How Instagram’s Lip Wings Make Your Lips Look Fly

Wait — have you not heard of this trend yet — the one that has encouraged influencers to overline their lips to create a lifted, doll-like finish? You create flicks at the edges of the mouth to make your lips look ever-smiling and exaggerated — much like the look sported by the Bratz dolls in the 2000s.

While few people have associated this trend with the Joker’s lips, others find no flaw in the technique — and have highlighted ways to recreate the look on Instagram. Though most of us are proponents of overlining, and the technique has been called upon by MUAs to make our lips look fuller and puckered, this one’s distinctive in the way it creates (upward) flicks toward the ends of the mouth. Here’s how you can recreate 2 different aesthetics with the same technique.

Wing For The Win: Two Ways You Can Prep Your Lips For The Flight

Everyday Wear: What You’ll Need

• A brown lip-liner or brow-pencil

• A glossy lipstick

How To Do It

• Start off by overlining your lips like you normally would. Trace your natural Cupid’s Bow, and start moving towards the outer corners — all while sketching outside the contours of your lips just a little. If you’re using a brow pencil, you can cover it up with a lip-liner that matches the colour of your lips to blend it in.
• As you reach the end of your upper lip, create flicks on either side. Draw a line, up and away from your natural lip-line — the same way you’d create a cat-eye wing on your lids.
• Rejoin the flicks to your lip.
• Overline your bottom lip, just like she has, before proceeding to tie the look together with a little bit of gloss.

Grunge And Gothic: What You’ll Need

• Black eyeshadow
• Brown eyeshadow

• Hayley creates the flicks first and overlines the outer corners of her lips with jet-black eyeshadow before proceeding to her Cupid’s Bow. She does this with an eyeshadow brush for the precision of the overlining.
• She uses the same colour for the outermost areas of her lips.
• Lastly, she blends it all in with a brownish colour. As demonstrated by her, you don’t need a brush for this. You can just dab the pigment all over your lips with your fingers instead.

Which winged lip look do you want to recreate?

Featured Image: Instagram