Nude lipsticks are the beauty equivalent of a classic white T-shirt or jeans, and for me, therein lies the problem. I've never actually worn this official cool-girl uniform, as I'm more of a fan of leopard midi skirts and blister-inducing heels. Same goes for my more adventurous beauty outlook, and as a result, my lipstick investigations have never taken me into the nude shade spectrum (my extensive collection is made up of mostly postbox reds or rich clarets).
But after using a few recently, I'm ready to fully sashay into the world of nude lipsticks. First of all, we've been hoodwinked when it comes to defining what nude actually is. I, too, believed that the chalky Mini Milk–like pink lipsticks that came free in magazines when I was younger were the one-size-fits-all shade. Later, I'd place those shades in the hefty box of reject beauty products every woman of colour does at some point. That's clearly not the only nude in existence now, and thank goodness, because we all have such different skin tones and lip colours.