Secrets of seductive make-up

Choosing eye shadows

It is enough to apply shades on eyelids to give mysteriousness and tenderness to a sight. Application of various techniques of make-up drawing allows women looking in a new fashion every day. Fine game of paints will present special sensuality and brightness to eyes.

Eye shadow was used in cosmetics for a long time. At excavation in Egypt the first paint for eyelids from antimony and soot has been found out.

Romans used antimony as eye shadow already in the middle of the first century AD.

Now the choice of various eye shadow is very wide: dry or liquid eye shadow, shades in the form of gel or cream, pencils. Their structure is similar to powder structure. The difference is only in colour - shades are painted by oxides with use of talc as a link.

Proof shades last the whole day long, they moisten gentle skin of eyelids. And soft humidifying components and soft structure allows applying shades easily and in regular intervals, and you do not need to impose two layers - one will be quite enough.

The basic substances as a part of dry shades are talc, kaolin, mica, zinc oxide, mineral oils, wax, astringents, preservatives, lanolin, colour pigments. In structure of fat shades, except painting substance, they add cezerin and paraffin, in liquid - spirit, glycerine, water. Shades in the form of a pencil are made under the same formula, as lipstick, but with big maintenance of hardeners of a heat of fusion.

High-quality shades incorporate not metal, but synthetic pigments which are enveloped by a thin film of fat and do not adjoin directly to skin.

High-quality shades should lay down exactly on a skin of eyelids, not cause irritation, not lose initial colour, last long, not accumulate in folds.

If you want shades lay down ideally - use not a standard foamed rubber applicator, but use a set of brushes from a natural bristle.

Choose your sort of shades. The most popular and practical - dry, they are stored long and applied easily. Liquid shades demand ideal drawing.

Simple rules:

Shades lay down on a skin better, if you grease it with moisterising cream and powder slightly by a thin layer of transparent friable powder preliminary.

Applying shades on an upper eyelid:

keep eyes opened, and slightly incline a head back - so you will see created drawing, and shades will lay down smoother.

If you mix in a make-up of a shade of different colours, shade border between them with a pure brush.

To clean surplus of shades or to muffle colour, “blot” a make-up with a slightly powdered wadded disk.

Eye shadow needs to be applied in a smooth layer, starting with a subtle shade, gradually increasing its intensity.

Correction of lacks by means of shades

If you have close-set eyes - place colour emphasis on external corners of eyes, and put a few light or white shades on internal.

If you have deep-set eyes - make up an upper eyelid with light shades with nacreous parts, having penciled a thin dark line over the top eyelashes.

If you wish to increase eyes visually - use light shining shades, and forget about mat dark shades and accurate eye contour. Shades shade only in a direction upwards, differently the sight will look heavy.

If you find it difficult to define, what colour of a shade suits you more, choose matching colour of your eyes. Many women look good with shades of a contrast colour creating an unusual combination to eye colour.

Put shades of lighter shade in the field of internal eye corners and on a mobile eyelid , and in a place, where eyelid “has hung”, apply darker colour. So, for example, dark blue eyes should be better underlined with a warm brown or copper shade, this way eye colour will be more intensive.

If you have prominent eyes, use dark shades. Put a planimetric line with a dark pencil or shades by means of a brush on a lower eyelid. Cover upper eyelid with shades-bases of a neutral shade, and then put a few dark shades on it using a brush. To narrow widely put eyes visually, use two kinds of shades - dark and light. Paint internal corners of eyes with dark shades, and starting from the middle of eyelids - light.

To be continued .....