When you first apply your lipstick it looks perfect. Once you’re out the door, within an hour or so your lipstick starts smudging or disappearing. Here are a few tricks I learned to keep your lipstick on all day. 

This is the oldest trick I discovered when wearing red lipstick. When nudes start smudging it looks ok but there’s nothing worse than a disappearing vibrant red. Just like any liquid makeup, lipsticks also need a powder to be set. Apply your lipstick and grab a tissue. Cover your lips with the tissue and set with a translucent powder. This will not only mattify your lipstick but lock it down as well.

Ditch your lipstick all together. Last year, with the sudden comeback of lipliners I accidentally figured out this trick. I left the house with just my lip liner in my purse so I had to retouch with liner alone. I realised that my “liner” stayed on all day long.

Color in your lips with a lip liner but make sure to moisturize first as this can be drying as well. I am obsessed with the MAC liners they are just the right amount of smooth and matte. MAC Lip Pencil shades in Soar, Boldly Bare and Whirl are just a few of my favorites. If you love the creaminess of a lipstick, go ahead and use this as a base and apply your lipstick over it.

Keep in mind that creamy lipsticks usually smudge faster than a matte shade. Have a collection of creamy lipsticks with all your favorite shades? Not to worry! Smashbox just came out with a Insta-Matte Lipstick Transformer that turns your creamy lipstick into a matte one with just one coat. How cool is that?

 Aline Agopian