Looking to brush up on your makeup knowledge?! These are the top makeup terms you need to know, no matter if you are just learning makeup or a self-proclaimed beauty guru.
If you're just diving into the world of makeup for the first time, trying to learn all the makeup beauty terms can be overwhelming. Who knew makeup could be soooo difficult?
Yes, there's more to makeup then just throwing on some mascara and blush and running out the door. Although you don't need to be a walking makeup terms encyclopedia to be good at makeup, it's important you know these beauty terms.
This is because, with a basic background in makeup terminology, you'll be able to chat about makeup with friends, be able to follow makeup routine and tutorials easier, and you'll overall feel more confident in your makeup abilities.
That's why in this post, you'll learn all the essential makeup terms you need to know about to be well on your way to becoming a beauty guru.
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*Top Makeup Terms For Beginners*
Makeup Technique Names
Here are some top makeup technique names you should learn that will take your makeup routine to the next level!
1. Contouring
Contouring is when you create the illusion of a more defined face using makeup products. Popular places to contour are your nose, cheekbones, and jawline. So... if you are looking for a more sculpted face, try contour!
There are two main types of contour: powder contour and cream contour. Cream contour provides a more natural, dewy look while powder contour provides a bit more of a sculpted, matte look.
2. Highlighting
Highlighting involves bringing attention and light to certain features of your face, often giving a brighter, dewy look. Common places to highlight are the tip of your nose, above your cupid's bow, upper part of cheekbones, and inner corners of your eyes.
3. Setting Your Face
You don't want all your hard work go to waste! Setting your face is when, after you've completed your makeup look, you lock your makeup into place to make it more long-lasting. This will ensure no matter if you are out all day, your makeup will stay in place and not easily fade.
Eye Makeup Terms
4. Cut Crease
A cut crease is a type of eye makeup technique where a lighter shade of eyeshadow cuts along the crease of your eyelid. This creates a defined, more dramatic eye makeup look that makes your eyes pop!
Most eye makeup techniques are often easier said than done. The above video by Smitha Deepak is a great fool-proof method to do a cut crease look of your own.
5. Falsies
Falsies is another beauty term referring to fake eyelashes. Falsies help create more length and volume for your natural eyelashes.
6. Halo Eye
Halo eye is another eyeshadow makeup trend where you use eyeshadow to create a “halo” or spotlight-like effect on your eyelids. To achieve this look, you use a light eyeshadow color in between two darker eyeshadow colors.
7. Waterline
Waterline is a makeup term that describes the line of skin between your eyelash and your eye. You can put waterproof eyeliner along your eyeliner for a more dramatic eye makeup look.
8. Tightline
Similarly, tightline refers to an eye makeup technique where you apply eyeliner below your upper lash line between your lashes and your eye itself. This creates definition and will make your eyes look bigger and more noticeable.
9. Winged Eyeliner
Winged eyeliner is a specific eyeliner technique where you create a “wing” at the edge of your eye.
Face Makeup Terms
Here are the top face makeup terms you need to know about to achieve flawless face makeup.
10. Beauty Blender
A beauty blender, or makeup sponge, is a small sponge, often round on one end and pointed on the other end. A beauty blender is used to apply and blend makeup such as foundation and concealer.
11. Overlining
If you are looking to create the illusion of larger lips, this is the way to go. Overlining is a makeup term that involves drawing slightly over your lip’s natural edge to create the illusion of a fuller pout.
12. Tinted Moisturizer
Tinted moisturizer, as the name suggests, involves a moisturizer that has a tint coloration instead of a regular clear color like most moisturizers. Therefore, this gives you the look that you are wearing a light foundation, without looking too heavy/ cakey.
13. Color Corrector
Whether you are trying to cover up dark circles, pimples, scars, whatever the case, color corrector uses the power of opposites to hide your imperfections. With color corrector, by choosing an opposite color to disguise your imperfection, this helps cancel out the look of what you are trying to hide. For instance, if you have a red zit, using green color corrector will help reduce the appearance of the pimple.
14. T-Zone
Your T-zone is your forehead, nose, and chin that creates an imaginary T shape when connected. These three areas are trouble areas for many people as they tend to be oily areas where acne forms.
Common Makeup Brush Names
There are a variety of makeup brushes today with some rather ~interesting~ brush names.
15. Kabuki Brush
A kabuki brush is a fluffy round brush that is used to apply a variety of makeup products from liquid and powder foundations, to bronzer, blush, and more!
16. Stippling Brush
A stippling brush is a makeup brush that helps work liquid and cream makeup products naturally into the skin to give an almost airbrushed look. This brush often has lighter-colored bristles at the top with darker colors, and denser fibers at the bottom of the bristle to help blend the makeup product.
17. Fan Brush
A fan brush is a skinny brush with bristles shaped like a fan that is often used to apply powder highlighter.
18. Spoolie
A spoolie is an eyebrow brush used to shape your eyebrows. A spoolie is often connected to one end of a cream eyebrow pencil product.
Slang Makeup Terms
Here are some unique slang makeup terms you need to know about.
19. Dupes
A dupe (duplicate) is a slang makeup term used to describe a cheaper makeup product that is comparable to a more expensive makeup product.
20. Hitting Pan
Hitting pan refers to when you’ve used up most if not all of your powder makeup product. You should see the bottom of the pan/ product packaging.
21. Baking
Baking is a slang makeup technique to describe when you use setting or translucent powder to “bake” areas of your face (i.e. under eyes) where creasing can occur. The actual “baking” of the product is after you apply the product, you let the product sit, or “bake”, on your face for about 5-10 minutes before sweeping it off your face.
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