Being a woman might be the best thing ever and being an extremely feminine woman is even better than that. Makeup, sky high heels, push up bras, pedicures, and hair appointmentsare the quintessential necesssities for any femme fatale.
Yet why everyday on social networking sites, lunch breaks, and drunken happy hours are men stating that they don't like women who wear makeup? Do they not know that the likes of Alicia Keys and Christina Milian have a caked on arsenal of product on their faces everytime they're photographed on the red carpet?
Makeup itself is not the enemy, the enemy is the heavy hand who doesn't know how to correctly apply it. Properly applied makeup is only to enhance one's natural beauty, not to mask it. If you don't use proper makeup application techniques you'll end up looking like Crusty the Clown instead of channeling Beyonce.
Here are a few tips to make the most out of your natural beauty with the assistance of makeup:
1. Blend, blend, blend. Your neck should never be a different color than your face. Blend foundation with your fingers or a sponge.
2. When you find a blush color that works perfectly on your skin, stick to it. You don't need a million shades of blush like you do with lipstick or eyeshadow.
3. Don't be afraid of color on your lids. Just make sure the colors compliment your skintone and play up your eyes.
4. Always use concealer under your eyes even if you don't have bags or extremely dark circles. It'll always make you appear more rejuvenated.
5. Using an angled eyebrow shadow brush on your brows will make them nice and defined without the harshness of a pencil. An eyebrow gel brush swept across them will give them a great finish and hold stray hairs in place.
6. A highlight color on the brow bone (the area right underneath your eyebrow) will give your eyes a finished look. Highlight colors are usually shimmery and are a shade or two lighter than your skintone.
7. I also love to use a highlight color on the tear duct area on the inside of your eyes. This opens up your eyes and really makes them pop.
8. Since we all love a nice summer tan it's smart to get both a winter and summer foundation since your skintone does change throughout the year.
9. Don't be too heavy with eyeliner during the day. Daytime eyeliner should only be used in the waterline on your lower lid to give your eyes a softer frame.
10. Have fun with makeup! If you're not good at it, grab some issues of Vogue and try to copy the looks that you see in the magazine. I'm self taught and the only way I learned was through practice.
@TheDivineMsRoss
2 comments:
Great blog Marisa. I agree with item number three, using color on your lids, but only color that plays up your eyes. There is nothing I can stand LESS then seeing people who are STILL convinced that blue eyeshadow works for everyone. Time to move into the 21st century of eye color people!
- DevDubbs
It's not that we don't like women who wear makeup it's that
Attractive women are attractive regardless of makeup and alot of men feel they dont need it.
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There is not much worse than meeting an attractive woman only to find out she aint that hot once the make up comes off
so with that being said alot of men prefer women without or with very little makeup
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