When is red lipstick not a red lipstick?
When it has any pink in it. Red lipsticks are usually too pink all the time, they always turn pink or purple or fuschia on the lips and make the skin—particularly skin with any yellow tone to it—look weird. The most beautiful reds are very pure, very corporeal, very bright: like the colour of blood when it first comes out …
An interview with Francois Nars on of one of my favorite things, red lipstick.
