Tips On Applying Lip Makeup and Lipstick
    If you apply your lipstick straight from the tube, listen up: Precision counts.

    A neat, finished look is more attractive and youth-looking than an on-the-run application of color.  
    That means you should use a lip pencil and maybe even a lip brush.

    Makeup artists depend on these tools to give their clients’ lips high-definition impact.  You may
    have stopped using pencils and brushes because they add an extra step to your makeup routine
    or shied away from using them altogether, believing them too difficult to use.  But with a little
    practice, lip pencils and brushes can help correct flaws and compensate for small but
    unwelcome changes that you may begin to notice as your lips mature.

    When you have a perfect lip-pencil application, your mouth is made.  Here’s why: Lip pencil define
    the shape of your lips, help your lipstick last longer and prevent color from bleeding into feathery
    lines that often begin to appear above the lipline.  What’s more, using pencil in the morning gives
    you a touch-up guideline that lasts all day.  As you’ll see, a lip pencil even lets you redo the shape
    of your mouth.

    As for the lip brush?  It is one of the most important makeup tools in a makeup artist’s toolbox.  A
    lip brush lets you apply color more precisely than slicking on lipstick from the tube and helps set
    your first application of lip color of the day.  The lipstick you apply in the morning lasts the longest.  
    It’s the neatest and most definitive application of the day, so it pays to do it right.

    You can also use a lip brush to touch up fading color when there’s still some pencil definition left.  
    Just apply the edge of the brush to your lipline and redistribute leftover pencil by blending it toward
    your mouth.

    If you want to try a good lip brush without investing much cash, look for the Gold Leaf brand,
    available at beauty supply stores.  The retractable styles work like ballpoint pens, so there’s never
    a mess, even if the brush gets buried at the bottom of your bag.  Revlon and Cover Girl also make
    easy-to-use lip brushes.  And they last for years.
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