How to Apply Makeup

Today, I’m going to teach you how to do prom make-up.

When doing prom make-up, highlighting of the lips is important after applying the foundation and blush. Also, we are going to intensify the eyes.

With prom make up, rather with any other time with make-up, we will add some sparkles. We want to add more color too. You want to pick up the color of your dress and into your eyes. Make your eye-makeup fun and make it pop with sparkles.

For the eyes, we’ve done the basic eyes with a dark eye shadow and eyeliner, under and over your eyes. For a dark purple dress, we will apply a copper color on the lid and plum color on the crease.

So with a very small tight brush, draw a line with the eyeshadow in deep purple. Put your eyeshadow on intensely and go over the eyeliner. Use a much darker liner than you usually use during the day.

When you’re doing your eyes for prom, use mascara that has sparkles in it too. Use your regular mascara first, and then apply a light coating of the sparkles mascara on the top and bottom lashes.

We’re going to go ahead and put some glitters. What’s prom without a little glitter?

We will use a dark glitter with some purples and greens that match our purple dress.

Now, take a brush and put some underneath the eyes. Be careful not to put any in your eyes, that wouldn’t feel good.

Take a Q-tip and dab the sparkles some more to bring some attention into your eyes.
Pick other spots in your face too but don’t apply it all over. If you want to highlight you cheekbones, apply some there.

Now for the blush, use a light pink blush. Remember with prom, you want your make up to stay on. So we will use a setting powder.

Use a setting powder to set everything in. Then use a fat brush with gold highlights and apply it over the face on top of the foundation.

You can use any color though, just make sure it shimmers.

For prom make-up, we’re going to do a real neutral lip. So for that we only apply a neutral gloss.

With prom make up you don’t need a whole lot of different lipstick; you don’t want to carry all of that with you to reapply.

Just get a nice gloss that you’re comfortable with that gives you a lot of shine. This will pick up the shine on your eyes as well.

So there you have it, you have a nice matte finish with sparkles in the eyes and lips and the really intense eyes.

Have a great prom!