Make-up tips [ 03 Apr 2001 ]
  • Shave!
    And shave your entire face!
    We have hair all over our face. Beside the obvious beard areas, places like forehead, etc. have fuzz hair. Shaving the entire face will bring a subtle yet dramatic (!) improvement to your femme appearance.
  • Dark, matte shadow colors create a receding effect. Use them in the creases of your eyelids to make eyes appear bigger. (From covergirl.com.)
  • Light, shimmer shadow colors bring things to the forefront. Use them on your brow bone for high contrast. (From covergirl.com.)
  • Tips on using an eyelash curler (from covergirl.com):
    "Always use the curler on clean, non-mascara-ed lashes and, like all your tools, keep it clean.
    Use your thumb and forefinger to operate it.
    Open the jaws and position them so they'll close on your lashes near the root.
    Press gently (make sure you haven't caught any skin), then more firmly and count to 12. Release."
Oct 10, 2005
L'Oreal has this great line of foundation and powder called "true match". Its display includes a clear flexible plastic template printed with swatches of all the available shades, in translucent color. You hold the template about 1/2" over your wrist and look for the swatch that seems to "disappear"; that is your color. (The plastic template is on a retractable cord, like one of those key chain thingies. You can pull it down (it was at about eye-level) closer to you.)

My color is "W3 Nude Beige", one of the "warm" tones. I have tried the powder on, and it matches my skin tone so perfectly it's as if I'm not wearing any make-up at all!