Lips: March 2008 Archives

If you liked the idea of the Maybelline product I wrote about last month but were a little nervous about the ingredients (I was!), I have another, slightly less adventurous suggestion.

Benefit Cosmetics has a new "lip shaping set" called Cupid's Bow. The goal is to create a "perfect bow" on your upper lip and a "perfect pout" on your lower lip. As a result, you get fuller and sexier lips - exactly as Cupid would want you to (in Roman mythology Cupid is the god of erotic love and beauty).

I'll be frank with you: I am a big fan of both lipstick and ecology. Combine the two and you have my attention (actually, puppies will work, too).

The folks at Cargo Cosmetics did just that: they launched their PlantLove lipstick collection which not only uses natural materials for the product and packaging (resulting in less greenhouse gases), but also promises to donate $2 from each lipstick sold to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital...