Minimalistic makeup is one of the most popular trends for these days. Here are some tips for no-makeup makeup look.
“No-makeup makeup” may sound different, but looking like you are not wearing make up is a popular makeup trend nowadays. Just remember the early 2000s. High-contrast contouring, metallic highlighters, smoky eyes and porcelain skin created with the baking technique. As a reaction to this extreme makeup look, “no makeup makeup” trend had appeared. With this trend, you applied such a make up that gives a natural look. While camouflaging your complaints, you make small touches that will underline your beauty.
Step by Step No-Makeup
Natural Canvas
Let’s start with the skin. For no-makeup makeup, skin products are important. First of all, skin should be well moisturized. At this stage, you can also use a makeup base that nourishes and filters the skin to support your moisturizer.
After preparing your skin for makeup, it is time for our base makeup. You shouldn’t use thick foundation and powder. should have a thin texture and thin-medium coverage. If your skin can handle it, opt for products with a dewy-shiny finish. Serum foundations, tinted sunscreens and moisturizers, BB creams, which are care-foundation hybrids, come to mind first. If you have oily skin, you can take a look at skin tints, which are famous for their permanence and thin texture. Meanwhile, do not forget choose your concealer from thin and semi-covering formulas. We don’t want powder, but sometimes it is necessary for oily skin. If you need it, you can take an extra finely milled transparent powder on the tip of a brush and apply a light application by taking the excess on your hand.
Cream Formulas
Cream formulas are a must for no-makeup makeup. We try not to prefer powdered products as they can create a “cakey” result and take away the natural glow of the skin. Therefore, you should choose your blush, bronzer-contour and highlighter from cream and liquid products. The most important point to pay attention to while giving color and shine to the skin is to blend the product well on the skin and avoid sharp lines reminiscent of the 2000s.
Our favorite application for no-makeup makeup is the brontouring technique. Neither as ashy as contouring nor as red as bronzer, this technique is great for an ultra-natural result, where you can both warm and dimension the skin with a tone in between. Make sure to distribute the bronzer well under the cheekbones, temples and slightly on the nose. Blend a blush that matches the skin undertone over the cheekbones and finally apply your highlighter, blending it into the blush for a subtle but subtle glow. Please note that we avoid metallic highlighters which doesn’t like look natural.
Natural Eyes
Have you said goodbye to cat eyes, eyeliner and smokey makeup? With no-makeup makeup, your gaze should not disturb the harmony of the beauty portrait. You can apply nothing, just a light translucent powder or a flesh-colored eyeshadow to prevent lines on the eyelids. If you want to define your gaze a little more, you can use your bronzer or a palette with medium-light earth tones for soft shading. We can increase the dose one more click. You can apply a brown pencil into the base of the upper eyelashes and the base of the eyelashes and distribute it with a thin brush to get a natural, kohl, light smoky makeup.
Nude Lips
For lips, our color palette consists of nude tones. Finding the right nude for your skin undertone and lip color is important. The basic formulas are not too matte and opaque. Semi-transparent textures, satin finish lipsticks, lip balms and glosses are among the options.
You should not choose your lip pencil in contrasting shades, and you should choose a shade that is the same or one shade darker than your lipstick or lip color. You can get a naturally fuller look by lightly spreading a bronzer or shadow-toned pencil outside your lip frame. By the way, you can also apply the overlining technique, which makes the lips look fuller, just outside the lip line, without exaggerating too much. When framing your lips, do not neglect to distribute the pencil towards the inside of the lip so that you can get away from that sharp-lined look. After applying the lip pencil, you can choose one of the transparent lipstick-shine-balm formulas according to your preference.
Last Touches
Skin, looks, lips are done. It’s time for the finishing touches. After finishing your makeup, look at yourself in the mirror. If there is an area that is not well blended and has clear boundaries, touch it up. If you complain of shine, you can refresh your powder with the method we described.
If you have used powder formulas, you can apply a makeup fixing spray or face mist to increase the permanence of your makeup and to ensure that the product sits well on the skin, integrates with the skin and restores the natural texture of the skin.
