Makeup for fair-skinned girls: makeup artist tips

In this article we will talk about makeup for girls of the Nordic type of appearance. Its representatives have light skin, often pale and translucent, soft and thin, especially susceptible to environmental influences. As a rule, girls of this type have blond hair, eyes, eyebrows and eyelashes.

What shades are most suitable for fair-skinned girls, how to paint a pale face and give it a light tan effect, what is the peculiarity of eye and lip makeup for a Nordic type of appearance - we understand the material together with our regular expert Evgenia Elisova.

Evgenia Elisova , professional Makeup Artist & Stylist, works with such stars as Jamala, Laura Marti, Yasya Minochkina, Yulia Magdych, Mira, Maria Yastremskaya

For fair-skinned girls, a huge plus in their appearance is their delicate facial features, transparent skin and eye color. Firstly, you can “draw” any face with it, no joke. You can make a bright accent on the eyes and lips or use one of the options suggested below. Fair-skinned girls can look innocent, charming, fatal, mysterious or passionate - the client just needs to decide what she wants to be.

Many people say that girls with light eyebrows, eyes, eyelashes and skin “lack brightness” and have an “inexpressive appearance.” I want to convey how multifaceted and deep this appearance is.

Daytime makeup for fair-skinned girls

For pale, light-skinned girls, it is important to evenly place accents in makeup if it is an everyday look. That is, use a natural range of liquid shadows and gray-brown lengthening mascara, and highlight your eyebrows half a tone brighter if they are very light.

The blush and lip area can be highlighted with a 2-in-1 product - usually a light gel-based tint. It is enough to even out the complexion with a loose, light BB cream.

As for the bronzer, in this case, leave this product alone. Use powder with reflective particles one and a half shades darker than the client's or model's skin tone on the prominent parts of the face (forehead, top of the cheekbones, chin, jaw line and side of the neck). This is where all the tanning ends for fair-skinned girls.

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Makeup with an emphasis on lips

Another very beautiful combination for this type of appearance is bright lips, gentle blush and barely made-up eyes. For daytime makeup, be sure to tone your face and do your styling (careless bun, curly hair or polished hair, just straight strands). Remember: bright lips and decorated hair always look elegant and stylish.

If you want to highlight not only your lips, but also your eyes, keep your makeup monochrome and choose transparent but well-pigmented textures.

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What should fair-skinned girls avoid?

It’s worth saying “no” to large sparkles and dense, highly metallic textures in eye makeup, thickly painted eyelashes, bright matte eyebrows two shades darker than the native color, thick and oily lipsticks.