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  • He was a medium-sized man, with a hatchet face, lit by keen gray eyes, small as a ferret's; and, by way of apology for a mouth, displayed a thin lip-line which fell at either end with a cruel and cynical curve.

    Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

  • Mrs. Lambert entered timidly, her gentle face sadder and its lip-line firmer than he had ever seen it.

    The Tyranny of the Dark Hamlin Garland 1900

  • But for a daytime look that try the messy matte look seen at Erdem, with MAC Lady Bug lipstick £13.50 blurred at the lip-line for a softly smudged spring look.

    Evening Standard - Home Emma McCarthy 2012

  • Yes, it is still OK to use lip-liner - helpful, actually, because it stops colour bleeding and smoothes the lip-line, which gets uneven with the years.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

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