How to choose a lipstick

Any woman knows how important a lipstick. It is hard to even imagine what can replace a lipstick if it did not exist. However, applying lipstick, requires a certain skill, and possess these skills, not all women. The choice of lipstick - is also an art, because the wrong shade can completely ruin makeup.

Choose a lipstick - not a simple matter. The color scheme of the tool of seduction is almost limitless, so it is not surprising that we often choose the wrong shade. In addition, the color of lipstick in a bottle is different from the color on your lips, the final result depends on many factors, such as skin tones and lighting.

Composition and shelf life of lipstick

The composition of any lipstick is wax, moisturizing oils, dyes and softeners. It is these ingredients determines the quality of lipstick. Wax provides soft texture of the lipstick, making it easy to apply. In the cosmetics are most often used beeswax and Brazilian wax palm tree, and castor, mineral oil, olive oil and coconut oil, lanolin and petroleum jelly. Castor oil - a mandatory ingredient in the composition of any lipstick because it gives shine and color.

Many manufacturers also use aloe vera, amino acids, collagen, vitamin E, moisturizers and sunscreen ingredients that soften the lips and protect it from harmful environmental exposures.

When choosing lipstick look for its useful properties. For example, a lipstick with a high content of wax and oils will make your lips smooth and soft, and the high content of vitamin A and C to protect lips from harmful effects of climate and natural phenomena.

The sun's rays are harmful to the mucous membrane of the lips. To protect your lips, lipstick manufacturers add in the UV-filters. Shelf life is determined by the lipstick manufacturer and indicated on the packaging. Expired lipstick can be identified by odor and too dry or liquid consistency.

Properties lipstick

What properties has the perfect lipstick? It should long retain color, moisten lips and protect them from harmful external influences. In addition, the lipstick should not be quick drying, fade, or spread. Another sign of a good lipstick - it's easy to remove makeup remover.

Depending on the basic properties of lipsticks come in three types: resistant, matte and gloss (pearl). Resistant lipstick keeps the original color over time due to the presence of wax, and a number of special components that provide color stability. Resistant lipstick should be applied to clean dry lips. It dries up and locked lips for a minute, and saved as much as eleven hours. Please note that the reception lipstick does not tolerate fatty foods, so be careful in choosing food.

Matte lipstick contains a large amount of wax and powder, its color - a deep and mysterious. It is perfect for full lips, that's the girl with thin lips better to use the pearly lipstick or gloss.

Lipstick

Lipstick, part of the make-up of each woman varies not only color but also by type, this is not always easy to choose the right one is to enhance your lips, and for the choice of an appropriate color to your complexion. Moreover, even the best quality lipsticks tend to lose brightness with the passing of time, but with little tricks you can avoid it, lets see how ...

Soft tones: The tendency to light colors is typical of people from the incarnation pale and delicate, not like conflict and seek harmony in the face of natural makeup. Again, however, the lips are rigged to give them more light, perhaps with a colorless gloss, preferred especially in summer and in winter you can opt for a light pink with streaks just the brightest.

Dark shades: The textures are more intense and decided favorite in the winter, especially in the evening look, which gives the woman an aura mysterious and strong. The colors range from mauve with darker shades of purple.

Red is considered the king of lipstick, stylish and sensual, as the lips of women as no other lipstick can do. Although it is the most popular choice is really only the women more self-confident and daring, not least because it brought with nonchalance not to feel uncomfortable. It not that bring both embarrassing, but because you do not pass unnoticed, and have their eyes on him is not at all. Usually it goes to a almost no makeup, or even that tends to whiten the return of the face, accentuating lashes with at most only the black mascara. So the focus is on the lips red, on the other hand that why you choose the deep red!

Light skin: If you want to color the lips of a clear complexion, and not content with the color too light, a tone suited to this type of skin is the coral, a color that livens up the look but not excessive.

Skins medium: They are certainly those which can play with the colors because it is easier to adapt to the complexion. From orange to strong cherry, pink is the range of offering greater choice and goes well with the average skin, so you opt for colors not too bright or dark.

Dark skin: Dark skin, when you need make-up, the trick so right only with warm colors and dark too. In the case lipstick is good to prefer the colors from brick red to burgundy in order to avoid too strong contrasts that are not shown with this type of skin.

The lip gloss: A valid alternative to the straightforward application of lipstick, lip gloss or gloss is, which is now available in all colors possible, and creates a wonderful effect on lips gloss and bulkiness. It can also be applied a light coat of lipstick on an already developed, to give just a little over the lipstick gloss that is crazy. Only drawback, compared with lipstick, is that the gloss, being liquid, goes away faster. So when you go out remember to put it in the clutch and at the appropriate time.  

Lipstick cream: Another type of lipstick is a cream, which is in the best cosmetic bag is complete, in cases in which single or multiple colors. Always accompanied by brush, the majority of cases but also has a small mirror handy to carry in your bag. It should be applied carefully to prevent smudging, but the result is better and more natural. 

Duration: Long to get a seal your lipstick is not impossible, to follow the next steps:

   o    Softening effect: Before the trick, pass on the lips of cocoa butter or cream for
                                      the face to help soften and prepare them for further processing.  

   o    The edge: With a pencil, possibly identical to the color of lipstick, draw the lip
                           (which helps prevent smearing lipstick, and have a design more
                            accurate), with a gradient brush to color the pencil going entirely
                           lips. 

   o    The lipstick: Now apply a first coat of lipstick and dab with a tissue thin layer
                               of a past then decided to be the definitive one.

   o    The powder: With a soft brush the ribs spend some face powder on lips that it
                               would fix everything.

Style tips: When you draw the outline of the lips with a pencil careful to stay within it, especially the upper lip, because the volume effect will still be obtained when put lipstick cream, a drawing of the lips comes out from the edges is not very smart and can make it unpleasant to view.

 
 

Makeup secrets: How to paint the lips?

The first half of evening you do strike those surrounding by juicy and appetizing lips, but as soon as the matter does reach before supper with the cocktails, your mouths are converted into the mouth of clown - with the bright edging on the edges and the complete absence of pomade in the middle?

Lipstick "eat" napkins, glasses and pastry. By the way, if you brought pencil to entire surface of lips, and not only to the outline, and made peeling before to approach makeup, it would be held considerably longer!

Cleansing - Tonic 

First of all you must clean lips with the aid of tonic or skin for the washing. The fact is that on our mouths there is the thin invisible lodicule, which consists of the bacteria, the skin fat, the particles of dust and mud. If you apply pomade directly to this “coating”, already entirely soon she will spread.

Restoration - Peeling 

If you have problems with the lips - for example, they exposed to the wind, they were charred in the sun, they are scaled, they are cracked or even they are covered with the crust of the coarsened skin, you in the required order should make peeling. Memorize: pomade lies down accurately and it is exact only to the smooth mouths. To clean them entire excess you it will help from special scrub. Only on no account use that, by which you process face. His abrasive particles (pulverized shell it is nut and bones, salt and sugar) can traumatize tender skin.

In this case to you will approach the sparing preparation with the synthetic granules - cellulose and nylon: their rounded, flat of edge with great care otshelushat the become numb particles and in this case will not damage. If your lips too coarsened and peeling did not manage stated problem, for you it is worthwhile to use the special softening cream on the basis of the lanolin: it will easily destroy dense crust, after which you will be able to remove it with the aid of scrub.

Base - Rich cream

Following stage - putting special base under makeup. This coating will allow pomade to be held as longer as possible. In the composition of similar preparations search for premalin (derivative of wax, it fulfills the fixing function) and glycerin (it retains moisture). Misses with the cracked sponges to before superimpose base, is worth applying fatty cream so that it would drive in all small cracks and would soften the skin.

Day - Without a pencil 

For day makeup select pomade lusterless or sateen, that repeats the color of your lips or to half-tone of darker them. Avoid the mother-of-pearl, lilac and violet range: under the sunlight these paints acquire ominous putrid form. Also to you it is worth forego the use of the contour pencil: it will make makeup less natural. True, the pomade is held more badly without it, but it is possible to fasten it, having slightly powdered mouths. After this, approach the coloring: bring cosmetic by brush from the center of lips to the edges, but not on the contrary, as this makes the majority of women. First, pomade will lie flatter and more accurately, in the second place, it will not begin to be accumulated in the corners. Luster used must not be, in the daytime it is inappropriate. However, as the completing stage you can apply vaseline to the lips: he will make them sexual, those slightly moistened.


Evening - More shine 

In the evening dark and bright pomades are regarded cannot better. Yes even pencil simply is not greeted, but even it is necessary. If you apply it not only to the outline, but you will paint by them mouths wholly, in you it will come out to avoid the unpleasant situation, when color there remains only on the edges, but inside “eats itself”, baring the skin. First outline upper lip from the center to the edges, but do not lead line to the corners, stop somewhere in the middle (otherwise, if you you are mistaken, everything it is necessary to erase and to begin anew). Then approach the lower. After being certified in the fact that selected the right direction and attained symmetry, connect upper and lower lines, correcting on the motion of motion possible inadvertence. After being dismantled with the outline, begin to paint lips by the pencil: conduct lines not horizontally, but it is vertical - from the external edge to the internal. After this, put pomade. If you want so that visually your lips would appear more complete, take two identical colors, but the different degree of intensity - only it is brighter and it is darker. First paint the center section of the lower lip, by the second - its edge and upper lip. Fasten the obtained result by luster.

Expert evidence

If you love in the day time to use bright or dark pomades, try to bring by their method of stiplinga - not with the aid of the brush, but driving into cosmetic into the skin with fingers. Thus in you will come out slightly to mute the saturation of color and to simultaneously make lips chubbier: the illegibly outlined outline will visually add to them volume. By the way, if, superimposing evening makeup, you will intercede by luster to half a millimeter of the edge of upper lip in the region “of butterfly”, your sponges will begin to appear very alluringly.

As to visually increase the lips: the secrets of makeup

The last ten years into the mode entered chubby, large lips. In order to attain their desired value of woman they come running to different contrivances: unhealthy pricks, silicone implants etc, but to correct the form of lips, and to also visually increase mouths is possible and without resorting to such complex and ambiguous procedures. To help in the solution of problem can the knowledge of the finesses of makeup.

Methods of changing the outline

There are three well-known methods to visually increase the outline of the lips, without resorting to the complex surgical manipulations:

• Makeup - this is the simplest and most efficient method to change form.
• Tattooing. Despite the fact that procedure is conducted out of the house - in the specialized cosmetic salon, it also carries to the visual methods of changing the outline of lips.
• Gymnastics for the lips. This is one of the youngest, but undoubtedly valid methods, based on training of the group of muscles, which correspond for the form of lips. 

Makeup

In this case there are two comprising successes:

• The correctly selected color of lipstick. 
• Competent makeup of lips. 

For achievement the effect of visually volumetric lips it is necessary to follow the simple councils of visagiste:

1) Pencil for the lips should be selected flesh color, by nuance close ones to the type of the skin. Tone darker will visually divide off face into two free fragments.

2) With admission it is necessary to trace upper lip, slightly going for the natural outline from the corners on hollow. In this case there is one nuance: on no account it stands to clear direct outline on hollow on the upper lip. One should leave its that not painted - this it will add freedom.

3) It is further necessary to outline lower lip. In professional makeup there is one method, which makes lips more volumetric. For this it is necessary to take pencil for the eyebrows and to make a pair- troika of primes under the lower lip. Then it is necessary to smoothly shade passage from the bright tone to the darker (in lip). The visual effect of volume so is created.

4) Pomade should be selected of two types: lusterless or glossy. The lusterless pomade of flesh nuances will approach to brown-haired women and to brunettes, but to bring it necessary in small quantities so that it would not be rolled up. In this case it is worthwhile to consider that the dark nuances visually decrease the lips. Luster for the lips excellently manages the task of an increase. And although it is not so popular in the season of 2010, for creating the agitating and chubby lips - this precisely that which is necessary. Luster, as pomade, should be selected bright tones.

Before putting “combat coloring” the stylists advise to experiment  with the nuances of pencils, the tones of pomade and tone basis, which shades lips. If we select correct palette, and also “to crowd hand”, then for the creation “volumetric” lips will depart not more than five minutes.

Tattooing 

This is the more cardinal method of the solution of problem. For this it is necessary to find professional executor and salon. The selection of the meta conducting of operation one should approach with the special carefulness. To learn what experience in master on tattoo, as are disinfected the materials, such as dyes are used, as will for long remain unhealthy sensations and as correct to follow the skin traumatized after procedure. After gathering entire this information together and analyzing expenditures and marks it is possible to make a correct selection.

Makeup of the lips: what is accepted, while which is fashionable?

Still several millennial back of woman, attempting to preserve the slipping off beauty or to emphasize natural merits, used cosmetic - it is more precise, by means, to one degree or another successfully substituting contemporary decorative cosmetic. Traditions of makeup of lips go back to ancient reigns of Babylon and Egypt, where women colored lips by special mixture of crushed semiprecious stones or by means on basis of bromine and iodine later because of their harmful properties of those been called name “kiss of death”. In ancient India alternative to contemporary lipstick was the paint from the crust of special tree.

Makeup of the lips: tradition and the revolution

During entire history of existence of decorative cosmetic, which counts several millennial, tradition of makeup changed hundreds of times. There are the times, when makeup was considered something indecent and forbidden, but women, who were not rejecting themselves the cosmetic and thrown call social standards, considered first vendible, then by witches. In the different countries of the tradition of makeup of lips they were also different - depending on the special features of religious and even political system and ideas about the female beauty. Thus, for instance, if the today saturated, red nuances of lipstick are considered one of the undoubted signs of the sensory image, then in ancient Egypt the perception of this color was completely different: the pomade of bright nuances, which was being made from the natural oxides of iron and red ocher, was the method to emphasize the refinement of lips.

The clear red nuance of lipstick became one of the most fashionable trends in makeup in XVI century because of the English queen to Elizabeth I- the sovereign of England it introduced mode to the white skin in combination with the blood-red lips. Lipstick in those times was made from the beeswax and the extracts of plants, which impart to means bright colored A in the 19th Century red lipstick it became unique political manifesto - in the twentieth years of the 19th Century of suffragette, in spite of the perception of lipstick as the sign of the woman of light behavior, colored lips by red pomade, contradicting its motion social against the standards accepted.

Norma is the beauty

Of course the traditions of makeup of lips in the same ancient Egypt striking differ from contemporary concepts about beautiful makeup. For example, the top of refinement in ancient Egyptians were considered thin lips - whereas today the standard of beauty are considered lips chubby and sensual that is reached due to the special the technician of makeup and competently selected nuances of pomade and luster for the lips. But to the appearance of this standard contemporary women are obliged to the first Hollywood wonders: “of the factories of dreams” in the epoch of the bloom of the cinematography of the fiftieth tried to make lips of Hollywood legends - by Marilyn by Monroe and by Jane Mansfield - more sensual more tempting and chubbier due to the lipstick.

Volumetric lips - beauty without the surgical intervention

The majorities of the women, whom nature did not allot volumetric lips, dream to make their chubbier and more tempting. But this does not necessarily resort to invasive procedures, such as contour plastic or injection. Beauty is accessible where by the more sparing methods, by such, as correct withdrawal and corresponding makeup.

Before beginning to sketch to itself new, more volumetric and attractive lips, it is necessary to ensure with them the withdrawal, without which makeup will not appear naturally. The skin on the lips is very thin, is inclined to the splitting and the peeling, which especially frequently occurs in the cold season. In order to make lips their smoother, necessary regularly to flake off soft means. Forget about the old  recommendations like the massage of lips by toothbrush - this only irritates tender skin. For gentle exfoliation should be employed special cosmetic means, at the worst - the ground coffee, sugar, but in no case - soda or salt. Is after carried out peeling, the skin must be satiated by the nourishing and moistening substances by means of the application of cosmetic or oils.

Makeup of lips for the effect of the volume

Makeup must be begun from the superimposition of tone means to the lips or only to their boundaries. This will allow better to be held decorative cosmetic, and the effaced boundary of lips will make putting decorative cosmetic lighter. After basis got dry, begin to bring outline with pencil from the lower lip. One should move from the corners of lips to the middle, entirely a little going for the natural line of lips. Then it is necessary to note upper lip in the middle by letter M or mark, gradually moving to the corners.

After outline is outlined by pencil, should be the same line covered already with pomade with the aid of the brush, so that makeup would appear more natural. It is then necessary to fill space inside the outline.

For the more expressive volume in conclusion of makeup use the luster, which can be brought both by the applicator and by the tips it is finger, shading either along the entire surface of lips or being limited to their middle. For the natural effect use pomade and luster of pastel nuances - caramel, beige, pink. Contour pencil must coincide in the tone with the color of pomade or be to the tone darker. The fundamental rule, which must be observed for giving to lips the volume - it cannot be strongly gone for the natural outline.

When it is desired to create volumetric lips it follows to use either glossy, mother-of-pearl pomade or pomade with the satin radiance, but the not too deep tones, which decrease the lips.

At the present moment on the market for cosmetic production there are sufficiently many lusters and pomades with the content of the collagen, which wonderfully fills all wrinkles on the lips, making with their chubbier visually even without the additional contrivances.