Nude Makeup Tips: How to Wear the Nude Trend

using nude makeupNude makeup is trending right now, but it is something that is always in because you cannot go wrong by looking natural. The key is to let your natural beauty shine through while simply accenting it with nude makeup. You will not be adding color, but some dimension to your face. To make this look even better, it is very low maintenance.

Getting the Right Tone

You need to really look at your skin and assess the color. When going for the nude look it is imperative to get a foundation that matches your skin tone exactly. Regardless of your skin tone you want to avoid beige. Go for a true nude that simply helps to even out your skin tone and give you a balanced canvas to work from.

Adding Dimension

This is where choosing the right blush and eyeshadow comes in. A champagne-colored blush with a peachiness in the light is a good choice. This will be neutral, but will give you just enough color to highlight your cheekbones without adding major color.

With your eyeshadow, choose a shimmery champagne color. This will accent your eyes well without adding harsh color. When choosing champagne colors you want to avoid opaque colors because this can be unflattering. You want to avoid this because it can make you look chalky.

Tinted Moisturizer

This is a good way to kill two birds with one stone and if your skin is in good shape you would not even need a foundation. The moisturizer with a little tint would be enough to even out your skin without adding extra makeup to it. If you have regular foundation and regular moisturizer you can mix these together to create a softer, lighter foundation.

Use Primer

You should prime your skin – including your eyelids – so that your much lighter makeup will pop more and give you a nicer glow. This will also help to avoid dark spots and discoloration. Go with a clear primer on your face so that it does not add more color once your foundation it put on. On your eyes you can go with a nude color to help lighten lids in preparation for your eyeshadow.

Lip Color

You do not want your lips to blend in with the rest of your skin, but you do not want a huge pop either. A very light, soft pink that is not shimmery is a good choice. You can also go for a nude, but with pink undertones and a little shimmer. These two options will help to give your lips just a hint of color so that they do not blend into your face.

Highlighting

There are certain areas on your face where you want to add a subtly, shimmery highlight to accent the bone structure of your face. You want to apply this to your cheekbones, brow bone and the center of your nose. Avoid going the full length of your nose and only do the top half to avoid making your nose look larger than it is.

Nude is in!

I can’t believe I did not write about this earlier as I’m such a huge fan of the color nude this year. Anyway, so somehow this color, be it nude makeup, shoes or bags (nude colored clothes wouldn’t be such a great idea, unless of course you’re Snooki) is perfect for every season and every look.

Get the basics right

The first consideration is to get your own perfect shade of ‘nude’. Especially, if you are thinking makeup, the perfect nude colored lipstick, eye shadow and blush would differ according to your skin tone. So, if you are very fair with a hint of pink, a light baby pink color is ideally your shade of nude.

For those with a medium brown to camel colored skin tone, beige colors are more likely to be your perfect nude shade. The trick while searching for a perfect nude shade is to go for the one that looks absolutely natural on you.

Nude Makeup

Pics of people wearing nude makeup

Nude lipsticks can be your everyday look or you can also team them up with dramatic eyes for an evening look. While hunting for a nude lipstick, apply the shade closest to your lip color on the middle part of the lips. If after application, the middle part completely blends in with the rest of your natural lip color, congratulations you have found your perfect shade of nude lipstick.

Same goes for eye shadow and for blushers, pink provides a natural tinted look on fair to medium fair skin tones, while peach gives a more natural look on a tanned face.

Nude Shoes

images of nude shoes on stars

Aren’t these babies downright gorgeous! The versatility of the nude color is such that you can easily wear them with every other color . They also make your legs look longer and give a nice feminine touch. You can go for a plain nude like the one in the picture or opt for pints or sequences embedded on the shoe.
Team it up with your work clothes, a girly frock or a cocktail dress, these are perfect and right for just any look.

Nude Bags

nude purses

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I rarely come across anyone who steps out without a nice big bag, except of course your pockets are deeps enough to store a myriad of essentials ranging from makeup, snacks and even pepper spray. Anyway, sadly not a lot of women try to pay as much attention to a bag as they do to clothes and shoes.

Bags too can add to your overall style quotient and if you manage to get that one perfect bag that screams style and is spacious, go for it! When it comes to nude bags, you can buy one of these with your eyes closed, no don’t shop with your eyes closed, just that you can trust on these to add a touch of class.

You can wear this with casual and formal clothes, just bear in mind that you do not over obsess over the color. I mean dressing up in nude shoes, belts, carrying a nude bag and wearing nude makeup could be just a bit too much of nude.