Smudge-free smooching: An impossible dream?
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You're at the front of your assembled guests. The officiant pronounces you husband and wife, and you're invited to share your first married kiss. The last thing you want is your lipstick smearing up to your nose, or your groom ending up looking like he was wearing it first!What to do? Some tell us to purchase "smudge-free lipstick", but although there are products being marketed which makes this claim, Terry Barber (senior M.A.C. makeup artist in London, England) sadly informs us that this is a myth. Well, he isn't so sad about it, really: "Ha! There is no such thing as a smudge-free lipstick."
So you do the sensible thing and wear a matte lipstick, which is less prone to smudging, and then ... you kiss carefully. Very carefully. NO tongue, for heaven's sake. Your great-aunt Martha does not need to see that. No massive amounts of sliding your lips across the other's, either. What you want is a mid-length, romantically lingering but not overtly sexy "let's ditch this crowd and start our First Night NOW" liplocks. A pretty, but fairly demure pressing of the lips together.
To get your smudge-free wedding kiss, you don't need magical lipstick. You just need a little practice. (And you know, we just can't see that being such a bad thing...)
If you think Mr. Barber is dead wrong, and you've found a TERRIFIC smudge-free lipstick, PLEASE! Tell us about it in the comments!!
To get your smudge-free wedding kiss, you don't need magical lipstick. You just need a little practice. (And you know, we just can't see that being such a bad thing...)
If you think Mr. Barber is dead wrong, and you've found a TERRIFIC smudge-free lipstick, PLEASE! Tell us about it in the comments!!
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