Give your lips a beautiful shape

Beautiful lip contours are a necessary condition for creating an attractive female image. There is a set of well-established techniques and rules that allow every woman to increase their natural expressiveness, spending a minimum of time and effort on this.

Creating a beautiful shape of female lips directly depends on how correctly you manage to choose the tone of lipstick. Its tone should correspond to the color type, that is, in harmony with the color, tone and shades of hair, skin and eyes. Consider a few rules with which you can make the right choice.

The choice of lipstick color depending on hair color

• Blue-eyed and green-eyed women with very blond hair are suitable for desaturated shades of pink, milky, and plum.
• Brown-eyed blondes with dark skin can safely use golden and dark beige tones.

• For red hair and white skin, plum, deep red and coral colors are best suited.
• Light-skinned brown-haired women can be advised shades of pink, pale brown and plum tones.
• For gray-eyed and blue-eyed women with dark hair, a classic of the genre is suitable - scarlet or purple lipstick.
• For swarthy dark-eyed brunettes, the ideal option is rich tones of plum, orange, red and chocolate.

Dependence of lipstick color on eye color

Consider now the winning combinations of lipstick tone and eye color:

• Plum and beige shades harmonize well with gray eyes.

• With blue - pale pink and cherry.
• With green - light plum and orange-red.
• With brown - red, light pink and brown.

At first glance, it may be difficult to understand how this dependence of lipstick tone on eye color is combined with dependence on skin color. But one has only to look in the mirror, and you will easily make the right choice.

Dependence of lipstick tone on skin color

• Dark tones of lipstick are suitable for dark skin - pastel, light chocolate, red and plum.
• To light - pale tones of pink, milky and beige.

Do not forget that warm skin tones go well with warm shades, and cold skin tones go well with cold ones.

Visual volume correction

Speaking about the visual correction carried out by selecting the appropriate color, you must first of all remember the rule that is well known to all makeup artists. This rule says that light colors of lipstick visually increase the volume, while dark colors reduce it.

A more subtle technique for visually increasing volume is as follows:

Drawing correction

Consider several ways to correct the shape of female lips.

Quite often you can find a case when the lower lip in women is noticeably wider than the upper one. To correct this shape, you should circle the upper lip with a white contour pencil, without touching the lower lip.

For women who have too narrow lips, we can advise you to do the following:

• Outline the silhouette with a contour pencil.
• With the same pencil, paint over the corners.
• Then, choosing a lipstick lighter in tone than the color of the pencil, apply it.

Many of the women believe that the ideal shape involves a heart-shaped notch on the upper lip. To make such a notch, the edges must be covered with a lightening foundation. Then a new contour of the desired shape is applied on top of it. An additional advantage of this method is that the applied layer of makeup is more durable.

If it seems to you that your lips are too full, you can visually reduce them with the help of dark cosmetics and a contour pencil.

The shape should be corrected with care, without deviating far from their natural outlines. Otherwise, the makeup will look unnatural.

How to increase lips with makeup

Correction depending on the shape of the face

In order to correctly determine which particular mouth outlines are most suitable for you, you need to take into account the shape of the face. The following tips will help you correctly determine the combination of the shape of the lips with the shape of the face:

• Chubby women should take care that the shape of the lips is graphic, you should not give them the shape of a heart, as this will fill the face.
• The best technique to visually widen a face that is too narrow is to try to give the lips a fuller look.

• To visually correct a face with a wide forehead and a narrow chin, you should shift the focus to the mouth area, covering your lips with a slightly thicker layer of lipstick than usual. At the same time, it must be applied so that the area of ​​its application slightly protrudes beyond the natural contour.
• To correct the heart-shaped face, you will need to highlight the middle part of the lips more.
• To, you can paint your lips so that the lower one looks larger and the upper one looks smaller. In this case, the upper edge should be slightly darkened.
• The same is done so that the nose does not seem too wide. In this case, the lower lip is not touched.
• The lowered corners of the mouth give the face a frown. To slightly visually lift them, lipstick is applied to the lips so as to move the corners up.