What colour make suits you?

[Chrissy64_uk]

Make-up advice for fair skin

Colour to adopt
Pink. This colour provides fair skin with radiance.

Colours to avoid
Golden, silvery, coppery or metallic tones, especially during the day.

Expert advice
Always choose a foundation that's the same colour as your complexion (no darker and no paler), else you could end up with obvious make-up lines. The aim of foundation after all is to produce a natural, second skin to even out your skin tone and hide any flaws.
If you want a sunkissed effect, go for bronzing powder, illuminator or blusher.

Your ideal palette
Pink, golden, beige, peach.


Make-up advice for pale skin and red-heads

Colours to adopt
Apricot, salmon-pink and warm colours in general.

Colour to avoid
Pink as it clashes a bit.

Expert advice
Red-heads generally have pale skin, sometimes featuring freckles. Use shades of beige or golden beige to add light to both your complexion and hair.
As for make-up, avoid combining colours, instead stick with harmonious tones and variations of earth colours (brick-red, orange, apricot, maroon, brown, etc).

Your ideal palette
Peach, apricot, copper, golden, coral, red...

Make-up advice for dark skin

Colours to adopt
Pink, sun-kissed shades, metallic textures, copper, bronze or gold tones which all bring light to dark skin.

Colour to avoid
Matte orange as it's not very prominent on dark skin.

Expert advice
Apricot works wonders for dark skin, especially when loaded with illuminating, pearlescent particles.

Your ideal palette
Copper, coral, dark brown, red,
burgundy, bronze…

[Clare Aston]

Ta for palette ideas, chrissy, but sometimes, i'm afraid of getting stuck in the 'pink' rut and would like a little daily 'drama' on this mature physog - suggestions?

Clare x

[Chrissy64_uk]

Hi Clare

I take it that your fair skined.

Chrissy

[Clare Aston]

Fair skinned with a pronounced tendency to dryness and blotchy patches - you can have a glance next time we're at the Ren - which i think may be the French night!

Ta!

[Bea]

Chrissy I am fair skinned and find that pink or light blue clothes suit me.they are my favourite colours anyway,but i am never sure what colour makeup to use,especially eyes. Bea

[Petra Susan]

Hello

I was also stuck in the pink rut, especially with eyeshadow, and realized that it was barely noticable that I was actually wearing any. So I went to make up counters in Boots, my tg freindly girls on the counter, (I know them all by name now). No. 7 were have 3 for 2 offer so I bought 3 different palettes of stay perfect eye shadow. A Gold to Copper, Pink to Purple & Blue to Grey, to cover all eventuallities.

But I love the coppery gold shades, forget that you not ment to wear, and you wear what you like. I think the colours make my bluish eyes stand out a bit better and draw attention to the eyes and take it away from my beard shadowed chin and lip.

I don't like the blue palette when I tried it at home, although it looked nice in the shop.

For foundation I have gone through every brand virtually settled on No 7. Stay Perfect Blonde as a good colour match. If I can ever get to the MAC counter in Manchester, will give them a try as they are ment to be the best.

Don't use a blusher or bronzer, perhaps should to help define the contours of my face better.

Lips vary from nude to bright red, same with the nails, although I'm in my heather phase at the moment, as my garden is covered in the lilac/purple colour of the flowers.

Look forward to seeing you Claire at french night.

Janine

[Clare Aston]

will try to have something different on the peepies for French night!