How to add lipstick to a photo

Open Add makeup to photo, choose the photo and move Lipstick under Lips. A colour list appears once the slider is above zero: pick Nude, Rose, Berry, Red, Coral or Plum, or any colour of your own, then choose Matte or Gloss and download.

Steps

1. Open Add makeup to photo and choose a photo where the mouth is clearly visible. The Face tool opens and finds the faces on your device.
2. Move Lipstick. Around 60 to 80 looks like a real lipstick; 100 is the strongest.
3. Choose a colour under Lipstick colour. Type a hex code or use the colour picker for a shade that is not in the list.
4. Choose Matte to flatten the light the lips catch, or Gloss to add a soft highlight where they already catch light.
5. Add more if you like: blush, eyeliner, eyeshadow, brows and eye colour are on the same panel. See how to add makeup to a photo.
6. Download. Each slider goes back to zero with a double-click, and Reset face takes everything off.

Why the lipstick looks real

A photo of lips is not one flat colour. The lines in the lips, the darker corners and the light on the lower lip are what make them look like lips. The colour change keeps each pixel's own light and shade and changes only its colour, so those lines and highlights stay. Gloss brightens the parts that were already catching light; it does not paint a highlight where there was none.

A colour much lighter than the lips is taken only part of the way, the way a real lipstick lets the lip show through, so dark lips are not turned pale.

The edge of the colour follows the outline of the lips found on the face, softened by a pixel or two. With the mouth open, the teeth and the inside of the mouth are left out. On a small face in a large photo the face points are less exact, so check the lip line at full size before you share it.

One face in a group photo

Every face gets the same makeup unless you pick one. Under Faces, choose Face 2 (faces are numbered left to right) and the sliders change that face only; it is outlined on the photo. A face with its own settings keeps them when you change All faces later.

Your photo stays on your device

The face points are found by a face landmark model that runs in your browser, and every colour change is an ordinary image step placed by those points. Nothing is generated and the photo is never uploaded. To brighten skin or whiten teeth as well, see how to smooth skin in a photo.