I wear Clinique's Black Honey gloss and colours that look a lot like that. Also a dark brown, and a red I mix myself.

I've wished there's a pink I could wear, but I'm a high yella black woman. I don't think I can pull off pink lips, ever.

But I thought that about bright red--it took me mixing a very bright red with a touch of dark brown to make it workable.

Maybe I could beige up a pink.

The only lipstuff which works on me is Revlon Colorstay. You brush it on, then add a topcoat. looks good, stays almost all day. I use the sheer, as I don't like to look painted up. Best of all, Bonny, it's cheap and you can buy it at most drugstores, so you can try a few colors to find the one which works for you. [link]

Lipstick just doesn't stay on, the moisturizer felt odd and didn't make enough of a difference to seem worth it and the concealer didn't actually conceal. I fear that it will require me to either go with the less than natural look or give it up.

Try mixing some of the Aromaleigh with your regular moisturizer. Works like a charm and just sort of glosses over flaws. I'm lazy, and that's about the extent I'm willing to do these days. Also, anything else breaks me out.

In the summer, I use the Neutrogena Sensitive Skin 60+ SPF Sunblock Lotion mixed with some of my Aromaleigh, and it's perfect.

Lip-wise I'm partial to a pink Covergirl outlast lipstain and then lipgloss (generally one of several MACs) that I keep reapplying.

It looks like my long-held dream for a light-in-color-but-dense-in-pigment pink my have been answered by Lady Gaga. I don't know for sure yet, however, because every time I go in they are out of it :(

Everyone else gave me sheer shiny things or the wrong color. Gaga, it appears, has my back.

Try mixing some of the Aromaleigh with your regular moisturizer. Works like a charm and just sort of glosses over flaws. I'm lazy, and that's about the extent I'm willing to do these days. Also, anything else breaks me out.

This sounds like a great solution. I use Olay, because it is the only moisturizer I've found that doesn't break me out or feel greasy. It never occurred to me to add color. I'm on it!

Scrappy, I actually have one of the Colorstay's. It's too pink, so I should try other colors. And, once the gloss wears off, the color dries and flakes.

The problem is that my lips are super thin, and the lower one shows...how can I explain this...a bit of the slick inner lip above the regular lip tissue. Does that make sense? So the color sticks to the outer lip but not to the slick part...which makes me two-toned about an hour after application. It's maddening.

I bought the Eucerin Sensitive Skin sunblock moisturizer. Broke me out, as did the Aveeno facial moisturizer. What I'm using now is plain Aveeno hand lotion thinned with a little water. But I'm shopping for a hand blender, so I can make up small batches of olive oil, shea butter, and distilled water with maybe some vitamin E and some C for preserving properties. I figure even my skin won't balk at that. Even the sensitive skin stuff has chemicals in it that my face just doesn't like.

Match your lip color to the inner part of your lip, bonny, as nearly as possible. That might help mask the dividing line.

But I'm shopping for a hand blender, so I can make up small batches of olive oil, shea butter, and distilled water with maybe some vitamin E and some C for preserving properties.

Whoa! Ambitious. And likely, the best solution.

In the summer, I use the Neutrogena Sensitive Skin 60+ SPF Sunblock Lotion mixed with some of my Aromaleigh, and it's perfect.

You might be getting my bottle. My skin is less than thrilled with it and I am incapable of throwing things out. I need to see if one of my spray on things works on my chest and arms. If it does, Here Have A new bottle.

Beverly, Windsparrow makes lotions and stuff, maybe she can make you a batch to order?