Lip Art - The Perfect Lipstick Makeup Game

Full lips fill the screen with a bare, neutral tint before anything else happens. Lip Art - The Perfect Lipstick Makeup Game opens with a swatch of lipstick shades, and the first one picked sets the base tone that liner and gloss build over.

Lipstick shades run from a matte berry to a glossy coral to a metallic mermaid-scale shimmer, tying into the game's magic theme. Lip liner sits in its own row, a nude outline or a bold contrast tone, and shine finishes, a clear gloss, a glitter topcoat, a dewy balm, layer over the color last. Small decorations, a tiny gem at the corner of the mouth or a scattering of glitter dust, sit in a final tray for extra detail.

Treating the mouth as its own small canvas, gems and glitter included, is the part most princess dress up games leave out once they've covered the whole face. A finished look gets a close-up final shot of just the lips, the kind of shot a lipstick ad would use.

Lining the lips before filling them in keeps color inside the edges instead of bleeding past them. A shimmer lipstick paired with clear gloss instead of a heavy topcoat keeps the metallic finish from looking muddy. The corner gem goes on last, after color and gloss are set, so it doesn't smear while blending.