This season may be changing even though the freshness of the visage in a cooler onset has returned in a new avatar. The warm weather is still a season of freshness with the warm, luminous face, a sunkissed ‘bronze goddess’ look back in vogue.
Audrey Noronha-Teixeira, independent senior sales director, Mary Kay Cosmetics with 20 years in this business feels that looking good begins with the skin; good skin makes for great makeup.
Eyes that pop
Gone are the days when stiff and perfectly polished, precise lip and eyeliner, matte foundation and overdone eyes were considered haute. Make way for smudgy eyeliner and pinched cheeks. Start with a matte foundation for combination/oily skin or luminous foundation for normal/dry skin. This look can be created by making your eyes unforgettable; after all they are the windows of your soul. Your eyes speak about your inner and outer beauty, so let them — with shimmery neutral eye shades, a matte colour on the crease, either in earth tones or one that subtly contrasts your eye colour to make them ‘pop’. You can also use metallic shadows in lighter shades. Use eyeliners in contrasting colour to your eye to emphasise the depth. Smudge to create softness around the eyes to give you that flawless, yet not a stiff portrait feel. Curl eyelashes with a black mascara to finish.
All that glitters
Cheeks done in warm blushes with a hint of gold shimmer add warmth to the face. Try an illuminator and highlighting bronzer on the outer edges of the forehead, along the temple onto the upper section of the cheek bone, and upper jawline (to form a number 3).
Lips must have a nude shade with a soft bronzy glow or neutral lipgloss to finish. Bright vibrant colours won’t disappear with winter, but will show up in a toned down fashion with the smoky eye done in bronze lids.
Rule of thumb
Balance your face with colour on all three sections — the eyes, the cheeks and the lips. Emphasise the eyes, tone down the lips; emphasise the lips in reds and then tone down the eyes keeping them gorgeous but subtle. Don’t skimp on the mascara, which is in vogue for today’s Marilyn Monroe look.