A Guide to Flawless Fall Makeup

Are you ready to upgrade your makeup look for the fall? With the help of Cate McNabb cosmetics you can easily achieve your boldest, best, and flawless fall makeup look yet!

Flawless Skin

Managing your complexion can be tricky what with blemishes, breakouts, dry patches, and t-zones, but a little bit of correction can go a lot further than you think. If you’re comfortable with wearing a foundation, start there, but if not skip it and start with concealer. If you’ve opted for foundation, next pop on concealer in the areas that need a little extra correcting. If you’re wearing only concealer be sure to blend into surrounding skin.

Beautiful, Matte Radiant Skin

Matte radiance is the goal this fall – try Cate McNabb cream natural foundation makeup and one of our four new complexion-specific powders to set foundation and to impart the skin with a gorgeous, natural glow without the shine. Keep contours and the perimeter of the face powdered, and try contouring with a darker, cool-toned powder, like Cate McNabb’s cruelty-free makeup pressed powder in Umber instead of the warmth of a bronzer. Leave the high plane of the cheek un-powdered for a dewy glow.

Neo Nude Lips

We’re willing to bet you’ve got a stand-by ultra-nude lip – or you’ve at least tried this look. But that is not the nude we’re talking about this season. Forget what Kim’s done and try a little of what Cate is doing!

Achieving the Neo Nude Lip LookChoosing a lip color that falls into the same color range as your face foundation is a dramatic move and it may do more good as a concealer than a natural lipstick, as far as fall freshness is concerned. So let’s talk about actual natural, nude lip colors. One of the biggest pillars in natural makeup is that it pulls color from a real place. We can’t put light pink lips on a deeper complexion and expect it to look natural and the opposite is also true. When you look in the mirror, try your best to be honest in judging the undertones in your lip’s true color and then find a color similar but slightly enhanced. You may try lip lacquer or bold lipsticks, which are great year round for brightening up a beautiful face.

Water Color…Color

Remember art class when you saw the water color paints in all of those vibrant colors? Then when you went to use them, virtually no color hit the paper? That’s probably the best way to describe the approach to achieving a natural color application from your makeup. It’s all about saturation, density, and pressure when applying to the skin. Blush and eye color can actually be the same product applied gently with a fluffy brush. Obviously, a bigger powder brush will be used for the cheeks and wispy blending eye shadow brush for eyes, but by continuing with the same natural color on cheek and eye, it’s more likely to mimic natural flush and radiance of the face.

Bigger, Bolder Brows

A bigger brow is definitely back, but not everyone is blessed to have a natural brow like Lilly Collins or Cara Delevinge. If you do, tidy up the edges a bit and brush through with a clear brow gel to hold the hair in place. Most of us are going to need either a little brow pencil or tinted brow gel at the least. If you’ve got brow hairs that lack color but the fullness is there, brush through with an appropriately tinted brow gel. If you’re lacking volume and shape lightly pencil through with a brow pencil. Short, soft flicks of the pencil emulate natural hairs (just be sure to also follow the brow’s natural shape). Once penciled through, brush with either clear or tinted brow gel. This brings the focus back to the hair that exists, as opposed to the shape you’ve penciled in.

Muted Mascara

Save the luscious lashes for happy hour and instead enhance your daytime eyes with a subtler black/brown mascara. Softly define the lash in a deeper shade of brown to keep a more natural and warmer feel to complete the makeup. Bold lashes are a great staple for every bombshell look, but this softer look can be achieved with a few short strokes and really lends itself well to a “no makeup” look.

Are You Ready For Fall?

Be sure to check out CateMcnabbCosmetics.com to stock up on all of the makeup products you need for a beautiful, natural fall makeup look!