Lips are very important for your performance. They can show your emotions combined with your eyes. Below are some tips that you may find helpful.

• Apply lip liner first. Do not draw on the outside of your lip line unless you want your lips to look larger than they are. Start at the center of the lip and draw outwards.
• Use a shade of lip liner that is about 3 shades darker than your lip stick. For large performance arenas, you may even use black or brown. It will give you that extra outlining that you need for larger viewing distances.
• I believe that your lipstick should go with your skin color. A darker color usually works best. Rememeber, not all reds are the same. There is an orange/red and a blue/red. Usually one will work for your skin and the other will not. Besides, are bright red lips in style anyway?
• Frosty colors don't really work for long distance viewing. Your lips basically need to be a bit darker so the audience can see the difference of color from your skin color on your face.
• Glitter, Glitter, Glitter yourself to death......the audience won't see it anyway. But doesn't it make you feel better? You decide.
• If you put a bit of face powder or foundation/base on your lips before you apply your lipstick, it will help your lipstick to last longer. For even more lasting power, you can use one more application of powder on top, then you can use a chapstick or lip gloss. Be sure to blot and get that smear off of those pearly whites!!!!
• To get that "pouty lips" look, use a lipstick that is about 3 shades lighter than your lipstick and put a smear just right in the middle of the bottom lip. Look at the picture above. See where the light is hitting those bottom lips? Well, you can put it there on purpose now!