The makeup you wear in summer will be a lot different than the makeup you wear in other seasons like winter, spring, or fall. This is because in the summer, you have to think about the hot temperature, the humidity and the dryness (depending where you live of course).
It is important to apply primer before you wear makeup and after using moisturizer on your face. When you wear a primer, it will hold your makeup in place even after wearing it for several hours. People who are active in the summer wear primer to keep their makeup intact all throughout the day. Remember to also switch to light makeup. You don’t want to wear tons of gunk on your face because it will be too hot and heavy for the summer weather. Keep it light, just like what you would with your clothes. (LESS IS MORE) ;-) also, keeping it light will prevent your makeup from becoming cakey because of the heat and humidity.
And you do not want to look pale and sickly while everyone else looks tanned and healthy. So bronzer will be your best friend in the summer. It does not only make you look more attractive and healthy. It also can give you that fun and sexy look. (a beautiful self-tanner like “ST.TROPEZ” will give you that lovely tanned color without streaking or turning your skin orange, I LOVE LOVE LOVE St.Tropez and can say it’s the best self-tanner).
As requested, I'm going to share a makeup look that would look gorgeous on just about any skin tone/eye color. Specifically this look on Charlize Theron. A beachy gold summer look.
The first thing you want to do is wear sunscreen to protect your face from the suns rays and environmental damage. Then apply your moisturizer and then your primer. (please wait a few minutes in between layering).
Eyes: For the eyes, you'd want to start with applying an eye primer all over the eyes. I'd recommend urban decay primer potion or E.L.F eyelid primer. Then as a base, you'd want a nude eye shadow color applied all over the eye area.(Revlon Luxurious Color Satin Eye Shadow Nude Slip). You'll then want to use a buttery yellow eyeshadow color (Butterfly eyeshadow by Bare Escentuals), and with a fluffy eyeshadow brush, apply the shadow all over the lid and under the eyebrows.
Next you’ll want to take a gold eyeshadow (Goldmine by MAC) then take your fluffy brush and place the gold shadow in the center of eyelid and pull out towards the outer corner of eyes and then with a light stroke, pull the eyeshadow color towards to inner corner of your eye.
Use a brown eye liner pencil (powersurge eye kohl liner by MAC) on your top and lower lash line. Then using a flat brush, dab brown eyeshadow (Bronze eyeshadow by Mac) above lash line and gently blend upwards, use bronze on crease to add dimension and depth to the eye. Also apply it to lower lash line. Take your fluffy brush to blend the brown crease. You can also take black eyeliner and line waterline, and to go an extra step to get a more sultry look, take black shadow and dab it onto the lash lines to hold liner. Curl lashes, and put on black waterproof mascara to complete the eye look. Your complete look should look similar to this
Face: Moisturize your face (Clinique dramatically different moisturizing gel), face primer (studio gear prime objective for oily skin, if you have dry skin then MAC prep & Prime), Tinted moisturizer all over your face(you rebel lite tinted moisturizer available at sephora), concealer to cover imperfections and dark circles (studio sculpt concealer by MAC using MAC 196 brush), then you'll use powder all over your face to set the makeup (MAC skin finish natural using MAC 182 kabuki brush in a circular motion ), last but not least, use your bronzer (nars laguna bronzer using MAC 134 brush) dust off access and apply to your face.
If you want to take an extra glam step, then you'll want to contour your face. The picture below will show you the areas where you should contour and highlight (Dark Shadow: places where you'd want to hide/minimize - White Shadow: Places you'd want highlighted/to stand out) the key is to BLEND BLEND BLEND!.. you can use your bronzer to contour and a good highlighter to use is Benefits Cosmetics High Beam.
Cheeks: Use a gold or tan cream color on the cheeks (Maybelline Dream Mousse in Coffee Cake or Peach Satin)
Lips: Nude lip liner (optional step; keeps lip stick/lip gloss from bleeding out), Nude lip stick (revlon color burst soft nude, and then lip gloss (Turkish Delight lipgloss by NARS)
and there you have it! I'll be posting up tutorial videos soon so you can all visually see what i'm doing and get a better understanding of it. Until then, I hope all of your summer nights bring heated love, with lots of rum in your blood <3
XOXO
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