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Red lipstick for all skin tones

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Nottingham chapter.

Women love red lipstick – it’s a stylish and timeless color to wear on your lips! Red is the color of passion and it’s one of the sexiest colors to have in your makeup bag. However, with too much choice comes indecision and considering that there are so many variations of the shade of red, it’s often really hard to find the perfect one that matches our skin tone. Checking the ideal red lipstick color will help you enhance your makeup style. Let’s admit that wearing red lipstick gives us a bit of a confidence boost!

Here is a “red lipstick chart” provided by Smashinbeauty:

 

 

Alongside with finding the perfect shade, there are a few tricks to apply it:

1.      To achieve a flawless application, at the end of the application use a little bit of foundation on a flat makeup brush around the area to clean it off (alternatively use your ring finger);

2.      Use a lip liner to define the line of your lips and then fill with the lipstick;

3.      It is very common to get lipstick on your teeth, one trick to prevent this is to press both lips against a clean tissue to take to the excess. 

 

 

 

3 FAVORITE RED LISPTICKS:

 

Sources

http://smashinbeauty.com/the-best-lipstick-color-for-your-skin-tone/

 

Edited by Sam Carey

Sam is a Third Year at the University of Nottingham, England and Campus Correspondent for HC Nottingham. She is studying English and would love a career in journalism or marketing (to name two very broad industries). But for now, her favourite pastimes include nightclubs, ebay, cooking, reading, hunting down new music, watching thought-provoking films, chatting, and attempting to find a sport/workout regime that she enjoys!