To celebrate Valentine’s Day in style, you surely want to be perfect, whether you have a partner or are going out with your friends that day. Love floats everywhere and you want to shine with your light. You already have the perfect outfit in your closet bought for the occasion, but have you thought about how you are going to put it on you? Makeup is essential on the most special occasions or in celebrations.
Bad makeup can ruin the most glam look, so it is important not to neglect this part of your outfit, much less on a day as special as February 14. But of course, since a daytime celebration is not the same as a nighttime celebration, you should follow some specific makeup tips for Valentine’s Day. Do you want to leave your boy speechless? Take note of these makeup tips!
Makeup tips for Valentine’s Day
Each complexion and each eye color becomes more accustomed to some tones or others in makeup. But if there is a color for Valentine’s Day that never fails, it is light pink. In addition, makeup in this color greatly sweetens the features of the face. So, with this information, do not hesitate to opt for this color if your celebration is going to be for the day. Also, keep in mind the following tips, and you will be perfect!
Make-up for the face
- The first thing you should do is unify your skin with makeup that blends perfectly with your tone. For blemishes and dark circles, use the concealer; You already know one shade less of your base for dark circles and green for reddish blemishes.
- Once you have the face unified, we are going to play with the lights. Choose a slightly higher sun powder and apply it under the cheekbones towards the temples. Then, do the same with a shade of pink blush above the sun powder line that is, tracing a strip from the cheekbone to the temple. Using the same brush, blend both tones until they blend and create a ‘contour’ on your face.
Makeup for your eyes
Forth choose a pale pink tone or a slightly more intense pink tone without reaching fuchsia pink and apply it in the bowl of the mobile eyelid, blending towards the inner part or also called the banana part of the eye. Then apply a white-beige or pale pink shade on the inner area of the eyelid and blend upwards. Finally, with a brush, blend everything and mark the banana area again with pink.
Outline the upper part of the eyelashes with a very fine line flush with them with the help of a pencil or black eyeliner. Then apply the mask. Of course, do not forget to fill in the eyebrows with a specific pencil if you have them a little imperfect or with a bald spot. You already know that eyebrows are essential to boast a look of 10.
What lipstick should you use?
To finish off your makeup, nothing better than a good lipstick that is suitable for the celebration of the day. It is best that you opt for one that is neither too pale nor too fuchsia. It is about finding a tone that blends well with your lips, a current type. You will be perfect!
Highlighter to finish
Finish your perfect with a good powder or liquid highlighter, depending on your taste. You should apply it under the eyebrow, in the lacrimal area, in the heart of the lip, in the area of the nasal septum, and a little on the upper part of the cheekbone. Afterward, you will be ready to enjoy this day in the best possible way.
The ideal Valentine’s makeup for the night
If your Valentine’s Day celebration consists of a dinner or a night plan, your makeup must be intensified. Of course, you must decide whether to enhance the eyes or the lips. Do you have full and well-defined lips? So, don’t hesitate and enhance them in your makeup with a rouge tone in the purest 20s style. Are your eyes and eyelashes your weapon of seduction? So, it is what you should mark more on your face. Be that as it may, you must choose whether to enhance your eyes or lips, you should never wear both very marked because makeup will be too ordinary and loaded.
If you choose to enhance your eyes…
- If in your Valentine’s makeup, you choose to enhance your eyes for your date night, the Goes well with any outfit and looks a plus of mystery.
- The first thing you should do is apply the foundation and concealer to correct and unify your skin. This time, the foundation can be a shade higher than yours, so as not to look too pale at night. Highlight your cheekbones with blush or brown sun powder from the cheekbone to the temple.
- Now choose a shade of grey, brown, or black for your eyes, depending on how dark you want them to look. Apply it all over the mobile eyelid and blend it upwards and outwards, flooding the fixed eyelid with smoke as well.
- Then, take a kohl eyeliner pencil and line it flush with the eyelash, marking upwards and taking out a little corner. Apply special volume mascara. Take the same shadow and apply it with a very fine brush just below the lower eyelash.
- Apply a little more concealer because I’m sure some dust from the shadows falls into the eye socket. Illuminates the area below the eyebrow, as well as the tear duct.
- Finish the makeup with beige or nude lipstick for the lips and, if you want, apply a little blush on the apple of the cheekbone in a peach tone.
If you choose to enhance the lips…
- Redo maroon lips to add a glam touch to any look. Even more so on Valentine’s Day. For makeup with red lips, you should choose a soft shade for the eyes, to leave all the prominence to the lips.
- The first thing, as always, will be to unify the skin with foundation and makeup. We have already said that for the night, you can opt for a base that is a little more raised in your tone. Mark the cheekbones with sun powder from the cheekbone to the temple.
- And now, choose a light brown tone to make the banana of the mobile eyelid and very light beige for the rest of the eye. Blend with a brush and do not forget the areas to illuminate in the eye: under the eyebrow and in the tear duct. Draw a line flush with the eyelash with a black kohl pencil, very fine, just to mark the hairline. Apply mascara with a lengthening effect.
- And now, we go with the lips. Outline the edge of the lips with, the same shade as the lip, and fill in the inside a little with the same pencil. This will make the lipstick last longer. Now paint the inside of these with red lipstick of the same tone. If you want to give it a bit of volume, you can apply gloss or illuminating powder in the center of the lip.
- finish within the apple of the cheekbone. And don’t forget the highlighter on the upper part of the cheekbone and in the area of the nasal septum. You will be perfect and very, very sexy for the night of lovers.