Beauty Tip- Eyeshadows

Beauty Tip

 

Choosing the right eye shadow to compliment your eye colour will make a big impact on your overall makeup look; it can enhance your eye colour and create bright eyes. You also have to take into account your skin tone when picking out the right eyeshadow colour. Many people are tempted to choose the same colour eyeshadow as your eye colour. This is a big mistake as it tends to compete with your eye colour and drawing more attention to the eye shadow. Eye shadow is intended to frame your eyes so it is best to find an eyeshadow to compliment them.

Skin Tone Considerations

For those of you who have a delicate "English rose" complexion, dark colours can overpower your pale skin tone. For darker skin tones, avoid pale shades, as you can carry off much deeper and richer shades.

Hazel Eyes  Like me, you are lucky if you have hazel coloured eyes as they suit almost any coloured eye shadows. I usually go for netural, earthy colours and golds. Try to look at your eyes and pick out some of the main colours in them and subtly include these in your eyeshadows. I have alot of green in my eyes as well as brown so I put a brown eyeshadow all over my eyes and then line a green eyeshadow in the crease of my eyes. Try to experiment with different colours of eyeshadows and see which ones are best for the shades in your eyes.

 Brown Eyes

To subtly emphasise brown eyes, you have plently off choice in terms of colour choices, as brown eyes suit almost any colour of eye shadow. This gives you an opportunity to experiment with a wide range of different shades, from soft neutrals such as browns, beiges and creams to bright neons such as yellows, oranges and bright pinks, (depending on how brave you are with colour). Metallic shades such as golds and bronzes are a particularly good look, as they are eye-catching without being too dramatic.

Blue Eyes

With blue eyes you are restricted more with your colours, but that's not to say that your eye colour is any worse than other eye colours. Your eye colour tends to suit warm shades or brown, taupe, gold, plum and peach. Also silver eyeshadow works really well with blue eyes unlike with brown eyes. Wearing a blue eyeshadow tends to look over the top and does not flatter your makeup. Metallics can work on some people but not others so try to experiment with shimmery golds and bronze shades.

Green Eyes

Golden brown, peach, violet, taupe and rich purple shades will empasise your eyes and make them into a striking feature. Purple shades work well on green eyes as the 2 colours contrast on the colour wheel, look for plum and violet shades but don't go too over the top with them as less is more.

Grey Eyes

Grey eyes suit charcoal, brown and purple shades. Soft purple colours such as violet often work well with grey eyes.

Colour Wheel Rule

If all of the rules above where too complicated then this is the general rule to find the best eyeshadow shade for your eye colour. As with artists when they are picking out colours they use the colour wheel to choose the 2 opposite colours to compliment and contrast each other, the same general rule applys when choosing an eyeshadow colour. To find the best eyeshadow colour for your eyes, find your eye colour on the colour wheel (see below) then trace it to the colour directly opposite it on the colour wheel, this should find the best colour for your eyes. For example, if your eye colour is the 3rd shade under the green, trace it across, this leaves you with the purple. Then find the 3rd shade of it and match an eyeshadow with that colour.

Innovation of Baby Products

Baby products don't have to just be for babies, there are other handy ways that we can use them ourselves. The good thing about baby products are that they are cheaper than the products we use ourselves. For example Baby Wipes can also be used to take off makeup, in Boots their own branded baby wipes are £0.98 for 75 wipes or £1.85 for 150 wipes, whereas their own branded makeup removal wipes are £2.03 for 25 wipes. Here is a list of the baby products with other ways that we can use them ourselves:

Baby Wipes:

• Makeup Removal

Sudocrem:

• Spot Healer: Put a thin layer over a spot before you go to bed and then in the morning it should be visiably reduced.
• A Cooling Facemask: Spread a thickish layer over your whole face (avoiding your eyes and mouth) then leave it on for 5-10 minutes. Then wipe it off with a warm flannel, your skin should be soft, less red and your spots should reduce.

Baby Oil:

• Massaging Oil
• Mostriser: Once you've got out of the shower rub this onto your legs and it locks in the mosture from the water leaving your legs all smooth and shiny
• Cuticle Oil: Rub this into your cuticles and then use an orange stick to push down your cuticles
• Hair Care: Before you go to bed rub this into the ends of your hair then in the morning wash it out- your split ends should start to repair themselves
• Tanning Oil: Before you go outside to sit in the sun, put this all over the areas you want to tan and go and sit outside- don't sit out in the sun for too long though as you could burn and if its really hot outside use suncream instead*.

Baby Shampoo:

• Baby shampoo is alot softer than normal shampoo and is perfect for washing makeup brushes. You need to wash your brushes often to make sure you get rid of all the dirt and old skin cells that are on your brushes.

*This should not be used instead of suncream, instead use it when the sun is out but it is not hot enough to tan normally as this makes it easier to tan. If you feel as if you are starting to burn then go back into the shade and put suncream on, or stay in the shade.