Blurred Lipstick for Beginners (The Easiest Lip You'll Ever Do)

Put color only on the inner third of the lips, then press your lips together and pat the edges outward with a fingertip. The center stays saturated, the outline stays soft, and you never have to draw a line.

Berries, brick reds and warm browns diffuse beautifully. Bright corals and true fuchsias tend to look smudged rather than soft, because the contrast against skin is too high at the edge.

A tinted serum such as Laneige Glaze Craze blurs almost automatically because the pigment is sheer to begin with.

Blurred lips sit best with skin that looks like skin. A hydrating base and a smudged eye — see the five-minute liner — is the whole face.