MLBB Lipstick

This one isn’t in Nina’s One Hundred, but it is essential and it can be very hard to find.

The perfect My-Lips-But-Better lipstick doesn’t make your lips look paler or more dramatic or darker or anything else, but just that much better and maybe a bit brighter and healthier.

A MLBB lipstick is not necessarily a “nude”. I have yet to find a good “nude” lipstick, primarily because all of them have so far looked chalky on me. Nars’ Napoli, for instance, is too light on me; it promises lightness and brightness in the tube, but transforms into an apricoty shade of blah once it reaches my face. MLBW, much worse.

Nars’ Dolce Vita (described as “sheer dusty rose”), Becca’s Vendela (“rosy nude”) and Revlon’s “Rosy Nude” lipstick (yes, I see a pattern forming, too) are my current favourite MLBB lip colours. I am going to buy many, many tubes of these. Due to their perfection, they are bound to be Discontinued (at least, that’s my theory).