If an at-home teeth-bleaching kit or dental-office whitening procedure isn’t for you, you can still boost the brightness of your smile with makeup. Bold, blue-based red lip colour, such as Chanel Rouge Hydrabase Lipstick in Lotus Rouge (right) is the easiest fake-out. In fact red lipstick is the favourite trick of most white-teeth advertising. One I’ll never forget is the few-years-back commercial in which a little keener tyke tells his teacher her teeth are “ecru” (a colour I’ve always associated with old-lady shoes from the ’70s). In the before scenes, the teacher wears a neutral lip colour. In the final, beaming close-up, she’s rocking bright red lipstick and suddenly whiter teeth.
Whether you come by it naturally or get it from a tube, a darker complexion also throws teeth into whiter relief. For darker skin, deeper caramel or brown hues with blue undertones serve as natural nude lip shades and make teeth look bright, too. Cover Girl Wetslicks Amazemint Lipgloss in Toast-ed is one such example.
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Bright red lipstick brightens my teeth too! :)
GOSH ! Your smile is infectious! I smiled and gosh! it’s morning! I Just woke up! LOL It’s nice to see a bright smile!!!! You really have the best set of teeth!! Gosh, can I touch? *laughs* You laughed!
You always make me chuckle, Nikki — thank you! Have a gorgeous, bright day :-)
I’m glad I did, your face shot really brings out the smile in me! :) So pretty! And I’m glad I’m not a boy…imagine a boy always commenting you on your looks? well..you’d probably marry me by now :D teeeheee
Well, I was about 10 seconds from proposing to you anyway, but the distance between us is a factor, you being on the other side of my computer screen and all… *grin*
And have I ever told you that I am good with long distance relationship?? How dare you giving up too easily!!! tsk tsk tsk I am disappointed! Women with great smile tsk tsk tsk!
pss…i dont want to change the topic of discussion here…
On serious note, i believe to get a great smile one needs to bleach or whiten teeth once in a while, but then how many times is the limit, you are erasing away your teeth enamel and teeth itself, let nature take its own course. What do your say Janine……
Thanks for your comment, DB. I doubt many regular folks really risk reaching a “bleaching limit” — it simply isn’t a pleasant enough task to do more than once every couple of years. And if it’s done properly and supported with good dental habits, there’s no need to do it more often than that.
about the best set of teeth and touching…..Nikki….can’t touch yet….. they don’t come out at night! *ha ha*