Lip Pencils

Lip pencil is one of the most important tool for your lip makeup. It helps in redefining the shape of your lips in perfect way. Lip pencil helps in maintaining the lipstick in perfect and desired position. With the right kind of lip pencils you can make your lips look larger or smaller or whatever you want. Lip pencil give your lips creamy and smooth texture and are long lasting. Say the color you want and lip pencils are available in that color. Thus, it works perfectly with different shades and colors of lipstick you have.

Shape your Lips with Lip Pencil

While doing makeup, you must concentrate on your lips as it is the focal point of the face. Thus, smudged or messed up lips will spoil the entire look or makeup. With lip liner or lip pencil you can give your lips a subtle look. However, you must follow the right procedure to apply lip pencil. Get lovable and beautiful lips with the right use of lip pencil.

Before you use your lip pencil, make sure that the pencil has sharp point. In fact, before you sharp the pencil keep it inside refrigerator as it will harden it. It would be sensible to harden the pencil on an emery board, ensuring razor sharp edges. Try to file your lip pencil in gentle manner from both the side.

Always apply the lip liner close to the top of natural lip line for better effects. Make sure that you don't overdraw it as it will give unnatural and harsh look to lips. If you feel that the line is not drawn correctly, remove it with clean cloth and draw again.

For thin lips, use light shade lip pencil or liner so that your lips appear full and complete on the eyes of onlooker. After finishing the drawing apply lipstick just inside the outline, thereby filling the lip completely.

For a complete look of your lips, you can blend the edges by sponge applicator. Apply petroleum jelly or lip gloss over it after drawing the lips with lip pencil.

Right color for your Lip Pencils

To choose the perfect color for your lip pencils, find out whether your face suits best with cool tones or warm tones. Every women looks perfect in tone or the other. There is an easy way to determine this fact. Find one shade from rust or orange family and another one of lavender or pink. You can use any type of cosmetics for this purpose. Rub both the shades on the apple of your cheeks and see which one looks best on your skin.

After determining the basic skin tone, picking up the color would not be a daunting task for you. All you need is to stick to the color category and choose the best for your skin tone. If warm tones are suitable for you choose sandy and earthy tones. For cool tones, pick flowery or fruity colors. Look the shades very closely and choose.