Coming into New Year and beginning a new working year, we strive to look a new way too. And here we should keep our wishes within the bounds of decency and good taste, not to frighten our colleagues and bosses with too bold solutions.
Working days have come. And first of all, we try to look a new way for our boss and colleagues, which we spend automatically a great deal of time with, so, thinking about innovations in our image, we need to observe simple, approved rules.

First of all, remember that you got used to a bright make-up with bright colors and shimmering sparkles for long New Year holidays. Try to resist a temptation to bring some holiday sparkle to your working life, although this sparkle made you so happy and your loved man liked it so much during romantic New Year holidays.

At the same time, you shouldn’t run to other extremes: coming to work with absolutely natural face, under pretence that your skin should have some rest after excessive load of a holiday marathon. Believe, this will become a too hard ordeal for your colleagues, even if you work only with women. Moreover, your boss will hardly like if you go to an important meeting or presentation with pale and plain face, like a neuter asexual creature.

Many visagistes consider that an ideal make-up for business sphere should be a miracle of reticence, which just accentuates your merits slightly and shades your defects. In principle, psychologists say the same: complicated and careful make-up says that you think more about your appearance, not work. Too casual or defiant make-up can spurn future partners or clients from you. Moreover, small defects (freckles, moles, mimic wrinkles etc.) make your look more human, attracting people to you.

There’s another factor you should pay attention to, if you decided to change your business image. In spite of the fact that you’ve just met a New Year, your appearance is still the same - your eye color, skin shade, nose and lips are the same. Of course, you could visit solarium during vacations and may be you’ve got a slight tan, but, firstly, it will disappear quite quickly, and, secondly, it’ll hardly make you unrecognizable.
Technique of applying make-up depends on relief and contours of your face, natural shade of skin. You shouldn’t displace accent in your make-up from eyes to, for example, lips, and blushers - from cheek-bones to cheeks, as this will affect your usual image, and it’ll hardly for the better.

So, we decided to refuse from too bright, complicated multi-layer make-up and follow firstly peculiarities of our face, not fashionable tendencies. You shouldn’t be upset because of it. Now there’re lots of cosmetic novelties that will help to affect positively your image, even in case when you refuse from radical changes. For example, flesh-colored lip-definer allows a woman of any age to keep a smile of a young girl. A moistening lip gloss will anyway add you sexuality, and lip latch will save their ideal contour under any temperatures, what is actual for winter.

The procedure of applying make-up is still the same, consisting of usual, traditional manipulations.

First of all, this is applying of base for make-up, which should be more compact and fat in winter. Then shade the most noticeable defects of your skin - spots, little scars, shadows under your eyes. Remember, darker shade hides what you want to hide, and lighter shade accentuates what you want to show.

Thus, you can change your face contours for the better and add some newness to it. For example, if you want to elongate your face optically, you need to apply dark shade on cheek-bones, and lighter one - on your chin and upper part of forehead. Using make-up, you can “grow thin” 2-3 kg. But don’t use blushers for this: you need more professional skills here.

The next stage is eye make-up, condition of which is very important for business communication. Your task is to make your look more expressive, not aggressive or dominating. An optimal for business make-up eye-contour should be of brown, dark-grey, dark-blue color, however, you should firstly choose color of your shadows.

Lips allow you to feel a woman to the marrow of your bones, under any experiments with your appearance. Today some bright-colored lipsticks are admissible even in business atmosphere. Among fashionable colors of this winter are berry (raspberry, strawberry) and wine colors. Scarlet, carmine, purple shouldn’t be used for working days, in spite of their popularity in this season - they are too aggressive.

And the last thing - applying of powder. Anyway, your T-zone should be mat. When you go out, use loose powder, and take a compact one with you, to correct your make-up on work.