Wake up to right Make-up

Whatever you’ve got - make-up can make it better! Co-ordinate your eye make-up, lip color and nail polish with your complexion and clothes contrasting and combining colors to create the focus your face deserves.

Steps to Perfect Make-up

Choose the right light in which you do your make-up. Day-time make-up is best put in daylight by the window. Evening make-up should be done in front of a centrally positioned electric light. Use a hand-mirror for really close work, i.e., applying the eye-liner or the mascara. Apply make-up on a skin that is freshly cleansed, toned and moisturized. Wait for five minutes before starting your make-up. Give yourself enough time to do a good job. Plan your look before you start laying your equipment in front of you. Keep your make-up kit clean and tidy. Sharpen all your pencils and make sure your brushes are clean and no residue of the previous make-up is left on it.

Real beauty comes with maturity. With a little help from our beauty expert, you can easily take on the world and come out the winner.

The older woman actually has a better idea of the colors that suit her and has probably developed good taste. Make-up certainly helps to add a dimension to the face and personality. It can also be used to cover up flaws and blemishes.

The effort should not be towards achieving a younger look, but rather one that suits your age and helps to project grace and elegance. Subtle make-up is what you should try for.

• Eyebrows shouldn’t be overlooked. Brows frame and bring focus to the eyes. If yours are sparse, defining them can enhance your eyes dramatically: brush the hair down, draw a line along the base at the roots with an eyebrow pencil, then brush the hairs up again.
• If you have deep set eyes, keep your eyebrows thinner to show them off more. If you have widely spaced eyes, make them look closer by drawing your eyebrows in nearer together, extending eyeliner beyond the inner corners of your eyes and blend in eyeshadow towards the nose. Anyone over 18 should avoid wearing foundation at the outer corner of the eye where it bunches up into lines: just dust with powder instead.

The most flattering of the colour cosmetics – that not only accentuates the cheek bones but gives the impression of a soft healthy glow, is the blusher.

Selective and clever usage omits the needs for shaders – especially during day time. Use two shades of the same colour-a light and a dark to shape the face.

• Blusher strengthens and livens the face
• Deep shades are more suitable for evenings
• Rose-pin and coral colours are fresh looking and give flow for natural day-time look.
• Soft coral and warm rose tints suit pale skin
• Warm pinks suit olive skin

No matter what your age, it is possible to present a more positive and colourful face to the world by the correct usage of cosmetics that enhance your natural features, play up your good points and camouflage those not so good. It can quite transform an average face into a stunningly glamorous work of art.

Whatever you’ve got – make-up can make it better ! Co-ordinate your eye make-up, lip colour and nail polish with your complexion and clothes contrasting and combining colours – to create the focus your face deserves.

Today, there are an increasing number of products specially formulated for dark skins. Dark skins either have a reddish or a yellowish tone. It is important to find the right base to even out the skin tone.

Just as it is a must to use a concealer foundation and face powder for fair skin, so it is for dark skins. Use your concealer before the foundation and choose your foundation in the shades of light, medium and dark to match the skin tone. Keep the application of powder light, dark skins can turn greyish with too much of powder.

• Choose the right light in which you do your make-up. Day-time make-up is best put in daylight by the window. Evening make-up should be done in front of a centrally positioned electric light.
• Use a hand-mirror for really close work, i.e., applying the eye-liner or the mascara.
• Apply make-up on a skin that is freshly cleansed, toned and moisturized. Wait for five minutes before starting your make-up.
• Give yourself enough time to do a good job. Plan your look before you start laying your equipment in front of you.