Cherub Lips Are The Talk Of Fall Beauty – Here’s How To Do Them

Girls on Tiktok are embracing feminine aesthetics like pouty lips, feathered eyebrows, and “doe eyes” to express their #softera. The trend includes pastels, pearl necklaces, and angelic faces, encouraging girls to settle into softness and embrace their femininity. This emotionally aware lifestyle is also influencing beauty trends, with makeup artists sporting an ethereal glam look that emphasizes a radiant complexion and a pouty smile. The sweet and innocent aesthetic is currently trending, with beauty influencers creating big, bright eyes and cherub-like lips.

Plump lips are not a recent trend, but beauty experts are constantly finding new ways to contour and enhance the shape of kissers. Spearheading the cherub lip trend is beauty influencer Ehlie Luna, whose TikTok tutorial on the doll-like look has garnered more than 800,000 plays. Unlike other lip-enhancing makeup trends, Luna’s technique emphasizes a voluminous top lip anyone can try at home.

Emphasize a contoured pouty lip with lip liner

To try the look, grab a good lip pencil that delivers a saturated pigment and good movement across the lips. In her TikTok tutorial, Ehlie Luna works with a warm brown lip liner, a shade that is becoming increasingly popular this fall with brownie glazed lips being one the most controversial yet trending looks of the year. She starts by emphasizing the cupid’s bow by connecting its two high points. She says to “ignore any dip” you might have in the middle and fill in the area to create a rounder, plump lip. She then continues filling the top lip’s outer edges, bringing the pencil further in to create a contoured shape.

When working with the bottom lip, Ehlie advises starting on the inside corners and bringing your pencil further out. The idea is to create the appearance of a rounder lip shape that extends at the top and bottom. Finish with a concealer to clean up any mistakes and to also highlight the new contoured dimension.

Other makeup aren’t sure it’s for everyone

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As with every good beauty trend, other MUAs are weighing in on the new technique. Makeup mogul Huda Kattan took to Instagram to give her take on the trend and chose a warm brown similar to the same shade Ehlie Luna worked with in her tutorial. Initially, Huda didn’t seem sold on the trend but wasn’t knocking it completely. She starts by very openly saying the cherub lip may not be for those with a substantial amount of filler in their top lip as she does. After cleaning up her look with concealer and Kylie Skin Lip Oil, she then waivers and says she actually likes it.

Because the lip contour emphasizes a poutier lip, Kattan is right that it could be overkill if you already have plump lips or filler. But for those wanting an enhanced Bratz doll look, it’s the perfect lip trend to try this fall.