Natural Makeup Look Tips and Natural Pageant Makeup Tips – How to Get a Natural Makeup Look for Pageants, Weddings, Kids, Special Events and Everyday

Natural Makeup Look Tips and Natural Pageant Makeup Tips – How to Get a Natural Makeup Look for Pageants, Weddings, Kids, Special Events and Everyday

Need ideas for creating a soft natural makeup look for everyday use, a Wedding or
Special Event, or for a Natural Pageant?  Outlined below are suggestions for a natural makeup application for three different age groups.

 
Natural makeup suggestions for younger girls: 

1.  Lip Gloss can smear easily on the face and dress, so if this will be a problem, instead of a Lip Gloss try using a Lip Liner pencil.  Simply turn the Lip Liner pencil tip on its side and ‘color in’ the lips.  The drier consistency of the Lip Pencil will be less likely to smear.
2.  Using a soft medium-sized Blush Brush, apply a soft pink or peach high-pigment Blush to her cheeks, selecting a tone that will coordinate best with her dress color.
3.  Add sparkle to her eyes by applying a small amount of loose Eye Shadow Dust in an iridescent white, pink or peach to her eyelids.   
4.  If she can be very still, you can attempt to apply Mascara to her upper lashes.
 
 
Natural makeup suggestions for older girls:

1.  To start, dust the face lightly with a loose face powder.
2.  High-pigment Eye Shadows in neutral tones such as browns, beiges, pale pinks and soft peach tones will compliment her eyes without appearing heavy.  If choosing a pale pink or soft peach eye shadow to blend with the brown eye shadow, be sure to select the color that will best coordinate with her dress color.
3.  If she likes a little sparkle on her eyes, use a loose Eye Shadow Dust in a soft iridescent white, pink or peach on the eyelid to add shine.
4.  Lining the eyes along the top lash line with a brown Eye Liner pencil will help her eyelashes appear thicker.
5.  Finish the eyes with Mascara, applying from the base of the eyelashes to the tips.  Mascara can be applied to both top lashes and bottom lashes, if preferred.
6.  Using a soft medium-sized Blush Brush, add color to her cheeks with a soft pink or peach high-pigment Blush, selecting the one that will coordinate best with her dress color.
7.  A Lip Liner pencil can add definition to her lips, just be sure to apply a very soft line in a similar color tone as the Lip Gloss. 
8.  Finish with Lip Gloss to add shine.
 

Natural makeup suggestions for women:

1.  Apply a very lightweight liquid or powder-based foundation to ‘even out’ the skintone.  Carefully select a tone that is an exact match for your skin – check that the color matches in natural daylight.
2.  For dark areas under the eyes, use an opaque concealer product for coverage – carefully pat it in the area.
3.  Blemishes can also be hidden by dotting an opaque concealer directly on the spot.
4.  Brush a loose powder softly over the foundation to ’set’ it; this step will provide a smooth powder canvas for your powder eye shadows and powder blushers, and will help your colors stay fresher longer.
5.  If your brows are pale, use an Eyebrow product to softly define them.  Comb a clear Eyebrow Fixative product into the brows to help the eyebrow hairs in place.
6.  Next, use a brown Eye Liner pencil to line along the top of the lash line (you can also add a thin line under the outer corner of the eyes for added definition). 
7.  Using a sponge-tipped applicator, apply a high-pigment Eye Shadow in brown in the outer corner and crease of the eyelid.  Apply a pale pink or soft peach shadow on the lid.
8.  If you prefer shimmer on the eyelids, add a small amount of loose Eye Shadow Dust in a iridescent white, pink or peach to the eyelids.
9.  Apply Mascara to the eyelashes, from the base to the tips.  Mascara can be applied to both top and bottom eyelashes if preferred.
10.  Next, softly line the lips using a Lip Liner pencil, then fill in with a Lip Gloss in a similar tone.
11.  Apply high-pigment Blush to the cheeks using a soft medium-sized Blush Brush.  Use a light application, then add more until the desired effect is achieved.
 

 
Extra tip:  For a sun-kissed look, try sweeping a very small amount of high-pigment Blush in the crease of the eye, over your brown eye shadow.  Don’t overdo!
 
Another tip for all ages:   For prettiest results, use Lip, Eye and Cheek tones of the same color family.  For example, use a peach blush with a peach lip gloss and a peachy-toned eye shadow to accent the brown eye shadow.
 

WHY select highly-pigmented makeup colors?   Makeup colors that look best for photography and stage are usually highly-pigmented, meaning they contain strong color pigments and are not sheer.  A highly-pigmented makeup color product will allow the user to apply a small amount to achieve a bit of color or it can provide darker, dramatic color when applied more heavily.  This allows flexibility for the user to achieve her preferred look.  Along with being longer-lasting, the strong color pigment in highly-pigmented makeup colors will hold up against the harsh lighting from cameras and stage lights (no washed-out, ghostly makeup looks). 

Effective Makeup Tips

Effective Makeup Tips

Beauty is a characteristic of a person, place, object, or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, meaning, or satisfaction. Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics, sociology, social psychology, and culture. As a cultural creation, beauty has been extremely commercialized. An “ideal beauty” is an entity which is admired, or possesses features widely attributed to beauty in a particular culture.

The experience of “beauty” often involves the interpretation of some entity as being in balance and harmony with nature, which may lead to feelings of attraction and emotional well-being. Because this is a subjective experience, it is often said that “beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.” In its most profound sense, beauty may engender a salient experience of positive reflection about the meaning of one’s own existence. A subject of beauty is anything that resonates with personal meaning. Beauty can be of historical monument or physical beauty, and both have its own significance.

The earliest Western theory of beauty can be found in the works of early Greek philosophers from the pre-Socratic period, such as Pythagoras. Large eyes and a clear complexion, for example, are considered beautiful in both men and women in all cultures. Neonatal features are inherently attractive and youthfulness in general is associated with beauty. There is evidence that a preference for beautiful faces emerges early in child development, and that the standards of attractiveness are similar across different genders and cultures.

The foundations laid by Greek and Roman artists have also supplied the standard for male beauty in western civilization. The ideal Roman was defined as tall, muscular, long-legged, with a full head of thick hair, a high and wide forehead – a sign of intelligence – wide-set eyes, a strong brow line, a strong perfect nose and profile, a smaller mouth, and a strong jaw line. This combination of factors would, as it does today, produce an impressive “grand” look of handsome masculinity.

The characterization of a person as “beautiful”, whether on an individual basis or by community consensus, is often based on some combination of inner beauty, which includes psychological factors such as personality, intelligence, grace, congeniality, charm, integrity, congruity and elegance, and outer beauty, which includes physical factors, such as health, youthfulness, sexiness, symmetry, averageness, and complexion.

Inner beauty, however, is more difficult to quantify, though beauty pageants often claim to take this into consideration as well.

A strong indicator of physical beauty is “averageness”, or “koinophilia”. When images of human faces are averaged together to form a composite image, they become progressively closer to the “ideal” image and are perceived as more attractive. Evolutionarily it makes logical sense that sexual creatures should be attracted to mates who possess predominantly common or average features. Another feature of beautiful women that has been explored by researchers is a waist-to-hip ratio of approximately 0.70 for women. Physiologists have shown that this ratio accurately indicates most women’s fertility. Beauty is not solely limited to the female gender. This is distinct from the idea of being metro sexual, which focuses mainly on the behavior of men in traditionally feminine ways.

Thus, beauty products can also do the half done work for adorning your physical appearance.

Makeup Tips From P3 Beauty

Makeup Tips From P3 Beauty

In high school, I was the guy cutting class with his girlfriends in the ladies room. Yah, I was a rebel like that. One of my best friends at the time, a dead ringer for Marilyn Monroe, always used to say, “No girl is too pretty for makeup.”

I think it was just her excuse to put on more lipstick or powder her nose; usually both.

The only time I’ve worn full face paint – in drag as Posh Spice for Halloween – the look was a far cry from your average everyday gal at the office.

It’s easy to pluck a few items from the bin when you’re painting on a clown face, but otherwise I have no idea how you ladies out there wrangle the vast abyss of the cosmetics isle. I’ve heard some people don’t come back. They become discombobulated by the endless choices and never return…

And so, naturally, one wonders what a woman must do to find her way. Terri Apanasewicz is here to help those poor lost souls along the path to a natural looking complexion.

Terri turned her professional knowledge as a celebrity makeup artist and founded P3 Beauty; creating a team of professionals who can teach you how to do flawless makeup in your own home. With her history of clients like Cindy Crawford, Heidi Klum and Gisele Bundchen, no doubt the P3 team has been making a lot of house calls!

Terri is all about making her beauty secrets accessible. Although we could not meet face to face, she was actually kind enough to email me a few pointers:

“When using a mineral powder foundation such as Amazing Velvet, apply your concealer, first and set with translucent powder and finish up with mineral powder. This will put a barrier between concealer and mineral powder so it doesn’t grab dark in the spots where there is concealer.

“After applying eye pencil, always follow by smudging it with a brush and set with a powder product like an eye shadow of the same color. This will enhance the eye and allow for a longer wearing liner.

“If you like color on your lips but not the feeling of lipstick, try a lip stain like Sheer or Shimmering stains from Liptini. They come in a large variety of colors. Finish up with a gloss. The gloss might wear off though the stain will stay on even after eating.”

Thanks girlfriend, you just scored me some points next time I’m in the ladies room!

Dare to Look for New Makeup Tips and Techniques for a Better You!

Dare to Look for New Makeup Tips and Techniques for a Better You!

Are you tired of how you always look like everyday? Think your usual ordinary look is boring and ordinary?

Maybe now is the time to change that! You will definitely be surprised what a slight makeover can do.

It will not only positively change your look, but will also make you feel more attractive than ever had before.

Looking for new makeup ideas? If you need new makeup ideas, they are not difficult to find. There are many ways where you can find new suggestions to spice up your normal makeup routine. You only need to search for them in the ideal places. Here are a few places you should check:

·Your favorite department store’s make-up department or your regular beauty store. Why not hit the mall and drop by the stall selling the cosmetic product brand you like or would like to try?

Cosmetic branches normally offer courtesy beauty makeovers all the time. Try on some of their newest products. While doing so, and ask the beauty advisers for tips on achieving the make over that you like.

·Your favorite beauty parlor. Go and get some makeup done in a makeup session at your favorite beauty parlor in town with your favorite makeup artist.

Ask your makeup artist to try a new makeup style and ask what looks on your face. While your beauty artist is spplying makeup on you, observe the expert’s beauty strategies and makeup strokes. Grasp as much as you can because you can use these new strategies later on.

·Beauty websites. Where else will you be able to find the most comprehensive and latest information than the Internet?

There is perhaps no better way to find great beauty information than through the Internet. The web is the channel through which experienced experts come together to share some of their beauty advice.

Search in various beauty sites for useful and informational tips to spice up your makeup application and style. You can also visit your chosen cosmetic brand’s official site.

More often than not, their site has the recent cosmetic products along with good tips to make you more attractive. Visiting online community chatrooms will also help you and ask for common great tips from makeup lovers like yourself.

Looking for new makeup ideas to improve your look has now been made easier. If you would like a more attractive, more glamorous look, go ahead and try one or all of these sources. You will definitely find something useful for you to try.

Eye Makeup Tips

Eye Makeup Tips

Protruding or Bulging EYE – the goal here is to recess the eye lid, from seemingly to protrude. Use a dark toned eye shadow and blend this over the eye lid, fading color away near eye socket.  Apply eyeliner along top lid, and lightly smudge.  On lower lid, draw eyeliner at outer corner only and smudge softly.  Apply highlighter on brow
line.  Please don’t use light or frosted colors on eyelid, as this will make eyes pop out further.  With this eye shape, finish off with some navy or deep gray pencil on inner rims to help make the eyeballs appear smaller.

CLOSE SET These need a dark shadow blended into out half of the eyes to give illusion that they are further apart.  

Start by drawing your pencil out a little just above natural eye crease.  now blend a strong color into the outer area.  The inner top lid area can be left natural or a pale color can be used if you like.  When applying mascaras, brush your top lashes outwards, concentrating on the color with an extra coat on outer lashes

WIDE SET EYES can appear closer set and more attractive if you emphasize the inner eye area with color to draw eyes together.  Apply eyeliner pencil all way across the bottom lid with only a tiny extension on the outer corners.  

Apply any strong colored shadow to your outer socket line, but instead of extending it up and out, angle it towards your inner brows.  Further enhance this with a lighter shade on your inner lid and complete the look with mascara concentrating on inner lashes.

SMALL EYES To recognize this as your shape, there seems to be very little space between lashes and eyebrows, so we need to give the appearance of a much larger eye. Apply a light color on the eyelid.

Use a darker shade in the socket (or crease) of eye and bring this color to the outer corner to lengthen eye area.

With dark toned eyeliner, outline eye, intensifying color slightly at outer edges of eye, then slightly smudge.  Use a light highlighter along the brow bone to add width to eye.

DEEP SET EYES. This type appears like a hooded eye.  Place a light colored shadow over entire lid, and apply a highlighter along the brow bone line.  Use a darker toned shadow, and begin at the socket line and blend color out above the crease to recess the area. Use a small amount of eyeliner, in a thin line for definition only along top
lid and 2/3′rds along lower lid blending towards the outer edge

ASIAN EYE SHAPE - usually has a minimal eyelid and eyes are wide space.  Gently brush a light or neutral color over eye area and blend towards nose area.  Using a darker shadow, apply to lid, starting along lash line, and fading the color upwards and out to a half-way pint between lash and eyebrow. Apply eyeliner close to lashes to give appearance of thickened lash line.  Line the lower lid and smudge to soften the line.