Spring-Summer Makeup Trends
Depending on the season, we do not adopt the same makeup techniques. In the summer, we tend to have a lighter hand and use different products, essentially allowing us to highlight our pretty tanned skin. The essential thing is to have a radiant, fresh and luminous complexion. To do this, new techniques have been created to make us beautiful, day and night, while pampering our skin. Glowy complexion, blush drapping or cloud skin, back to spring-summer makeup trends that you probably won’t miss.
Glowy complexion for radiant skin
The glowy complexion is a makeup process to give radiance to the skin. For this, it is essential that the skin is perfectly unified and that each area is highlighted in a natural way. Here’s how to get a glowy complexion:
- First of all, and as throughout the year, the epidermis needs to be well cleansed and hydrated, this is the basis for successful makeup. Clean your face with water and mild cleansing gel or soap, then add freshness by applying toning micellar water. Finally, we nourish the skin using a moisturizing day cream adapted to its type of skin that we let penetrate for a few minutes. Once this is done, you can proceed to the Complexion Makeup Step.
- The next step is to unify the complexion by camouflaging all small visible imperfections (stains, pimples, wrinkles and fine lines, etc.). For this, we use a fluid foundation of half a shade below that of its natural skin tone. You can also choose a BB cream or simply mix a hazelnut of foundation with its moisturizing cream for a lighter look. In summer, we recommend using products enriched with light-reflecting pigments to give radiance as well as good SPF.
- Be careful, if the complexion should capture light, it should not be bright. To do this, consider mattifying the whole by depositing a veil of free powder on the areas that tend to shine (zone T). A touch of pink or peachy blush on the cheekbones will highlight them.
- Finally, the top of the cheekbones, The arch of the eyebrows or the inner corner of the eyes can be enhanced with an apricot or slightly pink highlighter stick that will give you a good look by bringing light to your face while controlling its natural shine.
The draping blush for a guaranteed glow
Do you know Drapping Blush? If the answer is no, know that it is a technique of contouring to the blush that comes back in force for this spring-summer. Dating from the 70s, blush drapping was used by makeup artists to sublimate movie and song stars. Ancestor of contouring, this process consists in making up the face with the aim of redrawing and sculpting it. Today if contouring has known a real craze following its promotion by reality TV star Kim Kardashian, the blush drapping is in the process of replacing it.
Simply put, it can be defined as a lighter contouring, especially in the summer. Lighter and more refined, we use rather pink tints instead of making an alternation of more or less dark shades pulling on the brown. This makes it possible to give freshness and naturalness to the face. To make a drapping blush it is quite simple: just put your usual blush, close to your skin color (rather pink or apricot) starting from the temple, passing through the top of the cheekbone to stop at the wing of the nose.
Cloud skin for divine softness
Last but not least, spring-summer makeup technique: the cloud skin or “cloud skin”. This trend, creating a real buzz on social networks, aims to give a soft touch to your face. With the guarantee of giving your skin a natural glow, here’s everything you need to know about cloud skin. Invented by the professional British makeup artist Dominic Skinner, this process makes it possible to give a dreamy soft air to your face by mixing textures to create a blurred, misty look. To better visualize this effect, it is necessary to imagine the brightness of the sun trying to shine through the clouds. Here’s how to create a beautiful cloud skin:
- To get started, moisturize your skin with a day cream tailored to your epidermis. Then, apply a few drops of moisturizing oil to give radiance and a wet effect to your face.
- Next, apply makeup using a uniform base and a fixative powder to be applied to the hollow of the cheeks, upper forehead, nose and chin. By diluting in the oil, the powder will create a fuzzy texture on these strategic areas. They can be further mattified by applying a brush corrector over them and then a final veil of powder to accentuate the soft and structured side.
- You can stop at the previous step if the rendering is up to your expectations or put some illuminator on the cheeks, eyes and lips for divine brightness. Keep in mind that this makeup must remain light and airy, so the textures should not be highlighted and the different lines of demarcation must be perfectly melted between them.
You now know spring-summer makeup trends and how to do them. These makeup techniques are part of the latest born, followed and popular on the networks. To learn more, do not hesitate to consult the tutorials available online that will help you, in addition, to choose cosmetic products adapted to the seasonality and the desired effect.
