How to visually enlarge lips - techniques
First of all, it is necessary to determine which zone should be emphasized. Then prepare for makeup to enhance your lips. It is worth using scrubs or peeling. If your skin is dry, especially around the lips, it needs to be moisturized. Then apply the balm and wait about 15 minutes.
Color
Lipstick for lip augmentation will also help you achieve the desired result. Experts recommend choosing light colors, because... dark ones make a girl more strict. You should choose colors:
- peach:
- light pink;
- beige;
- nude color scheme (it is as close as possible in color to the skin).
This method is ideal for lovers of bright eye makeup.
To ensure that the result lasts as long as possible, it is recommended to completely paint over your lips with a pencil and only then apply lipstick. Experts recommend visually enlarging your lips with a brush.
Dark tones (wine, plum) are noticeably suitable for dark-skinned women. Ladies with pale skin should pay attention to light shades.
To achieve a 3D effect, you should first draw a line of lips with a nude pencil (first remove dead skin cells with a scrub). Then you need to apply gloss or liquid lipstick in a shade darker than the skin to the surface to achieve visual enlargement of the lips. The same color should be the pencil, which then needs to be used to draw the outline. Apply bright lipstick with a brush, blot and add pearlescent shine. At the final stage, apply the lipstick you like.
Some girls, when visually enlarging their lips, strive to look as natural as possible. They use lipstick in natural shades, or hygienic. Next, powder the surface of the lips and the skin over them. Using a pencil of the same shade (maybe a little darker), draw lines, protruding slightly. They fix it all with a natural shade of lipstick or gloss.
Texture
It is also possible to adjust your image using cosmetics with a radiant texture. Lip makeup for a plumping effect:
- shine;
- finish;
- metallic lipstick.
To create the effect of swelling, apply lipstick to the lips and lightly blot them with a napkin. Apply a thin layer of powder and secure everything with a second layer of lipstick.
It is better to avoid matte textures (with the exception of nude ones). It does not have those reflective particles that are inherent in gloss.
Circuit
You need your face to be perfectly clean. Therefore, before starting the procedure, apply tone to the entire face (on the lips too) and cover up pimples, age spots and other minor imperfections with concealer.
Features of lip contour expansion and lip augmentation with makeup:
- The lip is drawn with a pencil slightly higher from the border. This method is suitable for representatives of the fair sex with a small and narrow mouth.
- For ladies with an inexpressive contour, you can outline your lips around the edges, making them visually lighter or darker.
- For those with dimples on the lower lip, it is enough to step back a little from its edge and paint over the skin, duplicating the shape of the upper fold.
- A white (or light pink) soft pencil works wonders on the lips. It is worth painting the middle with it, after applying foundation or concealer. Then lightly blend with your fingertips so that it is almost invisible. Next, draw the outline using a pencil similar in shade to the lipstick.
Finally, to visually enlarge the lips, cover them with pink gloss.
A drop of glitter
A special lip gloss – plumper – will also help give your lips extra volume. A fairly common method, especially in the summer, when you don’t want to burden your face with an extra layer of makeup to enlarge your lips. Special components are added to it to increase blood circulation. Due to this, visual correction occurs. Peptides create a long-lasting effect by retaining moisture. When choosing a plumper, be sure to take into account the color of your skin and hair, as well as the time of day at which you are going to use it.
If you choose gloss, then it is better to put the lip enhancement pencil aside.
Highlighter
Highlighter has become a popular accessory in the 21st century. It can be found in the cosmetic bag of any fashionista who follows the trends of modern cosmetology and makeup. It can be used as an alternative to lip liner to enhance lips.
Apply the product to the dimple under the nose. This will make your upper lip noticeably larger. Or you can use it instead of lipstick to enhance your lips. Metallic shine guaranteed.
Gradient makeup
It is otherwise called “ombre”. This method came from Korea. Ombre is a gradual transition from a rich shade to a pale one. One of the most complex makeup techniques for lip augmentation.
As a base, apply foundation to moisturized lips. Then apply the corrector and blend thoroughly with your fingertips. Bright lipstick is applied to the inside of the lips. It is worth squeezing and unclenching them several times. Having achieved the desired result, take a brush and draw several short, ragged lines. Complete the procedure with a drop of glitter.
Tips and tricks
In addition to the use of decorative cosmetics and care products, there are options that help give an enhancing effect. Gymnastics complexes have been developed to naturally increase the skin-muscle fold. Exercises are performed daily, 15 times:
- lips stretch out as if drinking drinks through a straw, then relax the muscles;
- try to draw the number “8”, then relax the muscles.
Good results are achieved with daily massage with a toothbrush. This method helps increase blood flow and minimizes the formation of cracks.
Folk recipes suggest the use of familiar products:
- Ginger root is grated on a fine grater, the composition is applied to the lips, left for 5 minutes, then removed with a napkin;
- olive oil is mixed with cinnamon and sugar, the scrub is applied to the lips, massaged with a toothbrush for 1-2 minutes;
- Remove the zest from the lemon and massage your lips with it for 5 minutes.
Lips are visually enlarged by applying thoughtful makeup. Dark shades of lipsticks make the mouth appear more voluminous. Light lipstick can create a voluminous effect when used with gloss or darkening the center of the mouth.
Basic mistakes
Painting your lips to make them appear bigger is a no-brainer. Namely:
- Insufficient hydration. If the skin on your lips is very dry, then matte lipstick will lie very poorly. Therefore, you should not neglect primers and special balms.
- Too active circuit. Do not clearly emphasize the contour. It should be blurry and unclear. Here it is recommended to use pencils of natural shades.
- A choice of shades that highlight the yellowness of teeth. When choosing a shade, you need to take into account that lilac lipsticks with a pink undertone visually emphasize the yellowness of the teeth. To avoid this, choose red and dark colors.
- Violation of the procedure. To draw a contour to visually enlarge your lips at home, you need to start from the center to the edges, and not vice versa. Otherwise, you will not be able to achieve the desired result.
- Bright lipstick “in a hurry.” To achieve the perfect result when applying bright makeup, make yourself comfortable in front of the mirror. Relax and calmly draw the outline. And if you are in a big hurry, then it is better to leave this matter for later.
- Very thick layer. After applying lipstick, blot your lips with a napkin or run your finger over them. Otherwise it will remain on the teeth.
- A mistake in combining blush and lipstick. Cool shades do not combine with warm ones. When choosing products for visual lip augmentation, it is worth remembering this.
- Bright eye makeup combined with similar lips. They focus on one thing. Bright eye makeup - light lipstick tone, bright lips - no need to highlight your eyes.
While chasing beauty trends, you shouldn’t forget about your individuality. Nature has already created us unique and beautiful in our own way. But if you still want to slightly modify the usual image, you should be careful. There is no need to mix several lip augmentation techniques using cosmetics at once. It will look provocative and unnatural.
Secrets of sculpting
Unfortunately, nature does not reward everyone with beautiful, regular features. However, the latest sculpting techniques make it possible to literally paint a face anew. The method consists of a skillful combination of light and dark shades. A shadow is created in the area that needs to be visually reduced, and the place that needs to be emphasized, on the contrary, is highlighted.
How to do sculpting correctly?
- To enlarge the lips, apply highlighter (a cosmetic product with a high content of reflective particles) along the upper edge and center.
- If the upper lip is smaller than the lower lip, then it should be painted with lipstick a shade lighter.
- You can adjust the shape of your lips using a pencil. Draw a contour, highlight the closure line with color, and then cover your lips with lipstick a shade lighter. Don't forget the shine.
- If your smile seems too wide, you can darken the corners of your lips with a pencil.
- Apply matte lipstick to the area that needs to be visually reduced. Create additional volume with glossy shine.
Advice
The main secret of sculpting is careful shading of the boundaries. If this is not done, the makeup will look unprofessional and even comical.
How to paint with a pencil at home
The difficulty in creating makeup is drawing the necessary contour yourself. For special occasions, they often use the help of makeup artists. In addition, you can learn how to perform the contouring technique step by step:
- first paint the corners, then the center of the lips;
- Makeup artists advise first creating the outline of the lower lip, and then proceeding to the more complex one - drawing the upper part.
