Lips

How to get that sexy nude lips you see on the poster?

For those of us have uneven color on our lips, it is a little harder to create nude lip without proper technique . It's very common to have uneven color lip, which means your lip color is darker around your lip line, but lighter on your lips. I actually have he typical uneven color lips.

Lip Care -

Lip care is important. First, you must remember to scrub it in your facial routine. Don't avoid your lips when you apply your scrubs or facial masks.

Here are a few good lip balm I recommend:

 1. Aveeno Lip Balm with SPF 15 - Very moisturizing and doesn't have any smell or taste. Long lasting.

2. Keihl's lip balm - Super moisturizing, perfect for winter

3. Fresh lip Balm -  SPF 15 and the Rose tinted lip balm - I recommended these 2 in another blog post earlier this year. I always have them in my purse. Highly recommended

Make-up - Creating Nude lip with lip liner and lip sticks (gloss)

1. Pick up a good lip liner - 

In order to cover up the darker color around your lip, a good lip liner is key to do the trick

Sephora's lip liner collection are easy to apply and longer lasting. You can choose the following color:

04 Candid Candy or  05 Native Nude (The picture is not the color I recommended, make sure you pick up the right color)

Draw the lip liner first before putting on lip stick/ gloss, you can easily blend the lip liner color into the lips, so you faded the lines. Visible lip line is a big NO-NO.

2. Pick a good lip stick for the nude lip color

High Tea lipstick is a sheer, lightly pinked nude shade, Myth lipstick is a satiny smooth, fleshy beige shade, and Honeylove lipstick pink-nude lip

Blankety lipstick (creamy), Hug Me lipstick ( a little pink) and Creme d’Nude lipstick ( creamy, beigey-nude, warmer color)

3. Lip Gloss - 

You have to go easy on the lip gloss. Clear or nude color is recommended.

I love Bobbi Brown make-up. She really knows how to create high quality products. Their lip gloss is smooth, thick and creamy. You can try Nude, Beige, or Pink Beige. They are all good colors.

Burt's Bee's lip products are amazing. Actually, I really love their lip balm too. So, back to the lip gloss. Burt's bee's lip gloss has a little shimmer. I personally don't use a lot of shimmer on my lips. But, if this is going to be evening look or going out look, you can try this shimmer lip gloss. You nude lips will catch some eyes. :)

Enjoy your nude lips~

Eye Masks to Lip Masks

I always have dry lips in the winter.  I am sure many QBs have the same problem too.

Other than some great lip care products that I have already introduced and recommended here. I have one more trick to share. :)

Many of us use hydrating eye masks. Next time when you use hydrating eye masks, you can do the following:

1. Cut at the center of the eye mask and make your eye mask into 2 pieces

2. Take one piece and cut it into half to create 2 half moon shape masks.

3. Place the half moon shapes (1/4 of the original size) pieces under your eyes as eye masks, and the other half of the eye mask place it on your lips.

Now you have a pair of eye masks and a lip mask from one package of eye mask!

Nude Make up

What is nude make-up? A nude make-up is even though you did put make-up on, it looks as if you didn't. It should look very natural and effortless.

The way to achieve this look :

1. Light weight foundation, but with good coverage.

Try Benefit Foundation Faker. It gives a good coverage. It's also a little wet, so the moisture helps the make up to blend in better. There is a reason why it's called the Foundation "Faker." It helps you fake the really good natural skin look.

Also use the Smashbox High Definition Concealer . It is an excellent concealer, but it doesn't look too heavy. Make sure you find the right color for your skin.

2. Pink and light cheek

Try Benefit Pink Cheek Stain. It helps to get that little blush on face, but not that visible or obvious like you brush them on.

3. Soft pink lips, and glossy

For girls with lighter lip color: Dior Addict Lip Glow

For girls with slightly darker lip color, use Cargo Botanical Lip Stick - Lindsay (Sheer Pink Cream) to soften the color, then use a little colorless lip gloss.

4. Light or even no eye shadow.

It won't go wrong with Urban Decay Eye Shadow - the Midnight Cowboy, Maui Wowie and/or Grind

5. Thin and not obvious eye line

Sharpened your liner pencil before you apply. Do it in one shot, don't go back and forth thicken the eye line.

6. curly eye lashes, use less mascara than usual, just enough to hold the lashes curly

Try wiping your mascara brush before dipping it back into the bottle before applying. It cleans the extra dried mascara liquid off, so it doesn't clog up on the lashes, which will make eye make-up look heavy and dirty.

Enjoy the natural nude look!

Natural Rose Lip

My new favor lip stick.

It's very long lasting, but not like those 8 hours long lasting one that you have to use tons of make-up removal to remove it. It's just like a normal ChapStick Moisturizer, but it stays on longer, and very healing.

Also, it smells wonderful!