Lips same as bodies comes in different kinds and shapes. It is mainly genetics what mainly determines the lip type as well as facial structure and other facial features. However this how you treat your lips can make a differance in the look of your lips. Keep reading to find out more about lips and its shape.

Types of lips

There are few types of lips shape and here you will be able to find out what they are. Lips are in fact as unique as fingerprints. Here goes the types of lips:

Heart shaped lips

Those lips are the ones which are the most desired by makeup artists. People with this type of lips have a prominent cupid’s bow.

Makeup tips for those people would be to apply the same shade of lip color on bottom lip as on the top lip and also a person could enhance the cupid’s bow by using a white pencil at the centre. If someone with heart shaped lips will want to make their lips look fuller then creamy nude shadow can be used to do so.

Thin lips

When lower lip and upper lip is not that full this means that a person have thin lips.

Some makeup tips for people with thin lips would be at first to make sure to go a little bit overboard with lining the lips and also to smudge the edges along natural lip lines to reach more of a fuller look and fill it with matte or liquid lipstick. It is also a good idea to add a littl bit of glow with help of a lip gloss at the center of both of the lips.

Full lips

We can say that those are just perfect lips. It is a good balance between upper lip and lower lip. While full lips are considered as extremely attractive some people may not like this that they bring so much of attention to them.So if you want to “hide” the a little you could use nude lip colors that will easily blend with your complexion.

Heavy upper lip

If you are a person with heavier upper lip and not so pronounced cupid’s bow you are a person with heavy upper lips.

Makeup tip for those people would be to use darker shade of a lip colors on the upper lip to make it look smaller from the lower lip which should be covered with brighter shade. People with heavy upper lips can also go for a lip liner used around the edges of the lips.

Wide lips

Wide lips is connected with a big smile as people say a grin from ear to ear and some people may want to tone it down a little.
Overlining your lips can be helpful in making them look bigger what will even them down. Overlining the lower lip can also add weight to the lips.

Small round lips

Womaking doing her lips make up to make them look bigger

Small lips aren’t wide but they in fact tend to be full and round. Makeup advice for people with smaller lips would be to apply some glossy lip balm. This will make lips look fuller. In fact when it somes to small lips soft shades are perfect and most of the time do its job perfectly.

How to take care about lips

It is doesn’t matter what kind of lips shape you have by taking a good care of them you can improve their look. Here you will be able to know how to take a good care for your lips:

  • keep them hydrated – you an do that with help of lip moisturizers like cocoa butter, coconut oil, vitamin E, aloe vera or vaseline,
  • do not let your lips get chapped – chapped lips can be cased by cold or dry weather or even some meds,
  • think before you will use something on your lips – you for sure should be avoiding lip balms which contains menthol, phenol or camphor but also those lip balms which have in them any kind of alcohol,
  • avoid licking your lips – if you feel like your lips are getting dry do not lick them but put lip balm on them,
  • try not to stay on sun for too long – durning summer time use lip balm with a high SPF to prevent UV induced damage to the lips.

Can lip shape be changed?

If you were wondering if you can change your lip shape the answer is yes. If you doesn’t like your natural lips you can change that with help of makeup and lip fillers which are injected into the upper and lower lips.

Makeup

If you want to change the shape of your lips you can use makeup for it. If makeup will be used in the right way you can do many things with it as for example changing the size of the lips. How can you do that? Well answer is easy, with help of right shades of lipsticks.

Collagen lip fillers

Collagen lip fillers may need you to go to the cosmetologista couple of times. Those injections of collagen fillers were very popular some time before the HA lip fillers. Collagen is simply to be found in the human body, why? Well because collagen is protein that is present in the skin.

Hyaluronic Acid (HA) Lip Fillers

This type is one of the lip fillers that lasts about 6 months so this is not a pernament thing. HA fillers have texture similar to a gel and are very smooth. This lip filler cause very little of bruses. This is also used to get rid of wrinkles.

Silicon lip fillers

Silicon lip fillers are pernament, however can be removed. This fillers are cheaper than other temoporary lip fillers.

Lip exercises

There is a thing called lip yoga. This is connected to number of jaw exercises as well as pout techniques that you can be doing in order of getting fuller lips.

Lip reduction

It is not that common procedure however you may not like your big lips and will want to reduce the volume of it. With lip reduction you are able to get smaller lips and also make a correct after getting a lip filler treatment.

Interesting informations

  • if you aren’t okay with temporary lip fillers and you want something more pernament you can choose to use implants which is a more permanent option,
  • lips just like the skin can also accumulate dead skin cells which can cause dull and dry lips,
  • using vitamin E makes lips look more plump and gives it more of a youthful look,
  • hyaluronic acid can be erased easily, so maybe that is why they are very popular,
  • indian women tend to have top heavy lips.

Conclusion

Nowadays it is not only women who wants to have fuller lips. Men as well as women wants to have fuller looking lips. Every person is born with his/hers own lip shape howevere some people decide on changing it. While taking this decition they should remember that lips are very sensitive and some of cosmetic procedure may cause some allergy reactions.

Important tip is to not overdo, no one wants have a mouth looks like stung by a bee.

One Reply to “Different lip types – how to make them look great?”

  1. I have always had a complex of my tiny lips. This exellent article made me feel like I’m not the only one who is dealing with this issue. I didn’t know how to make them look even a bit bigger. I will for sure try out those tricks with makeup. Thanks you so much for such a wonderful article.

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