Cosmopolitan UK — June 2017

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For crusty, gritty metallic lips, please

refer to your average ’80s New

Romantics video. Next-gen metallics

hug, plump and contour lips with

big doses of pigments and crushed

pearls, delivered in a weightless,

one-coat film (Smashbox Be Legenda y

Liquid Metals, £19 [1]) or with

melting plant oils (Estée Lauder Pure

Color Love Lipsticks, £19 [2]). Expect

a full-on chrome finish normally

seen on flash-git cars.

The polished

chrome

“Use fingers to pat on lip colour, or

a cotton bud to diffuse the edge

of already-applied lipstick. This

ensures a blurred, undefined line

that gives the illusion of fullness.”

Kenneth Soh

“Take your favourite highlighter

and lightly outline the Cupid’s bow,

then do the same with the centre

part of your lower lip line. It gives

a fab instant pouty finish.”

Stila’s Sascha Jackson

“When experimenting with a

multi-tone or ombré lip, keep the

darker shades on the outside and

the lightest one in the middle. It’s

textbook optical-illusion plumping!”

Marco Antonio

“When lining lips, begin with the

Cupid’s bow, then go from the

corners of the mouth upwards

and inwards. It gives the mouth

shape a more rounded effect.”

Rebecca Restrepo

“To correct uneven lips without

lipliner, take a small amount of

concealer and line the edge of your

lips to create the shape you want.

Then apply your lip colour on top.”

Sascha

TIPS FOR BIGGER, BETTER LIPS

...courtesy of our favourite make-up artists

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Givenchy Primer & Filling Lip Liner, £18

Like their more vibrant sisters, transparent

lipliners form a barrier that allows you to

take your lipstick or gloss to the very outer

edges of your lips without it bleeding all

over the place. This particular product goes

one better, though. It has ingredients not

unlike those of filler creams to replump

your lip line or ‘vermilion border’, which,

naturally raised while you’re a peachy youth,

flattens with age. We’ll have some of that.

Burberry Lip Colour Contour Pen, £24

“Huh?” was our initial reaction to these.

With a chubby bullet, the smooth feel of

a primer, and four shades decidedly on the

brown side, their point was hardly clear.

Turns out they are meant to “create

a subtle shadow along the lip border for

a plumper-looking pout”, says make-up

artist Wendy Rowe. “You need to use one

a tone darker than your lip colour and

lightly smudge it inward.” It works a treat:

it’s basically lip contouring for dummies. i

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CONTOURING

Make-up artists won’t be without lipliners

to reshape and amplify lips. They also –

primer, schmimer – use liners all over to

boost colour intensity. These two newbies,

however, add something to the equation...

BurberryLipColourContourPen£24