How do you give your lips the effects you want it to have? How do you get the scraps of your favorite lipstick to last longer? How do you blot out excess lipstick without getting your whole lips mushy or without staining your teeth? These are questions I will be answering in this article. Don’t worry, they are tips you can use because they have been used by everyday people, and they work. You don’t have to buy expensive things. Just read along!

 How do I blot off excess lipstick or lip gloss?
Use coffee filters instead of tissue!
If you want to blot out excess lipstick or tone down your lipstick, use a coffee filter. Tissue get stuck on your lips because they are made of wood fibers so they make your lips look mushy but coffee filters are made of concentrated pressed paper. You can cut the coffee filters into squares and stockpile them in your bathroom or the handbag you want to use for the day.
Alternatively, you can use tissue papers with a harder texture. The ones you know won’t get shredded as you use them. Fold into squares and blot carefully.

 How do I get my lower lip to be full and pouty?
After applying your lip gloss or lipstick, put a put a dab of shimmery white eye shadow instead of a matte color and blend in evenly on your lower lip. This way you get a pouty, fuller lower lip.

 I don’t want my lip gloss applicator to get sticky?
Apply your lip liner round your lips first. Fill in with your lip liner and apply your lipstick on the top. Apply a dab of your lip gloss on your little finger and rub over the bottom lip carefully and quickly, close against the upper lip and blend it in carefully. Blot away the excesses and then use the applicator to even out your gloss.

 ‘Recycling’ lipstick?
If you don’t want to throw away the last of your favorite lipstick or gloss, you can get an old ice tray or plastic pillbox or tiny tubes to put the scraps of lipstick in. use cotton swabs or buds to scoop out the old lipstick into the tray/tubes/pillbox. You can mix with different lip gloss colors or you use it straight on. Using a lip brush will be the best way of applying it.

 Anytime I apply my lipstick, my teeth get stained. What can I do?
This usually happens when you use your lip gloss or lipstick in excess. You can stop getting your teeth stained by making an ‘O’ with your mouth after applying your lipstick. Stick a clean into the ‘O’ and pull it out. The excess lipstick will come out. You can do this as many times as you want but make sure you clean your finger before inserting it in your mouth again.




 How do I get my lipstick to stay on all day?
You first apply your foundation (a lighter shade) to your lips. Rub in a bit of powder for it to set. Then apply your lip liner before using your lipstick and lip gloss and then blot carefully.

 To get fuller lips
Use a foundation or concealer that tends to be opaque and a shade lighter than your face. This is because your lips are lighter than your face. Apply a dab to the center of both the lower and upper lips using your fingertip or a cotton swab. Rub in until you can’t see the line of demarcation, then apply your lipstick to create fuller-looking lips. Loose powder or compact powder foundation come highly recommended not oil-based foundation.

DID YOU KNOW THAT?
Ancient Greeks painted their lips with vegetative dyes!
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
In ancient Egypt, both men and women used rogue, lipstick and nail polish.

LAST NOTES:
‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder’. Do you see yourself as beautiful? You are the first beholder of your beauty and it starts from within.
Ciao!