Have you ever watched a makeup tutorial and when you try it out on yourself it never turns out the right way? Same. You sit there watching them rub their faces with all these brushes that you don’t even know the names of. How do you even blend? The worst is when they rub on their lipstick making it look so easy. But when you do it, you get it on you face, and you lips look and feel like the Sahara desert. Here, I present to you tips on how to apply your favorite matte lipstick
First, you have to prepare you lips. If you’ve ever watched a makeup tutorial you’ve noticed that they rub their lips with Rose Gold Elixir, but that is not in everyone’s budget. But you still want to prepare your lips by exfoliating them. Exfoliating your lips will remove excess dead skin to make your makeup glide on easier. This can be easily done at home by either putting a light layer of vaseline over your lips and then “brush your lips” with a toothbrush. The second way to exfoliate your lips at home would be making your own scrub, all you need is brown sugar, honey, and olive oil.
To keep your lipstick from having that “cakey” look, all you need to do is add moisture. Adding moisture to your lips before applying matte lipstick also reduces that dried out look you have on your lips. Moisturizing your lips is as simple as just rubbing chapstick over them before you apply your lipstick.
Now we start to apply your lipstick. A lot of times people like the color of a lipstick, but don’t like how the color of their lips mixes with the lipstick. This can be easily solved by applying a light layer of concealer over your lips to let the true color shine!
If you have a liner to match your lips, you want to start off by lining your lips. First, you (obviously) line around your lips. If you want an easier way to do it, I start with making smaller lines around my lips and then connecting them all together. Kinda like connect the dots but it’s much easier to do many small lines instead of doing it all at once. Once you line your lips many people would think they’re done but you actually want to slightly color your lips in by shading them with you lip liner. You’re creating a “base” color for you lipstick.
When you start to apply your matte lipstick, you want to start by first lining your lips with it, and then filling in the rest. The best way to do this is to make an “O” with your lips. You have to do this separately on both lips because unlike lip gloss or non matte lipsticks you cannot rub your lips together. Matte lipstick is not like other lipsticks because of the texture. After applying your first coat, if you want the color to be intense than I would add a second one after the first one dries!
If you get a little on your face (it’s not the end of the world, I promise) you just have to take your concealer brush and a little concealer, and just line around your lips with that brush. That way the concealer will cover up any miniscule mistake you made!