How to Make Your Lipstick Colors Look Spectacular
Trying to find the right color lipsticks isn’t easy, even if you try them on in the store before getting home. The lighting is different, and it can be disappointing to discover that you don’t love the color like you thought you did. Age doesn’t matter. In this post, you will find out how to make your lipstick colors look spectacular!
The only way to end up at home with the perfect lipstick purchase every time is if you buy your favorite color over and over without the company ever discontinuing it and just give up trying new colors! The temptation is that there are new ones every season. 😉
Well, you can take things into your own hands and mix your own colors! That way, if a color isn’t so hot on you it can be mixed with other colors until you get exactly what you want.
As you can see in my feature photo, I have a basket of EXTRA makeup that I hardly ever use, or the colors didn’t work for me. So I always use the same makeup every day that works and I love best. It would be nice to use all those excess lipsticks if I knew how to mix them for color correction. So let’s see what I can do about that…
My coloring is warm. One day, I was at Victoria’s Secret looking at lipsticks and the sales girl wanted me to try the “perfect” plum-colored lipstick. I knew it would be too dark and cool for me. It was. So she found a gold gloss, we slicked it over the top, and it was just perfectly beautiful! So now, I always put gold lip gloss on top of a dark and/or cool color lipstick.
If you have cool coloring, you can do the same thing by putting silver or opalized lip gloss over a lipstick that is too dark for you.
If you want to lighten a dark color with lipstick rather than gloss, start off with the lighter color first and then add the darker one bit by bit with your finger or a brush. Instead of applying two or more lipsticks separately, you can also melt or mash together your colors and put them into a palette or an empty lip balm container.
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Here are some things you can do to change colors to your liking:
Yellow, green, blue, white and even black will alter your lipstick colors:
- White or yellow lightens lipsticks. You can use silver instead of gold to lighten dark hues. There are also opal colors that would work as well.
- You can also use a frost to lighten.
- Yellow or gold warms up anything that’s too icy, cool or bluish. And you can even use eyeshadow if you don’t have yellow lipstick!
- To neutralize red, pink, peach or orange shades that are too bright, dab on some green. You can also create your perfect nude lip color with it if you mix the right amount with your bright lipstick.
- Blue cools down overly warm colors. You can use it to create purpley-pinks, plums, deep reds, and purples. Add blue to pink to make the perfect Autumn plum shade!
- Blue or plum or burgundy darkens your lipsticks.
- You can even wear blue or green alone for a daring evening look!
- Black lipstick deepens your shade for a softened, smoky look.
When you add a non-traditional color like blue, green or black to adjust a lipstick color, try applying the non-traditional color by dabbing with your finger over the original color with your finger until you get to a shade you like.
More Lipstick Color Combinations:
- Blend your lipstick with a beige hue to make it more neutral.
- Mix in a shimmery shade to give a sexy finish.
- Brighten brown with a dab of pink.
- Lighten a dark shade with a clear gloss.
Of course, you can mix and match the colors you already have, any way you want. Have fun!
You can read more about “How to Custom Mix Your Lipsticks” at Stylecaster here.
Special thanks to Michelle Collins for her knowledge and expertise on makeup.
Do you have any makeup blends that you have created yourself? If so, please tell us about it in the comments below.
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Angie
Thank you for these lipstick hints! I have several sample lipsticks lying around that otherwise would not work for me. You given them new life, and me slightly different, but still complimentary colors!
It’s so nice to hear that this was helpful to someone! Today my sisters and niece were especially interested in how the blue and black lipsticks change other lipstick colors. 😀