How to Choose Your Makeup With Care

How to select the makeup product? Several points need to be considered here - your skin type and colour, your personality, the occasion, and last but not the least, the cost - all of these would influence the selection of your cosmetic products.

Your skin is the most important factor which should influence the selection of your cosmetics - the two aspects which need to be considered are: The skin type and the skin colour. Select cosmetics which suit your skin type, for instance never purchase a cosmetic for oily skin if your skin type is dry because that would certainly be inviting trouble. Similarly, donot use cosmetics designed for dry skin if your skin type is oily.

The second aspect of choosing make-up is the harmony of colours. Colour harmony brings everything together, giving a well coordinated and agreeable effect. Any make-up you use should enhance your natural colouration, and not suppress it. The colour of your make-up should blend with the colour of your skin, your eyes and your hair.

There are two basic colour harmonies in make-up

1. The bluish harmony or the cold tones.

2. The gold harmony or warm tones.

Study the tones of your face thoroughly. Your face may have several colour tones-identify them and utilise the best colour harmony. Most of us in India have the gold harmony-yellow, beige, orange and brown tones with, perhaps, a tinge of green. People with the bluish harmony have blue, mauve, pink, reddish-blue and grey tones in their skin. Use only colours which complement your natural skin colour.

Another thing to remember is that not everyone can carry off heavy make-up. It is definitely better to look simply made-up, rather than grotesquely plastered. Also, your dress must suit your make-up and be just right for the occasion.

Why are some cosmetics so very expensive? Although cosmetics are fonnulated from the same basic ingredients, the manufacturer does, sometimes, make a few additions and Alterations- oils, for example, may be obtained from very inexpensive sources or may have terrifically esoteric origins. This single factor can rocket the price of the cosmetic, although, there is no proof to suggest that the expensive oils are in any way superior in performance to the cheaper ones.

Perfumes can also dramatically affect the cost of the product. Expensive perfumes will inflate the price of a cosmetic, without really improving its performance in any way. As a matter of fact, perfumes are a frequent cause of allergic reactions.

The addition of some other exotic substances can also hike up the price. Packaging and advertising greatly influence the cost of the product. The amount of scientific and technical expertise that has gone behind the product can greatly escalate the price. Finally, the brand name greatly influences the amount of money you are going to pay for the product.