[fluid][html css=”margin-top:80px;”]If you’re new to make up, you may find yourself lost in the complexities of makeup, skincare, and everything else that makes up beauty products. This category of products are called cosmetics. Cosmetics include products used to cleanse or beautify one’s body. To separate e skin care and hair care from beauty products that enhance the face, people call it make-up. Make up usually refers to items like foundation, eyeliner, mascara, lipstick, and etc. As a professional, one may find themselves in the theatrics and prosthetics make up field.

Makeup can be purchased at a variety of stores, such as drug pharmacies and beauty supply stores like CVS or local stores. Or large beauty stores like Sephora and Merle Norman. These companies offer products that enhance the full body including body scrubs, lotions, and other creams. This occurs due to the intersectionality of skincare in cosmetics. Healthy skin is thefoundation for a make up look to die for, but you will still need these products below to push the creativity envelope. To achieve an introductory kit purchase these products from brands and formulas that work well with your skin:
- Face and Eyeshadow Primer
- Foundation
- Concealer
- Setting Powder
- Brow powder, gel, or pencil
- Mascara
- Eyeliner
- Eyeshadow Palette(s)
- Lip liner
- Lippie – lipstick, lip gloss, lip stain
- Highlighter
- Blush
- Setting Spray

To apply these products there are a ton of tools to make the makeup application, simple, crazy, and fun. The standard tools are brushes and sponges. Brushes and sponges have been used for decades to create these photoready masterpieces. Overtime, they have grown to include airbrush machines, mechanical cleansers, and other innovations to advance the future of cosmetics. A basic brush set includes:
- Foundation Brush
- Powder Brush
- Blush Brush
- Concealer Brush
- Shadow Brush
- Crease Brush
- Brow Brush
As you advance your way up the the ladder, you may find yourself with eye brush sets that can include:
- Buffing Brush
- Fan Contour Brush
- Smudge Brush
to achieve these sultry, colorful, and vivacious looks.
Anyone can achieve a simple clean look that brings out their best features. This is not the only way to achieve a new look. Everyone’s makeup comfortability varies based on what they prefer. While some may love a full glammed face, slayed to the gods, others prefer a fresh face with BB cream. Either way the beauty world has products for everyone. So lets enjoy them and finesse.[/html][/fluid]