Adding Lipstick to Videos

Pros and cons of "Lipstick" service in video editor

• How to add lipstick to the video and change the lipstick shade?

Makeup is a bright accent in the image of a modern woman. With the help of makeup, we want to emphasize the dignity of our face, add the necessary touches, and make the appearance more expressive. To create flawless makeup, we would like to resort to the services of professional makeup artists, but this is not always possible. And it also happens that by the end of the day, the makeup on the face loses the necessary freshness, and there is no way to correct it.

What can you do if you were not ready to be in the frame during the video shooting of an important event for you? Didn't have time to apply lipstick, or did it wear off by the time of shooting? Your lips do not look all the way you would like – this violates the harmony of the image and spoils the mood. We suggest using video retouching and simply adding lipstick to the video, or changing the lipstick color in the video if its color in the frame does not suit you.

How to add lipstick to the video and change the lipstick shade?

Have you ever watched your videos and wanted to change lips color in Photoshop? Modern technologies allow you to adjust makeup already in finished videos, which was difficult to dream of just a few years ago. This is a tempting and interesting feature of changing your appearance – let's see how it works.

So to add the lipstick to the video, first we need to select the contour of the lips throughout the footage of the video. This is possible in two ways – using rotoscoping or selecting a mask by color. Rotoscoping creates an animated mask for the contour of the lips along the entire length of the video. This is quite convenient, but has its characteristics – since the lips consist of two parts that move in different directions. Teeth and tongue can appear in the frame, and when adding lipstick to the video, it is important for us not to paint over unnecessary areas. To do this, you need to create not only an external mask along the contour of the lips but also an internal one, which will be more mobile and lively. Here you can use the method of selecting lips by color. These tools can be used simultaneously in programs DaVinci Resolve and Adobe After Effects, which will improve the quality of the retouch and help create the most accurate mask.

The next step is the color change itself. Color correction in this case is rarely used, the best result will be provided by adding a color correction layer on top. This stage is not as simple as it seems at first glance – our lips are voluminous, so the color on them is uneven. It takes professionalism and experience in video editing to get the right hue, overlay color with a gradient and balance of light and shadow, and make sure that color sticks to the lips and doesn't “bounce” across the frame.

Sounds difficult? Now you know that you can't just change the lipstick color on a video using Photoshop. But what if you want to easily and quickly transform your lips on video without spending a lot of effort on retouching them? We recommend using the handy RetouchMe app! It puts your video in the hands of professional editors who will achieve the best result in editing it using only advanced retouching tools.

How to use the service “Lipstick”

The RetouchMe application is available on iOS and Android platforms. You can download it from the Apple App Store, Google Play or Amazon App Store. The download is free. However, to use the service within the application, you will need a certain number of credits, the price of which depends on the selected services. To add credits to your balance, you can either buy top-up packages or subscribe on a monthly basis.

1. Launch or download the RetouchMe application.
2. Select a photo from your gallery that you want to use the “Lipstick” service on.
3. Choose the category “Video”.
4. In this category, select the desired service “Lipstick”.
5. Price of the “Lipstick” service: 180 ⭐.
6. You can select one of the 28 templates.
7. After selecting the services you want to use for the video, click on the "Proceed" button.
8. Review your order once again and click "Send to designer."

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