How to Get Perfect Lips: Lipsticks, Lip Glosses, Lip Liners

Lip liner, lipstick, and gloss can work little miracles — visually enlarging and enhancing your lips. Some women won't step outside without lipstick; others never wear it at all. Whichever group you belong to, read on for tricks to get the fuller, bigger, irresistible lips you've always wanted.

Start with Smooth Lips

TIP: Lip skin is often dry, cracked, and flaky, so every lipstick and gloss lover should exfoliate. Use a lip scrub about twice a week, followed by a hydrating cream — coconut oil or shea butter work beautifully.

Basic DIY scrub:

• A teaspoon of sugar

• 5–6 drops of olive oil

Mix them in a bowl, apply to your lips, massage thoroughly with your fingertips, and rinse with water. Follow every scrub with at least 15 minutes of hydration — coconut oil is perfect for that.

Magically Full Lips

Everything that shines looks optically bigger — and that goes for lips too. You can fake fuller lips with shimmer or gloss. If gloss alone is your thing, Shimmering Lip Gloss is choice number one. If you love both lipstick and gloss, the perfect product is 16H Lip Colour.

Color matters too: warm shades like pink or champagne create the impression of fuller lips, while matte, dark shades make lips look thinner. So forget burgundy, dark brown, or black.

If you use a lip liner, draw just slightly above your natural lip line — never far beyond it, or the result stops looking natural.

TIP: Save heavy glitter lipsticks for evening makeup; they're a bit much for a casual daytime look.

How to Apply Lipstick on Full Lips

Do you have the opposite problem — lips so full they look like the work of an aesthetic surgeon? Then it's all about applying lip products so the effect stays elegant.

For evening makeup you can wear any color with a lip liner, but for a casual look, emphasize the natural beauty of your full lips.

Before lipstick, apply a bit of foundation over your lips and set it with powder. Then use a matte lipstick with no gloss effect — Pretty Matte Lipstick is a perfect choice. Stick to natural-looking colors like beige or powder pink.

Lip liner generally isn't recommended for big, full lips. If you still want to use one, apply a darker liner to the corners of your lips, blend it inward until it fades, and then apply your lipstick.

TIP: If you'd rather not draw attention to full lips, highlight your eyes instead and keep just a balm on your lips.

Wider Lower Lip

You can make a wider lower lip look slimmer with optical contrast: a darker color on the lower lip, a lighter one on the upper lip, and a touch of gloss in the center of the upper lip. Another option is to fill in the lower lip with liner and soften it with a fingertip or tissue. On the upper lip, draw the liner just above the lip line; on the lower lip, keep the line just inside it.

Downturned Lip Corners

If your lip corners turn downward, skip the liner in the corners — especially on the upper lip — and angle the lower line slightly upward just before the corners. Gentle facial exercises can also help counter that horseshoe shape. Choose natural lipstick shades here.

Mini FAQ

How do I make thin lips look fuller?
Shine is your friend: gloss or shimmer, warm shades like pink or champagne, and a liner drawn just slightly above your natural lip line.

How often should I exfoliate my lips?
About twice a week, always followed by hydration — a simple sugar-and-olive-oil scrub plus coconut oil afterward is enough.

Where to buy

Find Shimmering Lip Gloss, 16H Lip Colour, and Pretty Matte Lipstick at fabledlook.com — we ship internationally, and we're happy to help you choose if you message us.