Technical File - Lips

Health and Safety: 

Place apron around the neck to protect clothing. 

Always ensure to run a client consultation to check for any infections, allergies or contraindications.

Wash/Disinfect hands thoroughly before touching the clients skin.

Products Used:

- Lip balm 

- MAC Lipliner 'Barely There' 

- Kiko Lipliners 'Burgundy' & 'Plum'

- Kryolan Rouge Palette

- Mac SS Trend Palette 'Purple' 

- Illamasqua Liquid Metal 'Gold' 

Process of Creation: 

1. Apply a lip balm to the lips to smooth any dry areas and create a softer base for lip colour application. 

2. If required lips may also be exfoliated beforehand to remove any dead skin cells/dry areas.

3. Blot away excess balm with a tissue. 

4. Taking a lip liner of preference outline the lips starting from the outer corners and working to the inner area of the lips.

5. Using a lip colour of preference in coherence with that of the lip pencil begin to fill in the area up to the edge of the lip ensuring as clean a line as possible. 

6. Blot the lip colour and reapply the layer to ensure staying power.

7. Using a concealer go ahead and clean up any rough lines for a crisp finish. 

Evaluation:

Lip colour is something that can be rather difficult to achieve a clean result with, much like eyeliner it is a common skill that many struggle with. In regards to executing a lip it comes down to practice and redoing the application over and over until it comes comfortable. To achieve this each person develops there own technique, personally I find it easiest to start from the outer corners of the lip and work in, this ensures that I don't miss the line and over draw the lip too much. When completing this technical I decided to work to colours that were preferred by my model, working to her complexion and taste therefore I worked through nude shades into deep reds and plums. Overall I think the nude application was the easiest as it required less precision in comparison to a red lip which can stain if mistakes are made. In addition to these lips I also recreated the SS16 trend lip for Prada which featured a gold metallic lip, this stood out to me because of how bold it was on the runway but also  because of how the colour looks against different skin tones. My model had a similar complexion to that of the models featured in the show as she is of very fair complexion therefore the gold really stood out. To create this I used Illamasqua's Liquid Metal in 'Gold' as it is more antique toned and appeared to match more closely to the original makeup than that of a very orange based gold. Overall I was pleased with how the lip application went however I can see from the images where I have slightly overdrawn the natural outline, this is something that can be worked on with further practice. 

1. Nude Tone                                                         2. Blood Red

3. Deep Plum            4. Prada SS16 Gold Lip Milan Fashion Week