To be this annoyed over lipstick?

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I am fully prepared to be told IABU and ridiculous but I feel really upset!

I am going out tonight and dp was in town. I can't find my favourite red lipstick so I texted dp to pick me up a new one while he was out. I told him the brand I like and said to get any red one. I often wear red lipstick.

He's come back with a pale pink one. I never wear pale pink lipstick. I asked why even though I'd asked for red and he just shrugged and said he thought I'd like it.

I feel really pissed off! Why did he not just get a red one? I couldn't have been clearer.. I feel like he never listens to me.

Not that it maters because I don't ever wear anything but neutral lipstick, wearing red with my white skin makes me look like I have come from the Addams family.

blue. There are indeed a trillion shades of red lippy but the one thing they have in common is that they are all red! NOT pink!

I like red lipstick because I think it makes me look like Snow White although I probably really resemble one of the seven dwarves

Please god let nobody else say 'a red lip' it's a lipstick not a lip . Hate that.

It's not hard is it to ask someone if you can't find it? I like MAC holiday stuff and my dad manages to go to the counter, produce a photo of me and ask for holiday collection stuff that will suit me. And he's 68!

Red lipstick is very ageing I agree.

Maybe it's a new style mouldy not sure if I'd choose my upper or lower lip though. Maybe upper so I don't look like of those scary fish.

mouldy. Agree, it makes me imagine someone wearing it only on their top lip, rather than both. Although I did use the word 'lippy' in my post, which I believe was once mentioned on a thread about things that make us irrationally angry

It's useless trivia an interesting fact that men cannot see as many shades of red as women can. Most can tell the difference between pink and red though, I'm guessing that he's not deviously attempting to make you over more to his personal tastes, he just heard "lipstick" and grabbed the first one on the display case, you're lucky he didn't bring you an ubiquitously on-trend matt blue one.

X-post, Leslie! (I ❤️ Leslie Knope)

I think your last sentence might be the most important in your post OP. What do you think?

Jess we are obviously both as hilarious as each other

Colour blind ? (straw clutching a touch here, I know nothing about colour blindness).

I look very sexy in my red lipstick. Very. I am 42 though so it may be that I am a delusional old crone.

This is exactly what DH would do.

He once used my Molton Brown hand-cream as washing up liquid for a week as it happened to be beside the sink, before complaining that it didn't create many bubbles. Lord knows how he managed to miss the label.

Mine refilled the marigold perfumed liquid soap with liquid dettol.... well the bottle was in the cupboard under the washbasin....

However, the best (worst) example of him not buying what he was asked to buy is when DD was a week old.
I decided that I wanted to cook a really easy prawn dish that basically involves adding pre-cooked prawns to a sauce made with cream, tomatoe purée and tinned mushrooms - to serve with rice. Just opening packets, combining and heating, really.... as you need when you've got a newborn and a family to feed.
I wrote him a list of stuff to get from the supermarket including "frozen prawns, 200g packet". So what did he come back with?
A kilo bag of the little fuckers that need to be peeled once they were defrosted. (Our supermarket always sells the peeled praws in 200g sachets and the unpeeled ones in 1kg bags.)
It didn't seem to occur to him that it wasn't logical to be intending to shell prawns when you had a tiny baby.

I am 53. I wear red lipstick. I've even stopped dyeing my hair. It is entirely possible I look like a delusional crone. I really don't care.

I'd spend next week holding pictures up saying "what colour is this?".

Next time he asks you to pick something up, fuck it up on purpose. If he asks for beer get him cheap sweet sherry, a car magazine becomes people's friend. Look hurt and astonished when he says it's wrong.

I also just asked DH what he prefers, asked for an honest answer (because I wear many colours so it's not a loaded question), his answer?

'Red, you look super-sexy in red. Don't like the pale colours so much.'

(Not that a negative would have stopped me in any way.)

I am silver of hair too Mother, which DH also finds very alluring.

(I don't think I'm in the least bit crone-like, I'm smoking bloody hot).

Yes but *underbeneathsies" post made far more interesting reading than all the "Yeah, he's an idiot man" posts!

Hairy

It's OK, we believe you, you look really sexy in red lipstick! OK?

hairy. I'm also 42 - my complexion isn't quite as pink and perky as it was when I was younger, and I think red lipstick brightens up my whole face (I don't wear a shit ton of other make-up). I like to allow my inner vamp free rein now and again!

Pink lipstick looks vile on me.

I love the overthinking on this thread. I told DH about this and he said OP was lucky that he came back with lipstick. He also looked a bit scared about the thought of being asked to buy make up and promised I would never ask him to.

Perhaps the OP's DP secretly identifies as a woman and picked the shade he liked the best.

mother may I recommend cherry pie by maybelline. I wear it all the time as does my friend who has stopped dying her hair. She's far from a delusional old crone!

The greyer my hair has got the redder my lipstick. I love it but I'm an unashamed old crone

Maybe he doesn't like you celebrating your Vagina on your face OP. Siobhan O'Keefe style