Many women are not satisfied with their face, with some kind of imperfection or marks, both wounds such as freckles. For them, the solution may be to make up their face and show off a face of a uniform, healthy and bright tone.

Makeup allows us not only to hide what we do not like, but also to highlight the areas that we like the most, as well as to profile our face in a more favorable way and that we like more how it looks.

That’s why if you want to know how to put on face makeup correctly keep reading this article from doncomos.com where we will show you all the steps to do it as well as the best tips for your perfect face makeup.

Face preparation

The first thing you should know before putting on makeup is that makeup can help you a lot, but the final result will also depend on the state of your skin. That is why it is important to have a healthy, nourished and hydrated face. To do this you must clean your face with a specific cleansing gel for your skin type (sensitive, normal, oily skin, etc.) twice a day, and then apply at least specific moisturizer according to your needs and your skin type (firming, day, night, mature skin, oily skin, dry skin, etc.), you could also use one during the day and a different one at night. In addition you should also apply eye contour, it is a part that we usually forget or that we usually moisturize with the cream of the face, but this is not correct, since this cream is very dense and the skin around the eye is very thin and has different needs.

On the other hand it is really important that after washing your face and before putting on your moisturizer, you apply a sunscreen, so you will avoid that apart from your face taking too much sun, you get spots, freckles and wrinkles.

If you need a more intensive treatment either in nutrition or hydration you can apply a specific serum at night to meet your needs. You should apply it with a clean face and before the moisturizer, waiting a few minutes between application of products to give the skin time to absorb them.

Also remember that once a week you must do some deeper cleaning on the face, performing an exfoliation and applying a mask.

Finally, before putting on makeup your face you should always apply your sunscreen, your moisturizer and the eye contour first, letting it absorb for a few minutes, then we will proceed to make up the face. This will moisturize you and also will not let so much makeup and dirt enter the pores of your skin.

Products you need for face makeup

Makeup bases. Foundations are those products that help unify the color of your face, giving it a healthy tone and shine. In addition, some can cover even imperfections. We find makeup bases in different textures, for example, liquid bases are ideal for dry skin, bases in creams are perfect for oily skin since they mattify the face, and powdered foundations, which are usually used for combination skin or skin without almost imperfections and that only want to give a little color to the face. We can also choose lighter makeup bases or others that are much more covering. The important thing when choosing a makeup base is to choose it according to your skin type and choose a tone that is exactly the same as that of your skin, so you will not notice cuts between the makeup face and the neck without makeup.

Correctors. The concealers come in different colors, and each one will help us to hide a different type of imperfection (green serves to cover redness and acne marks, yellow for imperfections in purple tones, such as scars or dark circles, violet is the one we must use to cover imperfections of green tones, we can also use the correctors in different shades of beige to get a natural tone covering other imperfections or spots and to cover dark circles not very deep or dark, darker shades will be used to make profiles on the contour of the face). We can find the correctors in cream, liquid correctors, in bars, etc.

Compact powders. Compact powders can be translucent or the same color of the face, serve to apply on top of the foundation and help it stay well fixed. We can also use darker powders to mark the contours (or buy a contour powder).

Blushers. Blushes, whether cream, liquid or powder are products used to give a little color to our cheeks.

Illuminators. Illuminators are liquid cream or powder products that help brighten and brighten certain parts of the face.

Makeup brushes and sponges. Fat, round, flat makeup brushes, etc. are used to use apply the above products. Sponges are used to apply especially makeup bases. However, you can always apply the products with your fingers, but the finish will not be the best or the most uniform.

Step by step how to put on face makeup

We will start as we said at the beginning preparing the face, for this we will wash our face well and apply the sunscreen, moisturizer and eye contour. We will let the skin absorb the creams well for a few minutes before getting serious about the makeup.

Now we will look at the imperfections that we want to cover, it is possible that we want to cover the dark circles or some granite, so take the concealer that best covers that imperfection such and following the color guide that we provided you before. We will apply the product in small quantities to touches and blur outwards.

Next we are going to apply our makeup base. If you choose a liquid base apply a little on your hand and take product with the brush or sponge, when applying it on the face always starts from the innermost part of the face (dark circles, nose, cheekbones), blurring to the outside of the face. The edges of the face should always be very well extended and blurred so that the result looks natural and cuts and patches are not noticed Normally the largest amount of product should cover the central part of the face, and apply less product outwards. Remember that you should also cover the part of the eyelids slightly and gently and under the eyebrow, with which you use the remains of product from the brush or sponge is enough.

With the next step we will leave the foundation fixed. To do this we will take the compact powder or translucent powder with a brush, we will hit the handle of the brush a little with our hand or fingers so that the excess product falls and we will apply it on the face also from the inside to the outside and with circular movements, we will also have to blur the product towards the neck.

Then we can apply a darker powder to mark the contour line. Suck inward your cheeks and apply the product following a line under the bone line. You can also apply yourself to the jawline if you want to sharpen your face a bit and make it look like you’re thinner. Finally, apply a little product on the temples. This with a little practice you can do it with a single movement, making an inverted three starting with the temple. You must remember that dark tones give depth and will help shape the face. On the other hand, light tones will serve to highlight parts of the face, and even give them shine.

Now we will choose a little blush, take a little amount so that the result is as natural as possible and do not “look like Heidi” with super marked cheeks. We are going to apply the blush right on the manzanitas of the cheeks and blur in circles, in this way you will not notice a big difference between products.

To finish we can apply a little illuminator to highlight parts of the makeup and face, the most common areas are: the nose, the cupid bridge, and the area under the eye from the middle out. We will apply the illuminator in small quantities and also blur to avoid prominent cuts.

Make up the rest of the face

So that your face is perfect we have already finished with the first step, and it is to leave a uniform, healthy and luminous face, now we are going to finish the makeup taking care of the eyebrows, eyes and lips.

To make up your eyebrows you must choose the best product that goes with you, whether it is an eyebrow mask, cream shadows or pencil the important thing is to apply little product. From half an eyebrow outwards we will use the tone a little dark. From the beginning towards the middle we will use a slightly clearer intensity. We must always blur the application well. Especially if it is the pencil or the cream shadow. The shade used to make up the eyebrows should be as similar as possible to the color of the eyebrow hair. For the eyes choose a shadow in light tone, such as beige to apply a little under the eyebrow, in this way we will give it greater luminosity. Then we can make up the rest of the eye in many different ways and with numerous color combinations, but in this case we are going to propose a natural makeup for day to day. Choose a shade in peach tone or in a light earth tone. Apply this shadow to the entire mobile eyelid. Then we will use a darker tone and apply it from half a mobile eyelid outwards and on the banana of the eye (the gap between the mobile eyelid and the bone). This application should end very blurred, so that no sharp cuts are noticed between one color and another. As well as a great impact with the skin. Now with a dark brown pencil we will draw a line on the upper eyelid, just like the eyelashes. With an eyelash curling iron we are going to comb and shape our eyelashes. Finally apply the mascara that you like the most (remember that there are many mascaras on the market and with many effects, such as to give length, with false eyelash effect, to give volume, etc.). Always apply the mascara from the beginning of the lashes upwards in zigzag.