Decorative make-up - the secrets of the perfect makeup

05-01-2018

Makeup

With the help of decorative cosmetics, you can transform the face –– adjust the features, make it more expressive, hide minor flaws and reveal merits. Artfully made at home decorative makeup completes the image and brings together all its details.

Selection of products for decorative makeup

There are many subtleties and secrets of choosing and applying cosmetics, which will be useful for every woman to know.

The choice of cosmetics for decorative make-up

Make-up is so diverse that when you choose it is easy to get lost. Factors to consider when buying cosmetics:

age features of the skin;
season;
skin type (oily, dry, mixed, sensitive or problem);
common color type;
makeup function for which cosmetics is chosen (masking, contouring, day or evening).

Makeup tools

In order to independently apply decorative makeup products, you can use both improvised tools (sponges and applicators that come in a set with cosmetics, cotton swabs) and fingers, and special tools.

With the brush for the eyeliner line is obtained, if necessary, or very clear or slightly feather.
A brush for shadows can achieve soft transitions of shades, well-feathered borders.
Brush for lipstick will help in creating the perfect contour.
Beauty blenders and a variety of brushes are invented for the distribution of tones on the skin.

Basic funds for decorative make-up

For any make-up – day, evening or bright holiday option, you need a basic set of cosmetics. Without these tools you can not master the basics of decorative makeup.

Nourishing light cream for skin preparation.
Base makeup. It will allow you to step by step apply a thinner and even layer, and all color cosmetics will stay on the skin longer.
The tonal tool and proofreader. The latter is not necessary, but with redness, rashes on the skin, will help to hide them. The foundation will make the skin matte and its color even.
Blush. It is better to use matte blush in natural shades. Depending on the color type, cold or warm tones.
Eyebrow pencil and fastening tool. Natural well-groomed eyebrows are in fashion now. The pencil will make them a little brighter and more expressive, and the fixative will keep the desired shape throughout the day.
Eye pencils. At least two - black and white - must be, they will help create a classic decorative makeup. Using a black pencil, you can make arrows on the eyes or slightly emphasize the line of growth of eyelashes. A white pencil will set off the line of the lower eyelid, make the look open.
Eyeshadow - one palette of nude shades for day makeup and one with rich, bright colors for the evening option. The color of evening shadows is selected depending on the color of the eyes. To decorative eye makeup was more persistent, the shadow did not roll in the crease of the century, will help the base under the shadow.
Mascara. You can not even imagine an elementary makeup without mascara. Black is a win-win. Although light-skinned blondes fit softer brown.
Lip makeup scheme: first pencil, then lipstick and a little bit of shine. Or without shine. If the lipstick is nude and barely noticeable, it is possible without a pencil. In your arsenal, it is better to have a neutral color lipstick and a classic scarlet for the evening.
Powder is applied as the final stage, after the completion of the make-up, the correction of all inaccuracies.

Choosing the color of eye shadow and lipstick

The basics of decorative make-up, the rules of its application say that the color of the shadows should match the color of the eyes, but not coincide with it. Shades of shadows for different colors of eyes:

green eyes - beige, brown, golden, purple, gray-purple, pripylenno-pink shadows;
blue eyes - brown, hazel, beige, orange-golden shadows;
gray eyes - gray-pink, maroon, purple, beige;
light brown eyes - maroon, beige, purple, gray-blue, turquoise;
dark brown eyes - muted tones of gray, brown, blue, violet, turquoise, beige shades.

It is worth noting that neutral beige decorative eye makeup products will suit any eye color, as well as the universal version - the classic smoky-ice gray-black color.

The color of the lipstick depends on whether the skin has a cold or warm tone, the color of the hair; this is a very individual question. When choosing a lipstick, it should be brought closer to the lips in order to imagine how it will look when applied.

Tricks of decorative makeup

In order to make decorative make-up faster and faster, there are lots of tricks. Here are some of them:

removing the arrows or simply failing the upper eyelid, it is better to raise the corner of the eyebrow, and not to pull the skin to the side, then the line will be clear and will have the right direction;
if bright decorative eye makeup is made, then the lips should be inconspicuous, and vice versa - if the emphasis is on the lips, then the eyes do not stand out. This is the so-called "The rule of one accent!";
in order to gently apply itself and shade the shadows on the outer corner of the eye and not smear them down, you can glue a narrow strip of adhesive tape from the outer corner to the temple;
if the eyes are close set, it is better to stretch the eyeliner from the center of the eyelid to the outer corner of the eye, gradually thickening the line. And if the eyes are set far away, then bring the eye completely from the inner to the outer corner;
in order to increase the eyes with make-up, you need to bring the upper eyelid with a black pencil, and with white, select the inner corners of the eyes and the water line from below;
eyeliner looks neater if there are no gaps between the line and cilia, that is, you need to carefully paint over the areas between the roots of the eyelashes;
Lips can be enlarged by applying eyeliner just beyond the natural contour of the lips;
powder will help to fix unstable lipstick - it is applied on the first layer of lipstick and covered on top with a second layer;
to make the lips more voluminous, you can apply a light pencil or a masking agent on the center of the lower and upper lips, and on top of lipstick from the corners to the center of the lips.