We wandered by NARS and saw this color that we thought we should try. And, holy moly, we have found our red lipstick that we will wear until we can no longer wear it anymore. We hate the name of the color – Red Lizard (can someone tell us what a red lizard is? Or how that could possibly be enticing or desireable). But we think this color would look good on everyone (for real)! It's the perfect formula, too – Sephora calls it semi-matte full powered red. We think it's matte enough to look awesome and have long lasting power, but it's not super drying.

The road test involved a very quickly applied coat, a cup of coffee, a Diet Coke, a high school musical, some peanuts, some bubble gum, and a very quickly eaten fast-food sandwich, and french fries, at the end of the night.

The result? Surprising. The mistakes we made applying were easy to clean up – no pink lines left over shouting WE PUT ON MAKEUP LIKE WE ARE A TODDLER. The snacks in between/during said high school musical (we were attending, obviously, and not performing) didn't bother it at all. We ate dinner, in the car, and very quickly (hence the fast food bit). When we got home, we checked our lips. Only the center had faded a bit, and it wasn't a bad thing. We were really, really surprised at the staying power of this.

We would recommend this lipstick to anyone, anytime, anywhere.

And hey, this is probably the last time we'll ever post about red lipstick!

NARS Lipstick in Red Lizard, $24

-LB