Believe in yourself: Girls about your favorite makeup to lift the spirit
It's no secret that makeup can be used. not only to disguise what is commonly called imperfections, but also to set a certain mood. A simple black pencil or wine lipstick can give courage and make other people listen to you especially carefully, and a pearl highlighter can add a soft touch. We asked girls who love to be painted about what makeup gives them strength and how to repeat it.
Anastasia Lander
PR specialist
I don’t remember exactly at what point makeup from awkward attempts to emphasize eyes with green shadows turned into psychological help for me, into the possibility of absolute transformation and into an exciting game without consequences (if anything, you can always wash it off!). But there was one business trip to St. Petersburg many years ago, when my colleague and I were doing a night club event at a rather gangster establishment, we were very nervous, there was little hope for success. Half an hour before leaving the site, I walked over to the mirror in the room, exhaled and began to make up. I will not reproduce the sequence of actions, but I woke up fifteen minutes later, looking in the mirror at the fatal beauty with the ideal Smokey. Since then, I have worked in several make-up brands, filled my hand, improved my technique and managed to change the "makeup of good luck" from Smokey to a bright lipstick on a clean face: "Do you want to be listened to you? Make your lips bright!" But the basic principles remain the same.
I always start with color: with eyes or lips. If it is Smokey, the MAC Feline super-black piercing coal kaial will be the first to deal with it - this is the blackest color in the world, velvety and hypnotizing. It is well attached to the mucosa with any black (or color, if it is colored smoky) shadows. Then you can stay on the pencil, slightly feathering the shape of the eyes. You can apply Gloss gel or a transparent lip gloss on a mobile eyelid, or just petroleum jelly - it will be a very languid look. If the hand went well, you can continue drawing - for example, apply black cream shades or the same Feline to the moving eyelid and shade dry over them. This makeup will hold as nailed.
If these are lips, then I can't live without a wax transparent pencil for the contour of Dior lips. I don’t like colored pencils for lips, and this wax is simply brilliant - not one lipstick will break through its line. I draw the contour from the corners of the mouth up to the bend of the upper lip and from the center of the bottom up again to the corners of the mouth - so the smile does not "fall" down. The lower lip is always a bit visually reduced. Stroke my lips with a pencil and inside the contour, too, so that the lipstick stands coffee, food, water, oil in a salad. Lipstick - dark scarlet Chanel, dark cherry Giorgio Armani, a mixture of red and purple Makovsky Lip Mix - always apply with a brush.
Next - on the eyes of the accent or on the lips - always two layers of mascara are blacker, and on the upper and lower eyelashes. I clean the dirt with a cotton swab dipped in micellar water. I apply concealer. I can walk along the contours of Smokey or lips with the same cotton swab dipped in concealer - this gives a great effect to Photoshop, any form becomes perfect, and flaws are masked with a bang. Only then comes the turn of the tonal tool, blush and highlighter. In such make-ups, I usually use rouge to contour my face — almost gray, giving a beautiful shade. The highlighter is only matte - I completely fell out of love with the nacre on my face. And that's all. You can fight. Everyone will listen to me - this has already been verified.
Dariya Nifontova
Co-founder of the blog "Patty Call"
I deeply believe in the theory that self-care - in all its manifestations - is an excellent therapeutic activity that can solve many problems. If I need to relax after a hard trip, then there is nothing better than a long bath with masks, oils and warm socks after, but in order to feel sexy, you only need to buy beautiful underpants and smear with aroma oils. Make-up in my universe is not in the first place (I am very lazy to wash after), but I cannot question its power. Depending on the situation, he can play the role of a real war paint that will give a long-awaited personal space (nothing works better than no makeup and consumptive look), make you feel one hundred percent (hello, NARS Dragon Girl) or just help to turn a complicated scam that called "collect soup".
When I am tired, retrograde Mercury is raging, and it’s difficult to stand beautiful in a white coat, I’m not hesitating to get into my makeup bag, because there is nothing more soothing and empowering than to look in the mirror and see a vigorous and healthy person there, and not a zombie 11-hour working day. In general, my most salutary makeup is fat arrows (you can like it here), but today you don’t ask them, but being able to stop in time is also important. To feel good, I usually listen to the advice of one of the most brilliant women in the world - Kim Kardashian. Strobing is the best trick in the world, Russia is our Fatherland, death is inevitable.
Today I really lacked radiance in both the literal and figurative sense, so I generously smeared a highlighter on Kim's tutorial: layered shine on the cheekbones, brow muscles, back of the nose, chin, cupid bow and center of the forehead. Then I used blush - a bronzer on the cheekbones and sides of the forehead, and bright red blush Sleek Makeup I walked from the wings of the nose to the apples of the cheeks - this trick allows you to look a little burnt in the sun and I am terribly impressed. The failed arrows were erased and turned into almost unnoticeable Smokey, and in the fold of the century I shaded the same bronzer. A drop of peony shine Tony Moly - and it is already pleasant for me to smile at the reflection in the mirror and make a top three selfie.
In general, I want to talk endlessly about makeup as a saving rope - but the most important advice is that you should always listen to yourself. There is nothing more depressing than to come out with a lipstick, which you regretted even in front of the mirror, or to paint your eyelashes under the arrows “because you need to,” despite the fact that your eyes leave any eyes after 30 minutes. The more harmonious our makeup is combined with the internal state, the better. In the end, we do it only for our own sake.
Daria Zorina
PR specialist
I never thought that the length of eyelashes can drastically change the image and make the eyes big. It's just my fad - "wide-open eyes", because I have an eastern section of the eyes and if I make them up incorrectly (as I used to do often), then you can make them two more times already. No mascara gave such an effect, which gives extended eyelashes. Many will say that this is some kind of moveton, and generally unnatural, but they simply didn’t find their master and didn’t make their eyelashes wrong. I once tried and sat down, you can say, looked at myself with different eyes. Of course, I am not fond of this, I practice only on especially important cases, but this is a very effective means to improve self-esteem and mood. When I do them, I can not particularly paint, well, a maximum of neat eyebrows and a little blush.
For me, eyebrows play a very important role on my face. If something is wrong with them, for example, a few hairs are treacherously sticking out of them, breaking a clear form, my mood is spoiled. I trust only the master in shaping and coloring the eyebrows, because I myself can only paint them beautifully with a pencil (and not always). Still, no matter how trite, bright lipstick is +100 to self-confidence, it works even with those who try to deny it. My hand always automatically stretches its lips to paint before an important meeting, a party, and if in my current image I feel myself not sufficiently well dressed. I like wine shades and the color of "ripe eggplant" very much, but I don’t always pick up the spirit to wear them, it’s not usual to be so confident.
With eye makeup, I always had trouble, by nature they are not that wide open and large, but actually I would like to. Now, of course, there are a lot of benefits about what to do if you have an eyelid hanging, but there is not always time to apply them in life. Therefore, there is a fast and proven way: you can’t pick out the eyes normally - mark the lips, which I always use. This year, a friend graduated from Mosmake and trained on me an art make-up - she painted my eyes, and with pink shades. I thought it would be a nightmare, but it seemed to work out pretty well. This makeup definitely gave me self-confidence - flaunted with such a color in broad daylight and did not pay attention to the bewilderment of passers-by.
Masha Vorslav
Wonderzine Beauty Editor
With my current hairstyle, external militancy will not go anywhere on my own, so I’ll think over the make-up that would give me strength in a different way (perhaps I’ll just wear dark lipstick). But when I had long hair and needed adrenaline, I drew a simple black matte smokey. First, it is really beautiful. Secondly, I do not know a safer (for myself and others) and an eloquent way of throwing out the reaction to stimuli. The most interesting thing is that the mood at the same time did not become blacker than a cloud: internal aggression completely moved out, and I could be more friendly than I would have been without Smokey. However, when I forget to smile with such make-up, the expressiveness of my natural face (resting bitch face, to be more precise) is just tenfold, but in a multimillion-dollar city you can wrap it to your advantage.
On the technical side, everything is quite simple: if you know what form of shading you particularly like, black shadows can be applied in the same borders as the others. So that they look more - haha - naturally, it is worth smoothing them with some matte brownish tint: the makeup will not become "dirtier", but the skin around the shadows will not be gray. Then I have everything on the thumb: black kayal on the mucous membrane, on the eyelashes - voluminous black mascara (even if you slap the eyelid, it does not need to be scrubbed) like BECCA The Ultimate Mascara or Chanel Le Volume.
It is better to draw eyebrows after you have finished with your eyes: most likely, you will want to make them stand out stronger in order to balance bright eyes. The tonal one is the last thing after you loosen the loose shadows (it is better to wipe the whole face with the micellar one, because the smallest black dust can even settle on the cheeks), it can be a highlighter that matches the skin tone, so as not to argue with Smokey. I love the intense pearl MAC Cream Color Base Luna or the sophisticated BECCA Shimmering Skin Perfector Pearl of the same cool shade. If you apply it around the contour of the lips, and not just at the top, you can accent the mouth, without dragging too much attention to it, as it would be with glitter or lipstick, even a natural shade. Yes, and the back of the nose should also be highlighted with a highlighter - at least for the sake of experiment.
Natasha Gulyaeva
PR specialist
In the struggle with the autumn-winter blues help me outfits and makeup. Although, as a rule, it is in a bad mood that you want to get into a comfortable baggy sweater, and leave your face completely naked. This is a big mistake! I think that many young ladies will agree with me that red lipstick is the most effective and quickest way to cheer up. In my cosmetic bag is already the third MAC Russian Red, I have not tried other brands and shades - I am very pleased with this one. But if time is a little longer and you like experiments and reincarnations, then I suggest trying a different, more extreme way of dealing with the blues - a full-fledged bright make-up. There is a possibility that people will not even recognize you, that only on hand, you can play any role.
In my case, this is the role of a disco diva. I always thought that makeup was very difficult, but with the appearance of makeup artist and friend Sergei Naumova in my life, I learned a variety of techniques for face painting. Seryozha taught to draw arrows, to apply blush correctly, to do day and evening make-up, without the help of outsiders. Our last experiment and drawing lesson was called Disco-Diva.
The most important thing in it - the eyes! You need to start with eyebrows: the lower contour of the eyebrows must be drawn with a hair color pencil, thus emphasizing the shape, then comb the hair up with a transparent gel. The result - well-groomed and thick eyebrows. Then take pearl shades of different shades, like the peacock's tail (blue, green, purple, gray, blue, etc., do not be afraid to overdo it with flowers). Starting from the inner corner of the eye, we apply a shade after shade, without getting into the previous one, and then blend the entire palette across the moving eyelid with a natural fluffy brush. The final will be a voluminous mascara on the upper and lower lashes. I don’t tell about the tone and blush, because it is quite easy, but another favorite secret is lip balm (in my case, Basic Balm by Sergey Naumov), which I put on as a highlighter - with patting movements of the fingers on the cheekbones and upper part lips
With such make-up, the question of a bad mood disappears, the main thing is to force yourself, to find strength and spend time on it. And it's worth it. And in general, I would not share the makeup on day or evening. The main thing is that it is appropriate. My friend, the artist Sasha Ushakova, can come out with maroon eyebrows in the afternoon - and I really like it. And she is always in a good mood, mind you.
Elena Spasova
BESPOKE PIXEL BUREAU RESPONSIBLE
None of the makeup makes me feel better than accentuated eyebrows. Smoothed or disheveled, traced or emphasized natural - they are at the moment help to get together and generally clearly position themselves regarding any difficulties. To be honest, for me it is hardly directly correlated with beauty - there is, rather, an element of theater or ritual coloring. Self-awareness is important because eyebrows are a statement. I have them by nature, and so are quite noticeable, but with skill they can be emphasized quite differently.
From this eyebrow pencil in my cosmetic bag has an almost sacred status - I always take it with me, although in fact I almost never use it during the day. Quite a while ago I found an ideal tool for myself - this is the simplest eyebrow pencil Rimmel. No matter how much I tried something different, from luxury brands to mass-market, everything is not that: it is too hard, or not soft enough, it is quickly erased, then the tone itself is by. Of the recent finds, I really liked the Bbrowbar eyebrow gel with vitamin B5 - its brush promises to tame every hair and with a single stroke to give the eyebrows a well-groomed look. You know, it seems to be true.
Natalya Pokrovskaya
PRODUCER OF THE FILM COMPANY "SEPARATE SUMMER"
If I am not happy with what is happening in the mirror or outside of it, then I use the method codenamed "pink pups", as effective as the readers have now perekorezhilo from the word. His main friends are flawless tone and highlighter. The first is the Omorovicza Complexion Perfector for 80 (sic) pounds, which could as well cost 200, because there is nothing better in the world. At all. Not. The second is the NARS stick of the Copacabana shade. I like to apply it not only according to the standard highlighter scheme, but also on the eyelids, including the lower one under the eyelashes - a shining “washed” look is obtained. Then take a mascara that curls your eyelashes, for example, Lancôme Hypnose Doll Eyes or L'Oréal Miss Manga, which is not far behind. Blush should be pink and matte, with glitter it is time to stop. Champion of the tenderest shades - Shu Uemura. Add lip gloss or body-colored lipstick. Look: you - baby! You can not not love.
PHOTO: cover image via MAC
