EXPRESS TRIBUNE COLUMN 1:
STRUCTURE: The EYE LINE
It is my sincere hope that the column
that you are reading at this very moment is the first page of the last make-up
book that you will ever need to read. Tear out every column and stick it on to
your mirror or simply review online; either way I am going to blow the lid on
every beauty secret out there, making a make-up whizz out of every single one
of you. After 15 years of doing make-up and thousands of faces later I have
loads to share. So here goes!
Understanding your face.
I get loads of people who come in to
the salon wondering if their face will take make-up well. The funny thing is
that all faces look good with make-up, given a proper understanding of
structure and balance. There are just a few tricks with some variations and
varying strengths that are repeated again and again and those tricks work for
just about everyone. As long as you have a skull then you fall within
predictable parameters and make-up will indeed work for you. However looking
past the distractions to the structure beneath is the trick to achieving
accomplished looking make-up.
A) Creating symmetry with the EYE
LINE
EXCERCISE 1:
Good make-up creates symmetry because
symmetry is pleasing to the eye. Just think about the wonders of nature, be
they flowers or butterflies or cats or Monica Belluci. Symmetry is everywhere
and we instinctively find order attractive because we are just plain made that
way.
2)To find the symmetry in your face look at your face in the mirror,
dead straight, looking yourself dead in the eye, with good, even light falling
on your face.
Now imagine you are lining the inside
of your eye with kajal or eye pencil, but instead of stopping where your eye
ends you carry that line on, without changing the angle, till you reach your
hair line. We will refer to this as your EYE-LINE.
Using this EYE LINE as an all
important measuring rod we will repeat this angle up and down your face. It can
be used to trace the correct angle of your blush (and cheek bone contour), used
to create the correct angle as you contour your jawline, even to measure the
correct angles of your eye liner (refer to the eye liner column coming up as
column 3) and so much more. We will cover the use of these angles more
thoroughly ahead but suffice it to say that your eye make-up, blush on and
indeed many more aspects of your make-up will all line up at the same angle
following your EYE LINE, creating beautiful symmetry.