Lipstick is the last thing I apply on my face before I leave the house. It's the final puzzle piece to my look and it determines so much of how I want to express myself for the day! That's a lot of pressure to put on just a single cosmetic product, I know, but that's the beauty of lipstick. You can always change your mind.

If I had to drastically trim down my makeup collection to just a few items, I can probably live with just one foundation, brow pencil, mascara, and blush. But can you imagine just using one lippie? Hell no.

We all probably have a lot more lipsticks than we can reasonably use up before their expiry dates. We may not love every single one but I hang onto them because we like the option of being able to switch up our look if we so choose. If we're being honest though, we play favorites and usually just have a couple actually in use. These are the shades we're currently rocking!

When I was younger, my mom always told me that wearing lipstick would make my lips darker. That may be true for her, but over the years I've noticed that my lips have become paler and paler to the point that they're approaching the color of my skin. They don't get dry or flaky, but they do look off to me when they're bare. There is one advantage though: I can now wear any lipstick, even nude shades, without my natural lip color showing through! It's really useful whenever I do these lip swatches, haha.