2010年4月11日

The Cosmetics (week 4)

Wanting to know what they are?


Hi, readers! I am talking about the cosmetics this week; because before we make up ourselves, we have to understand what kinds of cosmetics we need to use and what they use for. Thus, wish you can learn the cosmetics by my introduction.
First of all, there are ten steps we make up, and there are different cosmetics we use by each step. The cosmetics are: toning lotion, moisture lotion, concealer, powder foundation, face powder, eye shadow, mascara, eye liner, eyebrow pencil, lipstick, and blush.


(1) Toning Lotion

After you clean your face, applying some toning lotion, which can moisture your face and make your face better; or if your face is dry without using toning lotion, the makeup might not perfectly fit on your face. Thus, choosing the toning lotion with high moisture content is better to your face when you need to make up.

(2) Moisture Lotion


The moisture lotion is using after toning lotion, and it can keep the moisture of your bottom face and make the oil and moisture (which are within your face) balance. To moisturize your face well, the pores on your face will become smaller than before. There are some cosmetics like basic cream, lotion, essence serum have the same function like using the moisture lotion, so you can select what you like or which is suitable to you.

(3) Concealer

The concealer is used to cover some blemishes on you face, such as the black eyes, acne scars, wrinkles, freckles. Why people use it is that after we are over 25 years old, our metabolism become worst than before, so some blemishes appear on our faces. You can use your finger pulps to apply the concealer on your face when using it.

(4) Powder Foundation

The function of powder foundation is a little same like the concealer; but when you apply it, you have to make the depth of powder foundation unequal, for that can highlight the texture of your skin and make your face stereoscopic. The right way to apply it is by using finger pulp to cover the imperfection, and then using the sponge to press your face slowly on your face.

(5) Face Powder

The face powder is used to keep our makeup with a perfect situation, and it also can control the oil on our face. Using it by powder puff to tap our face even , and press the powder puff slowly around our eyes. Therefore, the face powder can keep longer on your face.

(6) Eye Shadow
By using the eye shadow, you can highlight your eyes by different drawings and colors. The bright colors of eye shadow can show the light perception of your eye, and the dark colors can display the shadow. To combine this two colors creatively, you can make your eye look more beautiful and have many layers.

(7) Mascara

The mascara is the most important cosmetics, which can make our eyes look bigger and bigger, for people who want to have good-looking. Brushing the mascara by various ways can become different effect, thus don't forget to apply the mascara if you want to have an amazing eyes.

(8) Eye Liner & Eyebrow Pencil
Have nice eyebrow shapes can strengthen the charming eyes that people look at you, so painting by it with the eyebrow shape can make you have pretty eyes. By the way, before drawing your eyebrow, remember to shape them first by the form that suitable to you.
(9) Lipstick
The lipstick can make the women look confident and healthy, so you just need to apply it on you lips and then use the tissue or the facial absorbent paper to absorb the extra lipstick.
(10) Blush

The blush has the same purpose like the lipstick, for it can make people look more healthy and stereoscopic. The usage to the blush is that: you need to pay attention to the width you apply the blush on your lovely face, and don't draw it over 3 to 4 centimeter.
In addition, by introducing the cosmetics above, the cleansing oil plays an vital role in the steps of makeup, to apply it after you wash your all day's makeup can make you have a pretty face to do another makeup. Don't ignore it, or beautifying by makeup won't make you pretty anymore!
Finally, although you may know how the cosmetics use by my introduction, there is a significant thing that you also have to pay attention, and it is : how to buy and select. You have to realize that do the cosmetics have some marks on them, such as the usage, the ingredient, the preserve method, the important notice, the manufacture, the manufacture date, the date saved, the address or place that manufacture produce products, and the weight.

★ Vocabulary ★

(1) blemish (n.)
a mark on the skin or an object that spoils it and make it look less beautiful or perfect.
(2) freckle (n.)
a small, pale brown spot on person's skin, especially on their face, caused by the sun.
(3) metabolism (n.)
the chemical processes in living things that change food, etc. into energy and materials for growth.
(4) stereoscopic (adj.)
of a picture, photograph, etc. that is made so that you see the objects in it with length, width, and depth when you use a special machine.

▲Works Cited▲
(1) 國家美容丙級專業證照 上課教材 陳淑美老師著
(2) 25歲開始的美容保養書 林葉亭著 大峽谷出版
(3) 生活彩妝 朱正生著 如何出版社有限公司

2010年4月5日

How to Care Your Face Correctly (week 3)

Hello, my dear readers! Today I will introduce some methods about how to care your face, and hoping that they can really help you and teach you the correct ways which you may make mistakes before.

First of all, how do you clean your face everyday? Just apply the cleanser on your face randomly and wash it away instantly, and then wipe water from your face by a towel or let it dry for few minutes? Is that kind of situations you always do to your so-called face? I think from now on, it is time to know how to care your face, or your face will be ageing, wrinkled, and terrible very soon. The most important thing is to realize how the facial muscle looks like. Although the following pictures might terrify you, you still can actually understand it by watching them.



By watching the facial muscle pictures, you can realize how our facial muscle forms. Now you can start clean or massage your face by the muscle lines; for instance, the muscles around our eyes look like circles, so you can use your hands by drawing circles around your eyes; how to clean or massage your others parts can depend on what the muscles look like on your face. The reason why I tell about the facial muscle picture is that by knowing them, you can clean and massage your face correctly and comfortably; you can avoid unnecessary wrinkles or steps when you care your face.

In addition, after you clean your face, please remember one thing: using the toning lotion, which can moisturize and clean your face. After this step, you can apply some lotions like day/night creams or essence everyday; that can keep your face perfectly. When you have to go out, you have to apply the sun block which seems to wear the cloth on your face; the sun block can protect your face from excess ultraviolet rays (UV). One thing that you need to do for one to two weeks is that: to exfoliate your face, because exfoliating scrub or facial scrub can help your dead cells from face and make your face smooth; on the other hand, to exfoliate your face can make the cosmetics use effectively, or you will feel the cosmetics you buy are useful.

Finally, to make your skin better need to change everything detail in daily life. For example, it’s necessary to drink water everyday, for avoiding wrinkles appear, dry skin, toxins cannot be drained away. Also, smoke, sunlight, air-conditioner, wine, lost weight, and take planes can make our skin become bad, so we have to avoid them appropriately. To sleep, relax ourselves, exercise, and massage our skin play a vital role for us; thus, try to do them regularly will good to us.

To sum up, to become beautiful must care our face seriously at first, or just want to make up by cosmetics is not valuable. Before making up, wishing you can apply these methods of two weeks’ blogs completely; hence, you can begin to learn how to use cosmetics.




By introducing how to care your skin, can you apply them from now on? The following videos are teaching people how to care your skin by cleaning, massaging,exfoliating..., and hoping they can really help you.


(1)How To Cleanse Your Face


Facial Care:
How To Cleanse Your Face
from: http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-cleanse-your-face-2


(2)How To Revitalise Your Skin


Facial Care:
How To Revitalise Your Skin
from: http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-revitalise-your-skin


(3)How To Give Yourself A Facial Massage


Head, Face & Shoulders:
How To Give Yourself A Facial Massage
from: http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-give-yourself-a-facial-massage


(4)How To Exfoliate Your Face


Facial Care:
How To Exfoliate Your Face
from: http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-exfoliate-your-face


(5)How To Avoid Wrinkles


Facial Care:
How To Avoid Wrinkles
from: http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-avoid-wrinkles-2



★Vocabulary★

1. revitalise (v.)
Give new life or vigor to.

2. exfoliate (v.)
To remove rough or dead cells from the surface of skin in order to make your skin smoother.

3. wrinkle (n.)
A line or small fold in your skin, especially on your face, that forms as you get older.

4. essence (n.)
Any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted.

5. sun block (n.)
It (also commonly known as sunscreen or sun cream) is a lotion, spray, gel or other topical product that absorbs or reflects some of the sun's UV on the skin exposed to sunlight and thus helps protect against sunburn.


▲Works Cited▲
(1) 國家美容丙級專業證照 上課教材 陳淑美老師著
(2) 25歲開始的美容保養書 林葉亭著 大峽谷出版