Additional Lip Tips

ADDITIONAL LIP TIPS:

Every woman loves to wear lipstick. Just a dash of lipstick adds so much glamour to your face. Lipstick should be applied properly and should be of the right color. Most of you would have noticed that lipstick does not last long, especially when we eat and drink. Here are a few tips on lipstick and how to make lipstick last long.

Lips and eyes are the most important focal points of your face so one must pay special attention to these areas while doing makeup.

Here are some additional tips for your lips that you can use:

• Lipstick staining your teeth makes you look extremely shabby. To avoid this, pucker your lips in an extreme 'O' and then apply the lipstick.
• Even if your lipstick smudges to the insides of your lips, wrap your finger with a tissue and put it into your mouth, and twist it slowly to eliminate any extra color.
• You can also highlight your lips by using a light film of eye shadow color coordinated with your lip color in the center of the upper and lower lips.
• If one of your lips is larger than the other, balance the look by using the lighter shade of the lipstick on the smaller-sized lip.
• Don't let your lipstick pass on to the utensils while dining by using your tongue and lower teeth and avoiding them to come in contact with your lips.
• To smoothen the lips a little before applying lip color, rub them a little with washcloth gently.
• Apply foundation on and around lips and then define the look of your lips using the lip liner.
• If you lips are naturally full and large, don't use the lip liner though you can soften the edge using a Q-tip and avoid glossy and shiny lip color.
• If you have thin lips, use light shades to make them appear fuller. Define the lip using the neutral lip pencil from slightly beyond your natural lip line and then apply lipstick covering up lip defining line. Another trick is to apply white shadow on center of both lips over lipstick very lightly and spread it gently.
• If your upper lip is too thin or does not have a good shape, outline it with the lip liner similar to your lipstick and in the center portion, draw a second line giving it the precise shape using a brown pencil. Apply color including the brown line. This will make your lips look fuller.
• To hide lip lines, apply lipstick vertically.
• Store lipstick in the fridge, it will last longer.
• While buying lipstick never use the tester on your lips. It is very unhygienic. Apply the tester on fingertips. This is a better option than the back of your hand as it closer than your lips.
• Use your lip liner as a base for your lipstick. This will ensure that lipstick lasts longer. While using light lipstick, use nude liner. Then apply lipstick on top of it.
• Line your lips whenever you use lipstick. Without lipstick your lips will look soft and less defined and your lipstick will appear smudged.
• To keep lipstick off your teeth, once your have applied lipstick, put your index finger into your mouth and pull it out. The extra lipstick will come off on your finger.
• Lipstick can be used as blush, but do not use blush as lipstick.
• Apply lip liner first. If your apply lipstick first and then try to apply lip liner you will not be able to see the natural line of your lips.
• Older women should avoid gloss and matter lipstick and stick to creamy lipstick.
• If you do not like a shade of lipstick, do not throw it out. Just mix it with other shades of lipstick and create your own shade.
• If you have plump lips, apply lip liner just outside your natural lip line.
• To keep gloss on for longer first fill your lips with lip liner and then apply gloss on it. The gloss has something to stick to and therefore lasts longer.
• If your lipstick has broken, the just light a match under the broken part of a while, when the lipstick melts a little then put it back on the base. Then swivel down the lipstick and put it in the fridge, uncovered for about 5 minutes.
• Try and avoid orange and brown shades of lipstick as they make your teeth appear yellow.
• When you are to the last bit of your favorite lipstick scrape out the last bits with an orange stick and mix it with lip-gloss or vaseline and use it.
• To prevent lipstick from sticking to the glass you are drinking from, discreetly lick the edge of the glass before touching your lips to it.