Lift Saggy Eyelids

Readers Question: I have droopy, sunken eyelids and they need a make up lift, what should I do?

Answer To Readers Question: When it comes to over 40 eyelids, it usually sinks or sags. Eye lids age faster than the rest of your face because the skin on your eyelids are so thin.

For brighter, tighter looking eye lids here is some advice:

1. Fill your brows with eye shadow powder. A well-defined arch directs attention upwards, making the lid appear lifted. Then apply primer and a neutral eye shadow from lash line to your eye brows. For pale skin, look for a bone color or sheer soft pink. For medium skin and darker tones, use something warmer like a soft beige or rosy brown.
2. Dust a soft, smoky color like brownish pink or dusty lavender from the lash line to the crease. Then use the same color, only layered on a little thinker, inside the crease. Subtly darkening this rear creates the illusion of a larger lid.
3. Using a narrow, point brush, line the top lashes with a gel-based eyeliner. Once the gel liner dries, it will not sink into the crepey skin. Finish by lining the inside of the lower lid with a white eyeliner pencil. A droopy eye lid can make your eyes look so much smaller, but the white pencil opens them back up.

What To Do With Skimpy eyebrows?

Readers Question: I have very skimpy eyebrows from all the over tweezing I did when I was younger and now that I am 40 ears old my brows are to skimpy for my liking.

Answer to Readers Question: You can fake your eyebrows by filling them in:

• Before you add color, define brow proportions by making three marks with an eye pencil. Brows should start above the inner eye point, arch above the outer edge of the iris and tape 1/4 to 1/2 inch past the outer eye.
• Guided buy your markings, smooth on wax with a flat angled eye brush. Dip brush in powder and feather hair like strokes over the arc you have created.

If you want to fake a whole new shape to your eyebrows:

• First apply a wax balm to provide a base for brow powders. Your bare skin will not offer a stick-to surface, you can also use a waxy lip balm like chapstick.
• Use a precut stencil or template as a guide, holding it in place at the sides while brushing on color to fill the cutout shape.

How Change Makeup from Day to Night?

Readers Question: How do I transform my makeup from day to night in a few easy steps?

Answer to Readers Question: There a few easy steps that will change your makeup from day wear to night wear.

• Start by wetting a contour brush to intensify the color of eye shadow. Starting on the corner of the bottom eye lid right inside and under the crease focusing strictly on just the outer corner of the bottom eye lid. With the angle of brush, make a triangle of color on the corner. Angle the brush from the outer corner and in the crease of your eyelid, press down on the brush so the eye shadow stays in place. Pick up brush and turn it, keeping the same end of brush on the outer corner and bringing the other end onto the corner of bottom lid. Press down again and you have creased your triangle.
• Blend eye shadow up and out with a large shade brush. Do not blend too much. You want to see the contrast between the light and dark colors. Too much blending will just create one blended combo of all three colors and your hard work will be down the drain.
• For the top eye lid, a favorite dark eyeliner thicker from outer corner working to the inner corner into the eye lash line. Diminish the line when you get to about your pupil. Add Liner to the inside bottom lid unless you have small eyes. Avoid getting the liner too thick or dark beyond the pupil.
• Add mascara to your eye lashes. Clean up any messes under eyes with your makeup wipes if no foundation has been applied or with a flocked sponge if foundation is on.
• Do not make a thick line around the entire eye lids. The thinner the eyeliner, the more open your eyes will appear.

Do You Want Luscious Lips?

Readers Question: What can I do to make my lips look luscious?

Answer to Readers Question: You can accomplish having your lips look luscious with three steps:

1. Use a small camouflage brush or small, flat concealer brush to apply a line of concealer around the rim of your lips. Like a lip liner, only it is going in and slightly outside the lip line. With your fingertips, blend around and on the lip making sure it blends into your foundation. The faint, blended concealer line will give the illusion or larger and fuller lips.
2. Add lip liner around lip, shade the corners of your lip and the middle of lip with the liner pencil. Use the camouflage brush to reshape any mishaps.
3. Use a lip brush to apply full color starting from the center of your pout and blend out into the corners. Blend from pout to lip corners. Lipstick is not necessary unless you want a dark lip. You should always use lip liner because it holds onto lip color. Different color pencils can also be used to change th color of your lip gloss or lipstick.

For the spring and summer make sure your lip liner and your lipstick are about the same color, it is outdated to use a darker shade and makes you lips look to harsh and out of balance. And do not forget to blend.

Good Luck