Light-reflecting particles can help detract attention from minor imperfections. To start, apply a lightweight correcting foundation (such as COVERGIRL & OLAY Tone Rehab 2-in-1 Foundation, $13.99). Then pat a luminescent concealer under your eyes and in the creases of your nose. (Try YSL Touche Eclat, $44.)
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Fake a warm flush
According to celebrity makeup artist Tina Turnbow, warm colors make the face look healthier. So, to get a sun-kissed effect like Jessica Chastain's, apply a warm peach or pink blush to the highest parts of your face. When applying to your cheeks, start with the apples and blend up toward your temples to help define your cheekbones. (Try COVERGIRL & OLAY Simply Ageless Blush in Lush Berry, $10.49.)
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Highlight your eyes
Celebrity makeup artist Pat McGrath recommends applying a light metallic shadow on the inner corners of your eyelids and beige liner to your inner eye rims. This adds a little brightness around your eyes and helps maximize the wattage of your glow. (Try COVERGIRL Intense Shadow Blast in Beige Blaze, $7.99.)
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Sweep on some shimmer
Give your face a bronze glow like Selena Gomez's using this trick used by makeup artists Dick Page and Sue Devitt: Dust a translucent, shimmery blush or bronzer all the way across your cheekbones, forehead and jawline, and down the bridge of your nose. (Try COVERGIRL TruBlend Minerals Bronzer, $7.99.)
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Add a bronze finish
Self tanner can give your entire body a soft, healthy-looking glow, but an even easier and faster technique is to do what celebrity makeup artist Heba Thorisdottir did for Kristen Wiig at the Academy Awards: Use a brush to dust bronzing powder along your d�colletage and shoulders, and down your arms (try Vincent Longo Sun Bronzer for Face and Body, $32).
You can have your of-the-moment neon polishes and orange lipsticks. But whatever the season and whichever the year, beautiful, glowing, healthy skin is always paramount in style. That's why, regardless of "who" they're wearing or which pro did their makeup, red-carpet posing celebs and strutting cat walkers all seem to have a shine to their skin when the rest of us look lackluster. What are they doing that we aren't?
As it turns out, not much. For all their wealth and pelf and fame, stars have skin problems too. (I know -- I've seen an A-lister actually apologize to her makeup artist for breaking out. Such a fun moment!) They also get dull and flaky skin, broken blood vessels, scars, and all those other pesky imperfections, just like the rest of us.
The difference is that while they have access to teams of beauty pros who can erase the evidence and transform them into radiant goddesses, we are left to our own devices -- and, in today's case anyway, some valuable secrets I managed to eke out of a few top-notch beauty teams.
From how to clean your face to what you put in your body, here are my favorite pro tips on getting, maintaining, enhancing, and even faking your way to a gorgeous glow. I use them all the time, and now you're going to want to use them, too.
