Makeup is used to accent your best features, hide blemishes, and make a Plain Jane into a diva. Like a designer, you can use makeup for transitioning an everyday appearance into a pretty piece of decor. When you want to look your best, creating perfect skin and highlighting your favorite features are important techniques to harness for all of life’s occasions.
If You Don’t Have Time Makeup
Don’t have time to apply full makeup? Here’s are a few quick tricks to maintain a fresh, glowing look in a hurry.
What to do:
Moisturize: Grab your face lotion and your foundation. Squeeze a small amount of both into your palm. Rub your hands together mixing the two. Apply by rubbing evenly to your face (like you would with sunblock). This will even out your skin tone.
Blush: The essential to making your quick makeup job a success. Blush is used to give you a healthier look, and to help define your facial structure. This will also brighten and accentuate your most prominent features.
Lip Gloss: It’s always good to keep emergency lip gloss in your purse.
Mascara: A quick coat of mascara will complete your look by making your eyes pop.
Contouring
Makeup artists have many tricks to help achieve your ultimate level of beauty. They also have secrets to help improve in the areas you lack. If you don’t have a chiseled jaw line or cheek bones, there are ways of using makeup to help your features look more defined than they really are. Like an artist who uses paints and color pencils, you can use shading to achieve this.
What To Do You will need a powder or bronzer which is a few shades darker then your skin tone. Start by applying your normal base. Cover up blemishes to even your skin tone. Then, using a blush brush, apply the darker shade powder as you would a blush, but instead of on your cheeks, apply to the concave below your cheekbone. Fill in from your ear lobe to about halfway down the cheekbone. Next, apply the bronzing powder under and along your jawline and neck for a more sexy, chiseled look. Go over it a few times but not heavily — don’t give away your trick. When you have achieved the proper shading, blush can be applied on the apples of your cheekbones. Depending on your facial structure, the bronzer and blush may over lap.
Giving Your Eyes Extra Pop
Because everyday is different, there is not a standard way to do makeup. Depending on the occasion or how your feeling will determine the day’s strategy. You could be tired, in a certain mood, swinging by the grocery store or out on the town. That said, having your eyes pop adds intensity which can be ravishing to your admirers whatever the circumstance.
If your tired use a light pearl/white/pastel color eye shadow in the inside corners of your eyes. This will make the eyes look fresh and more open.
When you want to wear sexier makeup, use eyeliner by lining the inside bottom lid with a black or brown. This makes the eyes stand out to draw people in. This method works best in two coats.
For eye brightening, line the inside lid near the bottom lash line with a shimmery white eyeliner to open up the eye. This technique works well for women who have smaller eyes to create the illusion of larger ones.
Having a clean, plucked eyebrow will help make your eyes stand out and make your overall appearance look more put together. There is no substitute for natural eyebrows.
The reason we want to spend extra time on our eyes is because it’s the first thing people view. Eyes show expression and let people know how you are feeling, your thoughts, and your intentions. We want to make our eyes pop to show we are healthy, happy, and fresh.
Darker Eyes or Darker Lip
Makeup can take years to master since there are many effects. Unfortunately, it’s counterproductive to wear all the techniques at the same time. For example, having a very dark, smokey eye, a very dark lipstick might give the look of “wearing too much.” Makeup is here to enhance features. No need to overcompensate. Pulling out all the tricks of the eyes and the lips could make our admirers notice the makeup which, potentially, will undo all our hard work. We wouldn’t want to take the focus off our natural beauty and best features.
What To Do
I recommend to do one or the other. Choose to have a darker eye with a lighter lip (lighter lip gloss) or a lighter eye (light/pastels or earthy eye shadows and mascara) with a darker lip. Both options will showcase which feature you like most about yourself and both are incredibly sexy and feminine.
Eye Drops
The first step for bright eyes is to use a few drops of an eye redness reducer. Products like Visine or Clear Eyes will do the trick. By taking away redness, you will appear to glow and look fresh. White eyes let people know you are healthy and well-rested. Remember to apply eye drops before adding makeup or moisturizer, taking away the potential of smudging or smearing a beautifully finished face.
Mascara
Recommending a product seems a little on the advertising side, but the fact is there are two brands of
mascara I find dominate makeup artists’ kits. I prefer one over the other but I thought I would mention both since they are so widely used.
My favorite: L’Oreal Voluminous Mascara, Black
Second Option: Maybelline Great Lash Washable Mascara, Very Black. Distinctive bright pink and green packaging.
These two products are so regarded because of two simple facts: they don’t clump and go on thick. Using these in waterproof will create flirty lashes which won’t run or smudge.
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