--- title: Top 5 Tips for Super Smooth Lips description: Find out how acclaimed makeup artist Nicole 'Pinky' Thompson makes sure her clients (and her own) lips are super smooth and matte lipstick ready. image: https://tmedit.themasters.institute/hubfs/Making%20It%20Up_D3_Sh%205_6524AA.jpg --- [The Masters Institute of Creative Education](https://themasters.institute/) [Book a Tour](https://tmedit.themasters.institute/top-5-tips-for-super-smooth-lips#form-opportunity-enquiry) - [Search](https://tmedit.themasters.institute/top-5-tips-for-super-smooth-lips#search-modal) - [Log in](https://themasters.institute/account/login) - [Courses](https://themasters.institute/pages/courses) - Departments - [Fashion](https://themasters.institute/collections/fashion) - [Hair](https://themasters.institute/collections/hair) - [Beauty](https://themasters.institute/collections/beauty) - [Makeup](https://themasters.institute/collections/makeup) - [UpSkill](https://themasters.institute/collections/upskill-short-courses-workshops) - [Shop](https://themasters.institute/collections) - [The Institute](https://themasters.institute/pages/the-institute) - [Contact](https://themasters.institute/pages/contact) - [FAQs](https://themasters.institute/blogs/faqs) - [Work with us](https://themasters.institute/pages/work-with-us) - [Privacy](https://themasters.institute/pages/privacy) Search - [BEAUTY (3)](https://tmedit.themasters.institute/tag/beauty) - [FASHION (26)](https://tmedit.themasters.institute/tag/fashion) - [HAIR (1)](https://tmedit.themasters.institute/tag/hair) - [INSIDER (10)](https://tmedit.themasters.institute/tag/insider) - [MAKEUP (3)](https://tmedit.themasters.institute/tag/makeup) - [MELBOURNE (1)](https://tmedit.themasters.institute/tag/melbourne) - [RETAIL (2)](https://tmedit.themasters.institute/tag/retail) See all - [FASHION](https://tmedit.themasters.institute/tag/fashion) - [HAIR](https://tmedit.themasters.institute/tag/hair) - [BEAUTY](https://tmedit.themasters.institute/tag/beauty) - [MAKEUP](https://tmedit.themasters.institute/tag/makeup) ## [T.M. 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We love Lush’s ‘Mint Julips’ or Frank Body’s coffee flavoured lip scrub. **2.  Make your own scrub** Got sugar and a lip balm? ‘It’s as simple as that’, Pinky says. Rub it all over your lips and make sure the texture is coarse and rough. **3. Use a  face exfoliator** *This is not a drill*. Pinky swears that a face exfoliator used dry over the lips works just fine. **4. Exfoliating wipes work like a treat!** Same, but *different*. This is an item that Pinky takes everywhere in her kit. **5. Your toothbrush can do more than you think...** If you can’t find any of the above, we hope you have a toothbrush. 'Use a dry brush on wet lips and scrub away.'  So there you have it! 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