What combines the ease of a balm and the life of a party?
By contributor Arden Andrews.
Lip tints, in all their clean, organic glory, are defining the look of 2022.
After years of multi-layered beauty routines, I’m not the only one who’s settled into a more modern, freeing, dare-to-be-bare mindset surrounding what goes on my face every day.
Still, I like a little something to embody my vision of a successful business woman as I work from home or head into the wild unknown for meetings, scouting trips, and — coming to you live as we speak — fashion week.
Clear balm isn’t enough in the morning when everything starts to look a little gray. I’m not interested in lipstick either. Of course we all love the look of a punchy “here I am” mouth. I just don’t understand how it’s possible to maintain a full-coverage shade from the mirror to the mask without getting it all. Over. The. Place.
Essentially, lip tints mash these two concepts together to create a sheered-out wash of color that reads as if you might have just kissed a berry, or eaten a popsicle.
It’s Like Makeup That Doesn’t Count
Party-friendly (never on teeth) and travel-ready (mask away), lip tints are so delightfully low-maintenance I forget I’m wearing them, so comforting I keep coming back for more.
Henne Organics Luxury Lip Tint, for example, looks like a slick black lipstick tube, and the colors appear as though they’re going to be an intense ride. When I swipe on Azalea, though, it’s a pink wash that looks like a sweet teen dream. For the shade Desire, I expect a Valentine’s Day candy box red, but instead find a transparent rouge (which I then apply to cheeks for a perfectly believable flush.) It hydrates with a mix of oils like castor, avocado, and coconut, and I find peace in the fact that its metal casing is recyclable.
For those that want to dial it back even further, French Girl Organics Le Lip Tint is one chicly packaged step up from the familiar Chapstick format. Its twist-up tube lures my inner Francophile with a promise: “Tested on French Girls, Never On Animals.”
The line’s mineral formula leans on natural hydrators like olive oil and shea butter for a dewy finish, and colors are even more transparent than I expect. A magenta hue of Aphrodesie transforms into a nearly-undetectable raspberry veil, and a plummy Violette imparts an optical illusion of sorts on lips: They look bright, satiny, and seemingly untouched by “makeup.”
Lip tints, in all their clean, organic glory, are defining the look of 2022.
After years of multi-layered beauty routines, I’m not the only one who’s settled into a more modern, freeing, dare-to-be-bare mindset surrounding what goes on my face every day.
Still, I like a little something to embody my vision of a successful business woman as I work from home or head into the wild unknown for meetings, scouting trips, and — coming to you live as we speak — fashion week.
Clear balm isn’t enough in the morning when everything starts to look a little gray. I’m not interested in lipstick either. Of course we all love the look of a punchy “here I am” mouth. I just don’t understand how it’s possible to maintain a full-coverage shade from the mirror to the mask without getting it all. Over. The. Place.
Essentially, lip tints mash these two concepts together to create a sheered-out wash of color that reads as if you might have just kissed a berry, or eaten a popsicle.
It’s Like Makeup That Doesn’t Count
Party-friendly (never on teeth) and travel-ready (mask away), lip tints are so delightfully low-maintenance I forget I’m wearing them, so comforting I keep coming back for more.
Henne Organics Luxury Lip Tint, for example, looks like a slick black lipstick tube, and the colors appear as though they’re going to be an intense ride. When I swipe on Azalea, though, it’s a pink wash that looks like a sweet teen dream. For the shade Desire, I expect a Valentine’s Day candy box red, but instead find a transparent rouge (which I then apply to cheeks for a perfectly believable flush.) It hydrates with a mix of oils like castor, avocado, and coconut, and I find peace in the fact that its metal casing is recyclable.
For those that want to dial it back even further, French Girl Organics Le Lip Tint is one chicly packaged step up from the familiar Chapstick format. Its twist-up tube lures my inner Francophile with a promise: “Tested on French Girls, Never On Animals.”
The line’s mineral formula leans on natural hydrators like olive oil and shea butter for a dewy finish, and colors are even more transparent than I expect. A magenta hue of Aphrodesie transforms into a nearly-undetectable raspberry veil, and a plummy Violette imparts an optical illusion of sorts on lips: They look bright, satiny, and seemingly untouched by “makeup.”
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