Have Small Lips But Don’t Want Lip Fillers? A Beauty Expert Shares The Lip Combo That Gives You Fuller Lips: ‘Perfection’

Lip Combo For Fuller Lips

"This lip combo is the reason why I don’t have lip injections," says Anna. "I realized you can use makeup to improve the ratio of your face."

To start, she recommends applying a lip stain. “Let it go a little bit over the vermillion border,” she notes. Anna uses the Cherry Pie Water Stain from Ulta.

Next comes what she calls “the holy grail” lip liner—NYX’s shade in Brooklyn Thorn. She advises being generous with the overlining: “We’re basically drawing ourselves an entirely new upper lip.” Blend it out until it creates a soft contour around the lips, mimicking a natural shadow.

For the final step, Anna reaches for a nude lip pencil—specifically, the Contour lip liner from Pat McGrath.

She explains, “Lightly overfine with this but sticking on that vermillion border instead of going over the lip line completely with the shadow just beyond it.”

To finish the look, she tops it off with a gloss from Rhode in the shade Salty Tan Lip Peptide.

“That is how you contour your lips to perfection,” she concludes.