• Open your mouth when applying your lipstick.
• Use a nude, never a colored, lipliner.
• Create a fuller-looking mouth by putting a spot of lightweight concealer on the center of your lips after applying lipstick. Then lightly blend it out toward the corners.
• Apply lip pencil along the Cupid’s bow of your upper lip.
• Never go over your natural lip line.
MAKE FULL LIPS LOOK smaller
• Play up your eyes.
• Use a neutral colored lipstick.
• Don’t bother with a lipliner.
• Apply lipstick right from the tube and blend.
• Blot so there’s only pigment left on the lips.
• Since you don’t need to define your lips, go for blurred borders.
ADD SOME CURVES
Using a pencil the color of your lips, draw a V in the bow area of your upper lip, going just above your natural lip line.
FIX IT FAST
Tone down that too-bright lipstick by mixing a small dab of foundation with petroleum jelly and patting it over lips.
Get a line around your lips without bothering with lipliner by applying your lipstick with a brush.
Dip a lip pencil in lip gloss and apply all over lips. The gloss will soften the pencil so that it spreads smoothly.
The GREASIER the lipstick, the more it BLEEDS Brown pigments need more oils, so brown lipsticks will probably be greasier.
You probably think that the correct way to test lipstick is on the back of your hand. But makeup artists know that the true color will come out on your fingertips. The texture and color of the skin on your fingers is more like your lips.