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" I loved popping on a mood ring as a kid just to see if the colors matched up with how I was feeling, but as an adult, not so much. (Those days are gone, along with the 80&amp;#039;s and 90&amp;#039;s.) So you can imagine how psyched I was when a new batch of &amp;quot;mood&amp;quot; makeup (various lipsticks and blush) landed on my desk. Before I tried any of it, I was now curious as to how mood makeup actually worked, so I called up James Hammer, a cosmetic chemist, to get the scoop. He told me that most &amp;quot;mood-changing&amp;quot; products work off of your body temperature or moisture levels on the skin. If you&amp;#039;re anxious, nervous, or scared, your body temperature usually rises and you begin to sweat. So, if you swipe a &amp;quot;mood&amp;quot; lipstick over your lips at that time, the color will most likely look different than if you were to apply the lip color when you&amp;#039;re in a calmer, more relaxed state.  However, there are other products that contain certain indicator dyes (such as the fluorescein-based dyes), which alter the hue based on your pH-levels. This means that when your pH region is between pH 5.3 (when you&amp;#039;re happy) and pH 5.7 (when you&amp;#039;re sad), fluorescein-based indicator dyes shift the color to be softer or more intense. His method to the shade madness: the happier you are, the brighter the shade will be, although it can vary from person to person. Okay, so enough about how they work. I decided to try both types on two different days: Yesterday I swiped on the Topshop Make Up Lips in Crystal, $18, topshop.com, which reacts to your skin&amp;#039;s moisture levels; it turned out to be a bright bubblegum pink shade (I was in a good mood for a Monday). The Physicians Formula pH Matchmaker pH Powered Blush, $12.95, drugstore.com that I wore today looked more like a subtle baby pink hue (not clownish though). I was on deadline and a little anxious. Overall, I have to say I love playing with mood makeup just as much as I loved that mood ring. What about you, are you into mood makeup? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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