makeup

pinkpants111- Every skin has a different "tone", no matter what the color of the skin itself. You need to find colors that enhance that tone. What color clothing looks best on you? What color are your eyes?

You might want to experiment with a few different colors. Some of the popular drugstore brands have "palettes" of eye makeup with different colors. Buy a couple of different sets, and play around with the colors.

If you can afford it, go to the makeup counter of a depertment store. Often companies have "consultants", ( read, "sales person") who will show you the best type of makeup for your skin. The problem with doing this is that you may end up buying a lot of expensive stuff.

I only buy drugstore and supermarket brands, and I think that I do pretty well with makeup.

wow! thanks alot!

A colour opposite to that of your eyes generally creates a nice contrast.. - so I've read, and so I've tried [successfully].

Nothing is better than you yourself in your natural skin. Don't worry about makeup so much.

Even better use Phoenix thought - go to a department store cosmetics counter - often they will do your colors for free. Just ask their opinion on what eye color to use and most times they will make you up hoping for a sale. You are under no obligation to buy their stuff so if you cannot afford their prices, just say, thanks, I'd rather walk around for a while and see how I like it. Have them jot down the colors and then go to a drug store and buy the same colors at half the price.

That being said, I am usually the sucker that does end up buying the stuff.

Osso, you my kind of girl.

I tried for many years to figure out the seasonal color system used by the Color Me Beautiful woman. When you discover what your colors are, it really works.

According to this system, whether your complexion is dark or fair doesn't matter. Your eye color actually matters little, which is what threw me off at first. Everyone's skin, according to this theory, has an undertone that is either blue or yellow. If blue bothers you, think of burgundy-red-pink, which is what a blue complexion is. A yellow complexion is in the ivory to peach to rust spectrum.

The Prescriptives brand of cosmetics does color typing and you might be interested in it.

yeah, but they charge way too much money.

This woman is my fav: www.cosmeticscop.com

I also like clinique makeup, (although not so much their marketing gimmics) the staff seem to be pretty knowledgeable about what looks good on you and their products are fragrance/dye free.

Two things you have to consider: 1.)just because a brand of makeup is good, does not mean it is for you, and 2.) not everything made by your favorite company is going to work for you.

When my girlfriends and I were just getting into good make-up in the early 1970s, we quickly learned that, for soe people, Lancome worked best and Revlon did nothing at all (I couldn't apply their nail enamel without streaking!), while for others, Revlon was the choice and Lancome did nothing. Almost everyone could use Estee Lauder as their second choice.

Since then, Revlon lost its prominence and some cosmetic companies disappeared (Borghese) and new ones rose. Paula doesn't like Origins but I find their products better for me than The Body Shop products, with the exception of Body Shop essential oils. But, that's for me. I find their stuff "old-fashioned," like drug and dime store products from the 50s.

I've been using European skin care products, like Dr. Hauschka and Anne-Marie Borland. I also like Yves Rocher, available in the US only by mail or internet, although it is the world's largest brand.

After using Prescriptives (I swear, there is no better lipstick manufacturer) and Lancome for years, I'm moving to Dior and the other French brands available in dept stores.

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BACK TO COLOR:

You and a friend could do what the Color Me BEautiful people used to do. Collect some scarves or pieces of fabric in solid and true colors.
Yellow.
Green.
Red (without yellow or blue undertones).
Blue.
Brown.
Black.
White.

Sit in front of mirror, in daylight. Make certain that your own clothing doesn't show or skinny down to a bra. Have your friend drape the colors around your shoulders, one after the other, then watch what happens to your reflected skin tone.

If the yellow makes you look ghastly, then that color is not for you. In that case, the brown may not look great on you either, but the blue and the black and white should.

You can refine the process. Red is a pure color, but it also has yellow or blue undertones. If the yellow looks bad on you (as it does with me: I'm a "winter."), you probably are a winter or a summer and either pure red or a bluish red will look great.

You might have noticed how many natural blondes look nice is a vibrant, yellowish red? They have an undertone of yellow in their skins.

The trick of the system is that there are two colors everyone can wear: coral and turquoise.

I tried making sense of Color Me BEautiful by reading magazine and newspaper articles for years. Then, one day, at the supermarket, a Black cashier, wearing a burgundy sweater, sat very still, waiting for a customer. The sun poured onto her from overhead and her skin looked blue! That did! I understood how it worked.