Make Up Tips

We all love make up and finding a product that suits you will do wonders for your skins appearance as well as your confidence.  These make up tips will help you to choose the best products for your skin type as well as advising you on the best products that you should have in your beauty box and the one’s you can do without.  With tips for applying eye make up, face makeup tips and tips to give your skin a natural glow before you apply your make up.

Make up tips for an instant natural glow.

Before you put on your makeup you can do many things to give your skin a healthy looking natural glow.  It may be something your gran told you, but pinching your cheeks can give you a natural blush, so it won’t last all day like your makeup will, but is a great trick for adding a little color to your cheeks in a hurry.

Skin cleansing, one of the most important things you can do before applying your foundation is ensuring that your skin has been properly cleaned.  You should cleanse thoroughly before you consider putting anything on your skin.  The next step is to give your face a generous covering of moisturizer and let it absorb fully.  I prefer to moisturize my skin twice before applying make up as foundations and other similar products can dry out skin that is not properly hydrated before application.

Quick Make up Tips

Skin brightener’s give an extra glow to tired looking skin and should be applied after moisturizing but before foundation

If you wear glasses be sure to regularly clean the part of your glasses that rest on your nose, this area can aggravate poor skin conditions leading to black heads on your nose.

Do not stick to one foundation, it is a good idea to keep a few different tones of foundation in your beauty box, this allows you to blend your tones to match your skin perfectly, if your skin tone has changed slightly, due to tanning etc, you can blend your foundations and still have a flawless finish.

Always remove your makeup, this may seem obvious but after a date or a night out, the last thing most women want to do is remove their make up, however makeup can clog pores and lead to outbreaks if worn excessively or not removed at the end of the day.  Ideally you should have a cleansing routine that you perform morning and night to keep your skin well hydrated and free of bacteria and germs that can cause poor skin condition.

A light shade of lipstick can be used as a cream blusher too, by using your lipstick as a blusher too, you can match your tones perfectly and have glowing looking skin.  Never apply your lipstick straight from the stick, instead use your fingers, warm the lipstick by rubbing your fingers together and blend onto the skin.

Make up tips for Lips

Lips need moisturizing too; to help keep your lipstick lasting longer and avoid chapped lips you should apply a lip balm nightly to keep your lips supple and hydrated.

To keep your lip color lasting longer, use a lip pencil first to fully cover your lips, this gives a great base for applying lipstick and helps it to last longer.

Blot your lipstick with your fingers and add a small amount of blush powder to seal the color.  Your lipstick will last much longer and is less likely to smudge.

Eye Make up Tips

If you have dark circles under your eyes avoid eyeliner on the bottom lash line, it will draw attention to the dark area of skin, making you look tired and can make the circles appear darker than they actually are.

To make your eyes stand out and look bigger, use a line of eye shadow below your eyes too.




Use an eyelash brush to separate lashes before applying mascara, this helps to prevent damaged lashes caused by the mascara sticking lashes together and pulling at tangled lashes and dont forget to use the correct eye makeup brushes when applying your eyeshadow.

For more make up tips read the foundation makeup tutorial