Lip blush, in Kamloops.
A soft wash of pigment worked through the lips to bring back definition and colour. The point of it is that it looks like your lips on a good day rather than like lipstick.
Colour worked through, not drawn on
Lip blush is a soft wash of pigment worked through the lips rather than a line drawn around them. It brings back definition and colour, which is why it suits lips that have lost their border over time, or that read pale without makeup on them.
What it should look like
Like your lips on a good day. Not like lipstick, and not like a lip liner someone else picked out. That is the whole test I hold the work to, and it is the reason the shade conversation comes before anything else.
You choose the shade
As with the brows, we choose the shade together first. You are the one who has to look at it every morning, so the colour is settled between us before there is any pigment involved.
Two appointments, not one
The work is done across two appointments. The second one is there so the colour can be judged and adjusted once it has healed, which is the only point at which there is anything worth judging.
How it is done
Three steps, in this order. Anything to do with how your own lips heal and settle we go through in person, because that part depends on you rather than on a rule I can print here.
Choosing the shade together
Nothing begins until we have agreed on the colour. It works the same way as it does with the brows: we sit down, look at your lips as they are, and settle on a shade you are happy with before any of it is committed to.
The first appointment
This is where the colour goes in. The pigment is worked softly through the lips to build definition and tone, rather than outlined at the edge, so the result reads as lip and not as makeup.
The follow up appointment
The second appointment comes once the first has healed. Healed colour is the only colour that tells the truth, so that is when we look at it properly together and adjust it if it needs adjusting.
Start with the colour conversation
Lip colour is a personal thing, and it is far easier to settle sitting across from each other than over a screen. Tell me how to reach you and roughly what you have in mind, and we will begin with the shade.
- A proper look at your skin, in person
- An honest plan, in the order that makes sense
- You decide what, if anything, comes next
Prefer to talk first? Call me on (250) 877-7045 or email dannielle@divinebydannielle.com.