Red Lips Work with Every Makeup Look

Bare-Faced

Red lips really shine on an otherwise naked face. It’s a surprisingly fresh look when worn with just a swipe or two of mascara and clean skin. 

Cat Eye Cool

Feel free to channel a French film icon with a quick line of liquid eyeliner. The cat eye has been trendy for so many years, it’s really more of a classic by now. Whether you do your flick long and lean or short and stubby, this eyeliner look is killer with a red lip. We think practice makes perfect (forget cat eye guides!), so get to it.

A Full Face

Who says you can’t do heavy eyes and a heavy lip? Not me! There is no better look that screams, “I mean fancy!” To achieve this, I lined the outside of my eyes with a kohl liner and rounded out the look by repurposing my lipstick as cream blush. There are two good ways to make lippy work as blusher: go slightly more subtle by making a line with the lipstick on the apple of your cheeks and then blend; or for more drama, draw oversized circles in the same area and blend. Either way, it lends itself to a more cohesive makeup look by matching the lips. Though “heavy eyes, blush and lipstick” sounds like a lot of makeup, it actually looks pretty cool.

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