Lips on Lock 🔐: List Your Lip Combos 💄👄

[danielledanielle]

There's a post every other day about the best lip combo (keep them coming!) I've gotten to love lip contouring/ombre lips more than I thought I would, and I of course, need to justify a use for some of these lip liners/glosses/lipsticks etc...😶💄🤫

I also can't remember half of them, so if this a thread where I'm replying to myself 🤷🏽‍♀️, at least I'll have a list 

Photo cred Lancôme 

Feel free to list your fave combos, also consider putting in your lip color  (pink, brown, dual colored, rosy, etc) and aesthetic /style/look to help others lockdown their combos. 

Example:

Lip color: brown pink lips.

Look: MLBB

Liner: SEPHORA COLLECTION Colorful 8HR Longwear Transferproof Lip Liner 15 Molasses 

LAWLESS Mini Forget The Filler Lip Plumper Line Smoothing Gloss Rosy Outlook 👇🏽

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Also, if anyone is interested, I'd love to do another Lip Lab 🧫 💄 in 🏫🎓BIC University 🎓🏫 thread, please DM me!

 

[caitbird]

@itsfi  ooh I love this, Merit Capricorn looks gorgeous and flattering on you! I need to experiment more with lip combos...🤔

[itsfi]

@caitbird, thank you. Highly recommend experimenting with different lip combinations. It's surprising how many hidden gems we have in our collections just waiting to be discovered.

[danielledanielle]

The Fenty lip oil doesn't get the love it deserves IMO, but I feel like you gave it some XOXO here and it looks awesome! @itsfi 

[itsfi]

It's so good @danielledanielle!! Yeah, it is underrated, both among the Fenty collection as a whole and lip oils in general. It fits nicely in that shiny, glossy, juicy lips look all while being moisturizing but without being a magnet for my hair even when it's windy out. I've been reaching for it a lot, with this liner but also just on its own when I'm out for a quick errand or a run long walk 😅 or even topping my Laneige lip mask with it on particularly cold nights.

[lmaster]

Super wearable and gorgeous @itsfi 

[itsfi]

Thank you @lmaster; I was not expecting the liner to show up like it does on my lips - no complaints at all but it's making me want to go back through my richer/deeper brown shades to see if they'll lean this way as well. The things we discover when we shop our stash! 

[KrysTevanne]

OMG.

Huda Beauty’s lip contour stain in Baby Pink

Make Up Forever’s lip liner in Limitless Brown

LoveShackFancy’s limited edition plumping lip gloss in Happy Thoughts

Yes.

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[caitbird]

@KrysTevanne  nice lip combo, I love it! Thank you for sharing!

[itsfi]

@KrysTevanne, the Happy Thoughts lip gloss is the purple shimmery one, right? Oh, that would make such a gorgeous combo over the HB Baby Pink and MUFE liner. 😍 How are you finding the plumping effect on that gloss? I have some of the older shades from the collection and had heard that some of the newer ones have more of a tingle but have yet to pick up a newer shade. Do you find that the plumping aspect of the gloss tingles or stings a lot?

[danielledanielle]

🤌🏽🤌🏽 Limitless Brown @KrysTevanne 

[Sunnysmom]

Sounds very pretty @KrysTevanne ! 

[danielledanielle]

My go to combo as of late

Cheekbone Beauty Horizon Lip Pencil Earthy #withEADEM Le Chouchou Exfoliating + Softening Peptide Lip Balm in Croissant au Beurre 

Prior, I'd use Ami Colé Café Touba, but I like the terracotta of earthy on me, doesn't give me filler lips

 

And today, we test drove this

Sephora Collection Best Lip Combo Ever in Deep Nude and Gucci Velvet Matte Lipstick 123 - Auroral Amber tapped in...I know, why not get the satin? I like the idea of a tint as the matte wears away, but I got this. Slightly drying, but lasted all day

[lmaster]

This looks amazing on you @danielledanielle 

[itsfi]

Oh, I like! Different looks for you but these are giving autumnal vibes (that would work year round as well) @danielledanielle. Love how that first one complements your eye look too.

[Sunnysmom]

Really nice earthy nude looks @danielledanielle . You pull them off so well! 

[danielledanielle]

Thanks @Sunnysmom , I didn't used to care for a nude lip look (on myself), but having the right liner is unlocking them for me

[itsfi]

NOTE: Kulfi Lucky Lotus is a veeeeerrrry pigmented purple - the swatch is heavily, HEAVILY blended out.

Lips: Naturally more pigmented; double lips, more prominent along lower lip; fuller lower lips. Lips have become drier and show more lines as I've aged.

Look: plum-based brown - Lancome made a lipstick in a similar hue, over 10, maybe even 15+ years ago - it was a while ago but I feel like the color is always in the back of my mind when I'm out shopping for lipsticks. I've even tried checking 3 Custom Color Specialist but they don't have the shade in their database. This is close to the color of that Lancome lip color. 

File Under:

• bespoke lip color
• fall lip

The Lowdown:

1. Lip Prep - exfoliate, moisturize & lightly line lips with rom&nd 05 Taupey Shade* & blend out with lip brush (or fingers), focusing on Cupid's Bow & outer corners. I sometimes exfoliate and heavily moisturize my lips the night before as part of my evening skincare routine, so my prep routine in the morning is to carve out my lip shape with the rom&nd liner and blend.
2. Line - Line lightly with Rhode lip contour pencil (spin). Press lips together to distribute line color to lips. Lightly pat with pad of ring finger to further blend ad diffuse color and fill lips.
3. Fill color - Apply a little more of the Rhode spin to middle of lips and blend out with fingers with a teensy bit of Kulfi Mehndi Moment Long-Lasting Radiant Cream Blush Lucky Lotus. Repeat to get desired color.
4. Top with lip gloss or balm, or a glossy balm like CAY SKIN Isle Lip Balm SPF 30 with Sea Moss and Aloe Stem Cells Clear.

* I wrote up this blurb when I first started trying this lip combo, about a month or so ago and since then I've discovered, in shopping my stash, that Melt Cosmetics Slick Waterline Eye Pencil Ivory and a eyeshadow crease brush do a better job than the rom&nd 05 Taupey Shade of outlining/overlining my lips in the cooler months when whatever hint of color I may have picked up in the summer begins to fade away.

Love it or Leave it: I like the color a lot and the feel and formula is better for my lips now than the Lancome formula from way back when was. I won't, however, purchase a full size of Kulfi Lucky Lotus just to recreate the lip color - it's just too much product for me. I have a few of these sample cards and a little goes a long way with the blush so I will be able to put this lip look together a handful of times more. 👍

[lmaster]

Sooooo beautiful! @itsfi 

[itsfi]

@lmaster, thank you. The things we can come up with when we're just playing with what we already have. 😁

[blackkitty2014]

@itsfi @that lip combo you created is so beautiful 😻. 🥰 

[itsfi]

Thank you @blackkitty2014; just playing away with things I already have. 😂 I'm sure I still have some lipsticks and blushers that I won't likely reach for (ever) and maybe I'll find some of those make good combos as well.