{"id":25022,"date":"2014-03-26T17:43:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T21:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=25022"},"modified":"2016-10-06T13:04:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T17:04:32","slug":"blue-lipstick-3-by-pretty-zombie-cosmetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/blue-lipstick-3-by-pretty-zombie-cosmetics\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Lipstick #3 by Pretty Zombie Cosmetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After mentioning in <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/crazy-lipstick-colors-on-the-huffington-post\/\" target=\"_blank\">my last post<\/a> that I needed to test my new Blue Moon liquid lipstick by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prettyzombiecosmetics.com\/category\/liquid-lipstick\" target=\"_blank\">Pretty Zombie Cosmetics<\/a>, I couldn&#8217;t resist doing it immediately, so I wore it yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The color is electrifying and goes on perfectly opaque. As I expected from a liquid lipstick, it feels very dry once it sets. I used to loathe any lipstick that wasn&#8217;t hydrating, but now I like the dry ones because it means the color isn&#8217;t going to feather around the lip line. The more &#8220;mature&#8221; you get, the more you want to avoid feathering, trust me. Little lines you can&#8217;t see in the mirror are suddenly very visible when color makes its way into them. I apply a little clear lip gloss very lightly, well away from the edges, to alleviate the dryness with liquid and matte lipsticks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-25024\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/zombies-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"zombies\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/zombies-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/zombies-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/zombies.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The color lasted all day, though it did transfer onto other surfaces. Sigh. Only my <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/red-lipstick-1-macs-lasting-lust\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lasting Lust red by MAC<\/a> is transfer-free so far. (It has occurred to me that I want the lipstick equivalent of a tattoo &#8212; full coverage, no feathering, no transfer, lasts forever.) Still, I did like the product.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I had an epic style fail while wearing Blue Moon. The color is SO outrageous that the rest of my look really needed to match. I should have gone for extreme black eye liner, a <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/what-wendy-wore-vintage-versace-for-new-years-eve\/\" target=\"_blank\">special Julie Matos hairstyle<\/a>, and an Outfit with a capital O. Wearing this with my everyday street look was not the business.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25028\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25028\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25028\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/bluemoonresize.jpg\" alt=\"bluemoonresize\" width=\"498\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/bluemoonresize.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/bluemoonresize-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25028\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is just wrong.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I realized belatedly that I looked like my lips were going to a rave, while the rest of me was going to drop the kids off at their soccer practice. It didn&#8217;t help that I felt extra-dowdy in one of my few button-front shirts. I&#8217;m not a big fan of button-front shirts, but I was working on a friend&#8217;s video project, and every other camera-worthy, solid-colored top seemed to be in the laundry. I&#8217;m sure going to look &#8230; interesting &#8230; on video. Well, that&#8217;s one way to get comments on YouTube! I&#8217;ll have to go with the sentiment expressed by the necklace I wore yesterday: IDGAF.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25025\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/kiss.jpg\" alt=\"kiss\" width=\"498\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/kiss.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/kiss-300x283.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Get your own gold IDGAF necklace from my website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/products.php?product=Letter-Necklace-%252d-Small%2C-Gold%2C-IDGAF\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. You can also check out my other interesting lip colors &#8212; green, black and purple &#8212; in <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/crazy-lipstick-colors-on-the-huffington-post\/\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday&#8217;s post<\/a>.\u00a0 And please read my Huffington Post story on the independent cosmetics companies that are producing all these great lipsticks. The ones I highlighted were all started by women. Yay for lady entrepreneurs!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/wendy-brandes\/lipstick_1_b_4976742.html\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE TO READ ME ON THE HUFFINGTON POST.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To read the other 21 stories I&#8217;ve written for the Huffington Post, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/wendy-brandes\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After mentioning in my last post that I needed to test my new Blue Moon liquid lipstick by Pretty Zombie Cosmetics, I couldn&#8217;t resist doing it immediately, so I wore it yesterday afternoon. The color is electrifying and goes on perfectly opaque. As I expected from a liquid lipstick, it feels very dry once it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/blue-lipstick-3-by-pretty-zombie-cosmetics\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[646,564,116,41,375],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blue-lipstick","8":"category-huffington-post","9":"category-makeup","10":"category-pictures-of-me","11":"category-product-review","12":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25022"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34377,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25022\/revisions\/34377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}