Perfecting the Dewy Look

Who doesn't like the glossy and dewy effect of make-up? It's as if the actual age is cut off by a number of years! The matte effect on skin is especially suitable for those with oily skin as extra gloss may ruin their appearance. 

For many years now, women have been on a quest to look youthful and fresh, while in the world of beauty there are many procedures and night creams to help us on this undertaking. The easiest way to achieve youthfulness is probably by applying makeup in the proper way.

Now, how do we put on makeup properly so that it helps us to look fresh, young and ever youthful? Here's a step by step guide.

The Base: Prepare your skin first by washing it with a good quality cleanser and then moisturising it with a suitable cream. Wait for 10 minutes and then apply a high quality primer. The primer is a godsend product that can turn even the dullest skin into a face shining like the stars. It helps cover the wrinkles and fine lines and also helps in keeping intact the makeup. After the prep, with the primer is complete, apply a suitable foundation that matches the skin colour. The trick here is to mix a bit of skin illuminator to the foundation before applying it on the face. The skin illuminator will help reflect light onto the skin making it look luminescent and gorgeously dewy.

The Shades on the Eye: The golden shadow looks tremendously well with dark brown eyes. Since most Asian women have brown eyes, this colour should be a permanent favourite. Glossy shadows or cream based shadows can be applied that give out a metallic shimmer and cover the natural crease. There is another trick over here; it is to highlight the brow bone with a metallic colour preferably beige. A liner is not a must as glossy eye shades alone can complete the look for the dewy makeup. But if you are a hard-core fan of eye-liners, you may follow with wing-tip eyeliner and then coat it with mascara.

Lip full of colours: Here, experiments can be made regarding different shades. If your lips are on the voluptuous side, darker shades of glossy lip colours would look lovely like poppy reds, crimson etc. For thinner lips, glossy lipsticks in nude, plum, peach look wonderful. At the end of it all whatever lip colour is chosen it must be coordinated with the colour of the outfit worn. If the glossy makeup is meant for a grand occasion like the wedding of a close one, a tad bit of gold dust can be added to the middle of the lips. This addition will cause that extra bit of sheen.

The Rouge: This is one of the most important parts of the makeup steps, which needs to be religiously followed to get the ultimate glossy, dewy look. Ladies with fair skin tone need to apply cream blush in the shades of pink, peach, and rose. Olive skinned ladies should apply orange, yellow cream blushes to look ravishingly beautiful. An additional tip to perfect the look is to apply liquid highlighter to illuminate the high points of the face like the bridge of the nose, the forehead, the cheekbones etc.

Viola! You now have the complete glossy makeup look. One note that must be taken into account is that 'the dewy look' is definitely NOT meant for all seasons but for the less humid, winter and fall seasons.

Model: Sondha
Photo: Sazzad Ibne Sayed
Make-up: Farzana Shakil's Makeover Salon