I Tried TikTok’s “Honey Lips” Trend

I love a beauty trend as a lot as the following particular person, however at the same time as a magnificence editor, I should admit I have my limits. I’m not the perfect at eyeshadow, so I avoid attempting to DIY seems like “angel eyes” or daring neon eyeliner. Plus, as a lot as I’ve been training at residence, my manicures by no means look nearly as good as when an expert does them, so the textured trend does not appear to be within the playing cards both. But you recognize what I do know rather well? A great lip mixture, and I have by no means encountered one which I have not been capable of replicate. So when I got here throughout “honey lips,” I instantly understood my project.

The pattern actually solely requires two to 3 merchandise: a lip liner, a glittery gold eyeshadow, and yellow- or green-tinted gloss. Depending in your magnificence philosophy, you’ll be able to nix the primary two and simply go for the gloss so as to add a touch of shade to your lips, or you’ll be able to go all out and do the entire shimmery look. I’m not the most important fan of glitter lips, so for my model, I determined to go for simply the gloss and liner. Read forward to see how the experiment went.

Creating Honey Lips

My merchandise of selection have been the MAC Cosmetics Squirt Plumping Gloss Stick ($24) within the shade Like Squirt and certainly one of my favourite lip pencils, CTZN Cosmetics’s Lipstroke Waterproof Lip Liner ($18), within the shade Cinco. Following my normal approach, I lined my lips with the lip pencil and blended it out to provide my lips a barely poutier look. Then I acquired a small quantity of the gloss stick and utilized it to my lips, being cautious to not use an excessive amount of and make it goopy.

“Honey Lips” Result

After some further mixing, my finish consequence was nothing in need of attractive. The brown from the lip liner gave a scrumptious warm-toned tint to the look, whereas the colour of the gloss stored it on the extra impartial aspect. The mixture was glassy however deeply moisturizing — good for the upcoming fall and winter months. If you wish to do that with glitter, I’d counsel a pressed method for one thing extra refined (any gold-toned shade from an eyeshadow palette you have already got ought to work), however if you would like one thing a bit extra on the editorial aspect, go for unfastened glitter like Nyx’s Face & Body Glitter
($7) and even edible gold leaf flecks on high of the preliminary layer of gloss, then end it off with one other coat of clear gloss for that ultra-high-fashion really feel. I love how simple this pattern was to create myself, and it is one I’ll positively be conserving in my again pocket to do once more.