Give Your Face A SummerTime Glow

The party season is here and it’s time to sparkle. You can add extra glow to your face or body with some fun new cosmetics, and enhance bare skin with a flattering iridescent touch – whatever your age and skin type. Follow our tips for the best ways to dazzle.

• Use a little shine and shimmer to detract from flaws or to enhance eyelids, cheeks or brow bones.
• A facial luminiser can be used alone or mixed with your usual foundation – either on the whole face or as a highlighter. The tiny mirrored particles reflect light away from imperfections to make your skin appear more even and radiant.
• For first-time sparkle experimenters, iridescent powders are simple to apply on face and body – they look gorgeous on sandalled feet.
• A touch of shine on the eyelids or brow bones will brighten and flatter the eye area. Apply it lightly in the middle of the lid, blending up and outwards, avoiding the inner corners if crinkled.
• Make your toes twinkle to match pretty summer sandals with sparkling glitter polishes.
• You can use make-up to enhance the skin on your shoulders, arms, décolletage, back or legs, just as you do on your face. Body moisturisers or bronzers that contain reflective shimmer particles have the same flaw-minimising effects as luminous make-up, resulting in more even, silky-looking skin.
• An iridescent sheen is subtle, yet very pretty, on fair-skinned shoulders and décolletage.
• A shimmer bronzer peps up pale legs or any part of the body needing extra summer colour.
• Three leading make-up artists share some of their professional secrets to help you shimmer in style.
  "Keep a special brush solely for shimmer products. Attract light and open up the eyes by applying a quarter of a centimetre of shimmer with an eye-shadow brush or cotton bud on the lashline, from the inner corner out, halfway across both upper and lower lids
• When using shimmer, stick to one iridescent shade rather than mixing. For a summery look, try mixing a shimmer powder bronzer with your foundation or body cream."
  Fiona Corrigan
  "For more mature skin choose fine-textured shimmers. On the face apply to cheekbones, forehead, eyelids, nose, chin and jawline, but avoid between the eyebrows and the sides of the nose. For upper body apply to shoulders and collarbones but avoid the middle of the décolletage."
• Wayne Chick
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