Glam up your lips the gothic way

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Dark lips are the new red. Here's how to carry off the goth lips trend right, reports Ismat Tahseen from the India Times.

While red lips dominated catwalks in the past, the trend that stood out in Spring is goth lips. After playing up a sense of mystery and sensuality on pret and nail colour, a brooding pout in a dark wine hue or teetering on the dark purple side has jumped into day and night chic. Runways internationally showed off vampy lips, so did celebrities at this year's biggest events so far — the MET Gala 2012 and the Billboard Music Awards 2012. Why are A-listers everywhere bringing out their darkest lipsticks, intead of favourites like pinks, browns and corals?

Read more and the Guide to getting the gothic look right.