Lipstick put on around the lips

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I’ve started noticed more and more women who have drawn their lipstick around their lips, rather than just on them. AIBU to find this quite weird? I think it is meant to make their lips look fuller but it usually looks as though they missed their lips and decided that it would do. One of the contestants on Race Across the World used to do it.

Is this a new make up trend that has just passed me by? It’s rather unnerving.

The over drawn lipstick reminds me of monkey bottoms swelling with fertility.

Is it a primal fashion to attract baboons?

AIBU is filled with threads about parking spaces, complaints about in laws and other non-serious matters. This is my thread about finding a particular make up trend a bit peculiar. It mentions lipstick in the title so there’s no need to read or comment if this doesn’t interest you.

The thread isn't even about lipstick its about lipliner.

Fine to start a thread about something irreverent, calling it "rather unnerving" suggests to me that you don't get out much.

This is the sort of thing I mean. I am sure that this person has used lip liner but has also filled in the gap between her lips and the liner with lipstick.

It is unnerving. The point of make up is to make yourself look nice, not to have people go WTF.

This is liner. The lipstick is on the lips only.

Clearly plenty of people do think it looks nice. Fine if it makes you go WTF but you don't speak for everyone.

It looks like lipstick. My first thought is to wonder why she doesn’t know where her lips are.

I don’t speak for everyone (although it looks as though quite a few people agree with me) but I do speak for me.

I don't love that look, but I'd much rather that than lip fillers as a way to make your lips look fuller 🤷‍♀️

At least it washes off.

Its liner. Overlining lips is very popular, to make your lips look bigger. To answer your OP, yes its a makeup trend that's passed you by.

Someone else already mentioned the 90s- Pamela Anderson did this a lot then to get her signature look.

Hardly new. Girls have been doing it since I was a teen and I’m in my 30s. You’ve just noticed it.

Just let people wear what they want. It’s off to me how women constantly get bitched about by other women but nobody ever questions men’s outfits.

If you feel smug about your own perfect make up then jolly good for you.

I overline.
With a clear pencil so my lipstick doesn't feather.

I think overlining with colour looks absolutely ridiculous.
Like when kids lick their lips too much and get that sore red halo around them

No. If someone wants to open the door then I and others are going to walk through it. You think we should stifle a natural instinct to notice aesthetics that are outside the boundaries of what is considered normal. I will notice and comment but I will draw the line at being cruel to the person.

Really? I’ve yet to see a black woman do it. It’s not lining of the lips, OP means going outside of the lips to make it look bigger. I only mainly see it on non black women. I remember the Kylie Jenner Instagram days

What’s wrong with lips as they are? This does not make them fuller it just looks like Ronald McDonald.

You could make that same argument about highlights or push up bras or spanx- what's wrong with hair/boobs/waists as they are?

You don't have to do by of them but people have been using tricks to modify their appearance since Henry VIII wore a padded codpiece.

It doesn't look a bit daft at all, it looks bloody ridiculous.

outside the boundaries of what is considered normal

It isn't, though.

There's a hell of lot of internalised misogyny on this thread.

If you don’t like it, why not just ignore it? It doesn’t hurt anyone. There are so many things that go on and out of fashion. I can’t keep up with eyebrows.

Exactly.

Yes, it is considered outside the boundaries of what is considered normal. It really is. I don’t actually care but let’s not pretend that it’s normal.

ok let me explain. Some people line their lips outside the lip line. OP noticed and started a thread. Many of us weighed in on our experience of this and then the “you’re all misogynistic” crowd showed up. I’m commenting on a thread about this very subject; if you don’t like it you can go elsewhere, not me.

Google Nina Park Lip. She did lots of the make up at the Oscars. Her make up is exquisite, except for the lips. She draws a heavy brown line above the lips and I think it looks awful.

I thought it was a collab with Barbara Cartland and Robert Smith! 😂

Well I agree. It is just how I phrase things.

uhhhhhhhhhhh, ok?