RIP Fish Lips Duck lips, trout pout -- whatever you want to call it, makeup artists say that an overlined, blown-up pucker is on its way out. "Like brows, your lips need to be in balance with all of your other facial features," says Alva.
There are oh-so-many problems with over-lining your lips: First, it's tricky to pull off in a way that doesn't look completely fake. Then, even if you do, an augmented pout can make your face look fuller.
"It's a vicious cycle," says celebrity makeup artist Shalini Vadhera. "Big lips make your face look fat, so then you contour like crazy." In the end, you wind up looking like a poorly executed Kylie Jenner (the one who popularized the whole over-injected, over-lined look in the first place).
Now that the novelty has subsided a bit and trends are leaning more au naturel, we can expect to see softer puckers in 2016.
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