I still haven't worked out what's a good red for high yellow. I mix my no name red (Sephora?) with a brown which I suddenly can't find.

One caution is that Cherries in the Snow can be really pinkish (because it's on the border between pink and red)

It is, which means if it were about four shades darker, it would be the perfect color for me.

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Hi peoples! I've been running around like a crazy person since Wednesday. My designer friend Kambriel and her boy are staying with me while Pete is off in San Diego, and it has been non-stop excitement. Helping backstage at the Neil Gaiman & Amanda Palmer show, photo shoot, helping at the Jason Webley show ... craziness, I tell you.

ita !, you're gonna want a brick red shade, something with a brown undertone instead of blue -- which, duh, on re-reading your post, you already know. Sorry!

Rouge Dior in Ara Red 999

MAC's New York Apple might also work well. It's not a bright-ass true red, though, but is a bold, deep red.

I'll keep an eye out for other shades.

Jilli, so envious of working backstage for the Gaiman/Palmer event! I hope you had tons of fun!!

Thanks, Erin.

There are two colours I want, but I figure they're for white people only, and even then, only some. A true vamp red, and a naive bubblegum pink. All the reds in the tube look weird on me, as noted, so I have to go different for deep red, and bubblegum pink doesn't make actual sense on my skintone. But I want a colour that has that same psychological associations, and I got shit.

cherries in the snow was my color when I wore lipstick

Hey, the lipstick convo reminds me: I don't suppose any of you have a tube of the LE MAC color "Prince Noir" that you don't want, do you?

Well today a good beginning of the real work on he bedroom has begun. No before pictures. and at leaast a week before we are done

Nope, Jilli! Sorry!

ita !, yeah, on the pink. It's always gonna have that blue undertone. Nicki Minaj has a lot of yellow in her skin tone and wears a lot of bubblegum pink lips, but she's going for a very OOT, melodramatic look, not a match.

But I think a vamp red is out there! I have made it my life's mission to find it for you! Well, among other things like working and cleaning the house and reading. But whenever I'm at a make-up counter, I will look.

The meeting at the credit union went ok. We got a good idea what they would most likely give us for a loan. However, we decided not to do a pre-approval today, because they only last for 60 days at our credit union and we're definitely not moving that quickly. The mortgage lender said that if we had to have our credit report pulled multiple times to get multiple pre-approvals in a year, it would hurt our credit scores. Is there a good way to keep track of my credit score that doesn't actually hurt that score?

My problem with red lipstick is finding one that doesn't turn hot pink or bright orange on me as it starts to fade. I have yet to find my one true red, although mixing a true brown with a pinkish red did give me my wedding lipstick color, which was very close to a true red.

Oh! Let me tell you about my shallow moment of glee from last night: Neil Gaiman told me he liked the pink streaks in my hair, and said they were very fetching.