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Summary: When picking beauty-pageant makeup, choose light, natural colors for daytime and darker more dramatic colors for the evening. Pick out and apply beauty pageant makeup with tips from a beauty queen in this free video on beauty pageants.
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"Now, we're going to talk about different pageant makeups different styles. For a photo shoot, you would want something natural and light colors. For stage makeup, you want to go for darker eyes and more rouge because the heavy lighting absorbs the makeup and so your eyes would look quite small without the dark makeup and you'll just look really pale with out rouge. In the pageant makeup, you need quite a lot of power to keep the shininess at bay. It's best to pick an eye shadow that suits you and goes with your skin tone. If you don't know it, you should check with a makeup artist and I mainly use only lip gloss. I find it best to just look fresh and instead of like if your input with heavy makeup but you can also check with your makeup artist what lipstick would look good on you. Daytime, you might want to wear just lip gloss and in the night show, you can put a bit more dramatic lipstick on. Same with the eyes, daytime nice light colors are better than dramatic black or anything. One good eye makeup tip to make your eyes appear wider and bigger would be to use some white eyeliner in your eyelids and that's how to do your pageant makeup."
eHow Article: Beauty Pageant Makeup