Makeup on a date is a responsible matter. In order not to scare off your chosen one with an overly bold coloring, remember the main rule: on the first date, naturalness should rule the roost. It is better to charm a young man in a natural way, and not with abundant make-up. But when it comes to subsequent meetings, you can give free rein to your imagination: for late evening meetings, bright colors are suitable, but in the afternoon and early evening everything should be just the opposite.

Makeup for a date, taking into account the place and time of day

For an afternoon walk or meeting in a cafe The simplest make-up will do. A minimum of foundation (you can get by with a light fluid foundation), light shadows, lightly colored eyelashes or thin arrows. Remember: most men practically cannot distinguish between different colored lipsticks. Then the best option would be to either leave your lips without lipstick at all, or use an unobtrusive gloss. Eyebrows should also not be too prominent.

For an evening date or meeting in nightlife establishments you can do a bolder make-up. Dark shadows with a bit of shimmer, luxurious black eyelashes and flirty winged wings will fit perfectly into the look. If you don’t want to focus on the brightness of your eyes, then draw attention to your lips - scarlet lipstick will come in handy. In the evening, circles under the eyes may appear from fatigue; they should be hidden with the help of a concealer. Peach blush and dark brown or gray brow shadows are perfect for evening wear.

On the first date You shouldn’t try to charm a guy with your bright appearance. This can scare off a young man, he will simply think: “What if she’s completely different without makeup?” Therefore, if your eyes are large, you can curl your eyelashes and paint them with any natural color. If your goal is to make your eyes larger, then you can draw a thin line between the eyelashes with a pencil or eyeliner. This procedure is suitable for the upper eyelid. All that remains is to cover your lips with juicy berry-colored lipstick, and your chosen one will not be able to take his eyes off you.

Make-up technique

The technique of applying makeup on a date is no different from the usual one. For this you will need:

• Base. It will make your face radiant and fresh.
• For a daytime meeting: light shadows. They will slightly enlarge the eyes and make the image gentle.
• For an evening walk: darker shadows or eyeliner. For a date, it’s better to choose one thing so as not to overdo it with brightness.
• Transparent gloss or berry-colored lipstick (scarlet for evening).
• Light pink blush.
• Eyebrow shadows.

The foundation layer should be almost invisible. You can use one base or combine it in 1:1 proportions with the foundation. The eyes are easily covered with eye shadow or eyeliner. Eyelashes are painted in two layers for fullness. A light pink blush will add additional tenderness, and a transparent gloss will make your lips attractive.

The most important thing is tenderness and naturalness. During the day, a girl should look beautiful and impregnable, and in the evening she can allow herself a touch of audacity in her image. Light shadows and transparent glitter are a good solution. A slight blush will suit a representative of the fairer sex of any age.

When going on a date, girls often can’t decide which makeup to choose – a delicate romantic look or a dramatic evening look with eyeliner and dark lipstick? Whatever you choose, makeup for a date has its own nuances of execution - we’ll talk about them in this article.

Features of makeup for a date

Radiant tone

Healthy skin, as if glowing from within, is the best option for a date look. If you, like many girls, do not own one, the situation can be easily corrected with the help of cosmetics. As a quality, choose a base that gives the skin radiance; It is better to choose a foundation with a thin, translucent coating - BB or CC cream will work well. Don't forget about highlighter (most importantly, don't overdo it).

Read more about the products in the step-by-step instructions below.

Moderation

Of course, if in everyday life you are used to wearing bright and noticeable makeup, then when going on a date you should not deviate from your usual look - you risk making the wrong impression about yourself.

But if you use a minimum of cosmetics in your everyday makeup, it is better not to apply a large amount of unusual products on yourself - again, you can achieve an undesirable effect, especially if we are talking about the first date. In addition, most young people prefer to see a fairly neutral make-up on their companion (of course, there are exceptions here too).

Durability

A date, especially if it is the first, can go differently (and end too). Therefore, if you expect to be worried, or expect the evening to continue, it is better to take care of the durability of your makeup in advance. Use to set your makeup, and choose a long-lasting matte option or tint as a lipstick.

Natural shades

The most controversial item on the list, but it is also the most universal: makeup in neutral, beige and pink tones is suitable for almost any date. However, if you can’t imagine your evening look without an emphasis on your eyes, feel free to paint (you can choose shaded ones as a softer option) or smokey eyes (to avoid an unnecessary dramatic effect, use glitter or shimmer shadows/pigments).

How not to wear makeup on a date

Elements of art/fashion makeup and unusual shades

Trendy details such as colored eyeliner or lipstick in an unusual shade - green, yellow or purple - are best left for looks for special events or parties. This also includes the currently popular holographic highlighters with a blue/green sheen, eyelashes and eyebrows painted white, large glitter on the face, etc.

Tone too thick

A matte, overly dense tone with a thick coating will create the effect of too much makeup on the face, which in most cases will not be appropriate in makeup for a date. This technique is good for photography and video, but in real life, especially at close range, it doesn’t look the best.

It is advisable to choose a foundation with light or medium coverage, and, if necessary, hide imperfections in spots using.

Too much makeup

An abundance of cosmetics, the presence of more than one accent in makeup (dark eyes + dark or bright lips) also “overloads” the face and does not look the most advantageous up close. This makeup is suitable for an evening look or for an event, but is unlikely to be a good choice for a date.

It is also advisable to abandon false eyelashes - it is better to use a good one that lengthens and adds volume to the eyelashes, and also do not forget to curl your eyelashes with a curler before doing this.

Step-by-step makeup application for a date

We offer a detailed guide to applying makeup on a date: in this case, we chose a universal version of delicate makeup in beige and pink tones.

Base

As a base for makeup, choose a product that gives radiance - for example, Strobe Cream from MAC:

Foundation

BB cream, for example, this one from Guerlain, is perfect as a makeup tone for a date - a thin, translucent coating with a radiant effect.

However, if the highlighting effect from the base is enough for you, and you want the coverage to be more durable and dense, use, for example, foundation from Estee Lauder Double Wear.

Concealer

Use a light, almost transparent product with illuminating particles on the skin - for example, a concealer from YSL Touche Eclat or Tom Ford - go over the area under the eyes - this will disguise dark circles and make the look more fresh and rested.

Use a denser concealer, such as MAC Pro Longwear, to correct imperfections: inflammation, rosacea, age spots, etc.

Brows

To highlight your eyebrows while maintaining their natural appearance, highlight them with a pencil that is at least a shade lighter than your hair. It is advisable if it is a pencil with a powdery effect - for example, Dior Sourcils Poudre Powder Eyebrow Pencil.

If you want to correct the shape of your eyebrows, it is better to add missing hairs using a special eyebrow marker:

Eyebrow marker L'Etoile

Using a thin tip, draw individual missing hairs, but under no circumstances cover the entire skin with it - you will get the effect of eyebrows painted with a felt-tip pen (and such a marker is, in fact, a felt-tip pen).

If you need to style your hair, use a special one. You can choose a tint option with microfibers - this will make your eyebrows visually thicker.

Eye makeup

• Apply the eyeshadow base to the entire upper eyelid;
• apply a neutral beige shade of eyeshadow that matches your skin tone over the entire upper eyelid;
• Apply a darker cool beige or taupe shade to the crease of the eyelid and blend it;
• Apply a lighter, pinkish with shimmer or golden beige shade to the upper eyelid, carefully blending its borders with the previous one;
• Apply a dark brown cool shade to the corner of the outer eyelid and the lower eyelid, blend;
• Apply a light, milky or golden shade with shimmer to the inner corner of the eye.
• Use a dark brown or black pencil to decorate the interlash area of ​​the upper eyelid
• if desired, add a thin arrow (for a more discreet effect, draw it with shadows using an angled brush or a pencil, shading it with a barrel brush) and line the mucous membrane of the lower eyelid with the same kajal, or apply the shadows used to create the arrows along the growth line of the lower eyelashes .

Urban Decay Naked 2 Eyeshadow Palette

Eyelashes

As we said above, it is better to avoid false eyelashes when wearing makeup for a date. Use a mascara that will give your eyelashes volume, length, and at the same time perfectly separate them, without leaving clumps or the effect of “spider legs” - for example, Chanel Le Volume:

Before (never after!) applying mascara, curl your eyelashes using a curler.

Blush

For a more natural effect, use cream blush - for example, tint from Becca (the product has a creamy texture):

Apply a minimal amount of blush to the apples of your cheeks and blend.

Highlighter

We also suggest choosing cream or liquid - it’s easier to spread it over the face without overdoing it, and the effect (with moderate application) will be softer.

Liquid highlighter Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector

Apply the product to the prominent parts of the face - cheekbones, bridge of the nose, center of the forehead and blend.

Lips

For this date night makeup look, apply a beige lipstick with a brownish or pinkish tint (depending on your skin tone) to your lips. If you need durability from a lip product, choose a matte lipstick, for example, Lime Crime Velvetines; Such a remedy will withstand not only food intake.

If you want to give your lips a more hydrated look, apply lipstick with a creamy finish or simply use a translucent pink or beige lip gloss.

Clarins Instant Light Natural Lip Perfector

Powder

For best staying power, apply translucent setting powder all over your face. It is advisable to use the loose version and apply it with light movements using a soft powder brush.

If you don’t want to give your face extra matte, use a special fixing spray to fix your makeup.

MAC Fix Plus

Makeup for a date is ready!

As you can see, it’s nothing complicated – even a beginner in the world of make-up can replicate this look. You can see other makeup options that are suitable for a date and get inspired by ideas for creating it in these videos:

When preparing for a first date, every girl understands how important it is to look beautiful, cute and charming.

Therefore, when thinking over a romantic image, one should not forget about the main weapon of every girl, namely the competent and skillful application of makeup.

Romantic and innocent makeup with a slight glow

First of all, you should take care of healthy skin. If it is problematic, maximum toning will be required.

To do this, we cleanse the skin of excess oil using a gel or foam cleanser. We remove the remnants of unwashed cosmetics and cleansers from the skin using a cotton pad soaked in tonic.

And moisturize the skin with a mattifying day cream. After using a sponge, we blot the skin with foundation and correct crow’s feet and problem areas of the skin. We fix the result with loose powder and makeup fixative.

Healthy skin requires minimal application of foundation, or it is best to apply a foundation cream and eliminate all minor imperfections in one stroke. If obvious bruises are visible under the lower eyelid, they should be treated with a concealer or corrector, which will be the best help in eliminating them.

Tip: “If there is a need to even out your complexion using foundation and correctors, you should apply a little blush to your cheeks and nose. This way, the face is given a beautiful and natural look.”

We apply light shadows in milky shades to the entire moving eyelid, perhaps even with a pearlescent tint. Most of the shadows should be shaded into the corners of the eyes so that they literally glow.

To make the eyes more prominent, you should paint the lower eyelids with light shadows close to beige tones, and under them draw a line with a shade a couple of shades darker, creating a kind of shadow. These can be pinkish or dark beige shades.

Then we paint the fold of the moving eyelid with silver or scarlet shadows. The contour should be drawn very carefully, distributing the shadow over the entire fold and drawing the outer corner of the eye.

An additional and very important makeup touch for the first date would be to whiten the area under the eyebrow with white eye shadow or a white pencil, or highlighter. In this case, the shadows are applied with a natural brush pre-moistened on a damp cloth. A pencil or highlighter is blended with a synthetic brush.

We make an accent by drawing small and very thin arrows with liquid or, better yet, gel eyeliner with a very small tail. It must necessarily fly up a little. Otherwise, your eyes will look very sleepy and sad.

Using a contour brush, we shade the eyeliner with matte black shadows, without going beyond the edges of the eyeliner. This way, the excess highlight of the contour is removed.

The lower eyelid is lined with a light gel eyeliner, or, in the absence of it, with a black pencil, emphasizing the expressiveness of the eyes.

An additional manipulation would be to paint the eyelashes with black lengthening or regular mascara, first from above, in order to remove excess shadows that have fallen on them and add a special blackness to them.

The key to beautiful makeup is thick eyelashes. This means that they need to be painted from the roots, pulling them up with intense movements to the right and left towards the center of the eyelid.

And then they should be pulled out from the inner to the outer corner of the eye, slightly stretching and bevelling them. The lower eyelashes are slightly colored.

Advice: “Never glue on false eyelashes. If a young man notices such manipulation, he may have a not very favorable impression of the first date. Beautiful makeup should first of all be close to natural makeup.”

We line our lips with a pencil of a delicate shade and paint over the entire lip area. Afterwards we apply gloss and powder it a little to give the color a little blur.

Next, we paint over the cracks with red shadows or a pencil so that they look a little unpainted and bitten. Thus, no one will guess that a whole arsenal of decorative cosmetics has been applied to them.

After all, according to statistics, most guys don’t like it when a girl has too much shadow, glitter, powder and other feminine things on her lips and eyes.

A first date and such luxuriously beautiful makeup requires a competent selection of clothes and accessories. You can add uniqueness and tenderness to your look by wearing a moderately short dress in delicate shades.

It is better to choose shoes for a dress in subdued colors, as bright and saturated purple and red colors will look vulgar and ugly. And the heel should not be too high. After all, if a guy arranges a small surprise in the form of a night walk under the night sky, the date will be ruined.

You can complement the look with a small clutch and sophisticated jewelry in the form of a thin chain or pearls, even artificial ones.

If you want to use perfume, it should be light and gentle. Pronounced sweet and tart oriental scents are not suitable for such an event.

By the way a girl dresses up and puts on makeup, you can immediately tell whether she is going on a date or not. And if the outfit is simpler - you can take off and put on the dress several times during the selection process - then you need to decide on the make-up right away. What makeup to choose for a date and how to do it at home?

First date

To understand what kind of makeup is suitable for a first date, let’s outline the goals of this event. The minimum task is to win over a person, the maximum task is to please him. The main mistake girls make is putting on makeup like they’ve never done before. That is, they conduct experiments. But it’s best if your makeup for the first date is familiar to you. Make the kind of make-up that you have already done 300 times to avoid any mistakes.

We place accents

A date often takes place in a cafe or restaurant, which means you will see the guy’s face in front of you, just as he will see you. Under a thick layer of makeup, he may not be able to see the highlight in you, so when applying makeup, you should focus on one part of your face.

Nude face

Let's try to do it step by step. In English, nude is translated as “naked,” but in makeup this word implies naturalness. In this kind of makeup, the emphasis is on the freshness of the skin, so if you are young, you can easily afford nude makeup. Doing it yourself is quite difficult, because you need to make it look like there is no makeup on your face.

But we are not looking for easy ways, so we will try to do makeup for a date in nude style with our own hands.

1. We emphasize the freshness of our face with day cream with reflective particles;
2. If necessary, apply a foundation that matches your skin color;
3. We emphasize cheekbones with blush, for blondes - peach, for brown-haired and brunettes - scarlet;
4. Apply a little brown mascara to the eyelashes and shape the eyebrows;
5. You don't have to use shadows. As a last resort, you can apply a little dark brown eyeshadow to the outer corner of the eye.

Lips

If your business card is, then you can focus on them. You shouldn't wear makeup on a date, so avoid unnatural colors (orange, purple, black...). The following colors are suitable for highlighting lips:

• For blondes: pink, scarlet, coral;
• For redheads and brown-haired women: brick, coral, fuchsia;
• For brunettes: burgundy, brick, terracotta.

Step-by-step instructions for brightly highlighted lip makeup:

1. Apply hygienic lipstick to your lips. It will protect the delicate skin of the lips from the penetration of small particles of decorative cosmetics;
2. Powder your lips with a puff. This way we will compare their color with the skin tone and will be able to draw any contour;
3. We outline the boundaries of future lips with a pencil. Don't make them unnaturally shaped;
4. Apply liquid lipstick or colored gloss;
5. We remove excess lipstick by dabbing a napkin with our lips.

Makeup for a date with an emphasis on the lips does not allow bright eyes. In this case, you can only slightly highlight the eyelashes with mascara and contour the eyes with thin eyeliner. Dyeing your eyebrows is not recommended.

Eyes

The right eye makeup can help a girl win over a guy at first sight. For a date, you can completely use this feminine trick.

Step-by-step scheme for applying cosmetics to highlight the eyes:

1. Be sure to even out the skin tone around the eyes using concealer or corrector;
2. We apply basic shadows to the entire sub-eyebrow area, the color should be neutral: white, beige, gray;
3. Use the main color to highlight the moving upper eyelid and the outer corner of the lower eyelid. With the same shadows you can;
4. Eyeliner is used as desired. It is recommended for brunettes, and only as a last resort for blondes;
5. Mascara is applied at the very end of eye makeup. It may be brown or black. Let's leave bright colors for the disco. Using them for a date may not be entirely successful.

Remember, dear girls: no makeup can replace your sincere emotions and smile during a date. The more openly you communicate with a guy, the more chances you have of winning him over. And makeup, manicure and outfit are just modest helpers of your charm and femininity.

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Choosing makeup for a date is a very responsible and quite complex process, because it must highlight your strengths, hide your flaws, and at the same time, please your date. And, of course, he should like you, giving you charm and self-confidence. The main mistake girls make is that they choose make-up for a date to suit their taste, forgetting the taste preferences of men, or they try to put on too much makeup. To ensure yours always looks perfect, follow simple rules.

Face

Of course, perfect skin is the key to success in any makeup. Remember, the skin on a date should be beautiful, velvety, but at the same time without an abundance of “plaster”, which men really don’t like. The ideal choice is to be lightweight and correct imperfections with concealer. Choose high-quality products for this task so that you do not have to apply several layers of product.

A good makeup base won't hurt on a date either. Agree, it won’t be very aesthetically pleasing if you go to the restroom every half hour to powder your nose, but the base will create excellent makeup durability.

As for face correction, you can use blush - they look natural and perfectly refresh the image. For a romantic evening, it is best to choose liquid versions of this product.

Eyes

For eye makeup, choose a natural palette of shadows. Men most often simply do not understand fashion for certain trends, and most of all they like naturalness. So if you love bright green wings, save them for your bachelorette party where they can be appreciated. And to meet a man, let your image be as natural as possible: without unnecessary color accents.

The edge of the eyelash can be drawn with eyeliner; if desired, make an arrow. Also be sure to apply eyelashes. It is best to shape eyebrows along the natural growth line in natural colors.

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