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.

Items for your handbag:

Tissues are very handy and wet tissues are ideal during summer.

A powder compact, with compressed powder, is a must. It comes with its own applicator and is most useful to touch up and refresh your face. First dab your face with tissue and then touch up with powder.

Carry lipstick or lip gloss to touch up your lips after lunch. If your lipstick has spread, wipe off with tissue. First apply powder on the lips and then apply lipstick again.

Remember to take your comb and brush, as well as a small mirror.

Your lip colour should flatter and liven your complexion. Pale skins should avoid strong, vivid colours which may harden the look. Dark sin looks exotic with bright, punchy flame-like colours. Sallow skins should avoid yellow tones like oranges and some browns. Matte lipsticks are no longer in fashion. Glossy lip colours are in vogue.

Procedure :

• With a lip brush, make a ‘v’ on the cut on the upper lip and outline either side to the out corners.
• Follow the lip line down either side of the lower lip meeting at the centre.

Make-up has the power to put you in the mood for whatever lies ahead. It can help make you the person you want to be and put you more at ease and pleased with yourself.

Use make-up to show another side of your personality, possibly one you never knew you had. Sometimes glamorous, sometimes pretty, and sometimes natural …the choice is as wide as you want to make it. Believe in experimenting with colors: a new approach can create the most successful results.

Application of lipstick is an art in itself. You can achieve different kinds of looklips with different techniques of applying lip colour. You can create a sexy pout and make thin lips look full.

To plump a punny pout

Avoid dark burgundy, red or plum lip hues-they’ll make lips look skinnier. Create the illusion of fuller lips with dark nude liner and lighter nude lipstick. Line all the way around the outside of your natural lip line. Next, apply your lipstick.

To shrink a seismic smacker

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.