Beauty Basics: Plump Your Lips

If you weren't born with full lips, don't worry! Makeup expert Carmindy, star of TLC's What Not To Wear, shares her best secrets for plumping, enhancing, and making the most of the mouth you've got!

Beauty Basics: Plump Your Lips

Start with shimmering lip pencil:
Choose a pale lip pencil with a little bit of shimmer and trace your lip line. "This will capture the light create a nice full-looking lip, as well as seals in the color so you won't have any bleeding," explains Carmindy.

Beauty Basics: Plump Your Lips

Cupid's bow shimmer trick:
Take a tiny eye shadow brush and dab it in a little bit of loose white shimmer powder. Then apply it right on top of the cupid's bow(that's the little ridge above your upper lip) to catch the light and give the illusion of fuller lips.

Beauty Basics: Plump Your Lips

Fill in lips with lipstick:
Try a pretty, but neutral shade of pink lipstick to fill in your lips. Use a lip brush to carefully paint the color onto your lips.

Beauty Basics: Plump Your Lips

Add shimmer to lower lip:
Carmindy also likes to apply a bit of the loose shimmer powder along the bottom edge of the lower lip, too, for an even better pouty effect.

Beauty Basics: Plump Your Lips

Finish the look with gloss:
"The last step to plumped lips is a dab of gloss right in the center of the lower lip and a little on the upper lip," says Carmindy.

Beauty Basics: Plump Your Lips

Glossed and ready to go!
"Shimmer, plus lipstick, plus gloss gives you nice, full pouty lips. It's so easy to create a beautiful smile!" says Carmindy.

Beauty Basics: Plump Your Lips