I’m a beginner & trying to learn how certain lip shades go with outfits/occasions. I see swatches of lipsticks & feel absolutely boggled when 1 comment says 5th shade is gorgeous & other says 6th shade is prettiest, meanwhile both shades looks like dark red to me😭 among all other red color swatches. It’d be really easier if hexcodes were assigned to lipsticks instead of names like orgasm, dragon girl, notorious.
As others have said, hex codes are RGB colour – each pair of characters in the code is how much a red, green, or blue light is on. Obviously that’s not what’s going on for lipstick, which are colored with pigments. Even the images in your screen – or any screen – aren’t going to accurately convey the lipstick colour (because of the pigment issue, and lighting makes a huge difference in how colours look when you photograph anything), not least because everyone’s monitor is different. So hex colors aren’t consistent across instances either.
Aside from that and the trade secrets issue (makeup companies aren’t going to want to share the formula for their most popular colour), none of this would fix the problem. People have different opinions about which colour is prettiest – their skin tone and application matters, but so do their individual preferences.
It’s like books, you wouldn’t be surprised that two different people liked two different books and wrote reviews to that end.