into: hot pink…evidently

I don’t think of myself as having a special affinity for pink but I seem to have kind of a lot of it. Where by pink I do not mean pink at all. I mean hot pink.

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How do these things happen? Many of these items are by no means new, either. This is an old, slowly developing pattern that I am only just recognizing. A few items lined up in my field of vision and there was just no denying it: nothing out of control, nothing unhealthy, but a definite pattern. Well. What can I say? I am not against neon at all, in certain contexts. More certain contexts than I thought.

Some combination of always wanting to have been an 80’s aerobics instructor and Marc Jacobs, I guess.

Huh.

And this is not even getting into coral. We still need to talk about coral. Just wait until you see the swimsuit I found, it is nearly blinding.

Roxie plaid bikini, unknown hoop earrings, Steve Madden P-Heaven flats, Color Club polish in Warhol Pink, Vivitar card reader, Korres lip butter glaze in Pomegranate, OCC lip tar in Anime, Maybelline Color Sensational Vivids in Vivid Rose and Shocking Coral, Wet ‘n Wild MegaLast lipstick in Don’t Blink Pink, Loop NYC Audio Couture Boombox Bag

 

on the lips: strawberry red c/o CoverGirl

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CoverGirl lip perfection lip color in Hot (305). A true, ripe strawberry color (in the beauty industry I think the term ‘strawberry’ as used to reference color usually skews too pink). I took note of this shade as it was featured beautifully on Janelle Monáe (who could not be any cuter) in a promotional piece for the line, and it came up again on xojane as a recommendation for those with dark skin tones. My skin isn’t very dark but I sometimes like to choose colors as if it is. [Specifically as if it is a medium-dark Mediterranean olive, which, with extensive tanning it is not going to get, I am convinced it would be. See?]

I can’t really speak to the oft-lauded formula yet, having only tried it once, but my first impressions are that it is pretty hard (still creamy but not as soft as Rimmel or Revlon offerings), nicely pigmented, rather unforgiving to apply. There are some claims that it nourishes the lips, and I guess we’ll see about that. I’m definitely not having that pleasant feeling that I should run out and get more colors, at least not yet. I do really like the color, though.

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It’s fortunate this brandy snifter is good for something, as it is terrible for brandy.