Brown Lip Liner: How to Choose and Wear It

A brown lip liner gives your lips a soft, defined outline that works with nude lipsticks, glosses and everyday makeup. To choose one, match it to your natural lip colour for a subtle look, or go a shade deeper for more definition. Golden Rose has brown shades in three lip liners: Tattoo Lipliner, Mood Defining Lipliner and Dream Lips Lipliner.

Why wear a brown lip liner?

Brown liner sits between your lip colour and your skin, so it shapes the lips without looking harsh. A liner also has a practical job: outlining the lips before lipstick helps stop colour from feathering and helps it last longer. You can wear it in three ways: as a soft outline under nude lipstick, filled in all over as a matte lip, or under a clear or nude gloss for the popular liner-and-gloss look.

How do you choose the right brown shade?

Start with your own lips, not the lipstick. A shade close to your natural lip colour gives a "my lips but better" outline that nobody notices as liner. One step deeper gives a clearly defined edge. For a bold, contrasting outline under a light gloss, pick a deeper brown. If you are unsure, swatch on the inside of your wrist and compare it with your bare lips in daylight.

Which Golden Rose lip liners come in brown shades?

• Golden Rose Tattoo Lipliner: a waterproof, long-lasting lip liner with a soft-gel formula, a smooth matte finish and jojoba oil. It can also be worn as a lipstick. Look at shades such as 204 Biscotti, 206 Toffee, 207 Ginger Snap, 208 Mahogany, 209 Rosy Brown and 213 Truffle.

• GR Mood Defining Lipliner: a creamy, long-lasting lip pencil with a smooth-gliding formula for precise application. Its 12 shades include 04 Rosewood, 05 Chestnut and 07 Taupe Brown.

• Dream Lips Lipliner: a classic wooden lip pencil with a soft, smooth formula in 34 shades (501 to 535), from soft nudes and pinks to reds, berries and browns. The shade number is printed on the pencil, so you can reorder exactly the same colour.

Want the liner and lipstick already matched? The Long Stay Liquid Matte & Lipliner Lip Kit pairs a liquid matte lipstick with a matching lipliner, in colour pairs that include Warm Sable, Rose Taupe and Warm Nude.

How do you apply brown lip liner step by step?

• Start with smooth, dry lips.

• Outline your natural lip line, beginning at the centre of the top lip and working out to the corners, then do the bottom lip.

• Lightly fill in the lips with the liner. This gives your lipstick or gloss a base and helps the colour last.

• Add lipstick or gloss on top, or leave the liner on its own for a soft matte lip.

• Keep wooden pencils like Dream Lips sharp with the Golden Rose Pencil Sharpener, which has two openings for regular and jumbo cosmetic pencils.

What gloss goes with brown lip liner?

For the liner-and-gloss look, line and fill with brown, then add gloss in the centre of the lips. Mood Gleamy Lip Glaze is made to be worn over a lipliner of your choice for an ultra-glossy combo, with a mirror-shine, fuller-looking finish; 201 Nude Kiss and 202 Peachy Nude are easy matches with brown. For a softer finish, Nude Look Natural Shine Lipgloss gives a non-sticky, natural-looking shine in 4 nude shades. If you like a little sparkle, Mood Shimmer Lip Glaze adds fine light-reflecting pearls over your liner.

Can you wear brown lip liner on its own?

Yes. Line and fill your whole lip and you have a matte lip colour. The Tattoo Lipliner is described as wearable as a lipstick, and Dream Lips gives a soft matte lip colour when worn alone. Blot lightly with a tissue if you want an even softer, more natural finish.

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