I was appalled by this new look from Paris fashion week! Then I was attracted to it. Then appalled again and attracted again, before I conceded to having mixed feelings about it. 80′s references have popped up all over the runways, and not just on clothes.
In the Emanuel Ungaro show, the era was brought back to life in form of two-toned lips. A bright fushia and striking orange combo was enough to conjure flashbacks of Madonna in her “Like A Virgin” heyday. Makeup artist Tom Pecheux for MAC Cosmetics made a modern interpretation by using this color on a blank canvas left bare.
The faces on the catwalk showed no traces of makeup, save for their statement lips.
Another tip he gave was to slick on the darker color on both lips to act as base, before adding the brighter color on the top lip. But I’m still not sure the modern version is wearable on a real-life setting.
Costume National’s interpretation was a bit more toned down, in red and wine rues. I found that these could be more doable off the runway!
What do you think of this new trend? Would you be willing to rock this bold look or should it be saved for editorials and runways?




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I don’t wear lipstick or lipgloss, but I like the way that it looks.
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Its nice but it surely has to match your outfit perfectly…
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Not a fan of it. I’d never walk out of the house wearing two different colors. It’s fine for magazines and runways though.
orchid / 163 posts
not if the color’s that dark. it’s like wearing 2 different eyeshadow colors on each eye or 2 different shoes.
lipstick are disgusting though. my opinion.
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I wouldn’t use this look of the two toned lip. I mean I love to experience different ways of putting make up and all those.
BUT. This just doesn’t appeal to me. I think it should “be saved in editorial and runways.”
I’ve been reading a few of your blogs and I love them. =]
sunflower / 327 posts
looks weird. only few could pull it off
magnolia / 1296 posts
i think it looks a little awkward…
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Just looks very strange to me. I wouldn’t wear it. But I would get a kick out of seeing it on others. You know… Hm. You see, when I was in Iran in the early 1980s, I was among a lot of people wearing very drab clothing and women who did their level best to be practically invisible fashion-wise. I didn’t like it. It was BORING. But I got used to thinking of it as normal somehow. Then I left and had a long stopover in Paris, France. Right off the plane, I discovered Punk Rockers. Love at first sight! I’d never dress that way myself, but I loved that they did. It was such a refreshing change from what I’d gotten used to that I just wanted to hug them for being so colorful and outrageously exotic. So, yeah, two-tone lipstick, not for me but very fun to see.
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QUEEN AMIDALA.
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cute, but i probably wouldn’t have the nerve…
i had a camp counselor who did her makeup like that.
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Too tacky.
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i very much like it; i think it adds excitement and dimension to the lips. however, i would not wear this myself. it’s too bold for real life: in real life i like to go very natural, with muted colours around the eyes and tinted lip balm and powder that is precisely the same pale tone as my natural skin (i’m very fair and i do not faux tan).
daisy / 512 posts
ok the two hues are too jarring. the very last picture…… maybe. maybe. sometimes natural lips are different shades, after all
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well, basically, that makes me want to barf.
dahlia / 2012 posts
@Lizbeth8207@xanga - lol! So true.
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Ew. No thanks.
dahlia / 2012 posts
As an artist, I find unnatural and incongruent (albeit similar) colors juxtaposed like that on a human being to be annoying and distracting. It makes me focus on the lips and wonder if that person is color-blind or simply out of their goddamned mind.
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Not hot.
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i’m totally trying that this weekend
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ewww..
sunflower / 271 posts
it looks alright, but i wouldn’t wear it.
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it’ll be “in” in 10+ years.
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Not my thing..
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you’d have to keep from rubbing your lips together! Imagine all the priming and blotting and powdering needed to set those lips!!
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It’s not that bad.
But i’d never do it.
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it’s not that new of a trend. I wouldn’t do th first one, but I do the second one all the time.
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only if the color difference is pretty subtle. then perhaps it would work, like make the top darker and the bottom lighter to give off the appearance that your bottom lip is more fuller. something like that anyway.
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Can’t say I enjoy it…Looks like someone was trying to get out the door and forgot to finish putting on lipstick…
It’s definately a runway thing I can live with…but outside in the world…no.
hydrangea / 93 posts
Yeah no.
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HOT. if done correctly.
orchid / 125 posts
I personally think it looks horrible off the runway. Unless you’re going for the “makeup is an artistic expression of my soul” look, I think this will be a pass.
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I’m sorry, but that’s just tacky.
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no
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Runway all the way!
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I wouldn’t do it.
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No.
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Appalled.
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it looks great for fashion, i love really wild make up for photographs, and artistic purposes…
but i think wearing some of those things is kind of silly..
i’ll let some one else try this out first haha
sunflower / 293 posts
I would try that…maybe
hydrangea / 53 posts
Wouldn’t really work on me.
Well not really liking it anyway.
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I like the colors and the pop feel they give, but I don’t think it’s made for lips at all.
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I’ll pass.
sunflower / 448 posts
EWw
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well, i put one coat of dark lip gloss on my top lip and one coat of light lip gloss on my bottom, and then i mash it together so i get a neat different color (: i also like the result, which ends up being two coats.
this isn’t the same thing, but it sort of relates.
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nay hot.
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I love it. My issue is finding lip wear that doesn’t smudge and get mixed together.
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Well it depends on the colors. To me the bottom picture looks okay, but the other ones aren’t attractive at all.
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i think it looks cool if you can pull it off.
i might try it, but as a more toned down natural look..i dont think i would do bright purple and orange…maybe a light pink and a dark pink?
i dont know, i think only a few selected amount of people can pull of this look, like supermodels…and those who are lucky enough to have the face and lips to make this kind of make up look amazing
dahlia / 2942 posts
All of these colors seem too unnatural, whether they match or not. I think I like the paler “natural” look better.
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The toned-down version is ok; the hyper-color version . . . not so much.
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maybe if i was taking pictures of myself an i was messing around with the camera
magnolia / 1030 posts
Huh.
The dark is less noticible, and better. Still skeptical though. A little too joker/clown for real life?
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Strange… but maybe it’ll end up growing on me. That always happens… A trend seems so odd to me, but I eventually love it.
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I think it looks strange.
But that’s just me.
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I like the bottom one for sure. Darker versions of the same color, and a lighter version, is sexy.
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I love the last one that is in red and wine tones. When looking quickly at it, it does not look over dramatic. Otherwise the look is hideous.
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Looks like what I would wear when I was five and trying on my mom’s makeup. x__x
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NOT!
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The last picture is my favorite.
I don’t wear lip stick or color, but I think it’s unique for anyone bold enough to try it.
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it’s pretty for the runway but it someone wore that out in the streets, i would def take a second take at her. it’s a bold statement.
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I’ve seen something like this before… it’s up to the guy to think if it’s attractive or not… but I wouldn’t wear it… maybe…
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RETARDED
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schtupid unless the same hue
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…my lips are naturally two toned…?
not so dramatic though, but they are obviously different colors.
I like it with the darker colors.
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Only if it’s very very subtle.
orchid / 207 posts
it looks weird.
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Lol. Looks nice on the runway, but for a everyday out to show the world look. I’ll pass.
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no..
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i dont wear lipstick/lipgloss anyways but, it does look nice if done right. and yea the clothes worn along with it should match in some way. i will admit the contrast of colors is nice, but if the colors are similar as well, its better
aka. like a dark dark red and a dark red together.
but not like bright orange and then bright red…nononono ahah
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It’s okay for joking around, but for something serious? No way.
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The very last picture looks okay, because they’re both different shades of the same color… but the purple/orange thing looks ridiculous.
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I don’t really like it, although I am a fan of the vertical two tone, I think it’s awesome. Not daring enough to do it though.
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I love how it looks on the runway, but I think it’s too out-there for everyday wear.
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it would blend after a while.
LIPS RUB TOGETHER lol
i think its cute but ridiculous
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No stop I don’t want it.
That was exactly my first response.
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it looks stupid!
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Not.
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that last one was okay..
but overall, no, not outside of the magazines.
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I personally dont like it
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weird. I vote runway. Though the darker toned with lighter tone isn’t too bad… but orange and fuscia, eek.
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Never ever ever.
I don’t like it at all..
But,whatever floats your boat *shrugs*
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QUITE CUTE ! I might want to try it this weekend
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i thnk its too OTT for everyday. its more for couture.
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absolutely ridiculous – on or off the runway.
orchid / 103 posts
i dont really wear lipsticks…i just hate the stickiness of it when it’s on my lips and i’ll end up licking it off. yuck!
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It looks weird to me, so Im gonna go with a NOT.
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I haven’t seen it outside of Queen Amidala in Star Wars.
I don’t know what I think of it.
I suppose on certain people with certain clothes it could look appealing?
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I am a makeup junkie and that looks like crap.
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I wouldn’t care if other people wore it…but I just couldn’t pull it off.
But I think it looks kind of cool in it’s own way.
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The last one I don’t mind that much. Of course I’m not for drawing much attention to my lips anyway. I’d rather put something bright around my eyes.
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It looks nice when the person who’s wearing it, isn’t smiling,
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if you’re hot.. you can work anything..
if not…just stay classy.. lol
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I would rock this look only on Halloween.
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I like the more toned down lips. It’s definitely more doable. I think it’s because it happens before in real life. Or at least for me – I definitely have sported the bottom picture lips before.
But the red and orange… ewww.
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NOT! I’d have to see what they were wearing. But in the pictures it just looks like they’re insane. Like those people who put their lipstick on up to their cheeks and ask if they look pretty in a creepy voice.
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I like it!
cherry blossom / 41 posts
It’s kinda cool.
sunflower / 453 posts
I like when it’s a little darker on top, lighter on bottom- i used to be in LOVE with that when i was little.
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i see how it calls back the 80s. i don’t know how i feeel about it. but i can certainly see it becoming a crazy trend, like those big doofy 80s glasses that my mom swore off when we moved to america, shoulder pads, skinny jeans, and those hats that recall siberia which my dad has stashed away for a decade and a half.
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yeah ok. now you’re a walking billboard.
sad thing is it will only get worse.
I prefer au naturale on girls.
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i only like it when the lips don’t clash. the last picture is cute.
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love it, i’m doing it tonight ♥80s
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The bottom one is definitely doable off the runway. I really like the red and wine. But as for the top photos, they can stay on the runway along with the crazy dresses we also wouldn’t wear in the real world. lol I do like it though, just not beyond the boundaries of high fashion world.
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i like it
alot.
not sure if i could wear it. but i do love how it lookss
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Darker tones will be more doable in a real life.
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I don’t know how wearable it is in real life (maybe the toned down version is a better bet) but I don’t find it ugly or anything. I’m pretty neutral towards it.
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I don’t like it. At all.
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If you could pull it off, then go for it.
I wouldn’t do that though, only ’cause I hate lipstick/lipgloss and suck at mixing/matching stuff
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I like the red/wine one, it’s more subtle…
But when you’re wearing pink on one lip and orange on the other, it’s too far.
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it does not look right to me so naw its so weird
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HELL to tha NOOOOOO!!
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i like it!
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mehh
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It’s not very flattering. It’s like clown makeup but then again, a lot of runway makeup is like that.
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When the top lip is more outstanding than the lower lip, I think it could draw negative attention. I think the two-toned lips thing is another one of those acquired tastes. The last photo is pretty nice, though.
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I rub my lips together alot when I’m nervous or concentrating..so, I’m not really a fan b/c the darker color would get onto the lighter one and just look stupid from then on out.
cherry blossom / 33 posts
awesooome =] definitely doable in real life
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too bold! plus i dont wer lipsticks, i like my gloss too much!
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The last one looks pretty good. I think it would be alright if the colors were more similar in shade.
cherry blossom / 25 posts
I can’t stand this look. It makes me shiver to look at it, actually.
orchid / 122 posts
@ELIZerson@xanga - That’s EXACTLY what I was thinking!! She had the weirdest looking lips.
About the whole thing I think it looks weird. The last picture looks fine, but the others just look odd.
tulip / 11 posts
Me no like!