photo Matthew Stylianou
makeup & hair Min Min Ma
styling Rita Fiorucci

Before you start applying the shimmer and shine, you need a smooth canvas. Lots of us forget to exfoliate our lips in the summer months, which can leave lips dry and cracked. Philosophy’s Kiss Me Exfoliating Lip Scrub, has become an industry, and personal favourite. But if you can’t splurge on the goods, you can always use your toothbrush or a clean washcloth. Now that your lips are soft and supple feeling, it’s time make them French Kiss ready. Cover Girl ’s Outlast Double LipShine, really works to give you colour on one end, and mega shine on the other. Giorgio Armani Cosmetics have introduced Shine Lip Gloss in different shades all giving you a lot of shine and gloss for kissable and desirable lips!

There are few things that are sexier than a long, moist--send shivers down your spine--French Kiss. Just thinking about makes me tingle a little. So we have decided to dedicate this week’s issue of Cheek to the art of the French Kiss, and all that goes along with it.

First thing's first, those lips better be soft and supple, because no one wants to smooch dry cracked lips! So make some pouting perfect lips, and stay away from those sticky glosses, because no man, woman or child likes the feeling of glue their lips, no matter what the flavour! The look is full big kissing ready lips! And if you weren’t blessed with Angelina Jolie’s genes you might need a little help. Check out DuWop’s Lip Venom. It’s packed with cinnamon, ginger and winter green essential oils, which make your lips tingle and plump up screaming “KISS ME!!!!"

Where better to practice, and perfect the art of French Kissing, than in Canada’s own gay Paris, Montréal. You want romance, you want cobble stone, you want beauty, or you just want to tie one on, Montréal’s got it all! FIRST – check into our fav place to plump up our pillows … the design savvy Hotel Gault! A room on the 5 th floor gives you a bird’s eye view of Old Montreal from your outdoor terrace. Alternate rooms and floors allow you to choose big sexy soaker tubs – yum – or other environment elements.

If you’re looking for the party everyone’s talking about checkout the iloveneon events, there is no doubt you will be left with a night to remember. If late night boozing and schmoozing’ isn’t your thing, hit the Hotel Nelligan’s Verses Bar's rooftop terrace. It’s the perfect spot for sitting back and eavesdropping on other people’s conversations, or staring into your lover’s eyes. But remember you are in Montréal, and French Kissing is acceptable any and everywhere! God I love this city!