How to do Your Own Makeup for Day & Night
Before you start: Skin prep
Before you start to think about applying makeup, it’s important to take good care of your skin by cleaning and moisturizing. These are vital steps that yield the best final results.
Before applying makeup, always cleans the face and neck using a cleansing water and cotton pads.
Next, pat moisturizer on face and neck. Apply by dabbing a bit on a few key sections—the forehead, chin, cheeks—now rub the moisturizer in, rubbing upwards and moving from the center out. spend a few minutes making sure she’s really blended the moisturizer into skin. One of many tips is to moisturize the entire neck, including the back; this keeps the front nice and taut! Don’t forget to always moisturize your lips using the lip balm of your choice.
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We can’t recommend washing your face and neck with theClarisonic Blue Cleansing Systemenough. It’s rapidly become one of our must-haves with a marked improvement in our skin.
Daytime Makeup
Step 1: Foundation
When looking for the right foundation, try and match it to your neck rather than your face as you want your face color to blend seamlessly between the two.
Apply a few dabs of Foundation to the forehead, nose, cheeks, and chin. You can put the foundation on hands first and uses fingers to apply it and work it onto skin. Always start from the center and work outwards.
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Step 2: Concealer
Put some more concealer on hand and use a brush to apply layers under the eyes, on the chin, in the t-zone, and around the nose, these are the places where people need the most coverage. As always, go slow, and don’t use it all up at once.
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Step 3: Always, always curl your lashes. As, it wakes up your face.
Start at the very root of the lashes and little by little “walks out” toward the ends.
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Step 4: Eyeshadow
Use a creamy eyeshadow. Uses a brush to slowly apply the eyeshadow blending it into the socket line (but not all the way up to the eyebrows!). Don’t dab a lot on all at once. Build the color slowly and in layers. With a small brush, also add a tiny line of shadow under the eye.
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a nice mushroom-y shade that is perfect
Step 5: Mascara
Put a smudge of mascara straight onto hands and use a tiny, flat-ended brush to apply. Start at the root and move to the tip of each eyelash, making sure to define every single lash. Dark brown is great for rich, daytime color.
Use the Mascara brush to coat every single lash. Remember, work in layers and don’t overload your brush. The idea is to build up slowly!
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Step 6: Eyebrows
Fill in the eyebrows as it’s the best way to frame the face. Choose a color that is slightly paler than your natural color. Fill in your eyebrows in light feathery strokes, making sure to accentuate and elongate your features as much as possible.
Now, using a clean mascara wand (could be from an old makeup set that you’re not using anymore), brush out the hairs.
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Step 7: Cheeks
Use a cream blush for a daytime look. Use hands to dab it on the apple of cheeks and then blends up and out.
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For the cream based daytime powder
Step 8: Lips
Always mixe lipstick to get exactly the color she wants. First dab lips directly with the stick. Then, she mix the colors directly on her fingers, alternating lipsticks, and apply directly on lips.
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Step 9: Final Touches
Using a thick brush, dust the T-Zone with a loose setting powder. This sets the makeup and reduces shine.
Daytime look finished!
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Transition into Night time
Step 1: Eyeliner
Squeeze some liquid liner directly onto your hand and with a brush, apply to the very top of the eyelashes—starting from the middle of the eye and going out. Mix black and brown for a rich color. Use a slightly bigger brush or a Q-tip to blend.
Now draw a line with an eye pencil just above the line made already with the liquid liner. Here you want to work across the eye, not just from the middle. Using a brush, blend and extend out.
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Step 2: Eyelashes
Now use the pencil and blend in right beneath the root of the lashes.
Use one coat of black mascara to make the eyes pop. As before, build slowly and in layers, from the roots to the ends. For a dewy eye look, put a bit more on the middle lashes (this rounds the eye).
Step 3: Lips
Use a lipliner that is one shade darker than the lipstick of your choice. Be sure that your pencil is nice and sharp. Start with the cupid’s bow of the lips, then the bottom lip and slowly extend out to the sides.
When you use lip liner, rather than using your fingers, it’s good to use a small, flat brush to apply lipstick for precision’s sake.
This one’s been passed on for generations: Use a tissue to blot. Finish up with a dab of lip gloss. Use fingers for this, too.
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Step 4: Cheeks
Dab a tiny bit of light shimmer at the very top of the cheekbone and on the end of the brow. Blend in.
Under the cheekbone add a bit of shading with a darker powder. Use an angled brush to apply. This adds contour and makes face look chiseled. Finish again with a light dusting of powder.
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Dual Illuminator Crème Highlighter & Shimmer Dust is good for adding those subtle touches of shimmer at the top of the cheekbone.
Step 5: And to really liven up the look …
dab shimmery eye shadow on the center of eyelid. There’s nothing worse than a dry-looking eye! This shimmer makes one look glistening.
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Finished!
uhhmmm!! Looking beautiful and ready for her night out.
Note: Brushes
Brushes are most definitely a worthwhile investment. To make them last, wash brushes after each use with a 2-in-1 shampoo & conditioner and leave them to dry on a towel each night.
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