- Typically on my lips I wear saliva and/or chapstick.
(upbeat funky music)
- I never wear lipstick,
and I'm going to wear lipstick for a week.
(dramatic music)
- I don't wear lipstick
because whenever I do I look like a serial killing clown.
Like I'm going to snatch your kids off the street.
- I feel like when my face is at rest
I have a very small mouth.
I feel like lipstick would make it look smaller
than it already is.
- I don't know.
It somehow got into my brain that if I'm wearing
a big, bold lip and trying to make
a really strong, serious point
maybe people won't take that seriously.
Which is bullshit,
so maybe I'm totally wrong.
- I do wear makeup.
I tend to go heavier with the eye makeup
because I have monolids.
Wearing lipstick in addition to that
seems a little much for me.
- When I agreed to do this I sort of imagined
I'd be wearing it in my apartment.
Now I'm like, "Oh, I have to wear this outside,
"like in public."
- What's the point of nude lipstick?
- [Woman] That's a great question.
- (Laughs)
- I look ghostly.
- This will probably highlight my moustache hairs.
- I already feel all of the moisture
just like being sucked out.
- I feel like this makeup kind of highlights
the huge flaw with nudes.
One nude color for someone else
is the opposite skin tone for someone.
- I don't feel cool yet.
- This will be great.
Great week.
- Someone just came up to me and told me
that I look "so Kylie",
which I can guarantee has never, ever happened to me before
in my entire life.
- It doesn't seem like you, but I like it.
- [Man] Yeah.
- [Woman] Oh no! (laughs)
- I felt so self-conscious this entire day
and I still feel self-conscious.
Do I even have lips?
- I just walked into the bathroom
and literally scared myself
because I forgot I was wearing this.
I was like, "Oh!"
Nope, just my face.
- One of my coworkers told me that I looked dead today.
So that happened.
- Well, that wasn't what I was expecting at all.
This is pretty cute.
It's weird to even think of this as lipstick
because it's super subtle.
- I just think that these lipstick colors
weren't designed with my skin tone in mind.
I feel like that's probably why I don't wear
very many lipsticks.
- It looks pretty normal.
It looks cute.
Do you not like it?
- I mean it's...
Yeah, it looks brown-y.
- This is not as bad as yesterday.
- Yeah, yesterday was kind of scary.
- This is really not that bad.
- No one has distracted themselves, like yesterday,
talking to me because I'm wearing it.
It still feels subtle and pretty.
- I'm really excited about today's lipstick
because it's red.
And I'm hoping that, unlike the other ones,
the red won't make my lips look as ashy.
- It's not red, it's like full on orange coral.
I feel like I look like a clown.
- I think red can be very feminine,
but also pretty powerful.
I've never worn red lipstick before
and thought that I could pull it off.
But today is sort of changing my mind on that.
- I'm not going to lie,
I think the lipstick may be growing on me a little bit.
I'm feeling myself.
- You look so beautiful!
- [Woman] No.
- You should do that more often!
- I just met a cute guy.
We just made plans to hang out on Saturday.
Which sounded great until I left and realized
that Saturday is black lipstick day.
(suspenseful music)
- It's been 20 minutes since I've put it on.
It's definitely getting on my teeth
before the end of this hour.
- I've kind of been looking forward to this purple,
so here goes!
Also, I think I've discovered (whispers) my lip line.
It only took four days.
- Oh it definitely is on my teeth.
Oops, shit.
- Oh, um, you have some on your chin and like your lower lip
and essentially the entire bottom half of your face.
You look great.
- I feel like wearing this lipstick
makes me a far more exciting human than I already am.
- So today is the day that I've been dreading the most.
It is black lipstick day.
- It happened.
- It is, by far, my favorite.
It's a 10.
Looking at myself,
I'm like, "Whoa, you look stunning!"
- I still don't love it.
Also, the lipstick is really sticky and kind of dry.
I will say that my lips have never looked bigger
and my teeth have never looked whiter.
- Logan, what happened when the girls just passed by me
on the street?
- They were afraid and stayed far away.
- I am making the executive decision
to not wear it on the date that I have tonight.
I just feel like if I wear black lipstick on the date
I'm going to end up more distracted by the lipstick
than I am going to be able to focus on the conversation
or just having a good time.
- I didn't expect to fall in love with any of the makeup.
I expected to just sort of deal with it.
Like put the lipstick on and it'll be okay.
But I'm finding that, on the last day,
that I actually kind of love it.
- I wore lipstick for one week
and the results were weirdly eye-opening.
- What I think I learned this week
is that I think I'm very self-conscious.
- I was absolutely shocked by how good I looked
and how much I fell in love with it.
- Going out, weekends, fun social life,
I definitely am going to be experimenting
with more lipstick.
But for work, I think if anything,
I went more into myself.
I do not want to wear lipstick to work
and sort of in my professional day to day.
- I think the brown, metallic one was my favorite
because it looked pretty natural on me.
I think I have a new appreciation for that range.
- I think after this week I would encourage other women,
and honestly encourage myself
to experiment more with this stuff.
I think, for me, it reminded me of little parts of myself
that I hadn't accessed in a really long time.
- I think this challenge taught me to revisit
any insecurity that I have.
Because as I've aged I've been like,
"Okay, I love my lips, I love my ass, whatever whatever."
But I still don't wear lipstick.
I still don't wear jeans
and only wear empire-waisted dresses.
So I thought I couldn't wear lipstick.
It turns out, not only can I can,
but I look damn good!
(squeaking)