Brighter lip shades with NEW Ultra Colour Bold Lipstick

Avon's celebrity make-up artist Liz Pugh tells us how to create a bold Summer look using NEW Ultra Colour Bold Lipstick

An instant and easy way to change your makeup look is by changing your lip colour. Summer is a great time to switch to a brighter lip shade as a pop of colour will always work well on bronzed skin tones. It’s always easier to wear a nude for the daytime, to look effortlessly groomed, but I also embrace colour for daytime and evenings, nothing looks greater.

AVON Lipstick's Bold Colours

Wearing a brighter colour means you can keep eye makeup to a minimum, so the emphasis is all on the lip, it will look great with a sweep of bronzer for daytime and nighttime. Just add an extra coat of mascara for evenings and you are ready. When wearing a brighter lipstick shade, if you want to wear any eye shadow, stick to natural shades.

Why not dip into the trend and try a brighter stain on the lips for daytime, it is so fresh. Just press a little colour on with your fingers, then for evening pump up the colour straight from the bullet.

A word of warning when wearing brighter colours on the lips, make sure if you are going to wear a blusher it falls into the same colour family so it doesn’t colour clash, I know colour clashing is all on the runways with clothes but strictly a no-no with makeup!

Examples of AVON's Bold Lip Colours

Some of my favourite summer shades are from the brand new Ultra Colour Bold collection:

-          Bare Impact

-          Bright Nectar

-          Pink Punch

And a very modern shade we have been seeing lots of is Power Plum, which looks amazing on tanned glowing skin, less gothic than it can look in the winter months against a paler skin tone, it is surprisingly fresh on sun kissed skin.

I try not to worry too much on whether a particular shade suits a skin tone, when I do a show 24 girls in the line-up will all wear exactly the same shade, I am not a big fan on rules, they are meant to be broken! But for those who do like to be a little more conservative, and there is nothing wrong with that! The general rule is that bluer tones in lipsticks will look better with cooler skin tones, the ones with blue undertones and warmer tones suit more yellow warmer skin tones.