Finished look:
Lips: Contoured in blue
Entire lip: MK Pink Diamonds gloss
Outer corners: MK Ocean Blue eye pencil (I wanted a softer blue for day, not a navy.)
Outline lip and over outer corners: Clarins Nude Lip Pencil
Technique
Begin with a shade of lipstick or gloss over the entire lip.
If you are using a lipstick, don't use a lot, as you are going to use pencil over the top.
Alternatively, you can use pencil first, then do the entire lip with gloss or lipstick.
Entire lip: MK Pink Diamonds gloss
Step 1 Contouring with blue
For evening, you can use a navy. For day, pick a softer shade.
The color you choose will show up more on lighter lips than darker lips.
Smudge the blue inward to the center with your finger or a lip brush so the color blends.
Outer corners: MK Ocean Blue eye pencil (I wanted a softer blue for day, not a navy.)
Step 2 Outline your lips and go over the blue
Outline lip and over outer corners: Clarins Nude Lip Pencil
Blend it downward into the lip so the line isn't abrupt. You can choose any color here: a color that will pop the lipstick or gloss or a neutral, as I chose.
Step 3 Highlight with gloss up the middle
I prefer a sparkly gloss -- the sparklier, the better.
It's a fun and dramatic look that can be tempered for daytime. It's really quite easy and fast. It takes more time to write it up than it does to do it. If your lips need balancing, you can do a bit of this on one lip only.
Let me know if you try it.
Karin
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Actually it makes perfect sense in that the blue pigment “cools” shades that are too warm and it makes them show more muted too! I hadn’t really thought about using a blue-tinted pencil, but the final result on your lips is impressive! (that final shade suits very much)
I have experimented with black though: a teeny tiny bit smudged into clear lip balm (the waxy kind) darkens lips nicely without altering their natural hue
Oh, I think black would be wonderful. I can’t believe I never thought of it.
Several years ago Mary Kay had a black lip color that was meant to darken colors. Nowadays with it so popular on the runway to wear black lippies, I think it would be fun to try to use straight black pencil with a clear balm. I think I might try it. Woo hoo!
It’s moved beyond Goth to being edgy in a modern way, if it is the right shade of black. I think it is Chanel that has a number of black lippies with nuances of shading. I need to get to a counter and swatch them to see how they show against my skin. But I bet it would be fairly easy to dupe with products I already have.