What You Should Know Before You Wear Red Lipstick
What You Should Know Before You Wear Red Lipstick
By Janice Wee
Do you remember the starlets in the old movies? From Marilyn Monroe to Grace Kelly. They looked gorgeous with their sinfully red lips. In those days, women were carefully groomed at all times. Their noses were perfectly powdered and their lips were very red.
Makeup technology then was a far cry from what is available today. Yet when many modern women wear red lipstick, they look harsh, garish or clownish instead of as sensual as they really should. Add on red blusher done too heavy handedly and they look like a bunch of clowns. What are they doing wrong.
How can you wear red makeup and look all the more gorgeous for it?
By the way, when I talk about red makeup, I mean red lipstick and blusher. Some women can even get away with coral eyeshadow and look even more stunning for it. I remember a Venetian Miss Universe who looked absolutely amazing wearing a red gown and red makeup. Even the eyeshadow was coral.
Actually, red lips are considered beautiful across cultures, throughout history. Geishas painted tiny bright red lips on their faces. Victorian beauties blushed beautifully and looked so pretty with their red lips, made redder by biting them before they meet the guys they fancy. Who can forget Snow White.
Hair as black as ebony, skin as white as snow and lips as red as blood, hence her name, Snow White. The invention of red lipstick lets any woman have those classic red lips if she dares.
Should you wear fire-engine red lipstick?
There are a few tricks to note when you put on really red lips. The golden rule is to highlight either the eyes or the lips. Not both at the same time. When you wear bold red lipstick and heavy eyeliner, with dark, smoky eye makeup and false eyelashes, with a low cut minidress, you would look more slutty than attractive. The trick is to play up one feature. In this intance the lips.
If you go for a bold mouth, play down the eyes with lighter, more natural eye makeup.
Another thing to note is the shade of red you use. If you have warm skin tones, go for coral red lipstick or any orange-red lipstick. A coral or orange red blush would look wonderful on you too, provided you apply it with a very light hand. Today’s sheer colors let you use colors that look very strong in the palette but appear like a transparent flush on your skin for a very flattering result.
If you have cool skin tones, go for a true red lipstick or any red lipstick with blue undertones. These are your best reds. Choose a similar shade for your blush.
Not sure whether you have warm coloring or cool coloring? Check out what’s my makeup colors for a color test you can do at home.
Then follow the instructions in 10 steps to glamour girl makeup which bases the entire look on bright red lips. The colors mentioned in that guide flatter warm coloring. If you have cool coloring, use a true red or blue-red lipstick, use a silver or lilac shadow instead of the bronze shadow and a dark gray shadow in place of the dark brown.
Now go a indulge yourself in that sexy red pout.
The writer is the webmaster of http://www.cosmeticsonline.info
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