Reverse lip liners
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free skin care · Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:59 am

I´m quite intrigued by the concept of reverse lip liners, as I hate the look of ordinary liners and the thought of the lighter shade optically making my upper lip looking plumper is alluring.

The problem is that I easily get blackheads in the pores just outside my upper lip (quite a few lipbalms has this effect on me), and I´m afraid the reverse lip liner would worsen the problem.

I´ve seen that the Cargo one gets better reviews than the DuWop,- could anyone who´s tried either please comment on how they work?

Thanks

free skin care · Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:19 am

I’ve used both reverse lip liners and I have to say that I prefer the one from Duwop. The reason? The Cargo reverse lipliner is a very light flesh-color (thick old fashioned concealor “stick”) that is is peachy-pink and seems more on the “warm” side. Unless the Cargo liner exactly matches your skin tone and coloring, it looks really obvious that you’ve got a “ring” around your lips because the consistency of the pencil is really hard to blend smoothly and if you’re not careful it can look really cake-y around your mouth – especially if you don’t exfoliate your lips and lip perimeter regularly. The consistency of the Cargo reverse liner actually feels a lot like one of those old concealor sticks, too!

I was lucky enough to be one of the ones for whom the Cargo reverse liner matched my skin perfectly but another friend who tried it, and who has coloring similar to mine except she’s a “cool,” found it looked really freakish on her mouth.

I used my Cargo liner for over a year without any complaints and no thoughts of trying out the one from Duwop until I got one as part of a swap on MUA. Once I tried it, I realized it was ten times better than my Cargo liner so I ended up tossing it into my “reject” makeup bag.

The single biggest difference between the Cargo and Duwop liner is the fact that the Duwop reverse liner goes on completely transparent so you don’t actually even need to blend the line at all after you apply it so I believe it would work for any skin tone or color from the palest “Albino” fair skin to the darkest mocha African-American princess! It’s hard for me to describe the feel/consistency of the Duwop reverse liner, but I want to say it’s sort of a slippery-waxy feel (maybe “crayon-like”?) and it doesn’t really physically feel like you’ve applied anything to the perimeter of your mouth, unlike the Cargo which feels like you’ve lined your lips with that old concealor stick!

I *do* need to state that neither one of these reverse lip liners completely stops your lip gloss or lipstick from migrating outside the border of your lips, but the difference it makes is like night and day so I’d say it was like a 90% improvement over not wearing any type of lipliner at all. The best part about the reverse liners is that you don’t have to worry about matching the color of your liner to the shade of lipstick or gloss you’re wearing to ensure that you don’t get that whorish and garish pale lips with dark lipliner look (a la Pamela Anderson and other devotees of the “Alexis Vogel” school of makeup application techniques)!!

Sharky - I still have what’s left of my Cargo reverse liner lounging in one of my makeup bags that I’m never going to use again. It needs to be sharpened (uses standard-sized sharpener for “thin” makeup pencils) – sharpening would also serve to “sterlize” it – but you’re welcome to it. PM me with your address and I’ll pop it in the mail to you when I get home.

HTH,
Carrie

ETA: IMHO, I think the Duwop reverse liner would be less comodogenic (sp! – “doesn’t cause breakouts”) and/or less likely to aggrevate the blackheads on the vermillion of your lips.

free skin care · Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:34 am

i just chance upon this product the other day. *hide* i m really a late starter on cargo. i m a NC25, do you think this lipliner will be suitable for me?

actually i wanted to get a lipliner that is close to my skin color.

free skin care · Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:11 am

I've read up quite abit on these as I normally have a habit of using lip liner. but normally those nude colors as I find it a hassle to try match a color for my lipstick (I have tons so to match I would need alot of liners!).

So these works just like lip liner just outside our lip line? I wouldn't mind if it doesn't totally stop bleeding but I want it to define my lips more.

free skin care · Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:05 am

mystixx wrote:

So these works just like lip liner just outside our lip line?

Yes. And if you get the Duwop Reverse Lip Liner (approx $18USD) or the Sally Hansen Invisible Lip Liner (approx $8USD), then it is completely transparent so you don't have to worry about matching your skintone (necessary for the Cargo Reverse LipLiner).

free skin care · Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:57 am

oh thanks! I'll look out for these the next time! they sound really good to me..

free skin care · Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:14 pm

I just took the plunge and ordered the Cargo Reverse Lip Liner, foolishly having done no research! I agree with Carrie that the color is kind of off for many skintones - for example, I'm cool and very pale - but it still worked okay if I blended it. I wasn't using it for gloss, but more to keep a liquid stain like Benetint from feathering into the tiny hairline wrinkly cracks around my lips that I would never even notice if bright pink ink didn't seep into them!

I could see how the Cargo one might clog pores slightly, but I get blackheads around my lips and it didn't seem too heavy to me. The color wasn't a perfect match but just a little finger-blending meant it looked highlighting, but still natural - like my lips were fuller and better-defined. Next time around I'll probably try Duwop, now that I know it exists, but like Carrie I'm perfectly happy with the Cargo one for now. Maybe I'll get both and alternate!

free skin care · Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:23 pm

Oh, I forgot to mention one thing - the Cargo liner did seem to emphasize my, ah, lady-moustache! I have blonde facial hair that never used to be a problem, so I'm not sure if it was going off the pill or what, but suddenly I'm noticing it much more around my mouth. It's not super-bad, but it's enough that I've been toying with the idea of some sort of hair-removal process - and this reverse liner sort of made it even more obvious, I thought. But then I'm super-self-conscious about it lately, so maybe it's all in my head! Laughing

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