Hello, 'tis I and I'm back to put another trend to the test! This time I'm going to be experimenting with a look that's been happening on the catwalk for a while and is just beginning to creep its way into the mainstream; using one product/colour all over, as lipstick, blush and eyeshadow, to create a fresh and flushed look.
Lipstick/blush combos have been around for a while now but somehow they have managed to start sneaky sneaking up onto the eyelids as well. With brown toned lipsticks and blush/berry eyeshadows becoming ever more popular, however, it's actually not too hard to see how this strange merging has happened. We've all seen those memes about 30 minute long beauty tutorials that use 20+ products, all in the name of getting that perfect 'natural' make-up - perhaps one product everywhere is the answer?
Well, we're about to find out kids. I am going to attempt to create this look for myself using lipstick alone. I've seen a number of articles offering this as a top 'beauty hack' so I'm very intrigued to see what I will actually look like with lipstick smeared all over my face (on purpose this time and not as a result of a drunk tongue-sandwich at my first-year winter ball).
The Inspiration
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| The 'Everything Stick' at Topshop |
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| Full on flush at Vivienne Westwood |
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| Kat Dennings rocking some subtle all-over colour |
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| ...aaand not so subtle at Anthony Vacarello |
The Test
I went for this lipstick by Kiko as it's a nice browny-pinky-brick sort of shade that I thought would work well across my whole face. I simply applied my base as usual, smudged the lipstick with my finger across my lids, cheeks and finally my lips and then finished off with a lick of mascara. Here are the results...
The Verdict
I have to say I actually really like it. The pictures aren't the best quality but IRL i feel like a kind of glowy, soft, Botticelli chick. Plus this took me all of five minutes! So it may not be the most polished look but for a quick, fresh, everyday spring look I'm pretty sold, plus if you wanted you could easily ramp this up with liner, highlight and brows (I can only apologise for mine) and make it into more of a full-on make-up a-la Kat Dennings in the photo above. I think all in all I'm just impressed I don't look like I have pink-eye and would definitely recommend playing around with this trend at home!
Hope you liked, see you next time...
Daisy
