Whether you choose to go for a matte lip look with liquid lipstick or try a high-shine finish with tinted lip gloss, lip liners help you get a defined lip look. To apply lip liner, follow these lip care and makeup instructions:

Begin by exfoliating. Before applying lipstick, exfoliate your lips to get rid of any dry skin. To remove dead skin, use a soft toothbrush, a drugstore lip scrub, or a homemade version. Exfoliating more frequently than once per week can irritate your skin and dry up your lips.

Pick a lip liner pencil that complements your lipstick color. Use a pencil sharpener to prepare the tip before applying the liner to make sure the lines are thin and precise. Lip lining makes it easier to define where you apply lipstick and keeps it from feathering, resulting in a long-lasting and eye-catching lip look.

Add volume to your lips and contour them. Makeup professionals advise tracing your top lip first and beginning your liner application at your cupid’s bow or the middle of your upper lip. To reach the outside corners, keep working along the natural lip line. Line your bottom lip next after completing your upper lip. Shades of naked lip liner produce a natural shadow that gives the lips depth.

For more definition, combine lip liner with concealer. Utilize this liner trick: The edges of your lips should be covered with concealer. Concealer creates sharp lines that help highlight your bold lips, especially if you use a bold color, and you should apply it after your lipstick and lip liner. Apply concealer around the pigmented areas of your lips after applying lip color to sharply define the border between them and your skin. Clean up the edges.

Lining up your lips is a simple technique to get your lips in gloss from looking just basic to fabulous. Not to mean basic is not good, but why look basic when you could look stunning? When you don’t feel like doing much some days, just correctly apply a neutral shade of lip liner then layer on your appropriate amount of clear lipgloss.

Avoid using lip liners as eyeliners; they contain pigments that are designed for your lip area only, so only line your lips with them.

You are probably a beginner in the makeup world and you’re probably wondering where to start. But first I would like to remind you why you might want to touch up your face using makeup. One, makeup enhances your already beautiful facial features and is not by any means supposed to change your absolute appearance. It also gives out that you made a little bit of effort to look better that day. Two, your facial texture as seen after applying makeup is dependent on how well you take care of your skin underneath and not the makeup itself so it’s okay to still see some texture with a fully made-up face. Lastly, I would like to remind you that you look fantastic with your flaws, with or without makeup and this should not mean hiding. Shine in your flaws, superwoman!

As you start this journey, pay attention to the following 6 products.

1. Foundation

Choosing a foundation that matches your skin tone is one of the first things to do when starting your makeup journey. It is at times a daunting task as your skin color may slightly change depending on the weather changes. However, having a foundation shade that suits your most-of-the-time skin color is a plus. It is also important to note that the quality of the foundation you choose can make or break your makeup look. The foundation should not be too runny for long wear or too thick that it feels like mud on the skin.

2. Mascara

Just mascara on its own can drastically elevate your looks. That made-up look you see in girls that have individual lashes with no makeup, you too could have it with just mascara. Getting a volumizing and lengthening mascara is a good start for you.

3. Eyeshadow Booklet

Eyeshadow palettes can be quite expensive hence hindering you from trying a variety of looks and colors for practice. However, instead of looking for palettes, you could look for a booklet that carries all your desired colors ranging from nudes and pastel colors for everyday looks and bright color ranges for creative looks. Fleur D’Neem cosmetics has a booklet containing 72 colors that would be great for a start. It goes for Kshs. 2500, a win for the benefits, right?

4. Concealer

After applying the foundation, an even base of a solid color is created. This creates an illusion of unnaturalness thus a concealer comes in to fix the bright points of your face. Normally, our faces have different shades on different parts of them. Hence while doing your makeup, it is important to bring your face back to normalcy despite the enhancements. This creates a more appealing look. Finding a concealer that is either your shade or one shade lighter than your shade will definitely do the job.

5. Makeup brushes

Applying your makeup by hand or just beauty blenders can be very messy. Even that aside, the coverage left by applying makeup with a brush is unmatched. Therefore, investing in a good and affordable brush set can deem you ready for a good makeup experience.

6. Powder

You are now done with the makeup application and probably need to set it to last long. A good setting powder can set you up for a long day of makeup wear.

Now that you have all the information required for a start, go forth and be your best self.

Thankfully, a growing number of cosmetic stores have expanded their selection of lipstick hues to accommodate most skin tones. This enables you to wear that pink color you’ve had your eye on with ease. Due to the rich, warm melanin that gives their skin tone, women of color really have the advantage of being able to wear more colors. Isn’t that wonderful?

Below are a few essential lipstick shades for women of color.

The perfect red

You will never go wrong with the perfect red shade of lipstick for you. Red is a universal color, be it a bright red, a deep red, or a berry red, a red lip will have you feeling formidable and strapping. As a woman of color, understanding your under-tone is an essential part of not only nailing your foundation colors but also lip colors. This will always ensure that it’s a shade that absolutely compliments your dark skin well. A bonus tip, some red lipsticks make your teeth brightest white.

Nudes

Women love nudes. On some occasions, you want to look put together without looking like we have done too much, and that’s okay per se. A nude lippie is delicate, understated, and fashionable. Simply use a dark brown lip pencil to outline your lips and your preferred nude lipstick to fill in the rest. Your appearance will be more unified as a result. Fight the urge to sport a bare lip. Thanks to more businesses that offer an array of colors, you can now find the ideal nude lipstick a lot easier.

Deep plum

A deep lipstick look gives gothic vibes and these vibes may sometimes give off ‘baddie’ vibes. A dark, vampy lip color is a need. These colors look well on people with dark skin and don’t make the skin look washed out, especially if you use a plum with a blue undertone. Bring it out for that seductive, sassy look while you’re going out with your girlfriends. An extremely black lipstick color has a seductive quality that also naturally increases one’s confidence.

Brown lippies

Absolutely, dark skin tones look great with brown lipstick. Don’t be hesitant to use a brown lip color because it looks great with stunning, dark skin. Use the chocolate brown tint on your lips if you like to maintain a more understated appearance for workdays. This guarantees that the brown will properly complement your skin tone and undertone.

Bright pink

You might be afraid to attempt a pink lip, but don’t worry; pink lipstick actually looks good on those with darker skin tones. You can investigate every variation of this color, from lightest to darkest. It’s a vibrant and bright color that you need to have in your cosmetic collection.

Now that you’re well fitted out with the know-how, it’s time to get your lips popping!

All influencers had to choose a semi-dramatic or dramatic lash pair and a natural one to close a collab. These choices represent what they stand for when it comes to lashes as a brand. Therefore, this will definitely bring you closer to your favorite influencers. Be sure to check out the influencers’ portal on our website to get a glimpse of what we have in store for you.

The Grown collection was created with aim of collecting the most essential makeup pieces into packages to ease the product bulk. While there is so much that comes with adulting; growth, we figured that your makeup should not be one of the problems.

The collection is composed of three packages containing seven essential makeup products. These are the lip kit, the grown eyeshadow palette, and the blush-highlight set. The lip kit consists of a 2-in-1 lip combo that can be customized to lipgloss and matte lipstick of your choice, our lip liner with two different shades on each end, and a sharpener. This box is designed to cater to all your lip design needs in one.

The Grown Collection Eyeshadow Palette is infused with more matte colors, unlike the Bloom Collection which had a greater part of glitter shades. Since we have a glitter Palette, Chameleon Eyeshadow Palette, we decided to bring the Grown Palette which is made up of more Matte shades than glitter shades. The shades run from different shades of brown to Nude shades, shades of pink and purple as well as different shades of green and blue hues. You also get some orange hues in the Palette. Basically, the Grown Collection Eyeshadow Palette has included different shades within the colour chart to make it very useful for both the bold creatives and simple makeup lovers.

The Blush-Highlight set consists of four shades of both blushes and highlighters, two blush shades and two highlight shades. These shades have withstood the test of time and are our best seller. They complement well with both light and dark-skinned girls. This is an ideal set as it reduces the bulk of buying individual shades of blush and highlight thus reducing the clutter of owning so many products.

I hope you get to appreciate the beauty of this collection, fall in love with the eyeshadow colors, dazzle in the highlight pop, smile through the blush colors, and receive more kisses from the outstanding lip designs you are about to come up with.

Without a single doubt, all these facial shapes are beautiful. We do not understand where the notion of certain face shapes being better than others comes from but as we said earlier, it’s in the eyes of the beholder. In many instances, square and rectangular faces are associated with masculinity but we think it is an absolute flex to have powerful jaws that clearly define your face. In terms of length and width, your face has equal dimensions creating an absolutely gorgeous pop-up of features. Basically when you look in the mirror Street on your face is clearly defined by you’re probably just being in line with your forehead this is the type of a ship that we call the square face.

When it comes to styling these eyebrows, this is the only face shape that requires the same well-defined eyebrows to counter the effect of the well-defined face. Examples of celebrities with square face shapes are Natalie Portman and Olivia Wilde. For this group of people, the goal is to create facial balance by toning down the strong jaw curve definition with a softened, curved eyebrow. This can also be achieved by creating a strong brow look (well-defined) to go hand-in-hand with the strong jaw.

In that context, the best eyebrow shape and style for a square fish is a thick, angular, and well-defined shape which helps to balance the strong jaws and elongate the face.

For clarification on which people are termed to be long-faced, I will simply define which type this is. People with long faces have the length of their faces almost double the width. Their faces could be oblong, long and oval, long and heart-shaped or any other type of shape but the ‘long’ should be constant. Despite having other different ways of styling the different face shapes, today, we will focus on how to deal with their long aspect.

As said and known, celebrities and influencers play a huge role in influencing different trends and what looks exquisite. However, we often tend to forget that what looks good on them might fail to look the same in us. Not because the skill, thing, or idea is not good but is fit for a specific group of people. In this way, it is important to identify influencers or celebrities with the same or almost the same facial features as you. This will make it really easy for you to identify what works for you due to the resemblance. For that matter, below is a short list of celebrities and influencers with long faces that may inspire your eyebrow looks. Liv Tyler, Ashlee-Simpson, Rihanna, Kelly Rowland, our very own Natalie Tewa, and many others.

For this group of ladies with long faces, the goal is to make the face appear a little shorter. I mean, it’s okay if you like your face longer but this is just makeup, we are all about enhancing features. A brow with an elongated tail helps balance out the features of a long face. The aspect of the tail creates an illusion of a wider face to balance out everything. Also, a horizontally straight brow would do great on this face shape because it makes the face appear a little shorter. Remember, It is all about illusion and its horizontal shape accomplishes it.

Kindly comment below on influencers and celebrities you might know with long faces with reference to Fadhil in the image below.

Conclusively, with these few statements, a disclaimer. The best brow shape is that which makes you feel most confident. Put on what you’re comfortable with! This is not a set of unchangeable rules that must be followed. It is just what seems to look better, and looking better is in the eyes of the beholder.

Knowing your face shape is the first key step in the nailing of a perfectly shaped pair of eyebrows. Although there is a standard way of mapping brows, that we will discuss in another blog, your face shape and features should be your first guide. There are many different face shapes that according to everyone’s point of view have different names. Despite the many eyebrow trends available today, ideally, not all these styles suit all face shapes. Therefore, in this blog series, I will break down the eyebrow styles best suited for all the different face shapes. However, for today, I will start off with the round-shaped girlies as if I touch on all face shapes today the blog length would be infinite.

Accentuating your facial features using eyebrows

Eyebrows form the top of your face frame, jaw lines form the bottom part of the frame and the sides are formed between the temples and the jawline. However, with proper eyebrow skills, you can enhance your facial features with brow shaping to accentuate your favorite facial features and generally, depending on how you like it. This process can be achieved in so many known ways, for instance:

1. If you have a short square face, you can make it longer by raising the brows and increasing the length of the arch to make an illusion of a longer face.
2. Lengthening the tails of the eyebrow area makes the brows look wider and the jawline look slimmer in proportion.
3. For those with a wide set of eyes and nose ridge, you can make them close by using close-set brows. This can enhance the appearance of the whole skin space on the forehead.
4. Fuller eyebrows make the face look smaller.
5. Rounded Bros make the face look more round.
6. Softly contoured eyebrows soften an angular face and adding sharper angles makes a round face look shapely.

Eyebrow shapes and styles for a round face

Rounded brows done on rounded faces tend to make the face look rounder. With the main objective of a round-faced person being making her face longer and jaws narrower, this does not do the job. Therefore, a soft lifted arch and extended tail will do to create an illusion of a longer face and a slimmer jawline. Additionally, below are some tips for my round-faced girlies to nail their eyebrows.

Take home tips

A sharp angular eyebrow shape does not compliment a round face. Take note that only the arch should be softly angulated.
Avoid the trendy straight brows on a round face because it makes the face look shorter than it already is.
Pay more attention to brow contours especially soft and lightly covered under the arc to maintain a long look.
Brush the front hairs upwards to add an angular element to the face returning its balance.
Add heights to the act to lengthen the face
Then keep the AC nearer to the center to make the frame appear more oval

Succinctly, with makeup, we aim to enhance looks and not entirely change them. Always follow the natural outline of your brows for starters. See you next time as we talk about the long and oval face girlies. Bis bald!

High definition and crisp eyebrows? You’re in the early ’00s. Very thin and overly plucked? You are looking at the ’90s. This really makes you wonder if we will look back at the currently trending laminated eyebrows in the near future and be like “What the actual hell?”

Looking back, the eyebrow trends have evolved from a very ‘fake’look to as natural as they can get. This evolution has in equal amount been influenced by the trendy no makeup- makeup looks. Therefore, in today’s blog, we will keep you up to date with the new eyebrow trends that you should jump on as soon as possible.

The Straight Brows

We will start off with the least suspected. Have you ever paid attention to some people’s brows and realized they end in the same direction they started? Let me ease this up for you. A fuller eyebrow look with minimal arch and a tail that suddenly thins up dropping at the end in a subtle manner. In most cases, the arch barely exists creating a snatched look for a foxy eye look. This trend has gained so much popularity and if you’re keen enough, it is likely to survive through the next era of eyebrow trends.

The Fluffy Look

This look mostly applies to those with thick or love the illusion of thick brows. It is the less defined voluminous thick and brushed up look. It involves the use of eyebrow gel to thinly fill in your eyebrows to create an illusion of fluffy and voluminous brows. It also involves using a spoolie to blend in the pencil colour with your natural brows to form a more natural look.

Feathery Look

This eyebrow look and be achieved by lamination or using an eyebrow wax. Lamination involves using some sort of ‘relaxer’ designed specifically for your brows for easy manipulation. Lamination works especially for those with kinky eyebrow hairs. In the same context, this look can be achieved using an eyebrow wax to make the eyebrows lie down flat then small and light lines are carved into the brows creating a feathery finish. This is the most popular brow trend at the moment as it is minimalistic, simplified, and has nothing exaggerated to it. It create a clean girl aesthetics that is really pleasing to look at. It entails following a natural blow shape with only slight enhancements.

Coloured Brows

Coloured brows have grown into the next new aesthetics. We have seen celebrities like Doja Cat rocking not only the coloured eyebrows but also over-plucked brows of the ’90s. Also, creatives are growing fond of the coloured brows look as it spits unique and ‘why not’ type of vibe. Sometimes it is good to break rules, I mean, who said you cannot wear red eyebrows? No one eeh? I figured. Anyway, this look involves first outlining your eyebrows with an eyebrow pencil. Using an eyebrow marker of the colour of your choice, go on top of the outline clearly and neatly. Wait for the marker to dry off then wipe of the pencil outline leaving the coloured eyebrow look.

Eyebrow gel

As for what is needed to achieve all these looks a tinted or clear eyebrow gel from Fleurdneem would be an affordable means to start off. Shop here.

Just like skin, lips have undertones. Similarly, in as much as choosing foundations requires knowledge on your undertone, red lipsticks require the same background knowledge. Therefore, not all red colors can compliment anyone. There are dark lips, light, medium, and dark pink lips, light red and purple lips. These different lip colors also have different undertones hence are grouped into two, warm and cool. To find out if your undertone is cool or warm, it is recommended that you check around your wrist. If your veins appear purple in color then you have a cool undertone and if they appear greenish, then your undertone is warm. Disclaimer! This tactic works for people whose wrist color matches that of their face. However, if it does not, it is essential to understand that dark colors are widely associated with cool while light colors are warm. This would mean that dark pinks, dark and purple lip colors are grouped as cool.

When it comes to these two skin undertones, different red lipstick undertones work best. For red lipsticks, they exist in two undertones, orange and blue. Having a good balance of the two can make a perfect red shade. While people with dark lips and skin look exquisitely good in blue under-toned red lipstick, orange under-toned red lipstick ends up looking funky on dark skin unless well underlined with lip liner. Mostly, light-skinned people look good in both blue and orange under toned red lipsticks. Have you ever had a red lipstick on and was too off your skin tone? Yes, now you know the reason why. Honestly, you can never go wrong with a red lipstick.

Red lipsticks have proven to indicate a higher social status, high class, to be specific. The sight of minimal makeup(‘clean girl’ makeup) matched with your perfect shade of red is the best look for days When in doubt on what to have for your eyeshadow, just apply contour on your eyelids and put on your perfect red lipstick.