Buyers Guide - Makeup
Make-up is an essential part of every woman’s beauty arsenal. With the ability to enhance facial features and even change the way you look, you can use it to your benefit. What’s more, make-up is not limited to powder compacts and lipsticks. There’s a staggering variety of products for each one of your needs.
Foundation gives the appearance of smoother, more blemish-free skin. It comes in different colours and finishes to suit your skin tone and preference.
A compact gives you ready-to-apply powder–usually pressed–to apply on the face.
A blusher gives colour to the cheeks and usually comes in shades of pink.
A bronzer bronzes the skin to give it a sun-kissed glow.
Typically used after applying foundation, concealer hides spots and blemishes that foundation may not be able to effectively cover. It also comes in different shades.
For those occasions when you’re looking to add more drama to your look, shimmer and glitter can help. Just dab a hint to your eyes, cheeks or lips.
No matter whether you use only eye shadows or foundation, you need make-up brushes for precise applications. They come in various sizes for different purposes.
A primer is used to help foundation go on smoother and help make-up last longer.
No make-up collection is complete without make-up remover. It gets rid of make-up quickly and safely.
Facial kits are important products to include inyour makeup collection. They work towards cleansing, exfoliating and brightening the face.
With bleaching cream, you can brighten the skin in a matter of minutes.
A quick way to keep the face and hands clean is to use wipes. A product that contains moisturisers will prevent skin from drying out.
Kajal helps outline and darken the eyes and is traditionally made from lamp black.
Mascara is used to darken or colour the eyelashes as well as make them appear longer and thicker.
Eyeliner serves the same function as kajal but comes in more forms, such as gel, liquid and pencil.
Eye shadow adds colour to the eyelids and beneath the eyes.
Eye creams reduce puffiness and help lighten dark circles.
These are used to add volume to eyelashes or lengthen them.
Eye pencil darkens and 'thickens' eyebrows.
Reduce dark circles and wrinkles around the eyes with the help of an eye mask. Some can even be placed on the forehead during fever.
Available in glossy, creamy and shimmery finishes, lipsticks are absolute must-haves. They’re available in a dizzyingly long list of colours ranging from red to brown, pink, and even black.
Far glossier than lip stick, lip gloss can give the illusion of plumper and fuller lips.
Lip balm can be with or without colour depending on what you prefer. Either way, its main purpose is to moisturise lips rather than simply colour them.
Lip colour comes in the form of a thick stick that you can use alone or with lipstick and lip gloss.
Lip liner is used to outline the lips and helps lock in the colour of lipstick, though it can be used by itself.
: A lip colour palette packs several lipsticks into one kit.
Lip creams are moisturising and coloured products that you can use in place of lipstick, lip balm and lip gloss. It’s not necessarily glossy but is creamy and lasts long.
A lip stain provides colour to the lips and may last longer than lipstick.
A lip lock can be used over lipstick and lip gloss or by itself. It locks in colour to help it last longer.
A lip plumper adds volume to the lips. It may be pigmented or clear.
Nail polish is lacquer for the nails. It comes in various finishes including glossy, sheer, metallic, shimmery, glittery, frosty, pearly and metallic.
Nail art encompasses different decorations for the nails. It may be in the form of stickers, stencils or glitter powder. Many nail art products come in the form of kits that contain what you need to decorate your nails.
Pedicure and manicure kits contain tools to clean, file and shape the nails.
If you use nail polish, you need a remover to clean old paint and get nails ready for a fresh coat.
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Pedicure and manicure tools span a range of products such as buffing blocks, brushes, pumice stones and files.
Nail clippers are an indispensable part of nail care. They make cutting ad shaping easy.
Base and top coat polishes aren’t pigmented but are important for protecting nails from damage and locking in nail lacquer.
Nail creams moisturise and protect nails and cuticles.
Nail whitener prevents nails from attaining a yellow tint that can come with prolonged nail polish use.
Waxing strips are used with hot or cold wax to remove facial and body hair.
A wax heater is used to heat wax quickly and safely.
If you love tattoos but don’t like the permanence, temporary tattoos is the answer.
Sindoor is a red/orange pigment that’s applied to the parting of hair of married women. Though traditionally in powder form, you can now find liquid sindoor too.
A mehndi cone allows for easy application of mehndi by offering greater control.