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5 Minutes Make Up

admin — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:38:18 +0000

Your morning routine is hectic enough.
You need to wake up the kids, put breakfast on the table, make sure they brush their teeth, get dressed and ready and drive them to school. Amidst all this chaos you need to get yourself ready and manage to get to work on time.
So you pick the outfit that will compliment your body, choose the right pair of shoes, but decide to pass on make up, because who has extra 30 minutes to spare, get in front of the mirror and start blending all these shades of eyeshadow?
If that is you, then this make up plan is just for you and for those who don’t like to do their make up. Here’s how to do a clean and natural make up, but most importantly it won’t take more than five minutes from your precious time in the morning.

Camouflaging Skin Flaws

admin — Fri, 21 May 2010 12:56:53 +0000

Many women have small skin flaws which prevent them from having a perfect and clean-looking skin.

Some women tend to have skin redness or suffer from rosacea (prominent capillaries); others suffer from skin patches (pigmentation) which makes the skin look yellowish; dark-skinned women with pigmentation that makes the skin look gray; young women who suffer from acne; women who suffer from darkness under the eyes and women who suffer from hematoma in the face resulting from facial surgery like eyelid lift or Rhinoplasty.

These flaws and others can be hidden or covered by using the correct makeup.

Foundation

admin — Fri, 21 May 2010 14:23:11 +0000

Foundation should make the face look even. It hides darkness, sunspots, freckles and pigmentation and gives a healthy radiant look.

In addition, most cosmetic companies today produce foundation with a sun protection factor (SPF) which protects the face from damage caused by the sun as well as from soot and dirt. Foundation also protects the skin from powder-based makeup products (powder, eye shadow and blush) which can dry it.

Matcing the foundation to skain type and tone, is the make up basis.

Natural Looking Make Up

admin — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:49:58 +0000

Most of us mistakenly think that natural make up is actually no makeup at all. However, more time can be spent applying natural-looking makeup than applying evening or heavy makeup.
By applying natural make up we are attempting to enhance the natural beauty and conceal what we want to hide.
The spectrum of natural make up ranges from brown earthy colors to light yellows, beiges, peaches and up to light grayish and pinkish.
Natural-looking make up has no defined lines or any texture but is an attempt to create harmony and a natural blending with the skin tone.

Eye Makeup

admin — Sun, 23 May 2010 11:05:15 +0000

The eyes are the window to the soul. Most women see the eyes as the most important focus of the make up and therefore they are take care to emphasize them more than any other part of the face. There is a range of possible eye make up tricks but it is important to match the eye make up to your eye shape. The objective is to slant the eye upward and in most cases to make it look bigger. Almond eyes are the ideal eye shape.

Smoky Looking Make Up

admin — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:58:01 +0000

Smoky make up is flattering to most types of eyes. This type of make up can highlight the eye color and improve the whole appearance. It is especially flattering to women with light-colored eyes but also for women with small, narrow and Asian eyes.
Smoky make up look is considered one of the most striking, sexy and sophisticated make up styles. This make up can be seen in many forms on movie stars, singers and models in catalogs and fashion shows.
Smoky make up can be soft and delicate, or dramatic and sexy and can be round or slanted.

Apply Eyeliner and Survive

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:36:45 +0000

After spending a long hour applying your shadows, blended them successfully achieving the right finish satisfactorily, you now have to draw the eyeliner without ruining the work of art you worked so diligently to achieve, but your hands start to shake just thinking about dealing with the very thin brush and

Day to Evening Make Up in 5 min

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:09:05 +0000

You have an important event this evening and today of all days you have an especially busy day at work. You know that you will not have time to stop at home and prepare yourself peacefully, so you take clothes to change at work. Although it only takes you two minutes to put on the small black dress, it is already really late and you know there is traffic and you still want to give your face an extra touch of glamour. So how will you upgrade your day makeup to evening makeup quickly? Actually it’s as easy as pie.

Mascara-the Eyelashes Power

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:43:00 +0000

Whether you are putting on makeup for a stormy date or for a happy event or you just woke up and putting on makeup on the way to work – there is one item that you cannot forego – mascara.
Mascara will always be an integral part of make up. Its purpose is to define the eyelashes thereby providing a frame for the eye. Thousands of years have passed since women discovered the power of the eyelashes and used many techniques and efforts to highlight their hypnotic advantages.

Devastating in Blue

admin — Thu, 27 May 2010 06:13:19 +0000

It does not matter what is the latest word in the fashion world, jeans and a T-shirt are a look that we always like to go back to. You do not need to be a student to know that jeans are always the comfortable casual dress option that we love to go back to. In order to look like a million dollars in regular worn-out jeans, let me introduce you to the basic rules for correct make up for jeans. There are two make up looks available to you: one for worn-out jeans and the other for dark jeans.