Hi,
So for this week's blog post i stumbled across this article and was like OMG!!!, could this be true. I found some accuracy in in some of the points however I found that i could not nor should not be generalized to men only because as women we get quite horrified (I know that I do ), when i see women wearing GOOD, EXPENSIVE makeup POORLY and or applying their makeup as if they did it in the dark. So here goes the points. I'll leave the link below to the site where I took it from as well and i'll also added a few of my BIGGEST pet peeves when it comes to makeup application :)
1. Caked-On Foundation
Painting layers of foundation, tinted moisturizer, concealer, and powder on your face will rub off on your collar…and his. Stick with a lightweight foundation, remove any obvious makeup with a damp sponge, and dab concealer just over blemishes or redness.
2. Sticky lip gloss
There are lip glosses that moisturize with a subtle sheen, and there are those that are so sticky they could glue together broken glass.
3. Smokey eye overload
It starts off innocently enough: It’s just you, an eye-shadow palette, and a mirror. But things can get ugly fast when heavy, dark shadows are piled on top of each other. Create a subtle, sexy smoky eye by slightly smudging black eyeliner along the rims of your eyes.
***These top three were taken from hellobeautiful.com***
4. Harsh, Black, Thick Eyebrows
Nothing scares people away more than an eyebrow (s), which does nothing to face besides scare away people. Eyeborws are meant to enhance and frame the shape of the face, accentuate your eye makeup and just generally give a sculpted look to the face shape. Eyebrows should be neither too thick nor too thin that they take away from the rest of the face, but they should highlight and provide that well groomed look.
5. The Wrong Foundation
Along with applying too much foundation, comes applying the wrong color/shade foundation. Foundation is meant to provide a smooth canvas, to enhance and even out the skin tone, and it can however be one of the most difficult products to find (your color/shade/undertone) correctly and apply (blend, set ) correctly. Bear in mind that we as women of color skin changes in the summer and winter months because of more UV rays exposure and also we may be the same color but different undertone. My advice to any first timer purchasing foundation : go with a friend to the makeup counter and ensure that they agree with the color chose chosen (most makeup girls at the counter work under commission and would sell Jennifer Hudson, Rihanna's foundation just to get that paper.. TRUST ME...), wait couple days after test to see how your skin reacts to the product, apply it in natural light and shop around before making that big purchase (can i get a dupe in the drugstore, revlon, loreal , iman, and black opal (it transfers a lot) are great foundations for women of color)
6. Applying Eye Shadow Incorrectly
The general rule of thump when it pertains to eyeshadow application is that the light/medium color goes on the lids, the darkest color in the crease and the lightest color on the brow bone. How many times have you seen the lightest color from lid-crease-browbone??? or that never ending smokey eye??? yea my point exactly don't do it. When in doubt don't do it, skip eyeshadow application altogether.
7. Bozo the Clown Blush
Blush id to be apply to the apples to cheeks and worked up into the temples, blending it out nicely so that it creates this glow, sculpted cheek bone effect and not like a clown in makeup. I have been gulityof this at times, but not because i chose to but if i'm using a very high pigmented color, the brush collect too much products so i have to blend using me face powder. La femme and milani baked blushes are very highly pigmented products.
So that's it (i think) until next blog post Ciao :) ........Rhelle
