My pal Meagan gave me a MAC cosmetics haul for Christmas last month, and one of the items was this Prep + Prime lipbalm/lip primer. I've never been into the concept of "primer" - it makes me think of smoothing out the dings in battered cars in an auto body shop with horrible caustic spackle stuff, or laying down a coat of grayish matte paint before painting the walls in your house the color you really want them. But this MAC Prep + Prime lip primer goes on very smoothly, like a vanilla-scented lipbalm, and it must have some kind of silicones in it, for it fills in the natural creases in your lips so that when you apply lipstick or gloss, your lips look HUGE! I was very surprised, because MAC doesn't advertise this product or write about it as a "plumper," yet it's by far the most dramatic plumper I've ever encountered. I feel like Amanda Lepore.
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I love that product too... that's why I had to share. I like it much, much better than any
so-called "plumper," also! I hate Lip Venom! I hate the painful, malodorous, disgusting plumping glosses with oils that make your lips freak out! I want Urban Decay to bring Lip Gunk back! Waaah!
(Amanda L. scares me. She seems intelligent in interviews, print features, etc., though.)
That photo freaks me out.
This looks like a cool product!
The website is even freakier. I had no idea who she was (I am so tragically sheltered) but I went to the site and started reading and she's... fascinating.
Amanda Lepore is not freaky to me - I think it's very interesting how she's claimed/reclaimed and deconstructed/constructed traditional notions of feminine beauty. She makes me think about and wonder how much of gender is constructed versus how much is "natural." She makes me think about how much of my own feminine gender presentation is constructed, consciously and unconsciously. FYI, my aunt (my father's sister) is a male-to-female transsexual woman and I'm very proud of her and very proud to be her niece!
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