3 Fall Make-up Trends to Try This Week
By Jenny Bailly
The season's fresh makeup offers a kaleidoscope of options.
The Focus: Smoky, Seductive Eyes
The Pro's Secrets
1. Apply an eyeshadow primer that closely matches the color of your lids; a very thin layer is enough to keep the shadow from creasing, fading, or smudging-and won't make the color look cakey.
2. Use a brush to blend a shimmery lavender eyeshadow from your upper lashline to just above the crease of your lid. With a liner brush, trace the same shade below your bottom lashes. (Although the purple you see here flatters every skin tone, if you're pale-and a little color-shy-you can try a lighter shade.)
3. Apply two coats of mascara. A volumizing formula will add the length and thickness you need to match the dramatic effect of the colorful shadow.
Complete the Look
Blend a raspberry blush on the apples of your cheeks-make sure it's matte (shimmer on your eyes and face is too much of a good thing). A bronze lipstick is a perfect complement to bold, color-saturated eye makeup.
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The Focus: Striking, Bold Lips
The Pro's Secrets
1. Choose a color a couple of shades brighter than your natural lip tone. As a rule, raspberry shades complement a fair complexion, true red flatters olive skin, and burgundies work beautifully against dark complexions.
2. Dab on the lipstick straight from the tube, but confine the color to the center of your lips. Then use your finger to blend the color out to the corners of your mouth. (Wedded to wearing gloss? Use the wand to apply a thin layer, concentrating the color on the middle of your mouth.)
3. Blot away excess color with a tissue so it becomes more subtle-and stays put. (If you're going with a gloss, don't blot, but do blend concealer around your lips first to prevent smudging.)
Complete the Look
Keep eye makeup minimal: Blend an earth-tone eyeshadow over your lids and apply one coat of lengthening mascara.
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The Focus: Gorgeous, Glowy Skin
The Pro's Secrets
1. You probably already use concealer to minimize blemishes, dark spots, and undereye circles, but it's worth taking the time to use a fine-pointed brush for precise application. And don't forget the inner corners of your eyes, where most of us have shadows.
2. One foundation does not fit all. Powder formulas give a natural finish and are easy to touch up. They're fairly sheer, though, so if you need more coverage, or have fine lines around your eyes and lips (which powder can accentuate), try a liquid instead.
3. For the your best skin, only better effect, apply foundation with a brush or latex sponge, blending back and forth (not just in one direction).
4. After you swirl a soft pink blush on the apples of your cheeks (blending it up a little toward your ears), lightly brush a honey brown highlighter just under the blush to give definition to your cheekbones.
Complete the Look
Trace a gray eyeliner (it's more low-key than black and flatters every skin tone) along your upper lashline, and dab a pink- or red-tinted balm on your lips.
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