While there are many procedures and products aimed to giving you a plump lip look, they don’t come without a trade-off. Fillers are expensive and can migrate, and lip plumping glosses can hurt! I’ve aways thought using makeup to make your lips look bigger is the way to go.
If you’ve never tried overdrawing your lips, it’s not as easy as just putting pencil to skin. It’s very easy to overdo it, or have the lining look too obvious. Today, I’m sharing my favorite tips on getting a lusciously overdrawn lip that looks as natural as possible. Keep reading to see how to make your lips look bigger with makeup alone!
What You Need:
What you need to achieve this look is a matte lip liner and a lipstick. Matte liner will help conceal your natural lip lines. I prefer using a lip liner that’s just slightly deeper than my lipstick as well, which contours the lips and helps create the new shape.
Products I’m Using:
L’Oreal Colour Riche Lip Liner in Worth It Medium (Amazon, Ulta)
L’oreal Colour Riche Satin Lipstick in Worth It (Ulta, Target)
1. Start at the Cupid’s Bow
Starting applying the lip liner at the cupid’s bow, which is the dip in the middle of your top lip. Starting here will help keep both sides as even as possible. I make a little “X” mark on my natural cupid’s bow to mark the dip, with the top of the X slightly higher than my natural lips.
2. Meet Your Natural Lip Corner
As you start carving out your new lip line, it’s very important to end the line in your natural corners. This will help both the top and bottom lip lines meet in their natural place, and prevent a joker smile effect. From each lip peak (the top of your X), round out and work your lip liner downward, slightly outside your natural lip line. As you get closer to the corners, you want move closer inward so that the line ends at the innermost point of the corners.
3. Repeat on Bottom Lip
I start in the middle on the bottom lip as well, placing my liner just slightly below my natural lip line but curving it upward so that it meets my natural corner.
4. Fill In Edges
To create a better blend between the lip liner and lipstick, I fill in the corners on both the top and bottom lips with my liner, then use my finger to blend them inward. This helps contour the lips and make the liner look more realistic!
5. Fill In the Center
Finally, finish the lip look by filling in the center portion with your lipstick. You can choose either a matte or shiny lipstick, just don’t bring it all the way to the edges so your lip liner still shows!
Done!
Practice makes perfect! Don’t forget to play around with different lip shapes like a sharper cupid’s bow, or even flattening it out to eliminate the dip!
Watch the tutorial below to see the routine step-by-step.
Share your favorite lip liner tricks in the comments!
– Miranda
