How to Prevent Lipstick Feathering

How to Prevent Lipstick Feathering
By Valerie Monroe
O, The Oprah Magazine  |  July 01, 2007

Q: What's the best way to keep my lipstick from feathering?

A: I e-mailed makeup artist Sonia Kashuk, who I'm sure has never had a feathered lip in her life, to ask her how she prevents it.

"HELLO DEAR!" she said. (She always writes her e-mails in caps and uses lots of exclamation points. If you didn't know her, you'd think she was very loud and excitable. She's just the opposite.) "I ALWAYS USE A FOUNDATION OVER THE ENTIRE LIP," she wrote. "THEN I LINE THE MOUTH WITH A NEUTRAL OR COLORLESS PENCIL."

Sonia, of course, prefers her own no-feather pencil ($8); Bourjois Transparent Lip Liner ($12) and Shu Uemura Drawing Lip Pencil ($18) are also good ones.

Bottom line: A colorless lip liner will prevent bleeding and will work with any lipstick shade.

MY THOUGHTS

useful information on cold days like this. parched lips add up to feathery lipstick.  good thing i'm not a lipstick person.   i rarely put lipstick on.