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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...
How To: Apply candy inspired rainbow makeup
Aspiring makeup artist demonstrates how to apply nonpareil sprinkles to achieve a candy-inspired look Purchase rainbow-colored nonpareils (tiny round sprinkles). These can be found in the baking aisle at your local grocery store. Apply sprinkles using a clear sticky lip-gloss. Create unique patterns, such as this swirl from the corner of the eye to the collar bone. Pair with candy-inspired jewelry and a chunky bun positioned high on the head to finish the look. Follow these suggestions to tur...
How To: Apply makeup for large eyes
This video shows the secret of applying makeup for large eyes. An excellent summary is given below. First apply a dark plumy color paste using a stiff dome brush all over your eyelid. Now with a flat stiff brush use the plumb color and apply it over your eyelids. Use coral color in a soft dome brush and blend it over the crease. Now use carbon color in the stiff dome brush and blend it on the outer end of your eyelids. Use vanilla color in the fluffy dome brush and highlight above the coral c...
How To: Apply mascara properly
In this video, Amy shows you how to properly apply mascara in a way that will compliment your eyes. Using good mascara, simply look downwards at a mirror in order to get a good view and then use the wand to run the mascara over your eyelashes. It is suggested that you simply move the wand and not your eyelashes or your face, carefully rolling the mascara outwards to create a slightly curled eyelash look. This technique will allow you to apply mascara properly and quickly.
How To: Apply neon multi-colored makeup to your eyes
Fonda shows how to apply fanciful rainbow toned eye makeup Outline and fill in the shape you'd like for the eye makeup using white eyeliner. Add light blue eyeshadow to the outer third of your eyelid. Add green eyeshadow to the middle third of your eyelid. Blend the blue and green at the edges with a brush. Add yellow eyeshadow to the inner third of your eyelid and blend the edges with the green. Put pink eyeshadow above the eyelid. Use a fluffy brush to apply shimmery white eyeshadow over th...
How To: Apply retro pin-up model makeup
A tutorial video on how to apply retro pin-up model makeup, just like a real a pin-up model. Start by applying the foundation and add some eyeshadow primer to make the makeup last longer. Curl your lashes cause you'll be using false eyelashes later. Apply the eyeshadow, make sure to blend to emphasize the shape of the eye. Create a wing at the outer end of the lashes and apply the mascara. After applying the makeup, use a lip liner over the lip line and apply the red lipstick. Follow these si...
How To: Apply flawless falsh lashes by Illamasqua
This video teaches the secrets of applying flawless false lashes. An excellent summary is given below. First hold the lashes with tweezers to your eyelash to check the size of it. Cut it off a bit if the false lashes are big compared to your eyelashes. Now apply some glue carefully to the base of the false eyelash. Close your eyes and stick the false lashes to the base of your eyelash and hold it for a few seconds to let it dry. After the glue gets dried blend the false lashes to match with y...
How To: Get an edgy rock n roll look
This video teaches the secrets of getting an edgy rock n roll look. An excellent summary is given below. First use a pearl glide eyeliner in rave and fill half side of your eyelids. Now use grease paint stick in black and apply it on the other half of your eyelids. Use a synthetic brush and blend it out on your eyelids. Now apply the same black eyeliner to your lower lids and apply some clear gloss on your upper eyelids. Now contour your face with sculpt foundation powder and blend it with a ...
How To: Use makeup for a dark-eyed androgynous look
This video will show you how to have an androgynous high fashion look. Use dark blue eyeshadow as base extending to your lower lids. Use dark plumage (Mac) or any dark shade (purple or blue) over the base color. Use an eyeliner for the lids and lower lash line and put some matte black eyeshadow on top of it. Apply an eyeshadow, same color as your face, for the highlights. Use an eye brow pencil for the brows and black carbon eyeshadow on the base of your brows. Use brush to blend and apply cl...
How To: Create a Taylor Swift makeup look for blue eyes
Have you been searching for a new look? Have you been admiring the makeup of girls like Taylor Swift? This step by step tutorial will show you how to apply eyeshadow to look like such celebrities as Taylor Swift. In this tutorial, we will teach you how to pick out the colors, apply the makeup and a variety of techniques with application brushes for the perfect look. This tutorial is a best look for blue or lighter eye shades.
How To: Get the Poison Ivy Uma Thurman inspired makeup look
Poison Ivy is a villainess in the Batman comic books, a seductive femme fatale with poisonous blood and the ability to control plants. She makes excellent inspiration for a Halloween costume. Make you sexier and more beautiful. Hair: Poison Ivy is portrayed as a beautiful redhead, contrasting with the green of her outfit. Buy a red wig or use hair dye to dye your hair red. Body: Purchase a cheap green leotard, bodysuit, or swimsuit, along with 30 or so fake ivy leaves. Using a needle and thre...
How To: Apply makeup to be "scene"
Scene style makeup is in, and in this video we are given the essentials in creating this sort of look. Beginning as you begin with any makeup, we are advised to apply a base, consisting of either a general foundation or a powder. As we go, the video author offers specific brand recommendations and shows the results, via pictures. Now, after our base, the steps are as follows.
How To: Apply sultry golden burgundy eye makeup
The Queen of Blending brings more makeup tips. This one is how to apply sultry golden burgundy makeup. She creates a specific effect showing before and at the end of the video what it should look like when finished. Each step is show in complete detail on what makeup are used. From makeup forever by aqua eyes and other products including brushes. Each step displays how to blend and apply each stage. This is very helpful to create a look that would vary from stand-alone products.
How To: Apply smoky eyes with a twist of green
Fashion Face brings you a video that teaches how to create smoky eyes with a twist of green, and then shows you how to finish up your whole face.
How To: Apply eyeshadow for beginners
This tutorial will show you how to apply basic eyeshadow for beginners, regardless of your skin tone. A lighter eyeshadow should be used on your actual eyelids, ending at your crease, so that this lighter color may be able to absorb other further eyeshadow colors. A darker color should be used on the eyelid crease itself in order to make your eyelid more prominent. A matte color should also be used above the crease, extending towards your brow bone in order to enhance your eyes. For any begin...
How To: Create Halloween gore makeup with household items
Halloween is by far the most fun holiday we have all year. When else can you dress up in crazy costumes, run around the neighborhood and be given candy for it? The key to a great Halloween costume is to make it as scary as possible, and nothing is scarier than bloody flesh wounds. This tutorial will show you how to make these scary lacerations with nothing more than things you probably already have in your kitchen and bathroom. Follow this step by step and you will be winning costume contest ...
How To: Get perfect eyebrows
This is one of the biggest mistakes women make when it comes to eyebrows. Many women become overly aggressive when it comes to plucking their brows and end up with thin or almost nonexistent brow hairs. Unfortunately, eyebrow hairs can take months to grow back and, in some cases, plucked eyebrow hairs may not grow back at all, particularly after years of over plucking. Stop plucking and give your eyebrows a chance to grow back to their natural state. In the meantime, you can use a soft eyebro...
How To: Use gel eyeliner
This is a video about gel eyeliner and how to apply it. Most of it comes in a glass jar and looks like a thick cream. You can get it in different colors and in many different brands. MAC makes some and Bobby Brown makes them also. Sometimes you can find some on eBay and they really are not expensive at all. They tend to dry out quickly and once they start getting dry it will start skipping on your eye and won't coat evenly. Not all of them are equally as opaque. Black colors show up very opaq...
How To: Make your makeup last all day
This tutorial will give you useful tips that will allow your makeup last all day. Your skin's natural oils are what break down color and make it fade, so your first step is to put a mattifying lotion like salicylic acid and witch hazel get rid of the oil from your skin. Then, add foundation on top of this layer, dotting lightly in order for it to stay on all day. Using these various tips and more tricks shown in the video, any viewer will be able to apply makeup easily which will last all day...
How To: Create Versace Winter 2007 runway makeup & hair
Makeup artist Sarah Jagger demonstrates how to fashion your hair and makeup with an "everyday" version of Versace winter 2007 styles. She uses a hair straightener to iron hair flat with a flick at the end. She then adds black-gel eyeliner with a flare pattern on the outer corner of each eye. Eyeshadow is applied to meet the eyeliner at a point and create a 1960's style appearance. Lighter tones are then blended-in above the eye, and added around the corners, to complete a wing-shape makeup ey...
How To: Create a Raquel Welch inspired makeup look
In another great video from FashionFace TV, we get a full face look inspired by the iconic beauty of Raquel Welch.
How To: Apply eyeshadow for mature eyes
This video will give some eyeshadow application techniques for mature eyes, or for people who are over the age of 30. The main thing for this type of eye type is that bright, artificial colors will not work as well on mature eyes and there should be a preference for more natural colors. A shimmer eyeshadow should be applied only on the eyelid onto the crease and mattes may be applied all the way up to the brow line. There are various tips which are given in this video will enable people with ...
How To: Create a classic smoky eye
This tutorial explains how to create a classic smoky eye. First prime the eye lid with black cream all over the lid using a flat brush. Apply black eye shadow in the crease area. Apply the eye liner on the top and bottom of the eyes. To give it a more dramatic effect, take your angled brush and put more eye shadow on the bottom. Curl the eyelashes using an eyelash curler. Finish the look by applying mascara and then you're finished.
How To: Create a pink 1920s film noir makeup look
In this video from Fashion Face, we are shown how to do a 1920's pink film noir makeup look that was actually requested by Courtney Love and originally created by a makeup artist for the brand Illamasqua. This is an extreme look, and there are a lot of tools and makeup involved, but it creates a really cool look, and provides some great tips.
How To: Apply eyeliner on the upper eyelid
This video shows you how to apply eyeshadow on your upper and lower lash lines to look like eyeliner. You would need a Q-Tip and any color eyeshadow that you like - though the instructor recommends dark eyeshadow so it will look the most like actual eyeliner. You take your Q-Tip, bend it, and wet the tip. You then take the dampened Q-Tip and dip it in your powder eyeshadow. This creates a paste type effect. Now you can draw the q-tip across your upper lid, close to the lashes, and it will loo...
How To: Apply vampire makeup on a man
Vampire make up on a man by M.J. It starts by saying an introduction by him that his name is Dracula and her girl friend name is M.J., takes a white powder to set a white makeup to the face with the help of brush then use the color flam able apply the color all over the eye, takes eyes shadow color called electro-red by applying to the eye by brush then applying the color MAC night divine with eyes shadow brush. To be perfect while applying and finally take red lipstick and apply to the lips ...
How To: Apply eyeshadow for a natural look
Applying eyeshadow can be a slightly troublesome task, especially if you're trying to go for a more natural look. Find out how to do it by watching this video tutorial by celebrity make up artist Cyvia Lewis. In this video, you will be using a shade of eyeshadow that closely resembles the color of your skin. This is great for moms who are constantly on the go. Cyvia's video tutorial is an easier method of applying eyeshadow that will give you a more natural and professional look.
How To: Apply winged eyeliner
Beechbum06 shows viewers how to do winged eyeliner. She uses a slanted eyeliner blush and a pot of gel liner. Using a slanted liner brush really helps to create the winged look because the brush is thin and is more precise than a pencil would be. After watching this video, the viewer would learn an alternate way of applying eye liner. The viewer also becomes aware of alternate types of eyeliner to use rather than the typical pencil or liquid liner.
How To: Correctly apply eyeshadow
To apply a correct eyeshadow, take a flat brush and press it on the sham pain color and drag it slowly. Then gently apply it on your eyes. You should do it softly, because if it shows one layer of color and another one on your skin, then it will not look nice.
How To: Apply a drag queen makeup look
The first thing to do to prepare to apply your drag queen makeup look is to pin back all your hair so it is not in your face. Make sure your face is clean before applying make up. Begin by applying pear soap to your eyebrows with a small brush. Brush on your neutral powder. Paint over your eyebrows so it looks like they are not there. Apply powder to blend in. Use eye-shadow to trace just above your eyeball. Use an eyebrow pencil to draw new eyebrows that have a higher arc than your natural o...
How To: Do a quick & easy daily makeup routine
Every woman wants herself to look beautiful and fresh from morning to evening but some may not find time to do a make up because of their busy schedule, this video give a tip on how to make up with in 10 min and make yourselves look attractive.
How To: Create a sweet pink makeup look
This look is an interesting sweet pink makeup look that includes bright, light pink eyeshadow as well as a shiny pink lip gloss. Using mostly pink eyeshadow and applying them over the crease in your eyelid, you will be sure to bring more emphasis to your eyes. While most layers of the pink eyeshadow are initially hard to see, the various steps outlined in this video will be sure to give you a cute look involving lots of pink makeup which Aubrey calls the "Girl Next Door" look.
How To: Apply quick smokey eyes with a plum undertone
Ah! The smoky eye, one of the most popular styles of eye makeup today. But what about adding that extra touch? With our hostess, in this quick video, we learn to add a plum accent to your basic smoky eye. Along with recommendations on exact brands we may use, we are given a step by step look at the exact application. Starting with a base of pale purple, and blending toward grays, a metallic effect is achieved, leading out to the leading edge of the eye, then, with darker tint. Blacks, and dar...
How To: Get a super dramatic vampy makeup look
Getting the perfect, dramatic look before stepping of the house can be a chore and a mind boggling task with all the facial makeup that is out there. Let your eyes pop with a smoky eye and give yourself kissable lips with the dramatic red and black colors to complete the perfect vampire look. This look is perfect for parties or just to turn heads as you walk down the street! She takes you through an easy to follow, step by step guide to achieving this unique, fun look that's sure to wow anyon...
How To: Create Indian bridal inspired makeup
Beechbum06 will take you through the process of creating your own Indian bridal inspired makeup. This short instructional video will take you step by step to making yourself look like an extravagant Indian bride. She shows you what type of eye makeup to apply and how to apply it. Just follow along with this video and your end result will be as beautiful as hers. This elegant and subtle look will look amazing on an important date so watch this video and learn how to make yourself look like and...
How To: Wear makeup with your glasses
This video is truly a god send for the ladies and gents who wear glasses, and want to look good wearing them. The lady in this video explains and teaches about the various types of makeup that is good to use, especially if you wear spectacles. The lady in the video tell people who, wear glasses about the makeup they can use to look better wearing glasses, alternative makeup for different types of spectacles is the agenda, methods about how to make your eyes look smaller behind those big focal...
How To: Apply a Helena Bonham Carter-inspired makeup look
In this makeup tutorial, learn how to apply the makeup look of movie character "Marla Singer", the badass chick from Fight Club, played by Helena Bonham Carter. To achieve the misty, dirty smudge look applied in this video, the following products were used:
How To: Create a deadbolt tortured Halloween makeup look
This fantastic Halloween special effect makeup tutorial teaches you how to create a bloody bolt look using mostly MAC products. The artists teaches you how to create texture and create a distressed look with the base and color makeup. He applies the adhesive and attached the scar effects and adds the "bolt props" with the adhesive. He uses a purple and yellow pigments to distress the skin further. He then takes fire red to create the blood. He also shows you how to make realistic blood with s...