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All about Lips
Re-shaping your lips must be done very carefully and no one said it was always
easy if your lips are badly uneven but here are several techniques to get you
started:
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Thin Lips
STEP 1.
Outline your lips with a lip pencil. Don’t go too far outside the
natural lip lines.
STEP 2. Choose lip colors in a medium range, nothing too deep
or dark which can draw attention to your lips, the last thing you
want to do. |


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Full Lips
STEP 1.
Smooth on a little concealer, then a drop of foundation, around the
natural lip line to de-emphasize it.
STEP 2.
Outline the lips with lip pencil just inside the natural lip line.
STEP 3.
Choose light to medium lip colors. Avoid bright, dark or iridescent
shades and lip gloss. |


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UNEVEN LIPS
To make lips even on both sides:
STEP 1.
Outline the best side first.
STEP 2.
Now, recreate that line on the opposite side.
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If lower lip is fuller than the top:
STEP 1. Outline the lower lip inside the edges of the natural
lip line.
STEP 2. Outline the upper lip just outside the natural edges.
STEPS 3. & 4.Use lip color a tone or two lighter on the lower
lip than the shade you use on the top, to minimize the lower lip
visually. Add lip gloss to the upper lip only. |


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If upper lip is fuller than the bottom:
STEP 1.
Outline the upper lip just inside the natural lip line.
STEP 2.
Line the lower lip just outside the edge.
STEP 3.
Apply a lip color that's slightly lighter in tone on the upper lip
than the one you choose for the lower lip, to minimize the top lip.
STEP 4.
Add lip gloss on the lower lip only. |


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SMALL MOUTH
STEP 1.
Start at the middle of the upper and lower lips and outline with lip
pencil, gradually extending the lip line just a touch beyond
the outer corners of the lips, upper and lower.
STEP 2. Make the lips look fuller by using frosted or
moisture-rich lip colors in medium tones and lots of gloss, to
create reflections. Reach the corners of your mouth to create a look
of greater width from side to side. |


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WIDE MOUTH
STEP 1.
Minimize the outside corners of the lips, upper and lower, with a
touch of concealer and a drop of foundation to blur the edges of the
outer corners.
STEP 2. Using lip pencil, start from the center of the lips,
upper and lower and outline, going gradually within the natural lip
line as you move to the outside corners.
STEP 3. Stop the liner pencil before you reach the corners of
your mouth to create a look of less width from side to side.
STEP 4. Choose light to medium lip colors in matte or
moisture formulas. Avoid deep shades, frosted formulas and lip
gloss. |


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DOWN-CAST MOUTH
STEP 1.
Outline the upper lip with lip pencil, starting from mid-lip, and
lifting up the lip line slightly, at the outer corners of the upper
lip.
STEP 2.
Outline lower lip, starting in the middle, and outlining to just
before the corners of the mouth.
STEP 3.
Select 2 lip colors, one tone apart in intensity. Fill in the center
of the mouth with the deeper color of the two.
STEP 4.
Use the slightly lighter shade at the corners.
STEP 5.
Use a lip brush to blend the two to achieve a subtle gradation of
color from deeper in the center to lighter at the outer corners of
the mouth.
STEP 6.
Add a touch of gloss at the center of the mouth. |



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