How to Apply Make Up
Every young teen girl has been there at one point or another. She goes to school and sees the popular kids dressing cool and wearing make up. It’s only natural that she would want to fit in and look beautiful. In fact, peer pressure can often make a girl think that wearing make up is as important as getting your driving license. Fortunately, applying make up is not that difficult, even for a first-timer.
Make Up Preparation:
Before you start, you want to make sure that your face (the area to which you will be applying make-up) is extremely clean and free of oil and dirt. It’s best to use a gentle cleanser with a light exfoliate. This will clean your skin and remove and dead and unwanted skin cells. Be sure to clean your entire face and neck area and don’t scrub so hard that your skin becomes irritated. Once finished, rinse the area with cold water and pat your face dry with a towel.
Next you will want to apply a small amount of moisturizer. Moisturizer is very important because once you apply make up to your face, your skin cannot breathe and can become dry and flaky. A good moisturizer will also help absorb natural oil and grease throughout the day. Keep in mind that you do not need to use a lot, often a small amount about the size of a dime will work.
Laying The Foundation:
After you have cleaned your face and applied a light layer of moisturizing lotion, your next step is to lay a foundation. Think of this step as if you were building a house. You need a strong foundation to help protect and support what you add on top of it. A good foundation layer will also keep some of the make up from getting deep into your pores and causing breakouts. When you choose a foundation, pick a color that matches the skin tone of your neck. Having a foundation that does not match your skin tone can make your later layers of make up look un-natural. Be sure to blend it onto your entire face in a light layer and ensure that your skin absorbs the foundation before moving on the the next layer. You can use a light sponge to help your skin blend and absorb the foundation.
Powder It Up a Bit:
Once your foundation has been applied and absorbed you can apply your powder. Lightly dab a powder brush into the powder and apply it to your face. Use soft light strokes with the brush to even out the powder and give your skin a more natural look. Remember you are trying to enhance your natural skin tones, not conduct plastic surgery on yourself!
Eye Shadow:
If you want, you can add a little eye shadow to bring out your eye color. If done correctly, eye shadow can work wonders. Like most make up however, always remember to keep it light. Too much eye shadow can leave you looking like one of those zombies from Dawn of the Dead. You’ll find that you have a larger variety of color when dealing with eye shadow and in the end, the choice of color is a matter of personal preference. Decide upon your color and with an eye shadow brush, dust your eye lids and even our the surrounding skin area.
Your Lips:
Your lips are the next area of your face that you will want to touch up. Like eye liner, there are so many choices to chose from, in the end it comes down to personal choice. Don’t be afraid to experiment with different colors and textures. One of the best make up choices for lipstick is MAC make up which often has higher quality ingredients.Once you have decided upon your color, trace the outside of your lips with a light liner (much like using a pencil). Then, apply your lipstick with light rubbing motion. Be sure to keep the lipstick within your trace lines and, if you want, apply a light layer of lip gloss.
There are a host of other make up options available but, if you are just learning how to use make up, your best bet is to keep things simple. Remember a little make up can make you stand out and enhance your natural look but, a lot of make up can leave you looking a little cake faced and then you will really stand out. In this case, less really is more.
If you are just starting out with make up, keep in mind that you do not need to buy everything all at once. If you purchase a little make up here and there, you can slowly increase the amount and type of make up available to you. As you get more practiced with applying make up, you can try new techniques and colors. Lancome make up is one of the better places to go if you are wanting to start your collection.
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