Most days when I wear makeup, I over line my lips using makeup artist Mario Dedivanovic‘s ‘lip lift’ technique, which pulls lips upwards. But it does have a tendency to make them appear a bit pointy. The reason for oval-lining is that it lends lips a very natural suppleness, so that they’re rounder, more pillowy, and don’t look obviously defined. In other words, oval-lining is the makeup method that I — and 20.8 million others on TikTok — have been looking for.