Beauty Tips

Beauty Tips

• If you have small upper lids, avoid dark eye shadows. It will make your eyes look even smaller. Just a single light eye shadow (try shimmery silver) applied right up to your brows will do the trick. A very thin black line across the base of your upper lashes will further enhance your eyes.
• If you have freckled skin, massage your face with olive oil and lemon juice. And use a scrub and gently but firmly clean your face in circular motion. Avoid thick foundations.
• French manicure is no longer just plain white. You can now indulge your passion for pastels and paint the tip of your nails in soft pink, lilac and baby blue. Maybe even sheer metallic. As for the rest of the nail, a sheer topcoat in same colour is what recommended.
• The shape of the nail should neither be square or oval. The shape that has caught the fantasy of fashion gurus is 'squoval' - longish, with straight edges and rounded tips!
• The colour of the millennium for your lips, eyes and nails range from silvery lilac to dark purple, to icy pink to heavy bronze to even shimmery green. In case, if you haven't caught on, the thrust is on 'glitter'.

• Tweeze your eyebrows after a bath. Or apply a hot cloth before you do. This will loosen the hair follicles and reduce pain. Remember to follow your brows' natural shape and taper gradually.
• To prevent eye movement while applying mascara, look up and then stretch eye by pushing the eyebrow with finger. Then look down and apply mascara on top lashes.
• If you have dry skin, avoid moisturising immediately before applying make-up. Apply at least two hours before that.
• Don't use dry sponge to pat the face. Dampen it before using.
• Control your urge to apply powder on your shiny nose. It will ruin your compact powder kit. Instead use a blotting paper and absorb the oil first. You can even use tissues. Blot the oily areas with a single layer of tissue. Take care not to wipe or smear.
• Dust shimmer powder along collarbone with a large brush. When wearing a short skirt, dust the powder on your knees so that it catches the light and draw attention to your legs. Sweep some on your shoulder blades when wearing a low-cut blouse. But make sure the colour is not drastically different from your skin colour.