• Don’t wear heavy, defined lip liner around your mouth. These days even patting your lipstick shade onto your lips with your finger creates a modern affect. If it looks like your lips have been stained by sucking a lolly pop it’s good!
• Never leave your eyebrows unplucked – this looks unkept, messy and boyish. Groomed brows ‘open up’ your eye area and create a groomed, polished appearance.
• Do apply a cream textured concealer over your eyelids and under your eyes. This will freshen the skin around your eyes and make you look years younger. Use just enough to ‘dumb’ the discoloration around the eyes, blend well and then set your concealer with a little loose powder for holding power.

• Your personality: Lipstick color is such a personal thing and it should therefore be chosen by you personally. Expecting someone else to choose it for you is like asking them to choose what shoes or accessories you should be wearing. Out going vibrant people tend to prefer brighter shades, whilst those that are more reserved prefer subtle shades for their lips.
• If you have small lips stick to lighter or brighter shades rather than going darker. Perhaps opt for lip gloss instead of a solid lipstick color.
• Fuller lips can be enhanced or detracted from depending which you are trying to do. To enhance use lip gloss, bright lipsticks or striking deep shades. To detract from full lips use neutral, matte shades this will help tone down and detract from a full mouth.
• Keep an eye on lipstick trends, pearlised lipsticks are not in at the moment. Juicy, glossy formulas come and go whilst the matte red lip seems to be a true classic.
• Avoid applying obvious lines of lip liner this looks dated. Blend your lip liner inside your lip edge to create a less obvious look and then fill in your entire lips with gloss or lipstick.
• If your lips are pink you may not require much lip color and opt for a lip gloss rather than a lipstick. Whilst those who have pale lips might want to add color by using a lip stick shade.

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