Finish Mint

Finish Mint

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Step awaaay from the telephone. Don’t make that plastic surgery appointment before you try my tromp d’loi youth-enhancing finishing powder technique. It’s easy, and we only need four shades of (non-animal tested, please) loose powder.

Here’s what you do. Let’s take the example of oh, say, someone who’s maturing. Gracefully, mind you. What happens?

Analyze the Situation

Looking in the mirror for an example, I see that the lower portions of my cheeks, for galore reason, appear to be more concave than they employed to be. This brings about a shadow underneath my cheekbone, and here I am: gaunt.

The second thing I see, looking with partially Zen-trained eyes so as to stay clear from uncomfortable sensations of horror, are these two weird lumpy fleshy things hanging down from either side of my jaw, well into the top of the neck area. In the old days, I believe these were referred to as “jowls.” In the 21st century, however, they are not one thing more than things-to-be-concealed.

And finally, there’s this cheekbone that I may still feel, but I can’t genuinely see anymore. Darn.

Good news: None of this is major if you recognise how to contour. There are a good deal of ways to contour, as theatrical makeup artists know. But the way we’ll be tackling today is as simple as applying your final round of loose powder at the end of your makeup application.

Loose powder, setting powder, finishing powder – they’re all the same thing. We’re not talking with regards to solid homogeneous inorgani substance powder, which is a foundation. We’re talking when it comes to what goes on over Let’s Do It

Let’s say you’ve got your eye makeup, eyebrows and foundation on, and you’re ready for the contouring.

Take your powder blush and a clean, narrow (non-animal hair) brush. Figure out where your cheekbone ought to be, and brush the blush on the lower half of it, starting at the center, blending down a tiny bit, and then blending back toward the ear. (Never put any red tones on the inside of the cheek or near the nose – it will look like rosacea.)

Now take your matte textured highlighter. Brush it all over the top outer half of what you antecedently determined to be your cheekbone. Blend it back toward the ear (not up, because it will get into the underneath eye area and cause another disaster), then sweep it up the temple to just above the eyebrow.

Needless to say, employ with a light touch and blend with a heavy hand.

Next, and you may experiment with your colors here, put a light mint green powder in that huge abyss of caved-in cheek. This area goes from under your blush to just above your jaw line. Blend this powder up along the side of the nose. That will eliminate redness, which often appears in the nose and affiliated cheek area.

Using the same mint green powder (some women use yellow – you’ll have to experiment – just don’t go in for your Passport picture until you get this straightened out), brush over what your grandmother applied to call “jowls” (They’ve got to formulate a new word for that.).

And finally, to invent the illusion of a neck, select a powder that is a number of shades darker than your foundation, and a non-animal hair brush that is medium wide, tapered, and medium-stiff (called a foundation brush). Dip the brush into the dark powder, and, with the side of the brush, draw a narrow line right underneath where your jaw bone begins near the under-ear area. Stop just short of the “jowl” area. Now go back and blend that powder downward. Look in the mirror. You’ll see a neck! It’s so cool.

And I’m not even that old. I don’t know what happened.

Post Contour Procedure

Anyway, after all this contouring is done, you’ll want to set the whole thing with your normal, translucent loose finishing powder. Yes, it’s powder over powder, but it works. Press the translucent powder into your makeup with a puff or foam wedge. Never brush it on, because you’ll ruin all your work. Pressing translucent powder into your face takes a little time, but it will support your makeup last all day.

After the translucent setting powder, take a wide, fluffy soft non-animal hair brush, and gently whisk away any remaining gunk from your face.

Before going on your date, or going down the hall to throw the trash down the chute, check your final face in dissimilar kinds of light. Check it by the window, check it in the garage under fluorescent light, check it with your magnifying mirror, run to the car and check it in your rearview mirror. Make sure it looks more or less natural. If it doesn’t, that means you either haven’t blended enough, or you’ve used colors that are too dark. (Trust me when I say mint green. I employed green green once in a state of desperation, and the result made me look like I just got off a little plane without having taken a motion sickness pill.)

There are other ways to contour the face, but using finishing powders is the quickest, easiest, and most subtle. Well, more or less subtle. You decide. Check out the article Keeping Wrinkles Away – Without Surgery [http://www.mymakeupmirror.com/anti-aging.html] for more systemic youth-management techniques.

The Cast

Cruelty-free merchandise applied were (in order of appearance): Merle Norman’s Luxiva Lasting Cheekcolor in Bare Coral; Laura Mercier Secret Brightening Powder (it does have a slight shimmer, but it’s largely matte), Red Earth Loose Powder in GR130 (If you prefer yellow, try Cargo Loose Powder in PL-02 or Urban Decay Universal Loose Powder in Nirvana.), and Vincent Longo Perfect Canvas Loose Powder in Cafe Creme #5. You’ll have to find your own color of dark powder, depending on your skin tone.

For a translucent finishing powder, you may use whatever’s falling out of your drawer: Laura Mercier Translucent Setting Powder, BareMinerals Mineral Veil, and Afterglow Translucent Organic Setting Powder all work well.

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