LipGloss Overlays for Everyone

Just like my Wallpaper Overlays - these are meant to go over your current favorite lipsticks. They work on ALL lips - female, male, children-to-elder, light, medium, tan, dark, alien, witch, zombie (...whatever!) matte, creamy, shiny, or bare. They also work well together - layer the glosses for an even shinier shine, or use a gloss with the Natural Overlay for definition and a bit of shine.

There are five different styles of Overlay: three Gloss variations, a Creamy (not quite matte) "Un-Glossifier," and a Natural Lip Overlay - which adds definition to both lips and mouth. All five styles have been carefully shaded to enhance upper lip "cleavage" and lower lip "pout" - without resorting to Botox. LOL!

VVV Eileen, my fiery red-head teen, is wearing Aquilegia's basegame default bright pink matte lipstick with my Sweet Gloss #3.



VVV Margaux, the exquisite dark beauty pictured below, is wearing The Lipstick that started this whole project for me: Curious B's Indus Matte Lipstick in Red - with both my Natural Lip Overlay and Diva Gloss #2.



VVV Uzuri (who's lineage hails from Quadrant M17, Sector 9) demonstrates Sultry Gloss #1 over Aquilegia's basegame default matte purple/black lipstick.




More 'Before & After' headshots are below. Please click on the thumbnails to view the full sized pictures - and see the difference these Overlays make! Remember, you can choose and mix your own combinations WITH your current lipsticks. Sweet!

NB: I'm not entirely happy with the Creamy Overlay yet - but I'm tired of futzing with it. I was trying to get an actual matte overlay. One that would take just about any glossy lipstick you could throw at it - tame it down a bit (without darkening the color - yeah, that's the catch there) and make it look more matte. The best I could come up with so far is this Creamy Overlay. On many of the glossier glosses it does... nothing. But, for some it works pretty well. Try it. If it works for you, keep it. If not, toss it. You won't hurt my feelings in the least. If anyone has an idea for how to accomplish a true matte overlay - please tell me (or make it yourself and tell me where I can download it!)

In the headshots below you will see:
Enrique wearing only my Natural Lip Overlay. Well, that and his clothes...

Little Lisbeth, the "ever-so-charming" - who's mother is NOT ... (She insisted on full eye make-up, professionally applied none-the-less, even though this photo-shoot was just for lips!) *sigh* Lisbeth wears my Diva Gloss #2 over Aquilegia's basegame default two-tone matte lipcolor.

And, then there's Fred. Poor Fred. He got roped into doing this photo shoot by his sister, Lisbeth's mother. Fred desperately wanted to live long enough to play with his grandchildren; he didn't. Now that his first grand-baby is on the way, he's afraid he'll scare the little tyke - so he wants a nice, flattering picture of himself to send when the baby arrives. He thought this photoshoot might do the trick. You should've heard the commotion when the make-up lady declared, "A cheery peach color will liven-up that ol' complexion of yours!" - said while brandishing the tube of Bruno's Sucre de Peche lip-gloss in front of poor Fred's mouth. I was able to calm him down enough to finish the shoot by explaining that he was demonstrating the Un-Glossifier Creamy Overlay. (I didn't have the heart to tell him it didn't quite un-gloss as well as I'd hoped...)





WHEW! I think that's everything!
Everything pictured is used with permission as stated in their respective TOU's - THANK YOU!!!

"Thankses" are always appreciated! You know where the button is...*wink, wink - nudge, nudge!*


ETA Check out this Create-A-Lip Set by Sourpussy to make your lip catalog even moar versatile


Additional Credits:
HP for her wonderfully instructive tutorials.
Alfred Askew for demonstrating the 'how' of layerable lips; and giving permission to use her textures. See her post here.
Bruno for lip shapes and gloss texture ideas that I used as a basis for my scribbles. Used with permission as per his TOU.
Aquilegia for beautiful Maxis Matching basegame default lips.
CuriousB for beautiful inspiring matte lipsticks!
MTS2 for a pixel home.
And, of course, SimPE.