#BASIC MAKEUP LIST FOR BEGINNERS SKIN#
It has that slight shimmer which looks great on the younger set, For deeper skin tones, check out Maybelline Expert Wear Eyeshadow Quads in Sunlit Bronze. This one doesn’t crease or travel around the lids. Maybelline Expert Wear Eyeshadow in Tastefully Taupe fits the bill. This works well for lighter skin tones, and for deeper skin tones it reads as a lovely, sublte shimmer. I thought a slightly shimmery taupe satisfy the need for shadow without looking too obvious. Remembering what a disaster that had been for me, I didn’t bring my daughter with me to look for shadows. So yes, eyeshadow was next on the list of her “must haves”. SHIMMERY NEUTRALS ARE A GREAT STARTING POINT
So mascara and lip gloss were my starting line up, and did just fine for a while….until……she felt ready to take things up a notch. Yes, the Benefit lip balm is rather spendy, but it’s such lovely color that I have one for myself which I love to keep in my handbag, especially during the summer months! Here is a closer look at these colors for an idea of shade and sheerness.Also keep in mind that Maybelline’s Baby Lips do come in other shades that look beautiful on deeper skin tones, Our winners in this category are NYX Cosmetics Butter Lip Gloss Creme Brulee, or for options that are more sheer my favorites are also Maybelline Baby Lips in Pink Quartz, and Benefit POSIEBALM Lip Tint This is probably the area where the options are vast and quite fun. Nobody wants a tween/teen girl with loudly colored “look at me!” lips, am I right? I preferred she stay away from an actual lipstick that might have too much color pay off, so a sheer pinkish/nude color was what I thought most appropriate for pale skin tones such as hers. My daughter uses the damp cotton pad with olive oil method I wrote about here. Plus, it wears really well.īONUS, it’s a cinch to take off too!.
The brush on this one concentrates on bringing out the lashes, without that spidery effect, This one is almost impossible to over do. The winner in this category is CoverGirl Lashexact Mascara. That seemed to satisfy the initial interest in makeup, and my daughter was quite happy For a while.Īs far a mascara with color, we got a subtle, natural look by moving on to a brown/black color, which isn’t as stark as a true black. The clear mascara gave her lashes a little “oomph” and darkened them ever so slightly. Now, my first recommendation is to start with clear mascara like Maybelline Great Lash Clear Mascara and clear, flavored lip balm. Nor did I want anything too amplifying or anything with the word “extreme” in it! Especially on my daughter whose skin tone is quite fair, along with blonde hair. I wasn’t terribly crazy about the jet black mascara look. Since I’ve heard that sharing makeup, especially mascara, can invite contamination, I wanted her to have her own. So the first item that I looked for was mascara. Which I think is all the more important now since this tween makeup thing is still in it’s experimental stage! I’ve found that many drugstore products offer great quality without the investment. But as I’m sure a lot of you already know…expensive does NOT equal better. It’s tempting to want to go high end, thinking that they’ll yield the best visual results. My top consideration was how much money was I willing to invest in this adventure. With these embarrassing memories still fresh in my head, I decided that I am going to take as much control over my daughter’s new frontier as possible. The result was over applied EVERYTHING! Heavy purple eye shadow, eyeliner that came in only one color (black) and tragically mismatched foundation. It’s a runaway train that picks up speed at an alarming rate.ĭespite the initial shock, I also admit that this has the potential to be fun! I’ve always loved makeup, but boy oh boy, when I first started wearing it, it was a disaster! My mom always took a minimalistic approach to cosmetics, so I didn’t get much coaching or advice on application. Before you know it they’ve moved on to eye shadow and a self imposed need to cover every perceived complexion flaw with concealer. It’s a little hard to see your daughter go from “child” to “teen” with one sweep of a mascara wand. Now, to me this seemed like another version of “dress up”. It has now come time to look into finding the best starter makeup for tweens. For real this time! Not the “let’s dress up and pretend” kind of makeup, but the actual LEAVE THE HOUSE wearing it kind of thing. It seems impossible to me that my sweet baby girl, who not long ago was playing princess dress up, is now interested in wearing makeup.
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