Beauty Mistakes That Woman Should Avoid
There is no need to panic, but you may be committing a few fashion faux pas. Most of us are, after all. When it comes to makeup there are a few simple dos and don’ts that hold true for most people. Even if you love doing the opposite of any of these suggestions, try being slightly more subtle and see how it goes. You will never know if you like something until you try it. The best part about makeup is that if you hate it, you can wash it right off for a clean slate.
1. Unblended Contouring
Contouring can be a great way to shape the face without resulting to permanent cosmetic surgery. Applying a shadow to areas of your face you’d like to appear diminished or recede helps highlight areas you’d prefer people to focus on. An incredibly common beauty mistake so many women make is to leave unblended streaks of contour on the face. The result is very obvious and unnatural.
Always blend the edges of your contour so that it looks like a real shadow on your skin- not a grey or orange stripe. Using a brush like Angled Kabuki Face Brush or Pro Powder Brush from Avon helps soften the finish. Blend with a clean brush or a dusting of translucent powder and buff all edges in small clockwise circular motions.
2. Wrong Color Foundation/Neck Blending
Ladies: your foundation should match your neck. It should not match your face, because you’re covering your face with it. It shouldn’t match the color you wish your face or neck was. It should match your neck. If you follow this guideline, it will be much easier to blend the color down your jawline for a seamless finish.
Laura Geller’s Avoid that mask effect with the correct shade of a blend able foundation like Luminous Veil Cream Stick Foundation (best for dry complexions) or Baked Liquid Radiance Foundation (known for sitting well on the skin). Be sure to use your brush, fingers or a makeup sponge to lightly draw some of the color down onto your neck area.
3. Orange Contouring
So many makeup mistakes involve contouring! For the vast majority of people, bronzer is not an effective contour color. If you have bronze toned skin to begin with or are deeply tanned, it may work. Most people, however, have facial shadows that are more of a grey or even slightly brown tone.
Color Science Pressed Mineral Bronzer is technically a bronze, but the Santa Fe shade is a nice taupy color with some blush undertones and would work well on cool skin tones or people of paler complexions. It is matte, which is a must for contouring. If you are having trouble finding your perfect shade, look into foundations (like Avon’s Extra Lasting Cream to Powder Foundation) a shade or two darker but in the same pigment family as you’re all over color. You can apply the darker shade to areas you want contoured and your base color everywhere else. Then, blend, blend, blend for a natural effect.
4. A Heavy Hand
If you want to show the world that you spent lots of time putting your face on, by all means do what you love. Generally speaking, however, it is a timeless goal to use as little product as you can to achieve your desired effect.
Buffing
Buffing is a technique where powder, either translucent, some other finishing powder, or even a bit of light coverage powder foundation is buffed over makeup into the skin to create a filtered finish. To do this, you’ll need a proper brush for the job and some light to no pigment powder. The Laura Geller Retractable Kabuki Brush is a good option for a buff, as is the Too Faced Candlelight Pressed Powder.
Avoid Too Much Coverage
Foundation comes in different coverage levels for a reason. Vibrant, young or clear skin generally doesn’t need as much opacity or density in its foundation as more mature or blemished skin. Don’t slather full coverage foundation on when you only need light to medium. Choose buildable options like the Pressed Mineral Foundation Compact from Color Science to apply more where you need it and less where you don’t. You’ll look younger and more natural!
Some people need fuller coverage only on problem areas. These individuals might do best with a color corrector or concealer on those areas, blended with a lighter coverage foundation on the other areas of the face. Concealers are a bit thicker with better coverage and really help on problem spots. There are several types to choose from on Too Faced Cosmetics website.
If you’re covering discoloration, correctors will let you use fewer products by addressing the discoloration itself. Facial redness is well corrected by creams with a greenish undertone. Color Science shines again with their Mineral Corrector Palette.
5. Paying Too Much
The worst beauty mistake you can make is paying too much for products when you don’t have to! Makeup is very personal and you need to experiment to find what works for you. The more you save, the more you can shop and play. It’s also just smart to get more for less.
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Time To Try
If any of the don’ts in this article sound familiar, don’t despair! Take some time to yourself and try different techniques, including ones suggested here, and find what works best for you. Be comfortable experimenting and snap a photo or two before you leave the house. It can help spot issues you didn’t catch in the mirror.
A little shopping may even be in order.