Easy Beauty Care Tricks That Can Help You Look Your Best

If you want your look to stand out, you need to do more with your beauty care routine than most women do. One way of doing this is spending a lot of money with beauty care specialists. Another way is learning some simple beauty care tricks that won’t cost you a lot of money or take a lot of your time.

Don’t Apply Eye Shadow until You Prep Your Eyelids

To get your eye shadow to stay crisp and well defined all day with no smudging, prepare your eyelids before application. Gently rub a small amount of moisturizer into your eyelids, being careful not to get any in your eyes. Apply a little foundation on top of it. This combination will fix your eye shadow in place.

Apply a Lipstick Barrier

The trick to getting your lipstick to stay in place isn’t buying an expensive smudge-free lipstick. It’s putting a lipstick barrier in place around your lips. Draw a thin line of liquid foundation around your lips and let it dry. Cover the foundation with a lip liner you have color-matched to your lipstick. The foundation will prevent your lipstick from getting smeared off of your lips, and the lip liner makes it invisible.

Pick the Perfect Powders

When it comes to contouring and highlighting powders, close enough isn’t good enough. If you give no more thought to it than picking a contour powder that’s a little darker than your foundation and a highlighting powder that’s a little lighter, you’ll end up looking a little off at best and ridiculous at worst. You need contouring powder that is exactly two shades darker than your foundation is. Your highlighting powder should be exactly one shade lighter than your foundation is.

Highlight and Contour Carefully

To accent and define your face beautifully, you need to be careful about exactly how you use contouring and highlighting powder. Start by applying contouring powder to your cheeks and the lower part of your jaw with a large makeup brush. A smaller brush should be used to apply contouring powder around your eyes and along the sides of your nose. Apply highlighting powder over your cheekbones and down the front of your nose with a small brush. Blend everything together with a big brush.

Keep Your Brushes Clean

When you use your makeup brushes, you scrape some of the natural oil off your skin and onto your brushes. This oil is a breeding ground for bacteria. In time, using those brushes spreads bacteria all over your face, causing acne and other skin problems. Wash your brushes once a week to prevent this.

Final Thoughts

It doesn’t take a lot of money or effort to make your makeup into something special. With these easy beauty care tricks, you can look like you spend time and money at the beauty salon.