How to Make Homemade Lip Gloss

Join
Categories: How Tos | Beauty & Style | Make Up | Lipstick

  • In this guide page, we'll explore how to make homemade lip gloss for creating homemade lip gloss or lip color, from ingredients around your home, and without spending a small fortune. Most of these homemade lip gloss recipes can be made with ordinary items in your kitchen, and can be a fun afternoon project for teen girls and moms to do together or for a fun activity for slumber parties. For the grownups, homemade lip gloss can save money and add a touch of shine to any makeup routine.

  • Tips

    • Castor oil lasts longer and adheres to lips better than petroleum oil
    • Powdered drink mixes should be the sugar-free variety.
    • Put pallets or plastic down on the table and let kids make their own for a fun projects.
    • Because homemade lip gloss uses so little powdered drink mix, you can use a little and make drinks too.

  • Introduction

    Most beauty stores sell small round tins or plastic containers with lids that screw on, and you can usually buy them in bulk for just a few dollars. To store your homemade lip gloss after you've followed the recipes, these little containers or the little metal tins that are similar, can be purchased and kept on hand for making your lip gloss.

  • Homemade Lip Gloss Recipe: Light Color, Flavored

    Sugar-free punch mixes are your friend when making a lightly flavored and shiny lip gloss. Start with a pre-sweetened powdered drink mix in whatever flavor you'd like. Strawberry-Kiwi and watermelon flavors make a lighter color while cherry and regular strawberry and tropical punches are a little darker. Combine the drink mix with a small amount of petroleum jelly (Vaseline). If you want a stronger and longer-lasting oil, try using Castor oil.Mix well, until all the powder is dissolved and you have a nice even shade.

    If the mix is thin after mixing, simply put it in the container you are using for dispensing and then pop it in the refrigerator for a few minutes to firm it up.

  • Homemade Lip Therapy with or without Color

    Vitamin Ehttp://dietary-supplements.info.nih.gov/factsheets/vitamine.asp capsules can provide many skin care benefits, one of which is a great lip gloss that moisturizes and protects your lips while providing a light glossy finish. Simply cut or poke the end of a Vitamin E capsule and squeeze for the oil. Apply the oil with your finger or a cotton swab. You can also purchase vitamin E gel for the same purpose. If you want some color of flavor for your homemade lip therapy, use the Vitamin E and add the drink powder or beet juice to that.

  • Homemade Lip Color: Rich Color, Unflavored

    Beets have a deep, rich, dark reddish color to a dark purple color, and have been long used for dyes, cosmetics, and more to provide a rich color.http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/ingredient.php?ingred06=700718¬hanks=1 Beets are very inexpensive. For making long-lasting lip color from beets, the canned variety is easier and cheaper to work with, but you can use the fresh or the canned and get the same results.

    Mash the beets with a fork so the juice comes out of them. Use a cotton swab to outline the shape of your lips with the juice. Once you've outlined the lip, you can fill it in as dark or light as you'd like. The beet color is long-lasting color, so it will stay on through eating, swimming and perspiration.

    Beet juice makes a matte finish, she you can use the lip gloss recipes in this guide to add shine to your color.

    TIP: The beet juice stains easily and sometimes permanently on some porous surfaces. On the skin, take care not to get beet juice outside the line of the lip.

About this page

  • Page Views
    0
What is this?

Page Manager

iklilian
M$0.00
What is this?
This page currently has no vertical manager.

Featured Pages

Contact Mahalo | Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | Advertisers | RSS for this page | CC License 2.0
©2007-2009 Mahalo.com Incorporated.
Powered By EdgeCast