Makeup tips for lips covers the basics like lip care, to techniques and tricks using make up.

Although individual preference in beauty and makeup styles range from minimalist to over the top, one thing none of us seem to miss, is the importance of lips. After all, mouths get a lot of focus when we are communicating. Having a nice healthy smile is a very important component of beauty. In my opinion, it can make or break a person's appearance.

That is why makeup tips for lips begins with basic care for healthy lips. Have you ever tried to put lipstick on flaky lips?  It usually just looks worse. You will then find makeup up tips for lips, makeup tricks for lips and favorite lip stuff.

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Lip Care

When listing makeup tips for lips, you can't begin without recognizing the condition and care of the surface your applying makeup to. 

First of all, when we consider how to care for lips, it is helpful to understand their physiological nature.  

So, with a little research and the help of A Moment of Science® , I have discovered that the surface of our lips is a mucous membrane and an extension of what coats the insides of our mouths.  It is different from our skin in that it does not have a protective layer that retains moisture and our lips do not have oil glands which also assist in retaining moisture.  In addition, although lips have some melanin, its presence is much less than found in skin.  

What does this mean?

This means that our lips are exceptionally vulnerable to environmental conditions that can diminish their moisture such as cold, wind, air conditioning and sun. Sun exposure not only dries lips, reduced melanin increases damage risks from the sun's harmful rays.  

Even outside of the beauty component of unattractive, lips that are dry, chapped, flaky and sore are not a lot of fun to deal with.

Makeup tips For Lips #1 Tip:   Protect Your Lips...
To prevent moisture loss and protect your lips, makeup tips for lips recommends using a lip balm to act as a barrier to those environmental conditions.  

Lip balms are of a thick waxy nature and have greater staying power than creams.  A lip balm will also act to seal in the existing moisture and can, depending on the product, bring moisturizing repair. A moisturizing lip balm with a good SPF covers all the bases. 

Here are a few Makeup Tips for Lips protection/ restoration product suggestions:

DDF Glossy Lip Therapy SPF 15	Skinceuticals Antioxidant Lip Repair	Z. Bigatti Re-Storation Lip Pout	CARGO+care HydraTint

3 Great Makeup Tips for Lips:
Your personal beauty style will dictate the type of make up you wear, however, whether you love natural looking vibrancy, neutral barely there or vivacious glamour, the techniques to applying long, well wearing makeup on lips are still the same.

1  As mentioned, Makeup Tips for Lips #1 Tip  is protect and care for your lips...
No amount of lipstick can disguise dry flaky lips.  In fact, things just look worse...So , its important to keep your lips healthy and vital (see above).  In addition, most lip balms make great bases for lipstick and provide you with lip protection. Consider this lip conditioner by shu uemura Lip Fix Tube Lip Fix Tube .

2  Makeup Tips for Lips #2 Tip:  How apply lip makeup with serious staying power.
i) Prime lip area with lip primer, or foundation and  set the foundation with a light dusting of loose translucent powder.  

ii) Apply liner first,  starting with the upper lip outer corner and line edge of lip to the top half. Repeat on the other side starting at the outer corner. Repeat this process for bottom lip.  Make sure your lip liner is sharp for a clean precise line. 

iii) Soften pencil lip line with lip brush by gently blending edge.

iv) Follow with lipstick applied from the tube and blended with the lip brush to smooth and even out.

v) Blot lips on a tissue (press lips together on a tissue), lightly dusting again and applying more lipstick using lip brush. Follow this with a gentle blot (avoids lipstick on your teeth), a light dust and if desired, gloss or shine.

3  Makeup Tips for Lips #3:  Define your lips with liner and increase your lip beauty impact.
Makeup tips for lips must include this one as it is critical to the most important beauty feature on your face, next to your eyes.  Defining your lips can enhance as well as produce great looking lips and your own individual needs and beauty style will dictate what lip liner you use.  What works for most of us is a good quality neutral liner that is versatile color-wise.  Other wise, choose  colors that match your lipsticks.  For more natural looking lips, use a neutral lip liner that matches your lip's tone and a sheer lipstick or gloss.

If desired, you can re-shape your lips with liner and lipstick technique to reduce or increase size or bring balance to uneven lips. See below.

A Few Makeup Tricks To Re-shape Lips:
Whether your objective is bringing balance to your lips and proportion to your face, or morphing your lips altogether, makeup tips for lips tricks are not really very tricky. 

In fact, these little tricks are easy common sense makeup application techniques.

Great Makeup Tips for Lips
Favorite Lip Stuff:

Great Liners	Great Lipstick	Great Lip Gloss	Great Ideas
Function: Define Lips, Correct shape, prevent bleeding of lipstick.	Formulas that combine comfort with beauty ie. moisturizing, long wearing in great colors.	Sheer, long wearing, glossy color.	Looking good, feeling good and doing good...
Shown Above: Nars Lipliner Pencil has a great line up of versatile neutral colors. They also  correspond with Nars lipsticks  colors.	NARS Semi-Matte Lipstick, or  NARS Sheer Lipstick have the usual amazing Nars colors.	DuWop Original Lip VenomFun concept that totes formula that increases circulation and natural lip color plus added full "bee stung lips".	CARGO+care™ HydraTint combines beautiful sheer color with conditioners like avocado oil, vitamin E and aloe vera.
tarte double ended lipliner This pencil offers two great colors for the price of one.	DuWop Shades of Venom Lipcolor Gorgeous shiny colors with a "tingly" feel.	CARGO Duo Color Lipgloss One very cool tin with two sheer longwearing colors; one side conditioner the other gloss.	Help the Children's Miracle Network when you buy CARGO Celebrity Charity Collection
CARGO Reverse Lipliner This lip liner is designed to be invisible but still brings definition. Ideal for sheer products and gloss.		NARS Artist Palette Lip lacquer with six sexy high shine, clear pigments.	shu uemura gift set that cleverly combines lip rouge in a mirrored compact with pencil and retractable lip brush
MAC makes some of the very best lip makeup products; MAC Lip Pencil Favourite "Spice"	MAC Lipstick	MAC Lip Glass	Stila Lip Glaze Breast Cancer Awareness

If you want more dramatic results than makeup can realistically produce, ie. create full lips or reduce vertical lines around lips, Makeup Tips for Lips suggests  you check out  Lip Explosion; it gets a good customer rating, it is a non surgical method, and is apparently clinically proven to "increases actual lip volume and contour an average of 40.7% while significantly reducing the appearance of unattractive lip wrinkles..."