Genius Lip Care Tips To Keep Your Pout Soft And Supple

One of the most underrated yet most looked after features in our makeup routines is our lips. And taking care of your lips is something we are not regularly doing! So, people, we need to follow lip care tips to keep our pouts soft and supple daily.    We follow thousands of skincare routine steps to get facials, spas, manis, and pedis done. But we never pamper our lips. Lips are the true reflection of our diet, lifestyle as well as our habits. This is why we need to start treating them better. They deserve a lot more than we give them.    Here are a few genius lip care tips to keep your pout soft and supple.    Lip Care Tips      Start scrubbing today!     One of the best ways to take care of lips is by using a lip scrub. Time and again, you should really exfoliate your lips. This is the only way you can rid your lips of all the dead skin cells just sitting atop your mouth. Underneath that deal skin cell layer is your actual supple, soft, and nourished lips.    Lip scrubs are a fantastic way to even help your lipstick slide smoothly and evenly.    Apart from giving you all these benefits, lip scrubs also promote excellent blood circulation and reduce overall discoloration. Your lips are incredibly soft, supple, healthy, and nourished. However, an important thing to note here is that exfoliating your lips more than once a week is actually having damaging effects on your lips. Use gentle exfoliating scrubs on your lips once every week, and you will see great results!    Hydration is the key!    To ensure your lips are supple and healthy on the outside, you must be drinking enough water to stay hydrated throughout the day. Not consuming enough water can be a leading cause of chapped, dehydrated lips.    Therefore, ensure you consume at least 7-8 glasses of water or approximately 2-2.5 liters of water in a day. This helps heal your chapped and dry lips and improve your overall body function as well.     Keep your enemies close, but your lip balm closer!    Well, as accurate as this saying sounds, you need to really keep your lip balm closer with you. What if you have to really smile while looking at your enemies? You do not want dried-out, lifeless, chapped lips, right? Heal your chapped lips with a hydrating and moisturizing lip balm. Lip balms enriched with shea butter should be your priority on the list of lip care tips. This helps give your lips a great dose of moisture.    Lip balms can easily also form a layer on top of your lips to protect them from any harmful aggressors, environmental or otherwise. Make sure you are really applying your lip balm a few times every day and under your lipstick to get better results.    Keep the UV rays away from yourself, precious!    The same way harmful sun rays can affect your entire face and your body, the UV rays can cause damaging effects to your lips too. In fact, the skin of your lips is extremely susceptible to damage due to UV exposure.    This can lead to multiple issues like darkening of your lips, aging, and lip thinning. Therefore, you need to apply sunblock on your lips, too, just like all over your body. It is essential to either apply sunblock or get a lip balm infused with SPF. These products are going to protect you from sun damage, keeping your lips looking soft, supple, and youthful.    Clean them real good daily!    Make sure you are keeping your lips as clean as your lips. It is crucial for the health, vitality, and youthfulness of your lips.    The same way you keep your face clean while taking your makeup off before bedtime, it is essential to focus on your lips too. Even if you are not wearing any lip makeup, it is necessary to keep your lips clean. This helps keep your lips clean and rids them of all the dirt, oil, or other impurities, protecting your delicate skin from all kinds of damage.    In order to clean your lips correctly, follow this fantastic lip care tip:   1. Saturate a cotton pad with some cleansing milk or micellar water.  2. Wipe your lips across gently with the same cotton pad. 3. If wearing a lip product, repeat the process to make your lips squeaky clean.  4. Follow with a generous amount of lip balm to keep your lips soft.    Lick ice creams, not your lips!    For most people, it is a pretty bad habit, but they do lick their lips every single time they feel dry.    It might give you a respite for some time but is going to damage your lips in the long run. Once the saliva evaporates from your lips' surface, it starts to become drier. This can further lead to your lips being more flaky and parched.    The easiest way to avoid this is by simply using a lip balm every single night before bedtime as a part of your skincare routine. This ensures you are going to wake up to supple lips every morning, which is super-hydrated all throughout the day.    Prep your lips the right way!   All the lipsticks that you are usually going to use, or have ever used, contain multiple ingredients that are essentially drying on your lips.    Therefore, if you already have pretty dry lips, scrub them and exfoliate them, moisturize them, and then wear your lipsticks. This eliminates the appearance of fine line wrinkles and keeps your lips smooth, soft, and supple.    Lip Care Facial - How To Pamper Your Pout?      Now that we are done with multiple lip care tips, it is now time to talk about giving your lips the spa treatment and the pampering they deserve the right way. Learn how to pamper your pout with a lip facial.    Exfoliate well.  There are multiple ways to do this. Apply a really thick layer of lip balm and roll q-tips along your lips to remove all dry and flaky bits. You can even use a DIY lip scrub by mixing some of your lip balms with sugar granules. This DIY mask will actually work wonders for your lips as sugar granules are not too harsh on your lips.    Mask them up real nice So, anyone who actually is familiar with all the lip care 101 we just presented up here, you really need to moisturize and hydrate your lips.    The best way to do that is to use lip masks to plump up your lips. You can use Laneige, Paula's, or Dr. Barbara's to do the deed for you. Leave any of these lip masks for at least 5-10 minutes, and then rinse it all off.    We especially love the Laneige lip mask in the original berry flavor. It contains hyaluronic acid and is super hydrating. The mask also has traces of vitamin C in it, so it helps our lips with depigmentation from time to time as well. It is effortless to use and super convenient to apply as a part of our daily skincare routine.    Plump it!  Just a couple of months ago, we discovered this incredible product - The Dewy Look by Glossier. This baby has our heart. It has single-handedly managed to keep our lips plumped up all throughout the day.    All you need to do is just swipe a layer of this lip plumper onto your lips, and in an instant, you will get fuller, more voluminous-looking lips. We could really see the difference.    The formula is not too sticky and contains all the right ingredients your lips will love. It simply works by targeting the capillaries in your lips, causing them to swell your blood vessels. This makes your lips appear redder and fuller in the most non-harmful way.    Quench your thirst  Well, not quite literally! But, really try to quench your lips' thirst. Use a significant, hydrating lip balm with immense nourishing qualities like shea butter, plant seed oils, etc. as well. Lip balms must be the last step of your lip facial. Some of the best lip balms you can use are Honest Beauty, Dr. Barabara, Glossier, L'Occitane, and Palmer's.    You do not always have to spend a fortune over a lip balm. It just needs to contain the right ingredients for that perfect lip care session to come to an end.    Taking care of your lips is extremely important. Just following a few simple lip care tips and steps will offer you some stunning results in no time! Keep reading the Womenwire blog for more such skincare and makeup tips! You will not regret it!   

Best Makeup Tips For Oily Skin That Will Change Your Life

Summers are right around the corner, which means oily skin beauties need to beware!    The trauma-inducing season for makeup junkies is here. I understand genuinely what people with oily skin go through during summers. I have had oily skin my entire life, and I know how hard it is to maintain. It can be frustrating seeing your makeup just melt away halfway through the day. It could get cakey, separated. The worst part - when you look at yourself in the mirror, you are horrified.    Been there, done that! The messy, sticky look can petrify anyone. It can get hideous when you are on a date. This is where my skincare and makeup tips come in!    These tips and tricks are pretty simple to follow, and you can easily do them right from the comfort of your home. Most of these tips and tricks are just small changes that can bring out a massive difference in your overall look. It will also help your makeup last longer, while it is budge-free, matte, and shine-free all day long.    Skincare and Makeup Tips For Oily Skin      Hydrate    Nine times out of ten, people tend to have extremely oily skin because their skin is dehydrated. By producing excess oil, your skin is only trying to hydrate itself. So, ensure you are really hydrating well. Drink a lot of water, use hyaluronic acid-based serums and mists to lock that layer of moisture in. it will work wonders!    Stop choosing oil-free products    You should immediately stop doing that to yourself. Oil-free products are actually eventually going to leave your skin to dry out, which will obviously produce more sebum/oil. Apply face products with oil in them. It is a misconception that putting more oil on already oily skin is causing more harm!    It is not true! So, start shopping for products that will actually help your skin instead of drying it out. You need essential oils in your skin, even when it is oily.    Cleanse your face    When you have oily skin, it is vital that you clean your face correctly every single morning! Don’t just keep using micellar water or makeup wipes to remove makeup or just to keep your face fresh all day long. You need to dig into those facial cleansers and really clean your face out with water.    Use a good exfoliator.    Another great skincare and makeup tip for oily skin is to really use a good exfoliator. There are some fantastic exfoliators readily available in the market that are easy and safe on your skin to be used every day. Using exfoliators on oily skin daily can help you get your pores clean. Pores can get easily enlarged because of the sebaceous glands flaring up to create excess oil every now and then.    So, when you are exfoliating, you are actually cleaning out the excess of those glands. This also helps reduce the extra texture and flakiness on your skin. Using an exfoliator also will help you prevent blackheads and breakouts.    Say hello to facial oil.    Another great skincare and makeup tip is to introduce your skin to facial oil. It is crucial to invest in a good quality facial oil, especially for your nighttime skincare routine. It will make a massive difference to your oily situation!    Once you apply facial oil that suits your skin during the night before you go to bed, you are going to produce less oil the subsequent day. These results might not be visible in the very first use itself. It will take time! So, after about two to three weeks into this new routine, you will actually start to see the results.    I absolutely adore the Dermalogica Phyto replenish facial oil in my nighttime skincare routine. It absorbs quickly into my skin, smells fantastic, and does not cause any breakouts to my already oily and acne-prone skin. It also acts as a natural barrier for my skin.    Two weeks into using it, I noticed a dramatic difference in the overall oil production on my face.    Not waiting for moisturizers to absorb      So, this one is not really a skincare tip but more a makeup tip.  It is essential for us to moisturize our skin well before we apply our foundation makeup and other products to our faces. However, it is also crucial that we wait for everything to seep into our pores and then start with our makeup.    So, if you are applying a facial serum, toner water, eye creams or a moisturizer, or anything else, even a makeup primer, you need to wait before applying your foundation. Everything will take a little while to settle into your skin and be absorbed.    Wait for at least 10 minutes before you start with the next steps in your makeup routine. Iron your clothes, sip some of your smoothies, watch an episode of your favorite Netflix show, paint your nails to go with your outfit, do anything during those 10-15 minutes. Allowing your skin products some time will actually make your makeup last longer in a budge-proof manner.    Choose the suitable primer.    One of the best makeup tips for people with oily skin is choosing a primer that will work for oily skin. Rather than selecting just any primer that will work against your skin, choose something that is suitable for oily skin.    Some primers meant for oily skin people are the pore minimizing primers. They are made up of a really thick silicon base, which does manage to cover your pores as much as it can but leave your skin slippery. This will not let your makeup last longer, though, and leave your skin slippery smooth for makeup application. Once these primers mix with the oils in your makeup products, it just doesn’t work!    Another kind of primer you should also avoid using is an illuminating primer. Illuminating primers have reflective particles in them that are designed to give you a shimmery finish. It will not work for people with oily skin. It will make your skin look even greasier than it already is. At all costs, avoid them.    The primers you really need to be opting for must be lightweight inconsistency. They should be hydrating and moisturizing. These are the primers you should be using to increase the life of your makeup. You should always choose something that will be absorbed into your skin instead of sitting right on top of it. You do not want any form of residue!    Hourglass, Covergirl offers some of the best primers for oily skin types in the market!   Setting powder to the rescue!    Okay, so this is a really cool trick I read about in an old makeup journal at a salon. The trick was used by professional artists way back in the 20th century and works wonders even today!    This works so well that YouTube’s very own sensational makeup artist Wayne Goss recommends doing so. The trick here is to take your setting translucent powder and dab it all over your skin after you’ve applied your primer. Please note that this should be done lightly, with a sponge or a brush, whatever suits you, before putting your foundation on.    If you need a velvety smooth finish, setting powder is the key for oily skin.    Just dip your powder brush into your translucent powder and dab it across your face, really pushing the powder into your pores. It will lock everything in and make your makeup budge-proof, shine-proof, and oil-proof.    Use the right foundation.    Contrary to popular belief, foundations meant for oily skin that claims to give you a matte finish will actually do more harm than good! You should definitely stay away from such foundations.    Such foundations are going to cake your skin and make everything look bizarre and heavy.    You would want to choose something extremely lightweight and almost liquid in terms of consistency. The consistency should be equivalent to Nyx’s total control drop liquid foundation. It will work wonders for your skin.    Using extra foundation to cover blemishes    One of the best makeup tips that you can take away from this entire article is not to use excess foundation on your face! Ever! Layering up your foundation does no good to anyone, which is precisely why you must avoid it. Use foundation only in thin layers, which will work wonders for your skin.   Once you are done with your foundation application, ensure you are not applying extra foundation to cover up any form of blemishes. Layering up foundation right atop your acne spots or blemishes will make your foundation tacky, flaky, and extremely visible in the wrong way.    Instead, what you should be doing here is to use a concealer wand over your foundation to act as a shield for your blemishes and marks.    Covering everything up with a highly pigmented product is something that will actually work in your favor instead of covering your blemishes with foundation. It will only create layers that are actually going to look ugly.    Spray your face again    The entire purpose of a setting spray is to lock in all the makeup layers on your face so that it does not move the whole day. However, did you know you can use your setting spray after applying your foundation and before other steps?    Yes, you can!    Apply a setting spray after you’ve applied foundation and before using any other product. This helps lock in your foundation, making it light and budge-proof.    Lock your face with powder    The real key, the game changer! Locking your face entirely with powder once your makeup is done works beautifully for everyone! It is one of the most trusted makeup tips for people with oily skin.    All you need to do is take a wet sponge, dip it into your setting powder, and dab it all over your face. While you are patting, don’t go for a lighter hand. Instead, really go heavy on the dabbing. You should be pushing the powder pigment into your facial pores.    Just dab all the way and lock your entire makeup with powder. Using your sponge this way, pushing the powder into your skin creates an extra barrier that oil needs to get through to ruin your makeup.    Final Words: There you go! Brace summers like a pro with these makeup tips. You can run, laugh, dance, work, cook, do anything really. Your makeup will not move an inch! Just keep your face clean and hydrated at all times, drink a lot of water! You will master everything else with a few tips here and there.   

Contour Face Makeup Tips - Contouring 5 Different Nose Shapes

Whatever you know about contouring your nose so far, forget that knowledge! This is your ultimate guide to get past those two vertical lines on each side of your nose and do something that is suitable precisely for your nose shape. Contour face makeup tips by WomenWire will help you in this concern.    So, we will be going through 5 different nose shapes and understanding the various contour face makeup tips for them.    1. Flat Nose    The first nose shape we are covering today is the flat nose! People with flat noses have this common complaint - the bridge of their noses is not well-defined. This is precisely what we have to achieve through contouring face makeup products and the right brushes.    So, if you have a flat nose, take your contouring kits, bring your brushes, and follow these steps:    - Start by dipping your brush into the contouring product - Place your brush, with the product on, right where your brows start above your nose.  - Draw a line, right from the brows, all the way down to the tip of your nose.  - Follow this on the other side too.   It is this simple to contour a flat nose!    PS - Flat-nosed people do not require a highlighter to correct their noses in any way.    2. Triangular Nose    The next nose shape is a triangular nose. A triangular nose shape is basically wider around the nostrils than it is around one’s eyes.     So, for correctly contouring a triangular nose, all you need to do is follow these steps:   - Start by framing your nose, especially around your nostrils and around the tip of your nose. So basically, you have to place your contouring product about an inch and a half or about two inches down towards the tip of your nose.  - Do not place this contour face makeup product around your eyes because your nose is already narrow there.  - Once contouring is done, place your highlighter around the inner corners of your eyes, just below the starting point of your eyebrows. You want to throw in more light around the highlighter areas, especially in your eyes’ inner corner, to balance everything out.    And that’s how your correct triangular noses are!    PS - Go a little heavy with your highlighter. But not too heavy!    3. Crooked Nose    The next nose shape to learn contour face makeup tips is the crooked nose. Now, the crooked nose is not exactly like a broken nose, not an indentation, but your nose is actually moving a bit towards the other side instead of following a straighter line like other nose shapes.     The nose is a relatively easy one to contour, no matter how difficult it sounds or looks like! We will have to apply similar principles as we do to people with flat noses.    For correctly contouring a crooked nose, all you need to do is follow these steps:   - Start by drawing two straight lines, following right down the starting edge of your brow. So, let’s say your nose is “crooked” towards the left side of your face. The tip actually moves towards the left of your face. Draw a straight line on the right side of your nose.  - Ensure your line is exactly straight and not following the groove that is a part of your nose naturally. Your line must not depend on that groove.  - Repeat the same principle on the other side of your nose too. Your line should not move with your nose. Lines should be straight!    So, that’s how you correct your crooked nose with contour face makeup!    PS - Go easy on your highlighter. Your highlighter will ideally go in the middle of the two straight lines you’ve drawn. It should be straight, despite the natural grooves and shape of your nose.    4. Bulbous nose    The bulbous nose shape required a little different approach to contour and correct.  For correctly contouring a bulbous nose, all you need to do is follow these steps:   - Start by placing your contouring product right below the edge of your brows. - Draw a straight line down your nose from this starting point - Go down almost a third of the way, and not all the way down to the tip of your nose. - Once those two lines on the top of your nose are done, stop and start to contour around the tip of your nose.  - Your contour around the tip of your nose should look like a circular line instead of a straight line. Of course, it is contouring a round-er part of your nose to make it look less bulbous.  - There must be a gap in the middle of your nose between two different contouring points.  - This is the place where your highlighter must go. Between the gap. Not above, not below. Just right in the middle.    So, there you go! You can contour and correct your bulbous nose this way.    PS - If you think your nose is a little too bulbous, you can easily spread the highlighted part of your nose to the sides as well. You can go wider with your contouring lines.    5. Shadow-bridge nose    The next nose shape to learn how to contour correctly is the shadow-bridge nose. What a shadow bridge nose means is that the top part of your nose, between your eyebrows (where your unibrows go), and the top part of your nose’s bridge are extremely prominent. The upper triangle of your nose looks heavy. Therefore, you do not really require contouring this part of the nose itself.    For correctly contouring a shadow-bridge nose, all you need to do is follow these steps:   - Instead of starting with a contour for the upper triangle that is very prominent, add a highlighter to this top part.  - Your highlighter must be placed in the form of a triangle, where it kind of bleeds up to the top of your eyebrows in a slight manner. Nothing should be too heavy!  - Blend the highlighter off in this portion, especially at the top as well as the bottom. The most striking part of your highlighter must be in the middle, the portion between your eyes. This will instantly correct the heaviness of your nose and add the right amount of dimension to the shadowy, heavy area of your nose.    So, that’s how you correct a heavy, shadow-bridge nose with contour face makeup.    PS - Blending out your highlighter is extremely important, especially between your brows and towards the bottom of this triangle, since we are not actually using any real contouring face makeup products.    Not every nose requires two straight lines down your nose. Not every nose shape is the same! Stop copying insta-glam ways to contour your nose. Follow WomenWire for more such tips!   

12 Ways To Use Mac Fix+ Makeup Fixer That Will Change Your Life

Makeup fixers are likely to be the key to achieving that perfect long-lasting makeup look. If you do not want your makeup to smudge or budge or flake around the day, especially during important events, makeup fixers are your holy grail. Mac prep and prime fix+ is an incredible product fully equipped to deal with all kinds of situations. Read this article to know what a makeup fixer is. And how can this incredible Mac makeup fixer help you?    What is a makeup fixer?    So, here's the real deal - it is extremely disappointing to see all the hard work you put in, just to see your makeup bleed away or become cakey before you even hit the halfway mark through your day.    All that face contour and bronzer game you played is gone before you even did something important! This is where a makeup fixer comes into play. It really saves the day.    This little product is like a topcoat for your makeup. You can simply spritz it on your face after you are done with your makeup application and see the difference. A makeup fixer is usually the last step of your makeup routine.    But does a makeup fixer really make a difference? A big yes!    Just like a long-lasting hairspray enhances your hairstyles, a makeup fixer like the Mac prep and prime fix+ can make the difference to your makeup. It is not easy to keep your face as fresh as you finish applying your makeup. Makeup fixers help maintain the same glow and dewiness throughout the day. This product helps you keep your mid-day touchups to a minimum.    The entire purpose of your makeup fixer is to prevent your makeup from smudging, budging, sliding, creasing, and fading.    PS: Makeup fixers can also be sprayed during the makeup application process. You can spray your mac prep and prime fix+ after every set to really lock every single layer of makeup on your face. You can spritz some after applying your foundation, and then after your concealer, and then again some after your blush, bronzer and highlighter.    Now that you have figured out what a makeup fixer is, let's understand whether investing in the mac prep and prime fix+ really worth it? Read further to check out if this makeup fixer is the real deal and how you can use this makeup product in different ways to change your makeup game!    But before you do that, check out Makeup Tips For Teenagers & Beginners - What's Your Undertone?     Is mac prep and prime fix+ the real deal?    The Mac prep and prime fix+ is one of the most versatile products in the market that does it all. Every woman has either heard about the product or owned a bottle or two at least once during their lifetime.    It is the ultimate multitasker! Yes, it is the real deal because it does so many wonderful things. It is hard to keep up with everything at times, but this little beauty will really change your life!    About Mac prep and prime fix+ makeup fixer   What we love about the Mac Prep and Prime Fix + spray is that it actually is a mist. The nozzle sprays a fine mist onto our faces and evenly merges into our skin when pressed. It is matte and helps control all the excess oiliness, which is something that most people want, especially women whose skin tends to get oily just a couple of hours after applying makeup.    The formulation of this makeup fixer is extremely lightweight. It feels like you have not applied anything on your face.    The fixer also comes infused with vitamins and minerals in the original variant and, of course, the others as well. However, the other variants of the product come with different ingredients. For example, the coconut or lavender-infused Mac makeup fixer does come with these vitamins and minerals that just diffuse into your skin, but it also comes with added fragrances. The fragrances or perlite added to the makeup fixer are completely natural and will not harm your skin in any way.    The primary ingredients that are responsible for adding that boost of moisture to your skin and recharging it are - green tea, chamomile extracts, and cucumber extracts.    The spray is dermatologically tested and is great for people who are prone to breakouts or have extremely sensitive skin. It shall do no harm! To know more ways to take care of yourself better, check this out: Why Do You Need Facial Once A Month?    Moving on, let's talk about 12 different ways you can use the Mac prep and prime Fix+ makeup fixer.    How to use Mac prep and prime fix+ makeup fixer?    1. Try using it as your makeup base. This makeup fixer is your holy grail to create an even-toned, fine, and smooth skin surface for your makeup application.  2. For those of you whose skin tends to get drier during winters, add a boost of moisture to your skin with this spray. Moisturize like you do, finish your makeup and add a spritz of the spray. During extreme winter months, don't shy away from adding an extra round of spritzing with the spray before stepping out.  3. Of course, the name suggests it, set your makeup in place and keep it going for hours on end, and lock it with the Mac makeup fixer spray. It is a multi-purpose product!  4. If you feel like you have applied a lot of powder while setting your concealer or foundation, apply a spritz of the spray to neutralize the powderiness! It will work like magic.  5. You can easily erase all of the makeup mistakes you make with the Mac prep and prime fix+. The name ends with fix+; you can simply take cotton but spray some on it and swipe it around the problematic area before you make the situation worse.  6. Have you made your cheeks too rosy? Rosier than a red rose? Don't fret about it. Just spritz some of this wonderful product on your beauty blender and dab it over the problem area. You will take off all the excess blush easily without creating any smudges.  7. You can use the product to blend your foundation around your hairline for people with a tanned skin complexion and blond hair type. We understand how difficult it must be to blend near your hairline. Otherwise, everything will just show up in your hair. Spritz some of this makeup fixer on your beauty blender and dab it around your hairline for a seamless finish.  8. If, accidentally, you have applied a really thick coat of foundation on your face, especially for an everyday look, you can fix this with just a spritz or two! Spray some of the product on your beauty blender or your blending brush and dab/blend all the way. You will eventually come down to a sheet, lighter finish.  9. Use this makeup fixer spray to really bring that "pop" out of your eyeshadow. The intensity of your eye shadow, in fact, all powder pigments, increases when mixed with the prep and prime fix+.    For more such makeup tips, check this out: Life-Changing Makeup Tips - Learn How You Can Lift Your Face.    10. You can use the prep and prime fix+ makeup fixer sprays on your collar bones, arms, and legs before you dust on your highlighters. As we said, it really brings out the intensity of all kinds of powder pigments.  11. You can also use the fix+ makeup fixer as your body moisturizer before you start to fake a tan. As far as fake tans are concerned, your typical moisturizers will definitely not work. However, this fix+ spray is going to sit on your skin fast and light, fully absorbed. This will not make your skin super-greasy like other moisturizers or mess around with your tan all throughout the day.  12. Another incredible way to use this makeup fixer is to spray some on your sore and sunburnt skin. Fix+ comes with chamomile, cucumber, and green tea extracts, which soothe skin burns.    Final words: So, there you go! If you have not done it already, welcome the mac prep and prime fix+ into your life and see the difference you can make in your final look! A makeup fixer can actually change your life, and we mean it!

Makeup Tips For Teenagers & Beginners - What's Your Undertone?

As a 20-something grown adult today in 2022, my first memory of putting on makeup was when I was 14! I remember taking my mom's powder foundation and layering my face in so much powder for school that I was almost expelled! At the time, my mother did not reprimand me. She encouraged me to learn how to do makeup right, so nobody knows you are wearing anything!    This was one of the first makeup tips I received as a teenager. Yet still, the learning curve was too much.    I struggled a lot with my winged eyeliner, made my cheeks a little too rosy, matched the wrong eyeshadow with the wrong lip shade, did not blend my liquid foundation well, or even worse, chose the wrong undertones for my foundation!    My mom could not be with me at every step. She, of course, had her limits. She was also juggling a lot on her plate at the time. But that makeup tip she gave me at the time is still etched in my mind - Do your makeup right, so nobody knows you are wearing anything!    If you can relate to me, whether you are a struggling teenager or a makeup beginner, WomenWire is here for you! We know how important it is to have a mentor or a role model! We are going to give you our best makeup tips, so you can start and master the basics at first.    These makeup tips will help you in the right direction to find out the perfect shade of foundation for you, which will be your start!    I so wish I knew these tips when I started out!    Makeup Tips To Find The Right Undertones      The ideology behind flawless skin is flawed!  There is really no flawless skin. Today, it is really easy to come across people with glass-like, crystal-clear, and flawless skin. Whether it is the Instagram filters or Photoshop, we are all obsessed with flawless skin.    Truth be told - the idea of flawless skin is flawed at multiple levels.    In real life, perfect skin is unachievable. Angelina Jolie or even Zendaya do not have perfect skin! It is because we are all humans. We all have pores, fine lines, dark circles, and all sorts of imperfections.    There are multiple studies today that prove the correlation between exposure to social media's unrealistic beauty standards and one's mental health and self-esteem. Studies even show that teenage girls who tend to reshape and retouch their images before they upload them to social media have a lower body image.    We have all been there. I also had (still have) a lot of dark circles and puffiness under my eyes. I used to put a gallons-worth of concealer under my eyes to cover everything up nicely. The more concealer and foundation I used, the more high-coverage formulations I wanted.    Because of this, my under-eye area became drier with each passing day. It got really uncomfortable at nighttime, so I could not go to bed. And the routine of perfectly adding the right color-correcting shades before putting on my makeup was physically and mentally exhausting.    One final day, I got this wake-up call. I stopped doing everything! Once I stopped, I then realized and felt that everything I did was unnecessary.    Stop looking for perfect, flawless skin!    Learn To Appreciate What You Already Have    Everyone has different features, and you might see multiple makeup tutorials and try to follow them. It is really difficult to follow them since, of course, everyone comes with their unique set of features. We all have different face shapes, eye shapes, and even skin tones and types.    Trends are constantly changing. In fact, change is the only constant in the beauty industry.    When you are just beginning to do makeup, it is really important to know your features. Know your true self. This is one of the most important makeup tips for you. Know your face shape, eye shape, and even your right skin tone.    When you know your true self, you can aim at being the best version of yourself! It is hard, especially when you are just starting out. Personally, it took me almost four-five years to find out my ideal makeup routine and my true self.    It even took me a really long time to figure out my right undertones and my true and perfect foundation shade!    Your Undertone and Complexion mean something!   So, here's something you must definitely know before you get your new foundation or concealer.    Skin Complexion  When you are getting yourself a new foundation or concealer, the first thing to know is your real skin complexion. It is all about how light or deep your skin color is.    It all really comes down to the color of your skin surface. You have an endless range of options, from the palette going from light to deep, in general. But, it is important to know that it can even change for everyone, depending on the kind of season we are in. You could be an NC 35 during summers while becoming an NC 25 during winters! It all really depends on seasonal changes as well.    Undertones The second most important makeup tip to know before buying a new foundation is to know your true undertone.    Undertones are really just the right pigment of your skin. The color that is beneath your skin is your undertone. Undertones never change, while your complexion can.    There are four undertones in general. They are:    - Warm  - Cool  - Neutral  - Olive    So, if the base tone of your skin is yellow or gold, you really have a warm undertone. Your skin is prone to getting tanned easily but can rarely burn. If your skin tone is bluish and pink, you have cool undertones. Your skin can burn easily but will tan really minimally.    For neutral undertones, it is quite confusing, to be honest. They are a mix of both warm and cool undertones.    So, if you have an olive skin undertone, general foundations and concealers might look pinkish or too yellow, and neutral shade foundations or concealers might look a bit ashy.    How To Find It Online?   If following all these makeup tips is too confusing to understand, simply visit Rare Beauty or Fenty Beauty's official websites. Both the brands carry over 40 different shades of foundation, along with a mini-quiz on the website, which you can take to know your right complexion and skin undertone. And suppose you find the right one online. In that case, you can either buy that shade or visit Sephora to get two or three different shades tested out on your face to really get a glimpse of what you are going to be buying.    Another thing you can easily do is go to any Mac counters and get a consultation with Mac official makeup experts in the store. They will happily advise you on your right undertone and complexion and the perfect shade for you!    Whatever you do, when you visit the stores, just get a few samples for yourself. You can refer to these samples when you make future purchases for drugstore products from different brands to get a real idea of the right shade of foundation or concealer for you.