Lipstick! Probably one of my favourite things on this planet. Okay, maybe not the most meaningful of things, but they do really change how you feel. A girl, or boy, wearing a delicious shade of red lipstick certainly stands out from the crowd; when they speak you listen. Anyone who has the confidence to wear red lipstick in a unique way probably has something decent to say.
Boys don't really have lips that are that different from girls, the only difference might be that they might be thinner, but that's purely genetic and there are plenty of boys with luscious plump lips. Lips are a really exiting (that sounds odd!) part of the face, they are very sexually charged and can be a beautiful canvas for makeup; Okay, I kind of sound like I am sexually attracted to lips... I'm not.
In all honesty I am a bit of a lipstick addict, I generally hate having two of the same colour - with the exception of very different formulations; but still manage to have far too many - probably because I have a very fine tuned eye when it comes to colour so what you might see as identical colours I see as quite different!
A huge thing among the androgynous, transvestite and transgender makeup world is overdrawing; because large plump lips are so feminine and on a woman are a subconscious sign of fertility they make for something that is natural to play on if a man is wanting to look more feminine. This is often exploited by these communities in a very extreme way. Overdrawing has became synonymous with drag artists so it can be something very hard to translate into realistically and intensely artistically changing your facial appearance. However - do not be deterred! Overdrawing isn't just something found in extremes, when done subtly it can almost invisibly make you lips look plumper, even done extremely - in a faux natural way (case in point - Joseph Harwood) It can look very beautiful, it can also be taken to artistic extremes (Case in point - Sharon Needles).
Lipstick is a wonderful way to express yourself artistically, colour, size and shape are up to you; there are no limits.
