1: Harsh Eyeliner
My personal experience with eyeliner took a LOT of learning, and even more mistakes. I use to walk around with really black eyeliner on the eyelid and in my water line. That's a NO NO!! Wearing harsh eyeliner makes the eyes look smaller, resulting in unattractive eyes.
The fix: Tight line the eyes. This makes the eyelashes look a lot fuller therefore resulting in larger, sexy eyes!
.Using clean fingers, gently lift your lashes upward. You'll see tiny gaps between your lash hairs, which you'll be filling in with eye liner.Now take your eyeliner and lightly dab the eye liner in between each individual lash (as close to the root as possible). Start at the the inner and work to the outer corner of your eye.
To intensify the look, tightline your bottom lash line as well. It's the same concept as the top, but you'll be filling in the space between your lower lashes. And the finished product promises sexy eyes :)
My Recommendations:
Maybelline Line Express Eyeliner
Maybelline Eye Studio Gel Eyeliner
2: Undone eyebrows
I, too, use to not even touch my eyebrows, but eyebrows are a really important part of makeup. Having nice defined eyebrows makes you look more polished and groomed.
The fix: Tweeze your eyebrows to the designed shape. It may take a while to get to the designed shape. Using me as an example, I had straight eyebrows there was no arch at all. I wanted a arch. So I tweezed to the best of my ability to resemble an arch. After months of doing this, I now have a nice sharp arch. Also, fill your eyebrows in! Just take an angled eyeliner brush and an shadow matching your eyebrows and fill those suckers in! Remember to do it very light handed. It's harder to take product off than to add product on. You don't want really dark eyebrows, just fill in the gaps! There are lots of powders and gel eyebrow kits you can purchase.
Here are my recommendations:
Elf Eyebrow Kit
NYC Eyebrow Pencil
Maybelline Eyebrow Definer
3:Lack Of Moisturizer
A lot of girls, including me, think that they shouldn't use moisturizer because they have oily skin. Well, I'm glad I learned different! If you make this mistake then you probably have seen your makeup cake up and look well like makeup! There are plenty of oil free moisturizers out there for oily girls. There are also oil absorbing sheets! USE THEM!! You don't want to be a cake face because that looks doesn't look good on a lot of people!
My recommendations:
Olay UV Sensitive Lotion
Clean and Clear Dual Action Oil Free Moisturizer
4:Skipping the Blush and Contour
I'm not saying you have to do this everyday, but if you are wearing a lot of foundation then you definitely need to. Your face has natural blush and contour but when you apply foundation it covers and hides those natural colors. You need to add color back into your face! There are plenty of youtube videos to learn how to do this!
The fix: Here are some of my favorite youtube gurus!
NitraaB
Belasspirit
Nicole Gurriero
MakeUpByJannyBaby
My recommendations:
NYC Smooth Skin Bronzing Face Powder
5: Disappearing Lips
I love a great smokey eye and a nude lip, but the nude lip still needs to look like lips! I shouldn't have to look for your lips, they should still be visible.
The Fix: Line your lips with a nice slightly brown lip liner to make my lips look defined!
My Recommendations:
NYC lip liner
Wet N Wild Lip Liner
6: Under Eye Concealer
I see many, many, many people trying to cover black rings under the eyes. Unfortunately, they are doing it all wrong! Concealer doesn't just go only directly under the eye. Also, it helps A LOT to also highlight under the eyes, this will make them appear more bright and awake. '
The Fix: Instead of applying the eyeliner in a line under the eyes, draw a triangle like so in the picture!
My Recommendations:
Hard Candy Concealer
Rimmel Match Perfection 2 in 1
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