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Saturday, March 5th, 2011
Makeup Shades for Every Girl
There are many shades of makeup but there are a few that can be pulled off by every girl of every skin tone.
Here are the most recent ones.
The red lipstick
We all know that there are so many shades of red lipstick out there. But if you want the glamorous old-Hollywood look, there can only be one true shade- and that is the primary color red. Not the berry red, or thr brick red or even the fiery engine red. You need to be as close as the primary color red.
The rosy lip gloss
There is nothing safer than wearing the rosy lip gloss. You really can’t go wrong with it because most people’s natural lip color is similar to this. A semi-sheer gloss is what you need with a tinge of pink in it is the perfect hue for your lips.
Gold Eye Shadow
This is suitable for everyone. If you want to look for a metallic shade, this is the perfect one for you. It basically looks good on almost everyone. To avoid looking chalky, especially when you have pale skin, pick the one that has a pearlescent finish. You can go all the way by putting it on your lids or you can use it as highlight under your brows.
Peach Blush
The peach blush is the more subtle take on having blush on. If pink is used, you would look too artificially looking, but if you use a peach blush with a little shimmer on the apples of your cheeks will look naturally blushed. Place it on the cheekbones if you are on the dark side.
Deep Purple Eye Shadow
Deep purple, if it is the right hue, can be pulled off by almost everyone. If the wrong shade is used, it can be mistaken as a bruise. Avoid those with too much undertones.
Tags: makeup shade, peach colored blushers, pink lipsticks, skin care for summer months, The purple
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Thursday, December 9th, 2010
Applying Foundation
Applying foundation can be a bit confusing for someone new to applying makeup. This simple article gives you a quick overview of how to apply foundation and to make it look right.
First, find a foundation you like. You can apply it with a brush, with your finger, whatever you like, but make sure that it’s something that you like. You also want to buy a good concealer (it can be a cheap one from the dollar store if needed.) and a setting powder. Make sure that your foundation is about the same tone as your skin, or only one shade below or above it.
First, apply your concealer where needed and rub gently with your fingertip into the shape that you need. Wipe your fingers and pull out your foundation.
Apply your foundation with your fingers at first. Apply one dot to your “third eye” (a little above and between your eyebrows. Think of what you see on some Hindi brides. The little red dot that looks kind of pretty? That’s right.), your cheek bones, to the tip of your nose, to your chin, and maybe one along each side of your jaw line.
Next, use your hand or your brush to blend. Now, keep in mind that you need to keep blending from your jaw line down to your neck. If you don’t, it will look kind of funky and not right. Make sure to blend it until each inch of your skin is covered. Don’t use any more or any less. Make due with what amount you have from each dot.
After this, pull out a powder that is translucent or skin colored. Very gently apply it all over your face with a fluffy brush to set your makeup. Afterwards…you’re done! Apply the rest of your makeup how you would like it!
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Monday, December 6th, 2010
Contouring Your Face
Contouring your face can be a bit confusing. This article is here to help you understand what you need to do in order to make facial contouring easy. It all starts with your palette.
To contour your face you need just three colors and a highlighter. One for shading, one for blusher, and one skin tone powder. The shading color can be a really dark brown, to a light bronze. Just make sure to use it as lightly or heavily as needed. The blush should be a natural color that compliments your color. The skin tone powder is self explanatory.
First, you need to apply the powder all over your face and neck, if needed. This first step helps to create a nice, matte surface.
Contouring is the second step. This is a very precocious step that requires you to be very careful and very light with your application. It is much easier to make a tone dark as opposed to lightening it. Suck in your cheeks, dip your brush into your dark color, and tap off the access. Hold the brush far from your face and very gently swipe in into the hollow created by the sucking in of your cheeks. Blend this color with a clean brush once you have gotten it as dark as you want, which should be fairly light. You can also apply it beside your nose to make it look a bit smaller. Use a very light application here.
Blush is next. Smile and start from the apples of your cheeks and follow the brush backwards. This should be extremely light. If it is too dark, it will look garish. You need to make sure you are using a color that compliments your skin tone.
Last is the highlight. Apply just above your blush and blend. Also apply on your nose, chin, philtrum (little dent right under your nose) and forehead. Pretty much anywhere any light would fall.
Tags: apply the powder, Blush, blusher, Contouring face tips, extremely light, highlight, highlighter, how to make facial contouring, shading, shading color, skin tone powder
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Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
Rimmel London Colour Rush Trio Eyeshadow 747 Dark Angel Review
This Rimmel Eyeshadow Trio is something I picked up one day while at Wal-Mart looking for an eyeshadow brush. I found both the brush and this product and am pretty happy with the results.
This product has three eyeshadow colors as the name suggests. There is a silver shade, a purple shade, and a really dark grey. They are all sparkly and it comes with an applicator that has two different shape ovals so that you are able to vary how you apply the makeup.
I have not tried the makeup with the applicators. This is for personal reasons. With an eyeshadow brush, the colors vary in intensity by how much you apply. One swipe is noticeable but for more dramatic looks, you need more. However, with a swatch done on my hand, it seems that with the applicators grab more product and look a bit brighter. With the brush it takes about 4 swipes to get the same intensity. On the other hand, I recommend the brush if you want less. The silver is very noticeable. It is very shimmery—the shadow and the tiny sparkles in the shadow as well. This color is a lot more noticeable with less product and is great by itself or paired with the other colors. The purple was a little bit less impressive. It looked more like a rusty purple than a bright purple like in the palette, although this may be attributed to my coloring. On a paper towel, the color was still much darker and not as bright and pretty as in the palette. The grey was about the same in as it was out, excepting the eyeshadow brush which was much lighter, as it expected. I did like this palette. I believe it can be quite a bit better, but for the price which was about $4.50 at Wal-mart, it wasn’t half bad. It lasts almost all day, with a tiny bit of fading, but it isn’t noticeable except to the wearer. It could benefit from an eyeshadow primer, but that aside it is a good product for a good price. I’d definitely buy it again and again.
Tags: applicators, apply the makeup, dark grey, eyeshadow brush review, eyeshadow primer, palette, price, Rimmel Eyeshadow Trio, Rimmel makeup review, shimmery, The purple, The silver, three eyeshadow colors
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Although winter would appear to be a long way off, it might just be time to get your makeup bag out and transform it for the right colors and shades that will take you right through summer into winter. Pinks, pastels and bright shades can be mixed and matched for the summer months but in reality you cannot get away with such bright looks for the winter. Thankfully, these are easily changed to meet the winter expectations.
First of all, pink shades of lipstick can be mixed with darker shades for a plum look that goes well in every winter season. Matte is usually the trend for winter but this doesn’t mean that you have to go for it and you can always apply your summer lip gloss over the top for a more glitzy effect. The same really applies for the eye makeup. Pinks are very much in right now for the summer but when you add plum shades to the eye socket and a bit of black eyeliner, the look can easily be worked with any winter outfit for almost any occasion.
The most basic way to look at winter makeup trends for 2009 is to look at the stuff that you wore for the autumn of 2008. The look is pretty much the same with plums and greens combined with smoky grey eyes and plenty of eye liner. Why not try incorporating this with the summer makeup that you have for a look that is slightly more unique but still fashionable and is bound to get heads turning for all of the right reasons!
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Smoky eyes are always in fashion. The colors may change somewhat but the look is still the same and achieving it can be rather hard if you are a novice. The look needs to be shaded to perfection and not applied with a bad brush in a thick way. This is not a good look and will have you looking more like a clown than a glamour queen.
When you first learn about how to do the smoky eyes makeup trends, you must learn how to blend the colors properly. You should use a neutral color for the whole lids as a base color and to make sure that the rest of the makeup doesn’t slide for the rest of the occasion. You can buy primers but this isn’t always necessary and a neutral base color will do just as well. The next colors that you should look at for the smoky eyes effect are black, dark grey and silver as well as browns. You should apply pencil eye liner first in the same color as the look that you are going for and then using a wide brush, use the dark color to sweep across your eyes and blend just into the eye socket. You will need color on the bottom of the eye as well to get the right smoky eyes look but this can be quite difficult so using a smaller brush, dampen it ever so slightly and then make a fine line of color just underneath the lash line. You can then blend this easily with a cotton bud for the best effect.
In the socket of the eye, you should use a darker color to blend it to just above the eye socket and also around the very edge of the lash line and around to almost meet the eyebrows. Using a cotton bus, you can even the edges of the smoky look and perfect and problems that you might have had before adding plenty of mascara.
Tags: applying smokey eyes, How to achieve the smoky eye
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
The summer has finally arrived and it is time to think about how we can change our makeup and beauty regimes to better suit our skin in the hot and summer months. The makeup that you wear in the winter and the summer months should be different. Winter can sometimes call for thicker makeup whereas the summer brings about a need for lighter and more comfortable makeup.
One of the things that you need to do for the summer months is to stop wearing the foundation that you may have worn in the winter. Summer time skin care calls for lighter materials on the body and face and it is a good idea to think about a tinted foundation rather than a thick and heavy one that covers the face. You can get tinted moisturizers with SPF levels to prevent against sun burn and damage from the UV rays and this applies to lip glosses as well.
Another thing that you may want to consider when it comes to summertime skin care is to use more in the way of lip glosses rather than matte lipsticks. You can get lip salves with extra moisturizers and SPF levels which can prevent your lips from drying out or burning when you come into contact with the sun and cracked lips are really not a good look!
When the summer comes, you want to look pretty and fresh and there are a few things that you can do maintain this as well as making sure that you are well looked after. Using lighter colors and makeup types is good if you want to get a tan on your face as foundation, blushers and other things can prevent this from happening.
Tags: easy makeup for hot weather, fresh summer makeup, light color makeup, light makeup for summer, summer lip glosses
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Monday, May 11th, 2009
If you want to look as good as the latest celebrities or models on the catwalk then you need to have a look at the 2009 makeup trends. The look focuses on real beauty and although it is not as glamorous as the looks that we were following for the winter of 2008, smoky eyes and gorgeous pastels are definitely the hottest looks.
One of the looks that we may have been following of late were eyeliner eyes with thicker eye brows. This look has completely gone and the more polished eyebrow look is back with less obvious eye makeup. Soft colors and shades are on the in but these need to be teamed with a pair of perfect false eyelashes for a look that screams elegance.
The 2009 makeup trends focus on emphasizing the natural beauty on the face so base makeup needs to be kept to a minimum. Heavy foundations and powders should be replaced by tinted moisturizers with SPF factors to keep the skin protected from the sun and illuminating powders should be used to give the skin a healthy looking glow as though you have just walked in from a sunny beach with crystal blue waters.
The colors for the 2009 makeup trends are very pastel with beige, peaches and pale plums being the look of the moment. Bronzers should be replaced with peach colored blushers and these should be dewy in appearance with no definite lines showing.
To save a bit of money on the latest makeup trends, you should try mixing the lipstick that you wore for the last autumn and winter with gloss for a gorgeous shimmery look. Berry colors that have been lightened somewhat with a barely there gloss is a perfect look for the summer and this color looks great with peach blushers and pale pastel colored eyes.
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Have you noticed that your makeup bag seems to change as the weather changes? There are so many looks for the different seasons that it can be rather hard to keep up with it all. One of the best things that you can do with this is to keep an eye on the catwalk and the fashion magazines where the latest fashions for makeup will be clearly marked out to help you in your journey.
Smoky eyes are one of the fashion styles that never seems to go out of fashion so for your nighttime occasions, bear this in mind. In the summer this look can be mixed with pale lipsticks and a hint of gloss and for the winter, a plum colored lipstick in a matte shade. This is basically two looks for the price of one and will help you through any season regardless of the latest makeup trends.
Celebrities are usually pretty spot on when it comes to latest makeup trends and one of the most iconic women that you can follow is Victoria Beckham. When she is wearing it, you know that it is the very height of fashion! One of the look that she very often rocks is one of neutral lips and smoky eyes and this just goes to show that this is a look that will rarely go out of fashion.
Celebrities are actually the best people to look at when it comes to the latest fashion trends and people such as Victoria Beckham, Katie Holmes and even Rihanna can all be used as role models to base your makeup styles on. Why not take a good peek for yourself and see if you can recreate some of the most iconic looks of the year?
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
If you want to change your makeup bag to match the season then you need to take a good look at the most recent summer makeup trends so that you can look fabulous when lounging by a pool or just sunning yourself in a bar garden. Summer is the time to go for a more neutral look but this does not mean that it is any easier to create and in actual fact, it can be rather difficult getting the natural look spot on.
Beiges, pinks and light plum colors are the way forward this summer and Chanel showed the way with their mysterious Spring Beauty range advertisement. With cat’s eye eyeliner and a pretty plum pout, the look was stunning and could be worn for any evening occasion.
For a lighter effect and a more day time summer look, you could try out the pretty pinks used in the Dior color collection ad. Pale pink and beige eye shadow was teamed with pale pink lipstick and a rose colored blusher for a pretty in pink appeal that would be great for the daytime. This look could easily be changed from day to night with the help of an eye liner pencil and slightly darker plum shades in the eye socket so that you can have two looks for the price of one.
Bright colors are another look that you can go for this summer with a funky edge and a more modern appeal and although this can be hard to pull off, the brighter the shade, the better! Clarins Pop with Color Fizz advertisement showed how to pull off this look with pink and bright yellow eye shadows and beautiful pink lipsticks. This is perhaps a look for the younger generation that are donning their high heels to go off clubbing but is a look that will definitely get you noticed for the summer of 2009.
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