Posted in Makeup Tips on 10/17/2011 05:00 am by Permanent Look
Last week we shared just a few of the most common makeup mistakes made by women of all ages. Today we’re going to share more common makeup mishaps. Steer clear of these beauty faux pas and you’ll be on your way to looking your best.
Makeup Mistake # 3 – Using a Foundation that is too Dark for you
It’s only natural to want to look healthy by adding a little bit of color in your skin. In the quest for color and a bronzed look, however, there are certainly wrong directions in which to turn. Some women choose a foundation that is darker than their natural skin tone in an attempt to look darker. Your foundation should actually match your natural skin tone. If not, you run the risk of looking unnatural and cartoon like. Stick with self tanners and dust on bronzing powder to get a darker look.
Makeup Mistake # 4 – Applying Lipstick to Chapped Lips
Colorful and vibrant lips look younger and healthier. This is why women often turn to permanent lip color or daily lipstick and lip gloss. Remember, however, that applying lip color to chapped lips can end up making you look older. Keep your lips looking healthy by drinking plenty of water. If you have permanent lip color, keep your lips looking vibrant and prevent fading by always wearing Chap Stick.
As we age our lips can become fair and lose color for several reasons. Not only can lips become paler as a natural part of the aging process, but they can be the sign of other conditions such as dehydration, sun damage, or even anemia. Visit your doctor if you are concerned about one of these conditions, otherwise try livening up your lips with these few simple tips.
Firstly, drink copious amounts of water as often as possible. No matter what your age, you should be drinking about eight glasses of water per day. Many women fail to get the hydration they need throughout the day. Water hydrates your body from the inside out, and getting enough of it can add some color back into your complexion as well as your lips.
Always use a lip balm with SPF. Follow this tip for all seasons, not only in the summer. Chap Stick Ultra (35 SPF Plus) or Banana Boat in stick form both work great. Protecting your lips from sun damage will help keep lips looking youthful longer.
If you always protect your lips with sunscreen and drink your eight glasses of water daily but still suffer from pale lips, you may want to try permanent lip color. The Melany Whitney Center for Permanent Cosmetics can give color back to pale lips and even redefine irregular lip lines and enhance lip shape!
Today lip injections are a common way to get larger, more youthful looking lips, but it’s important to remember that any injections of a foreign substance carries a bit of risk. Going in for a simple lip injection could leave you with an infection, a bad allergic reaction, or even lips that look lopsided or over inflated.
Did you know that you can spare yourself the risk of collagen lip injection and still get the look of larger, younger looking lips simply by lining your lips correctly? Follow these tips to get the look of sultry, youthful, perfectly shaped, and larger looking lips.
First, remember to always choose a lipliner that matches your lipstick or a flesh tone shade if you are going for a softer, more natural look. Choosing a lip liner closest to your natural lip shade or closest to the lipstick color you are wearing will prevent a “fake” look and will also create the illusion of much more surface area of the lips, making them appear larger and more youthful.
Also remember, that you can get plumper looking lips without the injections, simply by smudging your lip liner just a bit so lips look fuller. You can also try one of the many lip plumping products that are available on the market today. Glossy or frosty lip gloss with “plumper” added will help you get your fullest possible look.
Remember, if you would like the look of younger fuller looking lips every day, even while you sleep and when you wake up, you can always get the look permanently by calling on an expert like Melany Witney to apply your lip make-up permanently and beautifully.
The desire to improve their appearance is what leads most women to choose permanent makeup. Imperfections, scarring, convenience and aging are the four primary reasons women choose to undergo permanent makeup procedures. Watch the video and hear two women tell their stories.
Imperfections. Nature is an imperfect creator. Most of us have a small facial flaw that eats away at our self-confidence. We may feel that our eyebrows are too sparse or our lips too thin. We may have been over-zealous tweezers and long for the full, beautifully-shaped brows of our youth. Permanent makeup can fill in and arch sparse brows. It can make thin lips appear fuller and make overly full lips more proportional. In the hands of a skilled permanent makeup artist, permanent cosmetics can perfect what nature created.
Scarring. Expertly matching cosmetic pigments to natural skin coloring, an expert permanent makeup artist can camouflage facial scars and make them disappear. Unlike makeup, permanent cosmetics will not wear off or wash off. Your scar will remain hidden.
Age. As we age, our skin becomes sallow and the youthful pink of our lips fades. Permanent makeup can restore youthful color to lips and cheeks and add definition to the eyes. And when arthritis or failing eyesight makes it difficult to apply makeup, permanent makeup is always perfectly applied.
Convenience. When you wear permanent makeup, you gain the time you spend putting on makeup, touching it up and taking it off. Cleanse, moisturize and you’re out the door, looking beautiful 24/7.
As we age, our skin texture changes. Fine lines and creases seem to multiply as we stare into the makeup mirror. Our skin looks drier, less “plumped,” less “dewy” than when we were younger. We may start to envy the youthful radiance of younger coworkers and friends. Yet, many women, particularly those who enjoy outdoor sports and activities, begin experiencing midlife skin changes in their mid-30s, quite a few years shy of middle age. The common solution is to throw more makeup at the problem, filling lines and creases with extra coats of concealer and foundation, hoping to hide lines from sight. Makeup artists say that’s the wrong thing to do. More makeup will actually make you look older and less attractive.
The professionals’ advice for women in midlife makeup crisis? Less is more. Makeup artists counsel their clients to embrace their natural beauty as they age. Rather than trying to hide themselves behind a wall of makeup, women should use lighter foundations which deemphasize lines and focus on highlighting individual features, particularly their eyes and lips. Permanent makeup can help minimize the visual effects of aging. Permanent lip color can bring the appearance of fullness and youthful color to pale, thinning lips. Eyebrows that have grown light and thin with age can be darkened and shaped with permanent eyebrows. Permanent makeup allows you to embrace life’s changes beautifully.
On NBC’s The Doctors yesterday, permanent makeup took center stage as the doctors discussed the benefits permanent makeup offers many women. As obstetrician/gynecologist Dr. Lisa Masterson and plastic surgeon and reconstructive surgery expert Dr. Drew Ordon pointed out, permanent makeup offers time-saving advantages for busy women from soccer moms to corporate executives who want to look their best but don’t have time to spend on makeup. Permanent makeup also meets the beauty and grooming needs of women who are allergic to makeup; people who suffer small motor impairment caused by arthritis, disease or aging and find it difficult to apply makeup; and women with vision problems who cannot see well enough to apply makeup.
The audience observed permanent cosmetic procedures being performed on 35-year-old mom and pilot Trish. Extremely fair, Trish had very light eyebrows with some small gaps in the hair growth and nearly invisible eyelashes. With facial skin, lips and eye lids nearly the same tone, Trish’s face lacked color and definition, leaving her looking sallow and washed-out without makeup. Using permanent cosmetics, Trish’s eyebrows were darkened and the gaps filled with hair-like brush strokes. Permanent eyeliner was added to bring out Trish’s eyes and add definition to her lashes. Permanent lip color in a shade somewhat darker than her skin tone was applied to define her lips. The transformation was stunning. Trish went from mousy to vibrant right before the audience’s eyes!
Next time: Permanent makeup advice from The Doctors
Have you seen the new commercials for Cover Girl Outlast Lipstain starring the always darling, inimitable Drew Barrymore? Highlighting Drew’s sunny smile, Cover Girl’s latest lip cover looks fresh and carefree, the perfect choice for easy, breezy summer wear. Light and pretty, the new lip stains introduced by Cover Girl, Revlon, Sephora, Candy and others brush your lips with light-weight color that lasts all day. An interesting new lip color product, lip stains feel less heavy on the lip and less “cakey” than traditional lipsticks, yet they provide a more penetrating lip cover than sheer lip glosses. Actually, what they seem to mimic most is permanent lip color.
Women who wear permanent lip color never have to worry about their lipstick being fresh, leaving those unsightly lipstick rings on glasses or smudging some hunky guy’s shirt collar with telltale lipstick smears. Artistically applied permanent cosmetics are used to saturate lips with permanent color that won’t wear off! Permanent lip color is the ultimate long-lasting lip stain, making your lips look fresh and kissably lush 24 hours a day.
Permanent lip color can be applied with or without lip liner. You can choose a shade that enhances your natural lip color or bring in your signature lipstick shade for matching. When applying permanent makeup to lips, nationally known permanent makeup artist Melany Whitney can repair lip line flaws, add fullness to thin lips and add symmetry to problem lips. Permanent makeup gives you lips that are always beautiful.
Lip grafts are the newest thing in plastic surgery, touted as a longer-lasting lip plumping technique than Botox injections. Those who covet Angelina Jolie’s plump pout are having a muscle from their neck grafted onto their lips. The surgery is said to remove puckers and make lips look fuller, but it is certainly not for the squeamish.
Developed by Florida plastic surgeons, the lip graft surgically grafts segments of muscle and connective tissue from the side of the neck onto the lip. The procedure is not without its critics. Far from permanent, grafts only last two years. When not combined with a face lift, scarring at the hairline is likely. Some women have also experienced uncomfortable numbing or total loss of lip sensation; and sometimes the body rejects the graft, leaving the lips permanently scarred.
Rather than go under the knife, why not choose the safer option: permanent makeup. During the artistic application of permanent lip color, lips can be reshaped and made to appear tantalizingly fuller. Permanent makeup can also correct any irregularities in your lip line, giving you a pleasingly symmetrical lip line that looks beautifully natural. Permanent lip color is individually mixed to create the perfect lip color for your skin tone. Permanent lip color can be artfully blended to correct pigment imperfections and hide small scars. Permanent lip color even allows you to choose a natural look or create a signature lip color all your own.
Have you heard about the latest lip plumping cosmetic surgery procedure? It’s called a lip implant and involves grafting a snip of your neck muscle onto your lips. It’s said to improve lip color as well as form. Pioneered in India, the procedure is fairly new and largely unstudied. Possible side effects include loss of feeling in the lips, head movement limitations, neck pain, nerve injury and lip deformities. All that risk and U.S. researchers say the procedure only provides beneficial results for 2 years. After that, lip color fades again.
How much smarter (and more cost effective) to use permanent makeup to make your lips permanently full and rosy. In permanent cosmetics, a paramedical tattooing process is used to insert natural pigments under the skin to add permanent, long-lasting color to pale lips. An expert permanent makeup artist like Melany Whitney can make lips appear fuller and even correct uneven or irregular lip lines and minor scars. Permanent lip clients can choose to go natural and have their lips colored a slightly darker shade than their skin tone or call more attention to their lips by having Melany match their favorite lip stain color to create a signature look.
It’s hard to believe but the ’80s are back! Big hair, football-size shoulder pads, kohl-lined eyes and ruby red lips. In the 1980s women came into their own in the workplace. Clothing fashions, hair styles and makeup reflected women’s new-found power on the job and served to augment her presence in heretofore male-dominated board rooms. Fashions were forceful and imposing and makeup had to be bold and colorful to stand out. In the 1980s women wore more makeup and eye makeup and lip colors were darker and more noticeable than they had been before. It was a look that commanded attention.
Research has shown that every 30 years fashion styles repeat themselves but with a new twist on the original. Today’s makeup styles give the brassy, look at me ’80s a softer, more sensual appearance that exudes self-confidence and says we’ve arrived and we’re here to stay! The dark kohl-lined Goth eyes of the 1980s have been softened into far more sensuous smoky eyes. Lips are still red; but instead of the bold, brassy reds of the ’80s, lip colors are softer, warmer, earthier reds. It’s the lip liner not the bright color that calls attention to the lips today; but instead of matching liner and lipstick colors, liners are going more brown this season. And put the lip gloss away during the day. Matte-finish lip stick says I’m in charge at the office.
Permanent makeup can give you the perfectly applied lip liner that is the base for today’s powerful, sensuous red lips.
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