If you’re anything like me, then wearing lipstick generally means wearing it all over your face. But with these quick and easy techniques and products you can become a smudge-free lipstick queen!
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What You Will Learn In This Episode:
- The secret to smudge-free lips may just take place when you’re not wearing lipstick
- A smudge-free lipstick doesn’t necessarily have to involve a lipstick – what’s my fave crayon?
- My go-to lip sealer that’ll have you looking extra chic!!
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I love wearing lipstick, I really do. But more often than not, it usually ends up anywhere but actually on my lips. Yep, I’m a makeup disaster.
So I wanted to explore there of the quickest and easiest ways you can help to keep your own lipstick from smudging.
And I’m not just talking mattes here; these practices will help keep on your satin, gloss, whatever lipstick finish is your flavor.
Lip Hydration
The first thing you can do to stop your lipstick from smudging is to prevent your lips from being dry in the first place.
Hydrating your lips will help to keep your lipstick in place.
Why?
Well-hydrated lips will keep their surface smooth and supple and that means no chapping, no flaking. No dry lips.
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Use A Lip Pencil
Using a lip pencil is somewhat of the unsung hero of a smudge-free lipstick.
And a multi-tasking lip crayon will double down on the time you spend creating your lips.
Check out Clinique chubby stick lip balms to provide an all-in-one solution to getting your lip line on and in the right place, and then coloring in your lips easily and providing a lovely color to your lips all in one go.
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Blot and Powder
You might have heard this technique already. Perhaps you’re a big fan and avid user, too!
And there’s a reason that some techniques are tried and true. And the old blot and powder technique goes a long way for keeping your lipstick in place.
How to Blot and Powder Correctly
Simply hold a tissue to your mouth and lightly bite down on it. No teeth though.
When you release the tissue, the excess product will have transferred from your lips to the tissue, leaving less product on your lips.
Then you can press a minimal amount of translucent powder onto your lips with a damp beauty blender or a small powder puff.
You can also wrap the powder puff in a tissue to place the powder onto as well, if you like.
Then, press the puff to your lips and then you roll it out. Gently setting the lipstick with a tiny amount of powder. This will help keep everything in place.
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Lip Sealer
If you find that these steps are still not enough, then your next step is your sealer.
I like to use Lip Chic.
Lip Chic is made with a 100% botanical formula.
Once your blotting and powdering is done, paint a thin layer of Lip Chic across your lips and you let it dry.
Another great makeup sealer is Make up Forever Aqua Seal. While not strictly a lip sealer, it will form a strong seal over your lipstick.
Happy Smudge-free Lips!
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Resources mentioned in this episode :
Clinique Chubby Stick Lip Balm
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Episode Transcript
You know, I love a good lippy, but I usually end up with it smeared all over my face, like the four-year-old that I really am at heart. But let’s get straight into some of the quickest and easiest ways you can stop your lipstick from smudging, even the satin or gloss finish lipsticks.
Lipstick’s coming up a bit in these early episodes for some reason, but I don’t know, I could talk about lippy all day. So here we go.
The first thing you can do to stop your lipstick from smudging is well, stop them from being dry. Yep.
Hydrating your lips will help to keep your lipstick in place.
And so when I say hydrating your lips, I mean obviously when you’re not wearing lipstick.
Why?
Because well-hydrated lips means no chapping, no flaking, and just no dry lips.
And that’s going to keep your lipstick in place and where it should be and where it should be, instead of all over your face, like me.
Another thing you can do is use a pencil.
Whether it’s to give you an outline to color in with your lippy, or just simply using your lip pencil for your entire lip color, pencils have to be the unsung hero of a smudge-free lipstick. Without doubt. Check out Clinique chubby stick lip balms (I know I love them, I’m gonna keep talking about them) to provide an all-in-one solution to getting your lip line on and in the right place, and then coloring in your lips easily and providing a lovely color to your lips all in one go.
Even better news, use it as a multi-stick on your cheeks and even your eyelids as well.
You can also blot and powder, and you’ve probably heard this technique already, but there’s a reason that some techniques are tried and true. And the old blot and powder technique goes a long way for keeping your lipstick in place.
And if this is an entirely unfamiliar notion to you, simply hold a tissue to your mouth and lightly bite down on it. No teeth though. And when you release the tissue, the excess product will have transferred from your lips to the tissue, leaving less product on your lips. And then you can press a minimal amount of translucent powder onto your lips with a damp beauty blender or a small puff.
Sometimes I like to wrap the puff in a tissue to do this as well. I guess it’s kind of like a double blot. I wonder if I just came up with that, the double blot.
Okay. So anyway, getting back to it. So you press the puff to your lips and then you roll it. And that’s just going to set everything in place.
And if all of this is still not enough, then your next step is your sealer.
And my favorite lip sealer, it’s specifically designed for your lips, is called Lip Chick. Lip chic. Lip chic?
I think it’s Lip Chick. I don’t know. I mean, it just looks chic, unlike me.
But, so Lip Chic is a 100% botanical formula. So once you’re blotting and powdering is done, you basically paint a thin layer of Lip Chic across your lips and you let it dry.
So don’t press your lips together straight away. You’ve got to air dry it. A little fan, a hair dryer will do the trick.
You can also try Make up Forever Aqua Seal.
And that’s it.
I hope you enjoyed this little lip-sealing, blotting and powdering bonanza, and I’ll see you next time.
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