The pencil for lips – is capable of a lot of things!

Do not you consider a pencil for lips especially necessary thing? Learn how to use it, - and it is possible, you change the opinion on this product.

• You hold a pencil at an angle (about 45 degrees) to lips that the line turned out soft. Draw easy, short strokes – you do not aspire to the rigid and continuous line, then the contour will be more natural. Do not press a pencil when drawing a contour – the line will be too resistant: such lines remain on lips and look too artificially when lipstick "is eaten". Holding a pencil at an angle, you do not zatuplyat a slate pencil, it remains pointed, but not rigid.


• It is possible to give volume to lips by means of a pencil for lips. For this purpose you will need two shades of pencils, and the these shades are more contrast – the illusion of volume will be stronger. There are several ways "draw" volume. And two of them such:

1) More dark pencil depict a hole on an upper lip and the central piece of a lower lip. And a shade which is lighter lead round other contour and paint over all surface of lips. Such "base" under gloss or lipstick will help to make lips more volume and expressive.


2) If you have very light (almost white cream pencil), then can repeat other trick. It assumes that after a planimetric red pencil (a contour + filling of a surface of lips with a red pencil) you lighten the central sites of the upper and lower lip in white color. Then it is necessary to shade everything carefully.


• The naked pencil also adds volume to lips. Try to draw the line directly on border of lips – this reception does sponges by chubbier.


• The pencil increases firmness of lipstick (or gloss). If you not only do a contour by a pencil, but also will paint over all surface of lips – that on such "soil" lipstick will hold on longer. At the same time, the more opaque pencil – the is more effect of firmness.

• It is possible to put a pencil and over lipstick. Somehow shared the guru of a natural make-up Bobbi Brown with this reception. Sometimes she puts a make-up to the models tak6 at first lipstick, and then from above leads round lips a pencil. Naturally, in this reception it is important that color of a pencil completely repeated a lipstick shade. And what gives such method? Bobbi claims that at such method when lipstick begins "to be eaten", on lips there will be no unnatural rigid contour left. And in general, the contour will look more naturally, and lips – is accurater.


• Sometimes it is impossible to make a symmetric contour. You should not despond, take such advice. That the contour turned out symmetric, always begin with the center. For this purpose draw the letter "X", outlining a hole on an upper lip. Then – a stroke on the center of a lower lip (length about 1 cm). And only after that move ahead to edges of lips. It is possible to put at first for a reference point symmetric ends, and after – to connect them.


• You do not sharpen a pencil too sharply. Too thin line will not help a make-up at all. The contour of lips is not an eyeliner, it should not have a clear grafichny boundary. And for this purpose it is necessary just to take not a really sharp pencil. For check at first make several strokes on the palm back.


• A pencil in the form of a flat brush – one more valuable professional trick. Such flat slate pencil it is more convenient to outline mouth corners. "To grind" a pencil in this way, you even should not resort to a sharpener. Take a fabric piece, wrap up in it a tip of a pencil and squeeze fingers this tip. Your slate pencil will get a form of a flat brush. This trick works about soft with a cream pencil. If it did not turn out – you can warm a slate pencil over a candle (not longer seconds!).


• After each use wipe a pencil about a napkin – on it there are skin fats, residues of lipstick or foundation. Especially this council is necessary when using automatic pencils – their slate pencil is almost not protected from microbes, unlike the sharpened pencils. You watch a condition of a slate pencil. As soon as it became covered by a whitish film - it is the sign that it is better to leave a pencil, it deteriorated and it is better not to use it. Also do not lose caps – it is important!