Cute Lips Tutorial

 Lately, I've been seeing this cute lip shape becoming popular recently, even so far to people getting surgery to create the same cute lip tilt. I'm not quite sure what the name of the shape is, but I will admit it give off a very playful appearance.
A bit of a tip before hand, this tutorial isn't quite flaw proof, I will show a picture of what I mean at the end of the tutorial, but the creation of the look doesn't translate to a very natural appearance when the look is darkened extremely like I do for the photos. The best way to make the look appear more natural is to complete it with a light hand. Please use the look with your own discretion and modifications if need be.

Items I used:

Brown eye/lip pencil

Natural lip colour pencil

Sheer tinted gloss in a natural colour

Translucent powder  +  a powder puff

Concealer [used to tidy up the lip area]

Optional:

Additional dark brown or black eye/lip pencil

White eyeliner

Super shine lip gloss

Before I start, this is an example I drew up, to easily map out the steps in a clearer way.

 1. Start with a clean lip, no lip balm please. You can further prep your lips with a lip primer or with some concealer.
2. Map out the contour. Create the base shape you want your lips to take, it will be slightly different for each person so take the time to create the best shape for you. For me, I created a shadow around the tip of my top lip further amplifying the slight fullness I have there. I then created more of an upward lift the the top corners of my lip, quite similar to a winged liner, but very subtle. I then created more fullness to my bottom lip by creating some shadow on the outer corners.

~Tap translucent powder over the contoured areas~
This will keep your look in place, and is quite important.

 3. Darken the areas of shadow. I darkened up the top lip contour around the tip of the lip to further make the areas seem to sink back.
4. Use a natural lip liner to outline the lip and fill it in, avoiding the areas you applied the contour colour.
5. Using a white eyeliner or lighter lip colour, apply it to the areas that you want to amplify. I applied it to the very tip of my top lip to enhance the shape and right above the contoured area to make it appear like there was a bit more volume to the lip in that area, which is why there is a 'shadow' being cast under it. I also applied a bit to the center of my bottom lip to make it appear plumper. This step is optional, but it does make a difference.  If you need to, please feel free to lightly blend the liner with a lip brush.

Please powder your lips with a translucent powder again, to seal the work you've completed and to make the look last.

 6. Using a lightly tinted gloss, please apply it onto your lip, avoiding the contoured areas. This will not only help to blend the highlight into your lip, but will make the lip look more voluptuous. Then please feel free to finish by applying a concealer around your lip to clean up the area and to finish the look.

Optional~ You can darken the contour with a dark brown or black pencil, which is what I did in the top photo, and can apply a super shiny gloss on the very tip of the top lip and to the very center of the bottom lip to really give the look some oomph!

Also, just so you know, the lip look can look a bit ridiculous with either wrong angles or expressions~ Above is how my contour looks with my lips in a pout. A bit silly right? 

Well, I hope you enjoyed the look. I really enjoyed creating it!

<3CarisseIris

Also, sorry for the cellphone quality photos, but I wan't prepared to do a tutorial, but still wanted to put this out for those who requested. I will also do another one next week, for a cute smiling lip look.

Fuller lips~ Tutorial

More recently, I've been filling in my lip for fun, and it's gotten more attention then I thought it would, moreso in how I do it~ So, I've decided to try and explain the process as best as I can<3

What you will need:

 Three lip pencils; a white or cream pencil, your main lip colour [for me it's a colour that matches my lip colour], and a deeper tone than your main pencil [I'm using my taupe eyebrow pencil].

A lip gloss, mine is Urban Decay's Nooner lip gloss.

A shimmery eyeshadow.

 ~~optional~~
Two lipsticks, one that matches your main pencil, and one slightly deeper.

So, for reference, this is my natural lip~

I've created a simple chart of how I create my lips, for example.

Before you start, take a good look at your lips~ I want you to notice that your lips, even if they are light should have some kind of pigmentation that outlines the shape of your lips.Slightly around that, you should have a white or paler pigmentation. You can take a look at my picture and the first part of the diagram.

You will want to only colour up into that white/paler section surrounding your lips, as it will be a more natural shape for you.

 1. The first t thing you will do is outline your lips with your main pencil/ shade. Line that white section I was talking about above, and that should be your basis shape for your fuller lip look.

 ^^ I pulled my lips in to show the outline I created above and below my natural lip line, which is over that section of lighter skin.

 2. Fill in your lips with the lip liner or [optional] your lipstick you've chosen.

 3. Take your deep colour lip pencil, and outline your outer corners of your lip. Similar to the second section of the drawn chart above. The outer sections of your lip should be darker than the rest of your lip, then blend it in nicely to create shading. You are creating dimension to your lip shape to make it appear plumper.

 Optional~~ you can create more dimension over the liner you applied by repeating the same process with your darker lipstick.

 4. The most important step to making your lips look fuller and the illusion more believable is to lightly and thinly outline above your created lip shape with your white or cream pencil. This will recreate the light patch of pigmentation you coloured over, and also add the appearance of a highlight over a fuller lip.

Make sure the line isn't too harsh and thick. You want to mimic the light natural pigmentation a lip has.

Even if you don't chose to over outline your lips, just adding that highlight over the cupid's bow of your lips will give an extra 'oomph' to your pout.

 5. Apply your lip gloss to your lips. Not only will it help with the next step, but it will create the appearance of more volume to your lips, and blend your shading work you've done earlier.

 6. Lightly tap your shimmery eyeshaddow into the very center of your top and bottom lip, and blend it nicely with the lip gloss in that section. It will give your lips that extra boost to having a fuller pout.

 The final look~ Fuller, more voluminous lips.

The perfect pout to blow kisses with!

I hope I explained the process in a clear and understandable manner~ It's a relatively short and sweet way to achieve a sexy pout, it just takes some practice and patience to get it down just right with your own lip shape.

Have fun, and proudly show off those pretty lips~

<3CarisseIris