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What is lip liner for?
Lip Liner does a number of jobs to make your lips look their very best.
First and foremost, Lip Liner is there to create a precise sharp edge to your lipstick due to the liner having a pencil sharp fine tip. If you apply your lipstick first and then using the tip of the lip liner to slowly edge out the lip shape, you can build a fuller and more balanced (the top and bottom lip being of equal size and shape) lip with a sharp edge with ease. For this, its best to use a lip liner that's the same or similar shade to the lipstick you are using. for instance, MAC Candy Yum Yum Lip Pencil matches perfectly with MAC Candy Yum Yum Lipstick. However, it can be worked into your makeup in other ways.
Most of the time Lip Liner can be more long wearing than lipstick so many people like to apply Lip Liner first all over the lip before popping on their lipstick to make the colour stay on for longer. By using a slightly darker shade of liner than your lipstick you can over draw your natural lip shape to make your lips look bigger. Plus this ombre effect created by using a deeper Lip Liner to the lighter lipstick also helps to make a 3D effect allowing your lips to look bigger. Try using MAC Whril Lip Liner or MAC Soar Lip Liner with a colour like MAC Creme In Your Coffee will give you a beautiful full lip that looks natural.
Also, due to Lip Liner being made with less oils than a traditional lipstick, Lip Liner can help prevent lipstick from bleeding into the fine line around the mouth. However, if you find this is an issue that you have, then you can use a lip primer like MAC Prep & Prime Lip that will stop the bleeding plus hold onto your lipstick for longer all while being colourless so allowing it to work on all skin tone and with all lipstick shades.
First and foremost, Lip Liner is there to create a precise sharp edge to your lipstick due to the liner having a pencil sharp fine tip. If you apply your lipstick first and then using the tip of the lip liner to slowly edge out the lip shape, you can build a fuller and more balanced (the top and bottom lip being of equal size and shape) lip with a sharp edge with ease. For this, its best to use a lip liner that's the same or similar shade to the lipstick you are using. for instance, MAC Candy Yum Yum Lip Pencil matches perfectly with MAC Candy Yum Yum Lipstick. However, it can be worked into your makeup in other ways.
Most of the time Lip Liner can be more long wearing than lipstick so many people like to apply Lip Liner first all over the lip before popping on their lipstick to make the colour stay on for longer. By using a slightly darker shade of liner than your lipstick you can over draw your natural lip shape to make your lips look bigger. Plus this ombre effect created by using a deeper Lip Liner to the lighter lipstick also helps to make a 3D effect allowing your lips to look bigger. Try using MAC Whril Lip Liner or MAC Soar Lip Liner with a colour like MAC Creme In Your Coffee will give you a beautiful full lip that looks natural.
Also, due to Lip Liner being made with less oils than a traditional lipstick, Lip Liner can help prevent lipstick from bleeding into the fine line around the mouth. However, if you find this is an issue that you have, then you can use a lip primer like MAC Prep & Prime Lip that will stop the bleeding plus hold onto your lipstick for longer all while being colourless so allowing it to work on all skin tone and with all lipstick shades.
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