The best lipstick trying tip. Ever.
I'm fresh home from an event for Maybelline New York (more to come... lots of great tips for actually wearing the season's bold colours for cheeks, lips and eyes), but I have on tip that's too good to wait.
As you've likely noticed, one of the big makeup trends heading into Spring is the bold red lip (it continues into Fall too). The problem is finding the "right" red. Well, makeup artist Charlotte Willer, has a foolproof tip for finding the right red (or any lipstick colour).
Try it on the inside of your finger tip.
Yes, it's that simple. While convention has us all making little lipstick lines along the bottoms of our thumbs or inside our wrists, according to Willer, who has created fashion week looks for such designers as DKNY and Tracy Reese, your finger is the best place to get an accurate idea of what a colour will look like on your lips.
I gave the idea a test run while trying to find my perfect red: a red that was a true crimson on the model Willer was demoing her gorgeous spring looks on rendered fuschia on my finger... and on my lips (you'd have never known it from the colour in the tube). But Color Sensational in Red Revival - which looked dark in the tube - was exactly right on my finger. And on my lips.
Try it. It works.
By: Alyssa
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