Make Up Games Grown Up

The best make up games were the ones we played as kids at sleep over parties. We brought along our Kaboodles and we pulled out any number of make up items to use on each other. Fancy eyeshadows and nice mascara were easy enough to get our hands on. We might have swiped lipsticks from mom and bought some cheap base. It was all very exciting and the most fun we had at times was putting together a fun, fresh face. A big hand held mirror lit us up and made it all great fun.

Now that we’re grown up, we might still have lipsticks stolen from Mom, but we also have lost some of the fun of the make up. We need to get back to that place. It’s simple to find the looks we need everyday and stick with a five-minute-face. But is that what we should be doing? Why not try something totally new and different instead? It’s all part of the adventure.

Make Up Games and Beauty

Make up games are used to make women more beautiful. Does this mean that the women aren’t already beautiful? Of course not. Women are beautiful in any shape or form, but make up games do make it much easier for a woman to enhance her beauty properly. With make up games, a woman is able to draw attention to her best features while playing down the features that aren’t as exciting or that she doesn’t actually like.

Make up games aren’t a way to hide any thing away. Unless it’s a small red mark, concealer isn’t going to actually conceal much of anything. Instead, make up games are a way to let your natural beauty shine through without trying to mask anything. In fact, when you do try too hard, masking your natural beauty is very easy to do – you hide it behind obvious makeup that actually can detract from your look rather than making you look amazingly stylish and attractive.

Make Up Games: An Intro

Make up games are a great way to really get to know your face and what your best looks are. When you play make up games, you’re leaning about colors and shading that is right for your skin texture and your face, while at the same time, you’re trying to figure out how to truly enhance your looks. After all, make up games are all about enhancing your looks. Make up games aren’t a way to cover or conceal things that you don’t like about your face.

When you play make up games, you’re looking for opportunities to find ways to play down the things you don’t like – while not hiding them exactly – while playing up the things you do like. If you have beautiful lips, you might opt for a bright lipstick while using neutrals on the rest of your face. If your eyes are striking, you’ll play those up while setting for a simpler lip color to try and bring balance to your face. Make up games are a great way to enhance your look overall.

Make Up Games for Winter

Once the winter months arrive, you have more options as to your make up games. While the summer months needed glimmer and shimmer and light applications, winter gives you much more in the way of options simply because the days aren’t as bright, the air is cooler and you’re spending less time in the sun. Your first step for make up games in the winter should always be a good moisturizer. Wash your face and put on a good moisturizer. Then you can use a base to even out your skin tone and top that with loose powder.

Brush on a bit of blush for extra color, and don’t be afraid to really add a bit of pink or peach to your cheeks. The winter heater and wind will add some pink to your cheeks and nose, but we can also wind up looking sallow and dull under the lights, so you want to add some life to your face as easily as you can, and that’s with blush. You’ll need some darker eyeshadow and a bit of mascara to finish off your look before you’re suitable for an evening on the town.  

Make Up Games for Goth Girls

Goth girls want to look beautiful, and they can, but they need to choose their makeup wisely. Rather than smearing on the dark eye shadow and lipstick, goth girls should opt for a more attractive look in the classic gothic style. The original gothic style was a period of darkness with polished women of old with fair skin, dark eyes and often dark red lips. The gothics closely resembled vampires in that sense. Indeed, many vampire novels came out about this time.

Lace, flowing locks of hair and sweeping updos were normal for the gothic ladies, so there are definite lessons to be learned from that style. Girls today who have to have a goth style should start with fair skin. Foundation can be used to smooth out a light complexion, but be sure to make your foundation to your skin tone. If your foundation is too light, it will make you sallow and yellow rather than suitably pale. Once your foundation is on, use a bit of eye shadow and perhaps a stroke of eyeliner. A sweep of mascara finishes off the eyes, while a berry red lip gloss is just what you need to make your lips look beautiful.

Removing Make Up Games

Once you have your make up games on your face, you’re ready for action. Go wild and have fun out with your friends for the night, but then when you get home again, you need to take care of your face right away. Even the best make-up is still a presence on your face and that make up can start to cause problems if your skin reacts badly to it. When you get home from your evening out, make it your first stop to wash your face.

Use a heavy soap designed to remove the make-up layers. Heavy doesn’t have to mean harsh, of course, but you do want to be sure all of the make up games is off your face. Next, use a special make up remover to take off the eye make up. Scrubbing at your eyes can be bad for this fragile skin up on the eye area, so gentle remover is best. Finally, when you’re all scrubbed and clean, use a heavy cream or moisturizer as a night cream to help replenish the moisture the washing has removed from your skin. You’ll wake up with smooth, lovely skin just waiting for the day’s adventures in make up applications.  

Make Up Games and Eyes

Your make up games have to be especially delicate around the most sensitive area of the face. The skin around your eyes is by far the thinnest on the face and this makes it the most likely to wrinkle, to stretch, to dry out and to give you trouble. When you’re faced with the trouble of the make up games and your eyes, always start small. You can make bolder choices as you work, but it’s hard to clean off this area again to start over and you don’t want to damage the tissue, so be careful.

Always start your make up games with a dab of moisturizer. Creams designed especially for the eye area are best, but even a daily moisturizer will do. Rub in the cream well before starting on your eye make-up. Use foundation to give you an even working palate and highlighter will bring your eyes forward. A thin line of eyeliner and a light dusting of shadow is neutral before you apply mascara to finish out the eye area.

Make Up Games and Foundation

Foundation is an often overlooked element of make-up. When you apply foundation, you’re giving your skin a chance to even out and you have a wonderful opportunity to hide any imperfections you might have. Foundation is easy to apply and it’s a great way to start your make up games every morning. The trick is finding the right foundation and then applying it appropriately.

Foundation is usually a liquid or a cream making it easy to smooth onto the skin. When you select a foundation, get help if you can to match your skin and remember you’ll need a different foundation for different times of the year if your skin changes tones. When you go to apply the foundation, use a light hand. Blend the foundation on around your forehead and especially at your neck. Once your foundation is place, cement this part of your make up games by dusting over a light coating of powder to hold everything perfectly throughout the day.  

Make Up Games and Facial Products

Your skin can change over time. Your diet and stress level affect your skin tone along with simple signs of aging and sun damage. This means that you’ll need to play some serious make up games to figure out the best products for your skin at a given time. Taking care of your skin means learning more about how to protect your skin from future damage and the best ways to minimize damage that might occur in the future.

Make up games that show you aging over time can be the inspiration you need to find a new cleanser and moisturizer routine. The products you use on your face can help you protect your skin while moisturizing it as well. Moisture is the best way to prevent wrinkles and lines from appearing while your cleaning should be removing the old, dead layers of skin. If your make up games aren’t already including a full face care regime, strongly consider adding something new to your routine to make your beautiful skin last even longer.

Make Up Games and Wrinkles

There will come a time for all of us that our make up games take a hitch. For me this occurred the day I looked into the mirror for the first time and discovered that my face is not as smooth as it once was. In fact it didn’t look smooth at all. I had lines in places I’d never had lines before. I have a few wrinkles and marks at the corners of my eyes and in the middle of my forehead. While it wasn’t enough to make me want to run out and get botox, it was enough to make me think about my current make up games.

I’ve decided that I need to revamp my make up games to accommodate my new skin type. Make up games should project your beauty, and to do this I plan to celebrate my wrinkles as much as possible while preventing more from appearing before their time. Wrinkles are a sign of wisdom and maturity and I’ve got both in spades – or so I tell myself. For my new make up games, I’m going to focus more on playing up my great features and playing down any more unsightly things that come along.

Make Up Games and Winter

As the weather cools down, it’s important to tailor your make up games to the changing weather. Make up games are fun in any weather, but make up games in the winter months are especially nice because you can get away with wearing more make up without looking out of place or over done. The colder winter months mean we’re wearing more on our bodies and on our face making this the best time to actually start playing make up games.

Winter make up games should always start with a layer of lotion to help protect the face from the cold weather and the biting wind. You don’t want dry and chapped skin, so protect your skin as best you can with lotions during the day and heavy creams at night. Your make up should be moisturizing as well to be sure that it doesn’t suck moisture away from your skin, but we wary of oily products if your skin tries to break out at the slightly provocation.

Make Up Games and Changing Routines

I need to change my routine. Right now I wash my face at night, but I think I need to change my soap or change my habits because I’m noticing a lot more acne than I used to have. This might be due to my current make up games, or it might be something that is just a phase I’m going through. I think I’ll start my make up games shake-up by buying a new soap –one that is more deep cleansing and then the accompanying moisturizer.

Once my skin seems to be clearing up, I’ll opt for more make up games that include the natural make up items rather than ones that are questionable with oils, dyes and chemicals. I’m even willing to forgo make up for a while if it helps my skin clear up. I don’t like to wake up with zits – especially since the teen years are well behind me now. Make up games should be enhancing my skin, not causing more break outs.

Make Up Games and Men

I’ve noticed lately, as the media has as well, that more men are playing make up games. The make up games men are playing a bit different than the ones we like, but they are still definitely working within the realm of cosmetics. Young and older men are all starting to sport concealer and powder. They are using toner and bronzer and blush. The men are wearing eyeliner and eye shadow in an effort to look more polished and attractive.

These make up games make sense for men in the spotlight – you need stage make up, after all, but the make up has moved off the stage into the every day and I’m not sure how I feel about that. I love that men feel comfortable enough to wear make up when they want to without worrying about social censorship or opinion, but I guess I’m just old fashioned enough to like to keep make up games for girls only.

Make Up Games and Glasses

I wear glasses a lot of the time because they are easier for me than dealing with contacts on my longer days. My glasses fall under the geek chic category, but they do make it hard sometimes to decide what to do about make up. I don’t want to wear make up sometimes because it feels like the glasses aren’t as suited to me face then, but then make up games should be able to accompany glasses easily, so I feel guilty by not taking the time to put some make up on in the mornings. It does make you think about the best make up games to play when you wear glasses.

The basics of make up games apply to all faces – clean, moisturize and apply a light base. A light coating of powder cuts out shine and gives you a smooth surface to work from. A bit of blush brings your cheeks to life and makes your face appear bright and cheerful. It’s the eyes that have it though – your glasses cover much of your eyes, so you’ll need to ramp up your eye make up games to compensate for this. Wear your eye make up a bit heavier than you would if you weren’t wearing glasses and it should show through just fine.
 

Make Up Games and Fall

Fall is all about a bit of dark sparkle and some earth tones when it comes to make up games. The make up games of spring and summer were light and pretty with pinks and peaches, but now that the cooler weather is settling in, you need to update your make up games with some darker neutrals. Now is the time to play the make up games that were off limits in the hot months – you can now get away with taupe and dark brown eye shadows and plenty of eyeliner and mascara.

The real message of fall is about nature. When looking at your make up games, choose colors that naturally appear in nature. Dark greens, all shades of brown and gray and plenty of deep reds and purples are beautiful in the fall. If you get a picture of a autumnal fairy, you’ll have the right inspiration – pale face, dark eyes ringed with lashes and large berry-stained lips. Your make up games can be light or heavy depending on the time of day and event, but it’s time to embrace the earth and enjoy it’s most beautiful tones.

Make Up Games and Skin Care

Since I don’t play many make up games at the moment, I’m more interested in skin care than anything else. I like to think that I am protecting my skin from the ravages of time so that someday I can pay attention again to what my face actually looks like in make up and perhaps develop a solid make up routine I can live with. Of course, I won’t be able to stop all of the aging process, but I’m hopeful I can make a difference on some level by taking care of my skin.

The extent of my make up games these days range from the proper face wash to the right creams for day and night. Moisture is essential for taking care of your skin, of course, so I have a cream for day time and a cream for nights to help soothe and polish my skin. I wash my face with an exfoliating cleanser to remove the dry and damaged skin. I then apply a day cream that helps to protect the skin from the sun. At night, I wash my face again with a gentle cleanser before applying a heavy night cream to moisturize and help tighten the skin to prevent any real signs of aging as long as possible.

Make Up Games and Colored Eye Shadow

I’ll admit I’m not sure what I think about the new trend of wearing colored eye shadows. I’ve always been all for fun shades on the eyes, but those all ranged within a neutral palette or perhaps a shimmery metallic. Today I’m seeing bold colors on the eyes that match the outfit of the wearer, not just her face or style. As far as make up games go, this is a fun way to experiment with color, but I’m not entirely sure it’s a look I support on anyone over the age of seventeen.

Young girls can get away with brightly colored eye shadow as part of their make up games, but those of us who have to pretend to be adults need to spend a bit of time thinking about overall image and presentation – not just what looks great in a fashion magazine. We’ve all known for a long time that the hottest fashions just aren’t right for all of us. It’s possible to be in style without being seen in the most interesting of the new designs. I, for one, rank this make up game of the bright green, blue and red eye shadows up there with skinny jeans – workable for a very few.

Make Up Games and Strange Eye Shadows

It’s important to have fun when you’re young – I get that. I’m okay with it. But I’m not sure I completely understand the need for some teenage girls to wear two different colors of brightly toned eye shadow every day. Today, one of the girls at school had a combination of hot pink and black eye shadow. The inside of her eyelids were black with a swoop of black shadow down to her tear duct – actually touching her nose, really. The outside of her eye was hot pink, swooping up into a point. The effect was interesting, and it suited her particular style, but it seemed out of place at high school.

Most bold eye shadow and other make up games are best suited for evenings. In the evening you can go rather wild and do just about anything you want to do to make your eyes stand out. After all, it’s dark and you’re likely going somewhere that’s dimly lit. In the bright hallways of the public school system, however, I’m not sure that the strange eye shadow is the right form of make up game to be playing. Did it distract me, not really, but it did keep dragging me away from some other random thoughts. Would I do any crazy eye shadow make up games during the school day? Probably not, but then that could be a sign that I’m just not wild enough.

3 Reasons to Love Make Up games

Make up has a special place in the hearts of most teenage girls. The make up they wear helps them feel more grown-up and in some cases makes them look a bit older than they would otherwise. Of course, a made up face isn’t a substitute for a fully grown body or a mature personality, but it does give you a bit of an edge if you’re trying to look polished and pulled together. Make up games can be bold or subtle, but there are always reasons to love them.

Make up games are easy. Once you learn the basics of applying make up, it’s easy to start trying out some new things and to look for new ways to wear the basics – going from normal to extraordinary in a single afternoon.

Make up games are bonding experiences. If you’re trying to get to know someone, simply do their make up. You’ll be face to face in a special way while you work and you’ll be able to talk about something you both understand.

Make up games are affordable. With the amount of money spent on electronics and other gadgets today, it’s nice to know that you can afford a new face for roughly $20.  

Make Up Games for School

When you’re headed back to school, be sure to spend some time playing make up games. Your goal by playing the make up games is to get a set schedule and routine down for applying your make up during the day. Once you’re trying to get up and ready in the mornings, you don’t want to deal with missing items or trying to figure out what is the best look for school that morning. When you play make up games, you’re able to figure out how quickly you can handle the basics and what exactly those basics are.

You’ll want to pare down your make up games to the basics for school. The school day isn’t the time to get fancy with your make up or try out new complicated routines like wearing fake eyelashes. School isn’t the time for pulling out all the stops. If you want to wear your full face of make up you’ll want to do that when you go out with friends in the evening or if you go to a club or party. Your make up games for school should be a fresh faced look. Not an evening make up look.
 

Make Up Games and Zits

Zits are ugly business. These deep spots hurt way below the surface of the skin, and sometimes you can’t actually see them, but you can certainly feel them. Dealing with zits when you’re playing make up games is important as you don’t ever want to make them worse. Getting those zits covered correctly is a matter of cleanliness and carefulness.

When you’re applying make up during your make up games, start with a good scrubbing. Wash off all the oil and dirt that might be on your face. You don’t want it trapped against the skin with make up. Once your face is clean, apply a light covering of foundation. If you’re struggling with zits, be sure you’re not using an oily foundation. Then dot on a spot of concealer before brushing on powder. Be sure that your concealer is yellow in tint to cancel out any red that might be visible on the zit. The end result is a flawless face, or at least one that looks that way.

Make Up Games and Eyeliner

Eyeliner is tricky business. When you play make up games, it’s not often appropriate to slap on eyeliner. The dark kohl that goes around your eyes with the eyeliner pencil can be hard to work with. And if controlling a pencil is a challenge, the small wand for liquid eyeliner is a nightmare. Not only is eyeliner hard to use, it is also out of place in most day time looks. During the day, your make up should be fresh and natural. It should enhance your natural beauty and be all but invisible to the casual observer.

Of course at night, the rules change and dark smoky eyes start to matter a bit more. This is when you’d use the eyeliner – at night before a big evening out. Putting on eyeliner requires care and precision, and it’s best that you put the eyeliner on your own eyes rather than allowing anyone else put it on you. This is because you can feel the pencil or wand tracing along your eyelid, and you don’t want that pencil slipping too close to your eye.
 

Make Up Games and Your Mom

Why do moms like to interfere in make up games? They seem to have trouble picking out the best way to approach make up games with their teenage or preteen daughters and struggles over make up can be a challenge for the girls of the family to work though. Young girls will develop an interest in make up at some point. They will have time and most of them will have the money to buy the cosmetics they need to play make up games at home. Once they have mastered the art of the make up games at home, they will be ready to take their new look out into the world.

The best way I’ve seen to approach this is to not prevent the makeover and not necessarily help it along either in a big way. Make cosmetics available to young girls who want to play and teach your daughter how to use make up during these play sessions at home. As she grows older, the lessons learned before the doll fashion show will translate into her use as a teenager and then as an adult. By letting her buy her own make up and find her own personal look, you’ll be letting her make a statement about herself that is easy on both of you.

Playing Make Up Games at Home

If you’re curious to see what different looks you can make with make up games, don’t be afraid to experiment at home. Unless they give you an allergic reaction, cheap cosmetics give you a huge assortment of options without spending very much. The large make up kits that seem to spring up around the holidays as gift ideas are another fun way to play with different collections of make up without spending much at all for all the different items you need.

To play the make up games, you’re going to need to change your make up into different styles. Look up techniques and looks in magazines and online to see what looks best and what really works for you personally. Then try to copy the techniques and then enjoy the results. Once you’re finished with a look, take a picture and save it for later. If you take a lot of different pictures of your different looks, you can compare them at the end to see what really looks best.
 

Make Up Games and Lipstick

Lipstick is one of the first make up items that little girls ever get to experiment with. When you put on lipstick it makes you feel more polished and pretty – ready to take on the world with a pretty pink pout. When you play make up games, it is often lipstick that makes a difference in the way the final result looks. You can play make up games at home with your full make up collection. Simply try out different combinations and styles to see what looks good and what makes your personal style even better.

You can also play make up games online by trying out different make up looks on the dolls on the websites. It’s almost amazing how much difference it can make when you change the color of a doll’s lipstick. Start with something light and then try out something a bit bolder. The final result is impressive with each color change. If you’re inspired, you can always head over to your vanity and give your own make up a try to see if the same color scheme works for you, too.

Your Mom and Make Up Games

No mother wants to see her little girls growing up. But girls do grow and as they do, it’s inevitable that they will at least be interested in make up games and want to learn how to use make up correctly. When this happens, some mothers start a series of lesson or tutorials while others seem to buckle down. If you’re lucky enough to have a mother who is willing to teach you all that she knows about how to create a fresh and beautiful face, enjoy yourself and your good luck. The rest of us aren’t always so lucky.

If you’re on the other side of the spectrum with a mother who feels that any age is too young to event think about make up and perhaps has a comment to make about any amount of make up you wear, you’re going to have to tough it out. Get a friend to show you how to put on make up if you haven’t figured it out from videos and shows or head to the local make up counter so that you can have an expert apply it for you as she shows you what to use. Make up can be expensive to buy, so start with a few basics and add elements to your collection as your budget allows.
 

Make Up Games and Eyelashes

Your eyelashes are one of the most fragile area of the body, yet they have an amazing ability to make your eyes truly pop and sparkle. Eyelashes are there for a basic purpose – they protect your eyes from any number of things that might fall into your eye. The tightly packed lashes frame the eye to keep them safe and sound from irritants, but we use that dark lashes to help beautify our face as well.

Mascara highlights our lashes by making them darker and more dramatic. When lashes are highlighted, the eyes on your face stand out making them appear bigger and more appealing. Larger eyes are linked to more attractive faces and making your eyes dramatic is exactly what you’re trying to achieve there. The end result is a set of beautiful eyes framed by dark, lush lashes that may or may not have started out that way. Regardless of whether your beautiful lashes are granted by mother nature, glued on or simply enhanced with a bit of mascara, enjoy them – it’s part of being young and beautiful.

Make Up Games and Pedicures

Not one of the more traditional make up games, but doing nails is something to enhance your natural beauty, just the same way blusher or mascara would. If you think about it in our world of harried and frazzled people, the toes on your feet are likely to get the same amount of attention as any make up you might put on your face.

When you go to play make up games with your toes, don’t be shy. Your toes are one of the few golden opportunities you have to do something substantial with your feet. You can add a bit of toe jewelry, but overall, having a beautiful shimmering shade on your toes is about the best of the make up games you can play in the summer time especially. Glamour on your toes is a nice substitute for glamour on your face, after all, and a pedicure won’t simply be sweated off the way a full face of make up can be. So with the warm weather well underway, head to salon to play make up games with your toes.

Make Up Games and Eyebrow Clean-Up

There’s a difference between getting your eyebrows done and keeping them cleaned up. When you get your brows done, you have them waxed or threaded or plucked into a shape that flatters your face and opens up your eye area. Usually, you only get your brows done every month or so, but that leaves plenty of time for the hairs around your eyebrows to start growing back in. Some women just ignore these hairs and let them grow in slowly knowing they will be attacking them later with the help of some wax at their next appointment.

Others can’t stand the feeling or the look of the stray hairs and they opt to attack them with some tweezers. A good pair of tweezers lets you single out hairs and pluck them one by one. Now, when you’re cleaning up your eyebrows, you’re not shaping them. You shouldn’t be digging into the bulk of your eyebrows with your tweezers. These make up games require you to carefully single out the random hairs that are growing into what was bare skin a week ago. Single one out and carefully tweeze it away. Regular cleaning will give you groomed eyebrows at least between waxing appointment or you may opt to skip the waxings all together.

Make Up Games – Summer Lips

Over the hot summer months, you need to be vigilant about protecting all of your skin, but your lips in particular. These highly sensitive parts of your body can dry out quickly and can become irritated in the sun at times. Your best bets for protecting your lips is to keep them moisturized and look for lip balms with sunscreen. In fact, you don’t really need to put anything on your lips at all outside of a simple coat of lip balm with sunscreen when you’re out during the day – after all, few people wear lipstick to the beach.

Of course, when it’s nighttime you’ll want to dress up those summer lips a bit more. Once the sun is down, you don’t need to worry as much about protecting them from the elements, but you still want to be sure that you’re donning a fashionable lip color for the summer months. Heavy lipsticks and bright reds aren’t as suitable for summer as they are for fall. Instead of lipstick, stick to your light lip glosses in a pretty pink or peach color. The end result is fun and youthful, but the shine and shimmer will definitely make your lips look luscious and easy to kiss.

Make Up Games – Eyeshadows

There is a thing about colored eyeshadows right now. Everyone is wearing bright sherbet colored eyeshadow and it’s fun to see so many bright and fun colors, but it does make you wonder a bit if everyone realizes what looks best on their face. While having neon green eyelids is great fun, it might not be that flattering. It certainly calls attention to the eye, but it probably isn’t as attractive as using more neutral shades.

With that being said, the best time to explore the bright, fun colors available in eyeshadows is while you’re young. You can have fun playing with bright pink and blue eyeshadows in school a lot more easily than you can if you’re out in an office building somewhere. Go wild and crazy trying new things and buying new colors to try out with friends. But while you’re practicing with those bold, fun colors, be sure to learn and practice applying the neutral shades as well should you even find yourself heading to a job interview where purple eyelids might not be your best option for getting the job and impressing the boss.

Make Up Games and Sweat

Unless you’re lucky enough to live in one of those places that’s perfect year-round, you’ll be spending some serious time in the heat this summer. And with heat comes sweat, no matter what we choose to call it. When those pores open up and we start to “glisten” or “perspire”, make up games you’ve spend considerable time constructing can be ruined almost in seconds. To avoid potential ruin, plan your make-up games very carefully in the summer months especially.

Your first step will be to skip any oily foundations. In fact, you can skip anything that’s oily – tubular blushes, foundation, eye make-up. If it’s oily, it will just flow like a fountain off your skin. If you can, skip the foundation all together and opt for a tinted moisturizer. This will give you a healthy glow without being so heavy. Tinted moisturizer can also wash off, though, so look for a waterproof variety. All of your make up games should be water proof to protect yourself from a melting face – this includes your mascara and eye make-up. Keep make up games minimal and opt for powered finishes to stick better to a sweaty face. You’ll look great and hopefully keep the shine under controla s well. 

Make Up Games and Summer Months

I’d like to offer you a challenge for these summer months. I’d like for you to go throughout the entire summer without playing your usual make up games. Sure play the games online and learn new techniques, but enjoy the warmth of the summer sun on your face without covering it with make up and other lotions and potions. While make up has some wonderful virtues, over the summer months, the sun exposure and humidity makes your skin extra oily at times. Why compound that with make up if you can help it?

Not only is there the risk of added break-outs over the summer months thanks to increased sweat and oil, there is also the basic benefit of going without make-up. You’ll look pretty for just being you without all of the glamour. If you’re scared to even think of it, at least leave behind the base and powder. Just a bit of waterproof mascara and lipgloss still leaves your face mostly bare so that the world can see your natural beauty without help from any manmade products.

Make Up Games: Teeth Whitening

It doesn’t fall into the traditional category of make up games, but having your teeth whitened can actually do quite a bit for your overall look. White, bright teeth are a sign of good health and an attractive nature. Getting your teeth whitened is actually pretty straight forward.

Your Dentist – Your dentist can easily whiten your teeth with laser treatments or with a topical gel. You might get a tray to wear at night with the whitening gel. These treatments are more intense than the ones you get over the counter, but can also be expensive.

Pharmacy – The pharmacy has a nice collection of teeth whitening agents available as well. These make up games are over the counter making them cost less and giving you a chance to try them without a prescription. Stickers, gels and patches help to whiten teeth considerably for a reasonable amount at home.

Make Up Games: Sweaty Skin Care

It comes with the heat of summer – that fine glaze of sweat on your face that you have to deal with. Even the loveliest among us deal with a bit of perspiration walking across a black parking lot in the sun or walking down the street in sweltering still weather. But how you deal with that sweat can make all the difference in how you feel and how you look to others.

Antiperspirant – Presumably you’re already wearing deodorant so that you smell fresh and clean even if you’re a bit sweaty, but check your brand to see if it’s actually just a deodorant or if you’re using an antiperspirant as well. Using an antiperspirant actually stops some of the sweat you might experience on a hot day – deodorants don’t.

Oil Free Products – Your sweaty skin is producing a ton of oil already, so you don’t want to smear more oil on your face with certain cosmetics and skin care products. Opt out of oily makeup and find oil control products instead. These will help you look more refreshed and even keep some of that sweat hidden.

Make Up Games and Sunscreen

I haven’t had very good luck finding a moisturizer that also contains sunscreen. The moisturizers I’ve been able to find tend to sweat off easily, especially those that are tinted. I’m not sure why that is, but living in a part of the world where summers have days well over ninety and plenty of humidity, my face stays moist and often a bit clammy all day every day. When I put on moisturizer, I want a type that makes my face feel clean and fresh while also protecting it from the sun.

Getting adequate sun protection can be hard enough if you’re outside as much as I am, which is why I try to work it in with my sunscreen. It doesn’t always work, but it’s always worth a try to apply the sunscreen through the moisturizer so that I don’t forget to put on sunscreen later when I’m outside for an extended period of time and so that I have protection for the shorter periods of time that I’m outside without applying a full sunscreen application.

Make Up Games and Night Cream

It’ likely you have a face cream to wear during the day. Hopefully it has plenty of sunscreen and oil-free moisturizers, but do you have the special night creams? Having the proper night cream can give you a huge advantage when it comes to protecting your face from damage and the visible signs of aging. Night creams aren’t often cheap, but the price you pay is directly tied to the benefits you can get from the right cream.

At night after a full day of make-up, use a cold cream to remove the make-up and wash your face. Then, on the clean face, apply a night cream designed to moisturize and improve the quality of your skin. The night cream is likely going to be heavy on your face and it might even feel a bit greasy. This is the rich moisture in the cream that will help to nourish your skin deeply while you sleep. Apply the night cream according to the instructions on the container and drink plenty of water. In the morning you’ll wake up with skin just a bit smoother and a bit softer than it was the day before.

Make Up Games: Give Your Skin a Break!

Do you wear your make up all day, every day? If you do, you might be making it a bit tough on your face. Your face has especially delicate skin, especially around the eyes. Slathering on make up every day can cause break-outs and irritation if you’re not using the right type for your skin. But on a more primitive level, having something on your face every day of the week starts to feel old. You get used to having it there and you forget what it feels like when your skin is free to just breathe.

Make up can make us look wonderful, but you can look great without it, too. Play some basic make up games to see how little make up you can get away with and still look pulled together. Do you need sixteen make up items every morning? Perhaps just five will do. And best of all, as soon as you know you’re done for the day and just hanging out at home, take the make up off and just let your skin breathe again.

Make Up Games and the Beach

I’m aware that it’s not especially clever to wear make up to the beach where you’ll really just be focusing on swimming and playing around with friends, but as we all know, there are boys at the beach and it’s important to look our best while we’re there. So, it’s great to throw on a bit of make up before you head to the beach to be sure you’re looking great and still able to play the way you want to.

Skip any foundation or powder. Your sweat underneath this coating of make up will feel gross and might make you break out. Use a tinted sunscreen on your face instead to protect you from the sun and to give you a bit of color. Look for one that’s waterproof if you can find one, but if you have to choose, opt for the waterproof sunscreen over the moisturizer. Then apply a lip balm with some sunscreen in it to protect the sensitive skin there. Your final step is a swipe of waterproof mascara for your eyes. Now you look a bit more pulled together but can splish and splash without worry.

Make Up Games and Little Girls

Little girls love make up games. Personally, I find it fun to watch little girls getting made up as part of a game. I don’t agree with it as part of a young girl’s life – there is far too much time for that sort of thing as the girls get older. But at the salon parties so popular with young girls, getting make up done is great fun for everyone.

When you apply make up to a little girl’s face, you’ll absolutely want to go very light on everything. Young girls don’t need base because their skin is already so smooth and blended. Instead, dust on a bit of powder and spend some time on eyes and mouth. Make her eyes really pop with some glittered eye shadow and maybe even some false eyelashes if she can sit still long enough for you to apply them. Then add some mascara and perhaps a bit of pencil liner. The little girl will be adorable and you’ll have fun putting on that last bit of pink lip gloss for a big smile.

Make Up Games: Too Much Is Too Much

Too much of some things is never enough – too much money or beauty doesn’t seem to really hurt anyone, but too much make up can. When you wear too much make up, your natural beauty can’t shine though and you run the risk of looking a bit caked on. If you have skin trouble, wearing heavy make up can make the problem much worse rather than better. It might comfort you to wear a very heavy layer of base over acne on your face, but you’re not really hiding the acne as much as making it much worse – it’s far better to play up other features on your face and let the acne fade into the background.

Caking on make up has other potentially harmful side effects as well. When you put on layers up layers of make up you run a very real risk of looking like a “painted lady.” If you’re not familiar with the concept, painted ladies tend to come out in the evening and stay out all night. Their paint was heavy make up used to enhance their features. This is the key to quality make up. Your make up should be highlighting your natural features – not overpowering them.

Make Up Games and Aging

It seems that as you age, it’s more important than ever to play make up games. The make up games are part of a beauty regime that most women adhere to as they grow older. The make up they wear is part of a mask used to enhance natural beauty and to play down the less attractive features. After wearing make up for years, it’s hard to move on from what you know and to try new looks and new products, but that’s the exact sort of make up games you should be playing as your face changes with age.

The mature face doesn’t have the same skin tone as the young face and the consistency of the skin is a bit different as well. Getting the right levels of moistures and products for the face can be a challenge in itself and a dermatologist can offer some suggestions on good choices when it comes to finding products that promote healthy, radiant skin without clogging pores or causing more break-outs.

Make Up Games for Blank Faces

If you’re like me, you know a lot about wearing make-up but choose not to. Okay, I know there aren’t many people like me, but that’s okay. I used to wear make up all day every day, but the make up games I loved then just seemed to not be especially important to me anymore once I reached a certain point. Of course, I do have the blessing of smooth, blemish-free skin, so wearing make up isn’t absolutely essential for me, but I wouldn’t mind enhancing my look with a bit of make up every now and again, but just can’t get in the groove again.

I’m hoping that by playing some serious rounds of make up games, I’m able to get back into the feeling of the make up and want to start putting some on my face every morning before work. Of course, if I can’t seem to work up the energy or effort for that, at least I know that I still look okay enough to get away with it for now, but I wonder how long that will last as my skin ages and looses a bit of my fresh-faced appeal.

Makeup Games and Natural Products

New evidence is emerging that suggests the chemicals that can be found in make-ups, fragrances and nail polishes might be causing more harm than good. These products can actually be quite dangerous in large quantities that build up in your system over time. The best thing to do if you’re not willing to go without make up games, which most of us are not, is to find organic and natural products that are made without the chemicals present in many of the other make up products.

There are many companies that create make up products using only natural ingredients and without using the preservatives that other companies use. Of course, using a natural product might be considerably more expensive than the inexpensive knock-off brands that most of us like to grab from the stores, but it’s well worth it if the expensive brand is keeping us from ingesting chemicals of all kinds. The number of chemicals in the world today is increasing dramatically and it’s important to realize that we need to protect ourselves and our skin from the chemicals out there.  

Makeup Games and Mascara

Of all the items in makeup games, mascara is most often cited as the item someone just can’t live without. This is especially true if you have light eyelashes. Mascara does an amazing job defining the eye and making it pop in your facial features by outlining in the darker hue and lengthening your eyelashes. The eyelashes are one of the most subtle features on your face, but can have the most dramatic impact thanks to the dark power of mascara.

That being said, mascara can be abused if it’s not used correctly. When applying mascara, opt for a color that is natural for you. If you have very fair eyelashes, a black mascara is much too dark. Browns are more subtle. When applying the mascara, start at the root of the eyelashes and wiggle the wand slowly through your eyelashes to separate them and to coat each one with the mascara. You can apply mascara perhaps twice on each eye before it gets overwhelming and looks to be a bit heavy-handed. Most importantly, remember that mascara gets old and can go bad. Throw out your tube after six months or a year and replace it with another one. This keeps all kinds of yucky things from getting near your sensitive eye area.

Make Up Games for Under-Eye Circles

Tired? Even if you’re not you might still have unsightly under-eye circles. When faced with these huge dark rings under your eyes, you’ll want to take advantage of your make up games to make them go away.

Start by using a concealer that’s one shade lighter than your skin tone. A concealer too light will make your eyes look like reversed raccoon eyes. Dab the concealer from the corner of the eye out to the tip. Use the tip of your finger to blend it into your skin naturally. Next, apply your base over the concealer and your face, ensuring you’re doing a good job smoothing it over.

Finally, use a highlighter on your cheekbones just under your eyes. A bit of bright shine on your cheeks will make your eyes shine. A dab of highlighter at the corner of your eye can make your eyes shine as well. Avoid putting mascara on the bottom of your eyelashes as this can make the eye look heavy and dark again. Use a light application on the top lashes only and be sure to curl them first.

Make Up Games for a Big Red Zit

It’s happened to all of us and if it hasn’t happened to you, we don’t want to know about it. You wake up in the morning and there on your forehead is a gigantic red zit. Fortunately there are make up games you can use to get that zit off the red radar and into hiding. Covering a zit takes more than a bit of concealer, however.

Clean your face well to remove any oils and dirt that might have accumulated over night. If you’re just staying in, you might let the zit “air dry” for as long as you can since the make up can cause additional problem. Don’t pop the zit, but start with a yellow-based concealer. Put a tiny dot of the yellowed concealer on the red zit and then pat it gently to spread the concealer over it. The yellow helps to neutralize the red so be sure you cover the full red area.

Next, apply your foundation over your face, but skip the concealed zit. When it comes time for powder, however, be sure to apply it to the zit and then brush away the excess. You certainly don’t want powder clinging to the zit like a shelf.

Lips and Make Up Games

Your lips are used more heavily than any other area of your face, although you could make a good argument for your eyes. Yet the lips aren’t always treated as importantly as they deserve. Your lips take a beating throughout the day as they weather the weather and dry out in overheated classrooms. They get the brunt of the sun and are chewed on as you think of the next quiz answer. Rather than abusing your lips, why not start pampering them?

To get lovely lips, you’ll want to start with proper moisturizer. Lips should be kept moist throughout the day, but be careful. Most of the time, your lips can produce enough moisture on their own. By using additional moisture, you might create perpetual dry lips as they begin to rely on the alternative form. Exfoliate your lips using sugar, special facial cleaners or just a brisk rub on the towel as you dry off. Then apply a bit of Vaseline or cream to the lips overnight. You’ll wake up with beautiful, soft lips ready to kiss or just to smile at guys who rank as kissable.
 

Make Up Game and Eyes

The skin around your eyes is some of the most delicate skin on your face. Applying makeup and creams to your eye area requires a careful hand and a delicate choice in products. Heavy products can irritate this sensitive area and the wrong touch can be rather painful. When selecting products for the eye area, look for those that are designed specifically for this thin skin. A quick look at the box of most make up products will tell you to avoid the eye area.

If you’re picking up a new moisturizer, check to be sure it’s safe for the eyes. To be on the safe side, grab a special eye cream. Not only will it help keep that area looking great, you might be able to prevent aging signs as some of the first wrinkles appear in the eye area. Always use gentle strokes to apply eye makeup to avoid scratches or irritation on your eyelids. And most importantly, use a gentle make-up remover to get the make up off around your eye area. Harsh soaps and chemicals can dry out the skin in this area very quickly and should be avoided.

Boys and Make Up Games

Lately, I’ve noticed quite a few more boys applying make up than I used to. It probably has more to do with my noticing it than with the number of boys who’ve been wearing it. After all, the Eighties had more than a few celebs in full faces of make up. But looking around, I’ve wondered if those boys out there who are wearing make up might benefit from a few make up games.

When you apply make up, you need to do so in a careful way to make it appear as natural as possible. After all, make up is designed to enhance your natural beauty, not mask it. But when a boy is wearing eye liner or more, he seems to have missed the memo on natural. Perhaps, that’s his purpose – to call attention to his face, but you never really know.

I know of one individual who wears a full face of make up including base. Unfortunately, his skin is very broken out and red with acne. It makes me cringe to see him wipe the base over those blemishes as they are likely getting worse with the chemicals on top. Hopefully at least the make up games taught him that certain make ups will make acne worse.