from your nose and blending the color just into the cheekbones. Do not paint your entire cheeks with
color, either.- To prop up cheekbones, use a translucent highlighter in skin-friendly, neutral, light warm pink
shades. Leave intricate contouring to professional makeup artists, but to instantly add shape and
curve to your face, run quickly around your hairline with a large fluffy brush dipped slightly in
translucent powder bronzer. - Most mineral blushers have some glimmer in them. To make this work for you, apply the blush on
the apples of your cheeks and keep the color away from the outer corners of your eyes. Do not
apply blush in downward motions, and do not rub the brush back and forth. For many mineral
blushes, this brings out too much shimmer. - Don’t think that pale colors automatically mean a more natural look. Pale pink or peach blush can
look unnatural if you have olive or dark skin. To choose the best color for your complexion, don’t
pinch your cheeks, but instead, smear some blush on your hand and bring it close to your makeup-
free lips. Choose the color that works best with your natural lip tone. - Do not match your blush to your jewelry, glasses, clothes, or hair color. The only thing that should
guide you is the overall undertone of your makeup. If using gray, silver-toned eye shadow, stick to
colder tones of blush, such as rose, pink, and berry. If using warm, golden-toned eye shadow and
lip-gloss, choose peach, warm pink, or neutral golden beige.
Natural mascaras do not contain preservatives, relying on airtight packaging and your
understanding that you should discard any mascara, natural or not, after six months of use. To prolong
the life of your natural mascara and help it work well for you for those six months, do not pump the
wand into the tube, hoping to squeeze a little bit more color on the brush. All you achieve is pushing
more air inside the tube, which makes mascara dry out faster.
You can create exciting effects with your mascara using mineral pigments. If your new natural
mascara appears to be too runny, try this trick: lightly dust the mascara wand with just a pinch of very
dark brown, purple, or shimmery gray mineral eye shadow. Coat the wand evenly and apply directly
onto your lashes. Do not blend the eye shadow and mascara in the palm of your hand! This is messy
and possibly contaminates the mascara with germs that are not found on your eyelashes.
Natural Eyeliners and Eye Shadows
While it’s really hard to go overboard and apply clashing, utterly unnatural-looking makeup using
mineral and natural-based foundations, blushes, and mascara, mineral eye shadows virtually let you
go nuts for color and shimmer. From barely there pastel hues to vivid, strong metallic pigments,
myriads of color and texture variations of mineral eye shadows could easily be the one reason you
convert into a green makeup junkie. Whether you want to go basic and classic with a single shadow
accentuating the shape of your eye, or you are artistically inclined and feel brave enough to combine
four shades into a sultry, sexy, smoky eye, you have all the cards.
Mineral eye glimmer and shadows are more intensely pigmented than foundations and blushers,
hence there’s a higher risk of making a mistake. The technique is basically the same as with the
mineral foundation, only the brush is smaller. Tap a pinch of eye shadow powder into the lid or take
some on your brush and transfer onto your hand. Don’t apply loose powder eye shadows directly
from the jar!You need to let the shadow penetrate the brush so that drops of dark eyeshadow do not