Apply Cosmetics Like a Pro

Make-up is very detailed, and so many women just throw on make-up. It is very important to spend some time doing your daily make-up routine. Applying and blending is very fun, so take an hour or so to follow and learn these steps. They will help now, and in the future.

It is almost like addition; once you know how, you never forget. Enjoy!

Steps

Face

Liquid foundation

  1. Apply a small amount of liquid foundation onto the a cosmetic wedge.
  2. Begin on the middle of your cheek, using downward and diagonal strokes.
  3. Blend into the side of your nose, into the upper part of your lip (right below your nose) and into your chin.
  4. Blend into the hairline in your forehead, in your cheeks (above and below your ear).
  5. Blend a small amount on your earlobe.
  6. Make sure to apply foundation down your neck and jaw bones.
  7. Check for any uneven blotches around your face area. If there are, blend them in so that your face looks even.
  8. Repeat process on both sides of your face.

Powder foundation

  1. Apply a small amount of powder foundation onto a different wedge, and blend lightly onto face using downward and diagonal strokes.
  2. Apply more if needed or desired.
  3. Blend into hairline as well.

Eyes

Eyebrow pencil

  1. Take the eyebrow pencil, and from the front start making upward motions, and continue throughout your entire eyebrow. (see tips)
  2. Blend lightly.
  3. Use the eyelash/eyebrow comb and comb your eyebrows upward through your eyebrow, once you have achieved the color you are looking for.

Eyeshadow

  1. Take an extremely neutral colored base colored (this should match your skin tone exactly) eyeshadow and apply generously onto cosmetic brush.
  2. Apply all over eye, from lash to brow line. Be careful not to get any powder on your colored eyebrows.
  3. Use a brush with 2 or 3 darker shades being careful not to make them too dark, because they are going to be all the way up to your eyebrows, (it would look unnatural and goofy), and brush from the outer portion of your eye up to your eyebrow, (sort of like a line) this will serve as a guideline.
  4. Make your way towards the inner part of your eye, brushing from the eyebrow to the bottom of your lid, using downward motions'.
  5. Blend with your finger or another wedge; lightly run or pat over your eye and if more needs to be applied, you may do so. Blending is important!

Eyeliner - Top lid

  1. Use a darker colored eyeliner, and and starting from the inner part of your eye, stipple (like dots) on your lash line, and in the inside of your inner eye.
  2. Blend lightly with a Q-tip or your finger and if more is needed, apply more.
  3. Remember to keep it natural.

Eyeliner - Bottom lid

  1. Do not pull down your bottom eyelid area!
  2. Look in the mirror, and apply the eyeliner looking strait ahead.
  3. Use a lighter color (taupe or brown with a little black), and starting in the part of your eyelid closest to your nose, stipple all the way to the back of your eye.
  4. Blend lightly (with a Q-tip).
  5. If there are uncolored areas that you didn't get directly on your eyelash line, stipple as much as needed on the target spot, then blend with a Q-tip. Your entire bottom eyelid should look even and blended.

Mascara - Top lashes

  1. Grasp your eyelashes very lightly at the root and pull toward the tip to remove any powder that has accumulated before applying mascara.
  2. Brush mascara on the top of your eyelashes from the roots, to the tips.
  3. Stop when there is not trace of powder. It isn't necessary to make it as heavy as when you are going to start at the bottom.
  4. Brush the bottom of the lashes making a zig zag motion a zig-zag motion all the way out to the tips.
  5. Make sure to get the lashes at either end of your eye. When doing them, you may need to angle the brush so that it reaches to the roots.
  6. Try to touch the skin on your lash line, so that it fills in any uncolored spots the eyeliner couldn't reach.

Mascara - Bottom lashes

  1. Avoid touching the skin on your eyelash line, because you have already applied eyeliner. If you put mascara on your eyelash line, it makes your eyes look droopy.
  2. Buy a cheap 5X magnified mirror (you can buy them at the dollar store), so you can see your bottom lashes clearly and very closely. If you are not able to buy one, look really closely into a regular mirror.
  3. Brush starting at the roots, and zig-zag evenly to the tips.
  4. Be sure to get all of your lashes.

Lips

Lip liner

  1. Apply an uncolored chapstick to moisten your lips before applying lip liner.
  2. Next take the lip liner and draw a line around the rim of your upper lips. The lines you make should not be really bold and dark. But if you accidentally make them like that, pat your finger over your lip until they look blended.
  3. Repeat with the bottom lip. It is necessary to look closely into a mirror, because most of the time, you can barely see the lines of your lips, unless you look closely at them. Sometimes your lip lines will blend into your skin, if so, lightly line them.

Lipstick

  1. Use a natural colored lipstick, and lightly pat all over lips. Do not rub the lipstick on your lips when applying it. Patting it will give it a 'tint' and will last longer.
  2. Lightly smooth your lips together until the color looks even.
  3. Pat some more uncolored chapstick on top of the lipstick, so it will set it, and make it last.



Tips

Face

  • Remember, you can always keep applying more foundation, but if you cake it on first whack, then it is difficult to take it all off again and restart. So keep that in mind.
  • Start gradually and keep adding on until your face looks naturally flawless.
  • You really don't need that much liquid foundation, it is really just a base so that the powder sticks onto your face without absorbing too fast.
  • The powder delivers all of the coverage, so add one layer of foundation, and gradually put on the powder.
  • You should not have a plastic 'fake' look to your face. So keep that in mind.

Eyes

  • The inner part of your eyebrows should line up perfectly with the inner corner or your eye.
  • Some people already have dark eyebrows, but normally the eyebrows need touching up towards the end.If you absolutely do not need it, then that's fine.
  • Do not make your eyeshadow one dark color all the way to your eyebrows.
  • What looks good is making it darker in the corner farthest from your nose, and gradually becoming lighter in the corner closest to your nose.
  • Take a light brown and a dark brown and mix them, (dip the brush once in the light brown, and once in the dark brown) and then apply to your eye.This way, it is not just dark brown, and it is not just light brown.This will offset the colors and make a nice medium brown. You can do this with any color.
  • You can blend up to 4 colors to get the mixture you are looking for. Believe me, it is a lot of fun.
  • It is very important, with the eyeliner, to stay in the color range.
  • If you are doing a brown theme, you need to do different shades of brown eyeliner. Same with any other color.
  • Try to stay away from anything extreme. Like, blacks, bright blues, bright greens, yellows, oranges, pinks, greys and really shiny metallic shadows.
  • Greens are really nice, but try warmer greens, same with blues, try like Navy blue and a shade lighter.

Lips

  • Use the same color of lip liner as your have for your lipstick, only a darker shade. Stay in the color range, and always buy lip liners and lipsticks to match.

Warnings

  • Wash your face at night. Sleeping with foundation can clog your pours and cause acne.
  • Wash your face before applying make-up. And add a lotion to make the foundation glow!

Things You'll Need

  • A bunch of cosmetic brushes of all sizes and angles
  • 3 colors of eyeshadow
  • A lip liner
  • 2 eyeliners
  • Cosmetic wedges
  • An eyebrow pencil
  • Mascara
  • Liquid foundation
  • Powder foundation
  • Chapstick
  • Lipstick

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