Beauty Addict reader Silversonic is on the hunt for the perfect red lipstick. (Aren't we all?) She asks:

"I'd love to know what lipstick/gloss/pencil/crayon is a perfect red? ... not too warm, too cool, too bright, too dark. Any ideas?"

Well, Silversonic, I'd answer this one myself, but my pal in Hawaii, Meimei, has written a treatise on red lipstick on her blog Domesticity, that I do not think I can top. Check our her two posts here:

The Case for the Basics: Red Lipstick

The Case for Basics: Red Lipstick, Part II