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Beauty tips on lips has become scarce. After all, I can easily paint on a glamorous lip that will stay full, sensuous and shining for oh, five minutes. You should have more sensible goals than that. What about having a full, sensuous look that will last all day? I don’t mean the type of product that just looks really shiny and tastes good but sticks to everything.

If you’ve had a hard time finding helpful beauty tips, then read this list. These are great tips and I use, at least, one a day. They are very simple to make up in seconds. However, if you want to just “let them ride” all day (right through lunch) then that will work too.

* Beauty Tips for Lips #1: Buy neutral lip stain. - This may mean that you have to buy that ridiculous sticky shiner that comes with it. After using it a while you will see that you like it. So, don’t use the shiny stuff. Instead, only use the neutral stain. It needs to almost match the natural color of your lips, but can be a shade darker or brighter. You can just cover the stain with your favorite lip gloss or chapstick instead of that sticky stuff that comes with it. Your lips still appear full and plump even after the covering wears off.

* Beauty Tips for Lips #2: Blend - If you want to wear real lip stick, but you love the sexy sheen of lip gloss, then blend away. Lip gloss on the top lip and lip stick on the bottom. Now just rub together and blot. This results in a blended, glossy version of your lipstick that will last much longer than just gloss.

* Beauty Tips on Lips #3: Hydrate and rehydrate - Keep lips full and beautiful by staying hydrated. When a person is dehydrated their lips will be the first to show it. When you lick your lips a lot, you also lick your lipstick right off. So drink at least the recommended daily dose of water and your lips will become and stay full and alive.

Lately, there has been a lot of controversy over the widely used practice of airbrushing models and actors in magazines. What makes the uproar interesting this time around though, is the fact that airbrushing is nothing new.

Photo manipulation was first documented all the way back to a President Lincoln photo from the 1860′s. Stalin made a habit out of it for propaganda purposes during his reign. The uses for photo retouching evolved quickly throughout the 20th century inevitably landing upon the world of glamorous movie stars whose perfect images were crafted by studios in the 1950′s and beyond.

So why are people in such a rage about the practice now? While it may be that a percentage of people truly were naive about the magazine industry, it may also be something else. The advances in technology and consumption of media in the form of reality television has given people more of an inside look into their favorite’s stars lives than they ever had access to before. While in the 1950′s, they may have thought the starlets were as perfect as their pictures portrayed, now we know better.

Is this what enrages us? Maybe. But could it also be that the magazines have been pushing the limits on the amount of airbrushing done? It’s certainly easier to enhance beautiful qualities and diminish imperfections on a model’s face or body with Photoshop than it was to do by hand 40 years ago.

Is it possible that the reason many are becoming more outraged at the seemingly increasing number and length of these touch-ups is due to the magazines purposely riling us up?

In an age of what is said to be the demise of newspapers and magazines as we now know them, what helps sell copies? Controversy. Controversy gets all kinds of eyeballs – the curious and the outraged. Magazines need eyeballs to make money. It is as simple as that.

So, when they see that going too far with say, the extreme slimming of American Idol star, Kelly Clarkson’s legs pisses enough people off that the magazine cover gets posted around the internet and reaches more people than it would sitting on the stands, why wouldn’t they do something like that again?

Maybe, the best way to get magazines to stop these obnoxious practices is simply not to get upset over it. Roll our eyes and swallow our words. Instead of blogging all over the internet with outcries of injustice over young girls’ diminishing self-esteem, how about just not buying anymore of their magazines? Stop giving them free advertising. If their sales plummet, maybe they’ll rethink their strategy, if they’re still around that is. Just a suggestion. I know – easier said than done.