I appreciate you taking the time to LMK. I add them to my suggestions for clients.

Those are good colours, those Burt’s Bees glosses. The colour you describe does sound perfect. If only it stayed on better, but in a balm-type tube and with a sheer enough application, you can reapply it whenever – better than lipstick in many ways. Glad you found something that works.

Right now I’m mostly wearing Burts Bees Lip Shimmer in Watermelon – which is actually a soft mauve.

Good comment. Thank you.

Your doubt about that colour brings up a couple of important points. The first is that I couldn’t try the colour because there are no testers. Makeup colour never applies precisely as expected even when you CAN test it. As much as I believe that you can buy good makeup at the drugstore, I have concluded that unless it can be tested, it is just too much of a risk. Though I would like to, I no longer buy them or recommend them. I liked the cool, soft lilac-plum of that shade but the bronze would get in the way.

That article was written before my understanding of the seasons, their colours, and their cosmetic needs had crystallized to the level they are at today (which is not to say that it doesn’t have a way to go, but it is evolving fast). I leave these articles as they were written because they are not that wrong, and hopefully they offer more organization at the cosmetic counter buffet that the haphazard approach makeup shopping usually takes.

I analyzed a True Summer 2 weeks ago, which is the Sci\ART counterpart to Cool Summer. We went makeup shopping. It was entirely frustrating. I can see why women get fed up, and I like buying makeup. We settled on lipstick in Lancome Provocative, eyeshadow in Lancome Optic and Mochaccino, blush in Estee Lauder Fresh Plum (this is a very soft colour; Lancome Aplum might work if you’re not too fair, but a light version of this season would look bruised from all the blue in it). Heck of a time finding eyeliner, but Lancome Gris Fume, or Clinique Slate (or is it Sable? there’s only 1 soft grey one) and Smoky Taupe were good.

True Summer is a complex palette. I think I analyze so many of them because they have so much frustration with finding clothes and makeup that feel right and familiar. The fashion and cosmetic industries don’t serve them well. Actually, for all the season, it’s sink-or-swim at the makeup counter, though the Softs do better because it’s that rosy-nude flesh-toned palette that we all buy so much of, so the marketers provide.