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Make-up techniques
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The eyes are the window of the soul! Make-up can make you look amazing if it's done correctly or awful if you exaggerate with colors or using too many cosmetic products.
Make-up artists recommend some basic rules to follow in order to have a beautiful and elegant look. So, before starting your makeup think about the color of your eyes, hair or skin color, time of the day, the occasion and so on.
In achieving a good make-up, you have to emphasize either the eyes or lips - never both. If you chose to do a make-up with attention focused on the eyes, the first step is choosing a color palette that will enhance the natural color of the iris.
For blue eyes are recommended warm colors. To emphasize blue eyes, especially for evening makeup, use pearl colors.
Day make-up
If you do not have too much time for make-up, then you can draw a line with a brown eyeliner that will accentuate seductive blue iris.
If you want a sophisticated effect, you can use a brown eyeliner on the lower eyelid, stretching it slightly with your fingers. Goldie pearl eye shadows are ideal to highlight the brow bone and internal corner of the eye.
Evening makeup
If you want a bold evening makeup you can use electrifying colors but also black ink eyeliner or black pencil eyeliner.
Eye-Liners: it is indicated in shades of cobalt blue, green, gray, brown or black. Eye liner can be used both on the upper eyelid and on the bottom.
Mascara: The best choice would be a black mascara, but to add femininity and sensuality - especially if your skin is white and you have red or blond hair - you can choose brown mascara. For a playful look, you can experience also mascara in blue, pink, green color.
Brief advice for people with blue eyes
- Blue-green color of the iris can become chameleon, blue and green in the same time.
- Makeup base should be a pink-reddish or golden-yellow.
- For shaping the inner bottom eyelid you can use a white pencil.
- In contrast with orange or red, blue eyes will be more intense.
- Do not makeup blue eyes with blue color as the iris. That will fade the natural color.
Brown is the most common eye color. Generally brown eyes are made up of many shades depending on natural or artificial light, mood and chosen shadow color. People with brown eyes can be considered lucky, because almost any color suits them.
If you have brown eyes you can use strong colors, neon, dark shades of black and sallow, pearly or matte makeup, pale pastels.
Day make-up
Rely on beige, brown, lilac, lime, blue gray, peach, gold, green, khaki, orange. Black pencil is used in general for those who have big eyes.
Evening make-up
Use colors as metallic blue, green, chocolate, plum, gold, indigo or purple. Beside gold and silver, for evening make-up, you can choose tones of brown, green or indigo.Eye-Liner's: most appropriate eye-liner shade is black, but you can also use chocolate brown with a brown mascara, especially if you have blond hair.
Mascara: surely nothing will fit you better than a black mascara
People with black eyes are difficult to meet. Most often confused with black eyes are dark brown eyes. Also, black eyes are very special because they are surrounded by some very thick eyelashes and long eyebrows. Black eyes are best highlighted by dark colors, but if you're not a fan of dark makeup colors, you can use with confidence light colors, because they also fit perfectly black eyes, eyebrows and eyelashes.
Day make-up
To a black iris fits a wide range of makeup. You can choose a lightly pearlescent color such as beige, brown, blue, light green, pearl gray, peach pink, gold or silver. If you only have five minutes for makeup, put just a Rimmel black mascara to your eyelashes and you will look great.
Evening make-up
You can choose from a varied palette of colors such as navy blue, plum, indigo, chocolate, dark gray, electric green. Along with these dark colors you must use also bright colors on the arch and the inner corner to give light. It is not advisable to use only dark colors. The best makeup for black eyes is "smokey eyes".Eye-Liner's: best shades of eye-liner is black, ultramarine blue (dark), emerald green, indigo.
Mascara: definitely black!
Brief advice for people with dark eyes
- dramatic makeup is the best for dark eyes.
- use a lighter shadow from the inner corner to outer corner. Your eyes will be more expressive and bright.
- do not forget to define well your eyebrows, according to your face physiognomy. Usually people who have black eyes have very thick eyebrows. If you will let them very thick, your eyes will look dark and the dark circles around your eyes will be more evident.
- pearly colors are the best makeup for black eyes.
Eyeliner
A dark brown eyeliner would be ideal for green eye makeup. The black or gray eyeliner is also an alternative. You can use green eyeliner only if you want a more dramatic look or smokey eyes.
Mascara
The ideal colors are brown and black mascara. Do not use green or blue mascara. It is best to limit yourself to shades of brown!
Eyeshadow
The color that fits perfectly green eyes is purple, violet. But you can also use shades of brown, light pink and shades of beige for a perfect makeup.For a dramatic look, try using in the outside corner and on the arch of eyes, dark green or khaki.
Gray should not be confused with blue. It is true that it may contain shades of blue, but color is not really blue.
If you are among the few people with this color of eyes, then you should know that the most appropriate colors are: light pink, gray, turquoise, lilac and blue ciel. For an evening makeup or eye depth, besides the colors listed above apply to the outer corner of eyelid very dark gray or black.
If you have deep set eyes, choose light and nacreous tints of eyeshadows, it would help to make your eyes appear visually bigger. Apply light eyeshadows on your eyelid from the inner corner of your eye to the outer and a bit further. Light colors should be applied in the middle of the lid, and darker colors – on and just above the socket line. Blend the darker shade up and out.
You can visually reduce the range between your eyes if you apply a darker tint of eyeshadows from the outer corner of your eye to the middle of the eyelid. Apply a lighter eye shadow from the middle of your eyelid to the inner corner of your eye. Blend in different shades in the middle of the eyelid.
Close set eyes are those narrower than one eye width. Apply some corrector on the inner corners of both eyes. Using an eyeliner draw a very thin line with along the upper eyelashes so that it becomes thicker near the outer corner of your eyes. Apply a very thin layer of light eye-shadows from the inner corner of your eyes to the middle of your eyelid. Then apply eyeshadows of darker tints starting from the middle of your eyelid to the outer corner. Blend the colors in the middle of the eyelids. Use more mascara on the outer corners.
Eye Makeup for Down Turned Eyes
If you want to make down turned eyes more beautiful, it's important to shade eye shadow up and out. Apply eyeliner close to the upper lash line and then blend in the shadow along the socket line in the outer two thirds of the eyes. In order to visually lift the eyes, apply dense mascara.
If you have Asian eyes, apply light eyeshadows on your eyelids. Use a pencil to make a thick smoky line along upper eyelashes (the line should be thick enough to be seen well when your eyes are open). Under the lower eyelashes draw a thinner line. In order to make your eyes visually wider apply brown eyeshadow on your eyebrows. Cover your eyelashes with two or three layers of dense mascara.
Eye Makeup for Those Wearing Spectacles
If the frame of your spectacles is bright, it is not necessary to add color with eyeshadows. It is better to pay attention to your eyelashes and put the accent on them. If you usually prefer brown mascara, try a black one. To give you eyelashes more volume and make them fluffy, use a dense mascara and apply it from the roots to the tips. Those wearing tortoise or horn-rimmed spectacles should find time and correct the shape of eyebrows and color them if it is necessary. It's important that your eyebrows and eyes determine your face, but not the spectacles.
Shadows of dark shades make your eyes visually smaller, deep set, while light tints, on the contrary, make them appear bigger, "open them wider". If you want to create the effect of big, beautiful eyes, choose light eyeshadows. Apply eyeshadows after the application of eye pencil or any other kind of eyeliner: it would make your look softer and dreamy. If you want to make your look more dramatic, apply eyeliner after the application of eye-shadows. Then curl your eyelashes, it would add them shape. Then finish your eye make-up with a layer of mascara. In order to add more volume to your eyelashes and to make them appear bigger use a dense mascara. Never line the inner edge of the lower eyelashes, it would make your eyes visually smaller.
How to Make Your Nose Look Smaller and Narrower
Principle of this make-up technique is simple. Colors darker than your skin tone make places covered by it look smaller. Brighter colors might enlarge or emphasize things. So it's obvious that: If you have wide nose - make sides of it darker; Too long nose - darken the tip; Crooked nose - straight lines on sides will help. Making nose look smaller, shorter and slimmer technique Firstly you should choose suitable colors for your face. It is better to use shades of cream foundation and for nose it is enough to have one darker than your skin tone color for sides and one brighter for a straight line in the middle (as shown in a picture to the right). For a wide nose draw a contour with darker color shade. Darker lines should be straight at the sides, and not too thick. These lines must start from eyebrows and finish at the end of the tip. To better render the impression of a thin nose, draw straight brighter line at the middle of the nose. For a long nose - darken the end of the nose tip - it makes it look shorter.
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