Custom me pampered

These days, it takes so much to please people. As the world gets more and more complicated, it takes so much more to satisfy our spoiled selves. From custom-built cars to limited-edition underwear, everyone has her own thing going on.

It’s a blessing that now, we have the power to create a prism of colors in an unimagined scale with Three Custom Color Specialists’ hottest offering, which has arrived at Manila’s fashion shores. The custom-blend lipstick service allows women to concoct a hue all their own. From shocking purple to sandy biege, the possibilities are limitless! And you can choose any shade and texture for a color that is all you!

Three Custom Color Specialists is an innovative cosmetic company whose philosophy lies in creating shades for women of any color. From its vast range of shades divided between warm (yellow undertones) and cool (blue undertones), the selection stretches to biblical proportions. Beauty Bar, being the pioneer in beauty essentials and etc., of course, snapped up the brand for its function and chic factor.

The Beauty Bar team hosted a chill-out cocktail party with DJ Robby Mananquil spinning the icy beats. I did not know how to juggle the free vodka, heavenly canapes and lipstick bars set out throughout the store to allow me and other beauty fanatics to mix our own lipshade. It’s my powdered and moisturized version of Utopia. Adding more zing to the vodka hit was Amanda Griffin’s dazzling beauty, making guys shoot up more vodka for guts and sloshing up the ladies for not being her – well, for me at least!

Beauties of the night dared to challenge the rainbow and attempted to mix their very own tint. Daphne Oseña of F created a Shiaparelli-pink shade that looked shocking on the pot but pleasantly wearable on the lips. Agoo Benzon of Preview magazine concocted a shimmery peach lip gloss that made me green with envy as I realized that her color was better than my neon orange gloss (I just finished watching Vanilla Sky, thus I was in a weird mood). Porcelain beauty Anna Palabyab created a pretty rose hue that seemed to emerged from a rose petal. This STAR fashion writer blended a nice sandy shade that was inspired by her recent trip to the beach. The caboodle-like lipstick factory consists of 30 or so base colors and all created colors go into a three custom card documenting your shade history.

It’s a phenomenon waiting to happen. So scoot your chic ass to Beauty Bar and satiate your vanity by naming a lipstick after you.