7 Steps for Nude Lips like Kim Kardashian

This should be especially helpful to you if you have naturally highly pigmented lips and want nude  lips  like Kim’s.

1. Smooth your lips. You can skip this step, but if you have dry lips you should exfoliate with a toothbrush.  Just add some water to your toothbrush and gently brush your lips in a circular motion to scrub off dead skin.  Pat dry with a towel and add a little bit of lip balm.  Let the balm absorb for a few minutes before you apply any makeup.

2. Pick your lip liner/lipstick colors. Pick colors that look natural on your skin.  Your lip liner should be darker than your lipstick and should resemble your natural lip color.  Your lipstick choice is really your preference, but personally I like Kim Kardashian’s look; it works for most skin tones.

Kim uses MAC Lipliner in Stripdown then tops it with MAC Angel lipstick and a NARS Turkish Delight lip gloss. Pictured below.

TIP:  A little teeth whitening wouldn’t hurt.  Nude lips have a way of bringing out the yellow in teeth.  I don’t know if Kim has it done, but many celebrities do it.  It makes the nude lip look even better.

3. Conceal your lip color. Apply your usual concealer or foundation lightly to your lips with a makeup sponge.  If your lips are naturally highly pigmented, try a concealer color a few shades lighter than your skin.  Lightly powder your lips.  Less is better. Repeat if necessary, but be careful, you don’t want your lips to look cakey.

4. Apply lip liner. I like MAC Spice, Stripdown and Currant.  Stripdown is a bit on the lighter side, Spice is a few shades darker, and Currant is even darker with some plum tones. I would use Stripdown for lighter skin, Spice for medium/olive skin, and Currant for dark/ebony tones.  Apply a thick line of lip liner on your lip line.

5. Apply lipstick. Start by applying in the center of the mouth and blend out with your lip brush, blending lip liner and lipstick together. Slowly build up the lipstick color.  Try to avoid completely covering  the lip liner.  The idea is to create a dark to light faded/blended effect, with the color darkest at the lip line, and lightest at center of the mouth.

6. Apply gloss. With a lip brush, start by dabbing a small amount of clear gloss in the center of the mouth and blend outwards to the lip line.   Apply it carefully.  Too much gloss will leave a globby mess.

TIP:  If you make a mistake and get product past the lip line, use a makeup sponge to wipe off any excess.

7. Reapply lip liner. Double check your lip liner.  If the lip liner has been completely covered, lightly reapply your lip liner and blend with a brush to get that natural dark to light faded/blended effect.

And you’re done!

Cheers,
makeup artist brenda

The Evolution of Makeup

The line between professional makeup and makeup available to the general public is much blurrier than it used to be. Professional makeup has only recently become available for purchase by people who are not in the trade.

Professional makeup used to be very heavy and harsh. It was usually in cake form, and had consistency similar to stage makeup. This of course is not the look you want walking around town or going out on a date. Makeup has improved as technology has improved. Our imaging technology allows for much finer images and thus the makeup used by actors in movies and on television can be much more subtle. And this subtler makeup is a lot more wearable for those of us not on the screen.

Don’t assume that professional makeup is the most expensive makeup. This is a myth. Often, professionals use drug store items or inexpensive products that happen to work beautifully and are easy to use.

If you don’t know what products are used by professionals, you can often find this information by reading beauty reviews. Often the reviewer, in giving a full description of a product, will mention how the product is used by professional makeup artists. You can trust a product that is used by professionals; they are not going to use a product that does not work well because their professional reputation is on the line.

Professional makeup may need special application. Here is some advice that has been passed on by makeup artists. A good quality professional brush can make all the difference to eye makeup application. You’ll have better control, be able to blend more easily, and have better luck getting the look you are trying for.

Don’t skimp on eyeliner; use the best you can find and afford. Eyeliner defines the eyes and opens up the whole face. Line the upper eye for daytime wear. Apply liner to both upper and lower lids for nighttime wear. Try to get the line as close to your natural lashline as possible. Professional grade eyeliner is easier to apply.

There are many professional grade makeup palettes available to consumers, such as the Day to Day Palette by Pop Beauty. Investing in a palette is a smart choice because it provides you with a wardrobe of color choices for day and night, and includes eye and cheek colors and often lipsticks as well.

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