Faviola Perez
11-12-08
Lit 12
Make-UP

Where, oh where to start with the wonderful invention called make-up. Make up is used by many of women and teenaged girls all over the world. Make-up is used for many different things. Some examples are covering up something you don't want any body to see, or if you want to match an outfit you just bought in the mall. Some girls who don't wear so much make up just like some powder to keep their face from being too oily. Let’s break it down because I could go on and on. The most common types of make up are foundation, eye-shadow, and lipstick. All these things can be broken down in to smaller categories; the most important thing a girl needs to know is how to use make-up because it can make you look pretty or just plain out ugly if you don’t know how to use it!
Let’s start off at the first steps you do for a great looking face. One you need to have a good moisturizer so your skin is soft and not dry (it helps your make up go on smoother). After you’re done with that, you need a good foundation that matches your skin color. You spread it on all over your face. However if you have something that you want to cover up that your foundation is not covering up you use the wonderful thing called congealer this also needs to match your skin color. You just use a very small amount over the spot you want to cover up. You want to use a small amount because it is thicker than your foundation.
After you have done all these steps you want to use some blush on your cheek bones. Again you don’t want this to look very natural so use a soft shade of pink that looks good on your skin. When this step is completed you want to use powder to set the foundation and also so you don’t look so oily. Remember to use a color that is as close to your skin color as possible. Say you were to use a shade of foundation that wasn’t your skin color, you would end up having a line of two types of skin tone when it came underneath your chin.
The next step is the eyes. The eyes are very important because they are what people look at when you are speaking to them. The color that you are going to pick out has to look good with the outfit you are wearing but it can’t be some crazy color (only if you can pull it off but if not doesn’t try it!). I am going to use myself as an example. I wear a lot of black blouses and natural colors like brown and sometimes pink and red, but mostly black! Lucky for me I don’t have to buy tons of different colors of eye-shadow, instead I buy shades of brown and black.
If I was wearing black blouse this is how I would do my eye-shadow. The first thing you need to remember is that I should always go light to dark. Before I start I need to have a set of eye-shadow brushes that are sold at any type of store like Wal-Mart. First I use a very, and I mean very shiny light pink all over my eye lid. Then I have a compact that I bought at Victoria’s Secret that has a light gray, dark gray a bronze brown and black and all these colors go on very smoothly and they all flow together(very important don’t for get it). After putting on the light pink the next color is the light gray. I Use the brush that is round and soft then rub it against the light gray over the small part of your eye-lid.
The next step is to get the brush that has bristles that go straight across. I Rub it against the darker shade of gray and follow the crease of my eye-lid. I should make sure that I only go upwards and it is kind of like outlining a drawing. Then here is the tricky part the color black. You want to pick up the brush that goes at an angle. With this brush I want to rub it against the black, but do it lightly. I can always go over it if I want to make it darker. I will start at my crease of the eye and go upwards, I don’t go al the way to the tear gland. It needs to have a blended affect. If by this time I don’t like how dark it is, I go over it until I am happy.
The next steps are small but still very important. After finishing my eye-shadow I want to get mascara that complements my eye color. I don’t know about blue, green, gray or light brown eyes because I have dark brown eyes, and I use very dark black. When I apply the mascara I make my lashes go the natural way they go, and just apply layer after layer until they are nice and thick. The next step is brow shading for those girls who have think eye-brows. I don’t have thin eye-brows but not thick either. So I picked out a color that is the color of my hair. I want it to look very natural, I apply a thin layer of brow shadow and fill in. Doing this makes my eyebrows darker and makes me have a defined look.
Last but not least are the wonderful lips! To decide what type of color to use depends on the type of look you are going for. For, example during the day you want a light natural color. I use a soft pink balm, but if I am going out in the night to a club I can put some lip-gloss on, but once again nothing crazy. You can never go wrong with a clear lip-gloss and you will have the natural color of your lips. That is what you want to aim for!
If you follow all these steps you will have beautiful make up that will last all day. Most of all you won’t look like a clown. Remember you want to keep it looking natural and soft. Most of all if you forget to do one of these steps your whole face is going to be out of balance, no matter how small it is it is the little things that give you that fabulous finish look. If you are ever doubting yourself you can always go on line and see what is in fashion. One web site I like to get my make-up is Mark; it is a line of Avon. Remember you are beautiful with or without make-up.