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Summary: Lip liner defines and shapes your lips. Learn how to apply lip liner in this free video clip from a professional makeup artist.
Jenny Karl has over eleven years experience working for cosmetics establishments in NY, NJ, PA, and CA. She's also worked as a freelance makeup artist and light, hair, and wardrobe...read more
"I'm going to use a lip liner on my model, just to kind of accentuate her lips. Her lips are very petite and I just want to draw them in and fill them in and make them a little more puffy. Just give them the effect that they're a little bigger and more pouty. And so I'm going to use, I don't want to see the lip liner. I want to use a neutral color. So I'm going to use a really neutral pinky nude. Something that's almost skin tone or lighter than skin tone, just to accentuate the lips and not to add any color. We just want to kind of make the lips look a little bigger and to fill them in so that the lip gloss stays on longer. So I'm going to start out on the bottom lip and just kind of draw the line a little bit underneath her natural lip line, just a teeny tiny bit. We don't want them to look substantially bigger, but just give them the effect that they're a little bigger. I'm also going to fill in the entire lip with the lip liner and that's going to prevent the lip gloss from bleeding and it's just going to take away the natural lip color so we see more of that gloss. Little by little, you just want to kind of fill in the lip and overdraw the lip line a tiny bit. Just overdraw a tiny bit, not a lot. Be patient. Just really line the lip nicely and overdraw it just a tiny, tiny, tiny bit. Then fill it in. Like I said, this is a very neutral color. We don't want to see this lip liner. We're just going to draw it in and then put the gloss right on top, so we don't want to see the lip liner, it's not the look we're going for: the Lip Line look."
eHow Article: Applying Lip Liner