Secondly, no two nudes are the same - particularly so when comparing a nude for fairer tones with something that won’t look frightful on black skin. At best you will look like you are wearing concealer on your lips. There is nothing remotely perfect about wearing a lipstick that matches one’s skin tone. According to the Oxford Dictionary, the word “nude” denotes make-up that is “a colour resembling that of the wearer’s skin”. Putting the misplaced sense of skin tone to one side, the idea of the perfect nude lipstick is actually something of a misnomer. When a 13-year-old black girl considers pictures of a Fifties French actress - with her Caucasian skin, trademark kohl-rimmed eyes and salmon-pink lips - a blueprint for finding the perfect nude lipstick, false start doesn’t even begin to qualify it.
My journey began as a teen beguiled by Brigitte Bardot. Here, Funmi Fetto details her own quest for the perfect nude lipstick, discovers the best shades for dark skin and speaks to the experts about avoiding the most common pitfalls. What looks perfectly peachy on one skin tone looks pasty on another, and that's before we even get started on the difference between nudes for black women and for white. The concept of 'nude' make-up is problematic at the best of times.
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