1. CHOOSING THE RIGHT COLOUR
Know your skin tone
Concentrate on the skin around your jaw line.
Fair skin: Your have very pale or translucent skin and you burn very easily.
Light skin: Your skin is pale and you are likely to get tan in the sun.
Medium: You generally don’t burn or have sensitive skin.
Tan: You rarely burn and look tanned, even in the winter.
Deep: Your skin is dark and you never get sunburned.
Check the veins on the inside of your wrist
This will help you understand if you have a warm, neutral, or cool skin tone.
Blue or purple: It indicates you have a cool skin tone.
Green veins: This means you have a warm skin tone.
If you can’t decide whether your veins are blue or green, you are likely to have a neutral skin tone. You can choose colours from both the cool and warm spectrum.
2. CHOOSING A LIP COLOUR FOR EVERYDAY USE
● Find a colour that is one to two shades deeper than your natural lip colour.
● Apply the lipstick only to your lower lip. Compare that shade to your upper lip. If the shades are drastically different, you need to keep looking.
● Decide if you like bigger or smaller lips
● Dark shades make your lips look smaller, while lighter shades can add plumpness.
● Lipstick with a matte finish can also cause lips to look thinner, while glosses and shimmery shades can make them look fuller.
Listen to the experts
Fair or light skin: Try light pink, coral, peach, nudes, or beige.
Medium skin: Try rose, mauve, or berry shades.
Tan skin: Go for colours with an orange undertone. Try coral, or deep pink.
