Low Maintenance Red Lipstick - Makeup Pros this is a question for you!?

I have countless red lipsticks (MACs, Clinique Moulin Rouge, Cover Girl Longwear, stains, name it...) but I can never seem to bring myself to wear them at work.





Because red is so high-maintenance I'm always afraid it's either going to bleed, feather, flake (Longwear), especially after meetings-lunches.





I know all the steps to apply great red lips (I do it on the weekend) but how can you really get the total glamour look without going to the ladies room every hour.





If you do wear red lipstick to work and have a busy day, which brand do you recommend. I kinda like the Cover Girl or L'Oreal longwear but hate how it flakes and clumps the minute you eat something oily.





Should I just accept the fact that red lipstick is something you need to re-apply and keep neat?Low Maintenance Red Lipstick - Makeup Pros this is a question for you!?
i too share your love for red lipstick. try this!


my aunt taught me about 20 years ago, this is what she did back in the day. she would take baby powder and sprinkle it into the palm of her hand. then before anything was applied to her lips- anything- she would take the palm of her hand to her mouth as if ';dipping'; her lips into the powder. then you take one of those huge really soft make-up brushes and dust gently to get off the excess. and she never directly applied the tube to her lips. she swore by her lip brush. it is a silky smooth application, i cannot deny. but before applying, she used a lip liner to ';seal'; in the lipstick from bleeding. accompanied by the powder, this will keep it from bleeding. and the smoothness of the lip brush prevents feathering. hope this is a helpful tip for you.Low Maintenance Red Lipstick - Makeup Pros this is a question for you!?
im 16 and i love the glamour look so i have been wearing red lipstick with my red nails for a few months now. i have long red hair iwth choppy bangs, so it works i guess. but im pretty cheap, so i bought the N.Y.C red from walmart for like .97 and it stays all day. i dont do liner or anything. as soon as you put it on just get a papertowel or soemthing and blot it until you cant see it on the papertowel anymore, and then reapply it and just gently blot it, it sealks it in and it never makes a mess. i have to go over it with a lip brush since i don use liner to get it all evened out and everything, but this should work. cheap is sometimes the best