What color is your lipstick?
November 4, 2006 by SP Bragg
Filed under 40's Plus, 50 Plus, Aging Fabulous
Well, most of you know that I have an issue with how white my teeth use to be and aren’t anymore. Does that make sense? I asked the dentist about it once and he said that it is an aging thing. Something about light, but I can’t remember anything else. And no, I’m not going to make an appointment just to ask him. It can wait! 
But I do remember reading somewhere that the color of your lipstick can either make your teeth look white or the most dismal shade of yellow imaginable. Have you ever noticed? Now I know why I always liked those berry shades!
Off to toss every tube of lipstick that doesn’t remind me of a strawberry.
*Avon GLAZEWEAR Liquid Lip Color
I think it’s an old photographer’s trick: colors can influence how adjacent colors are perceived.
It’s something I keep in mind when I’m shooting black and white, because all I have is contrast. Those shades can seriously play with the mind.
That is why I never wear orangy tones…they yellow the teeth way too much. Bright reds look great for pics ’cause your teeth look super and it works well in black and white colors.
I love pale pinks with a great tan (or fake tan) but they too make my teeth look dingy so I have to keep them really bleeched in the summer time.
I love lipstick, lipgloss, juicy tubes….I am in fact a lipstick whore I’d say!
I believe that colors with a blue hint or tinge bring out white. Those berry shades have a little blue in them, and I think they add a bit of blue to bright reds.