Lipstick is one of the most powerful beauty product which helps to a woman to enhance her overall look. “It’s the most valuable weapon in a woman’s make-up kit. It has the power to transform the appearance and moods of the person wearing it, and, at the same time, arouses the admiration of everybody else.”

But everyone has its own love-hate story with their lipsticks. Every girl loves a slash of red and pink lipstick on lips like how they can completely transform the overall look, but hat it when they crease, bleed and flake. Lipstick bleeding or leaking over the corners of your mouth does disasters to your overall look.

Hence, today in this article we are going to enlist some of the best ways to make your lipstick last longer for hours.

1 To make almost any lipstick or lip colour bleed proof, make sure to blot with a tissue paper after apply and re-apply the lipstick. You can also place a tissue paper on top of your lips and dust a bit of loose powder with your brush.

2 Scraping dry skin on the lip before applying anything.

3 Apply a tad bit of foundation on your lips to neutralize any pigmentation.

4 After applying one coat of lipstick, blot it with tissue to remove any moisture or excess oil. Doing so, make your lipstick a matte one and acts as a base/tint on the lip.

5 Put lip balm on your lips (to prevent them from drying). Then, apply a lip liner that almost matches your lipstick.Next, put on a layer of lipstick. Take a paper towel and blot it. Put on another layer of lipstick. This will make it pop more AND will make it last longer and decrease the likelihood of smearing. It’s called the blot method.

6 Mostly stick to liquid lip colour or matte lipsticks to get that kind of whole day stays.

7 With regular lipsticks, you can do several steps to make them longer wearing. Lip primer, lip liner, blotting, layering, and powdering after application all can make a regular lipstick last longer. It will be a process of trial and error to see which methods or combination of methods work best for the formulas of lipstick you use.

8 Use translucent powder over your lipstick after blotting

9 Apply lipstick over your concealer or foundation on your lips.

10 Use lipstick, not lip gloss that is shiny and will transfer to teeth, drinking glasses, flatware etc.

In general, liquid lipsticks do tend to last longer, however, many of them have a drier texture which is not a feeling you want when you’re kissing someone.

As far as regular lipsticks, the matte formula does last longer than a creamy one.