9 Types of Lips and How to Makeup Them

They are large, voluminous and fleshy lips that are phenomenal in a passion red tone or even brown, depending on the color of the skin. Being thick lips, our advice is that avoid the profiler at all costs, since you would make them even more voluminous and the result would be very artificial.

There is only one case in which we recommend using eyeliner, and that is if you want to hide the volume of your lips a bit and make make them look slightly thinner. We show you how to do it:

1. Cleanse your lips and apply a little foundation of your skin color to make the products fit better.
2. Apply some concealer to the edge of your lips and blend well to blend in with your skin tone.
3. With an eyeliner, mark the inside of your lips, leaving the outermost crease without makeup. For the upper lip, draw the line just below the cupid’s bow to show its shape and remove a few millimeters of thickness at a time.
4. Paint your lips with a matte lipstick, as the gloss would give even more volume. Paint inside the previously defined line, do not move away from it.

Although some of the best known celebrities with this type of mouth are Angelina Jolie, Scarlett Johansson and Kerry Washington, the clearest example to observe how a thick mouth is outlined to make it look thinner is found in Rihanna.

Thin lips are thin on both the top and bottom, which is why it is also known as “small mouth.”

Although it is true that there are different types of fine mouth, there are many women who bet on playing with makeup to thicker lips. If you want to know how to achieve it, do not miss the following step by step:

1. First of all, apply a concealer on the surface of the lips to erase it.
2. Next, with the chosen eyeliner (similar to the lipstick color you want to use), go over the edge of your lips creating a thick line. Try to make it look as natural as possible.
3. With a different color from the one you are going to use, create vertical lines in the center of the lower lip, as this will give an optical sensation of fullness.
4. Fill the lips with lipstick, adjusting to the line drawn previously.

Also, if you have very thin lips, we recommend avoiding dark colors, as these would make your mouth even smaller. We show you a clear example with Rooney Mara.

In this other article we explain in detail how to make up thin lips.

Among the types of lips that exist, this is one of the most striking, since it is rare and is considered very sexy. In this type of mouth, the lips are not completely balanced and the upper lip is noticeably thicker than the lower one.

For this type of mouths, strong tones are the best; classic red, garnets and even fucisias. In addition, there are many women who choose to slightly outline their upper lip and thus make there more harmony between both lips.

A good example would be Priyanka Chopra, an actress who looks very confident and sensual with strong and shiny lipsticks that draw all the attention to her mouth. Do you want to discover the best lipstick colors for brunettes? Don’t miss this other article!

This type of mouth is characterized by the fact that the upper part is much thinner than the lower part. In this case, the type of makeup will depend a lot on the difference between one lip and another.

If you have a very thin upper lip, from a HOWTO we recommend accentuate cupid’s bow with the help of a highlighter to make it look thicker. If the difference is not so noticeable, we advise you to avoid the eyeliner or to mark it very gently.

Whatever your case, if your lower lip is thicker than the upper one, don’t hesitate to bet on softer shades, nude or peach. Dua Lipa has this type of mouth and knows exactly how to get it right … we’ll show you!

Although it is true that “normal” is very subjective, this type of standard mouth is known by this name, which has the same thickness and volume in both the upper and lower lips. They are the most common lips and the easiest to manipulate, because you can play with makeup and increase or decrease them according to what you want.

Clear and glossy lipsticks are always a safe bet, however, the good thing about this mouth is that you can experiment with different colors. according to skin tone from each person. Of course, we recommend avoiding dark profilers so that the mouth does not look smaller.

So that you can better guide yourself, in the following article we show you How to apply makeup according to skin tone.

It is known as “doll’s mouth” to those round lips, very fleshy and usually small. Being a wide but short mouth typeVery strong colors are striking but can be difficult to combine, since it is easy for the mouth to steal the spotlight from the rest of the makeup.

Therefore, from UNCOMO we recommend that if you have a doll’s mouth you bet on soft colors with glitter for your day to day and that you opt for the reds or the darker tones for those special occasions … you will be the most explosive!

Model Ashley Moore and singer FKA Twigs are examples of doll mouths that we love.

The dropped mouth is one that has the lips in inverted arc shape, as if falling down. Although these can be of different sizes, it is more common for girls with a droopy mouth to have thin lips, which is why many choose to make an overline and make them somewhat thicker.

From unCOMO we recommend taking advantage of this type of lips by outlining them with a nude tone (or very soft brown) before paint them with some glitter to give them more volume. Kristen Stewart, who has this type of lip, almost always opts for red lipsticks with a little gloss. We love the result!

The cupid’s bow of the lips is the name given to the upper line that borders the lip, the one that we outline when we put makeup on our mouth. This line defines, in a way, the shape of the lips, so that we can use it to our advantage depending on what we want to achieve.

If, for example, we have thin or normal lips and we want them to look thicker and more sensual, we can outline said arch outside the line (only slightly) until it looks wider. The cupid’s bow can vary a lot, however, there are two very different types.

Heart cupid bow

For this type of mouth the shape is very marked and it resembles, as its name suggests, a heart. In addition, there is a variety of the heart-shaped cupid’s bow called a pointed bow, which stands out for the pronunciation of both tips.

Although in this case the color will depend a lot on the skin tone of each person, few things are more spectacular than lips with the marked cupid’s bow painted in Passion-red. Taylor Swift is the clearest example of this type of lip.

Undefined cupid bow

In this case, the line of the cupid’s bow is continuous, so that the arch is smooth and it is not easily differentiated. While it is true that you can always outline your lips and create a small cupid bow more marked with a reddish eyeliner, the undefined cupid bow lips are the most sensual when they are painted dark.

This is well known by Ariana Grande, who alternates the use of darker lipsticks with some bright nudes.

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