Plump or well-defined lips - it's so sexy!
Good lip makeup is needed to create a complete look.
But for each time of day, age and case, it should be different.
That is why it is important to know how to color lips.
How to paint lips: choose makeup products
Long gone are the days when a pink lipstick was on duty in a girl’s makeup bag. Along with a shortage of quality cosmetics, the retro lightness of makeup has disappeared. Now you need to at least understand the types of products for the lips, so as not to throw money down the drain and properly paint your lips with lipstick or gloss.
The trend of this season is Matt lipstick. She looks noble, natural, and lasts quite a while. However, if the skin of the lips is dry, the product can dry them even more. This also applies to persistent lipsticks: they also dry delicate sponges very well, so you need to wear the product very rarely or actively protect the skin with a moisturizing balm.
Another popular option is lipstickor lipstick. The formula of the product includes the best qualities of lip makeup: density, saturation with pigments, the stability of lipstick and amazing lightness, the radiance of lip gloss. At the same time, varnish lipsticks are devoid of stickiness and a frivolous shimmer of lip gloss, which allows women of any age to use them.
Actually lip gloss - This is such an easy summer option for young girls and young women. Ladies in age, they are not suitable, as they do not allow to clearly outline the contour of the lips. In addition, sparkles are a taboo in age makeup, which requires restrained elegance. That is why after 30 years it is not recommended to use pearl lipstick.
When choosing lipstick, it is important to consider the composition of the product, paying attention to the presence of natural oils to soften and nourish thin skin of the lips. Ideally, if the care components are combined with saturation, dense application, a pleasant aroma and lack of stickiness. An ideal tool for daily use, which certainly does no harm and will look harmonious.
Among the cosmetic innovations of recent years - lipstick pencils. They are distinguished by comfortable application, but low coating density. The product is closer to shine in lightness and to balms - in care quality, although pigment saturation is quite high in some brands.
How to paint lips: prepare the skin
Lip glosses are easy to apply, and therefore do not require any preliminary preparation. With lipsticks, everything is much more complicated: for the pigment to lie evenly and the coating to remain stable, the skin should be prepared for applying the product.
If you are a rare type of woman who regularly cares for sponges, then the nursing phase can be skipped. It consists in scrubbing and softening, and the scrub should be designed specifically for the thin dermis. Its composition is more delicate, does not cause problems with possible contact with the mucous membrane.
After washing off the scrub, you need to apply a nourishing balm, let it work for fifteen minutes, and then get wet with a clean cloth. The bottom line is to give the relief maximum smoothness. Lipstick will emphasize all the bumps, peeling, cracking and weathered areas, which is why the preparation stage is no less important than the correct application of the product.
The technique of proper lip coloring
There are two main ways to apply lipstick:
• traditional, when the product is applied with a brush, applicator or directly from a hard stick;
• original, when the lipstick is driven by fingers into the skin of the lips.
To properly make up the lips with lipstick in the classical way, you will need a foundation for lip makeup (concealer, foundation, regular base), powder, pencil. The steps are as follows:
• first you need to moisturize your lips, and wet excess cream or balm;
• apply a foundation;
• outline the contour of the lips with a pencil;
• fill the space inside the contour with lipstick;
• get wet the first layer, slightly powder it;
• apply a second, top coat of lipstick.
What is the point of such a thorough study? In creating a perfectly even coating and extending its durability. So, the step of applying the base can be skipped only if the durability of the coating is not important. For example, you can run to the nearest store without a primer, but in order to look perfect at a party or at the institute, the base is important. It will smooth wrinkles, mask the remaining peeling, increase the stability of makeup.
Instead of a base, you can use a tonal base, but you need to understand: its creamy texture is not the best option. If you go too far in quantity, the product will fill in the wrinkles, wrinkles on the lips, and the contour will simply spread out. Very ugly! Therefore, you need to apply foundation or concealer with minimal doses, carefully driving into the skin and not forgetting to get the remaining wet with a dry cloth.
Lip contouring with a pencil is also not such an easy task as it might seem. A crooked line is a disaster. It will have to be washed, inevitably smearing the tone, powder, removing the primer. Therefore, you need to learn two rules and one technique for working with this product.
Rule One: the color of the pencil should ideally match the color of the lipstick or be a little darker. You can use a colorless pencil that prevents the lipstick from spreading..
Rule Two: when correcting the contour of the lips, go beyond the natural border by no more than half a millimeter.
Important to rememberthat asymmetry is characteristic of the human face: the left and right sides are different. Therefore, you need to visually align the lips, otherwise the asymmetry will become apparent.
The skill of a quick stroke of the outline, so that you can properly color your lips with lipstick, comes with experience, although experienced fighters need to be careful. Beginners can try the following technique: first dot the points, then with small strokes connect them to the outline. In general, the outline begins with the upper sponge, moving from the central bend to the edges. The lower lip is drawn in the same way.
Stylists recommend filling out the resulting contour with a pencil first, making light vertical strokes, and applying pigment to the pencil base. Thanks to this technique, lipstick will last for hours and even survive a restaurant dinner.
The second recommendation concerns the use of special brushes that allow you to accurately and correctly paint your lips. The bottom line is that thanks to the densely packed and at the same time elastic pile, the optimal amount of product is collected on the brush, and the application is obtained not only accurate, but also very high quality. The brush allows you to fill the smallest folds with the pigment, to achieve a perfectly smooth, dense, without the extra gloss of the coating.
As for the technique of driving lipstick, it allows you to get a completely natural effect on the lips. This option will be appreciated by fans of the natural style in makeup. In this case, it is not necessary to trace the lip contour with a pencil. The product is typed on the small pillow of the middle finger and is driven into the skin of the lips with soft, driving movements. The image is both innocent and sexy, which is very popular with men.
How to color lips with red lipstick
Red lipstick is a special story in the life of any woman. Few could escape the temptation and not buy it at least once in a lifetime, but not everyone was able to make friends with the impudent beauty. And all because they incorrectly picked the tone and did not know how to properly paint lips with red lipstick.
There are so many shades of red that with seeming simplicity it’s not so easy to choose the right pigment. If the tone is chosen incorrectly, it can give the face an unpleasant, unhealthy shade, make the teeth yellow. Therefore, be sure to consider the skin tone and use testers. Women with pink skin tone, gray or blue eyes need a "cold" lipstick, casting a blue.
If the skin has a warm shade, and the iris is brown, then an appropriate product tone is required. But it must be borne in mind that if the lipstick gives to the redhead, it can yellow the teeth, while cold shades, on the contrary, will make the enamel snow-white.
To properly make up your lips with red lipstick, only a pencil technique is suitable. The blurry method of finger driving in this case cannot be used, since it will be necessary to create a perfectly even contour. That is why the color of the pencil must be given special attention. A pair of lipstick pencils should match perfectly in color.
The flaming-scarlet pigment on the lips is a bold accent, so the rest of the makeup should be extremely restrained. Do not draw attention to the eyes. However, support for the red color is absolutely necessary: it can be a part of clothes, nail polish of the same color, shoes. The image will be complete and stylish.
But flaws on the face or in the decollete zone mean a ban on the use of the product. Even if the lips are properly reddened with lipstick, it will still accentuate pimples, acne, and sore spots. Therefore, for bright makeup, you need to wait for the perfect condition of the skin. Of course, you should not use the product even when the condition of the lips requires urgent recovery. The red pigment will emphasize peeling, cracking, the image will turn out to be scruffy and ridiculous.
There is nothing complicated in how to properly color lips with lipstick. Good quality cosmetics, a little workout - and perfect makeup becomes familiar and enjoyable.
