Beauty tips for special occasions

If you're having your hair done professionally - do it before you apply your makeup - as the hairspray might get all over your face, and ruin your hard work.

For the face:
* Don't overdo the concealer and base, depending on your skin tone. You'll look too white/camel coloured in the photos.
* Use a concealer in the inner corners of your eyes - from nose to brow - blend very well. A touch of concealer on top of each brow attracts the photographer's light to your eyes.
* Apply foundation. Follow with translucent powder applied with brush.

For the eyes:
* Prime your eyelids, and pat it into the entire eyelid area - then follow immediately with a white/neutral shade of eye shadow.
* Add slightly more of your darkest eye shadow colour to the crease of your eye - keep opening your eye - it should be practically invisible - but it really opens up your eyes in pictures.
* A powder eye shadow used as an eyeliner with a wet eye shadow brush, or your regular eyeliner with a powder on top keeps the liner from straying.

For the lips:
* Apply some concealer to lips, then blot it.
* Lip liner all over lips - not just outlined - fill in.
* Apply lipstick with brush/ then blot into tissue and repeat.
* Smooth out lip line with liner. A drop of lip gloss at the centre of the bottom lip - looks great in pictures

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