Highlight and Contour Makeup Techniques

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Today I will share with you how to use makeup to highlight and contour your face, using bronzer, blush and highlighting powders. You can practice highlight/contouring techniques until you have perfected your look.

Products Needed:
Bronzing powder 
Powder blush
Highlighting powder
Foundation
Translucent powder
Makeup brushes

1. Apply a foundation that matches your skin tone. Blend foundation well at the jaw and hairline until there are no visible lines.

2. Dust your face with translucent powder.

3. Suck in your cheeks to locate your cheek bones. Brush a small amount of matte bronzing powder under the cheek bones. Add bronzer to the bridge of your nose and at the temples. Blend all areas of bronzer well.

4. Brush blush onto the apples of your cheeks. Pull the blush back towards your temples, making the line of brush narrower as you get closer to the hairline. Blend the blush into the hairline and the bronzer using clean fingertips or a clean powder brush.

5. Use a lighter shade of powder to highlight your face. Brush highlighting powder on the bridge of your nose and around the outer corners of your eyes. Add a touch of highlighter to cheek bones, your chin and the temples.

6. Blend all of the cosmetics well so there are no harsh lines. Use a clean brush for the best blending results.

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HOW TO APPLY MAKEUP FOR WIDE EYES

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If the spacing between your eyes is wider than the width of one eye, your eyes are considered wide-set. Your goal is to create the illusion that they are set closer together.

*In this case, you need to darken the inside hollows of your eye next to the bridge of your nose more than for any other eye shape. Deepening the color helps this area appear to recede and makes your eyes look closer together.

*Begin all dark-color application slightly in from the outer corners and blend your shadow in and up instead of outward, because an outward blending will "pull" the eyes wider apart, and your goal is to "pull" the eyes wider apart, and your goal is to "pull" them closer together.

APPLICATION:

1. Highlight shade: Apply to brow bone and lid.

2. Mid tone shade: Starting from the outer corner of the crease, bring the color towards the inside corner of your eye. Be sure to apply a few more layers to the inside corners to deepen the color and help visually push the eyes closer together.

3. Contour shade: Starting slightly in from the outer corner, brush it across the upper lash line and up into the crease of your eye. Also sweep it underneath the lower lash line, being careful not to extend the color beyond the outer edge of the eye.


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5 Steps to Flawless Skin

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Here's 5 Steps to Flawless Skin

Tip 1: Primer your skin
Using a primer is like wearing a slip under your dress…it smooth's everything out and hides your imperfections.

Tip 2: Know your skin type before selecting a formula
Foundation comes in all forms, and should be selected based in skin type. Drier skin types should wear a moisture-base formula. Oily or acne-prone should wear an oil-controlling formula. A natural, mineral-rich foundation is great for any skin type.

Tip 3: Choose the right tools
Applying foundation is a personal preference and each method creates a different finish. For liquid foundations, using your finger creates a sheer look, while the Foundation Brushes produces a very smooth seamless finish. For powder makeup, use the Round Buff Brush for even, all-over coverage.

Tip 4: Apply concealer over foundation
Applying concealer over foundation allows for better coverage and prevents the concealer from getting swept away. Using a full-coverage formula will instantly conceal dark circles, lines and wrinkles, while reducing puffiness and redness.

Tip 5: Set your look with powder
Powder is a great way to complete your look. Keep it very light use a fluffy Powder Brush to dust a lightweight formula.

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How to Make Your Eye Color POP

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How to make your Eye Color POP...

Don't you love how you can magically pick a shadow that makes your eyes so BRIGHT and Colorful! We have ALL chosen the WRONG eye shadows that can take away from our eyes. I want to share how to incorporate an eye shadow that compliments your eye color in your everyday makeup!

Mistakes::: Don't go overboard with your Complimentary Eye Shadow!! It's not necessary to use this color alone. In fact, a beautiful way to interchange colors but yet keep the POP of your eyes.... Would be to use a complimentary tone in your eye shadow application. Maybe in the crease, on the lid or the Intense color for depth. You can now use different shadows and incorporate your "Eye Pop Color" (complimentary color) By keeping a complimentary color in your eye shadow application, your sure to keep ALL the attention on your eyes!!

Heres a small head start for you to begin practicing adding YOUR complimentary into your eye makeup routine!

Blues-- Warm tones Green--
Pink/Purple tone Grey--
Cool tones/Pastels Browns--
Blues, Browns, greens, you name it!
GOLD-- this is for Hazel eyes with Gold or Brown Golden eyes

For HAZEL EYES---- Find the dominant color or the color in your eye that you want to pop and follow the guide! Is it blue, green, gold?


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Transculent Powder Instead of Tinted Powder

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Pro Tip
Try transculent powder to set makeup instead of tinted powder so you won't have to replace it season to season.

Because it’s translucent, this powder is the perfect match for any skin tone – from very fair to dark. It sets foundation for a sheer, invisible finish and has light-diffusing properties designed to help soften the appearance of imperfections for a skin-perfecting look.

Application Tips

To apply:

• Dip or dust a powder brush into powder and tap off the excess.
• Use a very light hand in applying. The powder brush distributes powder evenly over the face without concentrating in any one area.
• Use downward strokes from the forehead to the chin and out to the edges of the face.

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Janet Jackson "For Colored Girls" Hair-Makeup Look

Janet Jackson looks fierce on the set of Tyler Perry’s ‘For Colored Girls’ in Harlem.  The cast includes Tyler Perry veterans such as Janet Jackson and Kimberly Elise, along with Whoopi Goldberg, Loretta Devine, Phylicia Rashad, Thandie Newton, Dreamgirl Anika Noni Rose and Kerry Washington.  Janet looks good in any hair style! Even with this very short cut, the singer still looks amazing. Janet hair/makeup was very impressive that I created a glam video on her fabulous look.

Products Used:
Bronze Gold Mineral Eye Shadow
Chocolate Mineral Eye Shadow
Deep Red Lip Liner
Red Lipstick
Black Eye LinerBrown Red Cheek Color

PROTIP: To contour cheek apply the contour color right under your cheek bones. One way to locate your cheek bones is to make a fish face. Wherever your cheeks are sucked in the most is where you should apply contour. Use a small circular motion to apply. This will make blending it easier. Start to apply it in front of your ears, then bring it towards the corners of your mouth and jaw line, as shown in the picture 

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