Your eyes are the focal point of your face. People notice your eyes first. General rules of color are to use deeper colors with dark eyes, lighter colors with light eyes. Usually, color gets absorbed by dark skin.
Richer eye colors like copper, gold, browns, deep grays, navy and violets are appropriate for dark eyes. With light eyes select specific blues, taupes, khaki, ginger and light grays.
BEAUTY TIP: White eyeshadow is a staple. You can use white eyeshadow to open your eyes when you apply it on the inner corners of your eyes. To lift your eyes, apply white eye shadow on your brow bones. You can also use white eye shadow when you use a heavy hand applying makeup and you want to soften your look.
BEAUTY TIP: Baby oil is good to keep on hand to mix together with eyeshadows and blush for creating creamy consistencies to formulations of makeup.
It’s recommended that you choose three shades of similar colors for making up your eyes. This will help you achieve a more polished look.
First, apply the lightest color from your lash line to your brow. Secondly, apply the medium color of eyeshadow from your lash line to right above the crease of your eyes. Then, apply dark eyeshadow with an eyeliner brush lining your eyes around your lash lines.
BEAUTY TIP: Before applying eye makeup dust your eyelids with powder, to help prevent eyeshadow from melting and creasing. This will create an oil-free eye area to apply eyeshadow smoothly.
BEAUTY TIP: To get a wet look with your eyelids, that is also long lasting, apply lip gloss on your eyelids and then apply eyeshadow. Eyeshadow will adhere on the gloss base.
BEAUTY TIPS ON EYELINER APPLICATIONS:
To widen the area between your eyes with close-set eyes, try this with eyeliner: Draw a line on the outer third of your upper lids. Use brown, black or gray liner. Gently smudge the line. Draw a lighter line on your inner eyes with a lighter color eyeliner.
To make small eyes appear a little bigger, try this: Apply a dark line that gradually gets thicker towards the outer edges of your eyes. Take a silver, gold or white pencil and apply a line under lower lashes.
To create an appearance of less heavy lids with deep set eyes:
On your upper lash line, apply a line of pale, shimmery liner. Next, draw a line on the outer edges under lower lashes with a gray or taupe soft, neutral color.
To create the appearance of lifting drooping eyes:
Draw a line very close to your lashes on the outer third of your eyes. Creatively, sweep the line up on the corners of your eyes.
What kind of eyeliners should you use?
Liquid Liner: It’s the most fun because it’s often easiest to apply and longest lasting. Yet it requires more practice.
Pencils: You can blend pencil lines for a real natural look and application is easiest to control.
By rolling the point of the pencil between the fingers of your hand, you can get body heat to soften the pencil so that it will not drag your eyes.
To create very precise lines, put the pencil in the fridge and chill for about an hour before using.
Look for silicone as an ingredient in eye pencils. Silicone has the longest wearability.
After applying eye pencil, the liner sets in ten or fifteen seconds. So smudge the liner immediately.
BEAUTY TIP: For a softer look with eyeshadow instead of liner, rim your eyes by moistening the tip of a clean eyeliner wand with water and cover it with a deep eyeshadow and then apply a line close to your upper lash line and also on your lower lash line.
You complete your eye makeup by finishing with your lashes.
Using an eyelash curler will add a more youthful, wider and more alert look with your eyes. Always curl your lashes before using mascara.
It can give you “an instant eye lift.”
To make lashes thicker and give mascara more of “a hold” lightly apply powder to lashes.
Use your hair dryer to heat the eyelash curler for a few seconds.
That will work as “a curling iron for the eyes.”
BEAUTY TIP: To get a more rounded curl, use the eyelash curler twice.
Place your lashes inside the two rims. Gently squeeze for about thirty seconds. Again, place the lash curler at mid-lash, squeeze for an additional thirty seconds. The look can be very natural.
Apply a second application of mascara, focusing on the tips of your lashes by brushing the mascara wand horizontally across your lashes. Apply more mascara without waiting for the first application to dry. Mascara dries quickly, clumping easily, particularly waterproof mascara. It’s recommended to just lightly apply mascara on lower lashes.
BEAUTY TIP: After applying mascara, dip black mascara within blue eyeshadow and concentrate application on the outer corners of your eyes and the tips of your lashes. It will make an interesting look.
Curling mascaras that have an elastic quality are on the market.
When lashes dry, mascara shrinks slightly and flips up.
You can also try combs that help with clumps. Use the comb after each coat of mascara.

Modern living has its’ drawbacks to our complexions, our bodies. Try a regular schedule for detoxing to give you healthier skin, body and to add beauty to the way you look.
Stress, late nights, processed foods, lack of exercise, smoke and alcohol all cause overtaxing on our organs, not to mention it’s affect on our complexions. Dull, lifeless skin and fatigue result from poor habits.
Detoxifying your system counteracts these symptoms. By temporarily removing some foods from the diet, you can rest your digestive system, make your skin glow and be refreshed.
Start with eating only fresh, raw fruits and vegetables, just one day every week. During that 24 hour day, avoid nicotine, caffeine, drugs and alcohol or do it forever!
If you have a serious illness or are pregnant, you should avoid fasting.
The day before and the day after fasting, avoid meat, sugar, dairy, saturated fats, wheat and complex carbohyrates. Eat simply for maximum results. This can be done.
You will be surprised at how much clearer you will feel by having lots of salads, steamed vegetables, fresh fruits, raw nuts, beans, soups and avocados.
During the three days of fasting, also increase filtered water in your diet. Make sure to drink 8 glasses of filtered water or more. Try to buy organic fruits and vegetables for fasting. If it’s not possible to buy organic fruits and vegetables, wash them with a brush designed to remove pesticides and chemicals. Eat all fruits and vegetables raw. Blend into smoothies, as juice, or prepared as salads. Use lemon juice for salad dressing.
To help the cleansing, start the day drinking hot lemon tea. Boil filtered water and add fresh lemon juice from sliced lemons. When juicing, add a slice of fresh ginger.
After success with this regimen for a few weeks, try having a day where you consume only the juices of fruits and vegetables for even better results with detoxing and cleansing. It’s preferable the juices are prepared using a juicer. If that’s not possible, drink organic juices with no additives.
When you are successful with this regimen, try for three days once or twice a year of consuming only juices.
You will be able to improve your skin and look and feel healthier after fasting on fruits and vegetables for a time!

Everyone of us possesses the potential to be well groomed and looking good. Here is a checklist of plans and suggestions that will help you get started on the beautifying process.
When you look at your image, think of yourself in terms of the whole picture. Instead of concentrating on just one element, regard each aspect of your total appearance as all part of your complete image composition.
For example, your assessories, clothes and shoes are seen with your hair and make up, consisting of the total picture.
Visualize your new image. Think about yourself and imagine yourself with an improved image. Imagine looking great wearing a tiny bikini or looking gorgeous in a classic black party number. Or picture the look your loved ones will give you when they see a slimmer, more svelte you. Keep those positive images in your mind as you exercise, go to the dentist or dermatologist, eat well, exfoliate and do whatever is necessary to work towards your goals.
Look at why you want to make changes and whatever reasons are required for change. Ideally, looking good for yourself should be enough motivation for change but if that’s not enough, think about more motives to inspire you.
For example, getting an ideal partner or a dream job; that will become possible by becoming more beautiful.
Determine your weaknesses: work them out. Make an assessment. Step forward in front of a long, full length mirror, angle a second hand held mirror so that you are able to see your front, sides and back. See what it is about your appearance that needs improvement and then think about ways that hopefully it’s possible to improve your looks. For example, if you need to lose weight to improve your appearance, start thinking about your diet and exercise routine. Also, think about clothes that will help you look better.
Don’t get upset over minor flaws. You can visualize a problem as far worse that it is if you worry too much over a minor imperfection – a wrinkle, pimple or stretchmark.
Make up a plan ie. a list of ways that you can reinvent yourself. Write on paper or make a list on your computer of all the things that can be done to help you transform yourself. Take into consideration how, where and when you will need to do these things. Think about visiting a beauty counter to learn a new way to apply make up or budget yourself and buy Avon beauty products, schedule an appointment to get your hair colored or highlighted, have your teeth fixed, or go through and organize your wardrobe.
Don’t get discouraged while you are following through on plans to reinvent yourself. When you start exercising or decide to do a skin care regime, you need to be patient with yourself. Don’t give up before you see any benefits from your routine. Once you notice positive things happening, such as weight loss or glowing skin, you will be motivated!
Set aside some playtime. Take an evening to play with your clothes, hair and make up. You can develop some new looks for yourself and work on making progress with your image.
Be positive and feel beautiful about yourself. Positive thinking and being optimistic about the Way your appearance is improving will go along way towards improving your attitude and self confidence.
Be well groomed. Possessing beauty intelligence presupposes focusing on the details. For example, check for clothing discrepancies such as a hanging hemline or missing buttons, seek to match eyeshadow, eyeliner and lipstick or lipstick and blush, remove facial or body hair, maintain nails, keep neat and clean.
Make new beauty resolutions. Resolve to give yourself five new beauty ideas to improve your looks. Choose realistic, achieveable things that can be done to improve your appearance. For example, add healthier foods in your diet, start skin-brushing ie. exfoliation weekly, floss your teeth each night and do facial exercises daily.
With some effort, you can be looking good and feeling beautiful!