WGN Morning News Blog

"You have lipstick on your teeth." I get that every morning from my coworkers, people I interview or even random folks that stop me to say hello. And I usually hear it right after I'm off the air so that all of Chicago has already seen my painted front teeth. Women out there will understand that when that happens you feel like the clumsiest human being alive, I've been putting lipstick on for since I was 13 or so and I still can get it right. What does that say about me??!!!I

Why does this happen?
Is it the brand, is it that I'm putting to much lipgloss on the lipstick, is it that I open my mouth while I apply allowing the waxy paint to get on my two front teeth? I need an answer so I can avoid it completely. I know the solutions, but they annoy me and frankly gross me out. I don't want to stick my finger all the way into my mouth and pull it out with that awful ring of lipstick around it. Inevitably you end up with more goo on your finger than on your teeth and when you don't have a napkin handy, how do you wipe it off? That takes me to the other solution, press your lips on a napkin. Sure, that works but it dries my lips up and then if you don't have a trash can close by, you leave the napkin just laying around with that funky looking lip mark.

If you are out there with the magic wand that will apply only on my lips or you have the technique that I lack to avoid the embarassment of having good looking men, prominent show guests and regular folk to point to their own teeth and say "You have lipstick on your teeth", please speak up.