[Velvetta]

OK I'm not a natural but have recently hennaed my hair and now none of my lipsticks suit me. I can'r work out which colour is right. I don't like bright, but I dont like pale. Please help!

[andieinvic]

I'm a red head and have always had trouble with lipstick colour. Corals and melons seem to be good. Perhaps do a google image search on redheads that have a similar hair colour and see what they are wearing.

[SnazzySass]

I wear bright gold, russet and brown. I once had a maroonie colour but I have never found it again. I have natural hair though so I am not sure if gold would come across as too full on with the pinkie undertones of henna rather than the brownie orangie undertones of my hair.

[Jane Jetson]

Bright red works for me (I know you don't like bright, but you can work up to it by using gloss or softer lipsticks with less pigment - Revlon lip butter is a really good one). Yellow-based reds work better with copper hair in my experience.

Chocolatey browns with reddish underlying tones also work, as can orangey shades - Tango by Australis was really good on me, and there was a brown ck one that looked nice too.

[lsolaBella]

I have copper red highlights in my hair ( both natural and bottle ).

I have just purchased some clinique butter shine lipsticks. The Tawny/ coral colours did well for me.

Apple brandy and cranberry cream

http://www.clinique.com.au/product/1605/50...tick/index.tmpl

[kristin5]

I am a strawberry blonde and it has taken me ages to find the right shade for me. And just when I find it, it gets discontinued!

Anyway, I find browny reds, bronzes and those with yellow/orange undertones are best. I steer clear of all pinks and anything with pink undertones.

I wear Butterscotch by Nutrimetics.

[Academic]

I'm a bright orange / red head (faux!) and my favourite colour is a Mac corally red (Lady Danger).

Christina Hendricks (my red head idol!) actually seems to wear quite a lot of pink shades, though they tend to be fairly close to a natural lip colour. She also wears a lot of bright red.