Common Beauty Mistakes

1. Using too light a shade of concealer around the eyes to hide dark undereye circles (resulting in a ring of “light” that makes you look like you have reverse panda eyes).

I hate that look. That occur when people still stick to methods from the late 80's / early 90's when we do not have proper coloured undereye concealers and the reverse panda eyes occur too when some traditonalist love using beige/white eye shadow on the eye circle which will also create the reverse panda look.

For undereyes circle, we always target to lighten what we see.
Redness on the eye area, a yellow based concealer.
Greyness/Blueness under the eyes will need a warm/peach based concealer.
Purpley under the eyes will need BOTH tones.
A good guide for the concealers will be that if there is a strange grey hue on the skin or the concealer appearing ashy on the undereye, IT IS TOO LIGHT and move on to the next darker colour.
For fair to medium dark skin, you can use a very light yellow loose powder to set the concealer.
For dark and deep dark skin, using a warm peachy LOOSE powder will work better.


2. Wearing too much eyeliner (especially around the entire eye), taking the smoky eye look a bit too far. (Does en-circling your eyes make them look smaller instead of larger? How should Asian women use eyeliner correctly to create the illusion of bright and bigger eyes?)

Drawing eyeliner to create an illusion of a bigger eye shape is defo smarter move than lining the whole eye black.
Picture someone with small eye which shows very little eye white, and picture the person lining the eyes top and bottom, including the water line, what happens? All we see is TWO big black DOTS. HAHAHAHAHAH... :)

The answer is that lining the eyes do not make it look bigger. It brings more focus to the eyes. Oriental faces have softer features, so by lining the eyes brings the eyes out but giving more depth to the eyes, hence the perceived view of bigger eyes. Our Indians and Malays sisters have the better genetics with the bigger eyes and longer lashes.

The general rule for MOST eyes out there is to draw a thicker line at the end of the eyeliner on the top lid. The thinner inner line moving to the thicker outer lined area gives the illusion of a bigger eye shape.
Use a light beige eyeliner to draw on the water line to increase the white of the eyes, hence "opening" the eyes bigger. Line the lower lash line with a dark brown or dark grey eyeliner just a touch at the eyeline to bring complete the look.
Add on a gunmetal grey or soft black on the lower lashline to bring the look into night.
Always complement the look with polished skin and DRAWN IN BROWS!



3. Trying to cover up oily/shiny complexion on the face by patting on more pressed powder/powder foundation (resulting in that cake-y look).

The cakey look appeared when excess oil is not removed before powdering.

Uss a tissue to dab away the excess oil before powdering, if powdering is even needed. Sometimes dabbing away the excess facial oil with a tissue will remove the sheen.
Or use a oil absorbing primer on the oilier skin areas before foundation application will help out to lengthen the time ebfore each touch up.
My current favourite is using SloaneInc's S9.3 24K Gold Skin Primer (avaliable from Sloane Clinic). This Primer smoothen the skin texture and have good oil control properties.