We’re so excited to finally have our e-boutique up and running! Just in time for Valentine’s Day, classic silhouettes with a modern twist! Whether you’re a bride looking for the perfect wedding night attire or something to spice up the honeymoon, or a vixen with a penchant for louboutins and red lipstick you’ll find a piece perfect for your seductive style! New images can also be found at www.laylalobatti.comand stay tuned as we introduce garters, eyemasks and other accessories on our site soon! So shop forlingerie & loungewear to your heart’s desire, and with sexy little numbers like these cupid can’t help but notice and shoot an arrow or two to win your favors!
How To- the PERFECT red lip
I don’t care whether it’s holiday, valentine’s day, or labor day- red lipstick never goes out of style! There is no better way to update your look and totally change the way your face looks than to throw on a gorgeous shade of red.
To start you will need:
*A red lipstick in a shade that’s right for you (Ask someone at the makeup counter to help you find the right shade for you, and always make sure to walk outside and check it in the daylight too!)
*Matching lipliner
*concealer, liquid foundation, or some sort of lip primer
Here I used Mac satin finish lipstick in “MAC red” and Mac Lip pencil in “redd” with a touch of MAC Dazzleglass creme in “Do it up”, and I think it’s the perfect shade for a wide range of skin tones and to get that fresh “pin-up-y” look!
If you have chapped lips (and right now it’s the middle of a blizzard here in NYC so many of us might!) a good way to prep your lips and get rid of any flakiness is to brush them, yes brush them with a toothbrush! Not to hard but just enough to bascially exfoliate your lips.
Apply your primer/foundation/concealer. If you are putting on foundation anyways it’s easy just to cover your lips as well, and what this does is give a dry base to prevent cracking in the color
Next line your lip with a red liner to define your lips edge and also to help prevent the color from bleeding
Apply lipstick, and you can do this with a brush or from the tube. A brush will layer on the color whereas straight from the tube will go on thicker.
Blot between your lips with tissue, and run your finger between your lips like a lollipop (this takes out any lipstick that might’ve gotten on your teeth!)
I usually go back and add more color if blotting took too much off, and also a dab of gloss to the pout to accentuate
Another neat trick I picked up is to add a highlighter like Benefit’s HighBeam to the outside corner of your mouth, this emphasizes the sharp corners you’ve drawn in
inspired by paint – Watercolor images for BTS
You may have already seen these images on our sister site: www.laylalobatti.com
“I painted these as I was starting the brand, & I wanted to visualize the girl I was designing for. I was just starting to work with watercolor and it took a couple of tries until I found a way to keep the color where I wanted it, and in the end I was so happy with the images that I decided to use them for my namesake brand & site. I think there’s something so ethereal about images in watercolor… the way it bleeds in some places, the way the colors run together. I’m going to make a point to do more as I move the brand forward, because on the night’s before a photoshoot or in dreaming up a new collection I keep picturing a moment in my head before it even happens and something about putting it on paper puts me at ease. I hope you enjoy them!” xo Layla