Choosing a Lip Blush colour: turn preferences into a useful conversation

You do not need to know your final Lip Blush colour before speaking with Nanna. Begin with colours you enjoy wearing and what you would like to change about your lips' appearance.

A favourite lipstick or photograph can be helpful. Explain the detail you like, rather than asking for the whole look to be reproduced.

Compare colours in a way that helps the conversation

Gather two or three lip products or photographs you genuinely like. For each, identify the colour family—pink, peach, mauve, berry, coral or brown-leaning nude—and whether it is the shade or the finish that attracts you. A glossy peach photograph contains at least two preferences: peach colour and shine.

Warm, cool and neutral are useful colour descriptions. Peach or orange-leaning colour is different from a blue-leaning pink or mauve. They are not prescriptions that assign one formula to every fair, olive or deeper skin tone. Your existing lip colour and the amount of contrast you enjoy also belong in the discussion.

Do not use a vein-colour test to choose tattoo pigment. It cannot replace looking at your own lips and explaining the result you want.

Make vague preferences concrete

Instead of “something natural”, try “I want a little more colour than my lips have without makeup, but I do not want the appearance of an opaque lipstick”. Instead of “the perfect nude”, explain whether your usual nude looks too pale, too brown or simply lacks the contrast you enjoy.

A dislike can be as useful as a favourite. If you like a shade but dislike the strongly defined outline in the image, say so. If you want to continue wearing different lipsticks for events, explain that as an everyday-versus-occasional preference.

Keep the treatment stage in view

A fresh Lip Blush photograph is not a product swatch. Early colour can change as the lips heal, so ask which stage a reference shows and use the included five-week review to discuss the early result. Do not choose from a filtered image without understanding it.

The 2025 shade ideas are for inspiration; lip-tattoo terminology explains names; this page is the colour-preference guide. Together they help you describe what you want to discuss.

Put the question in a Consultation if you need to

CT's Consultation is free, optional and 30 minutes. It can cover Lip Blush colour as well as Brows, Eyeliner, sensation and expectations.

You do not need to book treatment merely to find out whether a colour discussion answers your concern. If another practitioner has already tattooed your lips, Nanna needs Consultation and assessment before agreeing to treatment.

Read Lip Blush compared with lipstick for the difference between shade and surface finish, or explore Lip Blush for the treatment arrangements.