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Makeup Tips for Different Eye Shapes

Eyes are the most expressive feature of your face, so why not play them up for an incredible effect? While, we all have our own desires and needs when it comes to makeup, even so makeup and beauty applications can do wonders. Eyes hold the intensity of captivating others’ souls, with merely a glance. If eyes, as they say, are the window to the soul, then they require our immediate attention first, before we can steal others.

Here’s a piece of advice:

when applying makeup to your eyes, choose shades and ways of applying makeup depending on the shape of your eyes. This way you can easily make your eyes look any way you want!

We all want beautiful, long eyelashes, well-groomed brows, and eyes that make the heart skip a beat. Follow our lead and educate yourself on how to makeup your eyes, depending on their shape.

Eye Makeup for Deep Set Eyes

For deep set eyes, always go for luminous and lustrous shades. This way, your eyes will appear appealingly bigger. Apply pale eyeshadows, starting from your eyelid from the inner corner of your eye, stretching it till outer corner. Use lighter colors in the middle of the lid, and darker colors on and just above the socket line. Blend the darker shade up and out. Eureka! There you have it – dazzling eyes to bedazzle the crowd!

Eye Makeup for Wide Set Eyes

If your eyes are wide, makeup can amazingly reduce the distance between them, giving them look. This is what to do: apply a darker shade, starting from the outer corner of your eye till the middle of your eyelid.

Use a lighter eye shadow from the middle of your eyelid to the inner corner of your eye.

Finally, blend in different shades in the middle of the eyelid and get amazing results.

Eye Makeup for Close Set Eyes

Those with close set eyes (narrower than one eye width) should no longer frown, because help is at hand! Simple, apply some corrector on the inner corners of both eyes. Then, with help of an eyeliner, draw a very thin line edging along the upper eyelashes, so that it appears thicker near the outer corner of your eyes. Following that, apply a very thin layer of light eye-shades, from the inner corner of your eyes till the middle of the eyelids.

Apply darker shades, neatly starting from the middle of your eyelid to the outer corner.

In the end, blend the colors properly. Also, make sure to use more mascara on the outer corners.

Eye Makeup for Down Turned Eyes

Down-turned eyes? No more worries! To make down-turned eyes look sensational and appealing, the trick is to apply your eye shadow upwards and outwards. Apply eyeliner, edging it closer along the upper lash line, blend in the shade along the length of the socket line in the outer two thirds of the eyes. For a dramatic glaze, apply dense mascara.

Eye Makeup for Asian Eyes

For upward-pointing Asian eyes, remember to use light eye shades along the length of your eyelids. Draw a thick smoky line along upper eyelashes with an eye pencil. Make sure that the line is thick enough to be seen well when your eyes are open. Beneath the lower eyelashes draw a thinner line.

To make them appear strikingly wider and beautiful, apply brown eyeshadow on your eyebrows.

Two or three coats of dense mascara would make you resemble a calendar model. That’s a promise!

Eye Makeup for Those Wearing Spectacles

If you worry that your spectacles will cover your eyes, then today would be the last day of that misery. After reading this tip, you will surely reach out for your make up and perk up your looks!

If the frame of your spectacles is bright, it is better to pay attention to your eyelashes and put the accent on them, rather using too bright eye shades. If you usually prefer brown mascara, how about try a black one for a change.

To enhance your eyelashes, giving them more volume and curl, apply a coat of dense mascara, from the roots to the tips.

Those among you, who wear tortoise-shaped or horn-rimmed spectacles, concentrate on the shape of eyebrows. Coloring is also a good idea.

Now you would believe that, creating the large, wide-eyed illusion isn’t all that difficult, after all. Whether big or small, just remember you all beautiful the way you have been made. With a few tricks, you can perk up your looks and look ‘the most gorgeous women on the block!’

Good Luck.

Eye Makeup

Eye Makeup Ideas

Basic Eye Makeup Kits

Most eye makeup assortments offer three basic shades or colors.

• Highlighter – the lightest shade, designed to bring out the areas it is applied to.
• Mid Shade – this shade should be closest to your natural skin color. It is the most subtle of the colors, but the most important.
• Contour – the darkest shade causes the area to recede.

Eye Makeup Ideas for Common Problems

Hooded Eyes

With a hooded eye, the lids look partly closed. So, to open up the eye, you can use makeup to minimize the eyelid.

• Start by drawing more attention to your eyebrows. Ensure they are properly shaped and use them to entice interest upwards from the eyelid.
• Cover the skin from the brow bone to the upper lash line with the highlight color.
• Next apply the mid shade to most of the surface of the eyelid.
• With the contour shade, brush on the outer half of the lid and up towards the brow.
• Follow with a fine line of contour under the lower lashes.
• This eye type really benefits from having eye makeup – either shadow or eyeliner - under the lower lashes.
• When using eyeliner, also extend the line from the outer upper lashes slightly past the edge of the eye.

Droopy Eyes

As eyes age, they inevitably begin to droop. Although you can’t reverse the process, you can try the following eye makeup ideas to camouflage the problem.

• Place highlighter on the area immediately under your eyebrow and completely cover the eyelid.
• Apply the mid shade to the crease up towards the brow line.
• Use the contour color on the outside corner of the upper lashes and brush up towards the crease slightly.
• Also apply the contour shade along the entire lash line under the eye.

Special Eye Makeup Tricks

Want to update your look or have a special evening out? The following eye makeup ideas will give you some inspiration.

• Shimmer eye shadows add drama.
• Curling your lashes, before applying mascara, instantly opens your eyes. Not only giving them a larger appearance, but also younger.
• Set your eyebrows in place with a little hair gel and an old toothbrush.
• Soften the harsh line of liquid liner with a dark eye shadow applied directly over the line and smudge it slightly.
• If you get real fancy with your eye makeup, don’t overdo your lips. Pick one or the other to be particularly colorful with; otherwise you will tend to look overdone.
• Utilize white eye shadow to brighten and enlarge the eye’s appearance. Simply apply it lightly around the outside of the eye, close to the lashes.
• False eyelashes quickly spice up your look for a special occasion.

General Rules about Eye Makeup

• Always keep your eye pencils sharp – ideally sharpen them before each use.
• When short on time, simply apply the mid shade to your eyelid to give your eyes some pop.
• The first spot where you place your pencil or makeup brush
  
  will get the most color.
• Utilize concealer and powder over the entire eye area – under and over – to ensure a higher quality, longer-life appearance to your eye makeup.

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Best Fall Beauty Buys

Best-selling Beauty Buys for Fall

By Qianna Smith

Unlike trendy seasonal fashions, good skin is always "in." Your skin deserves the best treatment, so start by protecting one of the most exposed features on your body during the colder months—your face. I've rounded up a few of the latest and greatest buzzworthy skin care products to hit the shelves this fall with expert tips from Ling Chan, creator of LING Skin Care products and Ling Spas in New York City, who's known for helping Hollywood's top leading ladies put their best face forward both on and off the screen. Get the skin you deserve with these tried and tested potions that are sure to help you achieve and maintain a healthy refreshing glow.

Make a Commitment

"Maintaining your skin is a lifelong commitment," says Chan. "Taking care of the skin is just like taking care of the body—it becomes part of a lifestyle. It is important to dedicate time to your customized plan to help achieve great skin."

Right to Left: AVEDA Enbrightenment^TM Brightening Cleanser, $25, aveda.com. Potion Power: A gentle facial cleanser that helps lift away impurities and dull surface cells to improve overall skin clarity; Carol's Daughter Bring in the Moisture Gentle Face Wash, $20, sephora.com. Potion Power: Dissolves dirt and grime without stripping away vital moisture.

Left to Right: Fresh Soy Face Cream, $38, sephora.com. Potion Power: It hydrates and renews the skin, creating supple, healthy, firm, radiant results; Neutrogena Healthy Defense Daily Moisturizer SPF 45, Untinted, $12.99, drugstore.com. Potion Power: Lightweight, non-greasy formula absorbs quickly and keeps skin hydrated all day.

Know What You're Using

"Overuse of cleansers that contain glycolic acids, alpha hydroxy acids and irritating ingredients, along with exfoliating too frequently with very abrasive scrubs can eventually damage the skin and contribute to redness, sensitivity and inflammation," says Chan, who pampers the faces of celebrities like Naomi Campbell. "The long-term effects of these sometimes harsh ingredients may lead to the premature development of fine lines and surface dehydration. When the surface of the skin becomes dehydrated, the oil glands will overproduce oil to compensate for the lack of moisture which in turn can lead to large pores, blackheads and breakouts."

Right to Left: Givenchy Peel Me Perfectly, $45, sephora.com. Potion Power: A triple action scrub that smoothes, enhances radiance and purifies the skin; Simple Kind To Skin Smoothing Facial Scrub, $7.99, simpleskincare.com and Duane Reade drugstores. Potion Power: Vitamin E moisturizes and improves skin condition.

Best-selling Beauty Buys for Fall

Qianna Smith

H20 Forever

"Hydration is the root of anti-aging. When your skin is properly hydrated it is better able to function, heal, prevent, and renew," says Chan.

Left to Right: AVON ANEW REVERSALIST Night Renewal Cream, $27 (Originally $32), avon.com. Potion Power: Reactivate skin's repair process to help reverse the look of wrinkles; AHAVA TimeLine All Day Moisturizer, $52, ahavaus.com. Potion Power: It reduces wrinkle depth significantly, hydrates the skin for 12 hours and protects the skin from sun-related damage with SPF 15.

Left to Right: Osmotics Cosmeceuticals Renovage Cellular Eye Repair, $78, osmotic.com. Potion Power: Helps correct and prevent aging around the eyes; Talika Eye Detox Contour Gel, $45, talika.com. Potion Power: Minimizes the appearance of bags and dark rings around the eyes.

Qianna Smith

Facial Facts

"Get an expert monthly facial to clean the pores of impurities. Heavy makeup and our bodies natural 28-day cycle leads to clogged pores," shares Chan. "In order to maintain a healthy complexion and get the most benefits from your products, it is important to go in for a pore-cleaning every month to six weeks."

Left to Right: Ling Skincare Moisturizing Facial Masque, $12 (.5 oz), lingskincare.com. Potion Power: This masque nourishes and moisturizes the skin as it deep cleans the pores; Michael Marcus Purify Pumpkin & Papaya Mask, $58, michaelmarcus.com. Potion Power: crème base masque to retexture and smooth the surface of the skin.

You can find this article in the Essence Magazine.

See photos from Sam Fine’s star-studded DVD launch party event »

Sam Fine, legendary makeup artist to Vanessa Williams, Queen Latifah, Tyra Banks and Iman, launched his debut instructional DVD with the help of close friends and longtime clients at the Warren-Tricomi Salon at the Plaza. ESSENCE.com attended this star-studded event. Get the scoop on how one man is empowering women of color through makeup artistry.

ESSENCE.COM: Your DVD is called "Basics of Beauty." How would you define your ABC's of beauty?

SAM FINE: The ABC's of beauty are simple: groomed eyebrows/removing any unwanted facial hair, foundation or powder to perfect the canvas, bronzer to add luminosity, mascara to bring definition to the eyes and lip liner and
lipstick or gloss to add a supple texture and color to the lips. These products are the basics in which to build a simple, glamorous look.

Look More Than Just 'Fine'

Qianna Smith

ESSENCE.COM: What three things should every woman strive to achieve when it comes to enhancing one's own natural beauty?

FINE: The three most important things every woman should strive to achieve are...

1) A Groomed Brow—Most women are concerned with elaborate eye shadow application, but a simple, groomed brow not only opens and lifts the eye, but clears the way for any eye shadow application to follow.
2) A Flawless Canvas—Choosing a foundation to suit your specific needs helps to unite varied tones. If you don't use foundation, then powder is a must! Using a pressed or loose powder helps to alleviate shine and makes the complexion appear more consistent in color and texture!
3) A Glowing Complexion—This is very different than creating a "flawless canvas." Using a dusting of bronzer on the outer perimeter of the face - forehead, nearest the hairline—and onto cheeks, adds warmth and richness to the complexion. After applying bronzer, simply use a peach shade of blush on cheeks for a subtle "pop" of color.

ESSENCE.COM: What do you hope women will gain from watching your DVD?

FINE: I hope women gain a greater understanding of cosmetic product, formula and application...and the endless possibilities that makeup can provide! I also hope that it will change the perception that makeup will make you look fake! There are various techniques that I demonstrate in the DVD that help to create a beautiful, natural look.

ESSENCE.COM: The DVD provides step by step tips on makeup application techniques. What makeup tools should be in every woman's beauty bag to help them with the application process?

FINE: The products you use will dictate what tools you need, however...
1) Tweezers are important to own (slanted tips are my favorite), whether you're grooming your own brows or removing a few stray hairs between visits to your beauty professional.
2) Latex sponges or a synthetic hair foundation brush help foundation glide across the skin... but don't be afraid to use your fingers, especially in those hard-to-reach areas such as underneath eyes and around the nose.
3) When applying loose or pressed powder, use a large powder brush for a soft, diffused application.
4) A large powder brush is also perfect to apply bronzer (but you'll need a separate brush from you're loose powder brush, because you don't want to mix the two).
5) Instead of using those tiny blush brushes that come with the product, invest in a blush brush! A blush brush is simply a smaller version of the large powder brush. This small fluffy brush ensures that you won't have a streaky application of color on cheeks.
6) I know it's easier to apply lipstick from the tube, but a lip brush is key to achieving flawless coverage and layering gloss beautifully.

ESSENCE.COM: How does your DVD encourage women who feel they don't have the time or know-how to properly apply makeup to want to experiment with their own beauty?

FINE: Writing about makeup, products and proper application is one thing, but watching it being applied step-by-step is another! Watching "The Basics of Beauty" DVD encourages women to realize how a simple a dab of concealer can change the shape of the eye... to understand how a well-defined brow opens and lifts the eye... to grasp why lip liner and lipstick blend to make an effortless-looking, sexy lip statement. The DVD makes you want to pick up a product (or two, or three) and learn, play and enjoy makeup!

To purchase the "FINE: The Basics of Beauty DVD," $24, visit Samfine.com and Amazon.com.