Lipstick is one of those essential makeup products that can be a pain in the you-know-what. If you don't apply it just so, you could end up with color everywhere. Here are some essential tricks to keep your lip hue in place all day—no smearing, blurring, fading, feathering, or cracking. View on Instagram. Smooth lips make a seamless base for product. Otherwise you could end up with a flaky, caked-on finish. While your lips are damp, scrub with a disposable mascara wand dipped in olive oil a toothbrush works, too, in a pinch.
The most common mistake women make putting on lipstick: applying color over lip balm. Yes, lip balm can help moisturize your mouth, but you should remove all the residue before you put on your product. The oils in the balm create a slippery base for lipstick, meaning your shade is more likely to feather and smear.
Instead, put on your favorite balm as you do your skincare routine. Then remove with a tissue before applying lipstick. Lip liner might as well be called lip primer. It gets off the excess so you don't end up with lipstick all over everything you own. Plus it dulls a bright color slightly when you feel like it might be looking a bit loud. But it also makes your lips a little quieter, and it does seem a bit like a waste of lipstick to be kissing part of it away immediately.
Do you blot your lipstick? Got a fashion Q? Glamour stylists answer your fashion questions at WhatToWear. Even though the choices are many, there is one thing that you should be doing with all of them, and that is lip blotting. When you blot your lips after applying your lip color, you are helping to set the pigment into your lips on a deeper level than a quick pucker could do, which helps it last longer and stay in place.
Many of us have it embedded in our head that the proper way to do this is to grab a tissue, right? Wrong answer. Just take a look at how washed out the color of my not-so-hot magenta lipstick is after that tissue chomp down. Along with the small particles of cotton from the tissue dulling the hue of the lipstick, you just end up taking off more of your lipstick than you intended to trying to pick those particles away, often resulting in a need to reapply and then the need to blot again.
Really, the answer is actually this easy: switch out your tissue for paper. The paper just absorbs the oils in the lip product better without compromising your application. Instead of blotting by placing the paper in your mouth, give the paper a smooch so that any extra lipstick can be blotted off more evenly. Sometimes I do this a couple times to really help set the color into my lips. Pro tip: If I want a long-lasting finish, then I will reapply and blot one more time to really make sure the pigment is as blended into my lips as possible.
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