With African American skin, there are so many tones that your skin comes in,  until various methods are taught when it comes to applying makeup .

One of the most effective ways to lift your skin tone is to stay clear of pale ashy colors such as light pink, peach or taupe, especially if you’re fortunate to have darker skin.

Suppose you’re on the lighter side of the spectrum? These colors would then work better for you.

But if you’re on the darker side of the spectrum, you’ll opt for caramels or soft browns, gold’s, deep greens or purples, especially around your eyes.

Your lips will be able to carry a much more richer and dramatic shade.

The darker your skin tone, usually the darker the color you can wear on your lips. So berries and wine colors such as burgundy’s and deep reds are colors that often show better on your beautiful black skin.

How To Wear Blush on Dark Skin Tones

You don’t want to have something that’s so obvious until it looks like you’ve got this giant dot on your cheeks.

We’re also in an era of time where blush is not always used. Because it takes a certain patience in blending and applying to the cheek area, most women ought not to use a blush.

Why not? Because they end up looking a lot of times like clowns. Actually they look like they’ve got dots on their cheeks and they haven’t mastered blending that foundation in.

What Would Be The Essentials In Your Makeup Bag?

You’ve got a few things that might be a necessity. Have you ever noticed the makeup bags of your friends, or yours for that matter?

It becomes such a part of who you are and you’ve got to be a makeup wearer in order to understand what this reference is all about.

There are women whose makeup bag includes a lipstick, a lip-gloss, chap stick and that’s it.

And there are other women whose makeup bag includes a foundation, blush, applicator, face shadow, mascara, eyeliner as well as the other simplicities.

So you can see that depending on who you are and your involvement with makeup, that your bag becomes one that’s different in nature in what you have inside, from someone else.

Take A Professional Make Up Class.

When working with or wearing makeup, don’t be afraid to take a class on how to apply or choose makeup, especially when it comes to African American skin.

Learn how to work with undertones or skin tones. These are things you want to know, so that you’ll be better able to choose the right shade and color of product for your skin tone.

One of the other things you’ll learn in taking a class will be how to work with the shape of your face. Is it oval, round or heart shaped?

Then you’ll want to look at the shape of your eyes. Are they deep-set, close set or narrow and small? Or are they wide set eyes?

Having an idea and command of the language and what it means to reference these points on your face will be a great asset for you when it comes to wearing and applying makeup.

In such a class taught by a professional makeup artist, you’ll be able to understand what your face is all about. You’ll also learn how to enhance your face when it comes to applying makeup.

Finally …

In your natural state, what the mirror reflects back to you is who you are. Makeup allows you to enhance the shape of the face you’ve been given from birth.

So when you want to put on a professional mask, so to speak, if you know the shape of your face and eyes, the width of your brow and nose and you know the components of your face, this is when you’re able to create a mask that doesn’t look like a mask.

You’re simply enhancing the beauty you were born with.

Dedicated To Your Beauty!

Juliette Samuel

Author/Esthetician/Publisher

Nyraju Skin Care