Saturday, October 3, 2009

Lip Liner and Make Up Games


If you’ve used lip liner before, you know that the small pencil can do quite a bit for your face and make up regime. But often, the lip pencil is over or underused depending on whose using it.

Sketch with a lip pencil. Most often it is older women who play make up games with lip pencils. The pencil outlines the lips lightly and keeps lipstick from bleeding out into the fine lines around older women’s mouths. But that doesn’t mean you can’t use lip pencil in your make up games. When you do use lip pencil, don’t draw with it; sketch instead.

Make light strokes around the pink edge of your lips. The light strokes will connect and look more natural than a dark single line around the lips. Inside the lip liner, fill in your lips with a coordinating color lip gloss or lip stick. The light line you sketched should fade into the color of the lipstick making your lips look full and seamless – exactly what you wanted to do.

An added tip about lip pencils. If you have a pencil with a soft lead, you can use a bit of the red or pink on your cheeks. Smearing a bit on your cheeks makes you look healthy and ready for action.

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