All about soft girl makeup
There are many options for fashionable and beautiful makeup. Each girl chooses a suitable one for herself or combines several attractive solutions. Many people love the trendy soft girl makeup that makes the look younger and more playful. In this article we will tell you more about it.
Peculiarities
Before considering the distinctive characteristics of such a make-up, it is worth understanding what it is. So, soft girl is a youth subculture that sets a certain style for clothes, accessories and make-up.
This interesting direction was born thanks to the TikTok social network, where people shoot and post short videos.
The soft girl style is noticeably different from other youth styles. For example, e-girl or beach-girl trends involve the use of clothes and cosmetics in brighter and more expressive (often acidic) shades. Soft girl is distinguished by the predominance of calmer pastel colors. This style of clothing and makeup looks less pretentious and provocative.
Today, the soft girl style is wildly popular among young girls. The direction was born quite recently - in 2019, but has already managed to win the love of many beauties.
Soft Girl combines elements of several directions at once that were relevant in the past.
It is necessary to take into account the fact that to create a harmonious image in the style of soft girl it is not enough to choose the right clothes. It is very important to choose the right cosmetics for a beautiful make-up. A necessary detail here is always a high-quality blush of a peach or pale pink shade, a light lip gloss, as well as a highlighter in a pink, peach or white shade.
Besides, the style in question allows drawing fake details on a girl's face. These include playful freckles, butterflies, various compositions with hearts, clouds and even drawn cartoons. When girls paint, adhering to this youth direction, they show imagination, try to emphasize a bright individuality.
Another feature of soft girl makeup is the admissibility of the demonstration of childish elements. This is manifested by the predominance of girlish pink in cosmetics or various details, attributes of Hello Kitty.
Used cosmetics
As mentioned above, for soft girl makeup, you need to match your cosmetic products. To create a fashionable girlish look, a girl's cosmetic bag must contain cosmetics in pastel, “sweet” colors.
Usually, soft girl makeup is kept in one or two basic shades. Moreover, some girls use the same remedy for different purposes. For example, it can be a regular lipstick of your favorite delicate color, which is additionally used as an eyeshadow on the eyelids. Many girls really like this convenient and practical solution.
To create a stylish look, soft girls use high-quality foundation in natural and light tones. Hair color also plays an important role. Most girls prefer natural shades, but there are those who want to experiment.
In the image of a soft girl, a well-designed makeup looks more interesting and expressive if it is supported by a pastel pink or purple hair color.
The look is fresh and youthful using a delicate shade of powder. The most commonly used cosmetics are pale pink tones. Peach powder is also popular. With such makeup on the cheeks, it is possible to form a truly canonical image.
Lipstick is optional in soft girl makeup. You can do without it. Usually, girls choose a gentle lip gloss instead.
In most cases, concealers of suitable tones and quite a lot of highlighter are used to create a harmonious look and soft girl makeup. Often, girls strive to make their skin more shiny and sparkling. This detail gives the image a special girlish playfulness, attractiveness.
Light and airy shades of the same purple and pink shades fit perfectly into the youth style. You can complete the girlish make-up with beautiful arrows around the eyes (they can be very large and expressive), as well as a small drawn heart on the neck or cheek.
For eyelashes, girls use ordinary mascara, having previously twisted the hairs with special tweezers. You can resort to complementing the image with false eyelashes. So the look is brighter, attracts more attention.
Since several cosmetics can be used simultaneously for a harmonious soft-girl makeup, girls often pre-moisturize their skin. If this is not done, there is a risk of experiencing unpleasant sensations of dryness and tightness after a while or after washing off the makeup.
You can use a variety of moisturizers that are absorbed quickly.
There are a lot of cosmetics on sale that are suitable for creating beautiful youth makeup in the style in question. In shops with cosmetics, girls can choose for themselves high-quality shadows, gloss, lipsticks and tonal creams / highlighters in calm, natural shades.
How to do it yourself?
A bold, youthful soft girl look can be easily created at home with the right beauty products. Many girls resort to such solutions not only for shooting short videos or walking around the city with friends, but also for going to school. Since such a make-up is dominated by neutral and unobtrusive shades, it is unlikely to be perceived negatively in an educational institution.
However, for schoolwork, it is better to choose a gentle, light makeup without fat and large arrows, as well as drawings with hearts.
Let's take a step-by-step look at how to decorate your look using cute soft girl makeup.
- First you need to properly tint your face. To do this, use a foundation of a suitable shade. The latter must be natural.
- Next, it is worth highlighting the eyebrows, using special shadows or mascara for the eyebrows. It is necessary to emphasize the line of eyebrows lightly and unobtrusively. They may be slightly tousled, but moderation should be observed here.
- The next step is to apply the eye shadow of a suitable shade to the eyelids. Peach or pale pink are ideal, especially if your makeup is for a teenager heading to school. If you are planning a regular walk with friends or a party, the shade of the shadows can be more expressive, for example, yellow.
- An airy, subtle shade can be applied to the lower eyelid.
- Next, you should gradually apply concealer to the prepared face skin. It is placed on the forehead, nose line, cheeks and chin, and then carefully shaded. After that, you can return to the eyes again.
- Now it's time to start drawing the arrows. For schoolwork, it is better not to draw them, especially if they are too expressive and daring. But for the usual way out, you can resort to this method of decorating girls' eyes.
- Give the face a more attractive and prettier look it will work if you apply a gentle blush of pastel orange or peach on your cheeks.
- If you are planning to draw fake freckles, now is the time. Girls use different devices for this. For example, it is convenient to draw freckles using the tips of a bobby pins. The latter should be lowered into brown shades. Then, with the tip of the hair clip, you need to randomly "scatter" small brown dots over the cheeks and areas near the nose. On which particular zone it is better to focus, each girl decides for herself.
- After application, small brown spots should be very gently shaded with a clean finger. It is not necessary to do strong pressure, as well as smear the painted freckles on the skin. You should act as carefully as possible. If done correctly, freckles will turn out to be very natural and cute.
- Now you can use a highlighter of a suitable shade, to give the face the same shine, without which soft girl makeup usually cannot do.
- Next, you should use lip gloss or lipstick. It is very convenient to paint lips with matte lipstick in the form of a pencil. Choose a gentle and calm tone that will look harmonious against the background of other cosmetics that you have already applied. Lightly blend dry lipstick on your lips.
- After that some girls put on lip gloss, although this is not necessary.
- The final touch to a girly, playful makeup - twisting your own and gluing artificial cilia. First, you need to curl natural eyelashes using special curling tweezers. Then you can stick the artificial villi.
- Eyelashes need to be painted with mascara giving them more volume and splendor.
At this point, the application of fashionable makeup in the style of soft girl can be considered complete. Of course, you can use other means and paint on your face not only ordinary freckles, but also hearts / clouds.Here a lot depends on where exactly the girl is painting and what results she wants to get in general.
Stylish examples
The original youth makeup in the style of soft girl allows girls to become more cute, gentle and attractive. If you correctly use cosmetics in pastel shades, you can give your face a unique lightness, freshness and charm.
Let's take a look at some stylish soft girl looks.
A girl who chooses soft girl makeup with a predominance of pale pink blush and matte lipstick of the same color will look very easy and natural. Fluffy but well-groomed eyebrows with a slight highlight through dark shadows will look interesting. The eyelids can be tinted with pale orange shadows, and a little shiny highlighter can be applied to the bridge of the nose and the tip of the nose with cheeks.
The image will turn out to be more playful if you supplement it with painted freckles and well-colored, voluminous eyelashes.
Soft girl makeup, which uses several expressive colors, will look unusual. So, you can use a combination of yellow, green and purple shadows, depict from them a kind of gradient on the eyelids. Colorful shadows will look more interesting when paired with long black arrows and fluffy curled eyelashes.
A bold soft girl look is complemented not only with matching makeup, but also with an original hair color. So, a girl can give her face an even natural tone, apply very delicate peach or beige shadows on her eyelids, stick lush artificial eyelashes in bunches. Pink-lilac lipstick on the lips, pictures of stars, clouds and rainbows on the cheek will look interesting in such a combination. To complement the makeup, the daring girl can dye her hair a pale purple hue.
A very bright and even catchy image will turn out if you paint the eyelids with shades of beige and bright pink, make neat eyebrows with dark pink, draw many pink hearts in several rows under expressive girlish eyes. The look will turn out to be more attractive and open if you glue long and lush eyelashes, like dolls. For the lips, you should choose a calmer lipstick in a natural shade with a slight shine. The finishing touch will be long straight hair dyed in a soft pink color.
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