When I'm having a rough day I like to listen to Korn and the System of a Down radio on Pandora. A lot of people don't like those bands, and I completely understand. I do! I just wish people liked them. Korn is iffy. I get it. They're weird. System of a Down is so political and smart, though! If you don't like the music itself I would hope you'd appreciate the message they're sending.
I didn't come on this hur post to rant about bands most don't like. I came hur to talk about how I made lip stain! (Thank you
Rookie Mag!) It was v organic and makes me feel all clean inside. I want to walk around in high heels and say "yes yes i made this myself you can't buy it in stores SORRYY." Also imagine a very expensive little bag while I fling my arm around. Okay, I'm not that snooty but sometimes I wish I was. I would be fly. (maybe not.)
If you read the article, or at least skimmed, on the link I posted, you probably already know that I used beet juice to make my lip stain. It didn't stain my skin as much as I thought it would! You know I don't do gloves. Gloves are for bitches. I don't even use gloves when I dye my hair! Then again, I mostly have other people dye my hair. Whatevs. I already have quite a few red lip stains and lip stick (red isn't quite my color anyway.) so I decided that when I was going to create this I would add a little color to make one orange (orange-y red is totes in right now anyways) and to make a deep purple. I decided food coloring would do the job quite well. It kinda worked.. I put the beet juice in two different containers; one for the orange and one for the purple. I added teeny bits of food coloring and stirred it around, testing it on my hands and lips until I liked the color. The purple didn't work so well. The orange? yes. I didn't add orange food coloring, I added yellow. To make orange... I KNOW MY COLOR THEORY OKAY. You could also have added oils, but i put a few drops into the whole bowl of beet juice that was made from the giant beet I had. I didn't add drops into my individual containers or anything like that. That felt like too much oil to me and it might cancel out because I know that I use oil to also take my makeup and lip stain off.
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| ORANGE. this pic is a lil scary |
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| my nose isn't this big in real life. |
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| purple turned a little brown. |
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| this is how dark it looks foreal |
Instead of adding oils I just put a little chapstick over my lips when the stains has dried and starts getting stickay. It's a fun experience and you definitely could make a shitton of stain for the price! Me and two other friends made lip stain with the same beet, and we still threw out a big ass bowl of beet juice. If you're into this kind of stuff and enjoy saving money, because TUH who doesnt, I'd definitely give this a try.
