By “anus lips” I mean the make-up look whereby a woman (usually) draw a strong brown line round the edge of her lips, and fills the centre in a paler, pinky colour.
Why? It looks like hell.
I’m not including the slight-anal-lip look that come from your matching lipstick wearing off more quickly than your lipliner. I am talking about the use of two deliberately contrasting colours. It’s used by women of all different skin and hair colours.
I have quizzed quite a few friends and colleagues about this look (men and women, straight and gay) and no one likes it or understands it.
So - anal-lipped people and/or anal-lipped people’s friends - what’s the go?
I think they think it’s sexy, but I’m not sure. I’ve noticed that the liner almost looks black or very dark brown. Maybe they were tired when getting ready and used eyeliner instead of lipliner?
I call it stripper lipstick, because when ever you see a billboard with a stripper, that’s what’s she’s wearing.
also, the pale pinker color is usually a frosty color. Makes it look way worse.
ever notice though, that the grls with stripper lipstick always have the plucked eyebrows from hell? That trend that was popular in the 20’s then made a blip on the screen during the 90’s.
Um, girls? It looks like shit. really. you have a startled look all the time. You look like evil clowns. stop it!
Even more foul is when the gloss on the anus lips is so thick you could scrape it off with your fingernail and coat the lips of fifty other women with it.
I opened this thread thinking someone was going to talk about their own anus lips and I was thinking, I don’t have anus lips WTF.
But this is much worse. I hate that look too. When I wear a really dark red lipstick, I use matching lip pencil because it just looks better. I also have a lip pencil identical to my own lip color that I wear with more neutral colors. That is when I take the time to wear makeup at all.
Can’t believe this hasn’t been said already: Band Name!
But seriously, I thought the idea was to make the lips look bigger.
Looks very low class to me, same for overplucked eyebrows.
Some even pluck them off entirely and draw the eyebrow on with a pencil. WTF! I could understand if they were replacing brows lost in a horrific curling iron accident but they can’t all be that clumsy/unlucky.
About as sexy to me as a guy as I would expect a marker pen moustache would be to a woman.
The concept is (supposed) to be to use a slightly darker lipliner, and fill in the rest of the lips with your lipstick. It doesn’t look bad when it’s done right. That’s because it’s pretty subtle, and you aren’t even supposed to (consciously) notice it.
In fact, I sometimes do a “variation” on this theme, by putting on a darkish (not super dark, but a little darkish for me) lipstick, and then touching up the middle parts of my lips with a slightly lighter lipstick. It looks OK, because it all blends in together more. It can give the illusion of fuller lips (for as long as the lipstick sticks to your lips).
The other night, on TV (I think it was the Style Channel) they were doing a makeover on a girl, and they used the REALLY dark lipliner with a lighter lipstick. It looked BAD. Really BAD. No wonder so many women are going for this look, though. If they are promoting this look on “Style” (which is, of course, the epitome of “style” ;)) then a lot of women are going to think it’s THE thing to do.
I had a girlfriend who did this, and I have to say I found it rather attractive. I’ve never seen it look good on anyone else since, so I guess I just got lucky. Based on what I just read, the vast majority of you find it vile… so you would think it would just die out on its own.
Then again, watching a program like Judge Judy makes me realize that big hair, feathered hair and mulletts will continue to be inexplicably popular.
I always thought it was a look that screamed “I give blow jobs for free!”
Oh well.
On another note, back in the sixties when white lipstick first became popular, my aunt got some and put it on to go out. She came downstairs and my grandfather yelled at her and told her it looked like a monkey’s asshole.
