Makeup Tips

Quick Tips:

  • Have clumpy mascara? Run the closed tube under hot water for about 20 seconds and it will apply to your lashes smoother.
  • Forgot your eyeliner? Double up with your mascara and apply using an angle brush.
Filling in eyebrows
Filling in eyebrows

 

Not only can you use a pencil (above) or gel/brow pomade, but you can also try a natural eye shadow shade to fill in using an angle brush, then set it by brushing on clear gel (optional).
Not only can you use a pencil (above) or gel/brow pomade, but you can also try a natural eye shadow shade to fill in using an angle brush, then set it by brushing on clear gel (optional).

 

  • If applying false lashes is difficult for you, it helps to have a mirror angled below you and to look downwards so you can get the falsies closer to your lash line.

Basics/”Good To Knows”:

  • To avoid getting flakes of mascara on the lower lid, put any object with an edge (i.e. business card edge, cardboard corner, etc.) tightly along your waterline (area surrounding the bottom lashes), and gently swipe back and forth.
  • Don’t have cream blush? Add a quarter size dot of a natural shade of lipstick to the apples of your cheeks and blend upwards along your cheekbones.
  • Want a cleaner manicure? Put Elmer’s glue or liquid latex around your cuticles and you’ll have no excess polish on your skin!
  • To prevent brittle nails, file them all in the same direction. If you do the back and forth “seesaw” motion, it causes the fibers in the nail to become weaker.
  • On a budget? Buy travel sizes of items to save money. They last just as long before they “expire.” Cosmetic stores such as Sephora or Ulta carry smaller sizes for a fraction of the normal prices.

Step-By-Steps:

  • Simple Contouring:
    • Swipe bronzer in the shape of a three on the outer edges of your face, starting on the edge of your temple along your cheekbone to the edge of your jawline.
    • Add highlights above your cheekbones, in the center of the forehead, on your chin, and in a narrow line down the bridge of your nose.
    • To make your nose appear narrower, take the darker powder and shade ‘arrow’ shapes in the narrow part of your bridge.
  • Easy Winged Liner:
Start with a blank canvas.
Start with a blank canvas.

 

Applying eye primer is optional, but it’s very helpful in keeping everything from creasing or running. Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion (Sephora, travel size $12).
Applying eye primer is optional, but it’s very helpful in keeping everything from creasing or running. Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion (Sephora, travel size $12).

 

Start with the smallest line you can from the middle and work your way out, THEN you can build up. This prevents ‘raccoon eyes,’ and it’s easier to start from the middle of the lid than the inner corner to help the angle of the wing. Go in to fill in the rest once you build out.
Start with the smallest line you can from the middle and work your way out. THEN you can build up. This prevents ‘raccoon eyes,’ and it’s easier to start from the middle of the lid than the inner corner to help the angle of the wing. Go in to fill in the rest once you build out.

 

xtend the liner to the corner. Line the bottom at a suitable angle, then connect the lines and fill in. (This is where eye primer helps if you have especially watery eyes, making sure the liner doesn’t run.)
Extend the liner to the corner.

 

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Line the bottom at a suitable angle, then connect the lines and fill in. (This is where eye primer helps if you have especially watery eyes, making sure the liner doesn’t run.)

 

  • Simple Fall Look:
    • Prime your eyelids to avoid creasing.
Apply a cream colored shadow to the inside corners of your lids and to your brow bone to highlight.
Apply a cream colored shadow to the inside corners of your lids and to your brow bone to highlight.

 

Go in gradually with warm tones such as peach, medium orange and reds (think sunset colors).
Go in gradually with warm tones such as peach, medium orange and reds (think sunset colors).

 

On top of these colors, move outwards with darker browns, then near the middle on your crease. For the final touch, add gold shimmer to the middle of the lid and blend outwards slightly.
On top of these colors, move outwards with darker browns, then near the middle on your crease. For the final touch, add gold shimmer to the middle of the lid and blend outwards slightly.

 

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– By Anna Welsh