How to Use Professional Makeup Artists' Top Tricks
You don't need a personal makeup artist to achieve a flawless face – just some of their insider information!
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You Will Need
- Highlighter
- Foundation
- Face powder
- Mascara
- Black eyeliner
- Cream-colored eye shadow
- Pencil in your lip shade
- Rosy eyes shadow
- Lip balm
- Clear lip gloss or petroleum jelly
- Lengthening mascara (optional)
- Volumizing mascara (optional)
Steps
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Step 1
Fill in frown lines
Fill in any laugh lines with highlighter before you apply foundation. It helps create an even base for your makeup.
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Step 2
Powder your lashes
Lightly brush your lashes with face powder before applying mascara. The powder and the mascara will form a paste to temporarily thicken your lashes.
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Use a lengthening mascara for your first coat, and a volumizing one for your second.
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Step 3
"Tightline" your lids
Use the makeup-artist trick known as tightlining: Apply black eyeliner underneath upper lash lines and between upper lashes to make your lashes look fuller.
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Step 4
Highlight your peepers
Dab a little highlighter or apply a cream-colored eye shadow in the inner corners of your eyes – near the bridge of your nose – and just under your eyebrows, along the brow bone. It will catch the light, making eyes appear wider.
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Step 5
Prep your lips
Color bare lips with a lip pencil that matches your natural lip color before applying lipstick; it will help the color adhere. Or, press some rosy eye shadow on top of lip balm for all-day color.
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Step 6
Gloss over lip areas
Put a dab of clear lip gloss or petroleum jelly in the indentation in the center of your upper lip and in the center of your lower one; it will make both look plumper. Picture perfect!
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Award-winning actress Meryl Streep has worked with the same makeup artist on every single one of her films since the early 1980s.
