How to Make Lips Look Bigger: Carli-Bybel-Inspired Lip Makeup Tutorial

Tools and materials:

• Lip balm
• Lip liner
• Matte lip gloss
• Lipstick highlighter 
• Angled brush 
• Contour

1. Apply lip balm 

Start with applying some lip balm to prep your lips just so they’re not dry. 

2. Overline your lips

To achieve that really full lip look, the best way to do it is by overlining. I love overlining; I think it enhances any makeup look and it means you don’t have to get lip injections.

To overline, make sure your lip liner pencil is sharpened and start by lining them pretty normally. This means starting where your lip ends and goes kind of transparent. 

Once your lip is lined normally, it’s time to overline. When overlining, you want to only do a little bit at a time because it’s very easy to overdo it.

Go slightly underneath where your lip actually is and this is going to extend the size of your lip. 

3. Fill in your lips

It’s going to look a bit of a mess but, don’t worry, let’s fix it. Fill in your lip with the liner just a little bit, and then we’re going to fill it in with a color. 

Carli wears a lot of nude, brown, and matte lipsticks so I’m going to use this brownish, mauve lipgloss to fill in the rest of my lips. Make sure to go over where you’ve overdrawn as best you can.

Let them dry matte. As you can see, just by overdrawing they look a lot bigger than they are naturally, and because I used a darker color against my fair skin, it accentuates my lips.

4. Highlight your lips

I’m going to further extend the size of my lips by highlighting them with a rather light lipstick. By highlighting the biggest part of your lip, which is the middle, it brings that forward and makes it look bigger.

The difference is really subtle, but it adds that extra detail to make them look just a little bit fuller.

5. Deepen the crease of your mouth

A very important step to getting Carli’s signature look is to deepen the crease of your mouth. Carli has these rather long creases that accentuate her lips.

To achieve this look, grab an angled brush and with a contour color, very lightly make a line that extends from the crease of your mouth.

If you put too much, you can dab it away with your finger. It should be very, very subtle. 

A minor caveat: this can look kind of odd when you’re talking or opening your mouth, the line is quite obvious, but this looks really beautiful if you’re just taking pictures. 

6. Contour and highlight your bottom lip and cupid’s bow

The very last thing to do is to contour just below your bottom lip to give it a bit of extra pop.

This will give the illusion of a shadow so it looks like your lips are just bursting out of your face and giving off a very natural shadow.

You should be accentuating the natural shadow you already have, again, very lightly. There is such a thing as overdoing it. 

You can also highlight your cupid’s bow to make your top lip look a little bigger as well. 

Lip makeup tutorial

That’s it! I tend to do this makeup look pretty much every day, and it’s the best way I’ve found to make my lips look a little bigger.

By no means am I implying that we should all have lips like Carli's, but there's no harm in being inspired and experimenting with makeup. In the meantime, always rock what you got, girl!

Let me know if you try out this lip makeup tutorial and what you think in the comments below.