Alas, back in those days they didn't have to make a decision about whether $35 was a ridiculous price for a lipstick. In most cases I would tell you that if a lipstick costs $35 it better make you funnier, thinner and keep you warm at night.
Well, I am here to tell you that although I am still using an electric blanket for heat at night, I have found that Dior Blazing Red lipstick can indeed make you feel funnier, thinner and put a little spring in your step.
I found this amazing lipstick while on a Sephora run with one of my very best friends (let's call her Claudett) who had stumbled into Sephora earlier that week and been hooked by a sample of lipstick she received. She had promptly used up the sample and was determined to get a full size of the amazing lipstick he had found.
There was just one problem.....she didn't know what kind of lipstick it was.....or who made it...
I assured her that two college educated and professionally accomplished woman (I am talking about the two of us) could figure out what lipstick she was looking for. We started with the only fact she knew (or thought she knew), that the lipstick was Chanel.
My response to this fact? "Claudette, they don't sell Chanel makeup at Sephora."
Ok, so we didn't even have one piece of information to go on but optimism is our strong suit. We confidently walked into Sephora - immediately bypassing all the twenty year old sales assistants and found the most competent associate at which point we handed her what was left of the sample and said "Find this lipstick for us."
Well, if you can believe it - that savvy little sales associate did one scan of that giant Sephora, walked right over to the Dior section and found the damn lipstick!
We were, of course appropriately impressed and ripe of the up sell. But, instead of up selling us she did something so much more savvy, she gave us another sample of a different Dior lipstick.
A sample of Dior, Blazing Red (cue angels and white light).
All I can tell you is that you need to buy it, wear it with some black winged eyeliner, a touch of bronzer and get prepared for the fact that you will stand a little straighter, laugh a little louder and generally be a little more fabulous.
So, when you catch a glimpse of yourself in the mirror and you just have to wink and make kissey faces at how fierce you are.....don't thank me....thank Dior.
