My grade 10 religion teacher once told my class that she ‘never leaves the house without her eyebrows on’, and I know a few people who I would barely recognize without their bright lipstick. I’ve never ever ventured out in to the world with red lipstick because I never thought I could pull it off, but I stopped in to a MAC store and a few weeks ago a whim just to buy some. Even though I was initially dubious, I’ve worn my lips out a few times and I’m kind of loving it! I’m still not sure how day-appropriate the look is, but I like just having fun with it in a city where I barely know anyone. I generally refer to the old adage of concentrating one one feature at a time – not overdoing the lips if you have intense eye makeup and vice versa, so I’m not wearing any shadow at all on my eyes in these photos (just eyeliner). Overboard? Perhaps. But I don’t often wear dark eye makeup anyways, I’m more of a pink-y and gold-y , shimmery tones kind of gal.

I had an important appointment earlier this week and thought I needed a little liquid waxy courage so I painted on my lips and off I went.

Before:

After:

(The colour is MAC matte Russian Red from the Wonder Woman collection. Love it? Hate it? Think I look like a hooker? Let me know.)

Now for the hair, I pretty much never leave my house without curly hair these days, which probably means I have too much time on my hands. I’m currently using my hair iron but I want to get a set of hot rollers and see how those work for me, and I’d also like a large barrel curling iron. I think I’ll pop in to my local Value Village and see if they have any el cheapo hair electronics (don’t judge). Maybe we even have an old set at the Farm that I can get my paws on. Anyone? Lau?

I know Lauren can rock a set of bright pink lips pretty hot, but how about YOU? Any other bright lipstick lovers out there? Or bright lip virgins?