Holiday Lips

“Love red lips for the holidays!” Kim Kardashian.

Kim posted a photo of herself wearing hot red lips for the holidays, seems like a perfect reason to create kissable lips like Kim’s.

When it comes to red, you must follow certain steps for a long lasting colour:

1.   After applying lip balm or Blistex. Smile and apply concealer all over your lips to fill in cracks, and to create an even base for a red colour.

2.   Contour your lips using a red lip liner, emphasize your cupid’s bow and fill in your lips with the same liner.

3.   Using a lip brush, apply red lipstick over the liner.

4.   Using your finger, dab in some red powder pigment onto the center of your lips.

5.   Finally, apply either clear or red gloss onto the center of your lips as well, and brush it sideways right before the corners of your lips for your finished look.

6.   If you want to have sharper edges, apply concealer to the corners of your lips for a sharp V-shaped edge. 


Basma is Revlon's Ambassador and Makeup Artist in the Middle East and the founder of the beauty label B. beautiful. Basma is the beauty contributor to Absolute Precision.

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Plump Up Your Lips

Full lips or plumped up lips have become an obsession lately. But I am against injections and artificial methods. 

Here’s a nice DIY technique just by adding peppermint oil or cinnamon leaf oil to your lips.

These oils are natural essence of their plant. When a drop of the oil is placed on the lips, it will cause it to swell and go red, which means your lips will look fuller. You will experience a slight tingly feeling when applying the oil but you’ll adjust to it quickly. 

Not only does peppermint swell and redden your lips, it also acts as a muscle relaxant, so your lips will look relaxed and not tight. This will further add to the fullness of your lips.

1. Open your tube of lip gloss.

2. Drop one to three drops of cinnamon leaf oil or peppermint oil into the lip gloss.

3. Mix the oil into the lip gloss with a gloss wand or cotton swab.

4. Dip you finger into the gloss tube or jar and wait a couple of minutes. If the gloss doesn't sting too badly, then continue on.

5. Apply the gloss to your lips. Repeat as needed.

Basma is Revlon's Ambassador and Makeup Artist in the Middle East and the founder of the beauty label B. beautiful. Basma is the beauty contributor to Absolute Precision.

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Perfect Lips

Achieving perfect lips is very personal in terms of size and pout. However contouring them carefully gives you perfect shape lips regardless of size and pout.

Make it a rule, whenever you apply lipstick, weather you contour your lips using a lip liner or not, always contour your lips using foundation or concealer following your lip line from the outside. It is such a simple step, yet makes a very strong beauty statement.

If you are applying nude lipstick and do this trick, your lips will look fuller. If you are applying darker lip colors and do this trick, your lips will look thinner yet bolder.

Try both colors to find out which style resembels you the most!

Basma is Revlon's Ambassador and Makeup Artist in the Middle East and the founder of the beauty label B. beautiful. Basma is the beauty contributor to Absolute Precision.

Follow Basma on Twitter for more of her tips! @bbeautiful_me