Matte Lipstick # Lady Danger

Many years ago I was having dinner at a restaurant and the server was a beautiful dark skin young woman who was wearing the most gorgeous shade of red lipstick I’ve ever seen. She told me it was Lady Dangerous by MAC. I thought that will never look good on my pale ass skin but I had some empties to return to MAC for a free lipstick (sad, remember those days) so I thought why not, let’s try it. I absolutely love it and it has become my go to red for years. I have repurchased it at least 4-5 times since the initial one.

On top of the color being different irl (likely very orange in the tube), remember that these films were colored with technicolor or equivalent technology. The color was superimposed. This makes color POP in a way it simply doesn’t irl. That’s why it looks so good on everyone, because it is heavily “filtered” to achieve this tone intensity and saturation. So everyone has complimentary bright complexions and eyes and rosy cheeks that wouldn’t look like that irl. That said, MAC Lady Danger looks like this vivid orangey red (I’m seeing orange red in almost all of these shots). Ruby Woo is too blue and Russian Red is neutral but completely lacks the *pop*

Mac face and body foundation. It doesn’t show skin texture at all.