Most Helpful Makeup Tips For Hot Summer

During the summer, there is one general rule that I always stick to less is more!  That rule applies to both cosmetic and skin care application. The most appealing summer look is a rejuvenating, fresh, natural and discreet makeup. Summer makeup should not be heavy and is mostly aimed at protecting the skin from exposure to sun rays, avoid excessive sweating, cut out the oily shine and prevent clogging of skin pores that often result in acne and pimples. Put aside the thought of a thick foundation and running mascara, and try out a few tips given below for a ‘fresh as a daisy’ look.

Summer Makeup Looks

The best summer makeup tips are those that enhance your natural skin tone and keep it looking natural. You can get a beautiful summer makeup look with:

• Tinted Moisturizers
• Self-Tanners
• Gel Blush
• Lip Gloss
• Bronzers
• Shimmer Makeup
• Waterproof Mascara

Foundation

Use sheer makeup in summer to let your skin keep humidity blocked in but breathing as well with an SPF factor of 15. The foundation so applied on hot days must be seasonal along a light sun block moisturizer. Skin tone turns darker in summer that’s why makeup foundation for summer must be according to that.  First apply cream or SPF moisturizer over face then use liquid foundation, it assures makeup staying power on face even in hottest days.

Choosing Color in Important

Selecting the right color in summer makeup is the key to success. Whatever color you are going to wear, Just keep in mind that you need to apply makeup in light or pastel shadows. This is the first step to choose makeup color. Remember, stay away from dark shades, they look weird during summers. Whether it is a night time or day time party just remember all the pastel shades will do only.

Eye Makeup

Neutral and lighter shades are perfect for eye makeup in summer. Try to use shimmery and simpler eye shadows on eye lids as such beige, golden, light brown, yellow and silver but give proper touch to eye lashes. Apply lighter coat of mascara on eye lashes during day but little bit thick coat for evening. Use eyeliner pencil of appealing colors as such slate gray, black, chocolate or aqua. It makes your eyes naturally wide and broad.

Eye Shadow

Lighter makeup accentuates a dark tan. The new eye shadows available today give shimmer and glide on smoothly. Combine a lighter creme eye-shadow with light lipstick or lip gloss and you’ll have an instant, updated summer look. For longer lasting makeup, apply pressed powder to your eyelids to soak up any additional oil before you brush on the eye shadow. This will also help set the powder and prevent creasing.

Lipstick

Lipstick is tough to stick on in summer days as it gets faded as the day passes. One of the summermakeup tips is to keep your lipstick intact. Apply a coat of powder on your lips before applying lipstick as it sticks to powder and stays on lips day long. The festive lipstick colors going trendy this summer are frosted pinks, golden lip glows and shimmery fuchsias.

Mascara

Today’s mascara isn’t near as conservative as it was years ago. With brushes, colors and formulas available for just about every situation, your choice today is much easier whether you’re a blonde, brunette or redhead. Summer may be the only time you need waterproof mascara. For exercising or swimming, use the waterproof formula to prevent the dreaded “black eye” syndrome. Even if you don’t anticipate the need, keep some on hand for that impromptu invite to the lake or beach.

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Wild Thing: Spring's New Python Pedicure

The python trend is everywhere this spring and fall. Including my feet. I’m not talking about Marc Jacobs’s chunky wooden platforms with the skinny red straps or YSL’s intensely beautiful shades-of-blue wedges—although they’re on my list. I’m talking about my toes.

Four weeks ago, I rode the elevator up to a suite in a midtown hotel, relaxed into a plush armchair, and left two hours later with subtly shimmering navy serpentine toes. They look strikingly like a clutch I own. Actually, I should wear them together. 
The pedicurist—the talented Terri Silacci, in town from her salon in Monterey, California—didn’t press printed decals or paint her approximation of a python pattern onto my nails. She used actual snakeskin.

The delicate, almost transparent skin, which looks like very finely embossed parchment, was kindly donated by a four-foot-long female python who shimmied out of it one day, the natural shedding process for snakes as they grow. “Talk about renewable resources!” said Silacci as she laid small, textured pieces from the glossy, tubelike swath—meticulously hand-cut to fit the shape and size of each nail—on my toes between a thick layer of instant-drying gel base color (a deep blue called On the Dark Side) and a chip-resisting clear sealant. “Small snakes are usually my favorite. You get a lot more detail per square inch,” she mused, picking up a very fine artist’s brush, dipping it in a small pot of my accent shade (a metallic gray called Golden Silver), and tracing the ridges of the pattern to give “the outline of the snake some color.” Then she sealed me up with another coat of bulletproof clear and scooted my feet under a UV lamp for several minutes.

Silacci was using products from Bio Sculpture, a company founded in South Africa 22 years ago, for which she serves as ambassador/high priestess of the pedicure. Their formulas—which they describe as the “original no-chip” gel nail lacquers—can be applied directly to the natural nail, skipping the toxic primers and bonders that can leave nails damaged, dehydrated, and generally trashed (I speak from experience). The results dry instantly and last up to eight weeks, miraculously resisting all signs of wear-and-tear. Silacci was drawn to the company, whose polishes are distributed in 32 countries and used in many Aveda salons, four years ago by its refreshing safety profile, a rare find in the nail world: “At the time I was breast-feeding my child, and I didn’t want to breathe harsh chemicals,” she says. After attending Bio Sculpture “boot camp” in L.A., she came home a convert. The gels come in 170 shades (their first color, Pillar Box, a classic red, is still the company best seller), and the stiffness of the finish is customizable. There’s the Flexigel option for dancers and runners, explains Silacci, and S-Gel for those who want extra strength.

Though spring’s most stylish pedicure appears to be sent from fashion heaven, plucked straight off the runways, it was not Alber Elbaz of Lanvin (those python-printed dresses!) or Nicolas Ghesquière of Balenciaga (those must-have totes!) from whom Silacci sought her inspiration. She got the idea from her kids, ages four and six. “What happened was my daughter and son went over to our neighbor, who runs a reptile shop in Salinas. He gave them natural sheds [from snakes], and you know how children are: They’re fascinated with something for a minute, and then they toss it. As a mom, you either put it away or make use of it.” She took it to work.

These days, Silacci is running a full-time python-pedi enterprise at the Euphoria Lounge in Monterey. Thanks to her faithful neighbor, she is well supplied with “enough snakeskin to cover the entire city.” She’s been experimenting with gold and silver leaf, too—embellishing her snakeskin toes even further for a lacquered, cloisonné effect—as well as peacock plumes and speckled guinea feathers. For the many nail artists she has begun to train around the country in the art of the snake, she’s also devised a synthetic, embossed version of her python pattern because, she admits, “it’s just not practical for a manicurist to go out looking for snakeskin.”

$300; for salons performing the Bio Sculpture Gel snakeskin pedicur