Best Makeup Tips
Here are some great makeup beauty tips:Beauty Tip: Stella McCartney and Yasmin Le Bon are big fans of Urban Decay's Lip Gunk. This gloss is described as "the richest, shiniest, sexiest stuff for your lips". It comes in a variety of colors that either shimmer or sparkle. These celebrity favorites are also flavored and scented!Beauty Tip: Brighten your eyes and look wide-eyed with a shimmery soft metallic eye pencil. Line the inner corners of your eyes, the lash line or the brow bone. Try a pearly pink pencil such as Shu Uemura Drawing Pencil in Me Pink (ShuUemura-USA.com, $18), or N.Y.C. New York Miss Sparkle Highlighter Pencil (2.99)which is a shimmery white.
Beauty Tip: For clump-free separated lashes try the new eyelash comb mascaras. Try L'Oreal Volume Shocking 2-Step Volume Construction Mascara ($12.95, drugstores). It has a primer on one side and a thickening mascara on the other. The spaces between the comb are wide so more mascara is applied to lashes then usual for a thicker appearance.
Beauty Tip: If you are blonde, or have light eyebrows, there is something you can do to look more attractive instantly! You should darken your eyebrows slightly with either an eyebrow pencil or powder. Many blondes don’t, and when they finally try it, they are amazed at the difference that accentuating their eyebrows makes! Makeup artists often will give their blonde celebrity clients a light-browed look for a daytime event and a dark-browed look for a dramatic evening look. Be sure to apply eyebrow pencil withsoft, feathery strokes and use a shade in the blonde family to look natural. Try Maybeline Expert Eyes Twin Brow and Eye Pencil in Blonde.
Beauty Tip: If you are red-haired, you may want to know that celebrity makeup artists often use an auburn eyebrow pencil on their red-haired clients during the daytime and a light brown eyebrow enhancer at night. Try Maybeline Expert Eyes Twin Brow and Eye Pencil in Auburn for day and in Light Brown for night.
Beauty Tip: Brunettes should have no trouble finding an eyebrow enhancer. Just remember to keep it soft, like a medium brown. Any darker is too severe, even for midnight-haired lasses. Try Maybeline Expert Eyes Twin Brow and Eye Pencil in Light Brown. Makeup artists tend to agree that black haired gals usually look best with a dark brown brow enhancer rather than a black one, which could look too severe.
Beauty Tip: Wondering what eye shadow and liner color looks good on almost all skin tones? Think PURPLE!
Experts say soft shades like lilac and violet are an easy way to add some pleasing color to your eye lid or when used as liner, especially if you’ve been wearing lots of neutral shades. The darker shades of purple can come out at night to give your eyes a more dramatic impact.
Experts say soft shades like lilac and violet are an easy way to add some pleasing color to your eye lid or when used as liner, especially if you’ve been wearing lots of neutral shades. The darker shades of purple can come out at night to give your eyes a more dramatic impact.
Beauty Tip: If you wish to apply a sheerer foundation for a change, and you do not wish to invest money on a second one, do like celebrity makeup artists do, and simply mix the foundation with the moisturizer in your hand, adding more moisturizer/foundation, until you get the consistency you want. (This trick works only for liquid foundations).
When using mineral blush start with very little and then tap off all excess. Using a round blush brush, dust your cheek area lightly. With fewer additives then regular pressed blush very little is needed to give you a healthy glow.
Beauty Tip: If you wish to be creative with your lipsticks, and invent new colors, as a true makeup “artist” will often do, you can combine colors in the palm of your hand. If you like the shade, buy a small vitamin box (available at some drugstores). Cut off pieces of each color from the tube and mix together in the box with a tiny spatula or any flat tool. Apply the newly created color with your lip brush. Makeup artists tend to invent tools as they go along and often carry many “makeshift makeup tools” in their makeup bag.Beauty Tip: If you have excess facial hair that you do not wish to remove, or if you want to lighten your eyebrows, try a cream bleach, such as Jolen, available in most drug stores. It will lighten your facial hair to a very pale blonde. If you’re lightening your eyebrows, keep checking what color the bleach has brought your brows up to. If you keep it on too long, your eyebrows will end up blonde. If your brows do end up too light, apply eyebrow pencil in soft feathery strokes to fill them in, or use an eye-shadow sparingly. In his instructional makeup how-to book, “Making Faces”, celebrity makeup artist Kevin Aucoin used a lightened brow on models of all different hair colors, even dark brown! Be very careful anytime you use bleach and never bleach your eyelashes!
Beauty Tip: If you are Asian, African-American, or have a skin shade that is hard to match, and can’t find a good shade at the drug store, you may want to check out celebrity super-model Iman’s line of cosmetics. This line is devoted to matching ethnic skin tones. Visit ImanBeauty.com. Many makeup artists recommend her realistic foundation shades.
Beauty Tip: Here is a little known celebrity makeup artist tip: If you wish to wake up your eyes, try applying foundation all over, even on the lids, being sure to blend extremely well. Apply sparingly. Immediately set with powder to avoid creases and sliding. Benefit’s Lemon Aid is a yellow-based concealer designed especially for this purpose. Visit BenefitCosmetics.com.
Beauty Tip: If you have light to medium skin, you may have yellow undertones to your skin color. A foundation that looks too yellow in the jar may look very natural when on the skin. Celebrity makeup artists do not let yellow scare them away. Test foundations by painting a stripe onto your jaw and walking outside with a mirror.
Beauty Tip: If foundation seems to slide right off your face, celebrity dermatologists and makeup artists recommend using an oil-absorbing product, such as Seban Solution Facial Oil Inhibitor from Cabot Labs, under your foundation, Apply it to grease prone areas like your nose, forehead, chin, or your whole face, if need be. Visit DeliveredDeals.com to purchase.
Beauty Tip: If your foundation seems to completely disappear during the day, set it in the morning withloose powder. If you need to, touch it up with pressed powder (it is of course, not practical to carry around loose powder). If your makeup still disappears, you may need to apply a lot of loose powder andreally press it on with the puff. Then brush away the excess with a large makeup brush. Some makeup artists will brush the loose powder on the face with a large makeup brush and boycott the puff, as the puff can make the face look “too finished” for natural light.
Beauty Tip: Do not reapply makeup over faded makeup. Your face will look caked-on. Instead,
keep a box ofunscented baby wipes in your bathroom or purse, and use them to remove old makeup before reapplication. Do not use them as a substitute for washing your face, no matter how tired you are. Many makeup artists carry baby wipes in their makeup artist bag. Many celebrities don’t go anywhere without their makeup artists, so they can have makeup touch-ups anytime, anywhere. Can you imagine? Model Janice Dickinson even brought her makeup artist to her reality television show. If you just can't be bothered with makeup touch-ups try a long wearing foundation, such as CBSG's all-time favorite, Revlon ColorStay Foundation with the new ingredient "Softflex", which is truly miraculous and stays put for up to 12 hours.
Beauty Tip: There are several things you can do to make your lips look fuller without lip-liner or cosmetic surgery. The first is to apply Vaseline to your lips before bed. Then, take a clean toothbrush and gently tap your lips before dozing off. When you wake up, wash the Vaseline off your lips, brush your lips with the toothbrush and your lips should be temporarily “plumped”. You can do this every night before bed. The other trick is to purchase Lip Plump by Benefit. It is a flesh-colored primer which “smoothes and fills in lines while it builds up the contours of the lips”. Visit BenefitCosmetics.com. But the absolute best product for plumping lips according to most celebrities and makeup artists alike (and endorsed by the most celebrities) isLipFusion.
Beauty Tip: You can make your nose look slimmer without looking “contoured”. The trick is to not “traditionally” contour it with a white stripe of foundation down the middle, and a darker shade on the sides, but to use something new and different. Purchase High Beam, available from Benefit (visit BenefitCosmetics.com). This is a unique highlighter, which plays tricks with light to give you your most flattering look and is a pinkish hue, making it a much more natural-looking highlighter for the center of the nose. Simply blend the product down the middle of your nose. Blend extremely well with a small makeup brush. Do not worry about the sides of your nose, this product is all you need. You may even be able to wear it outside and look believable, depending on your complexion. Try it! Makeup artists need an arsenal of different tips to utilize as they have to make their work harmonize with an innumerable amount of lighting conditions.
Beauty Tip: If you can’t stand any discomfort when plucking your brows, try preparing the area with an over-the-counter topical anesthetic like Ambesol.
Beauty Tip: To make a lipstick shade lighter and more opaque, makeup artists often apply a thin layer ofconcealer. on lips first. They then apply lipstick with a lip brush and blend. To turn a creamy lipstick into a matte one, place a tissue over the lips, and apply loose powder to the tissue over the lips. Makeup artists are not afraid to mix and recycle products, or to try them out for untraditional uses.
Beauty Tip: Do you know this great beauty tip? Everyone should apply foundation in the direction that thetiny hairs on their face grow in, for a smoother finish. Makeup artists usually apply foundation to the face with a cosmetic wedge, and they tend to sweep it toward the hair line
Beauty Tip: To fill in fine lines on skin (shallow wrinkles) makeup artists apply a cream concealer to the tip of an eyeliner brush and carefully fill in wrinkles. If you use too much, you will only intensify the lines, so apply lightly. Be sure to match skin tone with concealer or apply foundation over lines. You can also fill in the wrinkles with egg whites.
Beauty Tip: To alter the shape of your mouth, line your lips with a beige pencil. Your natural lip-line has a lightness right above it that you can create the illusion of, with the beige pencil, so it looks more natural when blended well, than darker lip-liner. This is a popular trick celebrity makeup artists use when creating a day look.
Beauty Tip: This little known beauty tip can save the day. If you have a pimple that is so red that it can’t be covered with concealer, try using a green “base”. Physician’s Formula sells one called Wanderful Wand Brightening Concealer. Apply it sparingly to the pimple. Makeup artists will typically apply a very thin veil with a concealer brush and then build (lightly layer) the area with as little product as needed. The green works even harder than yellow-based concealers to counteract red, by the addition of blue tones. Apply your foundation over it, being sure the green is thoroughly blended and does not show through. Finish with powder.
Beauty Tip: Your eyes can make or break your look, so if you get that “ugly” feeling, check them first. If they look tired, use 2 spoons dipped in ice water to put over your eyes to wake them up and reduce under-eye puffiness. You may also try cold cucumbers, raw potato slices, and cool tea bags. You can also keep 2 teething rings in your freezer. Another way to wake up your eyes in a hurry is to use an eyelash curler. If you don't have one handy you can substitute the back of a spoon for an eyelash curler by pressing its curve against your lashes when your eye is open. If you try all these tricks, and still feel “ugly”, pull your hair back in a ponytail for an “instant face lift”. Ponytails aren’t just for “sports wear” days. Feel free to wear a ponytail with glamorous makeup and a classy outfit if you wish. You can also try variations on the ponytail by keeping hair in either the front of your face or in the back hanging free. You will still have that “instant face lift” look.
