Two ladies; two styles of red lip: Which do you like best?

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There is a huge spectrum of Red Lip, ranging from gently-bitten stains through to full, rich, vibrant, fire engine red lipsticks, and with lots of red glosses and mattes and so on in between. Right now, and especially when I was on holiday (Oh, did I mention I went to Greece? Only 257 times? Oh, so I did. Carry on) I am doing the long-last red liquid lipstick (Revlon Ultimate Colorstay Liquid Lipstick in Tomato) with several kilos of powder bronzer (either Covergirl Clinique, Lancome or La Prairie. Yeah, uh, I’m a little greedy when it comes to bronzers right now. But they’re all different! Give different looks and effects!)

My bronzer/red lip look makes me feel WIDE AWAKE.
And healthy-like.

Anyway, despite what my affirmation calendar says for today, it’s not all about me. I saw photos of two famous birds, both at the The Cinema Society & Hugo Boss Screening of Inglourious Basterds in New York last night, both wearing red lips, and both massively carrying it off, despite their different colouring and, you know, ‘looks.’

And I thought they were both very fetching red lips, and so I thought we should get a bit of a vote as to which is the more popular, and then I can do a How To on the winner, and suggest a swag of products that will get you the same look.

First up, Agyness Deyn, doing a bit of a barefaced, gently flushed/bronzed face with a semi-gloss red lip - I’d say a high pigment red gloss over a lip liner, applied with fingers. Very ‘model.’ Casual enough not to look silly with her t-shirt.

And then there’s Diane Kruger, who’s gone for the full kaPOW red lip - slightly orangey in colour, beautifully lined and then painted on with a lip brush by a makeup artist, and entirely glamorous in general. Excellent combination with the sizzly evening dress.

So. Which do you prefer?

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