Usually eye makeup first. But my routine is a little more streamlined doing base first so lately I’ve been doing that cause I have a baby and kinda need to be able to call the look at any point.

Cora from vintageortacky. Drac maakens (I think she’s not making videos??)

I hate lip products too. Wear them very rarely. No, I don’t think full glam minus coloured lips looks weird.

Also we all look so different and have such different skin and preferences that all this makes a lot of sense to me – if my face looked different and I liked different aesthetics, maybe lipstick would be my favourite thing.

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.