How To Make Lips Look Bigger

Your lips will always look their best when they are healthy and hydrated, darlings. As well as drinking plenty of water, it’s important to apply an intensive lip product like a lip oil, lip balm or lip mask to help replenish the look of your lips. Lips can easily feel dry and chapped which can lead to a sallow appearance, so applying hydrating lip products like Charlotte’s Magic Lip Oil Crystal Elixir is the secret to keeping them looking nourished and ready for lipstick. When you regularly hydrate your lips, they look naturally plumper and full of life! 

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Did you know that you can give your lips a contoured effect by using a darker shade of lip liner? Just as you would with your cheekbones, nose, and jawline, you can create a more dimensional lip look by creating a shadow effect with lip liner. Makeup is all about light and shade, darlings… When you glide around the outer edge of your lips with a chocolate brown, cool mauve, deep pink, or rich red lip liner, your pout becomes more defined and looks more prominent on the face.

I created my Lip Cheat Contour Duos to create the easiest lip contour of your life! Discover 4 shades for fair, medium, tan and deep skin tones – each is perfectly colour-matched and inspired by the natural nude tones in lips to create seamless, natural-looking lip contours. The SCULPT shades (the darker, more powdery shade) is formulated to create a long-lasting, shapely lip contour look that makes lips look bigger, fuller and more sculpted.

Tilbury Tip: To create a fuller-looking, three-dimensional lipstick look, use the lighter FILL shade from my Lip Cheat Contour Duo in the centre of your lips to make them pop!

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To make your lips look bigger, you can use lip liner to manipulate your lip shape and create the illusion of fuller, wider looking lips! With a lip liner like my Lip Cheat in Supersize Me, trace along your natural lip line to define its appearance, then glide slightly beyond its natural end to cheat the appearance of bigger lips. Use your lip liner to accentuate the look of your Cupid’s bow and to overline your top and bottom lip, then connect your new lip line with the corners of your mouth to create a more believable shape. Overdrawing your lips is an art and practice makes perfect, darlings!

Tilbury Tip: Discover which lip shape you have and learn tips and tricks on how to make lips look bigger.

A slick of lipstick will maximise the look of your pout, darlings! Whether you love a magical matte formula like my Matte Revolution lipstick or the smooth, satin-finish shades from my K.I.S.S.I.N.G collection, applying lipstick is an easy way to make your pout stand out! Lipstick perfects the look of your lips and helps them to appear bigger and bolder – I always say that lipstick is instant confidence and happiness in a tube! Swipe on a beautifying lip colour and it can change the way you look and feel!

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Highlighter is a beauty trick that every glow lover needs in their makeup kit! I use highlighter like a light thief, applying it strategically to capture light on the high points and directing people to look at the most lifted, luminous parts of the face. You can use my lip trick to help your lips look bigger, darlings! Take a silky highlighter like my Hollywood Glow Glide Face Architect Highlighter on an Eye Blender Brush, then sweep it onto your Cupid’s bow to make your top lip appear fuller, lifted and even more mesmerising.

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While lip liner and lipstick can help to reshape and resize the look of your lips, lip gloss is the secret to creating a three-dimensional lip glow that makes lips appear bigger, fuller, and plumper! I love to apply a glowing lip gloss to give every pout a magical, reflective look. Coating your lips with glimmering gloss like Collagen Lip Bath unlocks gorgeous light play, giving them a mirror-shine, glass-like glaze that’s rich with potent, lip-cushioning collagen for a juicy-looking, plump effect.

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Darlings, lip gloss looks magical on the lips, but for that supersizing, maximising, big lip effect, you’ll want to reach for a plumping lip gloss that visibly plumps up the look of your pout. For fuller-looking lips with unbelievable wow factor, discover Pillow Talk Big Lip Plumpgasm! This Pillow Talk lip plumper is powered by Heat and Ice Technology to give your pout a tingling, plumping sensation that immediately makes lips look 93% PLUMPER!* The Plumpgasm Effect is GLOSS + HYDRATION + INSTANT PLUMPING SENSATION for BIG LIPS, WOW!

That’s not all, darlings… When applied regularly, my Plumpgasm innovation can help your natural lips to appear plumped by 25% in just 2 weeks!**

Big Lip Plumpgasm is now available in Nudegasm Diamonds – a champagne-nude shade with diamond shimmer that plumps the look of lips and gives them a superstar, super-nude glow!

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