De­siree McEachrane

Like a moth to a flame, so too are women drawn to make-up. And last Sat­ur­day, fe­male shop­pers at Trinci­ty Mall were true to form when Revlon pre­sent­ed its newest prod­ucts in its trans­fer-re­sis­tant Col­orStay line.

Cen­trestage was Revlon's In­ter­na­tion­al make-up artist Jacque­line Hutchin­son and two lo­cal beau­ty ex­perts who showed off the line's Ul­ti­mate Liq­uid Lip­stick, Dou­bleTwist Mas­cara and Min­er­al Mousse Make­up and Fin­ish­ing Pow­der. The cu­ri­ous few al­so ben­e­fit­ed from Hutchin­son's 18-year ex­pe­ri­ence in the make-up busi­ness with her tips on choos­ing the right prod­ucts to en­hance their beau­ty. "What most women want to know is, 'What is my foun­da­tion colour?'" Hutchin­son said.

It is an area, she said, that most women need guid­ance with to find their per­fect shade. "Most are at­tract­ed to the colours that look good on oth­ers and they want to put it on them­selves, where­as it might not suit them." One of the first things that a woman should do is to find a foun­da­tion that looks per­fect even be­fore they start ex­per­i­ment­ing with colour. "I al­so tell peo­ple, 'Find your best fea­ture and play it up.'" When it comes to prob­lems like wrin­kles and dark cir­cles un­der the eyes, Hutchin­son said it is best to keep the look sim­ple. "Try­ing to cov­er up will just draw un­want­ed at­ten­tion, es­pe­cial­ly if you're do­ing it wrong." Hutchin­son, whose job takes her to Cana­da, Cen­tral Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean as a prod­uct train­er, al­so cau­tioned women about wear­ing make-up that's too strong.

"Do not let your make-up walk in­to the room be­fore you do," she ad­vised. "Some women tend to put on so much of the wrong shade that you don't see their eyes or their lips, you just see eye shad­ow and lip­stick." Af­ter sam­pling the prod­ucts, the Col­orStay Min­er­al Mousse Make­up be­came this writ­ers' pick of the bunch. The foun­da­tion went on sheer and light and didn't im­me­di­ate­ly come off. Hutchin­son said the prod­uct was do­ing just what it should. "A lot of women don't have time to be touch­ing up their make-up dur­ing the day, so this make-up is per­fect for them. When they put this on at six o'clock in the morn­ing, it doesn't come off un­til they re­turn home at night."

The make-up, she said, is al­so per­fect for T&T's hu­mid, dry weath­er be­cause you can't sweat it off eas­i­ly.