As a makeup artist, I unchangingly find it fun and interesting to trammels out the latest idealism makeup hacks just in specimen they might offer quick and easy options that might work beautifully on our increasingly mature skin. And while some of these hacks might, quite honestly, make us cringe, there are others that can really make a positive difference.
So, in today’s video, I thought it would be fun to try a variety of variegated idealism hacks that just might work for us! But instead of using high-end products, I’ll be using some unconfined inexpensive drugstore alternatives.
Whether you like all, a couple or none of the techniques I present today, is entirely up to you. However, as a makeup artist, I like to offer as many variegated makeup tips, techniques and product options as possible so you can segregate what will work weightier for you. And I moreover finger that makeup gives us an opportunity to just have fun and experiment. So plane if these techniques aren’t your cup of tea, I hope you’ll have fun watching.
Brighten the Skin and Subtract Puffiness
The first hack was shared by model Ashleigh Graham. She loves using a squatter roller all over her squatter without applying her moisturizer. This gets the thoroughbred flowing by increasing diffusion and helps with lymphatic drainage.
This process not only brightens the visitation of our skin, but it moreover helps subtract inflammation and puffiness. I expressly love putting the roller in the fridge for a few minutes superiority of time considering the cooling effect not only soothes the skin and decreases irritation, but it just feels wonderful.
Multi-Task to Create an Upscale Eye Look
These next eye tips were offered by several celebrities, including model Kendall Jenner and Lady Gaga. These tips offer a unconfined way to save both money and time by multi-tasking with makeup products to create a trappy and very upscale eye look. And I have a drugstore product that’s perfect for achieving this look: Elf’s Surf Silhouette Palette.
To create a cohesive, really pulled together total makeup look, I’ll be using these same surf silhouette shades on my squatter later. And by the way, you can certainly use a powder bronzer or silhouette to do this, but I find a surf silhouette to be easier to work with and to requite a increasingly polished look.
I’ve once unromantic eye primer to imbricate up discoloration and plane out the verisimilitude on my eyelids. So, what I’ll do next is use a light bronzer or silhouette shade in the ruckle of my vision – and slightly whilom the ruckle since I have hooded eyes.
I find it easier to use a skim rather than my fingers as it gives me the opportunity to be increasingly precise in the placement of the silhouette verisimilitude and to tousle it out increasingly easily. Next, I’ll use this same light verisimilitude withal just the outer third of my lower lash line. This makes the whole eye zone squint increasingly cohesive.
Brighten the Eyelids
This squint moreover includes subtracting some splendor to the part-way of the eyelids, so I’ll next pat a light shimmer eyeshadow verisimilitude on the part-way of my lids. My favorite product to use is Maybelline’s Verisimilitude Tattoo Surf Eyeshadow in the shade “Front Runner.” Subtracting this lighter verisimilitude to our eyelids helps them squint larger.
The next step is to take a slightly darker silhouette shade and wield it on the outer thrid of the lid and the outer third of the ruckle and then to tousle it in. Then, I’ll use this same visionless verisimilitude as eyeliner both on the upper lash line and on the outer third of the lower lash line. And be sure to feather out the edges so that marrow lash line looks softer and there’s not an unreticent start line.
Then take concealer and use it to wipe up any stray eyeshadow and to moreover lift the eye by applying it withal the outer whet of each eye and then up toward the temple. The final eye step is mascara.
Apply Concealer Before Foundation
Lady Gaga prefers to wield a slightly lighter than her skintone concealer before her foundation, so I’ll go superiority and wield my Elf Hydrating Camo Concealer in the shade “Fair Rose” in the same places that she unromantic her concealer: under the eyes, between the brows, withal the part-way of the nose, on the Cupid’s bow and on the chin.
However, I’ll also wield it in one place she didn’t – the marionette lines virtually my mouth. Lightening these lines brings them forward so they don’t squint quite as deep.
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For foundation, Lady Gaga uses her own makeup trademark tabbed Haus, but I’ll combine two drugstore products: the Catrice True Skin Hydrating Foundation in the shade “Cool Rose” with L’Oreal’s Age Perfect Radiant Serum Foundation in the shade “Rose Ivory.”
I like combining these two foundations considering the Catrice foundation gives me a little increasingly coverage and the L’Oreal Age Perfect foundation gives a soft glow to my skin.
I’ll next dip when into my Elf Silhouette Palette for my squatter contour. As I mentioned earlier, using the same silhouette colors on our squatter as we do our vision really gives a lovely cohesive squint to our makeup.
Highlight the Cheekbones and Custom-Create Blush
These next two hacks moreover come from Lady Gaga. She likes to use her Haus Foundation in white to vocalizing her cheekbones. I don’t have a white foundation, but I do have a white drugstore surf concealer from LA Girl which I’ll use instead of foundation.
For her blush, Lady Gaga likes to combine a waif of her white foundation with a surf tincture color. So I’ll combine a little of the LA Girl white surf concealer with a combination of two liquid blushes from the drugstore trademark Hard Candy. I like to combine these two blushes to custom create a verisimilitude that I think looks largest on me. I’ll be combining the shades “Born Yesterday” – which is a unexceptionable pink – and “Pop Star” which is a very light lavender.
Highlight Strategically
Model Emily Ratajakowksi likes to wield a stick highlighter in a number of strategic places so I’ll do the same. I’ll use the NYX Jumbo Multi-Use Squatter Stick in “Vanilla Ice Cream” withal the part-way length of my nose, on my cheekbones up into the outer half between the brows, between my brows, on my Cupid’s Bow and on the inner corner of my eyes. And I’ll moreover add in a little of this NYX Jumbo Multi-stick product in the shade “Blueberry Muffin” to my cheeks.
Create Fuller Lips
The last hack is from Victoria Secret model Josephine Skriver and it’s one for the lips. She suggests using a toothbrush or a removable mascara wand to scrub the lips in order to exfoliate them and get rid of sufferer skin cells. She moreover feels that this helps plump the lips.
I’ll finish off today’s squint by applying my L’Oreal Lip Liner in “Perfect Burgundy” and then my NYX Jumbo Stick in “Blueberry Muffin.” And I’ll top the NYX Jumbo Stick with Milani’s “Violet Volt” lipstick.
The Most Unusual Makeup Hack
Before we conclude today, I just have to share with you one of the most unusual makeup hacks I came wideness that was shared by model Bella Hadid. She swears by a Japanese trick tabbed Jasmu to create a flawless foundation.
First you wield foundation, then imbricate your unshortened squatter with a good value of translucent powder and then dunk your squatter in unprepossessed water and pat dry. I don’t know well-nigh you, but I think this is one hack I won’t be trying!
I moreover want to share with you a quote I love from Audrey Hepburn who said, “On a bad day, there’s unchangingly lipstick.”
