4 Beauty Tips and Tricks: Spring Makeup

Feb 13, 2014 on Fashion and Beauty

It’s tricky to think about spring when we’re still getting up to freezing winter mornings and steaming hot coffees. But, ready or not, spring’s right around the corner. Flowers are budding, department stores are packing away heavy winter coats… but what are you doing to get ready for the warmer weather? Nothing? Don’t panic, we’re here to help you reinvent yourself for the sweetest seasons with four awesome beauty tips and tricks for spring makeup.

 Beauty Tips and Trick for Spring Makeup - Achieve a flawless natural complexion

 

 

1. Achieve a flawless, natural complexion

If you only try one of our beauty tips and tricks for your spring makeup makeover, make it this one. The most important part of looking fab in any season is giving yourself a beautiful canvas to work on. It doesn’t matter whether your makeup look is girl-next-door or total glamourpuss, a smooth and glowing complexion never goes out of style.

Spring and summer are the perfect seasons for banishing heavy foundations and letting your skin’s natural beauty shine through. To achieve a flawless but natural complexion, swap your regular foundation for a tinted moituriser or BB cream. This will let your skin breathe while still offering sufficient coverage to even out skin tone, address hyperpigmentation and disguise minor blemishes. Garnier’s Miracle Skin Perfector BB Cream (Drugstore.com - $12.99) is a great budget choice as it contains SPF20, minimises pores and is completely non-comedogenic.

If your skin still needs some TLC, treat yourself to a face mask, like the pore-tightening Bellaboo Face Mask Clear Skin Smoothie (Drugstore.com - $9.99). Your skin will thank you for it.

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2. Ditch the dark colours

During winter, we love to rock vampy plum lipsticks and oh-so sultry smoky eyes. However, once spring rolls around, it’s time to slip into something a little fresher. For a sweet spring makeup look, you can’t go wrong with a hot pink or coral lipstick. We love Vincent Longo Velvet Riche Lipstick in La Prima (Beauty.com - $23) for its amazingly creamy consistency and moisturising formula. If you’re feeling extra bold, tangerine hues, like the Elizabeth Arden Ceramide Ultra lipstick in Coral Vibrations (Beauty.com - $22.50) , are still bang on trend for a spring makeup style that screams high fashion.

When it comes to eye shadow, our top beauty tips and tricks are all about playing with colour. For a subtle look, choose a champagne or seashell pink colour to brighten up your eyes. For a trendy pop of colour, try sporting aqua eye-liner. The Dr. Hauschka  Skin Care Eyeliner Duo (Beauty.com - $29.95) is a smart option, because it’s dual-ended and offers both an aqua and practical black liner in one. Of course, if you want go to more adventurous, you can opt for an intense splash of hot pink on the lid - think Urban Decay Woodstock eye shadow (Beauty.com - $18).

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3. Do some routine maintenance

In winter, some routines fall by the wayside. If you’ve been hiding several weeks’ of leg hair growth under thick tights, now’s the time to prepare your pins for a spring wardrobe using your favourite hair removal procedure. For a no-fuss product, check out Nair Hair Remover Lotion for Body & Legs (Drugstore.com - $4.79). It’s enriched with cocoa butter and vitamin E for a smooth as silk finish. If you’re feeling a bit pasty from three months indoors, give your legs back their glow with the St. Tropez Wash Off Instant Glow Body Lotion (Beauty.com - $18).

 

Once your lovely legs are taken care of, it’s time to ditch any unwanted hair that’s accumulated above your upper lip. You don’t want your spring makeup eclipsed by peach fuzz. Don’t fancy wax? The Nair Precision Face & Upper Lip Kit (Drugstore.com - $5.59) is almost as fast and totally painless.

 

4. Rock a Pastel Manicure

The final of our beauty tips and tricks is for your nails. A gorgeous manicure is a quick way to tie together any outfit or spring makeup look. Just as with your lipstick lipstick, mauve, berry and plum are beautiful in winter but need to go back on the shelf for a while to give some fresh, bright colours the chance to shine through.

Pastels are a trend that resurface every spring. They’re easy to wear, super cute with summer dresses, and flattering on almost all skin tones. For an adorable seasonal mani, paint three (alternating) nails on each hand in a baby blue colour, like Essie’s ever popular Bikini So Teeny (Beauty.com - $8). Then, paint your remaining two nails in a soft, pastel pink, like Essie Mini How High (Beauty.com - $8.50).

With our four best beauty tips and tricks, you can shake off the winter blues and swing into spring with a hot new makeup routine that’s bound to turn heads. Don’t forget to use 70% off clearance coupons at Beauty.com and Drugstore.com free shipping  coupons to save on your new beauty items. Good luck!