She had skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood and hair as black as ebony. Snow White, the fairest of them all charmed the seven dwarves with her beauty and she got the prince to fall in love with her while she was “dead”. Now imagine her with all that blemish free skin and fabulous ebony hair with thin cracked colourless lips and watch her drop from a sizzling 10 to a ghostly 6.

Even a gothic black lipstick would not have saved her if you asked me, but you didn’t. Truth be told, looks play major role in how we are perceived but then again even the fairy tales are not immune to such vanity. You can be of any shape, height and size without that affecting your attractiveness but your face can knock you down that attractive scale faster than gravity can pull you. Your facial features, their arrangement and appearance are that important if you are into good looks. The lips on your face, tells us your mood, hint at your personality and tell us a bit about your health.  Because you cannot smile without your lips or charm your way out of a traffic fine, read my lips and accentuate those luscious babies.

Skin tone
There are two skin tones in the world, whatever complexions you might be. You may have a warm skin tone or a cooler one. The easiest way to find out is to look at the veins on your inner wrist. If they appear green, then you have a warm skin tone; if they appear blue, you have a cooler tone. The other option is to consider if gold or silver jewellery looks best with your skin tone. Gold is warm and silver cooler. Warm colours include anything with a yellow undertone, such as amber, orange, bronze, peach or coral. Cool tones such as pink, lilac, plum, mulberry or strawberry, have blue undertones.

Sunlight and moonlight
Keep your lips light and sheer from day to day. The strategy is to gives your lips a hint of colour without worrying about constantly maintaining it or ending up with a dark bright lipstick smear on your teeth while trying to impress a client with your business presentation skills. Go for colours that are one shade darker that your natural lip colour and never try to match your lips with your skin complexion, the idea it to have juicy popping lips not non-descriptive ones. When the stars come out, the lips are licensed to be sexier, brighter and bolder. Amplify your colour and have your lips deserving of the spot light.

Fair child:
The fair skin by day light does not fare well with dark lipsticks as they can overpower this complexion. Pale pinks and peach shades give a fair skin an easy elegant day look without trying too hard. For a moon light drama wine-reds absolutely rev up the engine.
Golden baby:
Medium to olive tones work beautifully with neutral colours such as apricot and light caramels for a day time wear. For a red lip, anything between true red and cranberry will take you from spicy dazzle to sizzling hot with a stroke of a lip brush.

Ebony princess:
Mahogany, dark olive and dark chocolate beauties can pull a classy and sophisticated day time look with shades with a hint of brown and bronze such as terracotta. For scintillating red lips, darker shades such as burgundy, dark plum, chocolate and brick red are absolutely centre stage worthy.

Winks & nudges
•Experiment with different colours or use more than one colour to get the look you want.

•Apply liquid foundation to your lips before defining them with a lipstick pencil for a longer lasting colour effect. This trick also works incredible well in counteracting naturally dark lips and getting them colour-popping.

•The guidelines are simply to emphasize the colours that complement certain skin tones. Sometimes breaking the rules adds flair to your style. Be brave and go were not make-up artist has gone before, ask your friends for an honest opinion first before you start hitting the clubs with your colour boundless lips.

•Create your own lipstick colour to suite your skin tone by combining lip gloss and lipstick to create a unique custom lipstick.

•Choose a finish appropriate to the occasion. Matte formulas offer a classic and more conservative look, while glossy formulas make for a sexy pout. Pencil before applying lipstick to both lips.

Article by: Ncomeka Mpofu http://www.beautybulletin.com/blog-directory/our-bloggers/ncomeka-mpofu