THE ART OF MAKE - UP

WHAT ENDEARS YOU MOST TO THIS ART?

Make up is the act of playing with colours beautifully on the body especially on the face to achieve one or more of these three basics of make up.

1.                 Enhancement

2.                 Concealment

3.                 Feigning

1.                 Enhancement: This has to do with highlighting your strength i.e. your beautiful features. E.g. If you have beautiful eye balls and you want to showcase them to the world, all you need to do is to highlight it round with a dark eye pencil or liner.

2.                 Concealment: This has to do with hiding your flaws. E.g. if you have Froggy eyes, and want to hide it, all you need do is to line the inner lids with dark liners it will make the eyes appear smaller.

3.                 Feigning: This has to do with giving yourself a feature you admire so much on people which you do not have. E.g. If you have small eyes and you want them to appear bigger, you will need to apply liner on the upper lid half way out.

I am sure you will agree that if you know how to use your make-up well, you will have a perfect you.

Now that we know the essence of make-up, what are these items that we will use to achieve our aim?

1.                 Foundation Prima

2.                 Foundation

3.                 Powder

4.                  Eye shadow prima

5.                 Eye shadows

6.                 liquid eye liner

7.                 Eye & lip pencils

8.                 Mascara prima

9.                 Lip Prima

10.            Lip colours

11.            Lip gloss

12.            Brush

13.            Bronzers

Note!  Primas are applied as based before the colours or eye shadows.

We have different products; some are made having the women of colour in mind while some are not to be used by women of colour.

This brings us to the question who is a woman of colour?

A woman of colour is an African woman. That is a woman with a dark skin color.

Products for the woman of colour:

1.     Black –Up

2.     Black radiance

3.     Black – opal

4.     Mary – Kay

5.     Sleek

6.     Iman

7.     Fashion fair

8.     Orekelewa ( Tara)

9.     B.M. Pro

10. Lise

11. Wen Posner

12.  Mac.

Often times, I am being faced with the question what make up item that one can not do without.

      Well I think it is an individual thing. What “A” cannot do without may not be paramount to “B”.

       My days in school, I had a friend who powders her face every second even when a lecturer stood in front of us. Powder, she could not do without.

My sister cannot move an inch out of the house without making her lips dazzling. For my sister, lipstick is it. My mum, it is mascara, she enjoys it whenever she is being asked if those lashes are for real. While, I cannot do without my dark brown pencil. I call it my day saver because with it, I am well made up. It serves as my brow filler and that is what people appreciate most on my made up face. It also serves as my lip liner making my lips look dark and lovely. I also use it to line my eyes round flaunting the fact that I have got them beautiful.

So, why don’t you look inwards and let’s have one thing that accentuates your beauty. While you are at it I will list the must have for your regular beauty pouch.

1.     Powder

2.     Small pallet of eye shadows

3.     Small pallet of lip colors

4.     One lip and eye liner

REMEMBER, LESS IS MORE!