How to make your lip color last


Try this technique for long lasting lipstick.
Outline your lips with a neutral color lip pencil. I find the ones you sharpen work better than the roll up ones. It is not necessary to buy matching lip liners for each lipstick color. You want to match your lips, not the lipstick.

Powder your face with a velour sponge, going right over the lip liner. Dust off excess from the face with a powder brush.

Load up your lip brush with the lipstick. Don't worry about keeping your lipstick intact. Lipstick applied only from the tube to the lip will never stay on all day long. Lay the color down richly on your lips and go right on the lip line you have created with the pencil.

With your mouth open, blot your lips once. The reason is twofold: One, to remove excess color and Two, to press the color into the soft tissue of the lips, producing a "stain."

When you are finished, take your tube of lipstick and go over the lips again, but stay well within the lip line. Smile and check the mirror for color on your teeth. If your first coat is too drying, make the second coat a more emollient lipstick, or tap just the tiniest amount of lip gloss on top of the second coat, again avoiding the lip line.

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what?....beauty is only skin deep?

what?....beauty is only skin deep?
Love the skin you're in! Who said that anyway?