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Does your Make-up date you?

Written on June 26, 2008 – 6:27 pm | by dodo

Chances are, if you have ever been interested in eye-shadows and lipsticks, you learned how to apply make-up in your late teens and early twenties. Techniques learned then are generally still applied by women in their thirties, forties, fifties and beyond.

It is all too easy for others to tell when you were in your prime simply by how you wear your make-up now. Heavy-handed black eyeliner screams that you left school. Going without foundation but treating your entire face to the shiny look is a hallmark of leaving school. Are you unwittingly adding years to your age simply because you haven’t learned how to apply make-up using up-to-date colours and techniques?

True, a trip to the cosmetics section or counter at a good department store can be daunting; the beauty assistants tend to look too perfect, almost unreal. They probably spent no less than an hour making themselves up, have 10 to 15 different products on their faces and need great perseverance to get it off in the evenings. This is not what I mean by Power Polish.

No, to learn what is right for you, visit a make-up artist or image consultant who doesn’t mind you bringing along your own make-up and will teach you how to do your own face, and suggest any other products that would further enhance your individual looks. Anyone can paint you up to look wonderful. The art is to teach you how to do it yourself. A perfect polish for business requires a simple method and some basic techniques that take no longer than 10 minutes each morning.

Colour that work for you

According to your colouring, select make-up shades that help you look healthy and well-groomed. Aim to compliment your own natural skin tone, eye and hair colour. Worry less about co-ordinating your eye- shadows with your outfits and concentrate rather on looking natural. A few, well-chosen colours will work with most of your wardrobe, and your make-up will help you achieve more in business if you use it to enhance your features as tools vital to communication.

You want a clear, healthy complexion, not one artificially coloured to look darker, lighter, pinker or peachier than you are. Regardless of your age or the quality of your natural complexion, you can radiate health and vitality simply by choosing the right foundation, also judiciously using a small amount of concealer if necessary, then setting it with a colourless translucent powder and lightly applying a dash of a natural blush colour.

Draw attention to your eyes — not with bright colours in your eye- shadows, liners or mascara but by subtle definition, ‘framing’ them with rich, almost neutral shades and emphasising the colours in your irises.

Your mouth should project confidence and vigour, and should be touched-up with a lipstick periodically throughout the day. Most women have strong feelings about the lipstick colours they prefer. For instance, while a red lipstick is needed when you wear red in your outfit, it is the preserve of only the most confident women. So many business women I have worked with recoil at the suggestion of wearing a red lipstick. If unaccustomed to wearing lipstick regularly, start with a more natural tone that compliments the colours of your palette.

If your colouring is essentially ‘warm’ a salmon, terracotta, or warm pink will work with most things. If you have ‘cool’ colouring try a wine, deep rose or soft mauve. Very light, pale or pearlised/frosted lipsticks are not business-like. Go for colours that are medium in depth, not too dark, and matt in finish.

Make-up tips for working women

• Select a foundation that matches the colour of your skintone along the jawline.
• Use a lighter foundation than your normal colour or concealer on dark patches (around the eyes, corners of the nose, on the chin) to look fresher and achieve a more even complexion.
• If blusher disappears on you, try using a cream blusher before you powder, then add a soft dash of powder blusher on top.

• Apply loose translucent powder to set your foundation using a powder puff or by pressing in with cotton wool. Within minutes it will be absorbed.
• A light eye-base applied all over the lid before any eye-shadow helps your eye-shadow last 12 hours or more without creasing.
• Use soft, neutral colours for your eye-shadow. Apply peach or a soft pink as a base and use a rich brown or grey to define and give the eyes depth.
• Use a soft taupe or brown eye-shadow, lighter than the colour of your own eyebrows, to fill in any uneven patches (more natural looking than using pencil).
• Use a little clear mascara or hair gel on a comb to brush eyebrows up and into place.
• A soft line along the outer third of your top and lower eyelids, using a rich kohl pencil, makes your eyelashes look thicker.
• Apply lip pencil in a natural colour all over your lips before using your lipstick — it helps your lipstick last much longer.
• Touch up your powder and lipstick a couple of times during the working day.
• Try not to touch your face excessively.

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