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Everyone wants to look good, especially when it is the time to party. The idea behind hosting or going to parties is to meet the people you know as well as to make new friends. At the same time, you try to impress others by your dressing sense and looks, along with the way you carry yourself. The self-confidence comes when you know that you are looking perfect, with the right make up and a dazzling ensemble. However, while getting ready for a night out, you need to know that party makeup also has some limits and rules. For instance, you should apply either heavy eye makeup or heavy lip makeup, but not both at the same time. If you want to be the essence of a party, there is no better place to start than at your dressing table. In this regard, the party makeup tips given here will come handy.

• Party Make Up Tips

Prepare Yourself
Choose your dress, footwear and accessories for the big occasion in advance. Once all the elements come together, it will help you get an idea about your look and you will be able to select your make up accordingly.

For Fresh Looking Skin

• Wash your face with warm water, using your favorite face wash.
• Rub ice on your face for 5-10 mins, in breaks.
• Dab some cleansing milk on a cotton ball and wipe your face with it.
• Apply some lotion/ moisturizer, while making sure you do not end up leaving your face oily.

Preparing The Base

• Depending upon your complexion, apply foundation all over your face, with the help of a sponge/foundation brush. You can apply a darker shade of the foundation on the broader parts of your face.
• Now, apply shimmer powder on your face, over the foundation, with the help of a brush.
• Blush your cheeks, adding color gradually. Use some blusher on the sides of the forehead and chin as well.

On The Eyes

• First of all, you need to apply the eye-shadow on your eyelids
• Define your eyes with eyeliner, making use of short strokes.
• Next, apply 2-3 coats of mascara, on the tips of your lashes.
• Finally, define your eyebrows with the help of an eyebrow pencil.

For Your Lips

• Shape up your lips nicely and precisely, with the help of a lip liner pencil.
• Now is the time to apply the lip color, with the help of a brush.
• Blot the lipstick with tissue and then apply once again.
• Finally, add a coat of gloss on your lips.

For Your Nail

• Clean your nails thoroughly and file them to give a proper shape.
• Apply a coat of the colorless base coat and let it dry.
• Add two coats of a nail polish, giving a gap of 10 minutes in-between.
• Add another coat of the colorless base coat and let it dry.

• BEAUTIFUL EYELASHES

However before going for any experiment remember not to apply to much of external products as apart from being expressive and beautiful; eyes are also the most sensitive part of your body. Given here is detailed description of what all can you experiment with your eyelash to make it look beautiful. So Read on…

Experiment with eyelashes
Eyelashes are the only part of eyes where a little experiment can be done with make up. A slight make up of eyelashes can accentuate the beauty of your eyes by thousands of times. Apart from that eye make up has it own limitations, so in order to bring out the hidden beauty of your eyes, the lashes are the best and safe asset. Long and beautiful shaped eyelashes also make your face look extremely striking.

Tips for beautiful eyelashes

Natural methods

• Prepare a combination of equal amount of glycerin and Castor oil. And apply it through your clean mascara brush. Let them dry and apply them twice for fuller and longer lashes.
• Regularly apply castor oil or olive oil to your eyelashes before going to bed every night and observe the results in few weeks.
• You can also apply Vaseline through a clean mascara brush on your lashes every night for a good lashes growth.
• You can go for tip-trimming of the lashes but be very careful about this. However you must know that a trim can get you rid of the old to bring on the growth of the new lashes.
• Consume ample amount of Vitamin C as it stimulates hair growth.

Artificial Method

• You can curl your eye lashes by using a lash curler.
• Apply mascara on your lashes from the roots and to the tip of your lashes.
• Use brown mascara instead of a black one to get a softer and more flattering look.
• Always use good lash conditioner and mascara to improve the quality of your lashes.
• Always change your mascara once in three months

•  APPLYING EYELINER

Eyeliner is used to give shape to the eyes and define them as desired. An important part of eye makeup, it is often used after eyeshadow and before mascara. Eyeliner can be used to add the dramatic touch to your face or soften the look of your eyes and must be used, keeping the color of eyes and the eyeshadow that you use in mind. Brown, navy and charcoal liners look gorgeous on light colored eyes while brown and plum shades are often used to enhance the beauty of dark brown and black eyes. Precise and dramatic strokes can be achieved by using liquid eyeliner while pencil eyeliner is the best to give soft touch to the eyes. To experiment with colors, you can moisten a small flat brush to use dark eyeshadow as eyeliner or a cake liner and the brush must be held as a pen. Pencil eyeliners need to be sharpened before using them.

While applying the eyeliner, tilt your head back slightly and keep your eyes half-open to let you see yourself in the mirror as you are applying the liner. The line must be drawn on the upper lid from the inner side of the eye to the outer side. Let the liner dry before opening your eyes fully. To soften the look of harsh eyeliner, smudge it a little using the brush. Lower lid is lined from outer edge tapering to the inner side of the eye. Liquid liner has to be applied in one smooth stroke while pencil is applied by stroking the area lightly. Too thick eyeliner does not look good so go for thinner lines. Liquid liners need practice and brushed must always be washed with a makeup remover after using them. If your hand is shaky, stand close to the mirror to provide it support from the mirror.

While using a powder shadow as a liner, it is wise to hold a tissue directly beneath your eye to avoid it from getting all over the dace. The best tool to apply eyeliner is the sponge applicator. Liner applied as a series of dashes or dots or short feather-like strokes on the lash line are much easier to control than a solid line. If your lids are oily, you need to prepare it first just like you did for eyeshadow to avoid eyeliner from moving up to the crease area. Kohl pencils are ideally suited for the inner rims of the upper and lower lids and not the eyeliner as it soon smears easily and is also not good for eyes.

Classic traditional eyeliner look can be achieved by determining the thickness and intensity of the eyeliner according to the eyelid area. Larger eyelid area can use thicker and softer eyeliner while smaller eyelid area needs thinner and more intense liner. Since eyeliner is meant to create depth to the eyes and give thickness to the lashes, traditionally you can stick with dark brown, gray or black eyeshadow for the upper lid and softer tan, taupe, chestnut, brown, gray or black shades for the lower lid.

 

•  APPLYING LIPGLOSS:

 

Do you want to accentuate your lips? How about trying lip gloss or shine? The glossy effect is known to add an 'oomph' factor to your face. Lip-gloss makes your lips look voluminous, apart from highlighting them on the face. They can either be applied over the lipstick or alone for a more natural and nude lip look. Lip gloss and lip shine are available in various shapes, size and colors that are convenient to use and give a shimmer and shine to your lips that you have always wished for. Also, lip glosses available today, are mostly water resistant and promise to lasts for long periods of time. One can effectively make the lips look more beautiful with the help of lip gloss and other lip products and use it strategically for lip correction. In the following lines, we have provided some tips on applying lip gloss, just for you.

Tips For Applying Lip Gloss

• Before putting on a lip gloss, apply a light film of Chapstick or lip balm. It moisturizes and nourishes the lips, keeping them naturally rosy. Apart from protecting and healing, Chapstick also helps the lip color to set more effectively.
• The best way to get a lasting effect of lip gloss would be to first, apply a lipstick to your lips and then, blot off the extra color using the tissue paper. Later, apply a thin layer of lip powder on them and apply a second coat of color. Complete the look, by applying lip gloss to make your lips look shinier than ever.
• To tone down the shine, take a tissue paper and put it against on lips and press little loose powder through it. Only a bit of it will get sifted through it and will instantly reduce the shiny effect.
• In case you are performing for a stage show and are required to radiate an extremely glamorous look, go for lip lacquer. It will give a greater shine to your lips.
• To give a fuller look, direct the lip-gloss to the center of the mouth. Apply the gloss in short strokes, until the natural line of your lips has been filled.
• For women who use matte lipsticks, you can avoid it from drying and flaking, by using a lip primer or color fixative, before application.
• Special effects and highlights can be achieved, by using sheer silver, gold or iridescent lip gloss over lip color. This would be great for an evening wet look.
• It is recommended to use creamy lipsticks for daily purpose. This would help to keep the lips moisturized. For adding an intense wet look, apply lip gloss to transform your makeup from matte daytime look to glossy night party look.
• Women with thick lips are advised to use lip gloss very sparingly, as it would make your lips look all the more fuller. 

• APPLYING FOUNDATION

Choosing the right foundation is the first step to a successful makeup result. Perfect matching foundation can only be assessed by correct estimation of skin type, natural color and skin tone. Since most Caucasian, Latin, African and Asian women have yellow-based skin, they must buy foundation with a yellow base too so that it doesn't look like a mask. However, Asian women from the south-Asian region have skin with a yellow-greenish undertone and thus, need a foundation that has same color of pigment as the base. Experts often use two or more shades of foundation to highlight the best features of the face and underplay the low points. To master those skills, need a lot of practice and study. Yet, there are a few points that we can keep in mind while using the foundation at home to give the best possible results, for daily purposes:

• Blend the cream foundation smoothly using a cosmetic sponge in long sweeping motions.
• Cosmetic sponge helps you to manage and apply foundation more easily and gives a better and smoother result.
• For perfect matching, foundations should not be tested on hands or insides of your wrist as the color of your face definitely differs from the color of these areas of your body. The best way is to test the foundation on your jaw line and see whether it matches the natural color of your neck or not. Matching under different light settings gives you a better idea about the correct foundation for your skin.
• Foundation needs to be blended, properly, especially under the jaw line, into the hairline, on the ear lobes, corners of the nose and mouth and over and under the eyes, so that they don't let on the difference that the foundation makes to your skin to the viewer.
• To retouch a particular spot, reapply the foundation there lightly and blend it with the rest of the face. Then powder it lightly with the translucent powder to let it set properly.
• Touchup with dual active powder foundations can easily help you to change your look from day makeup to night makeup as it works as foundation as well as powder. For sheer finish using this foundation, you just have to dampen your cosmetic sponge a little.
• While applying liquid foundation, it is better to put small points of foundation at different parts of your face such as forehead, nose tip, chin and cheek bones and then blend a little at a time on the face to give a more finished look.
• You can use powder foundation just like the normal compact powder.

• APPLYING LIPSTICK

Lip liner is not essential but if used, it should be applied first. It should either be neutral in color or match the shade of your lipstick and not darker than your lipstick, so that if the lipstick fades, you don't walk around with only the outline showing. Lip liner is used to define the look of your lips and normally, you start lining them on your natural lip line starting from the center of your upper lip to the outer edge. For sharpening the lip pencil, chill it in the refrigerator for a few minutes first. To make the lipstick stay longer, use foundation on the lips first, then apply lipstick, blot the extra color with a tissue, reapply the lipstick and then dust the lips with powder. Since foundation and powder make lips drier, use lipstick with a creamy formula to counter the effect.

For applying the color, stretch the lips and starting at the center of the lip and glide the color to the corners. Lip brushes help you to give better finish to coloring your lips and avoid the application of excess color. A quick way of applying lip color is to use the lipstick to stain the bottom lip, press them together to transfer some of the color to the upper lip and then use the angle tip of the sponge applicator to refine lip edges. For more natural looks, you can try tips given below:

• The beautiful raspberry stain can be obtained by applying the berry color on the lips, blotting it with the tissue and then use brush to apply a second coat of the lipstick.
• The nude bare lip looks can be obtained by using neutral pink lip color that matches your skin tone. Pale colored women can go for light orange color with a pinkish tint while olive skin can use brownish bronze shade. Avoid lip liners as you don't need the harsh lines. Add clear gloss to the center of your lip and you are ready.
• There are lipsticks that add warmth and volume to your lips and are also have a flavor and perfume of their own. So buy the favorite fruity, candy or other flavors of your spouse for your honeymoon!
• Older women should use creamier lipsticks.
• Orange and brown shades make your teeth appear yellow so until you have that picture-perfect smile, keep them off your lips.
• In summers, you may have those dreaded dry cracked lips. Simply use your toothbrush to get rid of the dead skin gently and apply lip balm generously on them to heal them soon.
• Brown toned lips take on brown shades such as apric