Glam Slam: Growing Up Gorgeous

Eighteen-year-old Kendall Jenner is a reality TV celebrity, social media sensation and she’s killing it in the modeling world.

I didn’t know my way around a makeup palette, much less a runway when I was a teenager.

And while the kind of success Kendall has achieved is a very, very rare thing — that doesn’t mean we can’t all be our most beautiful and gorgeous selves. Just ask celebrity makeup artist Carmindy, who has written a guide, featuring real teens, to help us all grow up gorgeous — no matter what your age!

“I wrote my new book ‘Bloom’ as a beauty and empowerment must-have guide that all girls need to arm themselves against low self-esteem,” Carmindy tells Glam Slam. “I wish I had this book when I was an awkward young girl. Even adults will find that Bloom can help us change our negative self-image in as little as a chapter.”
Here are Carmindy’s top beauty tips for teens and adults…

Top 5 Tips For Teens

1. To cover up mild acne spots don’t coat your whole face with heavy concealer, foundation and powder. Instead use a small-tipped concealer brush dipped into a little concealer that matches your skin tone and just tap it on the spots. It will erase the acne prone areas but still allow your beautiful youthful complexion to show. You can also use a concealer crayon to dab on the spot with no extra tools needed.
2. Use regular white sugar to exfoliate your skin. No need for expensive face and body scrubs when the regular sweet stuff from your shower will work better and cost nothing.
3. When wearing glitter on the eyes, erase sparkly fall off by applying a piece of Scotch tape on the glitter particles that fell below the eyes. Peel of the tape and the unwanted glitter goes with it.
4. To erase stubborn eye makeup, use a Q-Tip dipped into regular olive oil to clean the eyes and leave a moisturized trace behind.
5. Chose just one feature to play up with makeup not both. If you want to wear a bold lip color go easy on the eyes. If you want to create a cool cat eye pair it with a neutral lip.

Top 5 Tips For Adults

1. Always Carmindize the face with my Carmindizing Highlighter Duo in Ethereal to restore radiance and glow to skin of all tones and all ages. Apply it under the brows on the brow bone area, on the inside corners of the eyes and on tips of the cheekbones.
2. When it comes to blush, use a big fluffy powder brush to apply it (not a small blush brush). This bigger size will hug the apples of the cheeks and blend on the perfect flush every time.
3. Always apply foundation first then follow with concealer. This way you will apply less concealer as the foundation covers a lot and you won’t wipe off all the concealer work you did. You’ll use less if you apply concealer after foundation and your skin will look more natural.
4. Get a fast and easy rock-n-roll eye look by applying black liner on the inside rims (waterline) of the eyes then squeeze your eyes together tight for a cool slightly smudgy look.
5. Create a perfect cat eye every time by lining eyes with a black pencil first creating a stencil then following with a liquid liner and just trace along the top.

 

For more info on Carmindy or her book “Bloom: A Girl’s Guide to Growing Up Gorgeous,” go to www.carmindy.com.

— Ryan Patterson