A little goes a long way with primer – don’t apply too much as it’s only supposed to be a light application. Try avoid the eye area as you will later apply an eyelid primer. Make sure you allow your moisturizer to dry before you apply your primer. After you have applied your primer, let it sit for a few minutes before you apply your foundation.
To adequately blend your foundation, start by applying foundation to the center points of your face (your forehead, nose, cheeks, and chin). Then, blend the foundation outwards, going from the center of your face, to the outside of your face. Make sure to compare the shade of your neck and jaw before you move onto the next step. You want the colors to blend together – you don’t want your face to be a different shade than your neck, so blend it in well.
You can also highlight your eyes with concealer by applying it underneath your lower eyelid and blending it in just a little. You want these highlights to look natural, so blend your concealer in until you have a lighter area underneath your eyes.
If you have pale skin, you may want to skip the bronzer. However, don’t be afraid to use a little bit of bronzer. You can follow the same steps, but use less bronzer as you don’t want to darken up your face unnaturally. Bronzer will just help add some color and depth to your face. Bronzer is often used for contouring, but it’s usually used to simply warm a complexion. In order to fully explore contour, a shadow color is needed, such as a light brown or grey-brown color depending on your skin tone. The point of contouring is to play with the light and shadows of your face, so when darkening under the cheekbones to provide shadow, you’ll want a color that will look just a few shades darker, like a real shadow on your face. The fluffier the brush and the more blending you do, the better it looks so that you can achieve a more even tone.
For brown eyes: Because brown is a neutral color, you have a lot of options for your eyeshadow. You can go with coppers, purples, and blues. Really, brown eyes can get away with most colors, but usually darker shades look better. For hazel eyes: Pastels and metallics look best for this eye color because they help make light brown eyes sparkle. Heavy shadows can hide the subtle green and gold in your eyes. For blue eyes: Soft tones like coral and champagne often look best on blue eyes. Very dark, smoky looks can distract from your eye color, so sticking to the lighter shades will draw attention to your eyes without distracting from your eye color. For green eyes: Because your eyes have so much color, you don’t have to use much color for your eyeshadow to make your eyes pop. Choose eyeshadows in shimmery browns or even a muted purple. Using a color wheel to find your eye color’s opposite is a great way to make sure your eyes stand out. For example, orange is blue’s opposite, so eye shadows with orange tones will help blue eyes pop, etc.
For blue eyes, you might consider using a light champagne color for your eyelid, a peach, coral color for your crease, and a light brown, gold, or darker peach above your crease. For brown eyes, you have a lot of flexibility. Basically, choose a light color for your eyelids and go darker as you move your way up. Try to stay in the same shades, though (don’t use a purple on your crease and a brown above your crease). For hazel eyes, you can do a light smoky eye, by using a light, shimmery grey above the crease of your eye, or you can do a purple eye. Use a light color on your eyelid, move to a pale or pastel purple on your crease, and then apply a rich purple above your crease (don’t go as dark as plum though). For green eyes, go for a shimmery brown look. Choose a light champagne for your eyelid, fill in your crease with a golden or beige eyeshadow, and then use a shimmery bronze above your crease. Make sure that your eyeshadow doesn’t meet your eyebrow. You want your eyeshadow to end a little bit above the crease of your eye and not any higher. To achieve a smokey eye look for events especially fancy, start with the lightest tone of eyeshadow in your inner eye (usually shiny whites, peaches, or very light browns), then move across the eye (towards the ears) with every shade getting progressively darker. For example, on a blue eye, you could start with a light white on the inner corners of your eyes, then cover most of your lid with a peach color shadow, and finally adding a darker peach/gold/bronze (or whichever darker color matches the shadows you’ve used) on the outer corners of your eyes, blending into the outer portion of your crease and around the edges of the outer eye.
When doing top eyeliner, it can be helpful to place a piece of tape next to your eye, so that your eyeliner has a nice boundary. Take a piece of scotch tape one inch long, and line it up with the outer edge of your lower eyelid. Place it at an angle so that extends away from your upper eyelid towards the end of your eyebrow. [5] X Research source The color you choose for your eyeliner is up to you. Black is good for a fancy party, but if you have naturally light lashes, a light or dark brown may be better suited for you. You can also choose a fun color like a shimmery bronze or blue if you want to add some glitter to your eyes. You can use eyeliner on your lower lash line as well, but this often makes people’s eyes look smaller. Using eyeliner above your lash line and then accentuating your lower lash with eyeshadow will make your eyes look bigger. A thin slanted eyeshadow/eyebrow brush can be used to help smooth out any eyeliner bumps and perfect that fierce wing. Simply place a small bit of eyeliner onto the tip of the brush and carefully touch up any issues.
It is really your personal preference what you want to do under your eyes. Start by applying your upper eye makeup, and if you feel like you need something more, add under eye eyeliner or eyeshadow. If you like the way you look without something under your eye, then leave it at that. You could also choose a fun color for under your eye like a light blue or purple.
Repeat this step on your lower lashes, but apply the mascara to the top of the lashes instead of underneath them. If you have dark hair, use a black mascara. If you have light hair, try a dark brown or brown mascara. It will still look mostly black on your eyelashes, but won’t make your lashes look spidery. Before you apply your mascara you can use an eyelash curler to add definition to your eyelashes.
Fair/ivory skin: Choose a baby pink or pale pink for your blush color. This is the most natural look for very fair skin as other shades can look orangey. For fair skin that is a little bit darker you can use a peach blush in a satin or sheer texture. If you want to go a little more dramatic for a night out, you can use a plum colored blush in a translucent shade. Choose a plum colored blush that is a shade or two darker than your lip color. Medium skin: Wear a blush that is an apricot shade, as this will bring out the natural warm colors in your skin. You can also wear a pinky-berry color; because a pale pink looks good on fair skin, a medium pink will look good on medium skin. For a more dramatic look, choose a muted mauve (pale purple) color that has a hint of plum. Olive skin: Look for warm tones like an orangey-peach, that will hide the green undertones in the skin. Wear a rose or bronze colored blush for a more dramatic look that will add warmth to your skin and help boost the olive color. If you have fair olive skin you can use these same colors, just don’t apply as much blush. Dark skin: Go for bold, highly pigmented shades like raisin, brick, and cranberry. For a dramatic look, choose a bright tangerine that will be pretty and subtle on dark skin.
For fair skin: Berry colors or blue-based shades of reds and purples; light pinks like candy pinks and sugars; nudes like pearl, honey, and peachy coral; honey browns; deep plums for a dramatic look Medium/tan skin: Bright, orange based reds; bright or berry colored pinks; shimmery peaches and corals; gold based browns; and deep berries. Olive skin: Bricks or rusty reds; light, glossy pinks; brown based shades of peach and tan; berry browns with hints of pink; medium shades of plum or berry Dark skin: Ruby, candy apple, and garnet reds; punch and fuchsia pinks; coppery peach nudes; deep, rich browns; mulberry and deep plum
Another way to blot lipstick is to carefully hold a tissue over your lips, and dab at your lips with a big fluffy brush (like a blush brush). This takes the excess lip color evenly off of your lips, without getting any on your face or the brush (as long as you only dab your lips and don’t dab too hard, that is!).
This spray is suitable for all skin types, but if you have sensitive or dry skin try to avoid sprays with alcohol as they can dry out your skin.
