“I really define my Cupid’s Bow because it’s the biggest part of my lips,” says Hailey, leaning in to the camera to demonstrate how she overlines her Cupid’s Bow with a softly rounded ‘M’ shape rather than sweeping straight across.
After overlining her bottom lip, “I go a little bit more tapered on the corners and the edges of my mouth,” she says, sweeping the Peptide Lip Shape down towards the edge of her mouth to make the middle ‘M’ look more pronounced.
Imagine using a little concealer in the corner of the lips – this has the same sharpening effect.
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“I’m definitely cleaning up the edges that go into the corners of the mouth,” she adds, using the corner of the smudger that’s conveniently connected to the pencil. “I’m really going by my natural lip structure,” Hailey notes. “I think that’s what gives it that your-lip-but-better look.”
Hailey admits that, even if the end result is a more precise outline, “I’ll go in and contour the perimeter. Even if the makeup artist is going to put a lip liner on for more colour or definition, I still am doing this first regardless.”
She also likes to lean into another popular makeup artist hack. Playing with light and shade, she lines her lips with the matte-yet-moisturised Peptide Lip Shape, before adding a glossy finish to the cushiony centre. “It’s totally an optical illusion. The whole idea of contouring your face is to be able to play with the structure of your face and how the light hits it. And this is the same exact idea.”
Specifically, she loves pairing Pressed with the Peptide Lip Tint in Ribbon. If she wants more of a lip combo, Hailey says she opts for Stretch “because it’s a deeper colour that I can combine with the Espresso Lip Tint.”
Rhode Peptide Lip Shape: My Verdict
My first impression when I twist up the pencil is that the Peptide Lip Shapes are surprisingly chunkier than I imagined – the tip is sized more like a lip crayon. But this makes sense, given they’re not designed for pin-thin precision but rather a soft-focus contour.
