Makeup How To

Pretty Pink Pastel Lips

1. Condition and line. Condition your lips first to help hydrate any cracked, dry spots. Then line your lips with a clear lip liner — this will keep the lip color you’re about to apply from bleeding. Here, Lizzie Power, owner of Awoke Vintage, a clothing story in Brooklyn, applied No More Bleeding Lips along the perimeter of her mouth.
2. Fill in your lips with a pink lip liner. Lizzie used Estee Lauder Lip Pencil in “Pink Writer.”
3. Create a chalky-pink lip color. Mix a peachy-pink lip color with a nude one to make an opaque shade. Here, Lizzie combined Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Lip Tar in “Femme,” a peachy-pink shade, with MAC Cosmetics Cream Color Base in “Nude.”
4. Pump up the color. Press a hot pink blush, like NYX Cosmetics Powder Blush in “Matte Hot Pink,”over your lips with a flat makeup brush to set the shade and give it a matte finish.
5. Pat on some SPF and make your lips pop by applying concealer around your mouth.Lizzie used a zinc-based SPF, like Sun Bum Sunscreen, to give that opaque pastel finish to her lips, and then cleaned up the areas around her mouth with a concealer, like Cle de Peau Beaute Concealer, to make her lip color pop.