Formal Makeup

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Formal Makeup - By Debbie Vasen

Properly applied, formal makeup should create a 

natural, but more enhanced version of you.

Formal makeup is a necessity for selected occasions. Some of the best reasons to be sure your makeup application symbolizes a level of formality are:

Job Interviews
First Dinner at your Mother-in-Laws
Funerals
Company Parties
Weddings

These are all times to look elegant, but not too flirty or overdone. You don't have to avoid makeup completely at such events; if formal makeup is applied correctly, you will look like you care about your appearance, but avoid the "trying to hard" impression.
 

Creating a Formal Look

For a true formal makeup technique, your goal is to enhance and define your current look. Formal makeup is evenly applied and balanced. Avoid over emphasizing one area of your face creating a more playful appearance. Ideally, your formal makeup should be sensible and subtle. This will certainly be the time to leave the extras like eyelash extensions and fancy colors at home.
 

Neat and Trim

Start by using your makeup tools to create a neat and trim look. Nicely shaped eyebrows, lined lips, and combed lashes are the important formal details to secure. Use a steady hand when applying makeup for more formal occasions. Even if you normally use your fingers during makeup application, formal makeup calls for more specialized brushes. The lines should be clean with no smudging. Liquid based products create a more formal makeup affect and last longer, like liquid eyeliner or creamy blush.

Along this plan, you will want to avoid sexy and smoky eye looks. Save these techniques for your next hot date instead! Also, make sure that you cover all those imperfections. Dark eye circles and bright red pimples are a sure distraction to producing an elegant beauty front.

Chose your makeup colors wisely, naturally based shades are best. Definitely avoiding flashier items like red lipstick and anything with extra shimmer or glitter. Feel free to apply darker colors, as long as it blends nicely with your own natural coloring. Even though your formal look may be a bit drab, don't shy away from some color. A fresh and alive face will need colorful cheeks and lips. Just keep the shades closer to your own natural skin tones.You will also want your face to look true to the season. Too much bronzer during the dead of winter will certainly look contrived and not as formal. Self tanner and bronzer is better left to those fun parties with your girlfriends. In turn, don't go completely goth either. Although a paler face tends too look formal, too pale can quickly appear ghostly and overdone.

Lip glosses are another item to sidestep with formal makeup. Even if you are younger, stick to matte looks like pale lipstick or lip stains.
 

Ensure your Makeup Stays Put

The last thing you need at any formal event where you need to impress is leaky makeup. The following are some basic tips to ensure the longevity of your formal makeup:

Line your lips to keep lipstick from spreading.
Use an eye makeup primer.

Even if you luckily possess a perfect complexion, use some foundation. It will balance out your face, clean up the canvas, presenting a more formal appearance. Simply choose the type based on your coverage needs: tinted moisturizer, sheer cover, or creamy cover up.

Finish your whole face with an ample supply of powder.