BMP Tip 1 | 5 easy ways to look 10 years older
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Lest you be found guilty by the Beauty & Makeup Police (BMP) while you try your very best to get your festive sexy on this holiday season, we thought it would be constructive of us to pin-point some of the biggest makeup mistakes to avoid this ‘Holiday Glam’ season.
1. Runaway Red Lipstick
This has to be the number one pet peeve of the BMP.
If are young and already have fine lines and wrinkles radiating from your lips, and you are a smoker, this alone should make you stop. Purposefully aging yourself prematurely is beyond comprehension and is the definition of insanity. Not only is smoking unhealthy for you, but it makes you look a quicker hot mess. Anyways, another post for anti-smoking rants.
To prevent against bleeding lip colour you can do one of the following:
- Line lips using lip liner
In addition to adding definition to the lip line, this helps prevent lip color from escaping through any fine lines and wrinkes that may be present along your lip line.
Be sure to use a lip liner in a colour that is at most 2 shades darker than your natural skin colour and be sure that it BLENDS WELL with the lip color, Please.
Opting to wear black lip liner, alone or with nude lip colour is tantamount to stepping on the last nerve of this pet peeve. This not only ages you, but it makes you look like you are from another (unfashionable) planet.
Also, apply lip colour with a lip brush to ensure that you don’t apply lip colour over and beyond the lip liner border, because of course this will defeat the entire purpose of the lip liner.
In this case, you most definitely need to colour within the lines.
- Avoid dark/ bold lip colour altogether
I’d go with this one. Be ahead of the game and focus drama on the eyes instead. Wear nude lip colour or some gloss in a flattering colour and save yourself the stress and embarrassment of either the mystery of the traveling lipstick or that of lipstick-stained teeth.
Hey, the more makeup you wear, the more high maintenance it is. Keep it simple.
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