Beauty Essential – The Perfect Bold Lip

The perfect bold lip is not just a Red Carpet Essential, it’s also for the everyday Red Carpet of life.  How to achieve a perfect bold lip that lasts throughout afternoon coffee?

1. Use a lip plumping product like Lines no More for Lips by Dr. Brandt or Lip Therapy by PCA Skin.

2. Dab a concealer or highlighter around your lip line, this enhances your natural lip line.

3. Lip line and fill in with your matching lip pencil – or lip line after your lipstick application.

4. Apply lipstick at the middle of your lips – keeping the lipstick at the corners of your lips to a minimum.

5. Blot! and apply a moisturizing lip balm or gloss for a night-time effect.

A few rules of Color:

Red – If you have fair skin use a red with pink undertones or a brick red.  For olive skin use a blue based red.  For darker skin a plum or deep coral looks best.

Coral – Soft peach for fair skin, pinker for olive skin and a bronzed coral for darker skin.

Pink/Neon – Fair skin looks best in a bright petal pink, olive skin in hot pink and darker skin in magentas or fuchsias.

These are great tips for that Perfect Bold Lip – for more makeup and beauty tricks visit the Guide to Gorgeous by Instyle magazine.

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