How to apply make up - skin tone color match

When considering how to apply make up, one of the first questions to arise, is what colors suit my skin.

• Fair skin, soft look - Pale pinks and berries
• Medium/Olive skin, soft look - apricot, beige and bronze
• Dark skin, soft look - Mauve, red and berry
• Fair skin, glowing look - Deep berry and rich wine
• Medium/olive skin, glowing look - Brown and raisin
• Dark skin, glowing look - Burgundy and Bronze

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There a four basic color palettes and you skin tone will determine the base colors to work with.

Earthy: Browns, ambers and bronze, with some yellow tones

Rosy: Cherry pinks to red pinks

Violet: Purple tones with blue tones

Coral: The orange family, with a touch of red

For more vibrant looks, colors can be contrasted, but this contrast should only be on one area of the face, to avoid looking overdone.

As an example, a peach skin tone can work well with a vibrant purple eye shadow, but the lips need to be neutral beige, alternatively a pink lip with a neutral eye. Selecting the colors from contrasting color palettes is a case in point where less is more.

Foundations and blush, should almost always without exception, be similar to your natural skin tone.

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How to apply make up Sultry smoky eye

How to apply make up to achieve the sultry smoky eye effect.

The over all look of the face is to emphasize the smoky eye, so the rest of the face should have lightly applied make up.

• Foundation, concealer and face powder should be of fairly neutral tone
• Apply a neutral eye shadow as the base colour
• Apply black liquid liner along the lashline
• Draw over the liner with a black khol pencil, then smudge.
• Concentrating on the outer corner of the eyelid apply black eyeshadow and blend
• Add a warm shadow (slightly darker than your own skin tone) to the brow bone
• Apply a white or cream shadow under the eye brow and blend with the brow bone shadow
• Using a nude of beige shimmer, lightly sweep from the inner corner of the eye to about 2/3rds of the way across the eyelid
• Define the lashline by reapplying black liquid liner finely.
• Using a black khol pencil line the inner under eye rim and lower lashes
• Add black shadow under the eye and blend
• Adding a nude shimmer under the eye will enhance the sultry effect of the eye
• Curl lashes and add black mascara
• Use a pale or pink blush and lightly apply to cheek bones
• Use a nude lip pencil to outline the lips
• Add a pale pink lip gloss to fill the lips

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How to apply make up in minutes

Sometimes, the morning is a rush, here is a guide to how to apply make up in the morning in minutes.

You can leave the house, looking great and have added colour and your face, enhancing your natural beauty, without it taking very long.

The key steps to a how to apply make up in minutes are:

• Liquid foundation around the eye
• Matte powder foundation around the brow and cheek
• Blush applied to the cheekbones and eyelids
• Mascara
• Lipgloss

This quick routine wil enable you tp step out of the house, feeling readt to face the world and as importantly you wont be late.

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