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?

Morning all. Today: off to a disability aids exhibition, followed by a night in Nottingham, so that we're there for an early second viewing of the house I've fallen in love with. Wish me good structural condition, so we can make an offer!

Hil, that's so irritating about health insurance. I forget how lucky I am to have free health care without a job. I'm glad to hear the crutches are helping, though.

If you go to Sephora at a time when they're slow, you can often find someone who'll help you--and they're not paid to pimp any particular product. I went once saying "I have this old Sephora brand gloss I love, but you don't make this color anymore. Help me find a new gloss this shade!!" and had this adorable gayboy running all about the store with gloss all up and down his arm finding just the right shade. It was hilarious (and he did it! Sadly, it was a good color, but stickier and applied via a wand rather than a squeezy tube, plus more expensive, but I bought it anyway, cause it was better than no gloss at all).

And then taunted us because *he* had a piece of key lime pie and we? Did not.

Oh, now that was not nice.

And yes, Bev, my FIL is very elf-like. He's a darling man and my MIL is a force of nature in her way. Believe me, I know I hit the jackpot in the in-law sweepstakes.

Also? The husband sweepstakes as well. I am rather fond of him.