Hot Makeup How-Tos
How To: Clean your sigma makeup brush rolls
Cleaning makeup brush rolls can be quite challenging and frustrating. MakeupByRenRen teaches us an easy and quick technique on how she cleans her sigma makeup brush rolls. Things you will need: an oil-based facial cleanser or a regular olive oil and paper towel. Grab a paper towel and damp it with your oil-based facial cleanser or regular olive oil. Gently rub the paper towel on the surface of your dirty makeup brush rolls. Make sure that you go in every direction to effectively remove all th...
How To: Create a neon green makeup look
Are you looking to stand out in the crowd? Why not try this very cool neon green makeup look? This tutorial will take you step by step through everything you need to know to acheive this exciting style. Try this tutorial out and you will definitely get noticed!
How To: Do the Cheryl Cole "Fight for this Love" inspired look
Panacea talks about creating Cheryl Cole's "Fight for this Love" look. Using L'Oreal's Glam Bronze in split combo, apply the brown shade with a large brush over the eye and out to the temple towards the hairline and around to the cheekbones. Apply a white primer on your eyelid, going a little way out past the crease of the eye and blend it out, also applying a bit of the primer under the eye. Brush a silvery-brown eyeshadow over the primer blending the color out with a blending brush until th...
How To: Clean your cosmetic brushes
Make the most out of your cosmetic brushes by cleaning them regularly. Wet your cosmetic brush. Take a small amount of a natural shampoo in the palm of your hand and make circular motions with the brush . Rinse the brush under running water, continuing to make circular motions in the palm of your hand until the water runs clear with no bubbles. Don't allow water to extend past the bristles. Gently squeeze the bristles to remove excess water. You can also use conditioner to condition the brush...
How To: Use neutral shades & hot pink lips like Kim Kardashian
Ashley Victoria teaches the secrets of using neutral shades & hot pink lips like Kim Kardashian. First use cream shadow paint in "Secretive" to apply the base on your eyelids. Apply a concealer with an angled brush right under your brow line. Apply off white color using a 239 brush all over your eyelids. With a fluffy brush take a color matching your skin tone and apply it on your crease. Apply a carbon black eyeliner to your upper lashes. Apply a light pink blush color to your face using 168...
How To: Recreate Heath Ledger Joker makeup
Here's how to copy Joker's look of the Dark Knight. 1. To create the scars, start by applying a spirit gum on each side of your face. Wait till it dries up. Then apply a scar wax using a small spatula or any type of applicator that is available. 2. To achieve that clown white face, get a pancake makeup, cream or anything (as long as it's white) and start applying it all over your face. Be careful when you reach your scars so as not to damage them. 3. Fill-in your eyes with really dark eye mak...
How To: Create a smokey bronze country girl look
Judy teaches the secrets of creating a smoky bronze country girl look in simple steps. First apply the primer, then apply a light brown color to your lids. Now apply a bronze color over your lids and to the inner corners apply a ivory color. For the outer corner apply a darker brown and use black color to deepen the crease. Apply a black eyeliner to your upper lashes, then a dark brown to your lower lashes and add some false lashes. Now blush your cheeks using gingerly and apply some lip glos...
How To: Apply fishnet printed lips
Learn from this video how to apply fishnet printed lips in simple steps. First use a black eyeliner to fill it in your lips and apply any sealer to the edges of your lips. Apply a little bit of powder over the sealer. Take any red pigment in a brush, place a clean fishnet over your lips and pat the brush over the net. Finally repeat the same process to your upper lips to finish.
How To: Use Vaseline as a base for mineral eyeshadow/pigments
Princess Pink Cat demonstrates how to use Vaseline to apply pigments and hold them into place. Dip a finger into the jar, spread the tiniest amount possible across the lid. You can go all the way to the brow bone or just to the crease. Wipe the excess Vaseline off to avoid creasing. The remaining Vaseline will make your pigment colors pop by gripping the pigments to the skin.
How To: Apply long-lasting powder eyeliner
This how-to video shows us how to apply long-lasting powder eyeliner. The narrator in this video says to press and move the brush across your upper and lower eye lid instead of dragging the brush. She teaches us how to fade the eye liner to get the affect of wide open eyes. To finish the look she recommends two coats of mascara. If you follow these step by step directions you will be able to apply a great looking, long lasting powdered eyeliner.
How To: Create a dramatic purple Bollywood eye makeup look
This video demonstrates how to create a dramatic purple Bollywood eye makeup look. She starts by applying white makeup to one half of her eye lid, closet to her nose. She then blends this with purple makeup on the second half of her eye lid. Next the presenter uses a pencil to put down a dark outline around the eye lid, which is then blended upwards by using the index finder. The blending continues up to the bottom of the eye brows. Finally some glitter liner and small jewels are applied to t...
How To: Steal Megan Fox's look from the Transformers premiere
Make up artist Katie teaches viewers easy to follow techniques in achieving a Megan Fox make up look. Using a make up brush, apply concealer below the eyes and areas all over the face. Use a sponge to apply the foundation and gently blend it with the concealer to achieve a flawless look. To achieve a glow in your face, use a blush brush and apply blush on shade with a fine shimmer all over the face with emphasis on the cheeks and forehead. Perfect-shaped eye brows is achieved by applying blac...
How To: Apply a koi fish arty makeup look
Watch this video to learn how to apply a koi fish arty makeup look in four easy steps. Draw design on the face with a white eye liner. Apply the blue from the Mehron Tropical palette to the waves. Apply white to the waves from the Mehron Basic palette to define them. Mix yellow and red in the Mehron Basic palette and fill the fish with color. Outline the fish with a black liquid eyeliner. Draw eyes and added highlights to the scales with the Mehron Basic palette. Clean the black lines with q-...
How To: Create a "golden goddess" fashion makeup look
In this video from Logan Salter, he demonstrates how to create a "golden goddess" make-up look. First he massages Lancome moisturizer into his skin. He applies Blistex lip balm to his lips and under his eyes. He uses Studio Tech foundation in a warm tone, applying it with a brush to the apples of his cheeks and over his eyes. He applies concealer to his jawline, around his mouth, and under his eyes. He applies foundation to his whole face with a sponge, then contours under his cheeks with a b...
How To: Get a smoky purple eye with eyeshadow
Tutorial on how to apply a smoky purple make up in minutes. Start off by applying a pink eyeshadow on the inner corner on the eyelids. Apply purple to the rest of the eyelids and blend it together with the pink eyeshadow. The top part of the eyelids is applied with a silver or gray eyeshadow. Highlight the sides with a nude eyeshadow. Apply a black eyeshadow to the sides and the lower lashes of the eyes. line the eyelids with a black eyeliner. Adding eye lash extensions would show a dramatic ...
How To: Get rid of dark under eye circles using makeup
You can have beautiful arched brows, just like many famous Hollywood actresses have. This video shows how you can perfectly shape your brows and create an illusion that is sure to delight. Your eyebrows will be perfectly arched and shaped with not a hair out of place. To follow along, you will need concealer, a concealer brush, and eyebrow powder. This works very well for people who have sparse eyebrows. You can give the illusion that you have full shaped brows and no one will be wiser.
How To: Blend your eyeshadow
For anyone who has struggled with eyeshadow, learn how to properly blend it onto the eyelid for a smooth and soft look in this tutorial from RenRen. Start out with an eye shadow base color. You can use whatever color you want. You can use your finger applying the color all over your lid, stopping at the crease. In step two, use a round brush to add another eyeshadow color to the lid. This color should be the lightest color of your mix and it is added into the inner one-third of your lid. In t...
How To: Create a girly pin-up makeup look
This video presenter starts out by applying makeup to her eye lids and underneath her eye brows. The presenter blends together several different colors and brushes to bring out her eyes. She then applies a dark eye liner across the top of her eye and white eye liner to the bottom of her eye. The presenter finishes up by applying mascara to her eye lashes. The presenter lets you know exactly what color and brand of makeup she is using, so you are able to reproduce the result.
How To: Use cranberries & reds in your eye makeup
Learn the Cranberries inspired eyeshadow makeup tutorial by Tiffany Apply dark brown shade to the eyelid, covering the whole area of the eye. Lightly pat the cranberry eyeshadow to the applied brown eyeshadow to make a bright and shiny color. Create a thin line of the cranberry eyeshadow to the lower lash line. Use a blending brush after applying the cranberry eyeshadow to remove harsh lines. To brighten up the eye, use a flat brush with very light pink eyeshadow and apply a little amount to ...
How To: Apply copper, red, & gold eye makeup
A combination of red and gold eyeshadow is great for emphasizing green eyes - this is because red and gold are complementary colors to green. For the base, apply a clear or skin-colored base to the entire eye area. Use a highlight base just beneath your eyebrows. Blend it in. Use a black liquid base on the upper eyelid. For eyeshadow, start off with a shimmery gold by putting it in the inner corners of the upper lid. Take your red and start off slightly in the middle of your eye, where you le...
How To: Depot powders and creams
This video explains how to get powder or cream make-up out of the plastic container that it comes in. You can condense your products to take up less space if you remove them from the pots and put them in palettes. The tools you need are a flat iron or other heat source, parchment paper to cover the plate of the flat iron, an X-acto knife, alcohol, cotton pads, make-up in pots, self-adhesive magnets and a palette. First use the X-acto knife to pull the plastic pot out of the container. Set the...
How To: Recreate Beyoncé's "Telephone" makeup look
Say what you will about the music video for Lady Gaga's "Telephone," Beyoncé looks great. And so does her makeup. This home beauty how-to will tell you everything you'll need to know to recreate Beyoncé's makeup look for yourself at home.
How To: Create a "crocodile tears" makeup look
YOUTUBE Logan Salter presents a video demonstrating a method to create "Crocodile Tear" Makeup. The entire video is demonstrated through visual action, with typed titles in green appearing on the screen prior to each new step, and electronica music played throughout. Logan begins by applying moisturizer, demonstrated visually in the video by applying moisturizer to his facial area and moves at an increasingly faster rate through steps visually demonstrating how to apply various powders and br...
How To: Create a Neytiri Avatar makeup look
The Na'vi don't have eyebrows. While you could just paint your makeup on over your brows if you don't have prosthetic appliances to cover them, a neat trick is to take a giant glue stick (or the spirit gum) and go over your eyebrows with it, rubbing the stick in the opposite direction of eyebrow growth. Let it dry and then do it one or two more times (depending on how thick your brows are). With your brows flat against your skin with a layer of "glue skin" over them, you can have a nice, flat...
How To: Get a cat inspired look with your makup
May Paris teaches the secrets of getting a cat inspired look with your makeup in simple steps. First apply a black eyeshadow pencil to your crease and lower lash with tails stretching out. Apply a white eyeliner to your waterline. Now apply a gold color eyeshadow to your lids within the crease and a brown eyeshadow to the outer edges. Apply a white eyeliner pencil below your brows. Darken your crease with a black eyeshadow. Now apply a light yellow eyeshadow above your crease and a black gel ...
How To: Create smokey eye look with a one shade of eye shadow
Want a smokey eye look but only have a single type of eye shadow? This home beauty video tutorial will teach you how to create a classy, imperceptibly gradiated eye look using that single shade of eye shadow.
How To: Get a Bollywood bride inspired makeup look
Feeling a little Bollywood? Misschievous shows you how to do a look inspired by Bollywood artists and brides. You can achieve the look by following these simple steps! 1. Apply a copper tone eyeshadow on your lid. Sharpen the edge and go light as you bring it inwards. 2. Define the edge by applying a Cranberry tone eyeshadow following the shape of the edge and buffing it out as you go up to the crease. 3. Using a darker shade like Mac's Beauty Mark, draw a semi-V shape following your crease. ...
How To: Make your own non-toxic Halloween makeup
To make your own non-toxic Halloween makeup, you need to follow the steps below. The things you need are: 1 makeup remover, 2 soaps, 2 bowls, 4 drops of glycerin, 2 tsp. of solid shortenings, 1 tsp. of white flour, and 5 tsp. of cornstarch. First determine what color of makeup you want and mix together 2 tsp. of solid shortening, 5 tsp. of cornstarch, 1 tsp. of flour, and 4 drops of glycerin in a bowl. Then blend it well and add food coloring, a little at a time, until you get the color you w...
How To: Apply eyeshadow with a sponge tip applicator
Learn the right way of Applying Eye Shadow using a sponge tip applicator, as shown in this video. Begin by applying a little eye primer over the eye lids, to ensure the make up stays longer. Spread it evenly using a brush or your finger tips. Always take a light shade (Bisque by MAC used in this video) of an eye shadow first onto a sponge tip applicator. Dust off the excess. Press and dab the color over the brow area. Blend it in to soften the edges. Next, choose any two dark shades, which ma...
How To: Create a "barbed wire" makeup look
First stipple moisturizer onto your face. Gently rub the lotion into your skin until completely absorbed. Next apply liquid foundation, preferably Mac Studio Fix Fluid (four shades lighter then your skin's natural tint. Shake and dabble your foundation onto a clean surface, using a #187 foundation brush to apply to your face carefully blending into your skin. Now that you've created an even canvas to your face, you're ready to apply a clown white oil based face paint for accent. Apply the whi...
How To: Put on three different colors of eyeshadow
It is a video about how to apply three eye shadows. For that start with a small eye shadow brush. Then apply the shadow to the inner part of the eye. Eye shadow should stop where your pupil starts. After that take a bigger eye shadow brush and apply the second color, which should go passed your iris of the eye. The second color is applied over the eyelid. Now take an angled eye shadow brush. The angle will help to apply the color in to the crease. Third color is applied over the left part of ...
How To: Create flawless foundation with a MAC expert
In this video Neil Young provides his viewers with some tips on how to correctly apply foundation on the face of a girl. Moreover, he gives advice to the girls out there on how to pick the correct shade of foundation that will be perfect for her; a foundation that will unify the tone of their face and body. Neil also gives tips on which kinds of foundation should be used during different seasons of the year and what one should do on the few months in between.
How To: Wear red lipstick to look glamorous
Erin Bried, author of "How to Sew a Button: And Other Nifty Things Your Grandmother Knew," will show you how to wear red lip stick when you want to look glamorous. First, you are going to want to soften your kisser, which can be done by taking a damp washcloth or dry toothbrush and using them on your lips. After, you want to take a tissue and blot your lips. Next, you want to line your lips to prevent your lip stick from bleeding out. Make sure you line your real lips though, don't make your ...
How To: Create "fairy eyes" using silver eyeshadows
Create amazing fairy eyes using silver eyeshadow in easy steps! Start with a base all over your lid and eye area. Now add a little to your lower lash line. You will then apply a highlight with brush to your brow bone With a new smaller brush use a light shimmery silver to apply to the inner part of your eyelid. Apply about 1/3 of the way in. Apply a light lavender color to the rest of your eyelid. Using a darker purple apply to the outer corner of your lid, also pulling it into the crease are...
How To: Create an Edie Sedgwick fashion makeup look
1. First moisturize the face. 2. Trim and cover the brows, to conceal the eyebrows. 3. Apply foundation, use Studio fix powder set foundation. 4. Use Contour with TANTON blush and the 242 on the sides of nose and the eye brows. Blend using the 217 5. Use random Lise Watier Brush for the cheeks. And blended base contour with the 217. 6. Use CARBON+ANGLE BRUSH to mark the eyebrows. 7. Use CARBON+217 to get dark contoured lids and use 282+CARBON harshly lining and winging out to enhance the eyes...
How To: Apply Megan Fox inspired make up
To apply a Megan Fox-inspired makeup is very simple if you work on the steps which is as follows. First, use a 'Maybelline' Quad in 'Chai' Latte and use the lid color and put into the crease of your eyelid (use a color slightly deeper than your natural skin color). Next, use the brow color in the quad and apply to your eye brows. Next, use Sally Girl eyeshadow in Champagne and apply to eyelid and near the tear duct. Take the lid color from the quad and apply under the lower lash line. Use E.L...
How To: Appy MAC "Show Orchid" lipstick to your lips
This is a makeup tutorial video on how to apply MAC "Show Orchid" lipstick on your lips. After using the primer on your lids, apply eyeshadow. Apply eyeliner of your choice. You can use eyeliner but it is purely optional. Apply some bronzer after applying liquid foundation. Using a brush, apply the bronzer like any other bronzer. For the lips, use "Show Orchid" lipstick. A lip pencil is recommended to line the lips first. Follow these simple tips and show those luscious lips to your friends o...
How To: Create Avatar inspired makeup
This tutorial is about how to create Avatar inspired makeup. Go in with a white full coverage makeup and go over with a light layer all over the face. The white is going to give the blue something to stand out in front of. Don't forget to do your neck and ears. For the blue, you can use a powder or cream or liquid. Use a baby blue and with a big fluffy brush start applying it all over the face. Go in with an invisible setting powder to set the blue. In order to be Avatar you want your nose to...
How To: Apply a fall green eyes makeup look
Tiffany D from Makeup by Tiffany D as seen on YouTube teaches how to apply a smoky fall green eyeshadow look to eyes. Apply a creasing product to the eyelid, and a black eyeshadow base then blend with a blending brush. Apply the first shade of green eyeshadow to lower middle and center of eyelid. (Can apply second green eyeshadow color if desired to outer corner eyelid). Apply the third lighter green eyeshadow color in the tear duct area, sweeping upward. Apply the fourth eyeshadow color in t...
How To: Create a sugarplum princess makeup look
Jessica Harlow teaches the secrets of creating a sugarplum princess makeup look in simple steps. First apply two faced shadow insurance to your eyelids. Now apply a creamy white color over your eyelids and blend it nicely. Apply white eyeshadow with a fluffy brush to your eyelids. Now apply a matte purple eyeshadow to the outer third of your eyelids. Use "floral fantasy" eyeshadow in a brush and blend out the edges of your eyelids. Now use a deep grey eyeshadow and blend out your eyelids. App...