If you are really new to makeup the mounds of different products may be overwhelming. There are so many different skin toned things, and everyone is talking about contouring, tight lining, and highlighting. There are these things all over Pinterest about what order to apply makeup and how- to photos that don’t make sense.
I am not a pro makeup artist. You could say I am a self taught makeup artist. I have been playing with makeup for a few years and I have learned from trial and error, and researching. I am not a beginner anymore but I am not a makeup vet either. I don’t know everything there is to know about makeup but I think I’ve got the basics down. Or at least I know what all the products are for.
There are tons of different products. And those products come in different formulas. And most products come in more than one type of package. We have to start somewhere. So let’s start with a list of the basic lip product names and then go into more detail.
Lip Primer
Lipstick
Lip Gloss
Liquid Lipstick AKA Lip Lacquer
Lip Crayons/Chubby Sticks
Lip Liner/Pencils
Lip Stain
LIP PRIMER
Lip primer isn’t like face and eye primers. It’s is usually skin toned or white.
What’s it for?
Lip primer is used to even out the color of your lips and making the color of your lips lighter/all one color so you lip products are truer to their colors. It is also used to keep lip products from running out into the lines around your lips.
What formulations does it come in?
It comes in a cream formulation.
What type(s) of packaging does it come in?
Lip primer comes in a crayon chubby stick.
LIPSTICK
Everyone knows lipstick. It’s the first lip color anyone buys.
What formulations does it come in?
Lip stick only has one formulation. It’s a wax stick twist up thing.
What type(s) of packaging does it come in?
It comes in a stick twist up tube. Everyone knows lipstick tubes. Even if they are the square or weird shaped ones everyone knows a lipstick tube.
LIP GLOSS
Everyone knows lip gloss. It’s thin and lightly pigmented. It adds slight color to your lips and adds shine.
What formulations does it come in?
All lip gloss has the same type of formula. It’s thin and shiny. Some are more pigmented than others. Though almost all lip gloss isn’t highly pigmented.
What type(s) of packaging does it come in?
Lip gloss comes in the classic plastic tube with a wand that has a sponge applicator on it and some gloss comes in a squeeze tube with a hole on the end.
LIQUID LIPSTICK (AKA LIP LACQUER)
Liquid lipstick is also known as lip lacquer. It is like a thicker more pigmented lip gloss that dries to look like lipstick.
What formulations does it come in?
It’s like a thick pigmented lip gloss, a liquid lip stick.
What type(s) of packaging does it come in?
Lip lacquer comes in a plastic tube with a wand that has a sponge on the end. I believe a few brands have lip brushes on theirs.
LIP CRAYONS/CHUBBY STICKS
Lip crayons/chubby sticks are the fat lip pencils.
What formulations does it come in?
The lip crayons are usually a cream like formula. Like lip stick in a pencil or lip balm in pencil.
What type(s) of packaging does it come in?
A fat pencil that either twists up or is sharpened.
LIP LINER/LIP PENCILS
Lip liner is a normal pencil that can be used as a color on its own or just on the outer line of your lips to keep lipstick from bleeding out in the lines around the lips.
What formulations does it come in?
Lip liner can come in the classic liner like eye liner that feels like eyeshadow and it can come in a cream pencil.
What type(s) of packaging does it come in?
Lip liner comes in the classic sharpen pencil and a twist up pencil.
LIP STAIN
Lip stain is a thin highly pigmented lip color that dries to have color on the lip while keeping them feeling like they don’t have any product on.
What formulations does it come in?
Lip stain is like a thin, highly pigmented lip gloss that dries to just leave the color. And leaves the lips feeling as though there is no product on them.
What type(s) of packaging does it come in?
Lip stain comes in a plastic tube with a wand that either has a sponge or a lip brush on the end of it.
That is all for the lip products! You can read my other product posts eye, and face for details about those. This is the 5th post in my Beauty Basics series. The first two are about Makeup Lingo, which you can read here, and Types of Makeup Packaging, which you can read here.
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Disclaimer: I AM NOT a professional makeup artist. You could say I am a self taught makeup artist as I have taught myself a lot through trial and error and playing with makeup. I have researched a lot of things on makeup over the past few years. I’m not claiming to know everything but I think I’ve got the basics down and want to make learning them easier for anyone just starting to get into makeup. I am not a newbie anymore but I’m not makeup vet either.
Photo Credit: Photo taken by me with a Canon EOS Rebel T5 with an 18-55mm lens and edited by me in Photoshop.
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