The wrong color lipstick, heavy lip liner and lips that are “drawn on” are common makeup mistakes which will ruin your overall look. Many women who are unsure of how to wear lipstick, will go without it leaving their makeup looking unbalanced.
Perfect looking lips are attainable and start with a perfect lip line. You can follow a few simple steps to have lips that look like a makeup artist did them.
1. When applying foundation continue over the lips to provide a base for lip liner and lipstick.
2. Keeping your mouth-closed trace a fine line around the lips with a sharp pencil. A blunt pencil will make blending more difficult. Start at the top v part of your lip and move outward to the lip corners by making short strokes (rest your hand on your chin for better control). After you have penciled in the top lip, begin from the middle of your bottom lip and move outward also. Follow the natural lip line.
3. To make lips look larger, follow the outer edge of the natural lip line making sure not to go over the natural lip line. To make lips look smaller follow the inside of the natural lip line.
4. Lipstick will stay on longer if the whole lip is filled in with lip liner before lipstick is applied. If you choose to use this technique, remember that darker lip liner will darken the appearance of your lipstick. And, if you are going for a light-weight look use a light lip liner.
5. Now that lips are filled in, apply lipstick with a lipstick brush (using a lip brush will give you more control). When lipstick has been applied, with lips closed, lay a tissue across both lips to blot.
You are ready to go, with perfect lips. Continue with touch ups during the day. If you are not used to wearing lipstick, it will take a while to get used to having your lips done and not “eating” the lipstick. The plus to having nice lips, you will never be plagued with dry lips again an over time they become softer. That is certainly reason enough to grab a tube of lipstick.
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