Are you looking for a way to liven up dull skin on a bad day? You know the kind of day I’m talking about—you wake up with puffy eyes and a tired looking face that won’t go away even with a bath!

Make-up can instantly perk up your appearance by softening the fine lines and shadows under the eyes. Here are some quick and easy tips to brighten up sleep deprived skin.



• First cleanse the skin and massage it to stimulate the blood cells. This gets blood to the surface of the skin.

• If the skin is rough and looks sallow, use a scrub. It will definitely brighten your skin.

• Tired skin is often rough and uneven, and a heavy foundation will not blend well. Instead, use a light foundation with a luminous texture to light up the face.

• A foundation mixed with a bronzer, or a pearlised foundation mix, can also work wonders. It brings about a clean and fresh radiance.

• You could use a light pink shimmer brick by Color Bar to provide a sweet flush to dull and tired skin. An angular, high cheek-boned look works best to refresh a sleepy face. Get it by using a blush in an up-swing manner.

• Always use a shimmery blush on the apples of the cheeks to add color and radiance. A soft, pretty color on the cheekbones will always make the face appear healthy and well-rested.


Your eyes are a dead giveaway. They are the first to show up signs of tiredness and sleep deprivation. So what do you do if you have to go for a very important dinner or a special date? Read on.

• Use a good concealer for under-eye dark circles.

• Apply the concealer in a semi-circular manner, using your ring finger to blend it gently. Go to the inside corner of your eyes and blend it into your skin by tapping lightly. This technique makes the concealer blend easily with the skin tone and creates a more natural look.

• Dust the area lightly with a loose powder applied with a good blusher brush. Make sure it does not settle into the fine lines of the eyes.

• Use pretty eye-shadow colors such as corals, pinks or sandy browns to light them up and make them sparkle.

• Always use frosted shadows as these add luster to the eyes.

• Use a lash curler to open up the eyes. Sleep-deprived eyes often look half-closed.

• Applying white eye shadow stick also works as it makes the eyes look bigger.

• Use lengthening mascara and not a volumising one. Lengthening mascara will open the eyes but a volumising one may make the eyes look droopy.

• Eyeliner should always be applied in an up-slant.

• If you are in a particularly bad shape, apply glitter eyeliner. It is a perfect formula to get that bright sparkle in the eyes. You will not go wrong with this one.

• Using colored contact lenses is another alternative; it works for all.

MY PICK

• Style blush by MAC

• Shimmer bricks by Color Bar

• Luminous foundation. Strobe crθme by MAC

• Frosted shadows. Maybelline New York and Lakme.

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