Lips

For today's lesson we were asked to do different lip looks. We had to do a natural lip, red lip and dark lip and  afterwards we were free to play around with other textures and colours.

Product list:

• foundation
• Illamasqua translucent powder
• Illamasqua primer
• kryolan concealer cube in ~
• brush kit
• different lip stick colours
• lipgloss/ MAC lip mix medium /matte/shine
• lip pencils (optional)
• glitter/gems or other decorations for lips
• eyebrow kit and gel
• lip balm; lip scrub

Steps:

• first off all make sure the face is clean and do your normal face routine( cleanse, tone, moisturize)
• then apply primer and prep skin for the foundation
• NOTE: First off all I worked on myself as my skin is quite bad(very dry) at the moment and my lips are especially dry( and split and bleeding) so I didn't want anyone to work on me. Also as my skin is so dry , I decided not to apply and foundation. I only concealed the area around my lips slightly
• apply foundation and conceal where it is necessary
• for a nice overall look you could also do the eyebrows 
• prepping the lips->depending on the lips condition you could do a lips scrub before you put anything on the skin to get rid off any dry skin; then apply lip balm 
• now you can apply the colour of lipstick you chose; when doing the red lip you could also use a red lip pencil to start with but that of course is personal preference (I didn't bring in any lip pencils that day so I only used lipsticks
• after creating a nice lip take a picture and take the lipstick off; if needed re.conceal the lip area and use a different colour (as well as adding glitter or gems or make it glossy)

Natural Lip

Red Lip

Dark Lip

Nude Lip

Glitter Lip

Bright Orange Lip

Bright Violet Lip

Orange/Pink Lip

Some thoughts on the images. As you can see I sometimes used different filters when taking the pictures which made me quite pale but therefore the lip colours looked much more intense, for example the dark lip. Also when taking pictures of the glitter lips I also had to chnage the filter as the blue glitter came across quite green with the normal settings. I also noticed that bright lip colours( more like neon direction; the orange, purple and orange and pink mixed one) don't suit me at all! It was horrendous :D :D Not but really , usually I wear darker colours or matte reds and I do like dark purples but the bright tones are definitely a no go for me. I would probably very different if I would be more tanned and also maybe if the colours would have been matte it would have looked different as well. Apart from the fact that my lips were sore and it's absolutely no fun to put anything on sore lips , the lesson was quite fun and interesting just to play around with colours and textures.