Makeup Tip #21: Best Way to Hold Your Makeup Brush

Makeup Tip #21: Best Way to Hold Your Makeup Brush

Applying foundation with a makeup brush

When applying foundation, hold the end of the brush. Holding the brush at the end gives you a softer touch and a much more natural finish. Use a vegan and cruelty free synthetic makeup brush. For foundation, try vegan and cruelty free.

Makeup Tip #20: Check Your Lighting

Makeup Tip #20: Check Your Lighting

Checking makeup in different lighting

Check your makeup in different lighting. Overhead lighting can create shadows. Turn on your phone’s flashlight while looking in the mirror to see how your makeup will look in a different lighting. Use a cruelty free vegan synthetic round tip brush to blend in and fix makeup mistakes.

Makeup Tip #17: Applying Eyebrow Powder

Makeup Tip #17: Applying Eyebrow Powder

Apply Eyebrow Powder in Tiny Strokes

Makeup Tip: Apply eyebrow powder with the brush in tiny strokes. Creating tiny strokes looks more like your natural brow hairs. Use an eyebrow powder in a shade that is a little lighter or darker that your natural eyebrow hair to create definition. Try a vegan and cruelty free eyebrow powder.

Makeup Tip #16: Contouring with Blush

Makeup Tip #16: Contouring with Blush

Contouring with Blush

Makeup tip: For a natural flushed look, contour with blush. Use a blush in a peachy or coppery shade and apply to your forehead, brow bone, and cheekbones. This will warm up your face and also thin your face a bit. Use the blush in place of a bronzer. Try a vegan and cruelty free blush.

Makeup Tip #15: How to Best Apply Bronzer

Makeup Tip #15: How to Best Apply Bronzer

Apply Bronzer in the shape of a "3"

Makeup Tip: Apply bronzer in the shape of a “3″ on your forehead, cheekbones, and jawline. This is a quick way to contour and gives you a natural no-makeup look. Try a vegan and cruelty free bronzer.

Makeup Tip #11: Having Photo Ready Makeup

Makeup Tip 11#: Having Photo Ready Makeup

Photo ready makeup

Photo Ready Makeup Tips: Look your best in any photo by defining your eyes and using a bold shade of blush with vegan and cruelty free makeup.

Define your eyes with an eyeliner. Dot a black eyeliner along the uppers lids and squish the tip between the lashes to fill in any gaps. Then gently draw back and forth along the upper and lower lash lines. Go lighter on the bottom lid and soften the line with a vegan blending brush.

Use a bold shade of blush since the flash washes everything. Fair and medium skin should use a bright pink shade, warm and tan skin should use a coral shade, and deep skin should use a berry shade. Use a cream formula blush which will look more natural. To apply the blush, use a brush and tap directly onto the apples of your cheeks and then blend the color upward to your cheekbones.

Makeup Tip #9: Foundation Primer Tricks

Makeup Tip #9: Foundation Primer Tricks

Makeup tips: Besides giving you smooth skin and keeping makeup in place, foundation primer also has other tricks. 

Trick #1 Keeping your lip color from feathering and making the color more vibrant. Apply the primer to your lips before putting on your lipstick. Trying this trick with a primer containing chemical ingredients is not recommended.

Use foundation primer to keep lip color from feathering

Trick #2 Correcting makeup mistakes. Simply put the primer on a cotton swab and wipe the mistake away.

Fixing makeup mistakes with foundation primer

Trick #3 Smoothing flyaway hairs. Just use a bit of primer on your fingers to smooth down flyways.

Smooth down flyaway hairs with foundation primer

Makeup Tip #8 Where to Apply Foundation

Makeup Tip #8 Where to Apply Foundation

Apply Foundation to the Center of Your Face

Makeup Tip: Apply foundation to the center of your face center of your face and blend out with a cruelty free vegan synthetic brush or a mini puff. By starting at the center of your face, the foundation fades out around the hairline and jawline for a much more natural look. Try using vegan and cruelty free foundation.

Makeup Tip #7 Apply Primer Under Your Makeup

Makeup Tip #7 Apply Primer Under Your Makeup

Smooth Skin

Makeup tip: Apply primer under your makeup to smooth skin, get a fresh face, and reduce sallowness. Just a little bit goes a long way.

Makeup Tips #3 Defined Brow Arches

Makeup Tips #3

Defined Brow Arches

Defined Brow Arches

Makeup Tip: Defined Brow Arches. Get the look using cruelty free and vegan makeup. Cruelty free is beautiful. Try using the an eyeliner in a color close to your eyebrows, a tan eyeshadow, and a vegan synthetic angled tip brush.

First create the shape. The natural peak of the arch should line up with the outer white of your eye.  Then fill in to create a pronounced arch. Use the eyebrow pencil to add pigment to the top of the arch, fill in gaps, add a bit to the outer upper half of the brow tail, and add a bit to the lower inner corners for more depth.

 

Lastly, define the shape and accent your brow bone by applying a pale matte eyeshadow under and above the arch with the angled tip brush.

Makeup Tips #2 Contouring and Highlighting

Makeup Tips #2

Contouring and Highlighting Tricks

Makeup Contouring and Highlighting

Makeup tips: Contouring and Highlighting. Get the look using vegan and cruelty free makeup and brushes. Use a highlighter and bronzer to contour your face, giving you a subtle shimmery sun-kissed glow. The goal is to put the highlighter on the places of your face where the sun would hit and put the bronzer on the natural shadows of your face. Use a vegan synthetic blush brush and a vegan synthetic concealer brush to apply and blend.


To highlight: Apply the highlighter to your brow bones, between your eyebrows, the length of your nose, and upper cheekbones. Put a bit of the highlighter on the top of your cupids bow and the center of your chin. Blend in well with the blush and concealer brushes.

To sculpt you jaw: Apply the highlighter from your chin to your earlobe and then apply the bronzer right below. Blend the two shades with the blush brush.

To shadow: Use the bronzer to shade along the hairline and above the outer corners of your eyebrows. Then, suck in your cheeks and shade above and along the hollows in soft stripes that point towards your ears. Blend the shaded areas outward with the blush and concealer brushes until the lines have disappeared.

For lips: Apply a lip balm to the center of your lips for a natural shine. Bonus, if your lip balm is vegan, cruelty free, and ice cream flavored like a Crazy Rumors Lip Balm.

Crazy Rumors Lip Balm

Makeup Tips: Applying Mascara

Makeup Tip #1

 Tricks for Applying Mascara

Applying Mascara

  

Tips for applying mascara. Use a vegan and cruelty free mascara. First, curl your lashes. Curling your lashes will make them look longer and fuller. Swipe on mascara from underneath the lashes going upward and squiggle the mascara brush at the roots before pulling the brush up vertically. Applying the mascara this way gets close to the roots and makes lashes look thick.