You found the perfect shade of lipstick – go you! Now, how to make it last? Easy. Use these 5 steps as a guide and watch your pout remain beautiful all day long.

Step 1. Prepare your lips by using warm water, a wash cloth and a lip mask (or another safe, grainy cleanser). Apply the mask or cleanser directly to moist lips. Allow to set while you prepare the warm cloth. Rub the mask/cleanser off by using circular motions. This will help work most of the dead, dry skin off, revealing smoother, plumper lips. This step should be done …read more

Congratulations! You’ve found the perfect lipstick shade. That’s Major Accomplishment #1. Now, to tackle Major Accomplishment #2 – keeping that glorious lipstick off of your teeth!
Not to worry, it’s actually quite easy to do. Here, a few tips to keep your new shade on your pout and not on your chompers:

Use a lipstick primer before you slather on your color. This quick tip helps keep lipstick in place and eliminates bleeding and the color migration.
Dust lipstick with a loose powder to set the color. Just grab a facial tissue and separate it into 1-ply. Place the tissue over your lips, …read more

If there is one thing that is my favorite from Benefit Cosmetics, it’s their lipsticks. Just as I swooned over their Silky Finish Lipstick, my knees are melting over their Full Finish Lipstick as well. I have mine in Lady’s Choice (pictured), which is a nude color and has that flesh-toned pigment to it.

Here’s what I think is so fabulous about it:
*Glides on smooth
*Makes your lips feel great
*Is a universal color for any skin tone
*Rich pigment for a great looking color
I’ve been wearing it often and getting compliments…and who doesn’t want to be told, “That color looks great on you!” …read more

It’s been a long while since I’ve talked about a product from Prescriptives, but my eyes couldn’t help but stare lustfully at their new Lipshine that just hit counters this week.
Lipshine looks like a lipstick, but it’s meant to give the shine of a gloss. I know my friend Teri over at Aging Fabulous recently Twittered that she is all about lipstick lately–I bet she would love this just as much as I would (cause you know I am all about the glossy shine).

As always Prescriptives has the perfect color to match your skin tone, so there is something for …read more

Ever since I got ahold of Lancome’s Color Fever Shine lip glosses and lipsticks from their L.U.C.I. collection, I have been singing that song “Fever” much to the chagrin of my children (who are sick of hearing it).
Here’s what I’ve tried:
Color Fever Gloss in Sunray (iridescent) and Seashell (fuchsia): Do not be afraid of Seashell. In the glass tube it appears hot pink, but once applied it is a nice berry color. For me as the time wore on, it had more of a flushed lip color to it. Sunray looks great alone or paired over lipstick.
Color Fever Shine …read more

If you are anything like me, then you love to jazz up our lips for these holiday parties. I’ve been wearing MAC Cosmetics Viva Glamorous in their cool lips palette since the beginning of November and it does tend to make you feel a bit…glamorous.
Just like Royal Assets, Viva Glamorous comes in a gorgeous antique looking embellished crown case. The cool lips appear to be pink tones in the picture, but the far left color is a matte beige, middle is a coral/red color with a lot of shimmer and on the right you have more of a satin …read more

We have a winner! Thank you to all of the fabulous readers who entered Urban Apothecary’s Name That Lipstick contest! There were over 100 entries! I just received word on who the winner is….
Lori G. had the winning entry with “Compass Rose.” Lori’s entry said:
I chose “Compass Rose” since it incorporates both the lustrous pink color along with the idea of the classic ornamented navigation symbol. It speaks to adventure and romance, charting new courses, and vintage glamour that transcends time.
Lori I am so impressed with how much thought you put into naming the lipstick!
UA mentions a few runners up …read more

MAC is giving their brushes the royal treatment with their Heirlooms Collection. Each Heirlooms brush bag includes the antique signature of M·A·C Holiday with a full set of professional brushes. Available in three distinct collections: Face, Eye and Basic.

MAC Cosmetics Finery Collection boasts a petite purse of woven cream fabric with metallic thread and an ivory crown motif on the handle. Each purse contains 3 lip colors of one color scheme. There’s 3 Plump Lips, 3 Coral Lips, 3 Tan Lips and 3 Pink Lips.
I may just be keeping the purses not only for makeup, but as a chic bag …read more

I recently discovered MESS New York, a mineral makeup boutique in NY. They use pure Mica in all of their products and I was intrigued by their Lip Varnish, which is supposed to be like a liquid lipstick. I have Murray Hill, which MESS describes as a “Pink Lemonade Glaze with a Fairy Dust Finish.” We all know how I love pink.
The Lip Varnish applicator is like that of a nail polish brush. Even though the Lip Varnish appears to be thicker than a gloss, it doesn’t go on clumpy. The consistency on your lips is not tacky and does …read more

When I first mentioned this Holiday Collection from MAC, I just knew I was going to love it. The packaging is so vintage-chic, that I covet it like a prized posession.
Of the Royal Assets eye shadow palettes, 6 Warm Eyes is my favorite and the picture of this palette doesn’t do the colors justice. The color palette includes: Sunday Best, an ivory with frost (frost); Star Violet, a eath-touched pinky-brown plum fusion (veluxe pearl); Retrospeck, a beached blonde (lustre); Club, a muted reddish brown duochrome with freen opalescent shimmer (satin); Showstopper, a neutral dark brown and Nobility, a light pink …read more