How to Turn Daytime Makeup Into Nighttime Makeup

Dimmed lights and shadowy rooms add allure and mystique to your favorite nighttime haunts. Enhance your daytime makeup to stand out in the relative obscurity.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Blush
• Blush Brush
• Concealer
• Cotton Swabs
• Eye Shadow
• Face Powder
• Facial Tissues
• Foundation
• Lip Balm
• Lip Liners
• Shimmery Powders
• Cotton Swabs
• Foundation

1. Use a clean cotton swab to remove any flakes of eye makeup, remedy running eyeliner or bleeding lipstick, and blend away any creased concealer or foundation. Use facial tissue to rub off any remaining lip color.

2. Absorb any excess oil by pressing a blotting paper onto shiny skin.

3. Check the areas you concealed or applied foundation to. Touch up obvious under-eye circles and blemishes with a very small dab of concealer. Apply additional foundation to your skin where you notice fading or unevenness.

4. Set your makeup with pressed powder. Sweep blush from the apple of your cheek to your hairline. Go slightly darker than your daytime blush so that the contour of your cheek stands out even more.

5. Add drama to end-of-the-day eyes with additional eye shadow and eyeliner. Retrace your shadow, darkening the crease and upper corner of the eyelid. Or line your eyes with a dark line that traces the upper lid, and smudge it for a smoky look.

6. Add a touch of mascara to the tips of your lashes.

7. Consider adding a touch of shimmery powder or glitter to the outside corner of your eyes, cheekbones or décolletage. Use it sparingly for a subtle effect that's sure to catch the attention of an admirer.

8. Apply a small amount of lip balm for moisture. Line your lips and then fill them in with matching lip color. Finish with a gloss for additional glamour.

Tips & Warnings

• Dramatize your eyes or lips, but not both. Balance more prominent eye makeup with a nude or more neutral lipstick. Match delicate eye makeup with darker, more defined lips.
• Substitute expensive blotting papers with the end papers hairstylists use for perms. They're available at most beauty supply stores.
• Remember that your nighttime makeup might look a little bold under bright bathroom or office lighting. Trust that it will suit the dimmer lights of your after-dark destination.
• Tread lightly when applying additional concealer or foundation, especially if you touched up midday. Your makeup may look patchy or caked if you layer on too much.

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on 2/2/2009 this article helps a lot with transforming makeup!! thnx!!

on 12/30/2005 Using eye products around the mouth area can cause unseen health conditions. Use a lip liner pencil. Put Vaseline or other lip moisturizer on. Line lips and rub lips together.

on 12/9/2005 Intensify eyeliner by lining all the way around the eye with dark brown or black eyeliner. Smudge on top for a very smoky look. Sweep gold eyeshadow over lid (do not highlight with this) after applying the liner. Only apply the shadow over the liner from the inner corner of eye to the center. Use gold for warm skin tones and silver or white for cool skin. Finish the liner by sweeping out a little past the eye for a catty look.
Put a little metallic shadow in grey-black or brown right above the crease to add depth. Now you are ready to sweep on some sheer lip gloss and knock 'em dead!!

on 11/22/2005 Go from a day to a night look in these very simple tips from me!
Think textures, like glitters, shimmer, or gloss.
A little glitter goes a long way, if you're wearing some, limit it to one body part or feature.
Amp your colors! Think brighter, bolder, darker, or deeper.
If you wear pinky brown - try hot pink, navy - try electric blue, plum - try bright purple, taupe - try gold, black - try silver.
Try a colored mascara! Bright blue, burgundy, and hunter green are fun alternates to black and brown.
Powder you face. If you don't normally do this, break out the powder puff for a finished look.

on 11/22/2005 if you have a favorite eye shadow, but don't have the lip stick to go with it?
well, just simply, get a little bit of your eye shadow, make it into a powder, and then get some vaseline, and rub it together, and..waaalaaahhh! you have your own, lip gloss!