This post is all about how to get a healthy glowy natural makeup look.
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If you are anything like me then you also stand by the idea that less is more when it comes to makeup. Enhancing your features rather than completely altering them is what makes you feel most confident and comfortable in your skin. Creating a more natural look is also popular with the no-makeup makeup or minimalist makeup trend. Below are the best tips on how to achieve a gorgeous natural glow that will have people complimenting how good your skin looks rather than your makeup!
Glowy Natural Makeup Tips
1. Mix Your Base Products
Tap into your inner chemist and start mixing. If you want to achieve an all-over dewy glow, mixing your foundation with a glowy product is the way to go. Take your favorite light to medium coverage foundation or skin tint, mix it with a drop or 2 of liquid highlighter on your hand, and then apply it with a beauty sponge or brush.
This method of doing your first layer of base makeup will add a gorgeous radiance to your skin and provide you with that natural glow you desire. You can even swap out the liquid highlighter for a face oil for a more diffused glow.
2. Underpaint
Underpainting is a fantastic technique to allow your makeup to look seamless. Usually, when most people apply their makeup, they will apply their foundation first and then go in with a contour and blend it out. This mostly does look good, but it can be easy to see the lines exactly where you applied the product if you don’t properly blend it.
Underpainting is when you apply your contour before your foundation and then blend your light to medium coverage foundation on the parts that don’t have contour first and then finish off blending the foundation on top of the contour. This allows for a beautiful soft naturally chiseled look.
3. Apply Skincare
A crucial step to having any makeup look good is making sure your skin looks its best. Making sure you use the right skincare that works for you will ensure that your makeup will also look good because the starting canvas is already in good shape.
To strip it down to the basics, make sure that you wash your skin with a good cleanser, and moisturize with your favorite cream to stay hydrated. Doing this decreases the chances of your makeup creasing or looking dry throughout the day.
4. Use The Right Foundation
To achieve a base that will enhance your natural skin tone, you need to pick the right foundation. Picking the foundation that is going to give you that natural makeup look means that it is going to have to be near-perfect to perfect color match. You want it to look like the foundation is your skin and not the makeup.
A good way to make sure the foundation is a good match is to go into a makeup store and test a swatch of the foundation on your lower cheek and make sure it matches the majority of the skin tones on your face, neck, and chest. You can also have a makeup artist in the store assist with a color match as well.
5. Use Rosey Blushes
When it comes to having your face makeup look like a natural glow, using rosey cream blushes is a gorgeous way to achieve this. Because of the texture of a cream blush, it allows the product to flawlessly blend and meld into your skin giving you a flawless natural finish.
As for the rosy tint or coloring to the blush, it gives the most beautiful natural flush to the cheeks like you’ve been kissed by the sun. If you apply the blush in the areas that you would get pink if you’ve been out in the sun, you will have the ultimate glowing skin.
6. Don’t Apply Product Directly To The Skin
The natural instinct when applying makeup is to apply foundation, blush, contour, or concealer directly to the face. While there is nothing wrong with this method, it can be a recipe for overapplication or harsh lines since you have less control over how much product comes out.
A good way to prevent this is to first dispense the product onto your hand and then apply it little by little on your skin. From there you can build up how much you put on based on preference. This way you don’t overdo it and you can get that gorgeous natural makeup.
7. Use Brown Mascara
The standard mascara shade that most people gravitate towards is black. It’s a no-brainer color and it darkens your lashes to make them pop. However, when we’re going for a no-makeup makeup look or a natural-makeup look, it can look too heavy or harsh.
Instead, using a brown mascara will soften the overall look and compliment your natural eye makeup. Next time you do a natural look, swap out your black mascara for brown and you will see a positive difference!
8. Glossy Lips
The perfect finish to natural glow makeup looks is a non-matte lip. If you apply a matte lip, your overall makeup can look more matte, but to stay in the natural glowy look arena, a glossy lip is the way to go. Take your favorite lip liner that is closest to your natural lip color and line your lips. Afterward, finish it off with a gloss to give that plump juicy look.
9. Go For A Fluffier Brow
For more makeup that is more on the glam side, snatched perfectly shaped brows can go perfectly. However, that’s not always the case with natural-looking makeup. Having a more fluffy brow gives the illusion that you’re not wearing makeup.
Brushing out your natural brows and then using a product that draws tiny hair strokes on your brows will give them a more full appearance. It will give the “my brows but better” look rather than the “I drew my brows on” look.
