Lipstick of my dreams

 I bought a new lipstick yesterday. I've been wearing it since then. I love it more than any lipstick in the entire history of ever.

My lips have been cracked and dry since I got back from my trip to the snow world two weeks ago. I've been wearing lip balm, but even that wasn't helping -- and I wanted to wear lipstick, but it got all mucked up and dark in the crack lines on my lips, even after I would exfoliate them and sleep in night cream. It was bad.

So I read about Cle de Peau on my favorite beauty blog, The Non-Blonde:

This Cle de Peau lipstick is one of the softest, smoothest lipsticks I've tried. It's almost like a balm, but with great coverage and excellent pigment (though some of the lighter shades are a bit more sheer). The staying power isn't as amazing as the regular lipsticks, but there's only so much you can expect from a super moisturizing lip color. I chose no. 117, which as you can see is a reddish plum, but I already see a couple of others in my future.

So I trekked down to Neiman-Marcus, the only place in San Francisco that sells the line, and tried it out. And guess what? Even better than expected. My lips are so soft and moist now. I mean, I'd be thrilled to get results like this from a lip balm. To get them from a lip color product? Awesome.

And incidentally, I also bought 117. Beautiful and an amazing amount of color in a moisturizing lip color!

One thing I feel a bit unsure of, however. I always investigate whether a product is or isn't tested on animals before I buy it. My initial investigation of Cle de Peau indicated they do not test their products on animals, and neither does their corporate owner, Shiseido.

Today, after I'd already bought the lipstick, I came across this list in Beautypedia, which indicated that while Shiseido does not, Cle de Peau's animal testing policy is "unknown." And I also saw some stuff on the web that suggested that while Shiseido doesn't test its end products on animals, some of its ingredients were. I'm not sure if that's true, and if so, if it's ongoing or in the past, and if Shiseido conducted those tests themselves or they were conducted for Shiseido, or if the ingredients were tested by someone else and Shiseido just used the same ones.

I sent an email to Cle de Peau through their website seeking clarification on this. I want nice soft lips, but not at the cost of giving my money to those who test cosmetics on animals. I mean, there is room for honest disagreement on animal testing for drugs and lifesaving medical procedures -- but eyeliner? Lipstick? Blush?

Not even close.

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Companies that don't test on animals currently use ingredients tested on animals in the very recent past, as I understand it.

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I hope not, because it looked lovely on you. In fact, that makeup line looks amazing on you.