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How to Keep Your Summer Eye Makeup Fresh
If streaking liner and creasing eye shadow have you ready to wipe your eye makeup off by lunch, modify your regimen. Prevention is your best defense in keeping eye makeup fresh during the hot and humid summer months. When your new regimen still can’t beat the heat, a few simple touch-ups will keep your eyes free of streaks.
Switch to products that can handle the heat. Look for long-wearing or waterproof mascara, choose eye pencils over liquid liners, and switch to shadows that harden to a cream once applied.
Go light. Line the upper lash line, or settle for a sweep of a light shadow. Shadow from lash line to brow is more likely to cake or crease in the heat, and darker colors will be more apparent if they bleed.
Skip eyeliner and mascara on the lower lashes. It’s likely to streak in the sweaty under-eye area.
Set eye makeup with a light dusting of loose powder. This will help absorb any moisture that may cause eye makeup to melt.
Use a non-powdered blotting paper to remove any under-eye perspiration when you do notice streaking. Wipe away any eye makeup with a clean cotton swab.
Reapply faded makeup sparingly.
Lip Color Makeup in 2010 Summer
•All lip color shades are meant to enhance femininity and not stray too much from the natural, this is why nudes, red, orange as well as red-pink colored lipsticks are used. You can choose a different shade depending on the occasion and the makeup style used. Try a vintage style makeup if it suits you and you will look fabulous as vintage is very in this summer.
•Try lip balms and tinted lip balms. Can’t bear to switch from your favorite lipstick? Then use a lip balm first, and then apply your gloss or lipstick only to one lip. Press together for a soft touch of color and shine.
•Add a summer lip color like a coral or pink lip gloss.
Great Makeup Colors for Frosty Blondes !
When selecting cosmetics to flatter your blonde hair, don’t forget about your complexion and eye color as well. Many women who look fabulous with frosty blonde hair have cool complexions, with blue undertones. Conversely, women who look great with honey blonde hair have warm complexions, with yellow and gold undertones.
If you know that you look best in cool colors, you’ll lean toward the blues and purples of the color spectrum, but any old blue and purple won’t do. Make sure you choose the hues that make you appear radiant
Eyes
To play up your eyes and keep a complementary look going with your frosted blonde locks, it’s best to keep it simple and light for daytime. Line your eyes with taupe or medium brown eyeliner. Follow up with dark brown or black mascara. Evening makeup can be darker, but you don’t want too many dark colors or else the effect may be too harsh. You can create dramatic contrast by lining your eyes in black eyeliner and following up with black mascara.
When it comes to eye shadows, opt for gray, medium pink, muted purple or light green
Blush colors that look great on frosted blondes are typically some shade of pink. You can go for light, bubblegum pink for day. For evening and party events, select a deeper pink, in a rosy shade.
Unless your skin is very tan or contains golden undertones, skip red blush as this can look too harsh.
Lips
So what are good makeup colors for frosty blondes when it comes to lipstick?
Daytime lips will look supple and kissable in pink, mauve and peach tones. When it’s warm outside, you can try a sheer lipcolor that only slightly stains the lips. Follow with a hint of gloss if you like.
For evening, don’t be afraid to reach for red. Just make sure it’s compatible with your skin tone. Blue-based reds look best on cool complexions. If you’re fair-skinned, don’t overwhelm your face with deep lips and dark eyes – if you go with vibrant red lips, your eye makeup should be more subtle.
You can also wear pink lipstick for evening; just choose deeper shades than you wear during the day. Rose and mauve are good selections that won’t overwhelm your face or take attention away from your hair.