Your summer face New products make glamour look effortless!

Press, 20 August 1986, Page 14

Your summer face New products make glamour look effortless!

in vogue

paula ryan

Colours are softer and paler, applied with the lightest touch

What every woman wants for summer is a freer look with a pareddown beauty regime and easy quick ways to eliminate all that is unnecessary without sacrificing the end result.

The best help will come from the new and refined products. This summer, with such gentle things as foundation mousse coming on to the market, you’ll notice immediately that there is an almost see-through quality right at the base of makeup — it’s almost bare in effect, but it’s not.

Colours are softer and paler, applied with the lightest touch and the strength increased with more colour focused on a single feature. A splendid “wash” of colour on the face can be achieved with very flattering effects that have none of the cover-up masking effects of a heavy foundation. Blend a touch of tawny loose powder with a lightweight moisturiser. For an illusionary trick, a more bronze powder can be blended, slightly deeper and presto! A delicate and subtle tan. For women on the move, outdoors and active, as long as the skin is good the only daytime makeup needed for high summer is a clear pink or coral blush blended rather high on the cheekbone. Or the paler colourings of rose, coral or a very sheer beige can be used as accents' on cheeks, lips 'or eyes. Turning day into night' Turning day into night this summer is an easy sleight of hand. It can be as easy as adding a single thrust of colour on the mouth. Mouths are not filled in with a heavy hand. More, colour is used in single . translucent sweeps.

A pale and shimmery textured powder can lift the face from day to night, highlighting the eyes and adding the evening “glow” of summer.

No one wants to waste a precious minute of summer so for a woman who wears only a sheer foundation, a little lip colour and a brush oi

powder by day, the simple addition of a smoky brown eyeshadow, a flick of mascara and a hint of soft rose blush to cheeks and lips define an evening face.

Colours this summer are delicious with all the vivid hues of a fruitstall. Every skin tone can be flattered by some variation or another of the fruit shades.

Pure, clear and sundrenched with no grey muted elements, these ripe tones are the big colour news.

Don’t allow the density of colour in the container to put you off. What looks brilliant and garish in the new translucents becomes subtle and delectable on the face. The punchy colour glides on and then blends easily into mere hints of delicate colour. The result is a fresh, rather candid face with only a heightened natural tone and texture, enhanced with clear colour.

There are strawberry pinks in incredibly soft shades for the inner corners of the eyes and complementary raspberry to sweep on to the outer lid and lightly brush below the lower lashes.

The effect is completed with berry-toned mascaras and delicate raspberry and strawberry

shaded blush to highlight from the cheek to temple and across the browbone. Berry-ripe lips Lip colours replay the berry shades and after application, for the right look for this summer, must be blotted several times, at least, to a soft stain.

In a new spectrum of makeup colours come the tart shades of the lemmons and limes with touches of melon and gold completed with a dusting of gilded translucent powder. With its many incandescent colours this is a wonderful palette to work with a golden tan for. spectacular “golden girl” summer faces. The gilded lily look, with a subtle pale complexion, lit with delicate touches of gold has great appeal. Used with the delicate shades of soft azaleas, soft smoke and the colours of the pink topaz the gilding throws a perfect skin into beautiful focus.

Look for gilt dusted eyeshadows ... or slightly silvered colours for delicately burnished looks. Lips with a gilded sheen offset a sunburnt prettiness and pale olive skin is enhanced with wonderfully subtle “in the shade” colours.

Softness is the key with eye shades appearing with the appealingly soft titles

of Natural Silk, Crystal Pink, Pink Gold, Silver Sky, Twilight Teal, Silver Shadow, Angel Pink, Night Violet, and Mimosa. There are, of course, the optional brights in deep expressive shaes. What is important with the deeper shades is perfect blending for a polished finish.

Deeper colours for eyes like Rose Intense, Sienne, Fantasie, Kaleidoscopic Eyes, Sunlit Yellow, Sapphire, Sparkling Wine and Night Violet will make dramatic eye-play. Colour-rich lipsticks like Purple Heart, Lime Street, Octave, Magnolia and Mandarin blotted to a stain, will add impact to lips.

Summer sees a delicate enhancement of natural beauty, good skin and features. The cosmetic industry provides an astounding array of options — some surprising colour mixes to blend with care, delicious lip and nail colours and increasingly fine translucent dusting powders.

Before the lily is gilded, the skin care regimes available are boundless and effective. However bright the colour, the big word for Summer ’B6 is blend. Blend to subtlety and blend for beauty.