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Saturday 20 March 2010

Best Way To Apply Lipstick

Best Way To Apply Lipstick

A beauty advice I've always sworn is to pick your best feature and play it up. If you are often complimented on your lips, consider yourself lucky, it is time to step up. Here are 16 tips on how to apply lipstick.

    
* Do not play the eyes and mouth Women who wear heavy eye makeup and dark lipstick can look like a clown. If you want to wear red lipstick, keep the rest of your makeup light. If you play your eyes, keep your mouth light with a gloss or lipstick that light can not resist.
    
* For the "full lips, apply online just outside your natural lip line. Dab a bit of gloss in the middle of the lower lip.
    
* How to apply lipstick? I do not believe in rules applying lipstick. Some women use special brushes lipstick (pictured here). I own one and never, never. Others use the middle finger (I once said it was a beauty not fake but I reamed by a reader, I changed my mind). Most women apply right from the tube. Choose what suits you, until the color is on the lips, you're good.
    
* Use line on your lips as a basis. Lipstick will last longer if you fill your lips with liner first. If you're using light lipstick, try a nude liner. Then slick your lipstick on top.

      
Lip gloss is infamous for fading quickly, but if you fill in lips first with the liner, the gloss has something to respect.
    
* You can line before or after applying lipstick or gloss. Some women prefer to apply liner first, arguing that you will not be able to see the natural line of your lips if you apply lipstick first. But I find lips look more natural when I line lips after I apply lipstick.
    
* Never use a dark liner with light lipstick. Defined lips are great, but make sure the surface is the lipstick or gloss. Black liner and light lips is tacky.
    
* Never use a test lipstick on your lips. It's just plain unhealthy. Instead, test lipstick on your fingers. It is more suited to your lips than the back of your hand.
    
* Do not throw a lipstick color ill. Publishers beauty that you can create a great lipcolor by blending lipsticks you do not like. You can also color in lips with a darker liner before applying lipstick is too bright.
    
* Keep lipstick off glass. Discreetly lick your lips before taking a sip from the glass. It works!
    
* Keep out of lipstick your teeth with this trick. After applying lipstick, take your finger and place it in your mouth, then pull. The lipstick stands out above your finger rather than your teeth.
    
* Lipstick can act as a blush. But never use blush as a lipstick.
    
* The older, the "creamier" your lips should look. If your lips are thin and wrinkled, avoid matte or gloss and stick with a creamy lipstick.
    
* Not all shades of lipstick look good on skin color everyone.Your will determine what shades are right on you. You may like a lipstick on your friend, but she may not look good on you. Orange or brown shades, including corals, look good on some people. These shades tend to make teeth appear yellow.
    
* Camouflage yellowed teeth. To downplay a yellow cast to teeth, try lipsticks with a bluish tint. Tones that work include plums, pinks, wines and violets, according to Lazarus, a NYC makeup artist in the June 2007 issue of the journal O.
    
* Heal - Do not throw away - a broken lipstick. If your lipstick breaks, simply remove the broken part with a tissue, then slowly wave a lit match under the broken piece of lipstick. When it melts a little, put it back on the base, swing down and put it in the fridge - Uncovered - for 30 minutes.
    
* Lipstick done? You may notice that there is still a bit of lipstick in the tube. Scratch the last bits with a cotton swap or orange stick and mix it with Vaseline or lip gloss in a palette of lipstick. Use a lip brush to apply.

      
I also love this tip shared by reader Patti Campbell. She dug the remains of lipstick from the bottom of the tubes and she puts them in a case of pill, with each day of the week individually capped. " She then nukes the case until the pill lipstick melted. Campbell uses a lip brush and enjoys seven new lipsticks. I think it is perfect for the handbag.

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