More Tips and Tricks

* Spray your e/s brush with MAC Fix+ to dampen the brush and pick up your shadow. Applied damp (also called foiling) gives the color an amazing texture and opaque finish. Once it dries down you can pack on dry color to layer or smoke out the crease. Super look. Great colors to try.. Sushi Flower and Trax.

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* MAC Studio Finish Concealer is a must for some people for the coverage, but for others, it's too thick.
1. Take MAC StrobeLiquid Moisturizer and apply a thin layer over your face, don't rub it in.
2. Using a foundation brush, pick up a nice amount of concealer and apply over your face, concentrating under and over eye, over nose and any wear that needs extra coverage.
3. Mixing with the Strobe, the Studio Finish still gives great coverage, but is more malleable. The Strobe highlights your skin and your face will glow.

8/2/08
Conserve your $$ foundation. Whatever is left on your foundation brush or palette can be stored in a ziploc bag that zips close. Throw everything in the bag, seal it, and it's perfect for use the next day!!

After washing and drying your delicate nylon angle brushes, the last thing you want is for the bristles to spread out and loose that crisp line that lets you line the lid with precision. Wash your brushes and leave them damp. Pinch the brush closed with a hair pin and let them dry overnight. By morning, they will be like new!

8/18
MAC Bare Canvas is the one and only eye base you need. Painterly, Bare Study, Constructivist.....all of 'em.....Gorgeous but with Bare Canvas, you do precisely that. You start the lid clean, even and crease free, ready for any shadow colors. When downsizing your kit, this is a "one and only" that will do it all.

8/24
Perfectly lined lips, symetrical and pouty are always in. Use a corrector/concealer to "erase" the border and draw your line in, bringing it 3/4 of the way on the lip to avoid the sharp demarcation. Fill it in!!