Learning the Lips

As some of you may know at this point, I am not a makeup genius. My mother has often tried to explain and teach me the basic concepts of makeup but as the Blake in elea blake cosmetics, I am a sorry demonstration of the makeup arts.
As part of the namesake of the cosmetics business though I have put a great amount of effort to learn. After receiving an internship at a respected company I realized that my makeup-less face was just not going to cut it in the business world. There is something very empowering about lipstick and when my mother sent me a care package with the True Winter lipstick palette, I set to work learning how to use it. Heartthrob stood out to me as I am a great fan of the intense lipstick and after putting it on, I won't lie, I allowed myself to linger at the mirror for a bit. It is a strong color and when I wear it, I feel even more confident and strong than normal.
Looking at my lips though, I couldn't help but notice that even though I put it on accurately I had somehow failed to reach my arches. I don't know if that is what they are called but for those of you who don't understand that terminology it is this part;

The area where the black dots pin point

I didn't want to try to use the brush I had as I knew from previous experiences that the brush would make me look like a clown, so I took a lip pencil my mother had given me a long time ago and outlined my lips. I won't pretend... I was at first frightened, as my only knowledge of lip pencils made me think of those scary outlined lips that look fake kind of like this;

"Just in case you didn't get it, the outlined area is my lips"

So when I looked at my work I was so shocked. My lips looked so perky and full of spunk. It seemed to say, "I am ready to present anything now, just leave it to me!"
Yes maybe I am a bit imaginative, but nonetheless, I was ready to present a pink elephant like it was the new Cadillac.
So I guess this is another case where I learned that perhaps I should have listened to my mom a long time ago when she told me that lip pencils were not tacky, but as usual I am only prepared to learn lessons when I can sit in front of a mirror and terrify myself with all of my mistakes before trying something I was told would work.
Go figure.