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Psychedelic Cyclamen Ombre Lips: Rimmel Color Show-off in 220 Shocking Pink and Lime Crime D’Lilac (plus tips)

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When you combine 2 shades that look really vibrant and saturated on camera, you get day-glo Cyclamen lips like the above. 

Instead of going for a typical dark shade to contrast against the pale creamy lilac, I went for a strong red-fuchsia in a matte texture.

Tips for perfect ombre lips:

• Pick opaque lip colors because anything slippery or sheer is not going to give you that saturated gradient effect
• Apply one shade on each lip, leaving the inner rims bare first, then swop the lipsticks for each lip, and very lightly run the second shade along the inner bit of your lips before pressing with your fingers to blend the edges into the first shade better.
• Press just the center of the lips together to even out the “mixed” shade, and smooth in with your finger again if the color gets uneven.
• If the outer rims of your lips are no longer as vibrant looking due to all the blending and pressing, touch up just the top and bottoms of lips lightly to replace the color.

Looks good with:

Dramatic black winged liner. It actually looks very “cyber-geisha” in real life.

(This is fun and dramatic, but not exactly something you should wear to your next meal. It will take you too much time to touch up.)

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J’adore Lime Crime, and I own this lip gloss, so I was thrilled to read this actually helpful blog post about how to apply this super unique beauty product.

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How to Apply a Precise, Dramatic, Glossy Lip

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[Pictured with flash: Lime Crime Carousel Gloss in Kaleidoscope over Make Up Store Jazzy Lip Pencil]

Thicker, more opaque glosses like MAC Pro Longwear and Lime Crime Carousel Glosses are more like a cross between lipstick and gloss. Most fans of these types of lip products like them because they can combine strong, vibrant color along with glassy shine and ultra-sparkle.

But unlike glosses, this is a very high-maintenance look. It’s like wearing a red lip, and you can’t just slick them on with a doe-foot applicator, roll your lips together, and walk out the door because any uneven coverage or blurry lip line is going to look terrible.

So how do you get maximum coverage without making a goopy mess? Here are a few simple steps to getting it to look as perfect as possible without too much time, tools and brushes.

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Step 1: Prime your lips with concealer to mute out any color surrounding your lip line. This is important because some dramatic gloss shades are less red than your skin, and can bring out uneven skin tones around your lips. 

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Step 2: Apply a lip liner that is pretty much a match for the lip gloss you are intending to wear. I’m demonstrating using a dark plum/purple lip pencil and running it in a thick swatch all around the borders.

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Step 3: Smooth and blend it toward the center of your lips with your finger (or just roll your lips together if you’re confident you’re not going to mess up the borders). Then touch up the borders to get it back to opacity again as you might have sheered it out a bit.

The border needs to be opaque because you won’t be applying as much lip gloss on the border as you would the rest of the lips. This helps to keep things neat and precise. 

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Step 4: Apply a generous dollop of gloss in the center of your top and bottom lips (just enough to spread out) and use your ring finger to gently push it out over the surface of your lips. It doesn’t matter if the coverage is thin now. You are just giving your whole lip coverage. 

This gives maximum control, as opposed to applying using the brush applicator in the tube, as it usually ends up pushing too much product to the outer edges of your lip line, which can be messy and hard to spread back in.

Whatever you do, DO NOT PUSH THE GLOSS BEYOND THE LIP LINER!

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Step 5: Finish by applying another drop of gloss in the center of your lips and gently smoothing it out again for more coverage. Check for patches where the lip gloss might be thinner, and cover that.

For the rest of the day, when you need to touch up, just keep it to the center of your lips and spread out with your fingers. 

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TIP: If you mess up your lip line in the middle of the day, make sure you wipe off all product in that area, and reapply that section from Step 1 (concealer) onwards!

Hey, I warned you it’s high-maintenance.

Cute Valentine’s Day lip idea! Scroll down to see.

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Young Hearts: Colorful Lids and Sakura Lips

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Step 1: Apply a deep chocolate brown (The Body Shop Eye Shadow #32) to the outer corners in a V shape (one leg along the lash line and one along the socket line. If you have a mono-lid, do this with your eye half open and feel for the socket line. It should be on top of your lid fold, and just visible when your eyes are open.
Run along the outer halves of the lower lash line as well.

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Step 2: Apply a pale blue (The Body Shop Eye Shadow #17) from the gap in the brown outer V, inwards just past the center of the lids.

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Step 3: Fill in the inner portions of the lid with a pale gold pistachio green (The Body Shop #44)

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Step 4: Then use a pencil brush, run a slightly deeper blue purple like Lime Crime Twilight along the socket line from inner corner outwards in an arc until it reaches the brown at the outer corners.

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Step 5: Add a bit more chocolate brown if it has faded a bit from applying the pastel blue earlier.
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Step 6: Apply black mascara and a pale white/beige/yellow pencil along the water line.

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The finished eye should look colorful and fun, but still light and pretty. Note that there is very little blending done. You don’t want to muddy up the colors by sweeping a big brush all over the lids area. Just make sure the border of each color sort of blends into the next.

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Now, for the crazy lips!

I wanted to do a stained lip, but not something that looked like the usual red/berry on nude combination. I figured I could do 2 cool-toned pinks instead.

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First begin by priming your lips with a light layer of concealer in the center of the lips, around the cupids bow.

Then use a flat brush with a rounded head to pack on neon pink pigment and press it diagonally into the lip, so that you form a rough heart-shaped top. Repeat until the color builds up to a strong neon pink.

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You will end up with this at the end.

The harder part: Use a lip brush to carefully paint in a pale milky pink (Lime Crime Great Pink Planet or MAC Saint Germain if you are in Europe) over the rest of your lips.

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You can stop here if you want! But I gently topped the lips with gloss, and then smudged out the edges of the darker pink a little so it would look a little softer and more grown up.

EASY WAY OUT:

Just replace the pigment used to create the neon pink heart with a lipstick like Barry M 52 Shocking Pink or Lime Crime Countessa Fluorescent.

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