My dears,
In September last year I had the opportunity to talk a bit with Alexandru Abagiu, official make-up artist L'Oreal Paris, but also a famous name in this field due to his vast experience and the professionalism he showed. throughout his career.
I invite you to take part in a complete make-up lesson in which you will receive special tips that will give you a correct perspective on this art.
Ioana Dumitrache: How can we adapt the trends in everyday makeup?
Alexandru Abagiu: I think it is very important to know yourself and to know what suits you very well. Then try to somehow capitalize on all the information that the specialized publications offer you and know how to extract things that you can use to spice up your daily look.
I believe that any woman must have a very well-established look, very well understood by herself, which she can use as a basis for applying these spices. Here this season we are talking a lot about color ink or eyeliner, or red lips or Bordeaux. These would be the key words in terms of trends. These things can always be applied based on the makeup that the woman normally does. For example, she can add this line of eyeliner to her normal eyelid makeup, or she can somehow season it with a more pigmented or saturated eyeshadow on the mobile eyelid area. I believe a lot in these fireworks that change a look that you have already established and in no case do I believe in applying word for word a look that you see in a magazine that looks good on a young skin, on a mannequin that has an impeccable complexion and probably 16 years old, and you will eventually do this in front of the mirror at home in the light of a neon light bulb and with blush may not be of the best quality. This is not to be condemned, but I think it is very important to have a little respect for yourself in terms of the normal makeup routine, to know what ingredients and products you put on your face and if you could afford more to you do it. And only then to spice up your usual look, which is the basis of the make-up with the key elements of the season - those accessories that give you that belonging to the group, but which also differentiate you.
Ioana Dumitrache: There is a myth according to which if you accentuate your lips you must have a more natural eye make-up, this season's trends offer us intense colors for both eyes and lips, how do we reconcile them?
Alexandru Abagiu: It is very important to translate this in front of you, into your physiognomy. I think that when we talk about intense eye makeup, it is very important to know if you have big lips that you will never be able to highlight them at the same time with your eyes using a strong lipstick. And this is true and vice versa: if you have less voluminous lips then they are certainly not the focus of your face and you should focus on the eyes. You need to choose those things that you consider to be good or appropriate in order to be valued and to put in the background those features that you personally are not satisfied with at that moment. And this can be done very easily through the technique of contrasts: where you apply a contrast that area will stand out much more and inevitably its proximity will be somehow erased by the presence of this point of intensity. If you use a very strong lipstick instead, I think it is important to keep the eye makeup within a natural limit because then you already risk emphasizing 3 areas: intense lips, the color of the iris which is almost always a focus and if you do and a colorful eye makeup, taking into account the natural color of the eyes, is already too much for the whole face.
Ioana Dumitrache: If we want to hide the wrinkles in the eye area, can we accentuate that area with a dark color and thus distract attention from the problem?
Alexandru Abagiu: As long as the wrinkles are placed in the immediate vicinity of the eyelashes, yes we can do this marking with a dark color. But often wrinkles are somewhere on the bridge between the root of the eyelashes and the cheekbone area, and there you can't really mask it in any way. I recommend in that area to use a concealer with good coverage, but not too thick because then it risks to tighten inside the wrinkles and use a free, micronized powder that you tap very effectively on this area insisting even, so as not to risk destabilizing the product there and wrinkling during the day. A matte area will mask wrinkles much better than a glossy area, which is why powder plays an important role even around the eyes.
Ioana Dumitrache: What is your favorite trend and which one do you think will compliment women the most?
Alexandru Abagiu: From this season I choose the eyeliner without hesitation because I am convinced that regardless of the shape of the eyelids, a correctly placed eyeliner line can highlight the eyes very well and in addition it is a minimum that any woman can afford, any woman with a little exercise can do it well and will really make a difference for anyone. It is the type of product that you can have anywhere in your bag, in your briefcase and that you can carry with you very easily. With a good coat of mascara and a lipstick, either natural or red, you have already got a whole look.
Ioana Dumitrache: Can you tell us 3 simple tricks for women who consider themselves less skilled or more clumsy in makeup?
Alexandru Abagiu:
1. Don't overdo it with foundation. Always use a damp sponge because the end result will be much more transparent and the color changes will be much more imperceptible, and so you do not risk making mistakes.
2. Do not overdo it with powder because poorly applied powder or a poorly chosen color can migrate to other shades and change the skin tone.
3. If you are not an expert in applying eyelid makeup or darkening, do not overdo it because a dark color also requires good makeup-bearing skin and especially be careful during the day to maintain that makeup to he looked impeccable. A careless or damaged black make-up can in no way compliment that woman.
8 comments
Thank you very much for the very interesting article!
Good tips for makeup! An interesting interview. Thank you.
very interesting and bravo!
bravo, beautiful! te puppp
fooooorte interesting !!!! Thanks a lot!
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I listened to his advice and I watch his videos on youtube. I like it a lot, it knows what it does and it can be seen that it does it with pleasure. Only such a good thing can come out of such a combination.
And I like you more and more mail. To as many beautiful and useful articles as possible!
Super nice interview, you are a journalist, Ioana! Kiss you, my dear.