Expressions for Makeup Tutorial to Celebrate Unique Beauty

“As a makeup artist, my primary job is to help people match their insides with their outsides.” said by the makeup director from Sephora, Jeffrey English. He goes on to say “a lot of people think what makeup artists do is very superficial, but the makeup that you wear and the way that you portrait yourself is really kind of like your filter or armor for the world.”  

This week, let us learn some frequently used English expressions in the filed of beauty & makeup tutorials and celebrate our own beauty through makeup and megawatt smile in the best version to be created!

Simple Skincare

Hydrate your lips with lip mask product by smoothing out the texture onto your lips over night.

Wake up your eyes by applying depuffing eye cream (that contains caffeine) under eyes and layer it with emollient eye cream.

Apply emollient toner and then face moisturizer on forehead and cheeks and smooth it through in circular and outward motions. Then add face oil all over the face in case you have a dry to extremely dry skin or in brutal winter time.

Makeup

FACE: 

 Apply mattifying primer on the oily areas or the ares with large pores. Then comes foundation onto your face and go through with your fingers or foundation brush, and then lightly tap with beauty blender. For mature skin, go easy on setting powder not to emphasize crow’s feet.

-           1. Contouring/ Bronzing: Light bronzing with matt bronzer (NOT a shimmer bronzer) adds a little bit of dimension and depth of sculpt to your flat face. Start at the corner of your ear and go down along your cheekbones and top corners of your forehead. Then blend the chiselled lines with lighter toned face powder for smoothing out.

-          2.  Highlighting: Using a concealer (that is one tone brighter you’re your skin tone and dab it evenly with a damp sponge/ beauty blender), lighten up the center of your face and under the eyes. Then apply loose translucent setting powder under the eyes, and dust the shimmery highlighter over the high points of your cheeks, the beginning and end of your nose, and across your cupids bow with shimmer powder creates lifted look of cheeks with beautiful glow. In case of using a liquid or cream highlighter, apply it alone without adding powder or before adding the powder.

-       3. Cheek-blushing: Using a slightly angled blush brush, sweep upward your favorite blusher over the apples of your cheeks.

EYES:

-       1. Eyebrows: Let’s start with your eyebrows. Sketch and augment the brows softly with light touching of an eyebrow pencil. Backcomb the brow first and that’s going to deposit all the product on the underside of hair and then you can comb the brow into place and that’ll lock it or seal it.

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     2. Eyelashes & Waterline: Then give your lashes a quick curl. Be careful not to pinch your eyelids while using the eyelash curler. Lifted eyelash would literally open the eyes. Apply smudge-proof mascara. For lower lash line, turn the brush up and down and run back and forth. (=side to side) For the tight line, softly pushing on the eye and take the pencil and we go back and forth on the waterline. 

     This is going to help to add density to the lash line, which would make the lash line nice, tight, and full. With another warm brown gel eyeliner, fill in the area right above the lash line, nice and full about halfway up the lid. Use a primer. 

    Take primer on a brush just a little bit, you don’t need a lot. And right where that meets the lid you can use the primer that diffuse the liner and give you an instant smokey effect.

(* Caveat: Do not borrow someone else's eyeliner. Sharing eyeliner can introduce foreign bacteria to your eyes, which can result in an infection.)

-       3. Eye shadow

Prepare your eyelids with any of your favorite eyeshadow primer for the upcoming eyeshadow to stay put all day. To create an eye makeup look, you need bright shade colors, dark shade colors, and mid-tone shades which are the transition hues. 

Take the darkest shade close the lash line and keep layering upward until you get nice dark smokey effect by tapping movements. Apply light mid-tone color in the middle and keep blending. On the brow bone area, apply the lightest shade. Using the fan brush, remove the loose powder of any eye shadow under your eyes. 

Switch to a smaller brush, and scoot it along the lower lash line with the same dark brown shadow.

(For softer smokey eye effect, start from the outer corner, slowly work your way halfway across the lid into the socket line.)

(*Caveat: One of the biggest mistakes that people make is they tend to overblend, it becomes part of your skin tone, and that’s when it looks like you’re sick or bruised.)

Lips:

-      Start with a neutral colored lip liner, softly outlining your lips. Look at the actual color of your lips and use MLBB (My Lips But Better) kind of color, nude and mauvy but not washed-out color in order to look effortlessly dolled up.

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- lip mask: the deep conditioning and nourishing mask for lips that will be acting as a smooth primer for all your favorite shades

- to smoothe out: to make something/ areas smooth or flat evenly

- to depuff: to help constrict blood vessels and reduce swelling of the bloated/ puffy areas under eyes

- emollient: softening or soothing the skin

- to mattify: to soak up sebum. When you apply the mattifying lotion on your face, it works to absorb the oils and give skin an overall matte appearance

- beautyblender: These tools were created to apply makeup easily by artist Ree Ann Silva. The innovative beautyblender sponge holds water, not product, evenly distributing and blending the perfect amount of cream, powder, or liquid formulas into skin without lines.

- crow's feet:  branching wrinkle at the outer corner of a person's eye.

- to chisel: to cut or shape

- concealer: a flesh-toned cosmetic cream or liquid used to cover facial blemishes and dark circles under the eyes

- highlighter: cosmetic product that reflects light. Often used for contouring, it can applied to the face or other parts of the body to brighten the skin on a given area, create the perception of depth and angles

- to augment: make (something) greater by adding to it; increase.

- smudgeproof: smudgeproof mascara or liner won't migrate even when you happen to brush or rub your eyes

- waterline: The waterlines are the area where your eyelids meet to close your eyes. In other words, it’s the area between the base of your lashes and your actual eyeball.

- socket line: the orbit of an eye/ eye hole right under the eye brow bone

- MLBB: MLBB stands for "My Lips But Better", which is go-to lip color that's perfect for every day, in any season. You could call such color your "my lips but better" shade (otherwise known as MLBB

- washed-out color: faded or muted color