Illumi Does It : The Electric Lipstick Kool-Aid Test

TheElectric Lipstick Kool–AidTest

by: A.  Illumi

Can Kool-Aid be a good lipstick?

13 years ago, I read a Rolling Stone interview with the biggest supermodels at the time – one of them said that her FAVORITE lipstick was Kool-AID! At the time I thought it was NUTS! But older and braver Illumi decided to give it a whirl.

For the test I tried three flavors/colors

of unsweetened Kool-Aid: Orange, Cherry, and Black Cherry!

(okay… I tried two others but… they were oh so bad!)

At first, I tried the powders dry on wet lips that came out grainy and horrible. So I did some experimenting and finally came out with carmex first – then kool-aid then more carmex. Note, people say use vaseline but that may be bad for your lips – petroleum based and all – I am thinking your regular chapstick will be fine!

The look of the cherry was lush as candy apples

( Incidentally, also learned it is hard to take pictures of lips without a zoom on this mission! )

The orange was a fun everyday use kind of color

(getting a little better at taking pictures of lips!)

Word to the wise ladies – do not try the pink lemonade – I couldn’t even get it all the way on my lips – IT BURNED SO BAD!! The black cherry however, was burn free and very vampy – they could start marketing as a lip stain and call it that even!!

The green never worked out for me either – just messy andgray and weird. Though the orange and the red were the most successful I have to say this about kool-aid as a lip stain – it stays kind of grainy – tastes very sour, intense, and leaves your lips pretty dry and mangled the day after. If I needed stay on lip color on the cheap for a BIG night I would do it again but not so much all the time. One last suggestion for the neat-impaired – kool-aid stains the hands – so use gloves!

Feeling dissatisfied with these results, I began to peek around the internet to see what other innovative chicas were doing with home lip stain. It seems some people deal with the kool-aid by heating vaseline and mixing it there. This seems possibly dangerous and something like work to Lumi – work is not fun and I should be paid so not worth the savings!! This nice lady makes her red lip stain from red food coloring – her very detailed instructional video is here. Apparently, during the depression, flapper gals may have even used crepe paper? for a lip stain! Other ladies of the more organic au’ natural types say that rasberries and beet juice work well – this I will try! Also Henna(this is traditional in many parts of the world – here are some women talking about it on a blog(henna) sounds a little scary but *shrug* – who knows what’s in our makeup right?

The best suggestion I saw wasJELL-O. This fascinated me – the gelatin in jello had to make the application softer and smoother– I just knew it. SO I tried it – just one flavor this time – strawberry – the application was the simple– very slightly wet paint brush(I am sure a lip brush would be fine but I have more paint brushes than lip brushes!) and a tiny tiny bit of jello – swoop onto the lips and ta-dah pretty pink lips – relatively no dryness much less grainy and with chapstick on the tops it glimmers – even after lip biting and orange juice – it’s still there soyay Jell-o!

*IN my virtual walkabout on lip staining I found so many wild and interesting suggestions: As always, we at The Aunties are not advising anyone to do anything be warn you proceed at your own risk into lip staining adventures!* If you have wacky makeup ideas you are afraid to try please send the Aunties a message – we are brave and foolish and in need of material – thank you!*IN my virtual walkabout on lip staining I found so many wild and interesting suggestions: As always, we at The Aunties are not advising anyone to do anything be warn you proceed at your own risk into lip staining adventures!* If you have wacky makeup ideas you are afraid to try please send the Aunties a message – we are brave and foolish and in need of material – thank you!

Extras:

Kool-Aid may not be my favorite lip stain but my oh my it seems the stuff is VERY versatile – just check out what these clever people are doing with the cheapest most widely loved drink mix in the world:make play-doh,watercolors, and hair dye with kool-aidtie-dye with kool-aid!make fake blood out of kool-aid!frostinf flavored with kool-aidmake sand art with kool-aidkool-aid picklesdye yarn with kool-aidand here’s kool-aid inspired fashion and art!Reeboks inspired by kool-aidnecklace inspired bykool-aidcar inspired by kool-aidkool-aid street arthere’s a place called sexpot that sells lipstains – they get a mention just because they sell stain in jars and call themselves sexpotpretty henna stains?The Best commercial lipstain ever?? so says this blogger:what is it?Also the title of this article was inspired by the Tom Wolfe wonderfullness:find out about itbuy it

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