Beauty Matters: Don’t Call It A Comeback (Yet)
On the return of Happy Skin’s most beloved lipstick shades
Last year, I wrote a post where I mourned my favorite discontinued lipstick shades. It just so happened that two of those colors were from Happy Skin’s old lipstick range.
Earlier in May, Happy Skin announced that they were bringing back the Shut Up And Kiss Me lip crayons in 5 of the brand’s most beloved shades, on top of the 3 existing colors that they brought back last November. They also made the formula matte, which can be an unflattering formula for many people.
Being the lipstick / makeup enthusiast that I am, I had to check them out for myself. I already have the reformulated version of The Morning After, which is a mauvey-pinky nude that I actually like. They got my expectations right for this shade, but I wanted to see how Happy Skin is going to formulate my other favorite shade, Best of Friends in a matte crayon. Best of Friends was the *perfect* muted rosy pink on me, so I was interested to see how they’ll interpret it in a matte formula.
I swatched it on my hand, then I ended up picking a tube for myself. The formula is creamy, comfortable, and somewhat long-lasting. It reminded me of the formula of the Revlon Matte Balms without the minty feel. I felt good wearing it.
However, I ended up being disappointed by the color. It’s not that muted and nuanced anymore to flatter my skin tone. Instead, it ended up looking flat and one-dimensional on me. I looked like I smeared pink Sharpie on my lips. Bright or bold lipsticks are not flattering on me, so finding really good lipstick that suits my medium-tan olive skintone can be quite the pursuit.
Rather than keeping this lipstick in the back of my makeup drawer, I resorted to several methods as a way to make it work for me. I sometimes apply it lightly for a blurred, blotted lip, or I fill in my lips with brown lip liner to make it less punchy…and more me, or I mix it with another color for an unexpected combination. The options are pretty endless!
Truth be told, yapping about beauty products light a fire inside me. It allows me to be creative, curious, and resourceful. I need to do this more often.
Until the next brain dump,
Lea