transgender makeup tips

Eye makeup application takes practice. Experiment with it to find what works best for you. Here are tips for applying mascara, eyeliner pencil and powder eye shadow to help you perfect your look.

Applying Mascara
Before applying mascara, consider curling your lashes with a lash curler to open up your eyes. This is helpful to frame the eyes, especially if your lashes are short. To curl eyelashes with a lash curler your should start by squeezing in "steps" from the lash line to about 3/4 of the way toward tips.

Generally mascara is applied in two coats. To apply mascara, place your finger about mid-lid or on your eyebrow and pull up in order to hold your lid taut.

Holding the wand horizontally, sweep on mascara from roots to ends. Apply only to lash tips at first. Roll the wand slightly as you move, wiggle the wand slightly from side to side, along the lashes to distribute mascara evenly.

tgCosemtics volumizing mascara is formulated with rich moisturizers. Allowing lashes to dry between coats thickens the lash while avoiding clumps. Let the mascara dry for a 4-5 minutes. Don't hurry, relax and wait. This point is where the wet mascara can smudge easily and leave messy marks where you don’t want them. Check your work before you begin the second coat, blinking can cause the wet lash ends to leave tiny mascara marks on your lids. Clean with a Q-tip or tgcosmetics disposable applicator as you go, as needed.

Once the first application has dried, apply a second. For thicker lashes, carefully apply mascara to the upper side of the lashes as well. Wait and let it dry before you continue.

Use your tgcosmetics mascara applicator spiral brush or lash comb to give lashes a final brush-through after they’ve dried to remove any clumps and give lashes a more natural look.

If you apply mascara to lower lashes go light. Apply by brushing the lashes with the wand in a vertical position to sweep across lashes or apply gently lash by lash. Adding too much mascara on the lower lashes can be aging to more mature eyes.


Applying eyebrow pencil
Be sure your tgcosmetics eye pencil is sharpened with a cosmetics sharpener, then lightly scribble with it on the back of your hand to dull down the very sharp point and warm the tip. Draw thin lines in the direction your brows grow to define and fill in light areas. Do not draw an outline around brow as this give an unnatural look. tgCosmetics brow and eye pencils have a firmer texture that helps liner stay on longer and causes less breakage when sharpening.

Use a Q-tip or a pointed makeup disposable applicator dipped in makeup remover to gently clean up stray smudges.

Applying Brow Sealer can keep finished brows looking perfect longer.

Applying tgCosmetics Eyeliner/Smudger pencil
The desired effect of an eyeliner pencil is to create the illusion of darkness just above the lashline to enhance the look of the lashes. Gently pull the lid skin taut and start at the inner part of the lid, draw a thin line smoothly and evenly along the upper lid, getting as close to the lashes as possible.

Once you have a line drawn closely to the lashes, the length of your eyelid, use the smudger end of the eyeliner pencil blend the line until there is no edge to soften it. The effect should be an even graduated color that is darker close to the lashes and becomes lighter and disappears as it get higher.

If the tgCosmetics liner gets smudged or uneven in the wrong places, simply take a Q-tip or tgCosmetics pointed makeup applicator with a little makeup remover to clean it up or remove it and start again.

Extend a very thin pencil line as close to the lashline as possible, along the most inner part of the upper lid near the nose. This is a place often forgotten but add an attractive natural definition to the eye.

Usually the upper lids are all you need to line. If you want to line the lower lashes go light as a line too heavy on the lower lashes can give an un-natural, owl-like effect on the eyes.

If you want more definition to the lower lashline but want to achieve a natural look, place a few tiny dots of color close to the lash roots along the lowers lashes, a little heavier toward the out side part of the lash to add more tone there.

Applying tgCosmetics liquid eyeliner
 tgCosmetics Lquid eyeliner achieves a more dramatic emphasis to the eyes. It is best used when more a dramatic, glamour look is desired. The key is to carefully apply it to obtain the look you want. Use the same general application approach to applying liquid eyeliner from the eye pencil application tips above.

 

Applying tgCosmetics Eye Shadow
Generally the classic idea for applying eye shadow to the lids is to maximize the eye shape using up to three eye shades: light, medium and dark.

• Medium tones are generally more neutral base shades
• light is a highlighting shade
• dark is for contouring

For smoother eye shadow application that last longer, apply a thin layer of yellow corrector powder on your lids before applying shadow. (You can find this at the bottom of our More Beauty & Glamour Products Page.)

To apply three shades, medium, dark and light, to the eyes:
First sweep medium-toned shadow lightly all over the lid for a natural appearance. Our tgcosmetics medium eye shadow base tones are: Amaretto, Silver Brown, Antique Gold, Platinum. For dramatic color effects: Khaki Green Eye Dust, Mauve and Tahitian Blue.

For more emphasis, add a darker tone of shadow to define the crease of the eye and the outside edge of the lid. Our darker contouring eye shadow shades come in French Mocha, Terra Cotta, Navajo Brown, Nutmeg and Wine.

With a light tone highlight the brow bone or center of the eye lid. Our light highlighter eye shadow shades come in French Vanilla and Oyster.

To apply two shades, use either medium or dark, and light:
Dust the majority of the eyelid with either the medium shadow shade or "lightly" dust the dark shadow shade. Place the highlighter shade on the center area of the lid and on the brow bone beneath the arch of the brow.

Correcting eyes with tgCosmetics shadow and liner
small eyes: Dust medium shadow on upper lid and crease. Add contour shade to outer 1/3 of the crease. Add highlight just under your brow arch. Line the outer 1/2 of upper lid and extend slightly upward and soften line.
close set eyes: Dust medium shadow over the lid. Apply dark shade to outer 1/3 of crease and blend outward at the outer edge of the eye. Add highlight shadow to brow bone at the eye's outer 1/3. Start 1/2 way accross with liner and and extend line just past the outer corner of the eye.
wide set eyes: Dust medium tone shadow over entire lid. Apply dark shade in crease from midway inward. Blend hollow area from nose to brow. Highlight brow bone at brow arch.
vanishing lids: Dust medium shadow from lash line to brow bone. Apply dark shade just above crease, blend and fade towawrd brow. Highlight brow bone. Line right at the lahsline. Add color on outer 2/3s of upper lid. Curl lashes before applying mascara.
mature eyes (age 50 and over): Dust medium shade over entire lid. Avoid dark shade in crease and do not use highlight unless skin under brow is taut. Line at lash line. Make line thicker toward outer 1/3 of eye. Apply any color liner at lashline. Blend line well into shadow. Emphacize the upper lashes with mascara. Little or nothing on lower lashes. Don't put color over wrinkles, it calls attention to them.

tgCosmetics Eye Shadow Tips:
• When using colors stick to sweeping one shade over the eye rather than several.

• Try using a dark shadow tone as a liner to emphacize the upper lash line by using the thin edge of a disposable applicator to draw a soft line just above the upper lash.

• When apply shadow, begin with the shadow you are applying over most of the eye area first, usually a medium shade.

• Keep the basic principles of light and dark in mind while applying color. Dark color recedes areas, light bring areas forward.

• Applying foundation on lids under eye shadow is not recommended because it can cause creasing and smudging by making the shadow overly moist.

 
   
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