A Most Excellent Lip Tip

Hi ladies,
Finding the right lipstick shade is sooo hard. Especially for brown women. Oh, the issues...the whole "my top lip is darker than my bottom" moment, the "why isn't this showing up" drama, the "bright colors make me look like a Cirque du Soleil flamethrower" thing, etc., etc. Guess who's solved the lipstick conundrum? None other than Bobbi Brown, of course, the patron saint of natural-looking makeup (remind me to tell you one day about how she once tried to set me up with a black politician she was hosting a fundraiser for at her estate...hilar!). Anyway, she's created a new Lip System, available at Bobbi Brown counters nationwide, that determines exactly which shade is right for you. Her philosophy is that the PERFECT, lipstick is one that's a-tad-sexier-than-natural...it should almost disappear into your bottom lip (kind of like finding the perfect foundation). And if you find colors that have the same tone as that one PERFECT lipstick, you can wear anything--reds, pinks, etc. So, she's created a pinwheel thingie that lists all of her most natural lipsticks along the outer perimeter, everything from Brown to Beige to Blondie Pink. Once you've figured out which color virtually disappears on your lips--for me, it's Rich Cocoa--there's a space on the pinwheel that allows you to see all the similarly-toned shades that fall under that color. There are reds, plums, pinks, shimmers, sheer lipsticks, glosses, lip pencils, everything! A virtual couture collection of lip shades that are guaranteed to work on you. I found the most excellent red this way--Crimson. I live for it. Anyway, you must get yourself over to a BB counter, asap...and please, darling, don't mention the black politician.
xoxo,
Tia