Written by Naomi Mannino
Eyes: Emphasize gorgeous eyes
“Say you have thin lips that don’t hold the lipstick well, then opt for bringing out your eyes to keep people’s attention on your inner face and from straying upward to your hairline,” advises Everett. Use these tricks of the trade to highlight the color and shape of your eyes, naturally:
Brown eyes shine with warm, neutral browns; olives; bronzes and tan colors.
Green eyes pop with warm orange and bronze tones.
Cool grays are the perfect backdrop for blue eyes.
Now work the shape:
“Generally when applying eye shadow, use three tones — that’s why shadow is usually packaged that way. Apply the medium tone all over the lid, the darker tone in the outside corner, and the lighter tone on the inside corner,” advises Everett. “If your eyes are too shallow and missing the crease line, in-set and seem hidden or shadowed by the brow bone, wide-set and too far apart, or close-set and too close together, you can change the effect with proper makeup placement.”
- Shallow eyes: Give yourself a darker shade in the missing crease and darken the outside corner.
- In-set eyes: Don’t darken a prominent crease — instead line the lid so eyes don’t recede.
- Wide-set eyes: Darken the inside to draw eyes together a bit.
- Close-set eyes: Use the lighter color on the inside corner to separate eyes and draw attention to center of face
Use your eyebrows if you have them!
If you are not suffering from alopecia universalis or total hair loss from chemotherapy, use your eyebrows to your full advantage, advises Everett. “Your brows are Mother Nature’s way of properly framing your face, and you want to have a nice full frame, so don’t ignore their natural shape … Gone are the days of over-plucking and skinny brows, because natural brows are in. Not everybody has to have a prominent arch. Pay attention to the brow shape you’ve been given and work it minimally from there,” she adds. “When it comes to hair loss issues, the thicker the brow the better because brows draw the attention to the inside of your face.” Everett advises you to just pluck the stray hairs outside of the general shape they’ve been. “Do pay attention to any stray hairs in between brows, because a unibrow is never a point of focus.”
When it comes to applying makeup to detract from a hair loss issue or problem, bring out the best of what have. “But don’t overdo it,” says Everett. “That’s why we don’t over-pluck, use crazy colors and accentuate every facial feature — because you don’t want to look overdone. You just want people to notice you and not your hair loss. That being said, pay attention to your skin — and be sure to protect it from the sun — and pluck any facial hair that might spring up.”
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