Putting on your face?

[ErinS]

Ideally, contour and bronzer should not be used interchangeably. You can certainly get away with it for personal daily use, but they really are meant for different things and to work together they need to be used properly.

Contour products tend to run towards cooler matte browns, and bronzers leaning towards warmer browns often with a little shimmer. Bronzer can be a reasonable stand in for contour, but contour won't work for bronzer and if you use bronzer for both you just get the oompa loompa look.

I also do my eyes first so I don't have to worry about fallout(although you can use shadow shields as well, I just see doing eyes first as more efficient)

I basically quit using lipstick for anything other than running errands during the day or for during a time crunch makeup session, otherwise I prefer to mix my own shades. I have a selection of Mac Lipmixes and love making my own shades, they come out matte but I have the gloss to coat it and a selection of other lipglosses to spice it up. One I particularly liked was when i put down a base coat all over with a pink MAC lip pencil, then mixed a pink a shade darker and applied it, then added the gloss and a touch of Kat Von D's 'Danzig' eyeshadow which is a shimmery purple, so it ended up a nice violet. I worked it a touch, and the wear gave it this nice ombre violet to pink look that was really striking.

[ErinS]

And there are rules to makeup, thankfully you can break almost all of them. You just can't break all of them at one time lol.

[Wild Flower]

I'm a low-maintenance type of person. I plan on getting natural-looking cosmetic tattoos. Latisse (for long-natural) eyelashes, and expensive as hell contacts.  Maybe BB cream (very popular; foundation, sunscreen, moisturizer). The whole thing shouldn't take more than 5 or 10 minutes. 

That would be my day-look.

[bibilinda]

I believe that's where the expression "I have to powder my nose" came from since it's used by women to politely go to restrooms for touching up their makeup or ofcourse an euphemism for something else.

Well, that's quite funny lol

[liz]

It kinda depend on the look you want to achieve, cause as many said less is usualy more. Some peoples may put ton of make up and look great but others just look... too much. Tried many, many style but mine is definitly less, I never leave home without mascara but the rest is pretty much on occasion like skins problem or special party (using big make up less often is giving more punch when you do).

On the long run you should also think about how much time every day you wanna "lose" in make up that you could use for fun things .

[Stevie]

 My way of thinking is that makeup should enhance not exaggerate. I just use eye shadow, mascara, BB cream and lipstick.  Takes me about 10 minutes to do makeup to get ready for work, picking out clothes can take me longer   

[Lady_Oracle]

simplest way to do makeup is just some eyeliner and foundation. Liner either just on top of the lid, or inside of both upper and lower lids creates a really subtle effect. Use foundation to even skin tone and cover eye bags and presto you're done. If you can find a pencil liner with a little eraser/smudge tip at the end, you can use that to smudge eyeliner on the top lid like it's eye shadow and so you have this minimal smokey eye look. The basic rule here is less is more.

[Emileeeee]

I'm a fan of being lazy, so even though I would love the glamour shot look every day, I don't feel like doing that. I've been sticking with just eye shadow (with primer), a tiny bit of concealer under the eyes, mascara, and lip gloss. It seems like it wouldn't be enough, but it actually is for me. One of the mistakes it turned out I was making prior to laser, was working too hard to cover the shadow. I was actually drawing attention to it. It turns out the trick is to draw attention to your good features instead of trying to hide your bad ones.

I've also found the quality of the makeup to be important. They are not all made the same. I'm not saying you need the most expensive because some of them are junk too. There are a lot that cause you to end up with what appears to be glitter all over your face and you'll spend days trying to get it off of there. Not a good idea if you're still in stealth!