Thursday, December 29, 2011

Make up for all Skin Types



Depending on your skin tone, the make-up you choose will need to flatter your face and hair. If you apply the wrong colors, you're not doing yourself a favor -- and you can look all washed out, or overdone. Play up your features with the best make-up colors, tints and hues for your skin tone.

Make-up for Fair Skin

If you're fair-skinned, sheer colors look best on you. Apply light earth tones and soft pastels, such as blue and lavender to accent your eyes.
Various shades of pink will look good on your eyes, cheeks and lips. Keep your mascara to brown or brown/black. Light, sheer lipstick adds a finishing touch. Peach is always a good choice for our fair-skinned friends, it looks natural and compliments blonde hair.

Medium Toned Skin

Your warmer completion gives you many options for a fabulous makeover. Being "in-between" does have it's benefits. Deep matte earth tones and jewel colors such as hunter green, dark grey, beige and brown will accent your eyes. Coral and plumb colors work good to accentuate your cheekbones.
Experiment with your lip color. Your skin tone is very versatile and if you're brunette, anything from pink to red will look great on you. Top it off with lip gloss for extra staying power. Bronzing powder dusted over your forehead, nose and cheeks will give you the ultimate sun-kissed look.


Makeup for Dark Skin

You may need a heavier hand when applying make-up to dark skin -- but you need to choose the right shades. For eye shadow, gray, brown and natural shades will compliment your eyes. Also try shimmer colors such as silver, bronze, and terra-cotta. Experiment with mascara colors such as navy and dark purple.
For blush, more pigment for darker skin is a must. Deep rose and apricot shades highlight your cheekbones beautifully. Sometimes a bronze highlighter does the trick. Stay away from anything with a strong orange base as this will not flatter your skin.
Dark lip color such as apricot, blackberry, caramel and red will compliment your lips.

Olive and Ethnic Skin Tones

With your darker skin tone, neutral shades as well as dark purple and blue will look great on your eyes. Metallic colors also look remarkable, as long as the shades remain darker.
Highlight your cheekbones with bronzing powder, dark plum, chestnut, or terra-cotta blush. Keep the tones natural and avoid anything too light.
Lipstick shades that will bring out your lips are berry, plum, russet, or almond. Avoid "true" reds, they will clash with your skin tone.




"Natural makeup looks are always in style!"



The natural look is a makeup style that's always in fashion. It plays upon your best features and makes you look as nature intended – Only Better! Everyone should be able to create this style and fortunately it's easy to do if you know a few simple makeup tips that makeup artists use.

  1. Apply moisturizer to face first, let dry then apply foundation with a sponge or brush. Make sure to not lather on you only want a bit of coverage. Then Apply a light powder over face.
  2. Then you will want to use a natural tone eye cream shadow on eyes. Light browns work very well with this. You will want to apply from lash line upward, then you will want to apply a little bit darker shadow on your lower lid but very light careful to not over do it. After this apply the mascara of your choice. If you want to make eye seem more open and bright line lightly with a white eyeliner pencil.
  3. Next you will want to apply a dewy blush color like a light, soft pink to your cheeks to create a little bit of a glow. Not too much though because you want it to be very subtle.
  4. Last apply a clear or light pink shade of lip gloss over lips to give a bit of color.

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