Happy Friday and welcome to another edition of Friday Favorites!
Today I’ve got my favorite non-liquid nude lipsticks. Or beige. Or whatever the heck you wanna call them. They run the gamut between beige, pink and greyish, but I think of them all as nudes.
Man this was kind of hard to narrow down for me! I have soooo many nude lipsticks, I don’t think I even realized how many until I started going through my stash. And there were so many that bordered on being nude but maybe went a little too pink or too brown to be included. Most of these I have reviewed before and you can probably find lip swatches on my blog if you use the search feature.
Laura Mercier Angelic, NARS Raquel, bareMinerals Take Charge, Too Faced Nude Beach, Milani Matte Naked, Urban Decay Naked2
Ahhhh a bevy of beauties, yes? One would think with all these nudes some would be dupes, but no they are all different! Out of these six shades I think NARS Raquel has the best formula and is the most pigmented one as well. The Too Faced and Urban Decay ones have the lightest finish and the Milani one is the most matte.
Kat Von D Celebutard, Essence Nude Love, Milani Barely There, P2 Sunset Boulevard, MAC Blankety
These are all on the slightly pinker side of nude. So lovely aren’t they? I love the Essence one, it’s so great. The one from P2 is a fave of mine since it came from Germany and wasn’t easy to get. MAC Blankety is an old standby I’ve loved forever.
LORAC Socialite, Napoleon Perdis Iris, MAC Folio, Bite Beauty Cava, Milani Matte Innocence
And here we have some of the slightly stranger shades perhaps. Napoleon Perdis Iris is SO GOOD but mine seems to have dried out so much I could barely swatch it. Time for a new one. MAC Folio is the classic here. I have been wearing it since about 1995 and it remains my favorite “weird” lip shade ever. Before every brand on earth had a greyish shade, there was MAC Folio. I wish they would bring it back because my tube is horrific. Bite Beauty Cava is another slightly oddball shade and it’s really good. Milani Matte Innocence was having issues in this swatch for some reason, it too may be a bit dried out now.
Do you see any of your favorite nude shades here? What are yours?
-Kelly
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These shades are so pretty, defiantly going to check some of these out. Because I’m so faired skin I have to watch with nudes, they tend to wash me out more. There are some of these that I will have to swatch in the store fell in love with some shades.
I love nude lipsticks, I own about 15 or 20 of them, but not a single one of those you showed 😉
(please don’t ask me to name a favorite, I couldn’t)
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I love nude lipsticks and wish I had more but sadly I have really naturally pigmented lips and nude shades rarely show up well on me :/ I have had some luck with ones from Essence though!
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That Bite Beauty Cava looks beautiful!
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Bite Beauty Cava might actually work for me. I have a mauve undertone to my lips that is hard to cover up with even the thickest nude. They make my lips look bad usually as well as wash out my face. That one might work.
I want to eat these all up lol – nudes are my favorite. TFS
Pinky-nude shades are my favorite–I have way too many to count! Some of my favorites are Chanel Catherine and MAC Patisserie!
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Bite Cave looks right up my alley. And I remember Folio. It was one of my first lipsticks from MAC also circa 1995, along with Taupe and Cyber 🙂
Thanks, this is a great selection. Hopefully the Nars one is still available.
I like Mac Taupe but I think it’s a bit darker than these. It also may be discontinued.
It is it’s in their new Audacious line.
Nars Raquel is sooo pretty! I can totally see why you like this shade. I think it’s so interesting that you like the essence and P2 lipsticks (or these particular shades). I live in Germany and have so many drugstores just around the corner where I can get P2 and essence. But to be honest, I don’t own a single lipstick by P2 or essence, although they are so inexpensive and are sold basically everywhere. I guess you always want what is hard to get^^ In my case that’s Nars or Bite Beauty or Fresh Sugar lip treatments (I’m obsessed), because these brands aren’t available here. #beautybloggerproblems 😉
These are all very pretty–you have great taste in nudes!
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I didn’t realize that Bite made a nude. I’m going to try to test it out.
They are pretty, but I have pale skin and very pigmented lips so I will look dead if I wear the wrong shade. “Nude” lipstick for me is more of a pale red-brown.
Folio looks awesome!!! Is it in someway similar to lipglass Spite? I love that color and would love to have a lipstick with that color. Too bad it’s discontinued. I use MAC’s Lipmix in Medium + a gray MAC eyeshadow (I’m not sure which, but I’m almost sure it was Copperplate), and it looks similar to Folio/Spite. Hope my trick works for you 🙂
I agree, you are a bit addicted to nude lip color. I can’t do just a regular nude. My daughter says I look sick when I wear a lip color that is lighter than my naural lip. So when wearing nudes I always mix it with a pink lip liner.
I love Milani Matte Naked. One of my favs of all time.
I have Bite Beauty Cava! I love it! Such a great shade!
I love NARS Raquel and Barbara (although I don’t reach for them as often as Dominique). Nude Beach from Too Faced is another favorite, but to be honest with you, I don’t like nude lipsticks as much as I used to. I find them to wash me out a bit too much.
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Loving all these nudes! I love a good nude lip! Some definite ones to check out– I really like NARS Raquel!
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