How to Make Your Makeup Flawless

 How to Make Your Makeup Flawless

Achieving the perfect makeup look can be a challenge. Women have different face shapes, sizes and skin undertones, and these are all factors which have a major effect on how you should be applying your makeup. Learning to apply makeup properly can help you improve your appearance and feel better about yourself. Although each woman must determine which colors look best on her, the makeup application techniques typically remain the same, and using basic approaches you can learn to apply makeup and achieve a flawless look.

Instructions

1 - Wash and dry your face. This removes any dirt and oil and leaves you with a clean surface to start with.

2 - Pat foundation onto your face with a foundation sponge or your fingers and blend it in so there are no marks or lines. Foundation primes the skin and helps even out skin tone. You can even find foundations with anti-aging properties.

3 - Apply blush to your cheeks with a big blush brush. For the most natural look, only sweep blush over the apples of your cheeks. When you smile, the apples of your cheeks are the biggest parts of your cheeks and blush helps to give you a natural, healthy glow.

4 - Sweep a bronzing powder lightly over your skin with a short, fluffy brush. For a sun-kissed look, dust the bronzer across your entire face and neck. For a more dramatic look, focus on applying it under your cheekbones and on the temples area on your forehead.

5 - Brush an eyeshadow primer across your eyelids with a high-quality eyeshadow brush. Eyeshadow primer prepares the skin and helps your makeup last longer through the day.

6 - Apply eyeshadow. Use a medium shade on the lids, a darker shade in the crease and the lightest shade above your lids on the brow bone.

7 - Comb mascara onto your lashes to add color and fullness to your lashes and enhance your eyes. To avoid clumps, apply one layer, allow it to dry and apply a second layer lightly on top.

8 - Dust your face lightly with finishing powder to provide an invisible way to set your makeup and keep it from wearing off.

Tips & Warnings

If you are unsure what skin tone you have, look at the underside of your wrist and see whether your veins look blue or green. If they appear blue you have a cool skin tone, if green you have a warm skin tone. If you find it difficult to tell because they are a mix of blue and green, you are neutral which means you can wear colors from both the cool and warm categories.

Rules of Makeup: Sculpting with Color

Dark and light: this is how makeup artists create optical illusions. The basic principle is simple: 'anything dark will recede and sink in, anything light will stand out.'

If you want to make your cheekbones stand out, put a light shimmery blush on them. Dark rings under your eyes makes them recede, fix this with some lighter colored concealer.

There are so many ways these basic principles have been applied.  The key is to carefully study your own face. See where you want certain features to stand out (ie your cheekbones) and then apply color to make that happen.

See how a little bronzer or darker blush under your cheekbones will make the area recede. This creates the illusion of a hollow under your cheekbones. You can then put a lighter colored blush on the upper part of your cheekbones. The result: high defined cheekbones.

A similar principle works for opening out your eyes: a lighter colored eyeliner will do this. So, have a play with color, and see how you too can be a makeup artist and sculpt with color.

The Key Makeup Areas to Get Right

There are a few crucial makeup choices that can make or break your look. And when you've got these sorted, you can really afford to let loose with the rest of your makeup. So, here they are:

Foundation Color

This is crucial. When you get this right, you'll have a healthy natural glow, even when you're using foundation to cover up problem areas.

Tip for applying foundation: if it's a powder, mix it into your moisturizer and blend it in as you go. This can give you a lovely dewy look.

And only apply foundation where you really need it. Otherwise, if you skin is good, go natural.

Makeup Brushes

A good set of brushes makes it so much easier to apply makeup! Anything powder, and you'll need a good brush to apply it evenly. Once you've got good makeup brushes, you'll want to look after them. This video gives you a good step by step on cleaning your makeup brushes.

Finding Your Makeup Style

• buy makeup because you read about it in a magazine
• buy what your favourite celeb buys, even if she totally different coloring from you?
• only stick to the classic browns and greys
• wear makeup the same way your mum taught you
• wear the same makeup as five years ago

If you answered yes to more than two of these questions, then it's time to start discovering your own style.

The first step to getting your own style is to find out what you've got. That means really looking at your face. I mean really Look. Like you've never seen yourself before.

Ask yourself: what shape are my eyes? What proportions does my face have? Do I have a square/pointy/round chin? Are my eyebrows thick, thin, arched, straight, tidy, messy?

Really analyze what kind of features you have. It's very easy (because you know your face very well) to take it for granted and never really study it.

But that's essential if you're going to really get a style that suits you 100%.