Now that the Holiday Season is here, I want to share some beauty tips just for this time of year!!
You want to have some sparkle & shine of your own right? Me too, however the key to keeping your look classic and beautiful while adding Holiday sparkle is, Blending & Moderation!
Moderation meaning, when adding a shimmer eye shadow or shimmer eye pencil to your makeup look you don't want everyone to see only your sparkle eye shadow/pencil. You want all to notice how beautiful your EYES are!!
Blending a shimmer on to your over all eye shadow look should only be an accent. If the dress or top you are wearing is sequin or glittery, use a small amount of shimmer to tie together your look. If your dress/top is gold, add a touch of gold shimmer eye pencil to your lower inside tear duct area. Be sure to BLEND the gold, with a pointed cotton swab, right into your darker lower lid liner. The idea is to have one color run seamlessly into the other. Use the same rule for silver or any color you are picking up in your outfit. You may also add a tiny bit of the same color used for your tear duct area, under your eyebrow & BLEND! However if you are using a stronger shimmer color like blue or electric green, do NOT use under your eyebrow!
A beautiful Party Look is using smokey eye shadow colors, then accenting with a shimmer silver shadow all over just your eyelid & under your eye at the tear duct. This is a beautiful Party Look & great with all eye colors! Or choose eye shadows in browns, taupes, rusts & add a gold shimmer shadow to entire eyelid & at your tear duct. Looks gorgeous with blue eyes as well as brown. If you are a green eyed girl, try taupe, lavender, charcoal gray & accent at your tear duct with a shimmer purple shadow. Highlight under your brow with a soft pink. The green color of your eyes will glow in contrast!! For an extra eye brightener to this green eyed look, add a soft pink eye pencil to the inside rim of your lower lashes. Benefit Cosmetics makes a fantastic Pink Eye Pencil that gives your the exact effect I describe. No soft pink eye shadow for under your brow? Use a light swipe of the Pink Benefit eye pencil & blend well with your ring finger. Your ring finger is the weakest on your hand, so its the most gentle to the delicate eye area.
OFFICE PARTY-
If you have no time to go home and change before you must attend your office Holiday Party, try this:
Carry (along with your outfit change) a small cosmetic case with "night time" makeup items. Since it is your "work" party, you don't want to go too crazy with sparkle! Items needed to refresh & transform your office day look to office party look- a darker or brighter shade lipstick then you wear daily to work, matching or nude lip pencil, powder compact foundation (perfect for touching up your base) OR tuck a few facial cleansing cloths in your cosmetic case & carefully remove your face makeup (leaving your eye area alone, keeping day eye shadow to add to), dot a bit of either moisturizer or makeup primer on skin & neck, blend (concealer if needed), while still dewey, "tap" your powder foundation on covering your neck and over ears if wearing hair back/up. The "tapping" application keeps base from sticking more to one area & looking blotchy. Blend the 'left over' base with large brush down neck. Using only the 'left over' base on your brush gives your neck just enough and blends away to nothing. Adding more would look over done & may leave a line of where you stopped. Now add a bit brighter blush then usual (stay in color family to lipstick choice), blend well over nose, forehead, chin & ears. Using the same 'left over' technique used for base to go over nose, chin, etc. Grab a tissue, place it at a diagonal under the outside of your eye. Add your eye shadows while holding tissue in place. This will catch any eye shadow 'fall out' and give your eye shadow a perfect upward lift while defining. Finish eye area & instead of using a shimmer eye shadow/pencil to accent, use a matte color in a pastel or gold/silver. The color accent will make your eyes pop while using a matte color will keep your look acceptable & professional for your boss & people you work with. Be sure to keep the rest of your eye shadows in natural tones!! Add a black eye liner to upper lid & using the same color used for your darkest eye shadow, dip a cotton swap into the darker shadow & use to line under eyes. BLEND to make darker color "disappear" into your tear duct pastel color. TIP: If you are the one and ONLY person that uses your makeup & want to keep eye shadow "fall out" from landing on your skin while lining under eyes with cotton swab, dab tip of swab onto your tongue. Your saliva will make eye shadow stick & avoid "fall out". Dab on tongue, then into eye shadow color, then line! Makes color stronger too! I know it sounds weird, but hey, its you, your own tongue, your own shadow & it WORKS! Now finish with Mascara & a very LIGHT spritz of perfume. DO NOT over do perfume!! Spritz a bit in the air in front of you & walk thru. Thats all you need & you don't want to be known at work for too much scent!! Moderation is key for perfume especially!! You want to 'freshen', not "cover up" as if you "need" to!!
If your are still reeling from my 'Tongue' tip, perhaps this true story of mine will help: I was working the Academy Awards one year & the celebrity I was making up (she will remain unknown out of respect) had allergies that caused one of her eyes to water constantly. Her tears were causing her eye liner to run & as much as I repaired the damage, the tears would continue and I kept repairing. Part of the problem in fixing her eye liner was the tears & what is in them. Tears have salt in them & salt leaves a residue. This residue left on her skin kept eye liner from laying down over it. Since I was on the Red Carpet with her & had only my Set Bag (touch ups), I was limited in ways to fix her eye liner. Then I had an idea, I asked her to take one of the pointed cotton swabs I had & dab it to wet it on her tongue. Since she knew me well, she had no hesitation & did so. I then picked up some of the darker eye shadow I had applied on her with a eye shadow brush & dusted it off in a pile on the back of my hand. I then dipped the 'tongue dampened' cotton swab into the eye shadow color on the my hand & lined her under eyes. Her saliva broke thru the salty tear residue & worked great! I then had to make sure the color stayed put, so I had another "unconventional" idea. I grabbed my water-proof mascara out of my Set Bag, used the end of a small eye shadow brush & picked up a bit of the water-proof mascara on the tip. I then gently patted over the shadow "liner" I had just added & sealed her color. No more color running because the water-proof mascara stopped it! Her agent gave her a Sinus pill to dry her up & problem solved! In the hour or so it took for the medicine to work, her liner stayed put!
See how thinking "out of the box", (makeup box) works? Sometimes you have to ignore the 'definitions' of what a cosmetic is or does & think about other purposes it may serve!
Feel better about my Saliva/Tongue advice now? I hope so!
Until next time....
Yours in Beauty,
Lisa Gibson
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