How to Do Wedding Makeup for a Brunette
The right makeup can make your complexion look flawless and draw attention to your best features on your wedding day, while the wrong makeup can make you unrecognizable. Your dark hair makes it easy for you to look washed out and pale in wedding photos, so bright colors are best. Once you’ve bought all your makeup, do a trial run at applying it. Do your hair like you’re going to wear it on the wedding day so you can get an idea of the whole look. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Liquid foundation
- Sponge makeup applicator
- Translucent face powder
- Fluffy brushes
- Coral blush
- Tweezers
- Dark brown eyebrow pencil
- Flat eye shadow brush
- Gold eye shadow
- Sponge-tip eye shadow brush
- White eye shadow
- Navy blue eyeliner
- Eyelash curler
- Black waterproof mascara
- Coral lip stain
- Clear lip gloss
Instructions
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Apply foundation across your entire face using a sponge. Turn the sponge over, and use the clean end to blend the foundation under your chin and around your nose. Brush powder over your entire face using a large, fluffy brush to keep the foundation in place.
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Rub a clean, fluffy brush through a compact of coral blush. Suck in your cheeks like you're making a fish face. Sweep the blush across your cheeks, moving from just under your cheek bones up toward the center of your ears.
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Tweeze any stray hairs that are growing above or below your eyebrows. Use an eyebrow pencil to draw light, feathery lines in any sparse spots of your eyebrows to make them look full.
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Use a finger to rub face powder over your eyelids to help eye shadow stay in place. Run a flat eye shadow brush in gold eye shadow. Choose a shade that is matte rather than metallic. Sweep the eye shadow across each eyelid, extending the shadow just past the outer corner of the eye and just above the crease.
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Dip a sponge-tip brush in slightly metallic white eye shadow. Dot a bit of the shadow at the inner corner of your eyes, and sweep it just under the outside half of your eyebrows.
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Line the top rim of each eye with navy blue eyeliner. Don't line your bottom eye, which makes your eyes look smaller.
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Curl your eyelashes with an eyelash curler, and coat your top lashes with black mascara. Let each coat dry for 30 seconds, and then apply a second coat.
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Apply a long-lasting coral lip stain to your lips. Top the stain with clear lip gloss.
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Tips & Warnings
To choose the proper shade of foundation, visit a cosmetic store, and ask an employee to help find a shade that matches your skin tone. Before you buy it, go outside into natural light, and examine the foundation in a mirror. You shouldn't be able to see a sharp change in color between the foundation and the rest of your skin.
Use your complexion as a guide when choosing the shade of coral blush and lip stain you use. If you have fair skin, choose light shades with more pink in them. If you're darker-skinned, choose deeper shades with more red or orange in them.
References
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