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Hey everyone! My name is Jessi and I'm 15/f/IL. I've always been excellent at giving advice...or so I've been told by my friends. So you can ask me anything and everything...although I have a rather special talent for makeup emergencies (considering my mom sells it) and for dealing with affairs of the heart. (Some of my friends automatically come to me for boy problems.)
And, without further ado...my advice column!

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Hey..I'm only 14, and a girl. Lol. Well, I have a lot going on in mii life, I have had three boyfriends, and I am pretty good in school, but when it comes to makeup, I need help. I know that I look fine and everything, but when I do make up, I hate the results..does anyone have any good tips? I mean mii make-up doesn't look horrible, I just want to look better, but I don't seem to be any more pretty. Thanks! ;-) Katie

Like I think I've said before in my column, my mom sells Mary Kay makeup, and I've learned all I know about such things from her! So here we go!

First of all, before you do ANYTHING, decide which feature on your face you think is your best feature: your lips or your eyes? This feature is the one you will play up the most. (NEVER play up both, you will look like you have WAY too much makeup on and like you are a drag queen.)

Now, if you think your eyes are your best feature, eye shadow colors are very tricky. Many are misled about what colors to be using. Too many girls wear shadow that matches their outfit...this is a NO-NO, with a capital N! You ALWAYS want the shadow to match your eyes. Therefore, if you have brown eyes, wear earthier tones, such as different shades of green and brown. If you have green eyes, green and some shades of blue are nice. If your eyes are blue, go for the blue eye shadow. But when you are doing blue, make sure it's not too bright and distracting! And if you are too confused about all of it, go for a shimmery white color, you can't go wrong with that, as long as you don't apply so much that your eyes look bright white.

Eyeliner is VERY optional. If you don't know how to apply it, I would recommend pulling the outside corner of your eye a little (so you look Chinese momentarily) and try to apply in a thin, straight line. It IS possible to put too much eyeliner on, so you may want to play around with it for a bit, some Sunday where you aren't doing anything anyway, so you can decide what you like best.

If you have light eyelashes, mascara is wonderful. You want to buy a clump-free, waterproof mascara. Do not put on too much or eyelashes will stick together and it just looks weird. Less is more, less is more!

Then, when it comes to lips, since you played up the eyes, you want to play down your lips. A simple clear gloss is classic.

But, if you decided your lips are your best feature, give them some color, and a little gloss! It depends on your skin tone, however. Light skin tone = pinks. Tanner skin tone = reds. If you are African-American...then I recommend dark pinks and reds, maybe even dark purples!

Blush, if you want, can be applied as long as it still matches your skin tone. Do not, for instance, choose a bright, salmon pink if you have a pale skin tone and just go to town with it. Make sure it's suttle so people don't look at you and think you look like a little china doll! And when you apply blush be sure that you take strokes up your cheek bone...do not focus right on the cheek area beneath your eyes or you WILL look like a china doll.

Well, that's all the advice I can give without knowing more specifics! Sorry my answer was so long, but makeup is definitely something I know about! If you need more help, my AIM is HolyPeaches16 and my e-mail is uqtiyq00@aol.com. I hope I helped. Good luck!

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