Fight Off Flakes
Flaky, scaly lips reflect less light, meaning they will look smaller and duller. An easy, instant way to make your lips look a touch larger is to scrub your pout daily with your toothbrush. An added bonus? This boosts circulation, too, promoting a rosier hue sans makeup.

The Dark Side
If you worry that your lips are a tad too thin, avoid darker lips colors. Aside from being trickier to apply, deeper hues will flatten the appearance of your mouth, instead of making it look fuller.

Nudie Show
A tried and true secret among makeup artists is to line and fill in your pout with nude lip liner before applying any pretty pigments. Creating one, uniform canvas not only ensures stay-put color, it also creates a slightly bigger base for your lipstick.

Glossy Girl
Remember those pretty pink and peachy lip glosses you were drawn to as a teen? It turns out those types of light, shimmery glosses make your lips look plumper by giving the illusion of hyper-hydration.

Special Effects
Want to try a varsity-level makeup move? Apply a slightly darker lip gloss or lipstick to the middle of your pucker and line the outer ridges in a barely-noticeably lighter hue. This creates a kiss of sneaky dimension.

Walk the Line
Another trick of makeup aces is to line just along the outer ridge of your lips with your lip liner (as opposed to on the line). The key is to do this so subtly that you can't even tell you cheated your way into a plumper-looking pout!

Bowed Over
Play up your Clara's bow by dabbing highlighter smack dab in the middle of your upper line to reflect light here. The results are flashbulb-worthy.

Filler Up!
If fillers or chemical plumpers aren't your bag, search out lip products that boast mint (spearmint, peppermint, etc.) as one of the active ingredients. A natural pout-enhancer, this herb revs up blood flow too!