Remember when outlining lips were big with that brown lip pencil? Well, first off, if you're still doing that, STOP. Nothing looks more outdated and harsh. If you haven't seen your brown pencil in a while, try this. Apply a moisturizer or gel/vaseline to the eyelid. Apply your eye pencil over it and blend with your fingertip. Apply a light dusting of loose powder to set. For dark eyes, try it with that dark burgundy pencil, for light eyes, try your forest green eye pencil.
A hot look you're seeing on celebrities is the faded into the skin lip color. Have a too light foundation or concealer that's ready to go? Don't. Use it on lips with a glossy clear gloss on top.....viola. A brand new look.
Itching to use that bronzer stain before summer? Use instead as 'eye shadow'. Apply a light shimmer eye shadow to highlight the bone and eyelid, and apply your bronzer in the crease with a fingertip or a small eye shadow brush...it's a great new contoured look!
Use as a cream blush stick instead. Or go through your old lippencils that haven't been used in years and see which lip pencil/lipstick combination looks updated and hip and use it up!Rubber band them together so you'll remember which one worked with what color.
Put in a little tin or plastic container and mix in a dab of your favorite lipgloss. Mix together for a cool lipgloss (if the color works) or a glossy eye shadow/highlight.
too dark? don't stay on? don't stain? Don't toss them...
If it's a bronzer stick, use on shoulders or legs to add contour, add color and depth. If it's a burgundy stain and it's not working for you, use instead as a really big lipstick. It does work.
Is your favorite cream blush doing a fading number on you? Ah, it's not the blush, but your skin that's the culprit. If your skin type is on the dry side, or it's a cold day outside, you skin grabs moisture where ever it can: i.e. your cream blush. Just a few hours later and you're left with just a hint of the color that you applied. Fix it by applying a good facial moisturizer in your morning routine, or apply a light layer of vaseline or oil (virgin olive oil works great) on cheeks first. Moisture (as in your cream blush) sticks to moisture, so give it some first, for a long lasting blush.
Tired of your foundation disappearing on you? Had it with shiny breakthroughs just minutes into your day? Don't blame your skin, blame the foundation. The culprit just might be a tad too much oil in your base. But don't toss it. Apply your foundation as always, and maybe just a tad bit more. Then with a clean kleenex folded into squares, lightly press into your skin. You'll see oil on your kleenex from the foundation, leaving behind just pure pigment on your skin. Results? Perfect coverage foundation that lasts a lot longer. Blotting is not just for lipstick you know.
Amazing Lashes
Always on the lookout for that perfect mascara, I think I finally found it. Except it's not one, but two. Use two different mascaras for each coat and you'll get fantastic looking lashes every time. Don't ask me why, but it works.
And Thicker Lashes
Turn a weak, thin mascara into a lash dynamo. Just add powder. Between mascara coats, dust a light coat of loose powder with your fingertip or a Q-tip onto your lashes, and apply your 2nd mascara coat. Instant thick lashes regardless of what type of mascara it was.
All the rage right now, but why spend bucks on a special gloss just for the eyes? Make your own with the clear lip gloss that you already have. Just apply on the eyebrows, my personal favorite or right underneath the eyebrows on the eye bone. Mac's LipGlass, Lancome's lipgloss, Wet&Wild lipgloss are all great super shiny lip glosses that look great on the eyes as well. Just make sure it's the clear one.
Tired, bored of the lip gloss colors you have? Make your own like we do. Grab that super cool multi fauceted eye shadow powder, apply on lips, apply your clear lip gloss on top. Viola. It's a brand new shade (and day!)
I know, sounds awful, but on camera it looks really good. Just check out some recent music videos. For the camera, we apply a light foundation/concealer as needed, and then a light layer of vaseline over the whole face. For us regular folk? Try spot applying. Like just on the eye bones, or eyebrows, tops of cheekbones, or across forehead, down the nose and across chin....you know, for that I've been glowing all day look.
Using a fine eyeliner brush or a small angle eyebrow brush, apply mascara along the top lashes. It's easier to apply, dries and lasts all day long. And if you make a mistake while applying, easy. Just let it dry, and then with a dry Q-tip, rub off your mistake easily and try again. Also, if you're going to cry anytime soon, use the waterproof mascara!
Someone recently asked me what my all-time favorite makeup tips were that I used on models for photo shoots. For everyday life, I probably would only use these once a while, since these are tricks that I do to create a certain look that will last maybe a few hours at best for the duration of a shoot, not all day wear and tear. Here are a few of my favs that I picked up or discovered on my own
