1. Your preferences and your character. If you do not consider yourself an experimenter, buy a lipstick that is only 1-2 tone different from your natural lip color - just do not go wrong. Bright colors require a certain amount of determination and experience. If you are sure that the color suits you, do not be embarrassed about the brightness of the shade.
2. The rules of color choice are known to every woman, but, as they say, repetition is the mother of the doctrine: women with fair skin are the colors of the cold spectrum, and swarthy and tanned are warm shades. This rule is suitable for both clothing and make-up (including - for the color of lipstick).
3. Against light hair, any lipstick will appear brighter than it is in the tube, so consider the color of your hair.
4. Do not forget that bright lipstick attracts attention to the teeth. If you have a slightly yellow enamel of teeth, do not choose coral or orange shades. But the cold colors, on the contrary, make the teeth visually whiter.
5. Be careful with bright shades! Lipstick of bright colors makes thin lips even thinner, and on full lips it looks vulgar.
Surely you often faced such a problem: in the tube, lipstick appears to be the same color, and when applied on the lips, there are incomprehensible and not always desirable shades. How do you know how lipstick behaves?
Very simple. Take a lipstick sample and lead them through a sheet of white paper. And now carefully take a closer look at the line at all angles (so that the light falls in different ways). Like perfume, lipstick has "hidden notes" - another color.
If the second shade of lipstick is red, yellow or blue - everything is in order, these shades do not have "contraindications" to the application. A light green tint slightly "steals" the complexion, and you may feel that you look paler than you would like. Silver or gray shades give lips a softness and depth. However, the same color, if overdone with lipstick, it can be unprofitable to harmonize with circles under the eyes, which will seem much stronger than it really is.
Separately it is necessary to say about the combination of colors. If you are prone to reddening the skin, do not choose the red shades of lipstick - it only emphasizes the skin imperfections. The same rule is suitable for pale skin. Look closely at your reflection in the mirror more closely: will not lipstick highlight unwanted flaws in your face?
Have you chosen a good lipstick? Congratulations! You are half the way to success. Correctly make up the lips, emphasize their natural beauty - art is also not easy, and we need to talk about it separately, we will mention only a few basic rules:
1. Be sure to draw a lip contour with a pencil so that the extra lipstick does not spread.
2. After applying the lipstick, blot the lips with a tissue - this will remove the excess, which can also spread, and then the shape of your lips will be somewhat vague.
3. Sometimes lipstick paints the ends of teeth. To avoid this, do not stretch your lips when applying lipstick.
4. To achieve a visual effect of swelling, in the middle of the lips, apply a shade to the lighter tone of the main one. But to paint lips, calling at the natural border, do not: gently increase the lips, so it turns out only in the stylists.
So, the beauty and attraction of our lips consists of three points: first, from the right choice of color, and secondly, from the correct application. And the third point is your own charm. Smile, and then you will definitely be irresistible!
Elena Romanova , especially for the site