makeup question

[insertnamehere]

i've tried to figure this out myself wit the powers of the internets, but i cant really answer my question.

i HAAAAAAAATE lip gloss. some people can pull it off. i feel like on me it looks like "hey im 13 and i cant wear real makeup yet but my mom said lip gloss is ok!" i look pretty dang young and super glossy lips dont help the case any (not that im complaining, eventually looking way young is gonna be awesome)

anyways, i would like to be able to put some color on my lips. very... unnoticable color. basically, i have unusually pale lips and i'd like them to look like more healthy lips, not like HEY LOOK AT ME IVE GOT LIPSTICK ON. i wear very very very little if any makeup, so i need something subtle. any reccomnedations? i see stuff that says its "sheer" but it will also say something like "shiney" or "glossy"... i know there are lipsticks that have more of a matte finish, and ive not really had any lipstick experience but i feel like that would make a big smudgy red mess all over my face. lip stains sound like they might be what im looking for, but again, thats something ive never had any experience with and that seems like it might make for some pretty intense color. im also wondering what would happen if you just colored your lips with a lip pencil, is that doable?

[kll]

like you, i hate shit on my lips... NO ONE is going to be able to suggest anything to you that will actually work -if they do, please PM me...

basically, i try to emphasize my eyes to compensate to my lack of lip flare, and am quite happy with it... i prefer cherry chapstick to keeping my lips soft and moist (i hate that word!)...plus, the cherry adds a little bit of red...


i am ancient, so trust me...

[insertnamehere]

yeah. i dunno. i figure its worth a shot. id like to try a bunch of different things, but makeup is fucking expensive, so i dont want to just go BUY a bunch of things without really knowing what im doing.

makeup counters/stores kind of intimidate me. i was in sephora the other day, and the lady was very nice and helpful, and she did some makeup on me, but she put on some suuuuuper shiny lipgloss, and i told her i didnt like it, and she seemed kinda... i dunno. like she thought i was an idiot. she didnt SAY i was an idiot, but thats how i felt.

also she said something like "aw i remember when my sister and i were teenagers and got to start wearing makeup for the first time!"

i was kinda too embarrassed to tell her that i was 21

[kll]

i think it has to do with how you can take stuff on your lips...

i, personally, purse my lips over and over until whatever it is that i put on my lips is off of them... without even meaning to...

if you are not like that, then you have hope...

[hitmonlee]

i have a lipstick in a sort of cranberry colour and i dab it on my lips and let it sink in and then i put lip gloss over that. so essentially i am staining my lips, but with a lipstick yeah.

[Knuckles]

use one of these

[wheelie]

hi im the same way. i dont know if this IS a lip stain, but sometimes i use Maxfactor "Lipfinity" that comes in a tube and you apply it with a spongy brush type of thing, and then you put sheer stuff that comes with it over it. pick a medium pinkish color, but only dab a teeny tiny amount and then rub it in so its not like an intense amount of color at all. it looks natural, and the sheer gloss that goes over it isnt the gross gooey stuff, its just vaugely shiney. and you can barely feel its there. http://shinymedia.headshift.com/kiss..._lipfinity.jpg