Your Fresh Makeup Routine for Spring – Guide
Spring is the perfect time to assess your makeup routine. It’s the time to swap heavy winter face creams for more lightweight formulas. Spring also presents an opportunity to break out of your ruts and be re-inspired. Now’s the time to clear out your makeup bag and throw out expired products and those you never use. It’s time to give your look a dose of freshness with some spring colors.
Give your eyes some spring flair
When spring blossoms are breaking out, they can inspire you to add some colorful accents to your eyelids. It’s time to move away from the smoky eye and try out some pretty peaches, pastels and every shade in between. Experiment with some shimmering purple on your lids that you can apply to your lower lash line too. Create highlights on the inner corners of your eyes with brighter eye shadow.
It’s also time to ditch the black eyeliner and get playful with colored eyeliner. Lining your waterline with a white pencil will also be a trend in the coming months. Gently fill in your brows, adding fullness where needed rather than going for densely drawn on brows with razor-sharp lines.
Lilac St, Lashify and Lankiz offer easy at home lash extensions that will help you to own your spring look. You can apply them in less than 10 minutes for up to a week of flawlessly natural wear.
Create a fresh, dewy complexion
Spring calls for a fresh, dewy complexion. Start with a good exfoliation to slough off winter layers and reveal the glowing skin hiding underneath. Warmer weather means you need lighter products and just a hint of coverage – a tinted moisturizer or sunscreen with SPF.
Using a tinted moisturizer and a mineral powder foundation allows your skin to breathe and means your makeup will stay put for longer in the warmer weather. Many people are choosing to do away with full-coverage foundations in favor of more skin-focused formulas. Multi-tasking formulas provide lightweight coverage and offer benefits to the skin.
A liquid highlighter will bounce the light off your skin. A small amount of your brow bone, tip of the nose and Cupid’s bow will give you that beautiful look of glowing from within. A pretty pink blush shade will add the perfect spring flush to your cheeks. Just swirl a little on the apples of your cheeks. Romantic hues like pink and nude help to create the “no-makeup makeup look” that is still so popular. In the opposite direction, dramatic embellishments, like pearls and gems on the eyes and face, are another trend.
Apply lipstick in subtle colors
With the emphasis on your eyes, you can choose a more delicate, subtle color for your lips. Put aside the berry hues of winter and go for a soft rose which can be very flattering. Fill the entire lip with a liner for longer wear. Lip liners are coming back with a sheer lip tint or lip gloss on top.
You are likely to see this look everywhere this spring. Sheer tints give the appearance of bigger lips. Ultra-glossy lips are another trend. Whether you opt for a nude lip or want a bit more color, juicy, hydrated, glass-looking lips, both looks are popular this spring.
Spring blossom your nails
Colors like pink, apricot or coral are perfect for bringing out the lightness of spring, and your nails will match the rest of your makeup. You can embrace spring in many ways by going for cherry blossoms, vintage floral, delicate daisies or other flower designs on your nails. Pale pinks will always be popular, but you may want to try out something a little different for a change. You can even create a whole transparent flower garden on your nails or go for muted marble pastels. Abstract florals also scream spring.
Conclusion
There is no right or wrong spring makeup look. It’s all about what makes you feel best. Don’t be afraid to use new eye shadow colors and try out new trends like colored eye pencils. It’s the perfect time to experiment a little and refresh your look. It will make you feel ready to go out and enjoy the spring weather with a new skip in your step.