Tips for Getting Your Lip Makeup Right
The right lip color instantly adds life and expression to your face. If you're aiming for a look that's both long-lasting and eye-catching in your lip makeup, take a look at our suggestions.
What Is Lip Makeup?
You have probably caught yourself focusing on someone's lips while talking to them. The right makeup techniques, with their almost hypnotic effect, make the lip area more alluring. Put simply, lip makeup consists of lip liner and lipstick, but both come in many textures and formulas you can choose from. For example, creamy pencils that glide easily over the lips can create a beautiful lipstick effect. With lipsticks, you can try satin, matte or gloss finishes to find the one that suits you.
How Do You Do Lip Makeup?
It's important to prep your lips before doing your lip makeup. Our suggestion: use a lip scrub to remove dead skin and apply a moisturizing lip balm to keep your lips smooth. Thanks to this little prep, the products you apply will definitely look much better. Before you start your makeup, buff away dead skin with a scrub, so lipsticks and pencils look smoother and last longer.
What Should You Pay Attention To and Which Products Should You Use for Lip Makeup?
There are two important things to pay attention to when doing lip makeup: your lip liner and lipstick, and your color choice.
Lip Liner
Alix Avien's long-lasting lip liner highlights your lips all day with its high pigment and nourishing formula. You can wear it on its own or with lipstick or gloss. In our opinion, there are many reasons to love Alix Avien Staying Power Lip Pencil: this highly pigmented lip liner glides smoothly over the lips, defines them effortlessly and lasts all day. Even worn on its own, it can brighten your whole face. If you like, you can layer it with a lip gloss and lipstick.
Since we unintentionally swallow most of the products we put on our lips, clean ingredients matter a lot here. Staying Power Lip Pencil is paraben-free and gluten-free, and since it's dermatologically tested, you can use it with peace of mind.
Choosing a Color
When choosing a lip color, consider both your skin tone and your makeup style. Whether you want something minimal or eye-catching, with Alix Avien Staying Power you can find a shade that reflects your style. For example, you can spend your whole day wearing a vivid red, orange or plum and keep your only makeup to your lip liner. A great lip liner can also look amazing when paired with the right lipstick shade and a bolder look on the rest of your face. And here's a nice tip: lip liners last longer when worn with lipstick, so you won't have to worry about your lips.
How Should You Do Makeup for Each Lip Shape?
Balanced Lip Makeup
If your upper lip is full and your lower lip is thin (or the other way around), we recommend creating a little illusion with two-tone glossy lip makeup. Colors that are darker on the outside and lighter toward the center create an eye-catching, modern look. With strawberry makeup, which calls to mind biting into a juicy strawberry and gives a summery look, you can create natural looks that combine red and pink shades.
Thin and Round Lips
We're going to tell you about a trend you probably came across often on social media in 2024, called blurred lips. Here's a quick look at this makeup technique, which creates a gradient effect on the lips: the color goes from a darker shade in the center to a softer one and fades toward the edges.
For this look, you can use a soft brush or gently blend it on with your fingers. Matte lipsticks are a perfect choice for this trend. To get the look, our recommendation is Alix Avien's full-coverage liquid lipstick with a velvety matte finish. Matte Liquid Lipstick, which creates a flawless, velvety-smooth look without drying out the lips, comes in many chic shades to choose from. With its creamy, non-sticky texture, this liquid lipstick keeps lips comfortable all day, and because it holds its color for up to eight hours, it works as a long-lasting lipstick.
Heart-Shaped Lips
As we saw on the spring runways, both eyes and lips were painted in bold colors this season. In lip makeup, vinyl looks perfected with bright reds or deep burgundies were the key to bold looks. Shades inspired by spring flowers, blending red and orange, also stood out for their energizing feel.
With the doll makeup look, which suits heart-shaped lips especially well, you can create makeup dominated by pink shades. For this trend, which focuses mostly on a single element and color, we recommend keeping the rest of your makeup simple with a soft-toned blush. This way, the bold liquid lipsticks you wear will give a sweet finish with simple base makeup. Our picks for bold shades:
- Alix Avien 520 Red Carpet Matte Liquid Lipstick
- Alix Avien 514 Bright Fuchsia Matte Liquid Lipstick
- Alix Avien 523 Berry Red Matte Liquid Lipstick
- Alix Avien 508 Bright Rose Matte Lipstick
Full Lip Makeup
'90s ombre lips have been making their mark for a while now. With the help of lip liners, the natural shape of the lips is emphasized to look fuller, and adding lipstick gives the makeup dimension. There are a few basic steps to make sure this look, which lets you create full lips, turns out flawless.
First, start by prepping and moisturizing your lips so the application looks the way you want. Make sure your lip liner is freshly sharpened and carefully start drawing along your natural lip line. Use short strokes for a crisp line and work your way toward the corners of your mouth. If you change your lipstick color often, choose a lip liner in a natural shade. Add a little gloss right in the center of your lips to boost the highlighting effect.