Make-up Trends - Sinful red lips are back

Red lips will always have a place in every season but this summer you can wear it anytime and anyplace. The idea is to be bold and exhilarating so choosing a divine red is crucial.

The secret to wearing a strong red is feeling comfortable. In decorating your lips with red, you are calling bold attention to your every pout, bite, lick, frown and smile, so red lips are not for the faint of heart, the shy or the tentative.

But be aware that ruby lips can look so classically amazing as well as absolutely ridiculous. Here some considerations about wearing bold red lips:

• Carry a "sinful red mouth" looks best as the focal point. In other words, don't apply tons of other makeup too.
• Think about the versatility and many shades of red. A pink-red will appear less audacious for light-skinned women than a blue-red. An orange-red is a bit less brazen for darker skin then say, a violet-red.
• Consider lighting: At a romantic evening with candlelight, red lips will appear less bold because of the glow of dimmer lights, and at dusk or on a stormy, gray day, bolder tones appear more muted due to the overcast or darkened sky.
• Keep clothing color in mind. Red is wildly vivid when placed against white, less so against gray, and it seems to work very well against black.
• Psychologically the color red stays for power and personifies strength, courage, passion, sacrifice and warning. The symbolism is overt: Stop signs are red and a siren flashes red! Sinful and bold red lips is one of the most dramatic ornamental statement a woman can make.

In essence, to carry off a bold red lip, you've got to "walk the walk" and "talk the talk" - You've got to be feeling red!