Any woman wants to be attractive and always look well-groomed. I especially want this at work, because the attitude towards you, and, therefore, your success in work, largely depends on your appearance. However, business etiquette requires a serious approach to makeup - it is necessary to maintain a balance between grooming and an inappropriately large amount of makeup. Let's look at how to make beautiful business makeup step by step.
Features of business makeup
Makeup for work is designed to make a woman more attractive, to hide the minor flaws of her face, but in no case to make her vulgar or overly painted, as well as turn her face into a puppet mask. That is why the first rule excludes any bright shades of lipstick, eye shadow or blush, as well as cosmetics with sparkles, a strong shimmer or mother of pearl, they are allowed by other, more informal types of makeup. Business makeup still requires preference for matte and satin shades of natural soft shades, as well as calm tones of lipstick and blush.
It is worth mentioning that these rules are suitable for a daytime business make-up, but for the evening (appropriate, for example, at a business dinner or corporate evening), brighter colors can be used. However, the general rule of restraint also works here.
Secondly, makeup should suit you and make you more beautiful. According to research results, HR specialists are more likely to give preference to those candidates for the prestige and confidence of whom their business makeup, hairstyle and suit work correctly than those who come for an interview without any makeup. Therefore, choose shades suitable for your color type, and do makeup so that it adorns you. This means do not neglect the contouring, select cheekbones correctly, choose the shape of your eyebrows that suits you and so on. Let's talk about this in more detail.
Tone
A smooth, natural and healthy complexion is already half the success. Correctly applied tone will allow you to hide bruises under the eyes, spider veins, blackheads and other rashes on the skin. Correctors and concealers well eliminate point problems. Therefore, start makeup with them. With a concealer, draw triangles under the eyes with an inverted top (so the tool shades without spots) and distribute it evenly with your fingers or brush. You can start applying the foundation.
When choosing a foundation, choose those that have a water base or moisturizing components - the air in the office is always excessively dry, and the skin just needs moisture. In addition, thick greasy creams will dry out on the skin, making all wrinkles even deeper and more noticeable. Also give preference to shades with a pink undertone - in an electric light (and in most offices it is on all day) the face will look fresher.
So, apply foundation on your nose, forehead, cheekbones and chin and blend with a brush or fingers all over your face. Do everything carefully so that there are no spots or streaks. Pay attention to the chin and the border of the face and neck - distribute the tone so that this border has a smooth transition.
Fix the foundation with clear powder. Apply a very small amount with a brush or powder. By the way, in the morning before leaving the house, it is better to use loose powder and apply it with a brush, and put a compact one in a purse to correct makeup in the office.
Eyes
In evening or everyday makeup, the rule of one accent is valid - either bright eyes or lips. Makeup of a business woman does not have such accents. In it, both eyes and lips are made up neutral and natural. For the eyes, it is best to use a brown, gray or blue pencil. They can draw a line along the upper eyelid and shade it a little. Remember that business makeup does not accept arrows, so eyeliner or black kayal will not work. You can add shadows to the pencil, but they should be as natural shades as possible - beige, cream, sand, gray tones are best suited. Apply a few shadows with a small flat brush on the entire moving eyelid and blend, stretching the color to the outer corner of the eye.
Now you can apply mascara. Choose only black or brown and do not take the one that promises a dramatic effect or a huge increase in length and volume. You need natural, well-separated eyelashes that have only added color slightly.
Business eye makeup is ready, the only thing you can add is a little highlighter in the inner corner of the eye and a little under the eyebrow so that the look opens and the color of the eyes becomes brighter.
Eyebrows
They also do not require brightness. Despite the fact that now wide and bright eyebrows are in fashion, more calm shades and soft lines are more appropriate for business makeup. Do not draw a clear eyebrow with a pencil. Better use eyebrow shadows and in the finale, be sure to comb the hairs and fix them with wax.
Points nuances
Many in the office wear glasses. Someone - only sitting at a computer, and someone prefers their lenses for the whole working day. Business makeup for girls with glasses has several special rules. If you have severe shortsightedness, the glasses of the glasses will reduce the eyes, so add some accents with lengthening mascara or shades of coffee or gray, shaded on the moving eyelid and on the outer corner of the eye. But with farsightedness, the effect of the glasses is the opposite, so use light shades of shadows to slightly reduce the eyes.
When you apply makeup, it is natural that the glasses bother you and you do everything without them, but when applying blush, glasses should be worn - only taking into account their location on the face will you correctly place color accents.
Lips
As we noted above - business makeup does not have accents, so bright or dark lipstick is completely inappropriate, as is lipstick with a lot of nacre. The ideal option is a lip gloss without large shimmer particles. It can be pigmented and give the lips a light natural shade - pink, caramel, coral. Or it can be transparent, then its wet finish will give the face a healthy and well-groomed look.
If you prefer lipstick, choose a light and moisturizing natural discreet shades. If you are accustomed to using a lip liner, choose it in the tone of lipstick or in the tone of your lips. Having outlined their shape, blend the pencil to the middle to achieve maximum naturalness. Apply lipstick on top of the pencil.
Finishing touches
When the tone of the face, eyes, eyebrows and lips are perfectly made up, it's time to add a couple of final details to your daily business makeup. This, of course, is blush. Choose pinkish translucent shades and apply them with light movements to the cheekbones from the bottom up (that is, from the nose to the temples) using a soft beveled brush. Blend the blush well so that there are no clear boundaries.
In the final, you can apply a little dry or creamy highlighter on the protruding parts of the cheekbones, on the rib of the nose and a drop in the dimple above the upper lip. It takes quite a bit of radiance in these places to make the whole face fresh and healthy.