


Lips

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What the Pros Know
It’s easier than you think. According to Kate Synnott, beauty creative director at Róen, doing a red lip is “definitely easier than doing a smoky eye.” She suggests pairing cream highlighter with your scarlet lipstick, so “you have this beautiful, glowy skin and then this statement lip.”

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Go it alone, at first. The quickest way to confirm that you’ve found the right red for you is to test it on a bare face. “You shouldn’t need to build a full face of makeup around your red lip,” Synnott says. “It should look good with very little makeup.”

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Play matchmaker. Lining and filling your lips with pencil will ensure your lipcolor lasts (and lasts). And in response to the age-old question of whether your lip pencil should match your natural lip color or your lipstick, Kjaer Weis is confident: “To your lipstick.”

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It’s ok to say no. “If red doesn’t work for you, it doesn’t work for you, and that’s totally fine,” Reagan says. “My question is always, ‘Are you really interested in a red lip for yourself or is it just because other people are wearing it?’ That’s the most important thing to ask.”