Summer Makeup Tips – Traditional and Permanent

MAKEUP TIPS FOR SUMMER

 Summer is full of pleasures and we can’t wait to enjoy the sunshine and time outdoors!   I’m sure it is only around the corner and very soon you can enjoy the warmth against your face – but be prepared for melting makeup, smudged brows for those that draw them on, sliding eyeliner and sticky lipstick.   Sorry I hope I haven’t spoilt your dream of a great looking good summer?  You can though do something about it. Read on…….

……..in hot weather, applying your makeup should be as simple and comfy as putting on your favourite pair of jeans and flip-flops, But the heat and humidity are a challenge, so you have to make a few little changes to your routine. The changes are very simple and here are a few but if you really want to have a smudge free none smeared look for Summer then permanent makeup is for you.

1. Primer. Yes the days have gone with caked matted primers.  The beauty market has a great selection of incredibly light primers to help your foundation stay on all day, even in high humidity.  My favourites are Clarins and Smashbox. Apply under foundations for a smooth beautiful finish that provides good coverage all day.
2. Lighten up your foundation texture there is no need for a heavy one in this heat.  Better still choose a tinted moisturiser   Apply a light dusting of power to ensure it lasts the day. I love the new mineral foundations that are around.  Jane Iredale and Fresh Minerals have a fabulous selection of colours and offer a summer natural look.
3. Bronzer apply over the forehead, cheek bones, chin and nose.  Bronzers help make your eyes look brighter and teeth whiter.  Choose one that matches your colouring that gives an authentic healthy glow to your skin.  Clarins duo, Gosh and Clinique have perfect choices for all.
4. For eyeliner that stays put is a difficult one.  There are many that promise but in reality they still slide down your face or disappear into a smudged pander look.  The ideal solution is to have permanent eyeliner applied.  You can choose from a subtle liner placed through the lashes to enhance your eyes.  And will not run or disappear by lunch time!  Alternatively choose a thicker eyeliner to accentuate and create that favourite almond eye look.
5. Eyebrows frame your face and give definition to all your features but if the eyebrow pencil or powder have disappeared with the humidity or occasional summer shower (hopefully not) or by wiping your forehead (as we do without knowing) then permanent eyebrows will offer a permanent solution staying put 24/7 for up to two years. Fantastic news for those with sparse or no brows.
6. Lips need to look good in summer. A heavy lipstick will disappear as soon as you put it on.  There are lip stains on the market but personally I do not like them.  Permanent lip blush will provide you with naturalness to your existing lip shape or add a very delicate lip line to create volume and a sexy pout. Wake up looking fantastic in the morning ready for the day ahead of summer socialising.

So there you have it traditional makeup and permanent makeup creating a beautiful face!

Call Tracy for further tips on 07980578252 or visit www.tracyfensome.co.uk

Beautiful Celebrities: Can Permanent Makeup Help?

We all have our favourite celebrities but which ones have the most beautiful endorsements?

Beauty companies and the constant stream of endorsements seem to believe that Cheryl Cole and David Beckham are the ideal examples of ‘beautiful’ man and woman. But would you agree? Well, the general public certainly seems to if an article in the Daily Mail is to be believed.

Using 100 volunteers to produce an image of an attractive male or female faces and the police e-fit techniques then combined them into one male and female face. These features were then compared too real celebrities and surprise, surprise, Miss Cheryl Cole’s facial proportions were found to be the best match for the perfect female face and David Beckham’s of the male face.

Cheryl Cole has so many of the classic features of beauty – the wide eyes, the narrower than average nose, the small mouth with full lips and the high slim eyebrows.

David Beckham was found to have the perfect nose, eyes and smile. The study, coincided with the release of beauty and the beast on blue-Ray, found a consensus on what constitutes ‘beauty’. Perfect women need a smooth complexion, large eyes, full lips and a narrow nose. Men need a lean face with visible but not protruding cheek bones, a narrow bottom of their nose, deep coloured eyes and a soft small jaw line.

However, the study also found many volunteers did not want any prospective partners to have a perfect face. Many men said that a technically perfect female face looked ‘cold’ and ‘lifeless’. This suggests that what we recognise to be “perfect” beauty is not necessarily the same as what we see as attainable or desirable in a partner.

Personally and professionally many of us strive for perfection in what we do and how we look. Realistically we know we cannot always achieve this, however, enhancing the features we were given with permanent makeup provides many benefits. Confidence building, raising self-esteem to name a few. High definition permanent eyebrows create that anti-ageing effect, permanent eyeliner creates the almond effect to widen the eyes and permanent lip colour adds the refreshed full lip look.

All these procedures can be carried out at my clinics in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes, Hertfordshire, Middlesex and London. Call for a free consultation on 07980 578252.

Eyebrow Shaping Ideas: Celebrity Eyebrows

Get Eyebrow Shaping Ideas From Your Favourite Celebrity Eyebrows!

What Celebrity brows would you like? – Megan Fox?  Jennifer Aniston? Kim Kardashian?

On occasions, I am  asked to work on celebrities that require my permanent makeup skills to enhance their existing brows.  It’s not surprising with all these glamorous eyebrows on celebrities that they are starting to set trends for eyebrow shapes too.  Arched, curved and the high definition brows are the most flattering and age defying to have.

A big thank you to TV and celebrity magazines like OK and Hello, they do a great job in revealing the life’s and beauty tips of so many beautiful celebrities.  This is one of the reasons that it has become common practice every day at my clinic for new clients to ask for celebrity brows!  A celebrity brow is an ambiguous description as every celebrity has different shaped brows!  I would advise that ‘just because a celebrity is your favourite, doesn’t mean you should necessarily choose an eyebrow shape just because they have it unless of course, it would suit your face shape too.’

You may well ask how I figure out what they really need.  Well as a permanent makeup specialist with over 18 years experience in permanent makeup, makeup artistry and beauty I’m competently qualified to just know.  As soon as a client walks into my clinic I can see what will suit them.

If they are set on celebrity brows, I would suggest we look at a celebrity that closely resembles their face structure (round, thin, apple, etc. shaped face). Something that looks amazing on Megan Fox just might not look that wonderful on a woman who looks more like Jennifer Aniston.  To give further assurance, I then draw on brow enhancement so the client can see the perfect brow for them.  Bingo they get the picture!  Then the procedure begins.

So what I have created to help you choose your most favourite celebrity brow that matches with your face shape, a gallery of some of the best celebrity’s eyebrow photos.   If you have plenty brow hair all of these shapes are achievable by using various styling methods like waxing, tweezing and threading.  But more than often, most women have sparse brows, have over plucked brows or hair loss due to medical reasons.  This is where permanent cosmetic makeup can give you back stunning brows that will stay put 24/7, smudge-free with an age defying finish.

I hope you will enjoy this read and ultimately will inspire you to do something with your brows if needed. After all, they are the most important feature on your face. If you don’t believe me take a look at the last two photos in the gallery! Can you afford to be brow less?

Tracy xx

( click on photos for full analysis of brow and face shape )

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Tracy Fensome has monthly permanent makeup clinics, in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire including Milton Keynes, Hertfordshire, London, Oxfordshire and Middlesex.

What makes people beautiful?

As the saying goes, “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. But just what is it that makes a face look beautiful? What are the differences between very attractive and less appealing faces?

For every historical period and every human culture, people have always had their own ideal of beauty. But this ideal has never been constant and is still subject to changes.

In 2002 a research project on ‘facial attractiveness’ was carried out at the universities of Regensburg and Rostock in Germany.  The research created prototypes for unattractive and attractive faces for each sex by using a morphing technique. For example, the prototype for an unattractive face (“unsexy face”) was created by blending together four faces that had previously been rated as very unattractive. The “sexy face” was created by blending together four of the most attractive faces, respectively.

In order to find out the characteristic differences between attractive and unattractive faces, the experiment presented pairs of one “sexy” and one “unsexy” image for both sexes to test subjects. The task was to report which facial features were perceived to be different between the two faces.  The results are as follows:

Characteristic features of the female “sexy face” in comparison to the “unsexy face”:

• Suntanned skin
• Narrower facial shape
• Less fat
• Fuller lips
• Slightly bigger distance of eyes
• Darker, narrower eye brows
• More, longer and darker lashes
• Higher cheek bones
• Narrower nose
• No eye rings
• Thinner lids

Characteristics of the male “Sexy face” in the comparison to the “unsexy face”:

• Browner skin
• Narrower facial shape
• Less fat
• Fuller and more symmetrical lips
• Darker eye brows
• More and darker lashes
• Upper half of the face broader in relation to the lower
• Higher cheek bones
• Prominent lower jaw
• More prominent chin
• No receding brows
• Thinner lids
• No wrinkles between nose and corner of the mouth

Studies like this, in addition to being very interesting,  are the very foundation of what keeps Tracy Fensome at the forefront of permanent cosmetics.  By understanding the concept of beauty, Tracy can offer treatments that many other technicians often fail to visualise.

An even more beautiful you could be just one call away.