
"Whether I want to fill in and completely change a lip shape or just add a bit of color on for a subtle look, I reach for lip liner."īelow, you'll find makeup-artist must-have lip pencils, editor favorites, new heroes, and indispensable classics that belong in your lip wardrobe. It's one of the unsung heroes of the beauty world," says Robin Black, the makeup artist behind Beauty is Boring. I think MAC lipliners are definitely worth the hype as the staying power is unreal.

It works so well with my beloved Velvet Teddy lipstick.
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Truly, lip pencils have more than redeemed themselves. When I’m going for a brown/ peach toned nude lip I tend to reach for MAC Spice £15. The texture is also surprisingly nice, and it contains a ton of product for less than a dollar.

In addition to creating a more defined border in a matching or contrasting shade, they can make lips appear fuller through overlining, serve as a matte base for lipstick that amplifies or adjusts its color while helping hold onto it like a primer, or add to an ombré effect - a softer update to the obviously-outlined look. WnW liner in 666 (I cant remember the actual name of it) is pretty spot on for MAC lip liner in Spice. Luckily, in the years since, lip liners have proven they can do so much more than just obviously line lips. No matching your lipstick (if you were even wearing any), no blending - just, "Hi, I’m wearing lip liner." So when that trend ceased to be trendy, it felt like lip pencils might fall out of favor, too. At the time, it seemed the only - or at least most prevalent - use of lip pencils was for outlining lips in a highly contrasting way. Whirl is described as a dirty rose shade, and I think that fits its description perfectly. It’s that browny-pink 90s lip that everyone has been loving this past year.

For those of us who lived through the early ‘90s, the phrase "lip liner" can have negative connotations. Soar is described as a mid-tone pinkish brown, but I think it’s more like a brown toned pink because I see more pink than brown.
