- Let's face it, in 2019 there are a billion
different niche jobs that pay the bills.
- We're millennials!
- We know how to make money out of nothing
because we literally have to.
- But what about making a living
by modeling a single body part?
Can we do that?
- It's Ladylike and today we're becoming lip models.
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- Now I'd heard of hand models and I'd heard of feet models.
I'd never heard of lip models,
but it makes sense because when you see people's lips
in like lipstick commercials you're like
"Oh my god, those are perfect lips,
those are incredible lips," you know what I mean?
- I honestly don't think I'd be a good lip model
just because I can barely put my lipstick on.
- As far as my lips go I don't think about them that often
unless I'm like, even with kissing.
- I have really no idea what it takes
to become a model in general, but I think lip models
is something that's so specific that I really can't fathom
or imagine what one might have to go through
to become successful in this part of the field.
- You know when I look at them in isolation I think
"Could this be in a Maybelline commercial?"
I don't really think so, okay?
They're a little bit uneven.
That's not the point, the point is not about perfection,
okay the point is to learn.
- We have the beautiful, the incredible Olivia Shipman
coming in to teach us a thing or two
about what it takes to be a lip model.
- What I expect to learn is that
it's a lot harder than it sounds.
- Last night Olivia gave us a list of things
that she has to do before she has a photo shoot,
and they included like drinking a lot of water,
getting her lip waxed, which I didn't do.
Exfoliating her lips, moisturizing, going to bed early.
Those lips gotta look well rested baby.
You know you can't have tired looking lips up on a set.
- Then she's gonna let us go
and model these puppies for the world.
My best impression of me modeling my lips,
I honestly just, this?
- I wanna look like my mouth is easy and cool
and like ready for like a cup of coffee or a martini
or like lipstick and a cigarette.
Like, I want my lips to look like French and Parisian.
I don't want them to look like
the lower half of my face just died.
Me just practicing this has me questioning
my mouth, my teeth, my identity.
We better get Olivia in here.
- Hi, my name is Olivia Shipman
and I am a professional lip model.
So I became a lip model by accident.
I actually got a job working for a parts modeling agency,
and they told me "Hey, you have really great lips
and you should do this professionally,"
and I said "Sure, okay."
My favorite trick I learned, the prune trick
from the Olsen twins.
So on the red carpet the Olsen twins
always whisper to each other "prune"
and it would give them the perfect lip shape
when they were taking photographs on the red carpet.
So if you just relax your mouth and just go prune,
you have the perfect pucker.
So today I'm gonna be helping Devin and Jen
become professional lip models.
I'm gonna put them through a little bit
of a lip modeling boot camp, show them some poses,
show them how to do their lipstick perfectly,
and then we're gonna take some incredible macro photos
and see how they do.
- Hi Olivia!
- Hi! - Hi you guys, good.
- [Jen] Thanks for being here.
- Today we are going to do some slight overlining
just to put you guys, you know,
over the edge, quite literally
and help you look a little more plump
than what you are naturally, and that's okay.
There's nothing wrong with overlining.
- Like seventh grade.
- Sure.
So we're going to discuss how to properly overline
for your lips. - Okay, I came prepared.
- Oh wow, yes. - She came prepared.
- Perfect.
- These are all like very dark colors
now that I think about it so we're just gonna be overlined
with dark colors and no fillers.
- What's the problem?
We don't see the problem. - What's the problem?
Sp the thing about overlining your lips
is you don't actually want to create a new lip line.
Does that make sense?
I think most people are picturing
that you're kind of drawing a brand new shape,
when really you're just kind of finding your lip line,
pushing it ever so slightly with the color,
and then that's what's going to give you
the effect of a slightly more plump lip.
- I honestly never wear anything on my lips,
I'm not super great at lip lining.
- Basically the point is you wanna make
the retoucher's life as easy as possible,
because if you have like a messy lip line
or you've got hairs going on, or like issues going on
that's going to be a pain in the butt for them later
and they might not rehire you in the future.
- Yeah I might fill in with the pencil.
- Yeah fill in with the pencil - Match it?
So you don't look so...
- This is an odd color for me, this is kinda funny.
- Overlining my lips and just correcting the line
on the side makes me feel like
I'm a brand new Devin to be honest.
- You look like a brand new Devin>
and I'm getting a vibe from you.
I'm getting a plumper vibe from Devin.
- Wow, wow, she's plumper, we like it.
Oh wow Jen, it's peachy.
- Jen went for it.
- I filled it in kind of as best I could.
I do feel like I just ate a Popsicle.
From far away it's not too bad, hmm.
- You can maybe clean up your outer,
I feel like you're getting that bubbly, bee sting look
from your outer corners, so you wanna clean those up
and make them a little less overlined.
- I've honestly never spent this much time
on my lips before, it's very soothing.
- So the next tip is how to make your lips look the best
on camera, and that's by giving the perfect pout.
Like I mentioned before,
the Olsen twins tip, the prune trick.
So you basically just relax, say prune,
and then however your lips end up keep that.
- Prune.
- I also sometimes will just think about like breathing,
like I'll close my mouth and think of like
just breathing a gust of air out
and so I'll just kind of go like pfft.
You don't wanna start doing all this.
- Yeah like that's what I try to do.
- Sometimes I even have to shake it out
and kind of like breathe and let my mouth relax
because you do get in your head a little bit
and start thinking too much about your lip poses.
I always love to go like up and over,
because that's when I get the best pout
and the best light hitting the lip product.
- Up, over.
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- It feels like we're trying to call a cat.
- And then if you ever are opening your mouth,
the most important is make sure your tongue
is not against your teeth.
But normally when your mouth is resting,
your tongue is resting like up against your teeth
and that does not photograph well.
So you wanna get rid of your tongue.
- That's something I did not know about lip modeling.
- Okay, (mumbling)
- So no tongue and relax.
- Sounds like seventh grade
(laughter)
- I'll kiss you but no tongue.
- Okay so now that you guys have the classic,
standard perfect pout down,
sometimes things can get a little more complex.
(laughter)
- Okay. - Uh oh.
- So sometimes we might get our hands involved
or we might open up and do like big smile
or we'll do like a kiss.
Like I've done some lip modeling for video
and it's a lot more active
and there's a lot more actions going on.
- So if we're gonna do anything with a prop,
or like let's say our hands for now,
mostly what you want to be aware of
is that you're not like mushing things around too much
and applying too much pressure.
Like lets say we're doing a pose with our hands,
so you basically wanna barely touch your skin.
Because if you start pressing in on your skin too much
its gonna look too hardcore on camera.
So you just wanna look like a delicate flower.
- That is so weird, absolutely no one
walks around like this.
- And say like if I was going to model this lip liner,
maybe between my teeth or something like that,
I would be like, ever so gently caressing it with my teeth.
- Let me see, let me see.
- Things are getting sexual, okay.
- Wow.
- And it's not even touching your lips
so it doesn't mess up your makeup.
Fascinating.
- Wow, okay, I wanna try with this baby.
- Sure.
You're looking a little angry, scowling a little bit.
But you can always tilt up and over
and it will look a little more lifted.
- Wow I have already learned so much about myself,
the lip modeling industry, I feel like a professional.
- You guys look like professionals.
Just practice and then we're gonna go
onto the professional set with your photographer
and we're gonna take some close up
photos of your mouths and see how you do.
- Close up photos of your mouth.
- I had Doritos today.
(laughter)
- Did you bring floss with you to set?
It's okay I brought some in case.
- Oh great.
- Wow!
- Always prepare, bring your toothbrush,
bring your floss, bring your lip balm,
drink your water, shave your mustache
and everything's going to be fine.
- None of those things I did today.
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- So now let's go do the professional photo shoot
but first you guys have some options
as far as what kind of poses
and what kind of lip modeling shots you're gonna do
so we're gonna pick out of a hat.
There's only four options in here but we're really gonna
- Stir her up!
- Shake them up.
- Stir her up, that's right.
- Here you go.
- I'll choose the first one and then Jen
you can choose the second one. - Close your eyes!
- Oh wow, classic pout with glitter.
- Ooh, so like a little glossy moment,
we're gonna get some shine, make sure you catch that light.
- Yeah.
- Show off the glittery moment.
- I got open mouth smile, no tongue.
- You have great teeth, - Thank you!
so this is gonna be good for you.
- Okay, thank you so much, wow that really.
- And we're picking a second one.
- Second one.
- Okay.
- Second set up, and she has a biting lip.
- The one you did not want.
- The one I did not want.
- And I got high fashion gloss.
- Okay.
- Oh that's great, that's great.
- Yeah, that'll be easy, I love gloss.
- Okay, so let's go get ready for this photo shoot.
- I'm not gonna eat anything though until
after we're done because I'm a professional.
- Amateur.
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- Yeah it's harder on your jaw muscles than you'd think.
- It's good though, it's fun.
So I sat down to take my pics and I immediately
had lipstick on my nose, so we're killing it.
Right there, right, aw, I'm killing it.
There's a booger, okay, more boogers.
Is this it?
Am I doing it?
Did I achieve?
- I feel like I may have downplayed it a little bit
when I was telling you guys about it.
I was like it's no big deal.
- Yeah it's such a big deal, what you guys do
is intense and requires practice.
Like I felt very out of my depth today.
- There's a lot of specificity to it.
- At one point you were like open your mouth
and I was like "I thought it was open."
- More, more, more!
- Thank you so much for coming and teaching us.
- Thank you for having me.
- Be sure to check out Olivia's YouTube channel.
- Olivia Marie MUA.
- Amazing, and we will check out our pictures in just a bit.
- Sure, I'm excited, thank you Olivia!
- Thanks Olivia! - You're welcome,
thank you guys!
- Wow, we lip modeled.
- We did, we have mouths.
- We do.
- So today we're gonna look at our final pictures
and we're gonna introduce our judge
because we like to be judged, we can't do anything
without being judged.
- Oh no, loved to be judged.
Who is our judge?
- She is...
- It's Freddie, she's here!
- Hi ladies!
- Hi Freddie.
- How's it going?
- You ready to judge us?
- I'm ready to judge.
- So Jen and I became lip models last week.
So you know like those cute close up pics
of lips that you might see on Instagram
or like editorial, we did that.
And it was a lot harder than it looked.
- It was a lot harder than it looked.
- Wow.
- So you ready to see our pics?
- I'm ready!
- Okay.
- I would like you to see our pics.
- I'm nervous.
- The first one is high fashion gloss.
Guess this mouth.
Whose mouth is this?
- This is Jen's mouth.
- This is the first time I'm seeing this
and I have thoughts.
- What are your thoughts?
- I don't like it.
It's interesting, it's an interesting look.
- The biggest fact that we learned
is when you're lip modeling you can't show tongue
and Jen did a really good job
of making her little tongue disappear.
- Oh.
- Yeah, 'cause tongue grosses people out.
- Wow, you killed that.
- Thank you, yeah no tongue baby, like seventh grade.
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- It's perfect right?
She did a damn good job.
- You did, it looks really great, I love it.
- Thank you.
- And look at those white teeth.
- Alright the second pic is me,
and this was supposed to also be high fashion.
- If you look at Olivia's lips then you would understand
like what a professional lip model looks like.
- So this was really hard for me.
This is high fashion glitter.
- Okay.
And we pulled these out of a hat too by the way,
so we didn't choose this.
- Oh.
- So what we learned from this picture
is because it's like so macro,
you can see like every glitter.
- What should I be feeling
to give you that high fashion feel?
- I wanted it to be like glitter,
like you see every sparkle.
Originally when I did this I was like
"Oh I'm gonna just dip my lips in full on glitter."
- Yeah.
- But then it turned out that that was gonna be a mess.
- Right.
- So we did sticky glitter instead
which looks a little bit more Seventeen Magazine.
- Yeah, but in a good way.
- I mean, I'm excited for the holidays looking at this.
- Oh my good wow, thank you.
The second one I think looks straight up
like an editorial fashion shoot for her.
Look at this!
- Whoa, Jen!
- This is just like classic modeling lipstick.
- Yeah like Covergirl.
- Jen you often go to the dentist, and you know what?
Good for you. - It shows.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, I could just see this on Instagram.
- Selling those, you want a purple lipstick?
- Targeted ad.
- Yeah.
- For me.
- Last but not least, this one is
what we call an active mouth.
It's the mouth doing something, like licking, biting,
blah blah blah, 'cause there are pictures,
you have to do that as a lip model.
- Oh, I'm turned on.
- Really?
- Yes.
- Oh that was really hard to do.
- [Freddie] It's well done.
- [Jen] It's got a great little asymmetrical thing.
Like it like looks like it's done in a way
where it's like artsy.
- That's just my lips.
- No because it's the way you're biting it
so that's what happens.
So it really looks like it was done like,
the way you would picture a bit lip to look.
- Totally.
- This could be like a movie poster,
this is like the American Beauty movie poster.
- Yes.
- Right? - Oh my god you're right.
This movie's called "What That Mouth Do?"
- Yes, I love it, love to see it.
Wow I'm really impressed with you guys.
- Thank you!
- [Freddie] You did so good!
- This is the start, I think, of something really cool.
I want us to do a new series of macro photography.
- Yeah.
- So we're gonna be lip models, next is hand models.
- I think we were both very self conscious
when it was happening but the end results are kind of fun.
It almost feels like a different person did it.
- Also it was like very vulnerable 'cause your mouth,
you eat with it, you kiss with it.
- Yeah it is weird.
- I love this.
- Yeah.
So tell us in the comments below
which one was your favorite pic
and tune in next time for us to do
another modeling experience. - Micro modeling.
- Trying to become a lip model.
- Lady tested,
- [All] Lady tasted!
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- Show the people, show the people, yes!