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How To Change Face Shape With MakeUp You Need To Know

Your Face: How to Change Its Shape

Play up your good points, minimize the bad and proceed with caution. Too often contouring and highlighting is done with a heavy hand and the result is grotesque, but with extreme care much can be done with make-up to improve the basic shape of your face, eyes or lips.

First, face your problems — look at yourself in a really good light and work out the shape of your face, what you like about it and what you don’t. Next, look at your eyes — are they wide or close set? Narrow, protruding or too round? Do your lids droop or do your brows overhang? Are your eyebrows too heavy or an untidy shape? Now, your lips — are they too full, too narrow or uneven?

Take your face first and, using the principle of light and shade, decide what you are going to emphasize and what you want to diminish. The upper line of the cheekbone, the browbone, the temples, the ridge of the nose, the center of the upper lip and the center of the chin are all good places to try and highlight. A wide nose, heavy jaw and cheek hollows are places to experiment with shading — use a darker tone of foundation or one of the special contour powders or creams described as ‘face-shapers’. With both light and shade, use very little to start with and build up until you achieve the effect you want; this will take some time and a lot of patience.

Now eyes. If they are wide-set you are fortunate, but if they are too close together they will appear farther apart if you apply a deep, smoky tone of shadow to the outer corners of the eyelid, blending (Continued on under section…)

Changing the Shape of Your Face

Widen Your Eyes

Eyes that have too much lid showing should be colored across the entire lid, into the crease and halfway across lower lid and then blended as shown.

Widen Your Eyes

Eyes that are set too close together can be widened by drawing a triangular shape with an eye pencil from the outer corners, halfway across both upper and lower lids and crease. Then blend as shown.

Open Your Eyes

Eyes with little lid showing and lots of space and bone need a light eyeshadow on the lid, a dark line drawn in the crease than blended up and out.

Reshape Your Face

To slim the bridge of your nose take a paintbrush and a cream foundation of three shades deeper than your skin tone and draw a small triangle at the inner end of the brows. Blend carefully. To slim the lower part of your nose, paint a small elongated triangle vertically above the nostrils, then blend carefully.

To slim the jawline, paint a long wedge shape just above the edge then blend carefully. Use a cream foundation about three shades darker than your skin, but not a red tone. To raise the cheekbones, draw elongated triangles just below the bones, fill in and blend.

Balance Your Lips

If your lips are too full take a lip pencil and outline the center of the top lip, then fill in the center section of both lips, with a darker color lipstick than your chosen shade. Blend as shown in the drawing.

If your upper lip is narrow, paint a line with a pencil just over the top lip edge, fill in the upper lip with lipstick, and use a lighter shade on the lower lip.

it up towards the end of your eyebrow and just under the lower lashes. If they are narrow, try applying dark shadow close to the lashes, from the center of the lower lashes around the outer corner across the top to the inner corner. Smudge for a soft effect. If eyes protrude, they will appear less prominent if you draw a band of color right around the eye close to the lashes in a medium to deep shade. A pencil is good for this; smudge it lightly so the line isn’t too hard. If eyes are too round, elongate them by shading two-thirds of the upper lid (the outer section) and blending it upward to the brow and just under the outer corner.

Droopy lids will appear less sleepy if color follows the natural shape of the eye; widen the band towards the outer corner and blend it outwards and upwards, with a little color under the eye for balance. Overhanging brows can be lifted if you apply shadow from the inside corner of the eye over the top lid, then around the outer corner and bottom lid; smudge for a soft outline.

If you feel your eyebrows are too heavy and decide to pluck them yourself, take great care not to overdo it and remove a lot of the character from your face. Never pluck the top line and never cut them — only pluck from below, a few hairs at a time.

If you feel your eyebrows are too thin and sparse or too pale, use an eyebrow pencil. If it is depth you need, choose a brown or grey color, but if it is just added a line that’s required, choose a color to match your own brows. Either way, start near the bridge of the nose and work outwards, using soft feathery strokes and extending them slightly at the outer edge.

Lips that are too full will look smaller if you use a light shade of lipstick and concentrate the color on the center section. Thin lips will look fuller if the outline is drawn just outside the edges and they are filled in with color and gloss. Uneven lips can be better balanced if two tones of color, plus a gloss, are used — use the lighter tone and gloss on the narrow lip and leave the fuller one darker and matt. Lips that droop at the corners and give a sad expression can be tilted by extending the outline of the lower lip at the corners.

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How To Have Beautiful Hands And Feet – The Final Touch Pro

The Final Touch: How To Have Beautiful Hands And Feet?

Beautifully kept hands, soft and smooth with strong well-shaped nails all one length is quickly noticed. Equally quickly noticed are dry, blistered, wrinkled ones with bitten, dirty or split nails. In summer or on holiday, feet are exposed to the same sort of scrutiny and toenails are as noticeable as fingernails, needing just as much year-round care.

Feet work enormously hard for their living — they take the full weight of your body and their condition can affect the way you feel each day. Everyone knows the facial expression (and feel) of pain that comes from ill-fitting shoes, corns, blisters or just feet that have walked too far and aren’t used to it. Problem feet can be due to a variety of causes, including heredity, ill-fitting shoes, poor posture, and fatigue. Flat-footedness and a predisposition to bunions caused by the first toe being shorter than the second seem to be inherited. But many other problems are the result of foot abuse — expecting the foot to carry all kinds of weight in all sorts of footwear over all kinds of the surface without any care or maintenance at all.

It’s an excellent idea to have a professional manicure and pedicure from time to time, but in between set aside a regular hour or so at least once a week for hands and feet — and start with your feet because you’ll need your hands to work on them; then they can rest and the polish can dry while you attend to your hands.

How to Choose your Nail Colour

First, examine carefully the shape of your hands, feet and the condition of your nails — but consider each separately.

First your hands — if you are fortunate enough to have been born with really beautifully shaped hands and fingers and have nourished and cared for your nails, you can choose virtually any color of the rainbow as polish. They run from brown, russet and plum to the pale pretty pinks and shocking to the vibrant poster paint primaries, blue, green, yellow and all the true brilliant reds. If you have great nails, polish them bright.

The very pale, opaque, ivory or bone shades, and the harsh iridescent or very dark colors are more eye-catching than medium tones. So, if you feel your hands leave a bit to be desired in the way of shape but your nails are in good condition, choose mid-tone corals and pinks that blend naturally with your clothes and makeup.

But, however good or bad the shape of your hands, if your nails are broken, bitten or unsightly, forget color and put your effort towards repairing them. Buff them to a natural shine — this also stimulates circulation, and blood feeds the matrix where the nail grows — or paint them with a clear natural polish which will help protect and strengthen them.

Tips to Remember when Painting Nails

The prettiest nail is filed into a soft oval, the cuticle massaged away and loosened off the nail, the skin kept soft with hand cream.

Start by filing nails, properly, with the fine side of an emery board, always towards the center. Never file them into points or down into the corners.

If you paint the color down the side of the nails, it tends to broaden their appearance, so only do this if they are long and narrow.

If nails incline to be broad, leave the last tiny strip on either side clear.

If nails are slim, they may look good with the moons left clear, but this also has a widening effect, so if they are the slightest bit square, cover the moons.

If you decide on half-moons, the first stroke of color should be taken across from one side of the moon’s edge to the other; they need a very steady hand for a good effect, so unless you’ve had plenty of practice, leave it to a professional manicurist.

Before you start painting, be sure your nails are absolutely clean — after removing obvious dirt, a white pencil run under the nail tip brightens the tone.

For soft nails, or those that are flaking, a nail hardener will help and a base coat or protective topcoat will lengthen the life of your chosen nail color.

The best way to remove old polish is too wet a cotton pad with remover, hold it on the nail for a minute to pre-soften the polish and wipe off slowly. Then, most important, wash hands and around nails thoroughly to take off the remover.

A weekly manicure is a plenty; too frequent use of remover weakens your nails’ natural strength. Remover is largely acetone and excessive use of it can cause the essential cementing ingredients to dry out, which causes splitting nails. It’s better to touch up polish between manicures rather than remove it every time there’s a chip. Buy oil-based remover — it’s less drying.

Putting on Polish

Prime with a base coat to prevent chipping. Allow it to dry, then apply several coats of polish, drying each coat before applying the next. Last, put on a top coat for added strength. Delicate nails can benefit from nail hardeners applied to just the free, unattached edge.

Apply polish with decisive strokes from the base of the nail to the tip — make sure you don’t get too much polish on the brush or you will get blobs on the nail and be tempted to go back and smooth them out. Three thin coats will give a much smoother result than one thick one — and will last much longer.

The bright, vivid shine of polish is a nice finishing touch for toenails, especially in summer — or whenever you wear sandals. Pick a good basic color that will go with many things so you won’t have to change polish too often. Polish should last two weeks.

Again foot condition, foot shape and the health of their nails must influence your choice of color, but generally speaking, a bright clear red, rust or magenta looks prettiest. With open-toed shoes or sandals, don’t forget that your feet are very much a part of your top-to-toe appearance and the color of your toenails should blend or contrast deliberately with the colors you are wearing.

Twelve Steps to a Professional Pedicure

First, assemble your equipment — most of these things last quite a long time and are used for your manicure or other parts of your beauty routine, so it’s not such a daunting, expensive list as it may first appear:

nail polish remover, cotton wool, tissues, a bowl large enough for both your feet to rest in comfortably when filled with warm, soapy water (a mild shampoo is ideal, don’t use detergent), a towel, nail brush, pumice stone, emery board, orange sticks, cuticle cream or oil, body lotion, base coat, coloured polish, top coat.

Procedure

Remove all traces of existing polish.

Soak both feet in the bowl of soapy water for about five minutes (while you are doing this, you can use the time to remove old polish from your fingernails).

Use a pumice stone on soles, heels, and sides of feet to remove rough dry skin.

Dry feet carefully, particularly between the toes.

Apply cuticle cream or oil to the toenail and massage well. Then, using a rounded orange stick (reshape and soften the ends with a penknife and make sure there are no splinters to catch and tear your skin), gently push back the cuticles and help the cream or oil to penetrate underneath and reach the matrix where the nails form and grow.

Rinse feet in the warm clear water and dry again thoroughly.

Clip nails straight across; don’t clip into the side or try to cut a curved shape as this encourages in-growing toenails, which are unsightly and painful. (Toenails shouldn’t be too long or they will press against your shoes, but they should be all one length.)

File the ends smooth with an emery board. Massage toes and feet well with a moisturizing body lotion, then wipe the nail area clean with a tissue (polish won’t stick if any greasiness is left.)

Twist tissue into two long sausage shapes and wind them in and out of your toes — this separates the toes and prevents polish smudging from one toe to the other.

Apply base coat— more important on toenails than fingernails as they tend to be rougher; this will provide a smooth foundation for polish.

Apply two coats of your chosen color — and lastly a top coat if you wish. Allow each coat to dry between each application and let the final surface dry for at least half an hour when you’ve finished (about the time it takes to give yourself a manicure).

Lastly, massage well with body lotion again.

Manicure Repeat the process for a pedicure, omitting the pumice stone and filing your nails into a gentle curve. Again, a shorter all-one-length shape is much prettier than varying lengths, so choose a medium length that you can maintain. Make-up or foundation for hands is not usually very satisfactory, except for photography, but there are fading creams to help minimize freckles or brown spots.

Just remember it is always better to wear no colored polish at all than to go around with chipped or peeling finger or toenails.

For a complete step-by-step description of a perfect manicure, See also: How to Take Care of Feet and Hands.

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Color Coordinated Outfits Guide – What To Wear With What?

How to color-coordinated outfits?

There are dozens of choices in terms of the colors you like to wear and the colors you put on your face. And the little thing that can make the most excitement and change in your looks is a new makeup color — a new blusher, lipstick, eyeshadow or whatever. It doesn’t mean you need a new makeup color for every piece of clothing, but it does mean choosing your makeup within the spectrum of colors that suit your hair and skin tone and the colors you choose to wear so that the overall effect is in harmony from top to toe. Each color you choose to wear or put on your face should enhance the others and flatter your skin, hair, and eyes. Sometimes it’s fun to keep eyes, lips, and cheeks the same color as the dress you ‘re wearing — pink, for instance — but this needs the expert application to be really effective.

White, cream, beige, brown, gray, black — these are the neutral colors which suit almost everyone; makeup should then be in clear colors to flatter hair and skin. At night, gold and silver highlight is very effective with frosted lipsticks and cheek colors.

Yellow, orange, tan — these are sometimes difficult to wear as they are inclined to reflect on to the skin and give a shallow impression. They are good with a tan and redheads to look wonderful in these colors — others are often wise to put white, cream, beige or gray between them and their face. Peach or tawny blushes work best, with peach, coral, vermilion, Sienna, and rust for lips. On eyes try moss green, bronze, golden or smoky browns — brown mascara is softer than black — and highlight in gold.

Green — from pale almond to forest, this is the natural color for redheads but good on blondes and brunettes too, particularly anyone with hazel or green eyes. Green can make pale skins look paler so it might be a good idea to use a warmer shade of foundation and make sure your blusher is in the apricot to the tawny group. Try Bois de rose, crimson, light red or russet lipstick and shade eyes with apricot and teal green, smoky greens, copper or try mauve with clear green kohl lining the inner rim.

Blue — from the sky through violet to navy and purple, this is probably the most popular color in the rainbow; some form suits almost everyone. Like green it can make pale skins look paler, so check your foundation shade. Russet or rose pink blusher looks pretty; for lips try all the pinks from pastel peach to shocking and magenta and true red. Don’t try for a perfect match on your eyes, but keep them in the same family — the smoky blues and violets are more flattering than the light chalky shades — or try apricot, copper and brown.

Red — this cheers anyone up; a touch is often enough and could just be your lipstick. With bright red lips, keep eyes neutral charcoal is great and bronze is interesting with red if lips are pale and glossy.

Pink — this ranges from rose to fuchsia, crimson and wine. Light clear pinks are among the most flattering colors to wear, but when you get into the crimson and wine shades, be sure your makeup doesn’t appear muddy. Choose clear bright lipsticks in the same family and pink cheeks; try gray, smoky blue, plum or orchid pink on the eyes and pink highlighter.

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Expert MakeUp Tips For Over 35-Year-Old Woman Should Know

Expert Makeup Tips For Over 35-Year-Old Woman

When forty starts approaching many women panic — they start rushing off to plastic surgeons to discuss face-lifts only to be told they are much too young and not to return for several years. Forty is not the beginning of the end; a few lines certainly don’t mean the whole face is disintegrating; and a bit of overweight can be removed, even though it may take longer.

All that is really needed is a beauty reassessment, a re-think of make-up, hairstyle, and color. In order to maintain energy, healthy hair and skin, more attention must be paid to exercise and diet — the effects of years of careless diet and body neglect will start to show in the thirties; from then on, weight-control is much harder and it takes more effort and longer to improve skin and hair health.

The body needs more help to function efficiently; the skin is beginning to lose its elasticity, hair may lose its color and texture, and make-up needs a different approach.

Around forty is when many women who have never had a skin problem in their lives discover the distress of specific forms of acne, psoriasis, blackheads, whiteheads and enlarged pores. Brown spots can appear and don’t disappear — these can now be minimized by regular use of special fading creams. Skin color can change or go patchy and this discoloration is often due to sluggish circulation — exercise or a brisk walk will improve the tone and a soft cream or fluid foundation in the correct shade will do the rest. If there are broken veins or blemishes to hide, use a camouflage cream or stick.

Aim to look well, rather than slavishly using the latest fashion colors to look trendy. A light hand with makeup is essential — heavy makeup is aging, as are dark colors and hard lines.

Choose a foundation to improve your natural tone — perhaps with a little extra pink or peach in it. Avoid cool beiges unless you have a naturally high color, in which case a mud beige will act as camouflage, and try a green tinted moisturizer underneath. The skin shouldn’t look too powdered — or shine too much, although this is unlikely as most skins dry out as they get older. The more matte finish looks lifeless, so be particularly careful not to use powdery make-up or powder under the eyes or on the area of the browbone. Powder sinks into every slight imperfection are bad for delicate skin and make the eyes look lifeless. Use translucent powder — a neutral color or just a shade lighter than your foundation — and fluff it on very lightly with a puff. Be careful on lines running from nose to mouth — they are the first place foundation and powder sink into, giving a tired impression.

Use blusher sparingly — if it is very well blended it is flattering, but beware of adding to an already high skin tone and looking feverish.

Beware of iridescent eye makeup — shine can emphasize the smallest blemish. And avoid very bright colors; a shade several tones paler than your eye color is often a good guide. The varieties of eyeshadow that are painted on with water (a dampened sponge applicator) are often the most satisfactory as they last better and don’t settle into the creases, although many of the newer cream formulas are excellent. Avoid dark eyeliners; use soft smoky green, blue or gray and smudge a line near the lashes.

Don’t be tempted by gold, silver or glitter — they will just draw attention to everything you are trying to minimize. Eyebrows need to be kept trim — neither too thin nor too prominent. Always pluck from below and never use a hard dark pencil. If your brows have thinned, use a soft gray or brown pencil and make light feathery strokes. Aim at keeping the whole eye area moist and soft-looking, neither too dry or powdery nor so shiny that the creases are very evident. If your eyelids tend to droop at the outer corner, keep eyeliner and shadow ‘lifted’, with slightly more depth of shadow towards the temple. Don’t make obvious lines and don’t extend the make-up beyond the corner of the eye unless it is very carefully blended. A touch of highlighter immediately below the brow is a good idea. So is mascara, but choose dark brown or gray rather than hard black. A special eye make-up remover is a good investment as it whisks away all the color with minimum disturbance.

Cream your lips at night to keep them soft and blot carefully before putting on lipstick. A good tip is to take your foundation over the edge of your lips, powder well, then outline with a lip pencil or lip brush, fill in with color, blot again and powder again. This helps to maintain a clean outline and avoids the color ‘bleeding’ into the tiny lines around the mouth. Choose a lipstick color that is light and creamy.

Pinks, corals and light reds are most becoming — but it’s worth experimenting with the plum shades. Pale lipstick will make the lips look dry, brighter ones add life to the skin and eyes. Iridescent colors will show up every tiny line — matt creamy shades, with just a touch of extra gloss if you like, are much more flattering.

If the mouth tends to droop at the corners, extend the outline of the lower lip upwards and don’t take the color on the top lip all the way into the corner.

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How To Find Your Skin Tone For Makeup 7 Types Of Color Lists

How To Determine Skin Tone Color?

Very fair skins and spun-sugar silvery blond hair, epitomized by Scandinavian good looks, need the greatest possible care in make-up. The skin tends to be delicate, often very sensitive and dry and must always be protected from the sun. Moisturizer is essential at all times and should always be used under foundation. Only the lightest foundation is needed to achieve a smooth creamy texture which is the first step to porcelain pink-and-white looks; alternatively, a gel makeup gives a tinge of honey color that is very attractive but almost impossible to acquire safely from the sun. A light hand is a golden rule for fair good looks — experiment with almost any color you like, but stick to the lightest shades.

The prettiest natural look for daytime is to make the most of the eyes, shadowing them in neutral colors that blend with the eyes, intensifying with kohl and mascara, shining lips with gloss, and just a hint of blush. In the evening a beautiful purity can be the answer — rose pink lips and cheeks, gray eyes highlighted with pink and gold, for instance.

Natural blondes, and particularly dark blondes, often have a lot of red in their hair color; their skin tends to burn easily and freckle, like redheads. But they can take stronger colors than the very fair and have more choice than redheads. They are often considered the lucky ones — any color looks good on them. However, their skin is likely to be on the dry side and they should be careful using strong colors as their makeup should never be harsh.

It’s easy to look washed-out wearing bright colors, but if you’re fair-skinned and blond, be careful not to look over made-up. Choose a light-textured foundation (which allows your skin to show through) in a shade nearest your skin tone (test on the side of your jaw and choose in good daylight). Smoky colors — plum, gray, green, blue — look good around the eyes; use a pink to plum blusher and true pink or real red lipsticks.

Redheads with their tendency to beautiful translucent skin often have freckles too. The skin only has a small amount of melanin (the pigment that turns skin brown) in it and this means they burn easily or acquire freckles, which come from irregular pigmentation. Freckles don’t appear only on the face but often all over the body — particularly across the shoulders. All freckles tend to fade during the winter but return as soon as the sun shines on the skin again. You can’t stop them appearing, but a really good sunscreen will minimize them.

The best makeup results will come from learning to love your freckles and make the most of the natural healthy coloring — only covering up for a specific smooth look in the evening. Freckles can be a terrific asset — many girls paint on fake ones for a healthy effect — so use a bronze gel base or just a moisturizing sunscreen during the day and a more covering foundation in the evening if you like.

With very pale, almost white eyelashes, it’s worth considering having them dyed from time to time. Most salons do this, requiring a patch test twenty-four hours in advance to make sure you have no bad reaction; it is quite simple and makes a great difference to your looks. Otherwise, use lots of coats of mascara.

Natural colors for cheeks and lips are the tawny shades — peach, Sienna, copper, bronze, and terracotta — with rust, green and apricot tones around the eyes. Iridescent is great in the evening and gold is the redhead’s natural highlighter, but stay away from silver. If you want to be more adventurous, play up either eyes or lips with a surprise color but not both at once. Try violet or orchid pink around the eyes, shocking pink or raspberry lips.

Orientals often have creamy skin (with the tone ranging from pale ivory to warm olive) and black hair. This can look wonderful with really strong bright lips and smudgy charcoal eyes.

Brunettes with olive skin may find a mauve-tinted moisturizer helpful in reducing any sallowness in the skin and often look best in earth tones for lips and cheeks — the darker your skin the more dramatic the color can be; paler skins should stick to a softer look. Try green, bronze, brown around the eyes and highlight with creamy gold.

Girls with dark skins and dark brown or black hair often complain their skins are greasy and their make-up too shiny. This normally begins to disappear in their thirties, but then the danger is that the skin often goes very dry and, if neglected or not cleaned meticulously, may develop a gray or ashy look.

Dark skins need little or no tinted foundation or powder as they usually have a natural bloom and good all-over tone, but, if patchy, makeup can help to even out the tone; often a gel-bronze foundation is all that is needed. Red or yellow tints of the foundation are not usually flattering — cool brown and earthy shades are best — and the gel or liquid varieties rather than stick or cream are usually most satisfactory.

Blushers in brick or wine shades (it’s usually better to avoid light pink or red) and lipsticks in earth tones or wine are most becoming. Girls with the lighter types of brown skin can look wonderful with the brilliance of a true red or cyclamen pink. Pearlized lipsticks are inclined to make a mouth look larger; well-defined mouths usually look best with a minimum of color, just glossed.

For eye makeup, avoid pearly colors if lids or the eye area is at all puffy. Where lids are narrow, a pearlized gel can help to shape the lid. If lashes are on the short side, a narrow band of cream or bone color on the lid can give the illusion of more length. Kohl on the inner rims is very effective, as is lots of mascara. Good color palettes to choose from are green through copper and bronze to a golden brown and deep blue through plum to smoky gray.

Black skins have many variations in shade from mahogany to almost black, and normally tend to be oily. But, if exposed to a cold climate, many black skins suffer from dryness too. These complexions can burn in the sun, though not as severely as paler skins. The well-conditioned black skin should appear smooth and burnished and of an even tone — a grayish sheen means it’s suffering from dryness or the wrong shade of foundation is being used.

Foundations and powders formulated for white skins are often not suitable for black because they contain ingredients to deposit the grayish sheen mentioned above or a too red or too yellow tone. Many black skins, because of their oily texture, suffer from enlarged pores and, if exposed to cold and suffering from dryness, need moisturizing protection. Therefore, the choice of foundation is a vital one for successful make-up — a tinted moisturizer or bronzing gel may give just the right amount of coverage to protect and even out the skin tone, but if a heavier coverage is required, the base must be selected with great care. Most cosmetic ranges have dark shades of foundation and powder specially formulated for black skins, and there are cosmetic ranges specifically for black girls too.

The trick is to improve the natural polish of black skin. The use of highlighter (transparent white or a pink one with gold in it) above cheekbones, just above the upper lip, down the bridge of the nose and around the eye area is particularly effective. Use sparingly and let the natural skin show the surface sheen. Transparency is the prettiest effect to aim at, no matter how many colors you choose to apply. Thin cheek gels in copper, wine or even magenta; and lip gloss, over a matte color if you like, ranging from coral, brick, plum and brandy shades to the darkest wine and blackberry are good products to experiment with. For eyes, all the iridescent products are perfect — for a neutral makeup, shade in gold, apricot, and rust, or amethyst, rose and burgundy, depending on the particular tone of your skin; for evening or for fun, try the peacock blues, greens, purples with silver or gold highlight. Add Kohl pencil inside the lower rim and lots of mascara in several coats, separating the lashes as you go.

A good rule is to stay away from muddy colors and experiment with the clear vivid ones that look harsh on paler complexions.

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How Weather Affects Your Looks – Everything You Need To Know

The Weather: How It Affects Your Looks

How do you make your looks weather the weather? No one wants their makeup to run when the temperature soars, their hair to look a mess when the humidity is rising or the sun to make their skin resemble a peeled chestnut. Travelling, for most people, means more time in the sun or outdoors and although a bit of tan makes almost everyone look more vital and alive, over-exposure to the sun is something you pay for with toughened, parched skin that will age faster, and dry brittle hair. These tips should help you plan your traveling beauty bag so that you look great wherever you are.

When it’s winter — at home or abroad — protect skin from rain and cold. If you’re a soap-and-water person, switch to a milder soap, less frequent washing and consider using a cream cleanser as an alternative. Don’t wash your face immediately before going out in the cold — it’s too drying and you risk chipping. Do it at least half an hour before and let the moisturizer sink in well. Cold reduces the elasticity of the skin and less humidity in the air makes for dryness, so you need to pay more attention to moisturization, which provides a protective barrier between the skin and the elements. Cold-weather activities — skiing, skating or a brisk walk — may work up a sweat and so increase chances of skin chapping. Lips need protecting; make sure the area around mouth and chin is well moisturized. Moisturizer should contain a good effective sunscreen. Sunglasses should be worn to prevent squinting in bright light, which encourages lines. Moisturizing glossy lip colors are the ones to look for and apply for a soundproofed lip protector and waterproof mascara.

In summer, your metabolism is speeded up and oil glands are more active, so change your moisturizer to something light and apply a sunscreen every morning before you make up. Try a tinted sunscreen to give you a healthy glow, with just mascara and lip color.

Long-distance travelers often notice their nails become brittle, skin becomes very dry or unusually greasy, hair becomes oily. A lot of problems encountered by air travelers are caused by dehydration en route — this can be counteracted by drinking lots of water during the trip. Take a nail strengthener and cuticle cream with you — a long air journey offers a terrific opportunity for a really good manicure — and lots of moisturizing hand cream. And, take a mild shampoo and a separate conditioner so that you can wash your hair as often as it needs and regulate your conditioning to the climate.

Be aware that the condition of your skin will change as climate changes. A cleanser or moisturizer that works in warm weather may not be rich enough in winter; if you go by plane, take some with you and apply during the journey.

You’ll find humidity plus air pollution in cities like Rome, New York, Tel Aviv and Tokyo and you may find your skin looks dingy and your makeup fades as soon as you put it on. Air pollution can cause eye irritations that give you a puffy red-eyed look.

Use a good eye drop designed to reduce redness, then lie down and apply cotton pads saturated with witch hazel to your eyes. If you can put the witch hazel in the refrigerator to cool it, it’s especially refreshing. And, if witch-hazel isn’t immediately to hand, try slices of cucumber or potato — old-fashioned remedies, but effective.

In cities like New York, for instance, the combination of cold, dry outdoor air and the hot dry indoor air is very hard on skin and makeup. Dry skin can chap and develop an uneven texture. If you can, invest in a humidifier for indoors, use a richer moisturizer, and use a moisturizing foundation with good coverage to add a protective barrier.

You’ll find very dry and hot weather in places like Marrakesh, Baalbeck, the Gulf and on the Nile. Your lips may become parched and cracked and you’ll probably have trouble making makeup go on smoothly. Laugh lines may seem more prominent. The big enemy to your looks in this environment is sun and, of course, its effects are intensified in the summer months. Protect your hair with a scarf, your skin with effective sunscreens and choose cream varieties of eye color, blusher, and moisturizing lipsticks.

You’ll find tropical heat and humidity in Bangkok, Fiji or Seychelles, for instance, and you may feel your makeup is melting as soon as you’ve put it on. The increased heat and humidity cause oil glands to be more active and the oil to be more fluid so that it mixes with perspiration more. This tends to cause break-outs and unexpected crashes. Choose a foundation formulated for oily skins — this will help the rest of your makeup stay on your skin too — or try using a bronze-tinted sunscreen to give your skin a sunny glow.

Take a soothing medicated lotion to treat spots and a camouflage stick for dry blemishes. You’ll probably find that powder eyeshadows and blushers stay on best; choose lipsticks with staying power and matt textures, slicking gloss on top to lighten the effect.

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Professional Makeup Lighting – Everything You Need To Know

How To Get The Right Lighting For Makeup?

The right light is vital to successful makeup. Light can play strange tricks with its strength and shadows and this can be used to your advantage provided you are aware of it. Blinking disco lights can do wonderful, strange things to the colours and contours of your face; you can use bright glittering colours to great effect — but beware of looking grotesque; soft candlelight is the most flattering of all, throwing flickering shadows and a mellow smoothness that few faces possess on their own; clear daylight can be soft or, with bright sun, very harsh.

The important thing is to accept the basic structure of your face and make the most of it. Makeup tricks to change its shape or contours must never be obvious or they create no illusion and lose their point.

Light changes colors, affects tone and depth. It also changes shape. A trick of the light can make an older face look younger or vice versa. Photographers can flatter their subjects with a light that smooths out lines or choose one that records every blemish. The same makeup will look different in daylight, sunlight, twilight or nightlight.

In summertime or in bright sunshine, pale colors look stronger and many people look best with no foundation — just a moisturizer or sunscreen plus very light eyeshadow, mascara, lip gloss (blusher for pale faces only).

Nightlight needs stronger makeup. Start with moisturizer, then foundation to even the skin tone, outline lips with a pencil and dust over lots of loose face powder — the trick here are to use much more than you would expect and to dust off the excess; this way the matt look lasts longer. Next, contour your face with a powder blusher — use a darker shade in the hollows of the cheeks, perhaps around the eyes and temples. Shine on the eyes and lips reflects nightlight, makes the eyes look bright; also use lots of mascara and a dark pencil in the sockets and around the lashes for definition. Even a bright lip color can fade away at night to give your mouth a sharp outline with the pencil. Experiment with an iridescent highlighter, turning your head to see how it catches the light and where it is most flattering to you — the centre of the eyelid, the browbone, down the bridge of the nose, cheekbones, in the crease of the upper lips, the cleft of the chin are good places to try.

Electric light is incandescent, very even, and you need definite colors real reds for lips, russet, soft green or blue for eyes.

The neon light is harsh; avoid pale lips and grays and browns which hollow out the cheeks. Choose warm tones: tangerine, shocking pink, gilded, pearlized corals. Outline the edge of your lips, and try iridescent rose, bronze or copper around the eyes.

Candlelight is most flattering, providing you’re not sunburned. Avoid orange lips, hard eyes. Shape your face softly. Use lots of blushers. Soften, blush, lengthen the eye. For lips try muted blue reds or wine shades and matte mauve, prune or grape for eyes.

The first essential is to see your face in the right light. Makeup in the light you are going to be seen by, if at all possible. If you are going out in daylight, try and apply your make-up in the nearest equivalent — take a good mirror to a window, prop the mirror against it so that all the light falls on your face. Don’t choose harsh direct sunlight or you may be tempted to use too heavy a hand and end up looking over made-up. For evenings, makeup by electric light — then check the effect in softer light, candlelight, for instance, or a lower watt bulb. Place yourself in electric light in the same way as daylight — at a dressing table or in a bathroom, for instance — and try and arrange light to fall on your face from all angles (side lights slightly in front of you and any overhead light falling on your face, not the back of your neck). Don’t make-up in the bad light and, above all, don’t make-up where the source of light only falls on one side of your face. This will only mean your makeup ends up looking uneven or lopsided.

Make sure you are comfortable and try and leave more than enough time for the job so that you are relaxed and don’t run the risk of making time-consuming mistakes. First, pin hair out of the way to expose your face — if you are using heated rollers or setting it in any way, this is a good moment to save time. Make sure your skin is scrupulously clean, then apply a moisturizer. It’s a good idea to leave it a while to sink in, otherwise, your foundation may slip around too much. Use this time to assemble all the colors you are planning to use before starting — this avoids the sudden discovery of a missing favorite lip or eye color on which your whole make-up idea was based and the necessity of starting all over again.

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5 Best Makeup Routine Step By Step Guide For Beginners

Stage One: Cleanse, Tone, Moisturize

Before starting to apply your makeup, you must give yourself the best possible base to work on. This means skin in good condition — which comes from the correct, regular skin-care regimen for your skin type, a well-balanced diet (including lots of mineral water), enough sleep, and enough exercise to rev up your circulation. All these ingredients contribute to the appearance of your skin — its clarity, tone, and texture. Every time you start to make up, check first that your skin is scrupulously clean. What you cleanse with depends on your skin type and your personal preference for a lotion, cream, foam or soap-and-water. Having cleaned, wipe away any last traces of dirt, debris or grease with a skin freshener or toner — again, which you use depends on your skin type: non-alcoholic fresheners are for dry and sensitive skins, those with alcohol (usually called astringents) are only for oily skins. People with combination skins (patches of dry skin or at the shape of greasiness down the center of the face) are wise to use both, or a toner with only a tiny amount of alcohol, diluted (by soaking a cotton wool pad in water first) for the dry patches.

Cleanse and Tone

Use cool water or non-alcoholic skin tonic.

Moisturize

Dot all over face and neck and blend gently. Don’t use too much. Excess moisturizer will only evaporate on the skin and make it drier.

The last step in preparation is moisturizing. Moisturizers are probably the biggest breakthrough in skin care in recent years — they provide a film over the skin that prevents its natural moisture from escaping and causing dehydration, which is the main cause of wrinkles and skin aging. They also protect the skin from environmental damage — from the wind, cold, the sun (providing they contain a sunscreen), pollution — especially when no foundation is worn, and help enormously in the smooth application of foundation, as they leave the skin in a soft, supple condition.

Tinted moisturizers are very helpful under foundation to help balance out skin tones. A green tint will tone down redness; mauve reduces sallowness; apricot will warm up a washed-out pallor. But, don’t use too much or the result will veer towards the opposite extreme.

Stage Two: Foundation and Camouflage

Foundation, or base, should be considered as a skin improved, something that will give the impression of better, smooth and even-

Dark Circles under the Eyes

Find the dark patches by lowering your head and looking up into a mirror. Gently dot concealer sparingly on the circle and blend by patting with the fingertip. Don’t rub or drag. If the circle is accompanied by a ‘bag’ don’t let the concealer go over it — this only accentuates it. Powder very lightly if necessary — but avoid powdering under the eyes if possible as it sinks in and deepens tiny lines.

Foundation

Choose to match your skin tone. Apply with damp sponge or fingers. Be careful to blend around nose and chin and fade away under the chin. Don’t take it into the hairline, nor heavily under eyes — it can make tiny lines look deeper than they are.

toned skin, while the product itself is almost invisible. Heavy foundation is old-fashioned and aging; it should never appear mask-like or obvious. Contemporary foundations are light and should be applied sparingly and blended in well. The shade chosen should be as close to your natural skin tone as possible so that there is no sudden change of color between chin and neck. This way the .end result should be an all-over quality of tone and texture, with just a transparent glaze. Never select your foundation shade by trying it on the back of the hand — the skin here is almost always a totally different color from that on your face. Test them on the side of your cheek, just above the jawbone, and make your decision in a good light.

Only the very young, or those lucky enough to have near-perfect skin, can really get away with wearing no foundation at all if they want to look their best. But, many people have good skin and only need help in certain areas – chin, forehead or nose, for instance — and can just use the foundation to improve tone in patches, blending it into the surrounding skin for an even effect. In summer, or for sports, a bronze gel is often sufficient, providing just a healthy overall glow.

Foundations .are available in various forms — liquids, gels, creams, cream-foams, or solid creams in sticks, blocks or cakes. Which you choose is a matter of how much clarity or cover you want — and personal preference. Most of them are water-in-oil emulsions, with some oil-free liquid formulas especially for oily skins; the all-in-one mixtures of cream and powder which give a very matte finish are best for oily skins too. They should be applied by dotting over the central area of the face, then blending outwards with a damp (not wet) sponge and finishing off with the tips of your fingers; pay particular attention around the hairline and jawline that there is no sudden change of tone — and around nostrils, nose, and lips. A bit of camouflage is often necessary to cover up the odd spot, patch of discoloration under eyes, scar or another blemish. A heavy cream foundation is suitable, in the same tone as your normal one but in a much lighter shade; also, there are special concealers in sticks or thick cream formulas available, sometimes with their own sponge applicators, which are easy to use. Dot the concealer on the required area, then pat or lightly press it in — use a small amount to start with; you can always add more — then blend the outer edges carefully into the surrounding skin. The technique for covering blemishes is the same whether you are wearing foundation or just moisturizer.

Stage Three: Shape, Blush, Powder

Blusher has taken over the role of the old-fashioned route. Before there was rouge, or before it was considered permissible to wear it, women used to pinch their cheeks to bring up the color, knowing it was the best natural way of making the most of their looks. Now, blusher is probably the single most flattering piece of makeup you can possess. It comes in cream, gel or powder form and is the next step in your makeup routine if you choose the cream variety, which includes pencils; if you choose powder blusher, it should be applied to face powder; if you choose the gel variety it is applied over foundation, and face powder shouldn’t be used at all — it is designed for the most transparent effect and so would serve no purpose.

Whichever variety you choose, how it is placed on the cheek is vital. The trick is to stare straight ahead of you into a mirror and put a finger directly below your eyeball on your cheekbone. The blusher should be placed there and then blended along the cheekbone towards the hairline. Be careful not to take it too close to your nose, eye or the hollow of your cheek. It’s meant to make you look healthy, not feverish. Nobody’s face is perfect and bad contouring or shaping can easily end up looking like dirty marks or a heavy bruise. So, if you want to hollow your cheeks, slim your nose or reduce your jaw-line, use the minimum of color and the lightest touch. Choose a darker shade of foundation or blusher, avoid red tones and test the effects on a friend — to make sure you haven’t made matters worse. It’s often better to play up your good points and forget what you consider the bad ones — they’re never so obvious to other people.

As far as blusher color is concerned, either pinch your cheeks and choose the shade nearest this natural blush or pick one similar in color to the clothes you wear next to your face. For instance, with wine, crimson or purple clothes, try deep to medium true pink; with orangey shades, peach or tawny tones work best; and with beiges or tans, try the tawny corals or russets. Anything that is pearlized or has gold or silver in it should be left for evening make-up — and they are particularly effective with a tan.

If you want your makeup to last through the day or evening without requiring much repair, face powder is an essential part of the routine. Keep loose powder on your dressing table and carry a compact of pressed powder around with you. Translucent powders are the most popular now — used not to add any color but to set make-up. They should be used after any cream product you are applying (blusher or cream eye color; if used after the first coat of lipstick has been applied and blotted, they help stop ‘bleeding’

Cream Eye Shadow

Apply after the foundation, before the powder. Use a brush and blend with a clean brush or fingertips, all over the lid or wherever it suits you. Fade away at the edges and put a little under the eye if you like, use translucent powder when you powder your face.

Cream Blusher

Put on the cheekbone. Find the correct place by squeezing your index finger on the outer edge of the bone under your eye, your thumb beneath; it should make an ‘egg’ shape, the wide bit nearer to the outside edges of the face. Blend well, not too far in towards the nose. The left half of the face shows the action, right half the effect.

around the lips) but before any powder color. A good trick is to dust over much more powder than necessary and then brush off the excess — this ensures its lasting effect. Check that there are no dusty patches and that it is well blended around the nostrils and below the lips.

Stage Four: Eyes

Your eyes are one of your most unique features, and they’re one of the most sensitive too. They instantly reflect emotions, respond to the wind, dust, glare, lack of sleep, a smoky atmosphere, alcohol and over-indulgence, ill-health and even your sleeping position. It’s a good idea to protect them from the wind, dust and glare with sunglasses, to keep the delicate skin around the eye area well moisturized with a special eye cream, to remove eye makeup with special ‘eye make-up remover, and to try not to get into the habit of sleeping with your eyes scrunched into the pillow, as this can encourage lines. A healthy diet, lots of mineral water, plenty of sleep and exercise all help to keep your eyes bright and sparkling.

Treating your eyes with care is an investment and ensures they look their best. Furthermore, the eye area provides infinite scope

Powder Blusher

Apply this the same way as a cream blusher but with a brush after powdering your face. The right side of the face shows the action, left side the effect.

Powder Eye Shadow

After powdering the face apply eyeshadow with applicator or brush, all over lids, in the socket, on the browbone, under lower lid, wherever it suits you best. Apply lightly, blend carefully at the edges — make sure it goes all the way to your lashes. Be sparing, powder shadows can make the skin look crepey if too heavily applied.

for the most imaginative make-up. It can be just a question of enhancing the eyes naturally with neutral shadows and mascara or really going to town with color and shape. Whichever it is to be, your eyes are where contact is normally made with another person, the feature they see first; it is important to know how to use make-up so they always look good.

First, decide whether you are going for an unmade-up look or a dramatic effect — then choose your colors and products accordingly.

From the vast array available, choose the products you find easiest to use. Successful eye makeup relies on the skillful application and it is much better not to be too adventurous at first until you are sure of the effect and have had enough time to practice.

Eye colors come in liquid, gel, powder or cream form; in bottles, tubes, pots, compacts, sticks or pencils. Pencils have made life a great deal easier for the average person as they are easy to control for shape and, being a cream formula, blend in well. A set of make-up brushes, sponges, and combs will also be useful, keeping edges neat, eyelashes in place and apply products that don’t come with their own applicator. It is essential to keep everything very clean, to avoid any possible irritation to the eyes.

Start with your chosen product on the lid, near the lashes and in the socket — draw the lines according to the shape of your eyes. How many lids shows, how much space you have between socket and brow, whether they are wide, deep or close-set, all have a

Eyeliner

Draw with a pointed brush from inner to outer corner of the upper lid. Make sure to apply it right to the lash base. Don’t flick it up at the end, just take a damp brush and soften the whole line by smudging the edge very gently (cake liners are best for this).

bearing on the placing of shadow — (See Also: How to Prevent Sun Damage) for how to overcome problems and make the best of your natural shape.

Next, use an eyeliner close to the lashes, or kohl pencil on the inner rims, if you are going to. This needs a steady hand or will look very messy. This is also the moment to use eyelash curlers, which, once you’ve mastered the instrument, are very useful — they make mascara application easier, open up the eyes and can create the illusion of longer, thicker lashes. It is very important not to pull eyelash curlers away from the lashes before fully opening the instrument! Then highlight over the bone below the eyebrow — transparent skin tones are best for a day in cream, pink or beige shades; keep high shine or metallic gleam for an evening — and add a touch on the cheekbone below the outer corner of the eye.

If you have very sparse or short eyelashes you may like to add false ones. Whole strips are inclined to look very false, but a few single ones added to your own, particularly towards the outer corners, add thickness, length and can be very effective. Follow the directions exactly and, if you do use a strip, make sure it is well attached and isn’t going to start lifting up at the corners.

The last step is mascara — easiest to apply is the wand, but it comes in cream or cake form too. The cream needs a good brush, as it is messy to use; the cake form usually comes with its own brush, is applied with water in several coats and is very ancient: it stays on well and the lashes don’t clog. The technique for applying mascara is the same: first, the top side of the upper lashes, stroking the color down, then the underside of the top lashes, stroking the color up, and lastly the lower lashes. Be careful there are no blobs of mascara left on the lashes and that they are well separated — a combined lash brush and comb is good — any color that has touched the surrounding skin can be removed with a cotton bud. The best effect will be achieved with several light coats of mascara — this takes time but is well worth it.

Finally, look straight ahead into the mirror to check the shape you’ve made around your eyes; look closer to make sure everything is tidy — especially the inner corners of the eyes — and remove unwanted smudges of color or flecks of powder with a cotton bud or sponge-stick applicator. Add a little depth to the color in the socket if necessary — it may have soaked in a bit by this time. Brush eyebrows well to remove any trace of powder, up first, then across in the direction they grow. Then define with an eyebrow pencil if necessary — use soft, light feathery strokes and extend slightly at the ends. Lastly, brush again to blend in the pencil work. Eyebrows are an essential part of your facial character and provide a natural balance.

Fifth and Last Stage: Lips and Nails

After eyes, lips come close to being your most expressive feature. They are very mobile and sensual and your make-up must add to these qualities and never make them look stiff or dry. Fashion swings like a pendulum from lipsticks that are very dark through vivid bright colours to those that are closest to natural lip shades — and occasionally, as in the early sixties, to chalky pinks that are unnaturally pale and not very flattering, as they make the mouth look dry, but to draw attention to the eyes. One of the quickest ways to give yourself a new look is to reverse the focus you’ve been giving your face — for instance, if you’ve been wearing dark lipstick and not much eye makeup, try the opposite. This also gives you a chance to learn new makeup techniques, experiment with new products and avoid slipping into a make-up rut. Lip colors come in the conventional stick form, in tubes, compacts, pots or pencils; they range from opaque matt colors through shiny iridescent or pearlized shades to thin transparent tinted or colorless gloss. Again, pencils have made a terrific difference in helping people make up their lips successfully, but even better is to learn to use a lip brush. This way you get the cleanest possible outline — with color filled in exactly where you want it and it should be — and, with practice, you can learn the tricks that change the shape or emphasis of your mouth.

It’s a good idea to have a small wardrobe of lip colors in products you find easy to use and a selection of clean brushes. When buying new colors, remember they will change when applied over your lips — a sensible place to test them is on the pad of a finger, which already has a pink tone.

When you start to make up your mouth, the outline of the lips should be rather obscure as your foundation and powder should have been blended over the edges. Outline first with a sharp pencil or lip brush in a color that is a tone darker than the shade you’re going to fill in with — you need a steady hand, so it’s a good idea to rest your elbow on something solid. Then fill in with lip color, either direct from the stick or using a lip brush. Blot, and apply another coat or add gloss — again with a lip brush; don’t take the gloss right to the edges as it may cause the lipstick to run and ruin your clean outline.

Now stand away and look at yourself in a full-length mirror and check the balance of your makeup with your hair and clothes. This is particularly important for the shape of your mouth.

Don’t forget how often your hands are seen in conjunction with your face — just because you’ve finished using them to apply your makeup doesn’t mean you can dismiss them. Think how often you rest your chin on your hands, brush away a strand of hair or use your hands when you are talking. They are frequently closer to your face than you may realize.

Lipstick

Use a lip brush to put it on; powder around your mouth first (it minimizes ‘bleeding’). Draw carefully and fill in with the brush or stick. Use lots of gloss. Steady your hand by resting your curled fingers on your chin. Don’t make a hard different colored line around your lips with a pencil or dark lipstick — it looks peculiar when the middle bit wears away.

You may not like nail color, in which case nails should be buffed to a shine with a special cream and a chamois leather nail buffer and the tips kept scrupulously clean and perhaps brightened underneath with a white nail pencil. If you do like nail color, it needn’t match your lip color but should look pretty beside it whether toning or contrasting — and often the prettiest and most flattering to the hands of all are the beige or pale pink shades.

Nail polish, varnish or enamel come in bottles with their own applicator brushes and many companies offer colors that match or tone well with lipstick shades. Applying several thin coats, drying well in between and building up the color is the best method and will prevent them chipping too soon.

However you choose to present your nails, they must be well manicured and cared for — bitten, broken or splitting nails, dry, frayed cuticles and hangnails and rough dry hands will ruin the effect of the most beautifully made-up face, hair and clothes. Hands are often a giveaway of age, so to start treating them well early is an obvious investment in the future. The length and shape of nails vary with fashion and is also a question of lifestyle — someone who plays the piano, types or uses their hands a lot obviously cannot have long nails. Settle for nails that are all one length, healthy and well cared for — if they must be short, buff them or use a clear polish; if they are medium length, choose a colour that doesn’t draw too much attention to them; don’t make the mistake of ever growing them too long — talons are not attractive.

Highlighters

Apply after you have finished your make-up. Put them on with a brush and blend with your fingertips and anywhere you like, to make the skin look lively. Blend carefully so it doesn’t ‘sit’ on the surface of the skin. The left side of the face shows the action, right side, the effect.

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A To Z Professional MakeUp Tools And Accessories Products

A To Z Makeup Tools And Accessories Applicators

Brushes that come with lip gloss, compacts of lipstick, powder blushes, powder eyeshadow; sponge-tipped sticks that come with powder or cream eyeshadows; spiral brushes that come with wand types of mascara; or tiny spatulas provided with the foundation are all applicators. Your fingers are natural applicators.

Base

Also called foundation and sometimes ‘make-up’, this is tinted solid cream, liquid or gel designed to even out the skin tone, smooth the surface and provide a background for lip, eye, and cheek colors.

Bleaching Cream

This lightens hair and is very useful for small patches of unwanted facial hair around lips etc.; if hair is very thick, dark or course, electrolysis is the best answer.

Blusher

The blusher is the modern term for a rogue; it comes in cream form, stick or pencil, gel, and powder. The creams, sticks, and pencils are applied before powder; the gel is best used without powder, as it’s meant to give a transparent shine; the powder form is brushed on after face powder.

Brushes

Two or three brushes in different sizes, once you’ve mastered the art of using them, will help you give a professional touch to your make-up. They give cleaner lines, blend colors better. Paintbrushes from an art shop are fine; you can also buy sets of cosmetic brushes, usually with some sponge and comb applicators as well.

Buffer

An oblong pad covered in chamois leather, a buffer is used with a buffing cream to bring a natural sheen to nails without the use of enamel.

Calamine Lotion

This is a tinted medicated liquid, very useful for soothing sunburn or itchy rashes or drying spots.

Combs

Tiny plastic combs are useful for separating eyelashes and smoothing eyebrows into line.

Concealer

This is an essential part of the make-up. In stick or pencil or cream form, concealers come in various shades and are designed to cover discoloration or blemishes of any kind.

Cotton Buds

These are ideal for whisking away odd specks of colored powder or mascara and generally tidying up make-up.

Cuticle Cream

This is a nourishing cream massaged into the cuticles and bases of the nail, to feed the nail where it grows and to keep the cuticles soft and separate from the nail.

Emery Boards

These are long spatulas covered in sandpaper — medium-grained on one side, fine on the other — for filing finger and toenails.

Eyelash Curlers

These are a scissors-like device for curling short or thin lashes. They should be used before mascara. A bit of practice is required: give just a gentle squeeze, which is enough to lift the lashes; be sure and open the scissors before taking the curlers off the lashes or you will pull them out, and don’t re-curl after applying mascara — the mascara will stick to the curlers and pull out the lashes.

Eye Makeup

Any color that you apply around your eyes counts as eye make-up: eyeshadows which come in cream, stick, liquid, gel or powder form; pencils, including Kohl formulas for lining the rims; eyeliner; eyebrow pencils; mascara.

Eye Makeup Remover

This is a cleaner specifically designed to remove eye makeup efficiently. The eye and surrounding area are very sensitive and it is important that all makeup is thoroughly removed.

Fading Cream

This is a product designed to fade freckles and brown spots.

False Eyelashes

These can be bought in pairs (in various lengths and colors) or in long strips, from which you can take just one or two lashes and apply them individually.

False Fingernails

These are sold in sets, one for each fingernail, in various lengths and shapes. There is also a process, best done professionally, of wrapping the tips to extend them or of adding an acrylic substance that hardens and is then filed into shape and painted. Either method is excellent for one or two broken nails, or for those who have problems getting their nails to grow at all.

Foundation

This is merely another term for base or ‘make-up’.

Hand Cream

This is an essential lubricant to prevent the hands drying and aging prematurely. It should be used every time hands have been immersed in water and dried.

Highlighter

This is one of a girl’s most valuable make-up accessories. Shiny, pearlized, iridescent, full of gold or silver — whether they are liquid, powder or cream, they bring life to the face when applied with care on places such as browbones and cheekbones.

Kohl

This is a powder used by Ancient Egyptians and Greeks not only for painting lines around eyes but also for darkening eyebrows and lashes. North African kohl is still a powder applied to the inner rims of the eyes with a rod. The Indian equivalent is a cream called kajal. Modern cosmetic products called kohl are usually in pencil form, in many colors and meant for coloring the inner rims of the eyes.

Lip Barrier

This is an emollient stick, often containing sunscreen, used to moisturize and prevent lips chapping.

Lip Colour

Lipsticks, lip pencils, and lip gloss are all kinds of lip color. All three add color, lipsticks usually matte or frosted, lip pencils helping the drawing of a clean outline and lip gloss adding shine, transparent or tinted.

Makeup Remover and Cleanser

It is vital to the continuing good condition of your skin that makeup is removed thoroughly; these items, with a special version for eye makeup, are essential.

Mascara

This is color, found either in cake form, which is applied to the lashes with a brush and water or in a creamy wand with its own applicator. The creamy varieties sometimes contain filaments which adhere to the lashes, making them appear thicker. All mascaras should make lashes look darker, thicker and more luxuriant; to achieve this, it is much better to apply several coats, separating the lashes carefully between each coat so they don’t get clogged.

Mirror

Many people find a large hand mirror with a magnifier one side enormously helpful, particularly for plucking eyebrows and applying eye makeup. In any case, a large mirror surrounded by good even light is essential if your make-up isn’t going to look uneven.

Nail Pencil

This is a pencil filled with white which cleans the tips of the nails and makes them look much brighter when a colored polish isn’t being worn.

Nail Polish

Also called varnish or enamel, nail polish is found in every color of the rainbow from transparent to blood red, purple and black. It is best applied in several thin coats and allowed to dry completely in between.

Orange Sticks

These are used for gently pushing back cuticles and helping cuticle cream to penetrate underneath — a good trick is to round the edge with a penknife to soften it. They are helpful too in cleaning up smudges of polish when you’ve finished your manicure or pedicure.

Pencil Sharpeners

Now that so many eyes, cheek, and lip colors come in pencil form (from slim to chunky), it’s vital to have them sharp at all times to make sure the wood doesn’t snag the skin. So, keep sharpeners of the right size in your make-up bag — and clean the blade with surgical spirit.

Powder

Face powder comes in many tints but is most popular now in a colorless translucent form, used to ‘set’ make-up not to add color. Keep loose powder on the dressing-table and carry a compact of pressed powder around with you.

Sponges

These are used for applying cream or stick foundation — they should be dampened first. Tiny sponge-tipped applicators for eyeshadow are also useful.

Tweezers

These are essential for keeping eyebrows tidy. Only pluck from below and be careful not to take out too many hairs at once — eyebrows add a great deal of character to the face and it’s easy to overdo it.

Zinc

This is used in medicated lip ointments.

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