Lessons for Model Look

Wake up to right Make-up

Whatever you’ve got – make-up can make it better! Co-ordinate your eye make-up, lip color and nail polish with your complexion and clothes contrasting and combining colors to create the focus your face deserves.

Steps to Perfect Make-up

Choose the right light in which you do your make-up. Day-time make-up is best put in daylight by the window. Evening make-up should be done in front of a centrally positioned electric light. Use a hand-mirror for really close work, i.e., applying the eye-liner or the mascara. Apply make-up on a skin that is freshly cleansed, toned and moisturized. Wait for five minutes before starting your make-up. Give yourself enough time to do a good job. Plan your look before you start laying your equipment in front of you. Keep your make-up kit clean and tidy. Sharpen all your pencils and make sure your brushes are clean and no residue of the previous make-up is left on it.more
Steps to a Perfect Base

The product is Oil of Ulay’s ‘White Beauty Fluid’ that gives a matte finish.

Procedure After shaking the bottle/jar, dampen your cosmetic sponge with cool water and then squeeze dry. Apply the base on your cheeks and then with the sponge, sweep out to over your temples. Work on the other cheek, forehead, chin and neck – part by part. Do not apply all over your face and neck by dabbing it all at once because. You might apply more than you need and wiping it off will not only result in wastage but will also drag the skin unnecessarily. Not everyone has an even skin tone. Some parts require more than the others. Double-check your blending with the fingertips, being extra careful around eyes and nostrils.

Concealer

For hiding spots, blotches and deeper discoloration, you need heavier concealers which should be firm-textured – neither too dry, nor too greasy to blend.

Procedure

Rub a little concealer on a firm, flat brush. Dab the concealer over spots and blotches. Wait for five minutes so that is adheres well to the base.

Powder

What varnish is to an oil painting, translucent powder is to the base. It seals, sets and fixes. Whilst it helps even out the tone, it absorbs any shine.

Procedure

Use a large puff. Dip into the loose translucent powder and press firmly over your face and neck.

Steps to that Perfect Blusher

The most flattering of the color cosmetics – that not only accentuates the cheek bones but gives the impression of a soft healthy glow, is the blusher. Selective and clever usage omits the needs for shaders – especially during day time. Use two shades of the same color-a light and a dark to shape the face.

Blusher strengthens and livens the face.

Deep shades are more suitable for evenings.

Rose-pin and coral colors are fresh looking and give flow for natural day-time look.

Soft coral and warm rose tints suit pale skin.

Warm pinks suit olive skin.

Powder the blusher with a blusher brush to give you more control.

Procedure

Start from the bulbous piece at the entrance of the ear down to the corner of your mouth by placing a thin handled brush across the cheek. This helps define the angle.

Do not apply the blusher any lower down the cheek bone than the end of your nose.

Do not apply the blusher closer to the centre of your face than the outer corner of your eye.

Do not apply the blusher any higher than the temples.

Steps to Perfect Eye Make-up

Eye Shadows

Your eyes are the most expressive feature of your face. They have the power of implying emotion without the rest of your face even twitching a muscle. Eye shadows are obviously the most prominent cosmetic in your make-up kit. Some shades though flatter more than the others.

BROWNS
are gentle enough to suit all eye colors. They intensify pale eyes by sheer contrast and make brown eyes look richer.

OLIVE TONES can give very natural warmth for an outdoor look. Use a low key pearl or matte for daytime. A little pearl highlighter brightens and makes all the difference any time.

Eye Pencils

Should be thin, matte and come in a variety of browns. It is often a good idea to use more than one shade for textured natural looking brow work. Keep the sharpened pencils in a cool place.

Eye Liners

Cake type, which is more versatile, is the best as it allows you to mix up your own consistency with water depending on how strong you want your colour to be. Definite dark outlining of eyes is no longer in fashion.

Mascara

Firm, slow sweeps are the key to well coated lashes and unscathed surrounding lids.

Make sure your brush is evenly coated with mascara with no gluts or clogs.

Look down into your mirror and firmly brush the top side of your upper lashes.

Separate clogged lashes with a clean dry mascara brush.

Looking upward into the mirror, coat your lower lashes with the mascara wand stroking across them outwards, then inwards.

Steps to Perfect Lipstick

Your lip colour should flatter your complexion. Pale skins should avoid strong, vivid colors which may harden the look. Dark sin looks exotic with bright, punchy flame-like colors. Sallow skins should avoid yellow tones like oranges and some browns. Matte lipsticks are no longer in fashion. Glossy lip colors are in vogue.

Procedure

With a lip brush, make a ‘v’ on the cut on the upper lip and outline either side to the out corners.

Follow the lip line down either side of the lower lip meeting at the centre.

Fill in with lipstick directly applied within the outline.For a richer effect apply clear gloss to the centre of your lips.

Creating the Illusion

Shaders

Use a dark foundation by two shades of your skin colour. Its job is to create shadows, to slim, minimize and hollow. So, it should essentially be matte as any sheen would catch the light and bring it to the fore.

Highlighter

Its job is to pick out your ‘high’ spots like your cheek bones, brow bones chin and the centre of your nose. They can be peach, ivory or white with silver or gold sheen.

Slimming a Plump Face

Shade the temple hollows just in front of the hairline and create more definite hollows under the cheek bones. Apply highlighter on the brow bone, blending up beyond the brow itself to bring the bone forward. Highlight and cheekbone from its highest point along towards the hairline.

Shortening a Long Face

Blend shader from just under the chin slightly upwards onto the chin mound. Shade the forehead at the temples, working around to the hairline and gradually fading out at mid-brow. Lightly shade around the jaw line. Highlight the cheekbones and brow bones.

Softening a Square Face

Shade the four corner ‘angles’ of the face-the temples, following the hairline round just onto the brow, the squares of the jawbone from below the ears to either side of the chin. Highlight the lower half of the chin, the centre brow down the nose and the cheek bones.

Slimming a Wide Face

Blend the shaders either side of the bridge deep into the inner eye corners and fairly either side of the nose itself. Slim the nostrils by shading into the creases. Highlight all along the centre of the nose.

Softening a Pointed Chin

Blend the shader upwards on the chin. Highlight the jawbone on the either side of the chin.

Make-up for Dark Skin

Today, there are an increasing number of products specially formulated for dark skins. Dark skins either have reddish or a yellowish tone. It is important to find the right base to even out the skin tone.

Just as it is a must to use a concealer foundation and face powder for fair skin, so it is for dark skins. Use your concealer before the foundation and choose your foundation in the shades of light, medium and dark to match the skin tone. Keep the application of powder light; dark skins can turn grayish with too much of powder.

Blusher

Choose a type that is non-greasy, creamy blusher or a gel. Avoid powder blusher especially if you have undue oiliness as oily skins absorb powder make-up to a greater degree.

Highlighter

Can be very effective on dark skins when used on the bridge of the nose, around the eye area, above the cheek bones and just above the upper lip.

Eye shadow

As there is less contrast for colour, dark skins can carry bright vivid colors well. For evenings gold/copper look very good. Black/brown/navy blue eye pencil and kohl is best suited.

Lipsticks

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