My Mother's Red
This is borrowed from my previous Blog www.auroremakki.com , it was the fashion edit of the variations of red lipstick i loved. However since my other blog is down, and will be for quite some more time i have decided to share bits and pieces of my personal parts of my posts from that blog.
For as long as I can remember I have watched my mother apply her lipstick in the shade of red, All shades of red to be more exact. All of them varying with the seasons that visited every year. I remember clearly just how stunning it looked on her and how I could hardly wait till I was able to use her collection on my back then baby lips. Because of my mother , now in my head forever, is the thought that there’s a certain kind of a woman who wears red lip stick, or at least that’s what I had in my head when I bought my first shade of red lipstick almost 10 years ago. That kind of a woman is sexy. She’s always been. She wears red. Only did I later get to know that if I was not careful that Red would wear me.I can still hear my 5 year old voice convincingly saying that I would religiously wear it, daily if I had to when I took it out of its packaging.
The beautiful variations of red I now adorn my lips with, years after I saw my mother for the first time!
For me, red lipstick will always be associated with a particular woman – My mother, the charismatic, clever and fearless female of our Family, whose scarlet lips signaled like a red flag that she was in charge. Everything about Mom was graceful and confident: from her sophisticated wardrobe, to her opinionated views and crimson Chanel pout – she was everything I wanted to be growing up.
Inspired by her potent combination of cosmetics and confidence, I set about experimenting with the bold lips that she was never without, and myself and others had always deemed me too shy to wear. I armed myself with a rich, creamy red lipstick, the kind that slips on like satin and sets like velvet.
Although it wasn’t instant, with time and practice, simple sweeps of vibrant colour helped bestow my lips and confidence with the characteristics that set me on my way to becoming what I considered ‘that kind of woman’.
That’s the thing about red lipstick - It may require confidence to wear, but confidence can actually be a result of putting on red lipstick – and no one needs to know which comes first.
With Lipstick,
Fearless
For as long as I can remember I have watched my mother apply her lipstick in the shade of red, All shades of red to be more exact. All of them varying with the seasons that visited every year. I remember clearly just how stunning it looked on her and how I could hardly wait till I was able to use her collection on my back then baby lips. Because of my mother , now in my head forever, is the thought that there’s a certain kind of a woman who wears red lip stick, or at least that’s what I had in my head when I bought my first shade of red lipstick almost 10 years ago. That kind of a woman is sexy. She’s always been. She wears red. Only did I later get to know that if I was not careful that Red would wear me.I can still hear my 5 year old voice convincingly saying that I would religiously wear it, daily if I had to when I took it out of its packaging.
The beautiful variations of red I now adorn my lips with, years after I saw my mother for the first time!
For me, red lipstick will always be associated with a particular woman – My mother, the charismatic, clever and fearless female of our Family, whose scarlet lips signaled like a red flag that she was in charge. Everything about Mom was graceful and confident: from her sophisticated wardrobe, to her opinionated views and crimson Chanel pout – she was everything I wanted to be growing up.
Inspired by her potent combination of cosmetics and confidence, I set about experimenting with the bold lips that she was never without, and myself and others had always deemed me too shy to wear. I armed myself with a rich, creamy red lipstick, the kind that slips on like satin and sets like velvet.
Although it wasn’t instant, with time and practice, simple sweeps of vibrant colour helped bestow my lips and confidence with the characteristics that set me on my way to becoming what I considered ‘that kind of woman’.
That’s the thing about red lipstick - It may require confidence to wear, but confidence can actually be a result of putting on red lipstick – and no one needs to know which comes first.
With Lipstick,
Fearless
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