How to Do Face Makeup: The Different Steps

To help you achieve beautiful, natural, and fresh face makeup, MAKE UP FOR EVER Academy shares its tips with the steps to follow and a choice of products to use.

Step 1: Prepare Your Skin

Preparing your skin well for makeup is certainly one of the most important steps. The golden rule for keeping beautiful skin: remove your makeup every night and cleanse your face morning and evening. Sleeping with makeup on suffocates pores and you can be sure to wake up with a wrinkled and dehydrated face.

• Remove Makeup

If you've already applied makeup before starting your new makeup, it goes without saying that you need to thoroughly cleanse your face with suitable products. And even if you've already removed your makeup, there may still be some impurities or traces of makeup that need to be removed. For a deep cleanse, you can use a cleansing cream, which eliminates impurities and makeup (including waterproof makeup) while leaving the skin supple and soft.

Simply apply a small amount of cleansing cream to the moistened face, massaging lightly to allow the active ingredients to penetrate.

• Wash Your Face with Water

When the face is clean, rinse it thoroughly with lukewarm or cool water. It's advisable to finish rinsing the face with very cool water to tighten pores and stimulate microcirculation.

• Hydrate Your Skin

Your skin is now clean and dry. It's time to hydrate it. To enhance the effectiveness of your moisturizer, it's a good idea to use one or more serums according to your needs. For example, if your skin tends to dehydrate quickly, Ultra HD Skin Booster Hydra-plumping serum is ideal for boosting the skin's radiance.

Then, simply apply a moisturizer to the entire face, avoiding the eye area. Indeed, the skin in this area is particularly thin and fragile, so it requires suitable moisturizing products.

Step 2: The Importance of Concealer

At this stage, the skin is ready to receive the first makeup products. And even before applying foundation, you need to think about correcting imperfections. Apply a small amount of concealer to the imperfection to be masked with your finger or a brush by tapping lightly, then blend the edges to avoid lines.

Step 3: Apply Foundation

The choice of foundation is crucial for achieving makeup that is both natural and enhances the face. In summer, with the heat, the skin tends to shine and, over the course of the day, the makeup may not last. That's why it's advisable to use a foundation that is both covering, mattifying, and long-lasting.

It is still advisable to use a makeup setting spray to form a fresh and invisible barrier on your face, such as Mist and Fix Make-up setting Spray. It can be used at each step of the makeup for a perfect finish. You can also use it in the evening to refresh your makeup from the day.

Step 4: Conceal Dark Circles

Once the foundation has been well applied to the face and neck, you must now conceal dark circles. Using a brush, apply 3 touches of your concealer under the eye, at the level of the dark circle. Using your finger or a small sponge, stretch the material and blend it on your dark circle.

Step 5: Apply a Complexion Enhancer

To highlight certain parts of the face to give the whole a glowy, irresistible appearance, use a highlighter that will bring a natural glow to your skin and allow you to redefine the volumes by bringing touches of light to the desired areas. The highlighter is applied alone or mixed with the foundation (or primer), to boost the radiance of your complexion.

Step 6: Redraw and Fix Eyebrows

Well-drawn eyebrows bring character to the face. Even if the trend seems to be returning to thin eyebrows, it is advisable in all cases to draw them well and fix them to bring intensity to the eyes.

With sparse eyebrows, favor a creamy texture highly concentrated in pigments to redraw, intensify, or even completely redefine your eyebrow line.

Step 7: Enhance the Eyes

Summer is the season of all boldness. With colored eyeliners, you can create endless artistic looks by playing on the thickness of the lines.

To enhance the eyelashes and give intensity to the eyes, use an ultra-pigmented mascara, such as Smoky Lash intense color mascara.

Step 8: Spotlight on the Lips!

To finish your makeup, focus on a colored mouth, playing on effects. You can alternate lipsticks according to your desires. One day, you can decide to use a very colorful and shiny lipstick, another day, you can settle for a nude to focus more on the eyes. Whether you choose a matte, liquid, glossy, very pigmented or not texture, you have an infinite number of possibilities to enhance your mouth.

Now, you have an idea of the different steps to follow to achieve beautiful makeup this summer! And for those who would like to go further, in particular to learn the right gestures, use the appropriate tools and products, and discover the best makeup techniques, MAKE UP FOR EVER Academy offers beauty self-makeup training courses available in French only. Several formulas exist:

• The daytime beauty self-makeup training: during one day, you will learn to put on makeup and enhance your face thanks to a natural beauty treatment.
• The day and evening beauty self-makeup training: this training is intended for all those who want to learn the best professional techniques for creating more elaborate makeup.