Magic Tricks with Jillian Dempsey « STLAVONLADY

Optical Illusions
Play with light and dark shades of eyeshadow to enhance the size of eyes or to bring eyes further or closer apart.
1. BRING WIDE-SET EYES CLOSER TOGETHER
Apply darker colors at the inner half of of your lids closet to the nose.

2. MAKE CLOSE-SET EYES APPEAR WIDER APART

Highlight inner corners with a ligh flesh-tone liner and shimmery pearl shadow.

3. MAKE SMALL EYES LOOK BIGGER

Line lower lids with a nude or very light color liner to make the whites of your eyes brighter.

4. MAKE EYES REALLY POP

Add a pale iridescent shadow in the center of the lids and line lower inner lids with a white liner.

Face Shapping:

You can use foundation or pressed powder to accentuate your best features and minimize the others. All you need are 3 different shades: Base - a shade that matched your skin exactly. Highlight- a shade lighter. Contour - A shade darker. The Highlight shade brings features forward. The Countour shade makes them recede.

NARROW YOUR NOSE
Highlight down the center of your nose to the width that you want to appear, then place contour on either side of the nose. Blend well.

SOFTEN A HEAVY JAW LINE
Shade around square jawline to make that area recede and create a more oval shape. Blend borders with a base shade.

GET HIGH CHEEKBONES
Shade round cheeks to make them recede, then highlight top of cheekbones to make them more prominent and lifted like those of a model. Blend base to borders…beautiful!

Liptricks
Use lip pencils, gloss and concealer to transform lips.

1. TO MAKE COLOR LAST LONGER
Apply lip liner to entire lip area, use a lip brush to gently blend any hard lines around the edges and then apply a gloss or a lipstick.

2. TO TRANSFORM A LIPSTICK SHADE

Use a lip pencil as a base for lipstick to make it look browner, deeper or redder, depending on the shade of the pencil. For a shinier finish, use lipstick for a base gloss.

3. TO MAKE LIPSTICK LOOK FULLER

Apply a highlighter slightly above the natural contour of the Cupid's bow. Apply desired shade of lipcolor. Using a lip liner in a shade that matches lipcolor, follow the outer dimensions of the lips and trace around the lip line. Dab gloss on the center of the lower lip.

4. TO MAKE LIPS LOOK THINNER

Blend foundation or concealer lightly over the edges of your lips. Dust transluscent powder over the area. Using a nude lip liner, outline lips within the natural lip line. Fill lips with a pale shade of lipstick.