The Great Lipstick of Yore

[brightly_lit]

I MAY have made last night's series of posts in a state of manic giddiness that has now been followed by a crash of ongoing wakefulness and threatening illness, but hey, you take whatever leads to productivity when life's been sitting on your neck punching you in the head ... or at least dramatically demonstrating doing so, WWE-style.

So I really like watermelon. There's this thing they sometimes do at the store that they call a "premium cut," which I call a "watermelon filet" because it looks and is packaged exactly like a steak, in the styrofoam tray, with even the absorbent pad at the bottom. So after I ate it, it looked like I left a rotting tray of blood sitting around in my room. CLASSY.

Another thing we bought during our epic outing last night was lipstick, something I haven't bought in approximately 1.87 billion years. Not because I don't like lipstick--there was a time when I put some on every time I went out, particularly this one color I had that seemed like it shouldn't work and was really sparkly but also subtle and somehow worked really well. I got that lipstick from my mom, who loved buying Clinique stuff (one lotion in particular), which is so ^&*($# expensive that they pretty much always gave you a free gift when you bought something, which she often passed along to me. This lipstick was one of those freebies. I just wore it 'cos I had it and it wasn't hard to wear like so many of them are, requiring lots of blending or whatever (I'm lookin at you, Wet 'n' Wild); just put it on and go.

And I tell you what, this lipstick lives on. Though I haven't laid eyes on such a color in decades, it inspired then, and continues to inspire. Multiple people, after regarding it a while, would finally conclude they really liked it (that seemed-like-it-shouldn't-work thing), that indeed, it had some sort of mysterious, intriguing appeal. My sister, who had never been a lipstick or even a makeup wearer, started experimenting at that point. More pertinently, P never particularly liked lipstick until recently, and she's now a good-lipstick fiend, and when I brought up that lipstick that was the main lipstick I wore, she said it's the whole reason she's into lipstick now! Which is finally coming full circle, as she's getting me back into lipstick again after all these years.

So never let anyone tell you you amounted to nothing, because maybe you wore a free lipstick or something that had consequences that are still manifesting in multiple variations twenty years later. I AND MY LIPSTICK, WE STAND TALL.

Comments

[selenic76.livejournal.com]

Yay for you and your lipstick! :) I never really got into make-up when I was younger, so now I usually just wear some foundation and a bit of concealer, since I tend to get really red really easily :) If I'm going somewhere really fancy, I might put on some mascara, but that's about it. Maybe I would have needed to see that colour too :D

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

GAHHH, now I feel a responsibility to carry on the lipstick-inspiration tradition! But I haven't seen such a lipstick in many an age. I'LL SEE WHAT I CAN DO.

I feel ya on getting red easily--if I'm going to be on a stage or someplace where I'm likely to turn red, I do the same thing.

Yay, makeup talk! Which is funny, because it sounds like neither of us are much into makeup, but it's still so fun to discuss. <3

[selenic76.livejournal.com]

Yes, easy would be the main word :D Still waiting for someone to invent that super make-up magic machine, that makes you pretty in seconds and makes it last for longer than a few hours :) Not only do I get red easy, but also hot, and my eyes can get watery real easy if irritated by something, like make-up...

Maybe if I had the energy to hunt for the perfect products for my needs I could make it work, but so far other things have been more important to me :D (Also, I have fair skin, and not many brands have a foundation light enough for me, so even that can be a challenge. Fortunately there's a Finnish company that knows how light a northern skin can be ^_^)

[toratio.livejournal.com]

I really want watermelon now. And I'm not even over my lemon meringue pie craving.

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

*evil cackle* Let me tell you my feelings on a variety of candies and snack foods ...

[toratio.livejournal.com]

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actually, yes. Please, go ahead.

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

lol Well, let's start with Cheetos, which I DON'T GET TO EAT BECAUSE I'M FUCKING ALLERGIC TO FUCKING DAIRY. See also: Doritos, ice cream, most sweet frothy coffee drinks, and PIZZA! That should keep you going for a while ...

[toratio.livejournal.com]

Doritos have dairy in them? Like, the corn chip?

[kalliel]

The cheesy dust that makes them/Cheetos orange is the culprit there, I think~ ;D

[toratio.livejournal.com]

So you could eat non-cheese Doritos right? Or am I the only freak who actually likes plain Doritos?

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

Is there such a thing?? I like a regular corn chip, but I'm pretty sure all the Doritos flavors we have in the States also involve cheese or sour cream in some form.

[toratio.livejournal.com]

Really? Australia has plain Doritos corn chips, and spicy ones, and all sorts of weird flavours. Maybe you don't get those in the US.

[septembers-coda.livejournal.com]

Jumping in to say that I think there are just plain corn chips of Doritos brand in the US, but they're not particularly popular or available universally. If a person wants corn chips, they're probably going to buy Tostitos (that type is often also called tortilla chips, I think) or Fritos (my favorite, MMMM FRIED CORN). There are other brands that are less well-known and probably higher quality, and think BL probably has a one of those she likes (I don't care for plain corn chips usually, unless I'm dipping or topping them with something).

There are a shit-ton of Doritos flavors here, too! Sometimes they roll one out, and if it's not popular, it'll go away after a few months. But if an American says Doritos, we almost always mean the nacho cheese kind. Cool Ranch is the other most popular kind (also dairy). When those came out in the 80s, we teenagers went apeshit for them. :-}

[toratio.livejournal.com]

Considering the US is supposed to be the land of junk food, I'm surprised in some ways by the lack of variety. I think Europe seems to have the best variety of everything, with an amazing array of flavours for all sorts of things.

There's a spicy Doritos out at the moment, and there was a 'roulette' one that came out for a while, that had normal chips, and then one really spicy chip. Which kind of seems a little bit evil.

[caranfindel.livejournal.com]

What was the name of this magical color?

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

septembers_coda helped me remember it! It was called Super Berry.

[kalliel]

I love the lipstick story!! I'm not much of a lipstick-wearer, because I'm always like "But I'm immediately and consistently just going to put something in my mouth." But I feel like clearly people have figured out a way to wear lipstick and also eat, so maybe there is some magical way I've yet to discover. XD

And the watermelon carnage, LOL. I was looking forward to watermelon all winter, but now summer's going away and I've only eaten it once--and never purchased it. Which is so sad! :( But I'm a firm believer in seeded watermelons, and Michigan apparently is not. Or like, did seeded watermelons go out of style? Where did they all go? (ARE YOU KEEPING THEM IN YOUR BEDROOM?)

I hope you're feeling better, bb. <33333

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

I think the magic to that is that they just don't eat. Which ain't gonna be my method! So I just put it on when I'm about to go out (and thus know I probably won't be eating any time soon, and I drink carefully). Remember that it can always be reapplied as necessary!

Aw, no, get out there and get you some watermelon!! I used to buy watermelons all the time, but it was such a crapshoot as to whether you'd get a good one or not, I finally started buying the already cut ones, even though they cost twice as much as a whole one. Given that I was having to throw half of the whole ones out, I come out even! And I don't have to toss any watermelons that never got a chance to fulfill their potential.

I believe you about seeded watermelons! I'm afraid I greatly prefer seedless so I don't look for seeded ones, but I do notice them peripherally as I'm looking for seedless, and though nowadays I can always find the kind I'm looking for, I don't always see the other.

It's been a rough patch, but I'm hanging in. <3

[septembers-coda.livejournal.com]

HELLS YEAH, you stand tall, lipstick or not! <3 But I do like that symbol of the ways we may be impacting others, things that are little to us that may be large in their minds, or have resonating affects. And Superberry (hurray that you remembered! and I maybe helped!) was an example of one of those things!

The watermelon gore was amazing. :-D I have similar unsavory-appearing things, in my case, that I'm carrying around in my purse! You already know some of this, but at one point, in addition to a baggie containing my severed ponytail, I was carrying a large, phallic home-grown cucumber and a flatiron, along with the usual weird stuff. Judge me not by the contents of my purse... or do; that's probably a pretty accurate impression actually.

I love seeing you wear lipstick; you're a perfect lipstick model IMO. I hope we find your new Superberry, if we haven't already. <3 <3

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

One so seldom knows of the impact one might have on others, so it's especially wonderful when you actually learn about it ... even if it's about something as frivolous as lipstick. :-)

Lol at carrying around unsavory-looking things in one's purse. That can get interesting if it's a consistent thing. ;-> The poor cucumber. :-( I'm sad we never ended up giving it a nibble.

I'm loving my new lipsticks! Especially now that I'm getting the hang of applying the darker/more difficult ones.