This past Saturday I purchased the MAC Pro Longwear Lipstain Marker. I wore it for 3 days to give it a good test drive and here are my thoughts:

The packaging is great. It looks like a felt tip pen. That felt tip gives excellent precision when apply along the lip line, no need for lip pencil. The actual stain is a liquid consistency that goes on sheer and can be built up. The initial application I applied it directly to my bare lips, and put a little bit of lip balm on top for comfort. (The stain by itself is a little dry feeling) The second time I wore it I put lip balm on first then the stain. This caused big problems. Once the lip balm got on the tip of the stain, the tip dried up and I couldn’t get the product to flow out evenly.

As far as it being long wearing, it did stay on for about 4 hours but it wears off the lips unevenly. Touching up is easy, you just go right over whatever is left on the lips.

I have Stylesetter-bright pink which fits the bright lip trend without being too bright.

For smooth lips wrap a make up wipe around your finger, and gently scrub dry chapped skin from your lips. Once all the dry skin is removed, apply a lip balm to lock in moisture and keep lips looking soft and supple.

Personally I am really addicted to lip gloss. I never put on lipstick without putting gloss on top, and most of the time I just wear gloss alone and lots of it. As I perused the collections for AW ’09 I noticed most lips were missing that high shine look. The look was not super matte either more like a soft satin sheen. This is quite simple to achieve-use a little concealer on your ring finger dab your lips to mute your natural colour. Then simply apply your favourite lip balm on top to give subtle sheen. Or apply your lip balm on top of any lipstick or lip pencil instead of gloss, and you just updated your look to Fall 2009.

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