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"Next we are moving on to lips. Now what I don't like to see is the overdrawn lip way out here that is just not a good look. i can show you some tips later to make out lips look a little fuller. Katerina obviously have beautiful full lips so we would line starting all the way down here. In just short feathery strokes something like a natural tone. If however you have smaller lips start lining right about in here maybe about 1/3 without liner that would leave a space more open and it would make your lips look a little bit more fuller. You definitely do the short feather strokes. If you want to make your lips look a little fuller you can line right on the outside edge and if you have full lips that you want to make them to look a little bit smaller you can line them right in the inside. Those are the tricks but you know no liner way out in here we all know that you don't have those big lips. It does look attractive. You want to make sure that the lip liner is blended in to the lipstick a little definition is okay but to have a dark lip line and then a really soft lipstick. It is just really not attractive we are out to make you as beautiful as possible. So just in short feathery strokes and then I always like to apply the lipstick with a lip brush it picks up the pigment just a little bit differently. If you stick a lipstick on your hand and you stick it on with a lip brush you would notice that the color does goes on a little deeper. So again just putting on the lipstick now frosted lips are kind of fun for everyday you can also do a little bit more mate looking if you chose. But for my self when you are young the frosted look is still really pretty it is young, it catches the light, and just makes the lip look more attractive. I have never been a big fan of mate lipstick. So here you go beautiful lips."
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