A YouTube beauty guru is teaching her followers how to get Kylie Jenner-like lips - without using fillers, like the reality star, or taking part in the controversial Kylie Jenner Lip Challenge which sees participants sucking on shot glasses to make their lips swell.
With over three million subscribers, Los Angeles-based make-up artist Kandee Johnson, 37, clearly has a trick or two up her sleeve when it comes to nailing a dramatic beauty look. And last week, she turned those skills towards creating a hack for getting a full, plump pout that would look right at home in the Kardashian-Jenner household.
'If I didn't show you that I did this, I would think that I got lip injections,' she shares in the clip, which has already been viewed more than half a million times.
Indeed, whenever questioned about her own lips, Kylie initially tried to suggest that her newly-plumped pout was the result of nothing more than some clever make-up techniques and a lot of lipliner.
But she has since admitted that her lips are not entirely natural, but rather the result of filler injections, as well as some expertly-applied beauty products.
Kylie regularly visits Dr. Simon Ourian in Beverly Hills, who gives her temporary Juvéderm fillers to make her mouth bigger. And in a recent make-up tutorial posted to her website and app, she showed how she enhanced that look with make-up, sticking to browns, pinks, and nude lip pencils which she uses to overline her lips to create an even fuller effect.
However, before Kylie copped to getting a little medical help in the mouth department, fans began trying to copy her look with products like Fullips Lip Enhancers, a plastic suction cup that draws blood to the lips.
Others turned to shot classes and other plastic cups for a similar effect, which often proved dangerous, resulting in painful swelling and, in some cases, gruesome cuts from broken glass.
Kandee wants to warn others away from these methods - instead directing them toward another suction product that she says is safe and effective.
'A bunch of people did that Kylie Jenner Lip Challenge where they were using shot glasses, and cups, and weird things to create suction for their lips. That is not a safe or wise idea!' she explains in the video.
'Always use a tool that was created for the job you want to do.'
Her product of choice is a Liptiful suction cup, a small black cup made of clay with a floral design on the front.
'It's a very shallow suction device made of clay,' she says. 'It's not made of plastic or rubber, or something that can change shape with the suction and create a weird or odd shape. This is shallow and creates just enough suction to draw the flood and fluid to the lips, making them look plump for hours.
'But as you increase the muscles around your mouth, it will maintain the fullness for much longer.'
Placing the Liptiful on her own lips for 30 seconds at a time is the first step to achieving her look, which she does on camera.
Once she removes the device, her lips are already noticeably bigger. She seems thrilled with the bee-stung look, and says the amount of time she uses the Liptiful for is perfect for 'regular plumping' - but other people can make their lips look 'extra big' by leaving it on for another 30 seconds.
'Step two: I like to use a nude or light pink color. This is always gonna make lips look the biggest or largest that they can,' she says, blending a pink MAC lipstick and a peach MAC lipstick on her lips, one at a time..
Next, she picks up a MAC lipliner in Soar - which, she notes, is one of the colors Kylie herself uses. She also offers a drugstore alternative to the $16.50 liner: Milani's lip pencil in nude.
'What we wanna do when we line the lips is we wanna shade the corners so it looks like they're being pinched,' she explains.
She then demonstrates by creating V's on the outside of her own lips, with the liner which is only slightly darker than the rest of her mouth.
From there, she uses the pencil to 'slightly overdraw the lips, just a little bit' - the same way Kylie claims she makes her lips look even bitter, on top of her injections .
'My lips look so much bigger than they ever do,' she notes when she is done drawing on the liner.
But she isn't done yet. Next, she pulls out two 'mid- to darker-brown lipliners', Make Up For Ever in 7C and Revlon ColorStay in Sienna.
'You want to draw the creases that show when the lip is puckered,' she advises, pursing her own lips and pointing out the lines. She draws two vertical lines on her top lip and three on the bottom before blending them in a bit with 'brush strokes'.
Finally, she says to finish off with a 'highlight color', which can either be a very light lipstick or a face highlighting powder. She applies the lipstick to the center outside edges of her top and bottom lips.
'That's gonna make it look three-demensional and really round and plumpy and super lip-injecty,' she adds before dabbing some highlighter on the center of her mouth, too.
With her look complete, she doesn't think she necessarily looks like Kylie Jenner, but perhaps more like a Bratz doll.
'This is way not like my normal lips look at all,' she concludes, noting that no one can accuse her of getting injections because the 'before' and 'after' looks are so evident in the video.
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