Fall in Love with a New Look: the Best Makeup for Fall

Rosy Cheeks

Retire the bronzer for a few months in favor of a redder blush. After applying your foundation, use a blush brush to sweep the blush onto the fullest part of your cheek. The goal is to look flushed like you just went for a brisk walk outside, and not like a clown from the circus, which can happen with red blush. Make sure you apply it lightly and evenly, avoiding your cheekbones (that’s where the bronzer belongs).

The best way to look your best during the fall is to start with a clean complexion. And because you don’t have the summer sun tanning your skin anymore, you might want to recheck that the color of your foundation, concealer, and powder still match your skin tone. But just because the sun isn’t as bright, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t protect your skin with SPF in your makeup or moisturizer. When it comes to prepping your face everyday, make sure you wash with a mild cleanser each morning before applying moisturizer and following up with foundation and powder applied from the center outwards.

There’s never a wrong time for red lipstick, but the trick is in the subtle shade changes depending on the occasion. During the fall, you’ll want a shade of lipstick that’s closer to burgundy. Start light with a single coat during the day and amp up the intensity for your night on the town with a few more coats. Exfoliate your lips first with either a scrub or clean toothbrush so that your lipstick goes on smoothly and evenly. Apply lip liner to the outside of your lips and your lipstick from the center out for fuller lips. Finish off with a coat of gloss on top or leave your lips matte.

It’s not hard to pull off this popular technique, and it works with nearly every eye color and shape. You can start with something as simple and understated as soft brown or gold eye shadow and coordinating eyeliner on the top and bottom lash line for daytime wear. Then as you transition to nighttime, try out a more dramatic look darker browns and blacks with matching eyeliner. Use two colors of eye shadow — the lighter one for the eyelid and the darker one for closer to the lash line. Then rim both the top and bottom of your eyes with eyeliner.