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Second problem: If everything you wear (clothes, make-up, hair etc) matches your skintone, you start to look a bit invisible, a la Jennifer Aniston in 1999, fading into the sofa at Central Perk in Friends: And most of us are neutral-toned anyway, and just veer more towards one or the other. If you are warm toned, you have yellow base, and if you are cool toned, you have a red base. Problem: We aren’t orange and blue based. By matching up the base colour of the red with the amount of orange or blue in your skintone, you should apparently find your perfect red. Instead, you should look at red lipsticks closely and decide whether they are a yellow based red (are they slightly orange) or a blue based red (are they slightly pink). Apparently, four is the number of lipsticks I can fit in my mouth at one time, so the fifth had to remain in my hand. There are two schools of thought on finding the right shade of red lipstick: The traditional method says that it’s got to match your skintone, by which they don’t mean you should choose a lipstick that’s the same colour of red that your face goes when you accidentally inhale a cranberry.

I decided to investigate exactly what you need to do, to find your perfect red lipstick to wear this season’s most daring lip color so you can look like a sparkling ruby, rather than a shrinking violet. Have you ever fallen in love with a beautiful bright red lipstick that you had to stop wearing because it didn’t look right? When we get the wrong shade of red, we look washed out or sickly, regardless of skin tone.