Makeup! is something that for us women is very important and essential in the diary. Since, through it we can highlight features of our face and hide others to look a little more beautiful, but we must all learn the order in the application of makeup.
There are those who use a lot of products to make up, as there are those who only use a powder and blush to perform their daily makeup. In any case, makeup has a series of steps that must be met so that the result looks very natural and without lumps.
So, stay to learn the order in the application of makeup and you can make up like a professional with the simple steps that we will describe below.
How to know what is the right way to apply makeup in a few steps
Makeup has a wide variety of products, so depending on which ones you choose to use according to the need of your face and skin, you can apply it as follows:
- Skin Care and First
The preparation of the skin is a step that you should not skip and is essential in skin care, so that makeup does not damage your face with the passage of time and continuous use.
So facial care routines should be before makeup and at night before bed. The basic steps are:
- Cleansing.
- Tonic.
- Serum or Serum.
- Eye contour.
- First.
- Moisturizer.
- Sunscreen.
- Makeup foundation
The foundation fulfills the function of matching the tones of your skin, in order to obtain an even tone. Apply it all over the face with the help of a sponge, brush or your fingertips.
The application technique will depend on each person, the type of face, texture, and base coverage. There are those who do not have dark circles and apply the base in the area under the eyes to completely cover the face, while those who have very pronounced dark circles prefer to leave the space without application to apply the concealer with the undertone that neutralizes them.
- Correctors
Concealers are applied to neutralize dark circles, illuminate and darken the areas of our body to outline it and hide the imperfections we have. Remember to only apply the necessary amount and blur very well.
There are concealers in bar, liquid, cream, powder; all depending on the needs of each skin and the coverage that is desired.
- Eyes and eyebrows
You can continue filling your eyebrows with pencil, shadow or soap to make them more voluminous or simply comb them so that all the hairs are in place.
You can then apply any transitional shadow on your eyes, outline it or do what you like best. In the same way the order of application does not affect anything, you can first make up the eyes and then the eyebrows, it is your preference.
- Illuminator, blush and bronzer
When you have a very uniform face and with the features defined and highlighted, it is time to give it color and light! Apply bronzing powder with the help of a brush in the direction under the cheekbone towards the hundred and under the jaw, in small amounts so that a natural darkness is seen.
Therefore, apply the blush in the tone that you like best in circular movements on your cheeks joining it and blurring it with the bronzer. Finally, it gives light to the face with illuminator in the arch of the eyebrow, above the cheekbone and a touch on the nose.
- Seal with mattifying or translucent powder
Seal with a loose, compact or translucent powder the T zone of the face so that it has a better mattified finish, eliminating the shine generated by the skin in that area and lasting longer the makeup. Then with what you have left on the brush you can spread it over the rest of the face.
What techniques to use to apply makeup like a pro?
Surely you have heard that professionals have some tricks to leave the skins as porcelain, and if you still do not know what they are here we tell you:
- Clean the face well with exfoliating creams and neutral soaps to remove dead cells and make makeup penetrate better.
- The use of concealers in bar or compact in beige and ocher tonality hide dark circles.
- The foundation is applied with a sponge or fingers for better texture.
- Applying moisturizers is essential.
- Seal makeup with fixative spray.
- Seal all areas to which cream products with translucent powder are applied.
Why should makeup be applied in the right order? Find out here
Applying the products in a correct order allows you to enhance each other and create a better effect to get better out of makeup. If you apply the products disorderly you can dull each other or create unpleasant combinations that will damage the whole process.
For example, if you apply powder before the base, you will be able to accumulate lumps on the skin and that it does not adhere well, if you first apply the illuminator before the contour, you can mix the colors and you will not notice the difference, besides that first you will have to notice the darkness to know where you should illuminate.
Also, with moisturizers, the one that best moisturizes, softens and repairs the skin tissue is the one that should go first, so that the others accumulate, but the first is the one that best penetrates.
Makeup techniques
- Baking: consists of blurring imperfections such as wrinkles, expression lines, dark circles and spots with moisturizers, concealers and translucent powders. First apply the moisturizer on the eye contour and then the concealer on the dark circles, cheekbones, forehead and upper part of the nose and then seal them with the translucent powder with a thick layer that we will leave there without spreading for a few minutes while “baking”, then remove the excess and you will have a skin without imperfections.
- Contouring: This technique seeks to refine the features of the face to create shades and lights that make you look more stylized. It is created from a blush, highlighter and bronzer.
- Draping: This technique seeks to shape the face with only the application of color, in the case of blush; leaving aside the bronzer or outline. A color gradient is created on the cheek and cheekbone to highlight it. To do this we mix two colors of blush one darker than the other. The darkest is applied where the outline would be placed and the lighter on the apples of the cheek blurring both colors very well.
- Strobing: It seeks to refine features through lighting at key points to show off juicier skin. Start by applying a darker shade of highlighter above the jaw and under the cheekbones; with the lightest shade apply it on the top of the cheeks, bridge of the nose and ready!
- Whisking: It is a technique where several products are mixed to achieve a better effect; How to combine the tones of several lipsticks to make them more voluminous, applying a lighter one in the center to create lighting.
How to apply makeup
Makeup is very diverse and everything depends on tastes and techniques. To apply makeup you can use brushes, sponges, mops and fingertips; each one leaves a different effect and is at the convenience of each person and of course of each type of skin.
Such that, as you apply the makeup rather goes with the way that makes you more comfortable, of course, follow the correct order and using quality products to take care of your face and never forget the Skincare first.
Corrector, base, illuminator
For starters, the application of the foundation varies depending on the type of foundation you choose, if it is a very thick, light, Matte, etc. But, to get a good application you must start from the center of the face outwards blurring it with gentle touches, pressing gently towards the skin, never dragging it!
As for the makeup concealer, it is applied in the form of an inverted triangle in the area of the dark circles and is blurred in the same way with a sponge or with the fingers without dragging the product or spreading it over the rest of the face, keeping it in the area, but blurring it.
And, finally, the highlighter should be applied with the help of your fingers or a brush in horizontal brushstrokes throughout the upper part of the cheekbone bone, if it does not pigment well, you can spray with rose water or makeup sealant the highlighter so that it is intensified even more.
