Of course I had to try a couple of
lip products, so I picked up one of their Lippie Stix in Toucan, a
vivid matte coral
pink, and a Lippie Pencil (creamy, really nice) in Grind, a bold plum.
In these portraits of her, based on an arresting photograph taken by Richard Avedon in 1959, Warhol applied similar formal techniques to those he used in his portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor — a cropped frontal viewpoint and contrasting palette (blue / red,
pink / purple, green / black) with
vivid primary accents on eyes and
lips.