15 Tips On Lips

Makeup, maintenance and random tips for beautiful lips

In a shade that is slightly darker than your lips, redraw the line so that it's right outside your lips. Apply lipstick, then in the center of your bottom lip apply some liquid foundation for a perfect pout. Finish it off with lip gloss to blend and seal.

Apply a small dab of over the counter hydrocortisone cream for great moisturizer.

Lip wrinkles are from smoking, sun exposure, and age. These wrinkles should be treated like any wrinkles; with creams or home remedies. Olive oil, coconut oil or Vaseline can help with these. Or you can buy Avon Anew Retinol Lip Treatment with vitamin C and retinol ($10; 800-FOR-AVON).

Almay lip cream is the best vitamin enriched lipstick with vitamins A, E and C. ($8.75 at drugstores)
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Longest lasting lipstick is a 3 way tie between max factor lipfinity ($12.74), L'Oreal endless lip colour ($9.75) and cover girl out-last all day lip colour ($9.50)

Origins liquid lip colour is the best flavour and it has aloe, vitamin E and rice bran oil. ($11 at origins.com)

The most hydrating lip stick is maybelines moisture whip lipstick. It's made of 75% lip conditioners and comes in 60 shades! Best of all it's cheap; $6.00 at drugstores

Clinique all about lips is the best lip treatment with green tea extract, salicylic acid and vitamin E. ($20 at Clinique.com)

Clarins le rouge lipstick in the shade 'passion' is the perfect red we've all been looking for. It's a little pricey at $18.50

Dior addict lipstick is the most vibrant. It has multi reflective light particles that make your lips glow.

Stila lip liner is the best lip liner around. You can get it at sephora for $26.00 (ouch)

Apply honey on lips at bed and gently exfoliate in the morning to clear the whole days damage.

Half a teaspoon of honey, olive oil (or coconut oil, aloe Vera) and brown sugar mixed well is the perfect lip exfoliant.

The cream you secrete from boiling milk is great for lips.

Vitamin B deficiency leads to naturally cracked lips. If you find that no matter how much you exfoliate, or moisturize your lips they are always cracked, try eating something enriched in vitamin B.