Mixing & Matching

Good afternoon Good Musers. More often then I like to admit, as I drive, walk, or trek via public transportation (it's mostly driving, who am I kidding?) through the streets of Toronto, I see women "teaming up" eye shadows, blushes, lipsticks and glosses way too boringly, improperly or just off, in my opinion that is. Experiment people! Firstly, there are really NO rules for make-up, so why are we folloing something fabricated? Erase them from your mind people and please stop believing they are the norm because they aren't!!! (I'm not angry, don't worry, just passionate about make-up). And even IF these rules did exist, aren't rules always meant to be broken anyway? Instead of make-up rules, we have countless options and choices. I mean, I do see tones of women wearing the same colour family all over: lovely lavender eyes, deeper plum blush and lips--and, I suppose, yes, it could work, especially if we lived in a monochromatic world, but we don't live solely in such a world where woman have to follow this "theme"--I strongly believe they are simply applying colours in all the same family because they think they have to, and once again, they are following the non-existent "rule". So, once and for all, you heard it from Beauty Muse: step out of the box and open your eyes to a rule-free world with make-up. None, niente, nada, n'ien. [Okay, enough of my multi-lingual skills, people may start to get jealous.] For your eyes, cheeks, and lips, they do not always have to be in the same colour family. Some who are unaware of what this means, colour families are warm tones and cool tones: warm tones are more reds, oranges, and yellows, and cool tones are more greens, blues and purples. Here we can use colour theory and the famous one-liner "opposites attract": because they do! Mixing colour families together actually complements the face and looks amazing--I am a huge fan (think deep blue eyes, with a neutral, pale orange lip--pure exquisiteness). If you have a cool skin tone (meaning your undertone leans more on the pink side) and you decide to do your eye make-up in corals and golds (warm tones), the rest of your face doesn't necessarily have to be warm, too. In this situation, pairing your warm eyes with a cool blush and lip colour, like plum, is a fantastic combination (and also more flattering). How do you know what goes with what? Lucky for us, we have permanent built-in palette: the back of our hand! Mix colours together and play around to see what looks good with what. If you hate the combo, change it up! Make-up, straightforwardly, is artistry: mixing colours and styles until you find what works for you!