Thank you 🙂 none of the colours were from the book. All my lipsticks are my own colours, but I use Marie’s base with some substitutions. When blending this red, I just went by ear (or eye, lol). I didn’t write down the ratios. I do have carmine and red #27.
I doubt you will be able to make a true red without using carmine or a dye, but you can make orange reds or brown reds. I made an orange red using oils infused with alkanet root powder (infused without heat for weeks – I just left it there, but it kept getting darker. It turned fresh blood red. Enough to give a lip tint when used as the sole oil in a lipbalm). Then add some red iron oxide and some white. You don’t want too much iron oxide or it turns brown red, but the alkanet root helps reduce the orange. You could also try alkanet infused oil + red clay. Just don’t expect a bright true red.
