Makeup lessons for beginners. Instruction, step by step explanation, video

Detailed makeup tutorials are an aid to the selection and application of makeup products. For experienced professionals and novice craftsmen, visual aids and tips will help you create an impeccable harmonious image, emphasize natural beauty, place accents, correct the shape of certain parts of the face, and visually hide minor flaws.

Makeup rules and secrets for beginners

Makeup lessons for beginners are practical techniques, techniques, many secrets and tricks for choosing high-quality cosmetics, as well as tools for creating makeup. Before starting the practical training, it is important to know the theory of creating a professional look with cosmetics.

One of the basic rules of makeup is that brushes, sponges and other tools are no less important than the skills of applying funds. Good quality brushes will only improve your technique and help avoid masking, poor shading and unnatural blemishes.

The makeup artist's arsenal should contain the following basic set of brushes:

• for applying primer, foundation (beveled or flat brush);
  
• for applying correctors;
• beauty blender;
• fluffy soft for powder;
• several brushes for applying shadows and pigments;
• flat corner brush for precise lines, accents;
• for applying lipsticks, tints, gloss.

Brushes must be kept clean and treated with special agents. This will help extend their service life, avoid the appearance of microbes and bacteria. Professional make-up allows you to mask flaws, highlight the main advantages of your appearance.

The work is creative, but for the most aesthetic result it is important to know the secrets and tricks of its creation:

• Style selection... There are several types of visage, the main styles include daytime, evening, avant-garde, romantic, classic. One of the modern trends for older women is the creation of lifting makeup. When choosing a style, it is important to be guided by the features of the appearance, color type, age, as well as the situation for which the visage is created.
• Lighting. It is recommended to apply makeup in daylight; for selected areas you can use an illuminated magnifying mirror. Professional makeup artists use a ring lamp to create the optimal color temperature for the lighting. Excessively yellow or bluish artificial light can distort the color rendering of decorative pigments and tonal means.
• Training... In order not to cause irritation or an allergic reaction on the skin upon contact with decorative agents, it must be carefully prepared. To do this, it must be cleaned with a tonic, moistened. After preparation, apply the makeup base with a sponge or brushes. It is important to achieve uniformity during application, especially paying attention to the area near the ears and hair roots.
• Using a primer... Beauty-means will help to level the relief, additionally moisturize, ensure durability, and protect the epidermis from chemical components.
  
• Disguise... The ability to mask flaws distinguishes a professional makeup from an ordinary one. To hide flaws, concealers of different colors should be present in the arsenal.Greens are easy to hide redness, lavender will help mask age spots, and orange will help with dark circles. A beige concealer is recommended for masking scars.

The main rule of beautiful professional makeup is the choice of quality products.

Savings when buying cosmetics should be reasonable, not at the expense of quality. Together with products from the flagships of the beauty industry in specialized stores, you can purchase more affordable, but high-quality eye shadow palettes, foundations and other makeup products.

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Face contouring and toning

Toning and contouring are the basis of professional make-up. There are 3 types of tonal bases - powdery, creamy and liquid consistency. Layering all 3 types of products in one makeup is not necessary. To create a make-up, it is worth choosing one optimal tool, it depends on the task facing the makeup artist.

For specific correction of blemishes and redness, you must use a concealer of the appropriate shade. The tonal agent is selected according to the shade and type of skin. The base is applied in minimal quantities, shading well, otherwise it will clog into the folds of the skin, disrupting the aesthetic effect.

For contouring, products of different shades are used - from the lightest to the darkest. A bronzer and a highlighter are used to lighten and darken. It is more convenient to buy a palette with toning correctors in several shades. This technique allows you to visually change the natural shape of the parts of the face, to place accents, modeling an oval.

To create contouring with the application of a base, you will need:

• flat brush with a beveled edge;
• sponge beauty blender in the form of an egg with a pointed end;
  
• kabuki - fluffy dense brush;
• fan flat brush;
• sponge-petal made of silicone.

Contouring is performed according to the following algorithm:

1. At the preparatory stage, the skin is cleansed, moisturized, a transparent base is applied - a primer that smooths the relief.
2. The tone is leveled with a foundation of the appropriate shade.
3. All areas that need to be visually reduced, to simulate the shape, are covered with a dark corrector. It is applied along the line of the cheekbones, on the wings of the nose, in the area at the temples.
4. Highlighter highlights are applied to areas that will "catch light". Highlight the central zone of the chin, along the midline of the nose, in the central frontal zone, under the eyes, on the protruding line of the cheekbones, the fossa above the upper lip.
5. All individual lines are shaded to avoid unaesthetic stains, sharp color boundaries. The make-up is fixed with loose mineral transparent powder.

Such a scheme for applying correctors with lightening and darkening individual zones is suitable for an oval type of face. You should be aware that the main aspect taken into account when contouring is the original shape.

There are several guidelines for contouring:

• For a round face, the area along the hairline is darkened, with two lines forming a triangle on the sides of the lower jaw, without affecting the area of ​​the temples. The area of ​​the cheekbones stands out sharply to achieve sharpness. A highlighter or a light concealer is used to highlight the chin, inner corners, the fossa above the upper lip, the central part of the frontal zone (inverted triangle), in the cheek apples area.
• For a square face, it is important to smooth out all the angular contours, adding smoothness by darkening and lightening problem areas. In the upper frontal part, thin dark stripes are drawn, then shaded. The zygomatic zone is emphasized with a large triangle, highlighting with light highlights of the highlighter.
• For the correction of the triangular type, a highlighter is applied along the edge of the jaw, the central part of the chin is darkened, carefully shaded. A wide dark line is drawn along the hairline to the temporal region.Cheekbones, all protruding parts are highlighted with light highlights.
  

Basic rules and secrets of toning will allow you to create smooth contours, an optimal base before applying other decorative products.

Eyebrow shaping

Make-up lessons include several stages. For novice masters and those who want to learn how to make beautiful makeup on their own, it is important to strictly follow the phased process. After the base is applied and the contouring is done, it is necessary to shape the eyebrows.

Before proceeding to this stage of the make-up, it is important to choose the shape, bend and line width that suits the face type, and perform the correction.

The design instruction consists of several steps:

1. Comb the hairs in one direction with a special brush, giving the eyebrows the desired shape.
2. Highlight the area above the line and the area under the eyebrow with a highlighter or light concealer.
3. Using a pencil or a beveled flat brush, mark the upper and lower borders.
4. Fill the area between the borders with stroking movements. The shade smoothly passes from a lighter one at a wide base to a darkening of the tail of the line.
5. Blend a pencil or shadows with a brush, fix the shaped eyebrows with a special gel, applying it in zigzag movements to give the hairs volume.
   

If the eyebrow makeup is too bright and does not harmonize too much with the image, you can slightly tone down the contrast effect by going over the eyebrows with a brush with concealer or highlighter.

Eye makeup

Before applying the shadows, a special base is applied to the eyelids, which prevents the pigment from shedding and rolling, giving brightness and durability to the makeup. Shadows can have a matte effect or shimmery, with sparkling microparticles. For daytime makeup, it is recommended to choose matte shades or shadows with a slight glossy shine.

Tones with sparkling particles are more suitable for an evening make-up. Correct makeup can emphasize the natural beauty of the eyes, correct their shape and visually hide flaws.

General recommendations:

• Optimally selected tones are the main condition for creating a flawless make-up. When choosing a palette, you should be guided by the criteria of the type of appearance, hair color, eyes, skin tone.
• The shadow is applied to the eyelids, brushing in a small amount, shaking a little, and then applying in layers. This will help to achieve the desired brightness. The direction of movement is from the inner part of the corners to the temporal region.
• It is important to achieve a smooth transition between tones. Even when choosing contrasting colors, the transitions are carefully shaded.
• To give the look an openness, freshness, the lightest shades fill the area of ​​the inner corner. A dark matte tone is applied from the outer corner, slightly going over the upper part of the eyelid and darkening the crease. This will add depth to the look.

  

The eyeshadow can be applied dry for a daytime make-up, or wet for a brighter evening make-up.

Application instructions:

1. The lightest shade of the selected palette is painted over the inner corner, as well as the area under the eyebrow.
2. The entire movable area of ​​the eyelid is tinted with a medium tone color.
3. An accentuating dark tone is applied from the outer corner. With a brush, you need to move smoothly from the middle of the eyelid, darkening the area of ​​the outer corner along the lash line as much as possible.

Classic eye makeup includes 3 shades in one color palette. It is important to achieve a smooth transition effect, so all lines between shades are carefully shaded.

Applying blush

Makeup lessons for beginners teach you how to apply blush correctly. An incorrectly chosen tone, consistency or application technique not in accordance with the color type, the shape of the face can emphasize imperfections and create an unaesthetic blush, like a nesting doll.

Recommendations of professional makeup artists:

• The shade should be in harmony with the skin color as much as possible, creating a healthy glow.
• The brown, orange, salmon palette is not used for daytime makeup as they don't look like a natural blush.
• The product is applied with special brushes that allow you to evenly shade, create the desired highlights, emphasizing the line of the cheekbones.
• For professional make-up, two shades of blush are used - dark and as close to a natural tone as possible.

Blush application algorithm:

1. A dark shade with a tanning effect is applied in the cheekbone area, dropping 1 cm lower and diagonally from ears to nose.
   
2. The natural shade of blush is applied parallel to the darker line, making a comma-shaped brush movement.
3. The borders between the blush are shaded in a circular motion with a clean brush.

For a professional make-up, you can use a dry, crumbly, creamy blush.

Blush-tints are considered one of the most persistent and bright. If using a cream blush, then apply it before powder, as they are denser in texture.

Lip makeup

For a beautiful lip makeup, you can follow simple guidelines:

• use a pencil for correction, adding volume, and also so that the lipstick does not spread beyond the boundaries of the line;
• the shade of the pencil should repeat the tone of the lipstick as much as possible, without standing out in contrast to its background;
  
• the shade of the product should correspond to the color type of the appearance, the situation for which it is created, in harmony with the chosen style;
• lipsticks of dark, bright colors are able to emphasize nasolabial folds, skin flaws, yellowish tint of teeth;
• for a natural texture, a beautiful volume, the lipstick is applied with a brush, applying layer by layer, achieving the desired shade brightness.

Instructions for professional lip makeup:

1. Before applying lipstick, moisturize lips with a colorless balm, blotting excess with a napkin.
2. Treat the area around the lips with a light concealer to add plumpness and adjust the contour.
3. With a pencil, starting from the middle of the upper lip, outline the contour, you can shade it a little with stroking movements towards the center of the lips.
4. Outline the lower lip, starting from the middle and moving towards the corners. To smooth the outline and paint over the corners, you need to smile.
5. Apply lipstick layer by layer with a brush. The excess can be removed by blotting the lips with a tissue.
   

To give a seductive puffiness, create a glossy effect and add volume to thin lips, you can apply a transparent gloss with a fine shimmer over the lipstick in one layer.

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Eyebrow shaping tools and methods

Makeup lessons for beginners include not only the practical part, but also the basic theory. For eyebrow shaping, there are several types of products that differ in consistency, texture, application technique.

The main types of funds and methods of registration with their help are presented in the table:

To achieve a natural effect when shaping eyebrows using any decorative tool, makeup artists recommend using 2 shades. A lighter color is used to paint over the line at a wide base, and from the middle of the line they are drawn in a darker color.

After staining, you should always shade the shade with a brush, and use brushes with natural dense bristles to form a line and fill with color.

Correction of the nose

Knowing the tricks of makeup and skillfully using decorative cosmetics, it is easy to correct an unsuccessful nose shape:

• too wide wings can be reduced by darkening the area with a tonal agent 2 tones darker than the main one;
• to correct a long nose, apply a dark shade of foundation or powder to its tip and wings, and a highlighter strip on the back;
• to correct the "eagle" shape, you can highlight the base of the nose in the eyebrow zone with a light color;
• visually stretching the snub nose will help a light line with a highlighter in the middle with darkening of the wings and its convex part.

Day makeup for different eye shapes

The secret of a successful daytime make-up is to choose the most natural calm shades.

To emphasize the advantages, correcting the flaws, it is necessary to take into account the features of the original shape and location of the eyes:

• With overhanging centuries... On the moving eyelid, apply a gray-beige shade or any tone slightly darker than the natural color of the skin, darkening the overhanging area. Emphasize the base of the lash line with a rich brown color, drawing in the color upward. Blend the lines, apply mascara to the eyelashes.
  
• For the Asian type. On the outer corners of the eyelid, draw a tick "V", shading the upper part along the fold, draw the lower eyelid. Fill the movable eyelid with a light golden or beige color, draw an arrow, shading the edge into a haze.
• For round, bulging eyes. Apply matte shades of a rich brown color to the eyelid, shade the borders, draw an arrow with a wide line.
• With lowered corners... Cover the upper eyelid with a pearlescent light shade or a highlighter, draw an arrow tending up to the temples with brown shadows, blend the borders. Using an eyeliner, draw an arrow that thickens towards the outer edge.

The listed make-up lessons with step-by-step instructions, techniques, secrets of professionals for beginners will be the best guide in creating a perfect make-up. The use of techniques using quality cosmetics, tools, brushes is the key to success in the art of make up.

Article design: Anna Vinnitskaya

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