Always start your make up with your moisturizer and then apply the foundation. This is the best base for your make-up. Creating a perfect base is the most important step in make up. Without it your eye and lip shades will highlight imperfections such as lines, spots or redness. Base makeup to most people means a mask of foundation, but that's not necessary the case at all. If you have got great skin, then all base need mean to you is a dab of well-applied soncealer and some blusher.
However most of us do need a little more coverage than that - or maybe you prefer the groomed feeling that a full base offers. In this case it is vital to ensure you are choosing the right products for your needs, in the right colour for your skin tone.
The next step after foundation is powder. It will fix the foundation and will give you a math look. Apply your brow colour. Follow up with a brow gel to keep your brows looking nice all day or night. Apply your highlighter next. When you are trying to hide lines on the face, using a waxy substance will not move with your face, thus causing creases and other wrinkles to form in the product. Using a creamy highlighter will get into the lines to lighten them and make them less visible.
Creating beautiful eyes means also choosing the right types of products. Applying make-up is like being an Illusionist or Magician. It is not like an artist that paints, because we are working with three dimensions. It is good to use three different eye shadows. Starting from the top eyelash choose a color of a medium tone. Apply that from the lashes to the crease in the eye. The next shadow should be two shades darker than the first. Apply this shadow from the top of the first to the brow bone. The next shadow should be one shade lighter than the first to highlight the eye brows, because the eye brows are what give you your expressions. Apply this shadow from the top of the second shadow to the bottom of the eye brows. This is how you give your eyes dimension, by going light and dark with your shadows. Now apply your eye-liner. The trick here is to use a shadow and a bristle brush. This will give a more natural appearance. Always start from the outside going toward the center on the top and bottom. Another trick to this is to make sure you do not make the top and bottom meet at the corners both inside and outside. By doing this you will make you eyes appear larger.
The final step in creating the make up base is blusher. Most women avoid it, but used correctly it can be the best beauty tool you own. The blush is applied to the cheek bone, and if you stare at yourself in the mirror find the place where your cheek goes from flat and starts to curve back. This is where you should start your blush and then follow the cheek bone back.
Now let's do your lips. Make sure that your blush color and lipstick complement each other when you hold them together. If they do not look good side by side they will not look good on your face. This is also important for the next trick. Use your blush as a base color for your lipstick. This will help your lipstick last longer and prevent it from bleeding. The next trick for your lips is to use a soft bristle brush to apply your lipstick. You will have more control this way, and your lipstick will stay on better. Like your eye-liner start from the outside and work in towards the center on the top and bottom lip.
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