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• fair or pale skin: With lighter skin tones, steer clear of beige lipsticks, they’ll just end up washing you out. Instead, look to pink, peach, or pale apricot as your base shade. Tip: apply a lip liner in a color that is one shade darker than your natural tone this will brighten up your nude look.
• golden girls: If you have golden undertones in your skin, go for creamy, caramel-toned nudes as well as warm beiges. Stay away from anything too cool, such as silvers and grays.
• olive tones: If you've got olive skin, you're a lucky girly!. Just about any nude shade will look gorgeous on you from beige to bronze to pinks!
• skin with yellow undertones: Think radiance, creamy-toned beiges such a mocha.
• dark-toned skin: Go for chocolate tones such as rich golden browns.
• Exfoliate the lips before applying a nude tone to create a smooth surface and creating a surface for your tone to stick to. This is important when it comes to applying any lipstick or lipgloss! Remember to exfoliate.
My favorite lip exfoliate is made by The Natural Lip Scrub. It's organic, and it doesn't just exfoliate but it conditions your lips so that your lipstick or gloss will last longer!
• For the cheeks, if you want to brighten up your face add a dusting of bronzer and then pink or peach blush.
• Play up your eyes. The smoky eye look is playful and sexy played right with the nude lip. If smoky eye isn’t your thing why not try black eyeliner and a light shadow. You’ll be looking magnificent!
What do you think of nude lips? Would you ever try it out?
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