Different makeup forms to keep you fresh & beautiful

Makeup is an art that gives women an entire new look. Here I am trying to provide different styles of makeup suitable for different occasions and your skin. I am placing these makeup styles in alphabetic serial and not as priority basis.

Aqua waterproof makeup

Aqua is basically water and aqua makeup came out of it to give a cool effect to the makeup used for hot and humid conditions to give a perfect cool touch. It is very popular form of makeup in places and countries where weather conditions are generally hot and humid mostly the areas surrounded by oceans. The humid conditions are known as biggest enemies of fashion lovers therefore they have invented this makeup form to keep themselves cool and fresh through their fun outings with aqua makeup on. 

Aqua makeup not only gives a cool and fresh look but also is soft, very light shaded and providing a perfect look with touch of cool. The shades used are mostly the same as those of different oceans like ocean blue also known as, aquamarine, ocean green, in fact this is bluish green or greenish blue but none while it appears finally, this is lighter in shades. A word of advice- however light this does not suits on every face. 

How to apply aqua makeup

Wash your face with a soft face wash and use foundation on your face matching to your skin to start with. Use white pencil to outline your eyes. Use bluish green or greenish blue eye shadow to make it perfect aqua makeup, use light blue colored blusher, better use cream blusher and finish it with powder blusher to make it perfect. Use light shades of lipsticks with glossy to finish and a small touchup of shimmer. Your lipstick should match with the shades of eye shadow and blusher. 

Bronze makeup

You must have noticed the shining and very fair faces of film and TV actors and I am sure must have wondered to know the secret of extremely glamorous complexion of each of them, bronze makeup the secret of their shining beauty. Bronze makeup, a mixture of bronze and golden shades is available in metallic and Matt forms. In case you are interested to try it for your own makeup, these are available easily in market as liquid, cream, spray, gel and powder form. To add more attraction to these some of the items are available in plain while others are available in shimmer form to give your skin more shining look  

Bronze make tips

That makes your skin look young and fresh instantly especially in the evening time or in artificial light when it gives you an extra glow. Bronze makeup material is available for face and other body parts in separate categories as the one used for face may not be as effective on other body parts. 

1- Please note that if your skin is lifeless or not that healthy in look the bronze makeup would lift the complexion instantly with a glowing look. It even hides the weak figure look of your body. 

2- If your skin has pinkish look the most suitable bronze makeup for you is with pink based or that has pinkish tone.

3- Never use it in excess quantity but as much as needed as it stands out if used unnecessary therefore use it as much as mixed up with skin easily.

Indian Makeup

Indian makeup is most suitable for girls wearing Indian dresses like salwar suit, sari, lehanga or other regional dresses worn by ladies in different states of south India and other parts where traditional dress are still in fashion. Indian fashion is combination of sober shades of makeup items including lipsticks. Girls prefer to avoid looking extra glamorous in Indian styled makeup although look very beautiful but must keep a low profile to match with their dresses. 

The best way to apply Indian style makeup is to use matching eye shadow with your dress or lighter shades of copper, magenta, blue, which suit properly with Indian outfits. To give it a better look you can use a light touch of golden highlighter and very light quantity of blue eye shadow on your eyelids, blend it well and then use kohl with metallic blue eyeliner to complete your eye makeup. However, the beauty of Indian makeup is in its simplicity and graceful look. 

Photogenic makeup  

Photogenic makeup is the way to make a non-photogenic face suitable for photography because not every face has photogenic value despite being beautiful. The makeup meant for making a face photogenic is through the art of making/altering parts of the face suitable for a good looking and lovely photo result. The most important part for a good photo is your chin; the art of photogenic face is to improve your chin as a slim chin changes the whole look of a face, change in shape of chin changes an ordinary face into a most beautiful one. 

This makeup form is very popular with fashion related fields like electronic media, film world and fashion industry. This is considered a professional job and the demand for such professionals is ever increasing but with a little bit of practice and experiments you can learn it for your personal use. The most common way to give your chin a slim look is by giving it diamond, rectangular or square shape.

Nude makeup

No need to get alarmed with this form of makeup as this is most natural form of makeup to look without makeup despite wearing it on but with special effects. The art of makeup to look without makeup is NUDE makeup. That’s it somewhat no colors no tension. Although this form of makeup is popular in Europe and Australia but women especially professional women have started to adapt this form of make up for the simple reason of keeping it simple and the best part of it that it goes well with all kind of outfits, western as well as Indian both.

The nude makeup looks sober on any age group or style of clothing, as there is no look of makeup basically as this makeup gives a look of innocence. The nude makeup has no limitation of weather related but it highlights your beauty alike in every season with equal effect. For instance if you want to wear a white or beige sari with nude makeup, it would give your personality a French touch. The combination of soft touch and shades is nude make up.

How to do nude makeup  

Start with your eyebrows to shape and give them a proper look according to shape of your face using an eyebrow pencil. You should use soft shades of matching skin shades on your eyelids to make your eyes give a natural but yes no need to look as if you have used too heavy makeup for your eyes although some women give all the importance to eyes and leave the rest of the face with too natural shades. 

More tips for nude makeup

This is basically to highlight your lips and eyes and also known as glitter makeup. Tryout a few more tips-

A- Use liquid foundation on a well-washed face to start with. Avoid cake foundation because that is ideally suitable for bridal makeup. Also, use a small quantity of moisturizer along with transparent foundation to get a glowing look.

B- In case you want to highlight your eyes, you should use soft golden peach or soft pink shade   

C- Use gel on eyebrow and spread it well using a brush or use transparent mascara but no kohl in case your eyebrows are thick enough. Black and dark brown mascara is in trend for this particular form of makeup but your own complexion is important. As stated above if you want to make your eyes look bigger use white colored eyeliner to highlight your eyes. 

D- The brown shade is symbol of   depth where the bronze shade itself adds deep look to your appearance.  Another feature of nude makeup is use liner thicker than usual to give a different look.

Final note

While using makeup keep in your mind that nude is the form of makeup that makes you look without makeup therefore keep your makeup within that category as most office going women use this form to look sober and without makeup but beautiful and impressive. Here you have different kind of makeup for going out, find out one most suitable for yourself.

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