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What A Surprise! The Perfect Stepping Stone (Even For Beginners) To Learn Flawless Skin Makeup

What A Surprise! The Perfect Stepping Stone (Even For Beginners) To Learn Flawless Skin Makeup

Beauty Cosmetics Makeup Tips
By christinelai on 26 Sep 2018

Learn how to apply full face makeup with this method by breaking products and steps down into 'pixels' for precise application. Here goes!

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Youtuber/ Melissa Samways Photo from Youtuber/ Melissa Samways

The Perfect Guide For Full Face Makeup
Like pixels, they serve as small building blocks to help you locate where exactly to contour, put your blush, highlight your face and lay your foundation.

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This 'dotting' makeup can be rather time-consuming. See it as a stepping stone to learn how to apply a professional full face makeup. After you master this, you can confidently skip steps and do it your way with better precision.

After dotting the makeup, blend it out with a beauty blender, a brush or even just using your finger. Finish off with loose powder and there you have it, a flawless skin with good contour.

You can master the following with this method~

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Colour Correcting
With a cotton bud and colour-correcting palette, this Youtuber dab dab dab away on key spots to correct any discolouration before blending it out for the smooth perfect skin finish.

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A Quick Summary Of Colour-Correcting
Purple= For Brightening (Areas that are dull/dark)
Peach/Orange= Under Eyes/Dark Circles/Moles
Green= Cover Pimples & Blemishes

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Blend it outwards starting from the middle of your face (or the sides of your nose) to completion.

Contouring
For those who just can't seem to get contouring right, perhaps this 'dotting method' can help you to see details better so you don't end up looking weird with bad contour everywhere.

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Blush
You can also apply blusher this way. Dot your contour, foundation, colour corrector and blusher altogether at once. Starting blending from the lightest colour and work your way around.

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Most Vloggers, they choose beauty blender as their blending medium.

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This dotting makeup technique is perfect for beginners and amateur makeup lovers. Will you try this makeup method? Comment here and let us know what you think and what would you like to know!

Text By: Girlstyle SG