How to Consolidate All Your Lipsticks

Tip 1 - Lipstick Layering 101: How to Combine Lip Colors Like a Pro

Your lipstick wardrobe is about to get so much better.
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Tip 2 - Remix Your Lipstick Game Like A Pro

How many lipsticks do you own? No, really, go count them. We can wait. We’re going to guess that this number varies greatly from person to person, but we’re willing to wager our handbag fund that it’s no less than five and no more than 30. Pinks, plums, berries, browns, burgundies, nudes

Tip 3 - How to Darken Lipstick | The Classroom | Synonym

Makeup companies offer a myriad of different products, but that doesn’t mean every girl wants or needs to buy them all. You can actually get more out of your makeup by mixing products ...

Tip 4 - How to Layer and Combine Perfumes Like a Fragrance Master

I'm the perfume guru around the Lipstick and Glamour.com offices—I take pride in the fact that at least once a week I get to answer some person's "Oh my god, what smells so good?" with "Me." And, well, not to toot my own horn too much, but one thing I've become quite good at over the years is layering scents to add just a little extra level of spiciness/summeriness/sexiness/whatever-I'm-after-at-the-momentiness. Here's how you do it. 1) Start with something basic. You can layer multinote perfumes, but single-note or very basic fragrances (like Demeter Fragrances or Body Shop Perfume Oils) are easiest to start out with. So I recommend you begin with those. If you insist on jumping into combining multinote scents, I warn you, don't pick anything too complex or you're going to just end up smelling like the fragrance section of a department store. 2) Start thinking like a baker. This whole thing is like making a cake. The base notes are your actual cake—they're the starting layer, the strong part. Think musks, patchoulis, woods. You definitely need one of these 'cause they're the only things that stay on skin past the first couple of hours—in other words, you need