Once you have your foundation correct and your eye look achieved you then need to apply the finishing touches to the look, depending on what look you are going for, night time, sun kissed, day time or work etc.

To apply bronzer use a large bronzing brush. Just apply the colour to areas that the sun would always hit on your face, so the forehead, down the nose, chin, cheek bones and chest. Not on the lower jaw line or neck.

For blush choose a colour that draws out the undertones from your skin. Then apply the blush on the apple of the cheek. If doing an evening look you can always contour your cheekbones slightly with the blush by applying it downwards from your cheekbone to the apple of your cheek. This will give the appearance of higher cheekbones.

To set the make-up, lightly apply a loose or pressed clear finishing powder all over the face. This will help to bind all the make-up and make it last longer on the skin.

Once any powder products have been applied to the skin you cannot go back and apply a cream based product on top, so be sure before you apply any powders that you are finished with you cream products.

For the lips the same rule applies as for the face. You need to prime the lips to help the product to last longer. We do this by applying a lip pencil all over the lip, not just around the line of the lip. This creates a base for the lipstick or gloss. If you like the colour of the pencil you can always just apply a colour or clear gloss on top. If not then choose your colour lip stick and apply either with a lip brush or by itself. When applying lipstick always make sure that you tilt your head back to be sure that you have applied the colour to all areas of the lip.

If you find that your skin gets a high shine on your t-zone half way through the day Jane Iredale have excellent facial sprits that help to set the make-up look and helps to keep that skin matified all day.

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