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Apply Concealer Makeup


Foundation helps to smooth out your skin tone, conceal blemishes and gives you a healthier glow. Applying makeup without a foundation base can actually accentuate unsightly skin problems, rather than conceal them. Choosing and applying foundation should be a simple procedure, but there are pitfalls. Here is an easy step by step guide to choosing and applying foundation.

Foundation helps to smooth out your skin tone, conceal blemishes and gives you a healthier glow. Applying makeup without a foundation base can actually accentuate unsightly skin problems, rather than conceal them. Choosing and applying foundation should be a simple procedure, but there are pitfalls. Here is an easy step by step guide to choosing and applying foundation.

The answer for you is a quick lesson in how to effectively conceal acne with makeup while still retaining a natural appearance. However, keep in mind that makeup is not a cure. You still need to treat your acne, but while the treatment improves your skin condition, makeup can conceal blemishes.

Concealers are applied to cover dark circles around the eyes, thereby grweatly enhancing the appearance of the face.They are matched to the skin tone and are applied before using the harmony foundation. When any product is applied around the eyes, special care must be taken so that the skin is not stretched.

Applying Makeup Tips

1. Do not use foundation profusely. Wash off your make-up before retiring to bed. The particles clog the skin-pores, and prevent the skin from inhaling fresh air.

2. For oily skin, a cake foundation is good. Avoid use of foundation with lanolin base. However, you can use a vanishing cream as foundation.

For the heaviest coverage, use your fingers. Dot foundation on forehead, nose, cheeks and chin and spread the foundation evenly with your fingers all over your face. Blend in the foundation as thoroughly as you can to avoid that streaky finish.

Use Your Fingers: By using your fingers you warm up the product, making it spread more evenly and in just the right amount. A sponge applies foundation unevenly, and excess can end up settling into lines and making them more noticeable. Ladies try these out tricks out and drop me a line to tell me how they worked out for you!

Lightly go over your eyelids with the blusher. Or it you have an eyeshadow a shade or two darker than the blusher, use that on your eyelids instead.

Eyeliner will help your eyes standout. However, if you apply too much, you'll look like a raccoon. When you apply eyeliner, use your pointer finger to pull the skin around your eye taught. This will make your eye smooth and allow you to evenly apply the liner.

Girls don't forget to get a pedicure! This is one of my biggest pet peeves when women don't take care of their feet. I am queen of the home pedicure! Take time out once a week to remove your polish and soak your feet in warm water filled with peppermint oil (2 tsp.), Epsom salt (1/4 cup), and to sanitize I use hydrogen peroxide in the water (equal part to the amount of water).

Makeup for special occasions can be difficult and stressful for some. However, with all the information that is now readily available online, they should not stress over the simplicity of makeup application.

It is important to note, however, that no amount of concealer or makeup can perfectly hide imperfections, such as puffy eyes, dark circles and wrinkles. So aside from investing in the best cover-up makeup, you also need to use moisturizers or eye creams to make sure that your blemishes and problems are resolved. One eye gel that is gentle and effective is Eyevive.

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