How to do makeup?
A beautifully and expertly made up face should be so subtle that only you should know the artistry that went in to producing it. Tie your hair back and look at your self from all angles using a hand mirror and large wall mirror. Study your face, it ` s good and it `s bad point. Can you identify your face shape? Is it round or long, square or heart shaped or oval? Even the most ordinary face can light up with beauty and charm and with right techniques.
But first you need to prime your canvas. First clean your hands and face and moisten your face and your neck with some tepid water because applying moisturizer on damp skin seals in the water.
Now put a small amount of moisturizer on your finger tips and gently pat it at various spots on your face. Do n` t pull and stretch the skin. Smooth on the moisturizer softly and carefully. Now your skin is clean, moisturized and protected from the elements. After that put a dab of concealer under your eyes, and blend well. Never stretch the skin under the eyes. It will stretch with time by it self pat gently at all times. A
NATURAL FINISHING WITH FOUNDATION- After the use of moisturizer and concealer the first essential thing is a suitable foundation. A foundation evens out your skin colour, hides blemishes and can be as natural or camouflaging as you choose.
When you make your choice, consider your basic skin shade. To apply foundation use your finger tips dotting the base all over your face first, before smoothing in. A dampened cosmetic sponge is best to blend foundation to give an even natural finish. It should look clean and natural not caked and heavy. Disguise a protruding eye bag using a foundation one shade darker and blend in around edges. We can narrow a nose that is too broad at the bridge or base by drawing triangles of about three shades deeper than your skin tone on either side of the wide area.
A nose that is slightly crooked can be straightened by applying a darker toned foundation along the crooked side and a lighter one on the other side. To lift a heavy jaw a darker foundation in a long triangle just above the weighty part and blending it into the lighter more natural shade on the face and neck. For all corrections remember that lighter colours usually emphasize darker colours make things diminish.
BLUSH WITH BLUSHER – Now it ` s time for the blusher. Nearly every kind of complexion needs a blusher of some kind even the rosiest. Apply blusher on your cheek cushion, blending away toward the sides of the face and the temples. You can also use a blusher for facial sculpting to balance your features with light and shade. To make your self look less round shaped face use a brown shade of blusher under cheek bones, blending out towards the ears. The more shading you will probably need at the sides. Make the blusher disappear into the jaw line. Use a light colour shade on the top of the cheek bones. Blending it out toward the temple.
This style will prominent the bone structure. For long face- A touch of high light high on cheek bones give more width to face. Fading away toward hair line place pinky blusher center of cheeks and fade away to temples. Shade away an angular line by blending a little along the line of the jaw. For square face soften the angles by applying blusher shade underneath your cheek bones and continue it down on the jaw line, blending away the edges.
POWDER pick up your translucent powder which is loose and applied with large brush, the purpose of using powder is to set your make up. it may seems as if applying the powder you will be messing up what you have carefully applied but this is not so powder really fixes it in place and does not log your skin. Apply it liberally on your face, sparingly on an elder one. If the skin is dry the powder should be whisked on lightly with a powder puff or broad soft brush. Remove any excess with a brush. If the skin is oily, powder will help to counter act ` shine` , but it must be applied firmly. Take it across forehead, down center panel of face and across the chin, pressing in well and releasing as you go.
MAKE YOUR EYES TO DYE FOR- Now keep an eye open for the latest eye make up tricks and ways to apply eye shadow. If you have sensitive eyes that blink a lot, try using a hand mirror and look down into it. Before making up eyes check that foundation is smooth, dark rings are camouflaged and all powder is settled. Attend to the eye brows. Check them first for length, thin it if necessary and brush up wards for an instant wide awake look. Don `t make mistake of having brows too short or sloping off up ward, giving you a surprised expression, to determine where they should start and finish. Hold a pencil against the side of your nose. The point will indicate the start. Then swing the pencil in an arc to the outer corner of the eye. The point will indicate the end of the brow. Brush brows in to shape before plucking out stray hairs from underneath the brows and from between the brows.
