Beauty Spot

Lipstick, a handbag staple that is worn worldwide, yet, I can’t help but think how many of us are getting it so wrong when it comes to the right shade?
If you feel you need a little help in choosing the correct lipstick for you, then read on.

Choose To Match The Occasion
What’s the occasion? Formal? Day? Evening?
You don’t want too look to overdone, but at the same time, you want to show you’ve made an effort with your look.
I recommend sticking to paler pinks and neutrals for daytime, and just let your natural glow take focus.
For day, you can’t go wrong with Rimmel Kate Moss Collection, Lasting Finish Lipstick in 03, the perfect nude, yet still pinky enough to not leave the skin looking ashy.
If you’re heading to a wedding, and don’t want to upstage the bride, opt for a subtle baby pink, like Rimmel Lasting Finish in Pink Blush, 006.

Pink Blush suits most skin-tones, and is an easy to wear colour that can be applied without a mirror, always a plus!
However, if you want to make an impact on a night out, break all the rules and go for a dark purple. Again, you really can’t beat the Rimmel Kate Moss Collection, this time with Lasting Finish Lipstick in Shade 04.

A gorgeous deep matte berry, that really packs a punch, team it with a smoky gold eye as not to overpower the look.

Choose To Match Your Skin-Tone
Firstly, it goes without saying, that before you can match make-up to your skin tone, you need to know what your skin tone actually is.
As a general rule paler skinned people tend to be cool-toned, and those with darker, or naturally tanned skin are normally warm toned.
If you have trouble deciding which skin-tone you have, try this quick test; raid your kids, little sibling or office supply cupboard, and grab a pink sheet of paper, and a yellow sheet. One by one, hold the coloured paper to you face, if your face blends better with the pink, and you have more pink and blue tones in your skin, then you are cool toned. If the yellow sheet of paper compliments your skin tone better, than you will have more golden and peach undertones, and therefore, be warm-toned.
Of course, you can be both, meaning you are neutral toned, and extremely lucky, as you can get away with most colours.
If you are cool-toned, berry, fuchia, and burgundy lipstick will clash well against your skin, but the perfect lip colour for you has to Rimmel Kate Moss Collection, Lasting Finish Lipstick in Shade 01.

It’s a blue based red, deep, intense, and is matte too, so you get a pigmented long lasting colour pay off.  I find blue based reds give a very retro, pin-up feel, and the blue tones help your teeth appear whiter.
However, if you’re warm-toned, try lipsticks than lean towards browns, golds, and mauves. A great everyday, neutral lipstick for your skin tone would definitely be to Rimmel Kate Moss Collection, Lasting Finish Lipstick in Shade 08, a mauvey-gold with a little bit of pink, perfect to liven up your look.

Choose To Match Your Make-Up
I tend to stick to the most classic beauty rule in the book.
Lips or eyes.
Stick to a main theme in your look, then compliment it with your lipstick.
So when I want to unleash my inner 1940’s bombshell with a sexy red lip, I strip the eyes back to a simple kitten flick.
And, vice versa, when I’ve spent ages perfecting the ultimate smoky-eye, I don’t want to over power it with a bright coral, so I opt for a pale pink or neutral colour instead.

What’s your favourite lipstick shade?
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