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How To: Velvet Lip with Maya Ahmad

Verity Douglas
Writer and expert5 years ago
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Matching your liner to your lip colour is the ultimate shortcut to full, fabulous lip looks – and the stunning {@themayaahmad} (Maya Ahmad) has made this easy with an array of products from {NYX Professional Makeup}. Follow these simple steps to recreate her sumptuous, rich berry-rouge lip look…

Before you turn your attention to the main event, ensure you’ve created a flawless base with NYX Professional Makeup’s {Total Control Drop Foundation}. After this, sculpt out some supermodel cheekbones using {Highlight & Contour Pro Palette} and achieve Maya’s signature, 'soft focus' glow by picking up the highest points of your face with the beautiful {Strobe of Genius Illuminating Palette}.

Once you’ve aced your base, create immaculate arches with the {Tame & Frame Tinted Brow Pomade} then enhance your eyes with the {Ultimate Shadow Palette - Warm Neutrals}. This stars no less than 16 stay-put satin shadows for endless looks – but to channel your inner Maya, use the soft taupe and champagne shades to add some subtle depth and definition, before defining the crease with a rich toffee tone and defining the lashline with {Epic Ink Liner}.

When you’ve completed your eye artistry, it’s time for the star of the show: that timelessly alluring lip look. Line, define and sculpt your lips with {Suede Matte Lip Liner} in ‘Spicy’, drawing a fine line just outside your natural lip outline to create the illusion of increased fullness. Then, use the matching {Soft Matte Lipstick} (again, in shade ‘Spicy’) to fill in your kiss. Now. go forth and pucker up, Gorgeous!

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Verity Douglas
Writer and expert
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Cult Beauty’s Content Editor and a Cult Beauty OG, Verity loves nothing more than the marriage of language and lip balm. A quintessential Libran, she’s a self-professed magpie for luxury ‘must-haves' and always pursuing the new and the niche — from the boujee-est skin care to cutting-edge tech. Balancing an urge to stop the clock with her desire to embrace the ageing process (and set a positive example for her daughter), Verity's a retinol obsessive and will gladly share her thoughts about the time-defying gadgets, masks and treatments worth the splurge...
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