“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.
<Expressions>
- 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
