If your makeup looks washed out in the summer — bronzing makeup comes to the rescue.

Apply as you do any foundation, blending especially carefully as the bronze will be a different color than your skin.

You can also perk up your summer look by turning to your lip color palette: pinks, corals, browns, terra-cottas, brown-pinks, brown-reds an brown-corals are great looks for summer.

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Tweezing your eyebrows is the most dramatic way to change your face without makeup or surgery. It can make your eyes look larger and give your face a clean, polished look.

Steps:

1. Sit near a window to get the best light.

2. Wash the area thoroughly so it’s not oily.

3. Decide what shape you want for your eyebrows.

Styles change: It may help to flip through fashion magazines for ideas.

4. Draw in a brow line on your eyebrow with a brow pencil to serve as
a guide. Follow the brow’s natural line by conforming to the curve of your upper eyelid.

Finding the right shade for your eye shadows isn’t always as easy as it seems. It’s true that every season has its best shades but it doesn’t always suits everyone. The appropriate shade of the eyeshadows should be considered carefully with a few factors: the color of your clothes, your natural skin tone, the color of your hair and of course with the color of your eyes.

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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.

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.

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.