Beauty 101: 5 Tips for Luscious Lips

Rihanna

Taylor Swift

Fall 2012 is all about playing up your eyes and lips with dark, dramatic colors. Ruby and reds lips are so dark and beautiful and paired with shimmery golden eyes it instantly becomes gorgeous! However, if you go deeper into the new beauty trends, it is becoming more popular to "reshape" your lips, with concealer and foundation that is. Keep on reading for tips on how to reshape your lips, make them fuller, and look amazing:

• The Basics! Before you can do anything special with your lips they need to look healthy. Use chapstick, sugar scrubs, and stay hydrated for healthy lips.
• Moisturizing Lip Products! If your not using moisturizing glosses, stains, or chapsticks, your lips are just going to dry out and become chapped again. Use moisturizing products to keep your lips from chapping.
• Primer! A primer will allow you a nice canvas to make your lip product true to color and last longer.
• Lighter and Darker! Using a lighter shade lip color or gloss to the middle of your 1st lip color will make your lips appear fuller. The contrast will look gorgeous especially from the way the light will hit the colors, just be sure to blend!
• Concealer! Use concealer along with an angled brush and foundation to reshape your lips and make your lipstick lines look perfect! Cupid bow shaped lips are so in right now and concealer will help you achieve the shape.



Beauty 101: Perfect Pout

Get The Look: Spring Lips

Lea Michele

I don't know about you, but I have a hard time wearing lots of make-up during the spring season. The weather can get hot and humid and allergies can cause the eyes to itch and water, not a good combo for a make-up look. For the spring season I am loving accenting the lips in bold lip colors, glosses, and stains and keeping the rest of the face simple. Lea Michele's look is perfect for spring and her lip color is bright, but goes great with her skin tone. I love that she does not completely forget her eyes by coating them in lengthening mascara. The only products you need to recreate Lea's look is a bold lip color and lengthening/thickening mascara.

1. Begin with a clean, smooth face. Use concealer and foundation as neccessary.
2. Take a rosy blush and apply it right to the apples of your cheeks and lightly into your temples.
3. Curl your lashes witha an eyelash curler then coat your lashes with the lengthen and/or thickening mascara. Be sure to use at least 3 coats to make your lashes pop!
4. Primer your lips with primer then glide your lip color across your lips. Be sure to wipe away any lipstick that went outside your lip line.

As for the hair, curl your hair into long, light waves and brush them all to one side. Secure the hair with bobby pins matching the color of your hair. Remember practice makes perfect and to be patient when trying out new beauty looks.

Get The Look: Adele At The Grammys

Adele's look is beautiful, classic, and perfect. A girl has to look good winning six grammy awards in one night. Not only does Adele have an amazing voice, but she shows women all shapes, sizes, and looks are beautiful. Adele has a rollerset hairstyles and a statement red lip to stand out amongst a sea of celebrities. To rollerset your hair, you must first wash your hair and roll it in hair rollers. The size of your hair rollers depend on your hair length. After your hair is all rolled up, sit under a blow dryer until your hair is completely dry, then unroll your hair. If you used smaller rollers, your hair will come out in spiral curls, big rollers result in big, bouncy waves. After your hair is complete, slather on some red lipstick, heavy black liner, and dramatic falsies. The look can work for prom, formal occasions, and any special events.

Beauty Tip #6

Soft, smooth, lusicious lips are always in. During winter days the harsh winds and dry air can cause our lips to become very chapped and rough. A quick trick to repair your lips are with a sugar scrub. Any type of sugar works mixed with a little water will peel off the dead skin off your lips. Be sure to wet your lips beforehand! Another tip can go along can go right along with your dental routine. While your brushing your teeth, brush you lips softly and your chapped lips will disappear!