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Much ado about make-up!
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Make-up is worth it if you can remain looking fresh all day long
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A DAB HERE AND THERE Choose the right products and learn the right method of application
Everywhere we turn, exquisitely beautiful, painfully thin women smile at us from well-lit billboards, glossy magazines and newspapers; and they’re all suggesting — some with their luscious, glossy lips, others with their sultry, smoky eye
s — that they are so sexy, so desirable only because they wear this particular crease-resistant eye-shadow and that seductively creamy lipstick.
There is too much advice, too many instructions floating around on why and how to use make-up; there’s way too much being said about ‘miraculous’ cosmetics that will transform every ugly duckling into a beautiful swan.
And what, really, do you think ‘real’ woman do under these extremely umm, shall we say, compelling circumstances?
Right choice
The trick, they say, is to choose the right products, and learning the right method of application; a dab here, a line there goes beyond just camouflage… for make up, when applied well, makes you look spiffy and well-preserved. What they don’t say, however, is that make-up is actually about as complex and as baffling as rocket-science.
No, really; if you’re a make-up virgin, you’ll simply be shocked that the following (mind-boggling) list of brushes (!) are must-haves in every make-up case.
Make-up gyaan
You learn, for instance, that face-paint is not just the preserve of people who need ‘help’ with their looks, or those that routinely face the arc-lights; that make-up is vastly different from a makeover, where every trace of the former person who existed under the name is expertly erased.
Make-up, on the other hand, is just a quick, easy way to highlight your better features, and jazz up the rest.
Did you know that a double-chin can be magically tucked-away if you used a darker foundation over it, or that a fat-nose made to appear a good deal thinner by two lines of the same on either side?
Given that cosmetics currently are at their subtlest — tinted moisturisers, sheer lip-glosses and the like ruling the roost — it’s especially simple to make the world believe that you are naturally gorgeous!
(Another big plus is that you can always convince the make-up ‘experts’ who’re on hand to ‘do’ the bride’s face to go easy on the pancake)
And once you’ve found the right foundation to suit your skin tone and type, and learnt ‘how to create drama using a few strokes with an eye-pencil’, all you need is five minutes every day to stun the world!
APARNA KARTHIKEYAN
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