Lipstick is back, baby. Why? It’s the only cosmetic that can set off your style. Concealed for long, our lips are finally on show again and ready to be painted. The latest from Elizabeth Arden offers a satin-like shine, or featherweight matte finish, in plenty of brilliant colours. Check out the new range below. By editor Trudi Brewer.
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Elizabeth Arden Lip Color Lipstick, $54.
Creamy, with enough colour, pay off to drench your lips in one swipe, this lippy champions Arden’s clever ceramide anti-ageing formula. Here’s why you need to try this new lipstick.
What’s in it?
Enriched with Arden's famous advanced ceramide complex, which helps improve the lips over time by supporting the lip barrier function, trapping moisture to keep your lips well-nourished. Vitamin E, and the hero ingredient Maracuja oil, (or Passiflora edulis seed oil extracted from the seeds of the passion fruit and passion flowers from the South American rainforests (just like our other friend, the acai berry). This oil is stacked with linoleic acid to soothe dryness, making it the perfect oil for your lips. Together these ingredients make this hydrating formula stay put and prevent lipstick from bleeding into fine lines.
Elizabeth Arden Lip Colour Collection Satin Lipstick Notably Nude, $54.
Plump Up Your Lips
You don't have to get fillers in your lips to have that youthful, pillow look. For plumper lips, apply liner just outside your natural lip line, then dab a bit of gloss in the middle of your bottom lip and smack your lips together.
Find your perfect match
Lightweight, yet with a great colour payoff, each shade has a subtle vanilla fragrance. There are 22 colours in a satin finish, ranging from a Petal Pink to a Statement Red. Six bold matte shades, from Rich Melot to Neoclassic Coral. Each comes in a matte silver bullet with a magnetic lid.
Elizabeth Arden Beautiful Colour Lipstick Legendary Red, $54.
Nailing the shade
If you are worried about applying lipstick testers in stores to find a colour match, apply a shade to the pad of your finger, it's a closer fit to your lips than the back of your hand.
Elizabeth Arden Lip Color Lipstick in Be Bare, $54. Elizabeth Arden Lip Color Lipstick in Naturally Mocha, $54. Elizabeth Arden Lip Color Lipstick in Living Coral, $54. Elizabeth Arden Lip Color Lipstick in Red Door Red, $54.
Lipstick can double as blush
Nude or soft pink lipstick will double as a blush. To use lipstick as a blush, dab a few dots on the apples of your cheeks and blend, blend, blend. It helps to have moisturised skin first so the lipstick disappears into the skin leaving a glowy, sheen.
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