Makeover Tips for All Ages

It’s possible to do makeover oneself without the help of others. Bring a few changes to your lifestyle, habit and dressing as a part of it. Even small changes can change your personality as whole, giving a refreshing look. Such a look can help to gain a lot of confidence too. Almost all ladies carry hidden ambitions in mind for a change or makeover, but they hesitate to show it off. When you get compliments for your makeovers, it can change you as a person positively. In some cases, makeover is a treatment too, to get you out of laziness and boring routine life. It also provides you simple techniques to get out of some setbacks of life.

Before we go into details, make a note of this point. First we need to bring changes to your life style and behaviour. Makeup and dressing style only comes second.

A wonderful personality to adore

How much determined are we to change, it well expresses in our behaviour too. When you begin with small corrections, we have reached the first step of makeovers.

A new person from tomorrow

One hour before you go to sleep the previous night, keep your mobile distant from you. Give a break to social media sites like Facebook, Tiktok, whatsapp, instagram etc. When we turn addicted to mobiles, our sleeping time gets reduced significantly. When we don’t get enough sleep, it affects all our activities the following day. Our brain and eyes still may feel sleepy.

Avoid the habit to scroll the mobile in the early morning soon after you wake up from bed. It may not easy to start new habit. But if you practise it regularly, you can put on the new habit not to look at mobiles soon after you wake from bed, at least for the first half hour.

Drink 1 litre water in empty stomach. You can also do some kind of exercise or yoga at least for 10 minutes every morning. Meditation is also a nice option, and you can try with different options to break the routine. For instance you can do yoga in alternate days, while go for a walk for the remaining days.  

Early to bed and early to wake up – it’s the best habit. Try to go to bed half hour early and slowly make it a habit. If you wake up early, you can find enough time to do something which you like, but because of busy schedule it’s still in bucket list. You can also read religious books or motivation quotes.

Issues and tensions in job atmosphere

Time is precious and we should be able to complete our tasks according to our time schedule. Imbalance in a single module can affect the role of a person in other tasks too. Very often our laziness postpones good habits to tomorrow, which is never going to happen. 

Before you present a new idea before others, you should study about it in detail. Others may ask questions and you should be prepared enough to clear their doubts. Some people have a trick to cover their mistakes. They may shout at others or blame them, so that no fingers rise against them. Remember, such responses while dealing with a particular situation can damage your personality a lot, and restoring it may not be an easy task. You can study the same idea for a second time and try to figure out the mistake or why the idea is not feasible. When you come out with a new idea next time, it will definitely be better.

Personal indifferences are quite common in work places. But it should not reflect in your work or performance. How many people around us behave with us better even after having conflicts and indifferences? Why can’t we do the same? Ego clashes can also cause issue, and we may not be able to admit our mistakes. We may wait for the other person to come forward. Never do that. Be the first person to clear off the misunderstandings. You can’t miss a good friend of yours because of your silly ego.

No compromise with family relations

You should bring same discipline in family life as you do in your professional life. You can call your spouse for 2 minutes at lunch break. Reserve quality time for your partner; not just Sundays, whenever you can. You should fulfil your promises to your spouse and family. Don’t try to cover it up with precious gifts. You will lose the money, and the problem remains the same. You can spare some time from your daily hours as ‘Family time’.

If your kids are staying at a hostel far away from you, call them frequently and know their details. Video calling can give the illusion of staying near, and whenever possible go and meet them. You can also make a list of your tasks, and put a tick mark when you have completed it.

Stay away from toxic applications and people

Uninstall those mobile apps those you haven’t used for last one month. By doing so regularly you are saving a lot of time. Give one week trial period to any app which you install, and if you don’t want it, uninstall it within the trial period.

Stay away from silent and negative groups. They are good for nothing. Never hesitate to quit such groups at any point of time.

Now let us identify if ‘I am a toxic person?’ Are you jealous? Do you feel restless while seeing fortune and happiness of others? Do you feel to destroy those who are successful than you? Are you a person who always tries to find fault in others and neglect their good deeds? If you get ‘Yes’ for most of these questions, it’s time for you to chance. If you are not able to, consult a counsellor.

A person with style of sense

Trendy costume doesn’t mean it suits all persons of all ages. Choose clothes and colours that well fit your personality and physical appearance. You can include both desi and western clothes in your wardrobe and choose attire which well suits the occasion.

Indian wear includes Kurta. Both black and white kurta can suit any occasion. Palazzo, cotton and silk dupattas are must in a wardrobe. Shirt and Jeans tops can be worn aside sari and styling it can give you fresh look. Jacket and waist belt are also trendy with sari. Jacket, shrug and stole suit any type of costume. Loafers can be used with saris too.

Jeans with good fitting is the best choice for western attire. Formal pants can be used by professionals for official meetings. Scarf or stole can give a complete look. Small defects of fittings in tops can be covered by stoles.

White canvas shoes and waist belt suit both Indian and western wear. Coral orange is the latest trend. Long shirt dress can be chosen by people of any age groups. Your attire can influence your professional life both ways. Sari is the star of power dressing. Other choices are three-piece pant, shirt, stole combination or coat; kurta, pants & dupatta combination etc. Closed or half closed shoes covering fingers are the best. If your hair is short, tie it. Chose light shaded mat finish nail polishes.

Choice of colours

Know the undertone of skin and then choose colours. Place a white paper near face below ears and close to neck. Which colour reflects in the paper? That’s your undertone. If you noticed the shades of yellow, brown or green, yours is ‘Warm tone’. If the colour is anyone of pink, rose or blue, yours is cool tone. Similarly observe the nerve colour of your wrist. If it’s green it’s warm tone, and if it’s blue, you are ‘cool’.

Which colours suit best for warm tone? You can try with honey, olive green, coral orange, cream, gold and yellow. For neutral effect, you can choose coffee colour and shades of mushroom. Handle with care colours like icy blue, sapphire and amethyst. They can give grey tone to your skin.

Lavender, blue and rose shades are best for cool toned people. Pure white, grey and navy blue can give neutral look. Shades of orange, tomato red and strong yellow won’t suit you people. Blush pink, purple and teel shades suit almost all people. Those with yellow-pink combination skin, almost all colours match with their skin tone.

Choose attire according to your shape

Body shape is not uniform and it varies in every person. Inverted triangle, pear shape, banana type, hour glass type….. thus it goes. If you choose dress wisely, you can show magic with your body and it can also hide many of our defects.

People with inverted triangle shape have broad shoulders. Such people can choose dress with tight upper part and loose lower part. Tight fitting jeans, skirt, leggings and chudi pant may not be the top choices for them. Palazzo, parallel pants, loose/flowing/flair skirt, anarkali & angrakha kurtas suit best.

If you are fat, waist belt can give the illusion of good shape. Shrug can hide the width of body. Instead of wrapping stole around the neck, make it lengthy. Such persons should highlight their thin body parts. For instance if you have thin legs, choose dress till knee length or three-fourths.

Thin people should choose dress with big prints. Folding at waist portion suits such people. You can choose costumes with more than one layer to give an illusion of little bit fat. Fat people should never choose dress with thick borders.

For a person with beautiful skin

Treat your skin problems first. Your skin with automatically glorify. Black spots and pimple scars of face, open pores, black colour below eyes etc are some of the common skin problems. When your skin is clear, it gives a fresh look too.

Thick eye brows are now trendy. Apply lipstick at the middle portion and gently smudge it outwards to get a natural look. If your lips are too small, buy a lip liner with the same colour of lipstick. If your lips are large, no need to use lip liners.

Metallic eye shadow, neon colour eye shadow or eye liner – you can choose any one as a thin coat to get a minimal look. Sheer foundation can give super glow to your skin.

First know the defects

Hair extension can be used if you feel your hair is short. You can shape it as you desire before fitting in your hair. If you don’t want to use hair extension, experiment with different haircuts. Choose a haircut which suits the shape of your face. If you don’t want to reduce the length of the hair, you can try with fringes in the forehead.

If your eyes are too small, curl your eye lashes using eyelash curler and then use mascara too. If you don’t have a curler, apply one coat of mascara, allow it to dry and put one more coat. ‘Cat eye’ best suits people with small eyes. Just extend the curve using eyeliner to give a tail.

You can choose two shades for upper and lower lip, if your lips differ in size. First give light shade in the small lip, and choose the next shade for the bigger one, so that both the lips appear same size.

Never repeat the mistakes

If you feel skin problems or allergies like itching, reddening of skin while using a new skin product, never use it again. Purchase products after knowing the nature of skin. If so makeup stays so for a long time, your beauty reflects and also, it gives fewer chances for skin problems.

Dusky skin tone is retained as such now. You can do a trail makeup or seek an expert’s help to choose colours and shades which suit you the best. Also clearly understand how to use those products.

Makeover tips for age 30+

Earlier people want to stay beautiful at special occasions only. Now that concept has gone. Everyone wants to stay beautiful always. Through proper makeover techniques, it’s definitely possible too.

We can highlight the good features of face to slightly elevate the beauty of a face. We should conceal our face defects through proper makeup too. Remove the oily nature of hair completely. Use a crimper to style your hair instead of straightening if your hair is too thin. Colouring and highlighting are the best choices for premature grey hair. For official parties and functions, you can choose put up or pony tail hair styles. You can loosen your hair locks for parties.

Add a little more thickness to eye brows. You can give a small arch in the middle portion, to give the shape of eyes. Use brown or black pencil to fill those portions with thin eye brows. Liquid lipstick or lip balm can be chosen for dry lips. To remove eye bag (swelling beneath the eyes) choose suitable eye exercises. Use cucumber and ice cubes to gently massage your eyes in the early mornings. Use normal mascara to give a beautiful look to eyes. Regular use of waterproof mascara can cause the loss of eye lashes.

Use minimum ornaments and choose a healthy and balanced diet. Regular exercise and sleep, plenty of water, travels, yoga and good friendships to reduce mental pressure etc are some of the habits you need to adopt.

Makeover tips for a teenager

Teenagers have a habit to follow the celebrities and choose hair styles and makeups which may not suit them. Minimal makeup is sufficient for teenagers and just needed is to glorify natural beauty. Choose hair styles which suit your face most. You can seek the help of a hair expert or beautician. A teenager can choose more than one shade to highlight hair strands. But choose shades matching with skin tone. Heat protein cream and spray can be used to give different styles to hair.

Gels and powders are available in market to give perfect shape to eye brows. Brush your eye brows first, apply gel and then apply powder to give thickness. Always try to show the natural skin tone. Buy foundation and creams which suit your skin tone most. If you choose too much light shades, good features of face may fade away, and artificiality expresses. Contouring and highlighting are the best options to highlight the best features of face naturally. Choosing more than one shade for lip colour is trendy. Choose two shades which well suit the face, apply on the middle portion and corners and slightly blend it to get good effects. 

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