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I love red lips. I find them so powerful and plus, your lips looks amazing with such a bold, sexy color. Like the survey I wrote about a year ago, red lips can be naughty, nice, classy, feminine, and HOT! Here’s how to sport this sexy look yourself.

Choosing your perfect color

When choosing your perfect red color, you usually don’t pick one with your eyes closed and expect it to suit you! Red is a little more tricky than that. There are different tones of reds that suit different skin tones.

• Fair skin – If your skin has cool pink undertones, colors that suit you are blue-based reds. If your fair skin has yellow undertones, try colors such as corals (my new obsession) and red colors that have orange and golden undertones.
• Medium skin – Olive and golden skin tones suit brown based and orange based reds. Also, cranberry shades look great on you!
• Dark skin – Deep, rich colors such as warm brick red and burgundy colors would suit your skin tone the best. Don’t try anything too bright, it may look too harsh.

Prep your lips

Red is a very bold color, so flakes and dry lips will look way more obvious with this color. What you can do is either apply a crazy amount of lip balm and taking a damp washcloth and gently rub the lip balm off your lips (this will remove flakes and dry bits in the process) or you can take a very soft wet baby toothbrush to gently exfoliate dead skin off. Whichever you are comfortable with! The toothbrush method can be harsh on the thin skin on the lips, so be very gentle.

Apply the color

Here’s my very first makeup tutorial. No laughing please! I only know two buttons on my camera so this is a big achievement. However, since it’s my first time if you have any tips on how to make it better or constructive criticism, please do tell me! :) I want to make future tutorials as simple yet helpful as possible.

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