Now y'all know I already have a tutorial on this on my channel, but since you guys seem like I can't find it and YouTube is not pushing it, let's go ahead and redo this only for this tutorial. Last time I did have it with a makeup tutorial, so maybe y'all don't want to watch the makeup tutorial. Who knows? Hey everybody welcome back to my channel, it's Volanda, and in today's video I'm going to be showing you guys how I do my infamous red lip tutorial. It's fairly easy and I know you guys are like, girl, why couldn't you just answer the comments? Like, girl, listen, I was ignoring y'all, but imagine me having to retype that over and over and over and over and over. Because I get this question all the time, so I wanted to make sure I have a specific video for you guys to refer to and guess what I will always have to link in the description box as a default. So you guys can always just come right to this video and see how I do it. It's not hard, but at the same time it is a process. It's not just one item. You feel me, it's a process. So I just wanted to make sure you guys are getting the exact look, exact results. It's either me in red lips now or it's me with a fancy lip gloss. That's basically all I wear. So if you guys know about red lips, all red lips are not created equal, especially for us dark skin girls, we have a very hard time to just find anything that's suitable for our skin tone just because you know, the world was not wired to include us. Okay, so we got a search high and low and pay the premium for what we want, but I did find the perfect combination of red lips. And I've been wearing this for years, years, years, every time you see me in a red lip on a video in person on a picture. This is my combo. So pay attention because I'm only saying this once. Okay. Alright, first and foremost, make sure your lips are moisturized. I normally would say, oh, go with the Vaseline, go with the Carmes. Being that I've done this with many combinations prior, I see the best results, the best long lasting results are with the ones that are not heavy petroleum baits. So I've been using a lip mask and this is the lip mask I've been using. I've had this from from support from my birthday, but I do was finished now. I did have the big bottle and I'm going to go and re up that big bottle because I do really like this lip mask for under my application like this literally any lip application that I have. I normally use this. I don't use any chaps other chaps six anymore because if you wearing a lip with lipstick on top, it could crack the liquid lipstick. So I realized lip mask works way better. I've already applied it on, but if you want to try and just use your Carmes, whatever you have at home, go ahead and do so to each their own. But being that I've been doing this for years, I realized the lip mask has worked very, very well. Another thing I want to mention is make sure your lips are not peeling, especially because you're going to apply a dry product on top of it. And you don't want it to look like your lips are crushed. Okay. So if you have any dead skin, make sure you either remove that or exfoliate that off or just wait until it naturally falls off before you start applying dry products like a liquid lipstick on top. The next step is black pencil, not just a black pencil, but a black lip liner or eyeliner. I think this is an eyeliner that I just, yeah, that I just use as a lip liner. It really doesn't matter. They do the same thing basically. You could use any of them that you have in your house, wear whatever you want. You go wear a Dior, you go wear a Milani, you go wear whatever. Okay. So this is not a picky part. When it comes to the outline in my lips, I don't over outline at all. I have enough lips. I don't need to overdo it. So if you guys like that look, go ahead and do so. But as for me on my face, I will not be over outlining. Alright. So after I line my lips, the next step is a base before I apply the top. So for the base, I feel like you could use basically any base. I used to use just regular lipstick, but I've always loved going back to the NYX Soft Matte Lip Cream. And I always get the Montet Carlo one. It's a very nice blue base Soft Matte Lip Cream. Yeah, I like it because it does leave your lips soft. It doesn't dry it out. I just always do it. I like it. So I'm going to put it on and make sure I blend it in even on top of the black. Alright, afterwards your lips just look like this. I normally just let it dry a little bit. And then after that, I go in with my top coat. Alright. So for the top coat, this is the star, the main attraction, the it factor. This is the only red lip top coat liquid lipstick that I've only used and will recommend to any chocolate girl because this is the best, the best pigmented, the best comfort, the best undertone, which is blue base, you know, blue base lipstick compliments us dark skin girls. Compared to like the oranges and the yellows and all of that. So you guys like I love this. This is so bad to the fact that it's so hard to find it in the US for some reason. I don't know why. I'm not going to only say in the US, but in Atlanta, it's so hard to find and any of the sources never stocked up, but I normally just order it online and I order like three, four at a time so I can have it in stocked in my stash. But when I came to Dubai, they actually have it available in the store. So I definitely stocked up some more. I bought like three more. But this is the Milan needs a more matte lip creams and this is in the color devotion. And I've been using this liquid lipstick ever since it was another name before devotion because after a while they did change it. I don't know why, but they did change it and it came back a little bit darker than what it really, but it previously was and the formula was changed just a little bit as well. But this is the only top coat liquid lipstick red that I wear hands down recommended to any chocolate girl. I'm all stocked up with this liquid lipstick and yeah, you just apply it like you would any liquid lipstick. So after you apply it, the last thing to do is just let it dry once everything dries up in turns. Matt, it is gorgeous. It looks very powdery and it feels powdery as well. It doesn't feel dry at all. Your lips can move. Your lips are comfortable. It doesn't take long to dry at all. You guys, this is a tutorial. So this is literally how I get my red lip all the time. It looks good in every picture and every lighting. I absolutely love this combination. I love this product and that's how I do my lip. All right, guys, thank you guys so much for watching. If you like this content, don't forget to like, comment, subscribe, all that good stuff. And with that being said, I will see you in the next video.