Woman Turns Her Lips Into Amazing Pieces of Art

A adult female uses makeup to create detailed paintings on her lips — and people are mesmerized

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Andrea fifty-fifty paints her tubes of lipstick to lucifer her lip art.
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  • An artist named Andrea (@girlgreybeauty) has racked upwardly 364,000 Instagram followers for her elaborate lip art designs.
  • Andrea told INSIDER that each look takes one to two hours to apply.
  • She said she has to keep her oral cavity open the whole time she is applying so the paint doesn't smudge.
  • Using tiny brushes and liquid formulas that dry matte, Andrea is able to create intricate designs.
  • She gathers inspiration from nature, famous fine art, various color combinations, textiles, and even her true cat.


Instagram users go on to delight the beauty globe with their mind-blowing makeup masterpieces. From elaborate eyebrow designs to portraits of Rihanna made with merely Fenty products, the pool of talent seems endless.

Andrea, who goes by @girlgreybeauty, on Instagram, is the latest creative person garnering attention for her creative makeup looks. Her impressive lip designs have earned her a post-obit of 364,000 people at the time of this post.

Andrea told INSIDER over email that she's e'er been passionate most art in diverse mediums, only is primarily focused on creative makeup art. In 2014, she starting time started to experiment with makeup to challenge herself with a more complex canvas  — her lips.

And her canvas certainly seems hard.

The creative person told us that each design application takes one to two hours, which doesn't include concept development, planning, and drawing out the designs, photography, and retouching/editing. From start to end, the unabridged process takes iv to vi hours, depending on the level of detail required for her particular lip art.

Andrea's collection of work showcases her wide range of interests. The artist said that she pulls inspiration from many different places, including famous art, nature, colors, textiles, and her cat.

Monstera Deliciosa 💄🌿

A post shared by Andrea || Victoria, BC (@girlgreybeauty) on Aug 22, 2017 at 2:24pm PDT

While there'southward no shortcut to emulating her piece of work, Andrea shared some of her become-to techniques for precise lipstick awarding. For her lip art, she said that she likes to utilise "tiny brushes from the art store." As far as production is concerned, she opts for lipstick and eyeliner formulasthat go on every bit a liquid, but dry completely matte.

And if you lot're wondering how Andrea prevents her makeup from smudging, she told us that she has to keep her mouth open for the entire elapsing of the application.

Her art may accomplish hundreds of thousands of people online, simply Andrea said she doesn't wearable the completed makeup looks in public. In the caption of one of her Instagram posts from April 2016, she explained that she wipes off her lip art one time she has photographed the outcome.

#LipArt FAQ 👇 Q. Why? A. Why not??? Q. Practise yous go out with these on? A. No. I just apply, take photos, and wipe it all off. Q. How do you keep your lips smooth? A. Exfoliate your lips regularly. Slather on a thick layer of lip balm (I use eye cream too sometimes). Let it sit for 5 minutes. Then take a damp facecloth and rub off the balm and whatever dead peel. Should exist left with nice smooth lips 💋 Q. How long do liparts take?? A. Usually the application takes around an hr depending on how complex the design is. Planning the pattern, awarding, photography, and mail production all together takes nearly iii-4 hours for one image. Yes, I know 😓 Someone needs to pay me to do this please. Q. What camera/lens practice you use? (This is a general FAQ not just lip art just information technology's probably the about common question and so hither you lot go☺️) A. Nikon D7100 with a 50mm f1.eight lens. Q. How do you come up with ideas? A. I'grand constantly trying to continue my eyes open for designs that would work well with the shape of the lips. Too I dear to call up of colour combos that I would like to utilise or my favourite artists/artworks that I want to replicate or take inspo from. Q. How do you lot not smudge this and mess it upwardly? A. Utilize products that dry completely matte. I adopt liquid to matte formulas (liquid lipsticks) because they go on smooth merely once they dry out, they don't smudge. Q. Tips for lip art? A. Plan out your design before hand. Use liquid to matte products. Utilize tiny brushes for detail work (@smithcosmetics # 202 or brushes from the fine art store). Paint multiple thin layers instead of i thick layer. Try non to close your lips together until the products are completely 100% dry. Q. How can you swallow or potable with this on? A. You tin can't really. Before you start, have a lil' snack and a drink because you may not exist able to for an hour simply I'grand sure you will survive. Q. Who would wanna kiss lips similar that? A. This guy 👉 @productofdust 😉 Enquire anything else you wanna know and I can answer in the comments:)

A post shared by Andrea || Victoria, BC (@girlgreybeauty) on Apr 14, 2016 at 2:19pm PDT

Surprisingly, Andrea does not consider herself a makeup artist. Although she isn't technically certified or trained professionally, she said she sees herself "as an artist who uses makeup."

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