Lip Correction

Lip correction: How to create the perfect lip contour

Beautiful and voluminous lips can become a real decoration of the face. However, nature does not always work out everything perfectly. Some girls dream of plump lips, while others want to make their lips thinner and more graceful. Today we'll look at some tips for shaping your lips and creating the perfect lip contour.

First, you need to choose the right lipstick. If you want your lips to look plump, use light shades of glitter lipstick. If you want to hide the volume of your lips, use matte dark shades.

How to hide lip imperfections:

1. Plump lips

If you don't like the volume of your lips, apply a little protective cream base to your lips. Then outline the lips within their natural contour, moving from the center to the corners of the mouth. Apply a matte lipstick of a dark or medium intensity shade to the area outlined with a contour pencil. Avoid bright or shiny lipsticks as they make your mouth appear larger.

2. Thin lips

If your problem is that your lips are too thin, use a lip liner that matches your lipstick tone and draw thin lines along the outer edges of your natural lip contour. Then use light or bright lipstick. Your lips will look fuller if you apply lip gloss over your lipstick.

3. Big mouth

If your mouth seems too large, you can visually make it smaller by not lining the corners with a contour pencil and applying gloss only to the central part of the lips. In addition, you can use two shades of lipstick: apply a lighter tone to the middle, and a darker one to the rest of the lips.

4. Small mouth

If your mouth appears small, use shimmery lipstick in salmon or rosewood color. Use lip gloss, it will make your lips look fuller. Outline the corners with a contour pencil.

5. The corners of the lips are drawn down

Try to give your lips a more “fun” shape by slightly lifting the corners with a lip liner.

6. One lip is fuller than the other

Visually, this drawback can be easily eliminated by using a contour pencil and different shades of lipstick. Apply a dark lipstick to your fuller lip and a lighter lipstick to your thinner lip.

7. Pursed lips

If you purse your lips, the contour line should be just above the natural line of your upper lip. Try not to apply lipstick to the corners of your mouth.

8. Fuzzy lip contours

If your lips do not have clear contours, then draw a thin line with a contour pencil (flesh or white) directly above the natural contour. Just above the light contour, draw a contour line with a pencil in a shade that matches the lipstick. Then apply lipstick. As a result, lips will look more prominent.

9. Age characteristics

If you are over 35, be careful when enlarging and rounding your upper lip in the center. It may turn out that the outer corners of the lips visually “drop” even more, which adds age. The solution is to enlarge the lower lip, but this must be done only in the center. You can also perform a rather complex maneuver - raise the outer corners of the upper lip, drawing a contour to the corners slightly higher than natural. To make everything look neat and natural, you need to sharpen the pencil sharply, be sure to apply foundation to the outer corners of your mouth before drawing the contour and powder the skin around it after applying lipstick.

In conclusion, lip correction is an art that requires practice and patience. But if you follow our tips and experiment with different shades and textures, you can achieve the perfect lip contour and highlight your beauty.