Beauty Tips For Rockin' Red Lips In 2009

Kim Kardashian. Gwen Stefani. Christina Aguilera.

Talk about Hollywood glam. And check out their red lips in 2009!!!

For Gwen and Christina, red lipstick is their signature look. It's bold, and sexy, and confident. Wherever you see these Hollywood 'it' girls, their trademark pout is not far behind. Which brings us to raven-haired beauty Kim Kardashian.

Kim is always on the red carpet. And her signature look includes a very strong, smokey eye and natural brow, along with a paler lip. But now she's been kicking it up a few notches, by playing around with beautiful red lips, and toning down the eye makeup.

Kim is naming brands, and we all love that about her. We visited her website and picked up this little beauty tip nugget:

"Well, I love red lips, and I should wear them more often! It's so bold! I love how Christina Aguilera and Gwen Stefani wear red lips all the time. This color is by MAC and it's called Russian Red, with Russian Red lip gloss on top."



Here are a few tips when putting on a red mouth:

1. Use a lip liner in a tone that matches your natural lip color, before applying red lipstick. This will prevent the strong color from bleeding over into any fine lines around your mouth.

2. Simple is better. With a bright lip, you can be a bit more natural with your makeup, because red lips alone, are elegant enough. Forget the smokey eye.

3. Check your teeth every time you re-apply your red lipstick. You don't want any extra color ending up there.

4. Don't put on red lipstick in the back of a cab, as one makeup artist quipped. You need a mirror to carefully apply this bold shade.

We like the look of red lips. Our moms, grandmoms, and even great-grand-moms, often wore the shade proudly back in their time. Check out those vintage, black and white photographs and you will often see the bold and confident lips of our loved ones.

It's definitely a high maintenance look for us. We always end up with the smokier eyes and lighter lips. That's a bit easier. Now, if we had a professional makeup artist to call on 24/7 and a red carpet to walk by on, we would surely try and rock the red lips.