Minimalista Makeup: From day to night
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
This is the advanced class for my makeup minimalistas and/or makeup virgins, moving a day look into a night look.
If you missed the instructions for a minimal put together day look you can see it in the post Maybe she’s born with it.
To move this simple day look into a simple but effective night one, you can do one or any combination of the following:
1. Apply eyeliner
In dark brown or black to both your lower and upper lash lines, a achieve a classic look that will make your eyes pop.
Do experiment with deep shades such as navy, plum, or dark green for example, if you are feeling to colour outside the box.
2. Apply eyeshadow
Just one shade of eye shadow can do the trick. Choose one in your skin colour or a shade or two lighter or darker than your natural eyelid color, an apply from your lashline to your eyebrow.
Avoid dated glittery formulations with large glittery specs and opt for the updated frosted ones with very fine, multi-dimentional shimmer that seem to just disappear in your skin for a fresh faced look. Here, your eyes are enhanced without being able to pinpoint exactly what it is that causing this effect.
Matte (1.e. non-shimmery) eyeshadows work well at upping the eye-drama ante. Experiment with different eye-shadow finishes in the same colour family and see which effect you prefer on you.
Word of advice for choosing a go-to eyeshadow color -
For warmer skin tones like medium to darker skin tones, yellow based hues like goldy, bronzy and rusty pigmented shades work excellently. Red and red-orange based eyeshadows tend to make eyes on these skin tones look tired.
Cool pastelle colours like white and taupe generally do not compliment these skin tones, especially if worn as a single colour.
Cooler skin undertones that can come with a fairer to medium skin tone are better suited to use the cooler shades mentioned above.
The further away from your natural skin tone your eyeshadow is, the more important it is to blend, blend, blend. The sponges that come with they eyeshadow compacts typically deposit a lot of colour and make blending more difficult. Do consider investing in a larger eyeshadow brush as it makes application easier; A couple passes of the brush on the eyeshadow palette and then it’s just a matter of filling in the space on your eyelid.
(I have often used the brush that comes with the cheek colour as an eyeshadow brush and then bought a proper cheek brush)
If you are going for a colour that is unlike your skin tone, like plum for example, apply only on your eye lid – from your lashline to the crease that is created when you blink, and not all the way to your eyebrow, unless of course it is halloween.
3. Apply a darker shade of lipgloss.
Then dust some loose, or compact powder on your face to tie it all together and you are ready to boogie.
Lets get glammy!
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