But nobody should feel compelled to do so. It can be summarised thus: if you want to play certain features down and others up, you can. Going from lip balm to brick red would terrify anyone," Nicola advises.Ĭorrection is one of those loaded words, bandied around more frequently with darker skins than others.
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"Take the colour you currently wear and try something a few shades brighter first as a stain or as a gloss, then as a full colour when you're ready. "What stops women from experimenting is the feeling that everyone is going to think 'she doesn't carry it off'," says make-up artist Nicola Chapman, one half of YouTube make-up duo Pixiwoo. It's just about finding the right consistency for you, whether it's Jennifer Hudson's metallic coral lips at the 2010 Oscars or Nicki Minaj's hot pink pout. Here's what they didn't tell you: light and bright shades of lipstick look as beautiful on dark skin tones as they do on fairer skins. As a result, the phrase "dark skins suit a nice plum shade" still plays ad nauseam in our heads. Perhaps this is because the makeup advice we heard when growing up came solely from ill-advised cosmetic counters. But the fear of 'getting it wrong' backs so many of us into a neutral lipstick corner. Choose a shade and slick it on it should be that simple.