Makeup tips alopecia

Look what a nice everyday make-up I did at the salon yesterday:

Surely you can not believe that she has alopecia and has neither lashes nor eyebrows?

I have emailed her a bit before when she lost all her hair in 3 weeks in November. Gosh what a shock it must be, to in adulthood get rid of hair both on the head as well as lashes and eyebrows pang bom without warning.

She had hardly put on any make-up before, as she had tight eyebrows and long eyelashes. And now it's like she's lost all her DNA, she says, like her whole face has fallen off. The facial expression is very much in the eyebrows and eyes so it is not so strange.

Giving makeup tips over email to someone who does not have much control over makeup is not easy, and making it to a person who has neither eyebrows nor lashes himself is even more difficult. So yesterday she came to me at the salon in Uppsala instead and we did a thorough make-up consultation with tips on how to think about putting on make-up even though you have neither eyebrows nor lashes. She went from Örebro to come to me ♥

Makeup tips for you without hair, eyelashes and eyebrows:

Instead of eyelashes
To make up the eyes without eyelashes, you have to think a little about what an eye with eyelashes actually looks like - at the bottom of the eyelid it is very dark and full, and then there is a more fan effect, which makes the whole thing brighter at the top.

Therefore, it is also a good idea to first mark with black at the bottom of the eyelid, where the lashes should actually have sat, and then soot upwards, preferably with a lighter color (we have used brown) to get a soft and nice fade.

The underside of the eyes
The same applies to the underside of the eyes. We lit up the waterline for a more open and "clean" look, and then we added a soft, brown marking where the lower lashes were before. You can also use black but it will be a much higher degree of difficulty to get it nice, if you take too little it looks dull and if you take more it will be easy too much and too hard, therefore often a brown shade is a better alternative to the underside.

The lashes are often so long that they extend up over the skin fold in the crease line, so do not be afraid to put the eye shadow a little higher up to lift the gaze even more! Look straight ahead in the mirror and relax, and apply the shadow so high up that the fading is over the skin fold in the crease line.

Sharp eyeliner or smoky?
I recommend making a sooty eyeliner instead of a sharp one. When I make a sharp eyeliner on myself, the lashes still come out after the mascara, but if you make a sharp eyeliner and then have no lashes, it becomes clearer that the lashes are missing.

But when we have smoked our eyes, you would hardly see any difference in the distance if she had had lashes or not, because the shading gives the same effect as if she had had lashes.

When we were done, she met Zahra in the store (who was at lunch when she came here) and Zahra said afterwards that I had done so well. And when I said that she had alopecia and had neither eyebrows nor lashes, she was very shocked! She had looked at the make-up but did not reflect at all that something was missing "I who usually notice all the details!" she said, surprised that she had not thought of it. Best review - when not even a makeup artist notices anything! :)

Eyebrows
The most important thing when filling in the eyebrows is not to make them too filled and painted, the color can be a bit "uneven" otherwise it looks like two painted worms. You also have to think about how much time you want to spend on it every morning, you can make your brows even more lifelike and fill in small straws in them, but here we did the simplest possible, but still nice, because the most important thing is that you have the strength do it every day :)

In people without their own eyebrows, you often see a small bulge out of the skin where they have been sitting, the brow bone protrudes a little and the skin is often experienced a little lighter. If you look closely at that leg, you often see approximately where the eyebrows have been and an approximate shape. It can be helpful when you have no idea how to paint.

Now the picture is taken at an angle so the guidelines are a bit skewed, but guidelines that can be helpful are these four lines that you see in the picture above:

1. From the nasal wing and straight up, the brow begins
2. From the nasal wing, through the pupil and upwards is the highest point
3. From the wing of the nose, through the outer corner of the eye and outwards, the brow ends
4. The horizontal lines show that the beginning and end of the brow are at the same level, so that it is not further down the innermost or outermost.

I also usually keep in mind that the beginning of the brow is just as wide all the way to the highest point, and also quite straight so that there is not a ski slope at the top which makes you look a bit bitchy, or that there is a slope at the bottom so that one instead looks surprised.

How do I fill in my brows if I have no straws to go after?
When you have an idea of what the shape looks like and should start painting, look at where the brow bone is and paint the underside of the brow on both sides. Then it is easier to see the symmetry and if one brow becomes much lower than the other or similar. Than if you make a whole brow on one side, and then try to get a similar one on the other side. Do a little at a time on both brows at the same time.

I have used Pixi Natural Brow Duo which is a pencil that is easy to paint with thanks to the fact that it is like a small triangle, it is also waterproof and lasts very well. You can see the tutorial on a picture in webshop if you want to see more clearly how I use it. I fill in the same way even if you do not have your own straws.

I have used these products:

Face:
Face primer - pixi redness reducing primer
Foundation - Pixi H2O skintint (3 Warm)
Concealer - Pixi Correction Concentrate
Powders that neutralize red areas - gloMinerals redness relief powder
Contouring - Pixi Book of beauty Contour Creator Palette
Rouge - gloMinerals blush (Papaya)
Makeup Fixing mist - Pixi makeup fixing mist

Eyebrows - Pixi Duo Brow (Deep brunette)
Lips - Pixi Shea Butter Lip Balm (Ripe Raspberry)

Eyes:
Eyeshadow Primer - Pixi eye bright primer
Black smoky eyeliner - Paese cashmere eyeshadow (602)
Brown eyeshadow - Paese cashmere eyeshadow (612)
Light eye shadow - Paese opal eyeshadow (Golden Brown)
Light eyeliner along the waterline - Benecos White natural kajal

And everything is available at Byher.se and in our store / salon in Uppsala :)

Really big difference if you compare before and after with / without wig as well. Although I personally think she is just as beautiful both with and without hair on her head. I think that the facial expression with eyebrows and marked eyes makes a bigger difference than the hair actually.

Do you have any more questions on the subject? Just to get in touch with you in such cases, I will try to answer everything as detailed as possible.

Hugs are! ♥