Stephanie W.
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Q: What would you consider to be the most flattering shades/colours of makeup for a blue eyed blonde? Also, what kind of outfit in your opinion would best suit a 5' 10" medium size (12-14) gal?
Uhm... is your avatar actually you? If so, you seem to have it down already! Blue eyed blonde, eh? I'm a freckled red head, so here's my best guess.
I don't know how comfortable you are shopping in a real store for makeup, but base should always match your skin tone. All it should do is even things out a bit and give you a smooth tone, not give you a different color. Otherwise you get that ickky line along your jawbone. If you are comfortable in a drug store at the make up counter, try the tester on the inside of your wrist, near your pulse point. That is the place that is most likely to *not* be tanned, and therefore most likely to be the closest to your real skin tone. And forget those little sponge makeup applicators - they are a waste of money AND they lend themselves to heavy handedness too easily. Use your fingers to put base on.
I'm a big fan of neutral powder, but if your skin is darker than that, buy the same brand of powder as base and get the same color name.
Blush is something else altogether. At home, pinch your cheeks a bit and see if they come up in the rosey/burgundyish range or the pinky/reddish range. Then go for something like that. I don't like peaches - they look fake. And buy yourself a real blush brush - the little one that comes in the compacts are too...uh...compact and will give you this wierd looking slash along your cheeks. When you buy the blush brush, find one that is fluffy feeling and very soft with a large head on it, so you get coverage easily in a couple or swipes and don't have to keep dabbing at it...
As for where to put it, try this. Smile really big, so you get apple cheeks. The blush should go from about half-way in the *apple* and aim off toward the top of your ear. Take it all the way to your hair line, but go easy with it. It's supposed to just give you a little bit of color to keep you from looking sickly, not a perpetual *blush*.
For your eyes, I would suggest browns. Blue, green, purple, etc. eye shadow looks fake - the good Lord didn't give any of us Apple Green eyelids! Try a kohl eyeliner pencil in some sort of medium brown and use the smudger thingie on the eyeliner pencil (or your little finger) to get a soft look. Unless you are going for some sort of vamp look, you shouldn't actually *see* the eyeliner - it should be more for definition than anything.
Then put your eyeshadow on - some sort of dusky brown - for a blonde, I think I'd look for a brown with a tint of rose in it. Eye shadow colors are a lot like paint - they come in 47 shades of the same color. Browns with a lot of orange or yellow will look way too harsh on fair skin. If you buy the eye shadow compacts that come with three colors, the medium color is for the main part of your eyelid, the dark color is for the crease and the light color is for the part between the crease and the eyebrow. If you choose one that has a light pink for the lightest color, then the darker colors will have rose tints in them. If you choose one that has a yellowish tone to the lightest color, then the darker colors will have a yellowish tint to them.
Just dust it on lightly (alternatively you can use a quick swipe of the blusher across your eyelids just to knock off the white glare....). Yes, eye shadow goes on top of the eyeliner so you avoid the 1960's Magic Marker Eyes look.
Mascara should more or less match your eyebrows, so for a natural blonde, try the brown-black ones. They are a bit hard to find - Cover Girl makes one and I think Loreal does too.
As mentioned earlier, to get the right shade of lipstick, bite your lips and match that color or go one shade lighter. For a blonde, though, you may want to go with just a bit of lip gloss. For those of us with light skin, lipstick is often way too much. (I haven't worn lipstick in 30 years...). Some brands of makeup make big fat lip pencils as alternative to lipstick to give you a more natural look. Also eliminates that nasty waxy taste...
Uhm, if you *aren't* comfortable at the makeup counter in the drug store, then I'd spring for one of those big makeup kits that you can get at Wal Mart or by mail order - the ones with a gazillion different colors in them. Take it home and play with it. A hint here - if you try all the colors in one session, you are going to get a false reading unless you really wash your face well between trys AND let your skin calm down from the scrubbing. The makeup from Trial # 1 will stay in your skin and alter how Trial # 2 looks. The makeup in these kits is usually abysmally poor quality, so use it to learn your colors, then trot yourself down to the drugstore and get something real in those colors...
Spritz the perfume (lightly!) in your hair and behind your knees, not on your throat or on your wrists. It's too easy to get it too heavy on your skin - if you over do it in your hair, it'll dissipate easily. And if you get it just right, it leaves this lovely trailing scent behind you.
An outfit for a 5'10" woman? Oh honey, you can wear anything you like except baby-doll looking stuff! (I'm 5'3, on a good day, and look like a dwarf in the really good stuff.) You can get a really good idea of what will look good on you just by checking out what looks good on the models in the catalogue...since they too are all about 5'10" or more. Look through a catalogue of normal size human looking clothes (JC Penney's, etc.) and check out the *lines* on the clothes, not the clothes themselves. The trick with taller girls is to play to the long lines. Defined waists, like on shirt-waist dresses, will chop you up.
I like hip length tops. whether in a blazers or in pullover sweaters, maybe with a skirt. You can go with a swishy little mini skirt and a hip length pullover sweater. Men's pelvises and rear ends are shaped different than girls, so I'm not a big fan of sheath-type skirts. A little bit fuller skirt, with a little swish to it, will camouflage that nicely. Much of this all depends on the look you are going for... are you trying to pass? Or just have fun? My guy has this tiny little butt and looks adorable in a tennis skirt, but he'd never ever pass.
SilverLady? (what have we gotten ourselves into? I haven't played Dress Up My Friends since 8th grade and am totally out of practice!)
I'm outta here for Thanksgiving. Ya'll have a great weekend...
-g(so)
Wow, what a reply! 
That's some great advice which I will certainly take advantage of. I never expected that much detail so I thank you again for taking the time to do that. You do realize now that you've set the bar pretty high for Dear GG. 
