Why Andie MacDowell is the ultimate muse for curls ... and gray hair
Expert tricks to put on makeup, without taking years on yourself, if you have gray hair
Red lipstick, the return: choose which one suits your skin tone ... and succeed!
Gray hair
and red lips
are a quasi-indissoluble pairing for some of the most popular faces that boast of gray or white hair.
The last to prove it was
Andie MacDowell,
who at 63 years old has proudly and powerfully shown her natural hair, without dye in between, at the
Cannes Film Festival.
And, of course, her most talked about appearance on the red carpet was precisely the one she wore very shiny tomato lips.
It is not necessary to go so far to confirm that a
spicy hair
finds an ally in red lips to enhance the aesthetic ensemble.
'Our'
Angela Molina,
who admitted in an interview with Yo Dona that she only puts on makeup when she has no choice, never overloads her skin or eyes, but she does dye her
lips crimson
on big occasions, as is he checked in the last edition of the Goya last March.
There, made up by
Vicky Marcos, she
accompanied her loose hair with an
intense and matte red
lipstick
(Lip Maestro 400 by
Giorgio Armani Beauty,
to be more exact), to collect the
'big head' of honor
for her entire career.
Add up and go on.
Another figure with gray hair - white this time - is
Maye Musk,
a 73-year-old model who always colors her lips red or
even purple.
Watch out for the last name: this
fashion and beauty muse
is the mother of the magnate and visionary
Elon Musk himself.
Andie MacDowell at the Cannes Film Festival with red lips with an orange dot.
According to Val Garlanda, make-up artist at L'Oréal Paris, it is the ideal crimson for summer as it shines like the sun's rays.
By the way, the actress is wearing the Brilliant Signature 311 lipstick from L'Oréal Paris.
Why a red lip 'lifts' a hair with gray hair
That there are gray hairs that make up their lips in neutral tones is true, but red is the winner by a landslide to
create a groundbreaking look.
And it is no coincidence.
"When the hair is worn with gray hair, everything whole or mostly a created
effect of uniformity
between the hair and the tone of the face, both clear if it is a pale complexion where
there is
no contrast ,
"
has
Monica García,
MAC makeup artist.
What the expert explains means that the features look
less clear
and a kind of union between hair and face is created where the features are lost, they look less defined, as in an
almost blurry set
in view of the 'viewer'.
Faced with this phenomenon,
strong
lip makeup
becomes a practical resource.
"The bars of strong tones provide a vibrant point and
a contrast in the face,
where the mouth attracts attention and gives a feeling
of joviality and luminosity",
emphasizes García.
Ángela Molina in the last edition of the Goya Awards, with Giorgio Armani lipstick.
All reds for gray hair
There are many red lips, almost infinite, and the options for spiced manes
were not going to be less.
Mónica García points out as
universal crimson the
one that maintains a perfect balance between
orange and raspberry
(at MAC, this would be the
Ruby Woo Matte Lisptick lipstick).
From the L'Oréal Paris makeup artists team they bet on
corals, pinks or cherry reds,
all of them very flattering, which will stand out even more if a touch of blush is added in light tones and with shine to 'revive' the skin even more.
Instead they recommend avoiding
excessively dark
colors
,
as an exaggerated contrast with gray hair can produce an
artificial 'mask effect'
that throws away all the naturalness and joviality that the MAC make-up artist points out a few lines above.
Juñior Cedeño,
makeup artist for Dior in Spain,
enters more in detail
, who not only takes gray hair into account to choose the perfect red, but also
the skin tone
that accompanies them.
Sallow faces:
"They have to look for shades that bring light such as
cauldron
red
or orange
(never pink)."
Brown faces with a yellow base:
"
Burgundy and even chocolate
tones
suit them
very well
.
The intensity will depend on whether the lips are thin or thick: the more volume they have, the better the dark tones look."
White faces with a yellow base:
"They need color to cheer up, I would recommend
aubergine or orange-red
tones
."
Pale white faces with a bluish base:
"For them, all shades
of pink (fuchsia included) and reds with a blue base
(raspberry or strawberry)".
Model Maye Musk, mother of Elon Musk, with vibrant lipstick.
Alternatives for gray hair that flees from red
As for tastes, colors, it is clear that there will be those who do not see themselves, neither with nor without gray hair, with a mouth strongly colored in scarlet.
For them there are alternatives, of course.
And there Andie MacDowell returns as an example, because
a well marked
and shiny
nude mouth
was her
B choice
in makeup on the Cannes red carpet.
"The mouths that accompany gray hair also have options
for naturalness.
But they have to look for
highly pigmented
lipsticks
so that the color is not 'lost' between the lip and the skin," suggests Mónica García.
The
very glossy
formulas
with a crystal finish
also work
, very in trend, in addition, because they manage to enhance not with the tone, but thanks to their texture.
The maximum to make up a
few lips if you have decided to do without the tint is clear:
above the reds
-or, failing that, the nudes that manage to give color and texture to the lip-.
Gray hair, defined eyes and blush
Gray hair lives not only by lips.
Junior Cedeño, from Dior, likes to highlight the eyes, "because gray hair often
detracts from the expressiveness of the look
and color from the face."
And how does an expert solve this, without making up like a door?
"I
usually
recommend restoring expression to the eyes by
outlining them
and slightly accentuating the brows, carefully
blending
the pencil. A good trick is to fill in
the water line
of the upper lashes with a waterproof brown pencil
[he uses Diorshow 24h Stylo]".
This will make your row of lashes appear thicker.
As for the face, he adds another trick: "It is essential to restore the lost color with
a touch of blush."
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