Makeup mistakes: secrets and life hacks to help fix them

Your hand trembles, your model moves, or perhaps your skills need improving—mistakes happen, and you need to be able to deal with them. It is unlikely that you will have time to completely remove your makeup and do it again if the girl has an event planned, and after that she has another client booked. That is why it is important to correctly correct mistakes with the help of life hacks and secrets that professional makeup artists know. We’ll talk about them today with our expert Katerina Kutuzova.

Katerina Kutuzova , a professional makeup artist with 10 years of experience, has more than 40 training diplomas, Kiev makeup champion, winner of the Ukrainian Championship. She has been teaching makeup for more than six years; for the last two years she has been adhering to the position of conscious makeup and high-quality choice of cosmetics.

Excess of tone or powder on the face

The makeup is already ready, but you notice an excess of tone or powder on your face. If you don’t have time to wash off your makeup, here are a few life hacks that will help you fix this mistake:
1. Take a clean sponge, wet it thoroughly, squeeze it out and, using trampling movements, lightly walk over those places on your face where you have overdone it with tone or powder.
2. Spray thermal water at a distance of 10-20 cm. Let it absorb, then you can spray again.
3. Apply a little face serum to your palms, rub well and briefly apply your hands to areas of the skin where there is too much tone or powder. Estée Lauder Advanced Night Repair Synchronized Recovery Complex II serum works very well.
4. Take a clean fluffy brush and use gentle movements to blend out the foundation or powder.

Uneven lip contour

You can always correct uneven lip contours with the help of these life hacks:

1. Take the concealer and run it along the contour of your lips, blending the edges a little with your finger. It is most convenient in this case to use a product with a brush.

2. If you don’t have concealer on hand, take a flat brush, lightly moisten it in foundation and also go over the contour.

3. To get the fashionable effect of kissed lips, you need to take a cotton swab and lightly walk along the contour, shading the edges. This way you will correct the contour and get a trendy result.

Uneven arrows

If you did your eye makeup and at the very end you noticed that the arrows turned out to be unequal or uneven, then:

1. Take a small brush or cotton swab and blend the arrow until it is completely dry.

2. Take shadows in the color of the arrows (optionally, black) and walk along the lines, shading them and creating a softer effect.

3. If the tail of the wing on one eye is lower than on the other, take concealer and a thin brush and draw a line from below in one motion, simultaneously cleaning the desired area and leveling the height. Then use shadows, if any, and only then draw the arrow again.

4. If the arrow is uneven at the top, use the shadows that you applied to the eyelid and apply it directly to the arrow. After this, re-draw the line.

5. Shiny shadows or highlighter applied to the eyelid will also help to slightly hide the unevenness of the eyeliner.