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3 Best Makeup Books that Worth Reading

admin — Mon, 14 May 2012 05:59:20 +0000

Books always inspire people’s thinking and even creativity. I believe is a subject of art and an expression of beauty. Makeup artists, you and me need inspiration for our makeup, especially dramatic and creative makeup.

NAILED:THE HISTORY OF NAIL CULTURE AND DZINE

Nail art is under a quick development. Dzine, an artist in Chicago gives us a wonderful history recount of nail art. The pictures, artworks and creations in the book must surprise you. Dzine explores the relationship to art, music, fashion and popular culture in his book. Of course, there are creative nail art designs by Dzine.

BOB RECINE：ALCHEMY OF BEAUTY

Bob Recine is famous for the sharp image of Lady Gaga. He is a legendary hairstylist and artist. We have the chance to view lots of pictures, designs and drafts of collages and drawings. This book is definitely a combination of beauty and inspiration.

BEAUTY AND COSMETICS 1550-1950

This is a great book to understand the 400 years of makeup history in the western world. Sarah shows us the trend and history of makeup in 4 centuries. The book is not as long as ordinary history book, it has less than 100 pages. You may discover a lot secrets (dangers) about hair, skincare, makeup and perfume.

New York Fashion Week 2012: Fall and Winter Makeup Looks and Trends

admin — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:30:04 +0000

Trends of Makeup look are always one of the focuses in New York Fashion Week. Black eyeline is still the most popular to match all the fancy fashion. Oriental elements from Jason Wu and subtle smokey from Rachel Zoe should be counted in the hottest makeup looks.

Oriental Winged Eyeline from Jason Wu

Winged, a bit triangular eyeline gives a strong feel of knight-errant. Focus of the eyes is moved to the outer eye corners.

Subtle Smokey from Rachel Zoe

This makeup look looks really like a clean Captain Jack Sparrow. The key of the look is eyeline instead of eyeshadow. Eyeline is thicken at the outer eye corner and winged naturally.

Modern English from Rag & Bone

Emphasis of this look is put on the downward feeling of the eye by drawing eyeline at lower lash line. Thicken the eyeline right under the iris and narrow the two ends at inner and outer eye corner. Such perfect curve makes the look natural and gentle.

Extended and Winged Eyeline from BABG Max Azria

This is a mix of simple eye makeup and a extended and winged eyeline. So, the key of this look actually lies on the extended and naturally winged eyeline, leave a little space from the lower lash line.

Smudge Eyeline from Marc Jacobs

Smudge eyeline from Marc Jacobs is a bit illusioned and dramatic. A thick and well smudged eyeline at lower lashe line.

Make Up Tips on How to Look Younger

admin — Wed, 11 May 2011 10:03:21 +0000

Crow’s Feet
Crow’s feet can be covered by highlighting brow bone, emphasizing eyeshadow and eyelashes.
Dos
Apply light eyeshadow to highlight brow bone to create clear eye contour. Apply Khaki color eyeshadow at outer corner of eyes. This camouflages crow’s feet with light refraction.
Donts
Never apply heavy foundation and concealer to cover crow’s feet. Crow’s feet become more obvious when you smile.

Dark Circle Under Eyes
Dark circle under eyes can be covered by concealers of different colors.
Bluish dark circle: orange or yellow concealer
Brownish dark circle: green concealer
Dos
Apply the right color of concealer before foundation. Apply Radiant Touch (YSL) to enhance eye contour.
Donts
Apply concealer to dark circle under eyes without choosing the right color. This may make your dark circles even more prominent.
Skincare Tips
To reduce dark circle under eyes, you may apply vitamin E (from capsule) and massage. Sufficient amount of vitamin C and vitamin E from diet also do a great help.
Product Recommendation
YSL Radiant Touch

Large Facial Pores
Pores can be covered with pore minimizing cream. You should apply the cream in the direction of your pores so that the pores are filled to create a natural and long lasting covering effect.
Dos
Apply pore minimizing cream after skincare products. Gently pad with finger tips in order to fill the pores naturally. Finally press with a puff.
Donts
Never try to use liquid foundation to fill facial pores because this makes foundation to melt easily.
Skincare Tips:
Mix 5ml Grape Seed Oil with 1 drop of lemongrass essential oil, 2 drops of cypress essential oil and 2 drops of geranium essential oil. Massage your face after cleansing. Then rinse thoroughly.
Product Recommendation

Acne
Acne can be covered by green concealer that is designed for acne. Such concealer does not clog pores and may provide a soothing effect.
Dos
Apply green concealer around acne. Then apply small amount of concealer with a brush onto acne.
Donts
Never apply thick foundation onto acne to create higher coverage. You should also avoid shimmering or shinny foundation, which may make the acne more prominent.
Skincare Tips:
Proper cleansing is extremely important for acne prone skin. You may supplement your diet with B vitamins which help regulate sebum secretion and hence reduce the chance of acne outbreak.

Dull Skin
Skin at T zone is usually dull compared to other part of your face. To camouflage the dullness of T zone, you need blush and base.
Dos
Apply purpose color base to neutralize the dullness of T zone skin. Apply purplish red blush and lip color.
Donts
Dull skin cannot be covered by applying foundation of a lighter tone. This may only make your make up unnatural.

How to Get Flawless Makeup

admin — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 04:48:25 +0000

Get flawless makeup tips! During autumn and winters and for those having dry skin, it is difficult for them to have a flawless makeup. Actually, there are different types of foundations and tips that help you achieve a flawless makeup!

Flawless Makeup Tips
Moisturizing effect of toner
Toner is an ideal product for moisturizing and minimizing pores. Therefore, it is a good idea to apply toner before foundation. For a more nourishing effect, you may pour toner onto cotton pads and apply the pads over your face for 5 minutes.

Adding moisturizer to liquid foundation
Liquid foundation is more suitable for those having oily skin. You may mix the liquid foundation with some moisturizer depending on your skin dryness. Then, apply the mixture to your face as your tailor-made foundation!

Face mist
If you skin is dry, you may not find a smooth and flawless makeup. Then, you need to have a spray of face mist. Then pat your face gently until all the mist is absorbed.

Eye cream after foundation
Eyeshadow, mascara and eyeliner can damage the delicate skin around your eye areas. Therefore, after applying foundation and before applying eyeshadow, mascara and eyeliner, you may apply small amount of eye cream.

Flawless Makeup Foundation
Liquid Foundation
Goods and Bads: Liquid foundation is made by adding foundation powder into moisturizers. There are both lighter and heavier texture of liquid foundation available in the market. The light one is an ideal product for natural and nude makeup but its coverage for imperfection may not be satisfactory. Therefore, you may need to further apply concealer and cream foundation in order to cover your imperfection. Also, it can be difficult to control the proper amount to be applied.
Tips: Dip a little bit of liquid foundation with a sponge and spread the foundation outwards from your cheek. Dip a little bit of liquid foundation again and apply on your forehead, nose and around the mouth. Gently pat in an upward motion. Apply a thin layer of loose powder finally.

Cream Foundation
Goods and Bads: Cream foundation is heavier than liquid foundation as it contains higher content of oil. Therefore, it has better nourishing effect compared to liquid foundation and is especially suitable for those having rough skin and larger pores. But, as the texture is heavy, it may make your skin “unbreathable”. Therefore, it is only recommended for those having dry skin to use in autumn.
Tips: Similar procedures as liquid foundation. You should make sure the sponge is dry before you dip the foundation. Apply a thin layer of loose powder finally.

Stick Foundation
Stick foundation contains both moisture and oil and is still quite nourishing. Besides, it has great coverage, is easy to apply and long lasting. Therefore, it is most suitable for those having a lot of imperfections on face. It is also the most popular type of foundation among makeup artists. But, for a daily makeup, the coverage can be too strong or meaning the makeup is very visible and noticeable.
Tips: Apply a small amount of foundation on face and with an upward patting motion. Apply a thin layer of loose powder finally.

Makeup Looks: Beautiful Eyes That You Certainly Want

admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:01:49 +0000

Colors used in summer makeup look are very different compared to other seasons. Water colors like pink, orange, yellow, green and blue are the best for summer beauty eyes. To establish a rich summer feel, you probably use several matching beauty eye shadow instead of just one. Now we can learn how to blend these colors together naturally for this summer!

1. Orange Red Gradient
Though eye makeup in summer usually composes several colors, you can also make fun with only one eyeshadow color. Spreading out the orange red eyeshadow from your eyes gives you a romantic feel. Can you feel you are Ariel living in the fairy tales? With this strong eye makeup, you do not need heavy makeup for other facial parts like cheek and lips. Keeping them natural and nude is absolutely fine.

2. Peppermint
Green and blue together give you a feeling of fresh peppermint. This peppermint tone is a classic color combination for little fairy living in the forest. Apply blue eyeshadow to both upper and lower eye lids. Apply green eyeshadow to on top of the blue eyeshadow up to your eyebrow. Then, blend the two colors well.

3. Golden Pink
The combination of gold and pink gives the feeling of sunset glow. It is so feminine and elegant.

Apply light gold eyeshadow on upper eye lid. Smudge the light gold eyeshadow towards your eyebrow. Draw a short eyeline (1/4 length of your lower lash line) with a gold eyeliner pencil at the inner eye corner.

Mix gold and pink eyeshadow (or pink rough) together. Apply the mix from your outer eye corner upwards and outwards. Imagine you are painting an oval.

4. Bluish Pink
Blue is the most often used color in summer. You can use blue eyeshadow alone or you can match it with other colors.

Apply light blue pearl eyeshadow on your upper eyelid. Draw a lower eyeline with the same eyeshadow (instead of eyeliner). Smudge a little bit. Then apply light pink or orange eyeshadow on upper eye lid.

5. Swan Yellow
To have bright and sharp eyes, white is not the only color. You can use swan yellow to establish the same effect.

Apply light coral colored eyeshadow on your upper eye lid. Apply silvery green eyeshadow on your lower eye lid. Finally apply a small dot or swan yellow eyeshadow to your inner eye corner.

Draw a thin black eyeline on upper lash line. Draw a pearl white eyeline on your lower lash line.

36 Best Celebrity Makeup

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:43:19 +0000

Darker complexion Look of Zoe Saldana. Lip makeup is the key for her!

Nude Look from Taylor Swift, Keira Knightley, Shu Qi, Blake Lively, Dakota Fanning and Ginnifer Goodwin. Simpe and neat!

Red Look from Scarlett Johansson Jennifer Lopez, Zhang Ziyi, Fox Megan, Hilary Duff and Leighton Meester. Elegant and classic!

Spring Orange Looks from Rihanna, Agyness Deyn, Diane Kruger, Amanda Seyfried, Charlize Theron and Keira Knightley.

Peach Look from Michelle Trachtenberg, Emmy Rossum and Zhang Ziyi.

Pink Look from Paris Hilton, Stephanie Pratt and Blake Lively.

Smokey Look from Sandra Bullock, Maria Menounos and Eve La Rue.

Modern Smokey from Rihanna, Lily Allen, Song Hye Kyo.

7 Attractive Eye Shadow Makeups

admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:37:02 +0000

I believe eye makeup is one of the most important parts for the whole makeup look. Different eye makeup changes your makeup look instantly.

Enticing and Bewitched Look
Eye makeup is the focus of this look. Peach and shinny eye shadow and the extended eyeline make the makeup attractive. The heavy makeup on eyes contrasts with the light face makeup. Light lip color gives people the gentle feel out of the enticing look. Peach and shinny eye shadow gives you an enticing and bewitched feeling.

Icy Look
This look is very icy and it definitely gives you a cool feel. The whole look is natural, nude and clean except the eye. To match with the silvery blue hair, similar color of eye shadow is used.

Eye shadow has been applied above eyebrow to match with the extended eyeliner to form a horizontal water drop shape. Remember to include your inner eye corner into your horizontal water drop shape. Eyeline is drawn thinner at the inner eye corner and thicker at the outer eye corner. For this look, lower lash line must be drawn.

Wearing color contact lenses can exaggerate the look a bit more for party!

Sweet Floral Look
Pink is the theme color of this sweet look. For a sweet feel, you do not need heavy dark color eye makeup. A clean face with light pink rouge gives the feel of early spring. The key for this look is the pink lower lash line. The dark pink lip color adds color and freshness to the whole look. As the eye makeup and face makeup is light, if the lip makeup is also light, the whole look will be pale.

Enticing Floral Look
This look is a good combination of red and green to give the floral look. Green eye shadow has been used for the whole eye lid. Green is more suitable for lighter skin complexion. Therefore, you can see the model is wearing the lighter color foundation. As the eye shadow color is very strong. You have to give darker color to your eyebrow.

Spring Look
Purple and green are the common colors for spring makeup. Using purple color for the eye shadow and green color to draw the lower lash line establish a perfect spring look. Though the purple eye shadow, green lower lash line and pink lips and rouge are quite colorful, they are mixed to give you a gentle feel.

Fresh Stylish Look
Apple green eye shadow gives you the fresh and stylish look. To be modern, you do not need to draw the full lower lash line. You just draw half of it. Same as the spring look. To use green eye shadow, your skin complexion must be lighter. To be more stylish instead of famine, instead of the red lip color, you use a light one.

Drama Look
There is no special feature for this look except the eyelines. Draw a normal eyeline. Draw another long eyeline above. To be modern, half lower lash line is adequate. See you do not combine the lower and upper eye lines in this look to establish the layers feeling.

Makeup Tips for Asian Eyes

admin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:47:40 +0000

Though most of the celebrities are with big and round eyes, you can still notice that some of the Asian celebrities having small and Asian eyes are exceptionally popular. The most famous one can be Lucy Liu. Lucy Liu has the very common Asian eyes which are called by Chinese as “Phoenix Eye”. The other characteristic of the “Phoenix Eye” is the single layer of eye lid.

If you have Asian eyes, the biggest problem to you can be “tired eyes”. As there is no layer formed by the double lid, your eyes and face look tired. Let us now begin the Asian Eye Makeup Tutorial!

Eye Shadow

Use three different colors in the same color system (e.g. silvery, grey and dark grey or gold, brown and dark brown). You should pick a light color as the highlighter, mid-color as the base and the dark color for emphasis. First, apply the lightest eye shadow on the whole eyelid. Then apply a mid-color eye shadow onto the lower part of your eye lid. Apply the darkest color eye shadow on your eye lid on the part nearest your eye line. This gives your eyes layers and therefore your eyes do not look so tired.

You can smudge a bit more of darker eye shadow around the outer eye corner. Or, you can do so with the eye liner described later.

Eye line

Eye line is exceptionally important to eye makeup for Asian eyes. You can divide your eye line into two parts, from the inner corner to the outer corner and from the outer corner to the end. First you should be drawing your eye line gently enough and progressively. You can draw around 2mm each time, overlap the drawings, from outer corner to the inner corner. You can have the eye line end (outer eye corner) drawn upward to look more refreshing.

You should try to avoid the drawing of lower lash line. If you want to, drawing the whole lower lash line is outdated. You can try to draw from the outer eye corner and stop at around 1/3 long of your eye.

Make sure you draw the eye line as close as to your lash line. This helps to give a fuller feel. If you leave a space between your eye line and lash line, the eye proportion can be very strange.

Then use the eyeliner to draw the eye line again from the eye line end to the outer corner. This can emphasize the eye line effect.

Use a cotton bud to smudge in the same direction from eye corner to eye line eye.

Finally, smudge a little bit shinny eye shadow around the inner eye corner. Apply your black mascara also!

Asian Makeup Tips

Dark brown, dark grey and black are the safest colors for eye liner.

Smokey eye makeup is one of the best choices for Asian eye makeup.

Try not to use shinny eye shadow, use the matt ones.