Makeup for Different Complexions
IF YOU HAVE A RUDDY COMPLEXION
The best way to describe this kind of skin is skin that always seems to be excited; it’s a pink blush but it can also be a little splotchy. The ruddiness usually appears at the tip of the nose, the chin, the cheeks and the forehead. What you need to remember about this type of skin is that you want to even out the color, but you don’t want to lose that wonderful glow- just subdue it a bit. So use a soft beige foundation with a touch of green in it (I don’t mean a touch of green food coloring but an essence of green that compliments the other colors in your skin). You can also use the under- foundation primer that is made to even out the tones in your skin. Above all, be proud of this look- it is a friendly, radiating glow that needs only to be evened out, not erased.
IF YOU HAVE A SALLOW COMPLEXION
Sallow is a skin tone with a yellow cast to it. What you may want to do is add some color to it, but you don’t want to create a color for your face that is different from your body. So the foundation used for sallow skin must be subtle, yet effective. Use a cream with a touch of peach or a light touch of pink.
IF YOU HAVE AN OLIVE COMPLEXION
This is a combination sallow and tan-looking skin. All you need to do is use a foundation that matches your skin with a touch of rose in it.
IF YOU HAVE ORIENTAL SKIN
Oriental skin is usually sallow with strong yellow tones. A foundation With pink in it is most flattering.
IF YOU HAVE BLACK SKIN
Foundation for black skin should have some orange or red in it to give the skin a healthy glow. There are now several lines of cosmetics for black skin that contain these complimentary colors (check with your local department store). Generally black skin is attractive with many of the same colors as yellow or brown skin. And the principles are the same-be subtle, blend, moisturize, and develop a routine that best accentuates your features and minimizes your faults.
IF YOU HAVE MATURE SKIN
The most common mistake mature women make is to put on more makeup, figuring that heavier coverage will make them look better. Wrong! Older skin needs much more moisturizing plus a creamy emulsion-makeup that has more body to it and more pigment, with opaque but not mask like coverage. The worst sight is an attractive, older woman with so much makeup on that she accentuates the lines and the other aging characteristics of her skin- however minimal they may be. In this case, less is definitely more. You don’t want to put on your regular makeup in a thicker manner, because all you will get is an increased definition of the lines on your face. Wear a makeup that has more body to it, one that you will use in the same amount as you always did, but one that will now give you the added coverage you need.