Make Up: Your Life Guide to Beauty, Style, and Success--Online and Off
Michelle Phan
Language: English
Pages: 240
ISBN: 080413734X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Michelle Phan has believed in makeup since the first time she was allowed to try eyeliner. When she looked in the mirror and saw a transformed version of herself looking back, she fell in love with the sense of confidence that makeup could give her. Ever since she posted her first makeup tutorial on YouTube, she has dedicated herself to inspire millions by using makeup as a tool for transformation and self expression.
Now, Michelle has compiled all of her best wisdom into Make Up: Your Life Guide to Beauty, Style, and Success--Online and Off. From creating a gorgeous smoky eye to understanding contouring to developing an online persona, Michelle has advice to help you transform every facet of your life. Make Up is packed with Michelle’s trademark beauty and style tutorials, stories and pictures from her own life, and advice on the topics she is asked about most, including etiquette, career, entrepreneurship, and creativity. From the everyday (such as how to get glowing skin) to the big picture (such as how to turn your passion into a profession), Make Up is a practical and empowering resource to help anyone put their best face forward.
crowding them into your makeup bag. You also need to wash them on a regular basis, which we’ll discuss shortly. What do you look for in a good brush? You want a substantial handle that feels good when you hold it, and there should be a generous number of bristles. Run the bristles over the back of your hand and make sure they feel soft and secure. If a few hairs fall out, that’s okay. But a brush that loses hairs every time you use it? That’s not okay. Return it and ask for a refund. Also, you
lip shape. Use a lip pencil similar to your natural lip color and even out any irregularity in the outline of your lips. Fill in the rest of your lips if you like. You can wear this alone or top with lipstick and/or gloss. If you’ve lost pigment in your lips (sometimes that happens to smokers), you can use lip liner to add color back in. Are you thinking about sporting a red, dark, or bold lip? Lip liner can be the primer for that color. Take a lip liner in a shade that matches your lipstick,
shadow on the floor? If so, you know what can happen. The product crumbles into bits and becomes unusable. Makeup is fragile, so you need to take care of it. Otherwise you’re wasting your time and money. Before you start organizing, think about your lifestyle and what works best for you. Do you sit in front of a vanity and take your time putting on makeup? Or do you rush into the bathroom with your makeup bag and rush out? I prefer to sit on the floor when I’m putting on makeup. I have a
of nail stickers because I’m constantly filming different videos, sometimes up to three a day, and I need different nail looks for each tutorial. It would be impossible to polish my nails three times a day! Not to mention how bad it would be for my nails to use nail polish remover that frequently. (Nail polish remover can dry out your nails.) You also can find stickers that look just like basic nail polish. If you’re pressed for time or aren’t good at painting your nails, you’ll love this
yourself and the other people involved in your business, as well as pictures of any physical location and/or products you offer. Let’s say you and your best friend sell gluten-free cookies and cupcakes at a local flea market and you have a very cool new flavor you think will rock the world. You should have pictures of the two of you, both posed and in action; pictures of your booth at the market; and pictures of the products you sell. If you don’t have the money for professional photographs, get