Tutorial: Affordable way to get the lipstick colour you WANT!

Have you ever wanted a lipstick colour but didn't have the money to shell out for that specific colour?

Or have you ever felt like you wouldn't want to spend money on a lipstick colour that would only turn out to be a fad? That you'd only use it a couple of times and then never touch it again?

What if you just didn't know if you wanted to commit to a certain colour before you actually tried it out?

If you're somewhere around that category, then here's a trick I came up with just from experimenting a bit.

Lately, I've been in LOVE with plummy, magenta, and purple lip colours. But do I really want to go out and buy a new PURPLE lipstick? I know if I actually bought it I'd eventually regret it because it's not a very all-season friendly lipstick colour. Also, I didn't even know if it would even compliment my skin tone.

So this is what I did and it's REALLY simple:

1) Take a lipstick colour that's closest to the colour you're trying to achieve. If it's purple, take a pink lipstick that's on the blue side. If you don't have that just any pink will do. If you're looking for a red this will work too.

I chose Revlon's Pink Pout.

2) Take an eyeshadow or pigment of a colour closer to what you want your lipstick colour to be.

For purple I chose Wet n Wild's 248 Lust Palette. The matte purple shade. (excuse my yucky fingernail)

3) Use your finger and dab that shade on your lipstick. Pucker to blend.

Remember to start light! Don't pack on the colour cause you don't know how deep you want the colour to be.

4) If it's too light, add more!

So this is pretty much as dark as I would ever need my lips to be purple with.

Can't really tell the difference from the first picture here, but it's a lot darker.

6) Add some gloss if you want.

Here I just chose a clear gloss.

And there you have purple lipstick!

Now, if you wanted other colours you could also choose to use other colours for the same purpose. For example, if you wanted nude lips, you could use foundation or concealer and then build your colour from there. Add some rose/brown eyeshadow to make it not so close to your actual skin colour. 

You could also use nude lipstick for pretty much any colour you want. For purple lips I chose pink because it was closest to the purple. But if I had wanted to use a nude lip colour it would have been okay as well. Just keep playing around with shades until you reach your desired colour. I'm sure I don't need to talk about colour mixing =)

I apologize if the pictures I posted are not perfect, as I've never been too fond of my lip shape. But I hope whoever reads this get's the idea and just takes it in as information rather than telling me I have ugly lips or something hahaha. I hope this was helpful!

Until next time,

Love dove <3