Lips and Lipstick

Doing up your lips with a lipstick that suits your skin tone is such an essential part of your entire make–up , lipstick, needless to say transforms your entire look and appearance. Depending on the size and shape of your lips, picking the appropriate lipstick makes sense, applying the lipstick is as important as it defines the shape of your lips.

Some Tips

• If you have bigger thick lips, go for browns, bronzes, purples, these muted colors are also best suited if you have a darker skin tone.
• Light and nude colors suit women with thinner lips, enhancing their skin tone.
• If you’ve applied excess lipstick, take a tissue and blot your lips, this keeps the lipstick in place and also is smudge resistant.
• Women with light blonde hair can use mauves, berries, wines and cappuccinos while women with golden blonde hair could go for coral and peach shades of lipsticks.
• Before applying lipstick, apply a good foundation as a base.
• Apply lip liner to give a definite shape to your lips, lip liners also help keep the lip color in place and avoid bleeding of the lipstick. Use a similar shade or a shade slightly darker than your lipstick.
• Draw a V on the center curve of your upper lip, follow the shape of the lip and apply the lip liner. Start from the center towards the corners on the lower lip. Apply slowly and steadily without shaking your hand.
• Now take the desired lip color and fill in the lips either with a brush or with the lipstick itself.
• Brush into the corners of the mouth by slightly opening it to fill into the edges of the lip so that the entire lip is covered evenly.
• Blot with a tissue to seal in the lipstick or if you think that it’s too much of lipstick.
• Apply some shimmer or some lip gloss for an evening party look, go for a more subtle shade of lipstick during the day.
• Apply a shimmer lip liner to add some interest and attention to your make-up.
• Store your lipstick in the fridge if you want it to last longer.
• With your index finger remove any lipstick stuck on your teeth.
• Avoid applying too much of brown and orange shades, lest this could make your teeth yellow.
• If your lipstick breaks, don’t throw it away, take the piece, put it back and store it in your fridge.
• Avoid frosted lipsticks as these tend to emphasize your laugh lines as you age.
• Demi matte lipsticks are ideal and long lasting than shimmer and completely matte finish lipsticks, since shimmers don’t last long and mattes though are long lasting, dry up too quick.