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15 Makeup Tips For This Holiday Season
As featured on http://beauty.about.com/od/makeovers/a/holiday_makeup_tips.htm
1. Watch What You're Wearing
Be careful not to match your makeup to your outfit.
According to Allure Magazine, "matchy-matchy is
tacky." "If you're dressed to the nines, your face
should be low-drama," says makeup artist Jemma
Kidd in Allure. If you have a sparkly dress, don't
apply sparkly makeup. Instead, stick with a smokey
eye. If you are wearing bold prints or color, keep your
makeup neutral.
2. Add Shimmer
Shimmer adds drama to your look. You can get shimmery eyes in several
ways:
Try a shimmery cream or buy a powder shimmer and mix the shadow
with water. The water will help create a dense metallic pigment that's
not too soft. Some shadows are barely there, but you want your shadow
to have heft. Apply shimmery shadow on your lid just above the iris in
your eye and on the inner corner of the eye. This will open up the eye,
lighten up what is usually a dark area of the lid, and helps eyes look
amazing in photos.
3. Exfoliate First, It's an Instant Complexion Lifter
The secret to a gorgeous face isn't in the makeup. It's actually in a clean,
fresh face. To ensure you don't have an ashen complexion, dry skin or
flaky skin, exfoliate your face before applying makeup.
Exfoliation also allows your moisturizer, foundation and blush go on
more smoothly. You can make a simple scrub using olive oil and brown
sugar or simply add half a teaspoon of sugar to your cleanser and scrub it
into your face. Rinse with a washcloth, which also acts as a natural scrub.
Exfoliate lips by applying Vaseline and using an old toothbrush to "scrub"
off the dead skin in a circular motion.
4. Highlighter Should be Your Best Friend
Highlighting pens are a staple in any makeup artist's makeup bag and I
never go out at night without applying Yves Saint Laurent's Touche
Eclat. Highlighters act as a brightener. Skin becomes luminous and
dewy.
Here's how to apply: Put your chin to your chest and look into a mirror.
Swipe a line of highlighter on the shadows, usually under the eye,
along the nose, under the chin. I also apply a line above each brow to
pull my face up. Blend the lines in by dabbing with your middle finger.
5. Choose to Play Up Either the Mouth or the Eyes
When choosing holiday makeup, decide if you're going to play up your
eyes or your mouth. Never do a dark, smokey eye and a red lip, unless
you are performing burlesque. Choose one or the other. If you
emphasize both, you'll risk looking like a clown. If you do a bright lip,
keep the face light and use only mascara and a light shadow on lids. On
your lips, try both lipstick and gloss. First apply liner all over lips, dot
lipstick with your finger and follow with a light (not heavy) gloss.
If you opt for a dark, smokey eye, lighten up lips with a light, sheer
lipstick.
6. Try a New Color on the Lids
Mix it up this year and try a mauve smokey eye, a color that looks great on
everyone.
You can create a gorgeous smokey eye by using a brown eyeliner around eyes and
then smudge a matte mauve from your lid up to your brow. Smudge a bit under
the eye with your finger. Most companies offer a mauve palette. Pair the mauve
lids with pretty pink cheeks and I guarantee you'll hear some ooohs and aaaahs
at your party. The color is especially lovely paired with a gray or metallic dress.
To fix eyeshadow that falls onto cheeks after application, use a Q-tip dipped in
eye makeup remover and lightly roll over the shadow-y bits.
7. Try a New Color on the Lids
Mix it up this year and try a mauve smokey eye, a color that looks great on everyone.
You can create a gorgeous smokey eye by using a brown eyeliner around eyes and
then smudge a matte mauve from your lid up to your brow. Smudge a bit under the
eye with your finger. Most companies offer a mauve palette. Pair the mauve lids with
pretty pink cheeks and I guarantee you'll hear some ooohs and aaaahs at your party.
The color is especially lovely paired with a gray or metallic dress.
To fix eyeshadow that falls onto cheeks after application, use a Q-tip dipped in eye
makeup remover and lightly roll over the shadow-y bits.
8. Keep Your Lipstick From Fading
To get your lipstick from wearing off too fast, line lips
first in a similar shade of lip liner then fill in with the
lipstick. Set with powder, then apply another layer on
top. This will help keep lipstick in place as the night
goes on. Remember to keep the rest of your face
minimal with mascara and powder.
9. Get Your Brows Done
You can have perfect makeup, but if your brows are a
mess, you'll look unfinished. A couple days before
your holiday party, get your brows waxed, threaded
or tweezed. Keep them in place by spraying a bit of
hairspray on your finger and running them over the
brow or opt for a brow gel like M.A.C.'s Brow Set
($13.50) which will keep brow hairs in place for hours.
10. Super Dry Skin? Plump Up Skin
If you have super dry skin, start your makeup off by applying
moisturizer to your face. This will plump up skin and will keep
makeup from soaking into lines and wrinkles. Once your
makeup is done, spray with Evian water to set makeup. You
can keep Evian spray in your purse to spritz as the night goes
on. The water will make skin appear dewy and less ashen.
11. Oily Skin? Carry Oil Blotting Papers, Not Powder
Apply powder before you head out to set makeup, but don't
keep applying it during the night, it ends up caking up and
looking mask-like. Blotting papers are the oily girl's best
friend. Press a paper to the oily spots and watch as the paper
soaks up oil without mussing your makeup. Keep the papers
in your purse for touch ups as the night goes on. Don't have
blotting papers? A paper towel or napkin will work in a pinch.
12. The Mani/Pedi
You may be tempted to get fake nails for the holiday
party, but don't. Short rounded nails are more chic, look
clean and are elegant. Opt for a deep, dark trendy color
(dark purples are hot for winter) or go light. If it's New
Years, add a coat of sparkly polish over a finger. And don't
forget your feet. Even if your toes are hidden from view,
you'll feel more put together if you have manicured feet.
13. Keep Makeup in Place
The secret to keeping eyeshadow in place for hours is an eye base. I
love Urban Decay's Eyeshadow Primer Potion . To keep makeup
fresh, try makeup artist Mally Roncal's secret: she keeps cotton
swabs rolled in eyeshadow in a cigarette case to apply later after her
shadow starts to lose its oomph. To keep makeup in place, consider
a primer. Apply to face before foundation. And don't skip the
foundation if you also use powder and blush. Foundation actually
helps keep powders in place.
14. Don't Skip the Blush if You're a Brunette
The one mistake I see brunette girls with peachy
complexions make is skipping the blush. They end up
with brown hair and white skin and no color
anywhere. Add some color on your lids and on the
cheeks for that "I just came in out of the snowstorm"
look that's so gorgeous.
15. Don't Overdo the Statement Jewelry
Big jewelry pieces are great for the holidays but make
sure you wear them correctly. Don't wear a large
necklace, a chunky ring and big earrings. Choose 1-2
statement pieces and keep your other jewelry quiet
and subdued. You can do either a strong necklace and
tiny earrings and rings OR a statement ring and
statement earrings.