GET LIPPY

The art of long-lasting lipstick isn’t just the lipstick itself – it’s in the art of application.

1. Consider using a liner pencil to extend the length of time your lipstick stays on. Use it to outline your lips. If you have big lips you want to play them down, draw just inside the natural lip-line. If you have small lips and you want to enhance them, you can accentuate the outer edge of the lip-line by drawing along the very outside edge of that line – but don’t ever leave a gap between the drawn line and your own lip. When running the pencil over the cupid’s bow use the pencil to draw in two soft ‘‘mountain peaks’’. The effect is to make lips look plumper.
    
2. Once you’ve outlined your lips, colour them in with the liner – just as if you were using a crayon or felt-tip in a child’s colouring book. This creates the base to which lipstick adheres, and also slightly stains the lips so that when the lipstick/gloss wears off, something’s left.  
    
3. Never use a sharp lip pencil – blunt the ends by drawing backwards and forwards on the back of your hand, to soften it.
    
4. Nobody needs more than one lip pencil – and it should be as close as possible to the natural colour of your own lips, so that when your lipstick wears off, your lips aren’t encircled by the obvious line. For a softer effect, you can apply the lip pencil after your lipstick; the liner and lipstick blend – and the result is they both last a bit longer. To soften the line, if you need to, you can smudge with a finger.   

Pump up the Volume
    The art of illusion

1. The first trick for creating a fuller-looking pout is to leave just the centre of the bottom lip free of colour when you’re applying lipstick. Colour from the rest of the lips will ‘travel’ to that spot but as it’s not so intense, it will create the illusion of plumpness.
    
2. Or add a dab of shimmer lipstick in the middle of your bottom lip, and smack lips together. A dab of gloss does the same thing. (It’s a trick of the light)
    
3. Next trick is to dab a spot of lightweight concealer on the centre of the lips over matte lipstick, then blend out towards the corners by smacking your lips together lightly.
    
4. To make the upper lip appear to stand out more, you can run a white pencil lightly just above the centre of the cupids bow or add a touch of gold, silver or white shimmer there.
    

Credited: The 21st Century Beauty Bible 

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