To Wear Makeup Effectively, Know What Is In Your Make-Up

It is always helpful knowing more about the makeup you wear often. It helps avoid those with harmful ingredients. We list below some of them

To Wear Makeup Effectively, Know What Is In Your Make-Up

The Makeup Ingredients

You may want to know not just how it looks on you but also what’s in it if you wear makeup. It is important that all make-up you buy should have listed the ingredients.

To be approved for use near the eye by the FDA should be the colour additives that give make-up colour. As it may cause lead poisoning, the dark colour additive kohl is not allowed in the US. You have to make sure the make-up does not, therefore, have kohl in it. The word kohl is OK in case it is in the name of the product or has been used to describe the colour or shade.

Here’s what the labels really mean if you are worried about animal safety. It is still possible that the ingredients may have been tested on animals in the past even if a product says cruelty-free. The fact is that they may not just be testing now. To find out about its testing methods, you can contact the cosmetic company or check its website.

A product that is less likely to cause an allergic reaction is the meaning of Hypoallergenic. Therefore no guarantee comes as you won’t still have one. It is still possible that you may be allergic to the ingredients even if it says all-natural or organic. For products that are dermatologist tested, the same is true. 

Taught to Share? With Mascara, Sharing Can Be Dangerous.

For germs to make their way into your mascara and other make-up, it is easy. So here do not share with other people your mascara. You will be swapping germs and making infection more likely if you do. 

To dried out mascara, never add water or your own saliva. Here you add more germs while doing so. After 3 months, it is best to throw away mascara. 

Before you go to bed at night, make sure you remove your mascara. Causing an infection, mascara flakes can fall into your eyes while you sleep. 

Cars and Make-Up Don't Mix

While you are driving or are a passenger, never put eye make-up on. This is because there is a possibility that your hand may slip and cause the wand, eye shadow brush, or the tweezers to scratch your eye or in case infects it with germs. 

Longing for Lashes of a Certain Colour? Dyes Are Not the Way to Go.

As it can cause blindness, don’t use hair dye on your eyebrows and eyelashes. Approved and safe to use are the colours used for mascara and eyebrow pencils. For tinting or colouring eyebrows and eyelashes, there are no hair dyes that are approved by the FDA. 

The Makeup of Makeup: Decoding Eyeliner

Have you wondered what is in the eyeliner that you bought recently? The following is what you need to know along with how to apply it correctly: 

More than 5000 years ago women first wore eyeliner in the Bronze Age.

To make their mark, stylish ladies used kohl which is a lead-based mixture. In the short term, the toxic metal may have helped kill bacteria and fend off diseases. They would have likely developed cataracts from the lead-based liner if the ancients had longer life spans. 

Now, what do we know about the eyeliner we use today? About the makeup you put around your eyes, here are the answers to some of the questions you may have pondered. 

Eyeliner Ingredients

Cosmetic chemist Nick Morante, president of Nick Morante Cosmetic Consulting in Holbrook, N.Y., says, whether you use a pencil, liquid, or cream, eyeliners come with the same basic kinds of ingredients like film formers, thickeners, and pigments. 

Depositing a thin layer on your skin is film formers. Helping stabilise the formula so it will stick to your lids are thickeners such as waxes, natural gums, and clays. Including iron oxides to create blacks, and browns, ultramarine for blue, chromium oxide for green, and titanium dioxide for white are pigments. 

Eyeliners: What Works Best?

Liquid liners can be the easiest to handle and can create a clean line contrary to popular belief. As they can be smudged for a smoky look or applied in heavy dramatic line creams and gels that require a brush and are also fairly goof-proof. More likely to smear, pencils tend to be waxier than other liners. For a natural effect, they can also be easier to work into the lash line. 

Applying Eyeliner

Apply a layer of concealer or an eye shadow base before applying the liner to prevent unintentional smearing. It is important that waiting about 30 seconds just before opening your eyes, and this will help limit any transfer of pigment into them after you line your lids. Over the line then dust a light layer of translucent powder. 

James Boehmer, international lead makeup stylist for NARS Cosmetics takes a liner lesson by the following: 

Before mascara, always apply liner after eye shadow. In small dashes, apply it as close to the lashes as possible. All at once, you don’t need to draw a complete long line. 

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