💗🦇 graveyard glossy
luscious lip shades for hot ghoul summer
the dead of summer is upon us. time to slather on the SPF 50 and search for a suitor to make out in the cemetery with.
if you’re like me, pouting in a boba tea-stained sundress is the only siren song you know. here are a few potions that will make any lover want to kiss you until your lips fall off.
cooling water jelly tint - milk makeup
so we all know the best way to achieve the popsicle lip look is to consume an actual freezy pop, (often seductively) in the general direction of whichever wave pool zaddy looks most like paul hollywood. but if you can’t show your face at your local swim club anymore, thanks to a sordid affair with said zaddy + its acrimonious ending—the milk makeup jelly tints are the next best thing.
bonus: it’s a cruelty-free dupe for benetint.
soft matte lipstick - mob cosmetics
if you’re looking to stay casket-chic all season long, this lipstick puts the ghoul in hot ghoul summer.
i go crazy for everything jessica haze creates with mob cosmetics, but this collab was by far my fave. it’s a true taupe-greige with mauve undertones that will have you looking like a pulseless princess with one swipe. M102 is the shade you wear to assert psychological (and spiritual) dominance on a first date at the cemetery.
forbidden lipstick- rituel del fille
it’s giving haunted doll on a shelf. it’s giving put me in your curio cabinet with the rest of your cursed trinkets. in all my years of being afflicted with a makeup shopping obsession, i have never come across a lipstick that packs so much pigment in such a slim tube. literally one dab of this can create the most diffused, ethereal lip look your wretched little mind can possibly imagine.
so juicy plumping gloss - colourpop
this is the lip gloss i would wear if i was going on a date with a deliciously disapproving she-e-o well into her 40s, who i need to seem sexy and aloof around while also making it look like i have my shit together (am not one ulta order away from filing for bankruptcy). this shade is like a muted cherry and is fun/flirty while also conveying you own an iPad.
the coverage is overall pretty sheer, so it won’t transfer or make a mess. which is perfect if you’re out to dinner, eating pasta, and asking a woman with a paid-off mortgage what she thinks gollum’s top 4 on letterboxd would be.
softwear- experiment
not a lip gloss, not yet a lip balm as britney spears would say. this is like if a lip mask merged together with a clear plumping gloss and left you looking (and feeling) ready to seduce your ex-boyfriend into not taking you to small claims court for the $1,400 hot topic order you put on his credit card after a stressful interaction at panera bread.
plus, softwear makes all of the other products on this list go on like 10x smoother. a true summer essential that i will be taking with me to the grave.
-rachel elizzzz