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6 Makeup Emergencies and how to fight them up

Eyeliner Won’t Stay On
For eyeliner that goes on darker and stays on longer, eye drops will do the trick. Add a little eye redness reliever to cake liner or powdered eye shadow and then apply along the lid with an angled brush.You get a perfectly smooth line
that will last all night.

Big Under-Eye Circles
Apply a concealer at least a half-shade lighter than your skin tone. Use it after applying your foundation. Mix a bit of blue eye shadow with moisturizer. Follow with foundation.

No Makeup Remover
If you’ve run out of makeup remover, use olive oil. In the beauty industry, extra-virgin olive oil is preferred. It doesn’t clog pores or cause breakouts.

Clumped Mascara
Dip a cotton swab in makeup remover and then squeeze until it’s almost dry. Go over lashes with the swab to remove any excess. A folded tissue placed under lower lashes will catch anything. Comb lashes while they’re damp, and then blink against a tissue to blot excess as well as guard against smudges

Over-Blushed
If instead of getting a rosy glow you ended up looking like a clown, then simply take a big fluffy powder puff and press it onto your cheeks to lift excess color away.Take another clean puff, and apply a layer of loose powder on top.

Day-to-Evening Makeup in Minutes
Go deeper with your lips. First, line your lip with a lip liner, matching your lipstick, and apply lipstick.
Finish with a neutral pencil to fill the outer rim of the lips.

To make eyelashes appear longer, apply a coat of mascara and then use a cotton swab to dust the lashes with loose powder; add a second coat of mascara.

Create a smoky eye with petroleum jelly. Line the top and bottom lash lines with a dark pencil. Put a thin layer of petroleum jelly over the lid and blink, and you’ll have the desired smudged look.

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9 Skin Emergencies and how to fight them up

Emerging Pimple
To stop redness and swelling in an emergency situation (job interview, reunion, wedding), ask your doctor for a cortisone injection. It calms down a pimple almost instantly. If you can’t get to your dermatologist, you can reduce redness and swelling by dabbing on a drop of drugstore cortisone cream hemorrhoid cream, or eye drops.

overnight treatment
Rub ice on an emerging pimple for 30 to 40 seconds. Apply clove oil and leave it on until it dries completely.

tea tree oil
Massage a touch of tee tree oil around the area of the pimple to anesthetize it and encourage healing. Use a nonliquid concealer to match your foundation. Dab a little on the blemish, wait a couple of seconds, then blend lightly with a fingertip. Dust with loose powder.

Acne Rash
Take yellow eye shadow and mix it with your concealer. Apply it to the area and allow to dry. Then cover with your regular foundation. Even it out by gently blotting your face with a separated tissue.

Puffy Eyes
Take some cold spoons and place them under the eye area. Simply run them under cold water for a few seconds, or even better, keep them in the freezer so they’ll be ready when it’s the “morning after” or when you just didn’t get enough sleep.

Body Chafing
If there’s no medicated powder around, use a little cornstarch. It contains fabulous absorbing powers, and you may find it even more effective.

Chapped Lips
Rub on a little petroleum jelly, then use a toothbrush to brush your lips in little circular motions.The toothbrush will exfoliate the dead skin while the petroleum jelly will provide a base so your lipstick glides on.

Cold Sore
There are medications for cold sores and fever blisters. If you don’t have any on hand, take an aspirin and apply it, slightly dampened, to the sore. Hold it there for at least three minutes. Keep the sore and its surrounding area clean and dry to fight bacteria.
Eat a bland diet, avoiding chocolate, nuts, or gelatinbased products. These foods may irritate the sore and cause further infection.

Excess Self-Tanner
Soak in a warm bath for about 20 minutes using baking soda as body scrub.

Bad Sunburn
Take an aspirin to reduce the inflammation. Bathe in a tub of vinegar and warmwater (use about a pint of vinegar).
Moisturize the skin with yogurt or nonfat milk.

Fragrance Overload
Swab the skin with an alcohol-soaked cotton pad. Then smooth on unscented lotion to remoisturize and help diffuse the fragrance even further.

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