Fancy Talks With Mary - 'How to: Make Up'

 

Hey, beautiful! Today, I am going to tell you something more about Make Up. A lot of girls is my school make it awful: have you ever had a girlfriend, whose foundation looked as if she applied her with mixer without a mirror? You can see spots of cream on her face and stuff - agree, it's not cool. Better not to use any make up, than use it like that! Right? So, right now I am going to tell you some little tips so your make up will only help you, not make you ugly. I don't have live images made by myself, so read slowly :) 

At first, remember: it's not the same way you usually do. You go concealer, tone then powder. Well, it's different apply form.

- Base. 

To start off, apply the Under Makeup Base, if you have it. I know a lot of teens don't, well, next time when you buy yourself cosmetics - first think of basic things,then lipsticks and eyeshadows. But still, if you don't have a base, you can take a hydrating creme you usually use to after cleaning your skin. Don't make the skin too 'wet', because then your make up will swim away, haha. Wait 2-3 min. before applying next step.

- Foundation.

Don't be in a hurry to apply a lot and all. Do it using the sponge applicator. just paste a bit of foundation on it, and apply as if it was a fast music beat - not like a creme, see my point? Just like scattering. Do everything fast and careful, so you won't get spots. You have to get a thin layer of foundation in the final.

- Concealer. 

That's actually the main part in making your skin perfect. 

As I don't have any real life images, I'll use my Stardoll doll. 

So, first thing: perfect thing is having a concealer of 3 colors: Dark, Middle, Light. Like this, for sample: 

These are E.Funkhouser NY. That's better than stick concealer, but you can use stick too. So, you take your concealer and/or foundation brush (I use these ones:)

And put them to the dark concealer. Now, here's where the interesting thing starts: you need to paint yourself, as if your face was just a piece of paper. So, apply some dark concealer on these part of your face:

See, you need to "draw" the whines so your face looks more architectural. Please, be simply careful and remember that less is the new more :) Also, see the areas near the nose? Well, you'll make your nose look thinner if you apply it there, just making the shadows of the nose more bold.

Now, highlights! You take the lightest concealer and do the same thing as with the darkest ones, but here:

  

Remember: your skin must look natural, you just make the face more architectural - that is what makes the make up professional. Also, add a concealer all over and under your eye so you won't look tired :) With your middle colored concealer, hide your little skin errors, you know which yourself :)

- Powder. 

You take your loose powder (faster and better than pressed) and take a soft puff applicator and start applying as if you need to scatter your face. Go little areas and not that much powder, don't a lot of powder on all your face in one step. 

- Blush. 

In the finale, you may also add a little soft blush on your cheeks and darker one - for the whines.

* Some Special Tips 

- If you want to look really gorgeous with your tone, take your soft pearl white sparkling eyeshadow, and apply it where the highlights go after you've done the steps above, especially on your cheeks, but only a little. It makes the skin look very fresh. 

- Perfect make up contains also eyebrows making (not even all over eye or mascara, as most of women are used to think), and professionals do them with the eyebrow shadow. Usually it's brown gray for eyebrows (you just apply it with an eyeshadow brush) and I also use some transparent wax to fix them on their place. Under the brows I go a little of white eyeshadows to make them more bold.

Thanks for reading! Hope you liked it, to the next posts! :)