How to Correct Lip Shape
Are you attending a costume party and need to change your lip shape to match your look? Or do you perhaps think your lips need a small adjustment to make your mouth appear more proportioned? Here is a basic, easy way to alter your lip shape for the day. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Makeup sponge
- Water-activated foundation in your skin tone
- Highly pigmented lip liner
- Matching lipstick
- Lip brush
Instructions
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Use a makeup sponge to go over clean, smooth lips with water-activated foundation in your skin tone. This erases your natural lip color and creates a blank canvas even if your lips are naturally dark or bright.
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Select a lip liner and lipstick that fit your purpose for changing your lip shape. Color and product formulation make a considerable impact. Darker colors and matte formulations make lips appear smaller, although your lip line is more evident. Lighter colors and glossy consistencies can help lips look plumper. Different eras had varying ideas as well about what lip sizes and colors were attractive, so keep this in mind if you are applying your makeup as a character from a different period in history.
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Draw on your shape of choice after the foundation dries. Use a highly pigmented lip liner for a strong line. Basically, if your lips are uneven, you can choose which side you prefer to model the opposite one on for symmetry. If your lower lip, for example, is thinner than your upper one, simply draw slightly past your natural bottom lip line but follow the natural contour of your top lip. If you prefer instead to reduce your top lip and maintain the size of the bottom one, line inside your upper lip line while following the natural contour of the bottom one.
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Fill lips in with the pencil you used for lining. You avoid a ring around the mouth this way by keeping lips a uniform color all over. The lip liner gives lipstick a base to adhere to as well so that it lasts longer.
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Use a lip brush to smooth on a lipstick that matches the color of your lip liner. Your application is more precise with the help of the brush.
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Tips & Warnings
Get smooth lips by exfoliating them in the shower.
For a steadier application, rest your elbow on top of a table or other steady surface as you face the mirror to do your makeup.
You don't have to change your lip shape based on a beauty ideal. If you are happy with what you have and carry yourself confidently, stick with it.
Resources
- Photo Credit Leprechaun Art & Photography
