I must admit. Though I have some natural talent not to make myself look like a monkey with face paint, I have never really paid much attention to makeup. Mainly because, I’m a busy geek who champions over brain matters and craps on superficial matters that take up time!
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I wake up, brush my teeth, draw my eyes quickly, put on some rouge and smooth on a natural lip color very quickly just so I don’t scare people when I walk out the door.
I’ve been doing this for years, without having bothered to find out if there was actually a way to truly look better. I hid under the natural beauty excuse forever.
The Wake-Up Call
That is until I met this amazing woman, Choi Kit. Now to call her amazing is an understatement. She’s what they fearfully and wonderfully call a Crown Ambassador in Amway, the first in Malaysia and South East Asia. She got it so good she never has to work a day in her life, because she retired decades ago.
Hundreds of thousands of people dream of taking pictures with her, and yet I found myself fatefully by her side in recent weeks.
Choi Kit is a legend when it comes to beauty matters, and she has changed the lives of tens of thousands of women by helping them go from blah-to-wow. This morning, she finally couldn’t stand looking at the mess on my face anymore and decided to do something about it.
So she started teaching me a few rules about makeup and taught me full-on techniques on how to apply makeup that’s suitable for my style and face. Here’s sharing my newfound knowledge with you.
Rule #1 – Eyebrows
Your eyebrows frame your face. It has to have shape and a tail. It cannot arch and curve down over the corner of the eye, because the Chinese believe that people with droopy brow lines will never achieve great wealth. A sad, unfortunate, “poor me” face just can’t help roll in the moolah apparently.
How’s that for “Face Feng Shui”?
Better listen to the multi-millionaire. She also taught me how to work with the eyebrow pencil. Did you know there’s technique involved in that too?
Rule #2 – Eyeshadow
The universal rule of not looking like a freak is to never apply eyeshadow over the corner of your eye and outside the brow line. Keep within the boundaries! Since the shape of my eyes are round, Choi Kit tells me that I shouldn’t make it even rounder by applying dark shadow all over. Wahey!
Okay sifu.
Rule #3 – Eyeliner
If you want the natural look, she says to toss the black liner and use brown instead. She says toss the pencil too, and use a liquid liner for precision. The most important lesson I learned was that not everybody looks good when they trace the eyelid lines, which is what I’ve been doing forever. Looks good for some people, but in most cases you have to create a line that looks best on you. In my case (because I have really round eyes), I have to lift up my eyes by drawing up.
Who would have thought being beautiful was so technical?
Rule #4 – Eyelashes
Yvonne, one of Choi Kit’s veteran downlines said, don’t be fooled. Even all the natural-looking celebrities all use fake lashes. Even her daughter-in-law, who is a “natural beauty” never leaves home without them. If she could only put one makeup item on, it would be the fake lashes. You simply need it if you want to look beautiful, according to Yvonne.
Can you even tell they’re fake? They look so natural on me don’t they?
Choi Kit famously said, “There’s no such thing as an ugly woman. Just a lazy one.”
So if you want to look good, you gotta work at it.
That’s what I learned today. Tomorrow I’ll be a face model where I’ll learn how to use makeup to cover all my freckles, a la Korean natural girl style.
I’m really excited!
What do you think? Does the makeup skills make a difference? Let me know in the comment sections below!