If you’ve turned to beauty apps and filters to enhance your pictures on social media, you’re not alone. Tenthousands, if not millions of people use these sneaky apps to appear more photogenic. With the popularity of such apps, it seemed like a natural progression for French make-up guru Terry de Gunzburg to introduce By Terry’s Nude-Expert Duo Stick, an all-in-one stick foundation/highlighter to give your skin that beautiful flawless finish.
By Terry make-up artist and trainer Antonia Basile says de Gunzburg was inspired to create the after realising people sought help from beauty apps to look ‘Instagram-friendly’.
She observed that women turned to beauty enhancing filters on gadgets to look good. She decided to come up with a product that can help enhance a person to look natural and flattering on any given day.
Antonia Basile, make-up artist and trainer By Terry
De Gunzburg has added another feater in her cap with Nude-Expert Duo Stick as the first all-in-one foundation highlighter. The Nude-Expert Duo Stick is formulated for all skin types and come in 10 beautiful shades.
On one side, the matte foundation delivers seamless coverage with a blurring filter-like finish. On the other side, there’s the highlighter which enhances features and radiates skin tone. For the five fairest shades, the highlighter features a pearly light glow. For the five darker shades, the highlighter comes in a sunny light gold finish, which creates a radiant balance to match one’s skin tone.
Current shade lineup:
1 Fair Beige and 2 Neutral Beige
2.5 Nude Light and 3 Cream Beige
4 Rosy Beige and 5 Peach Beige
7 Vanilla Beige and 9 Honey Beige
10 Golden Sand and 15 Golden Brown
It features an integrated blending sponge on one end which allows women to effortlessly blend the product onto the skin. The washable integrated blending sponge can be easily detached from the applicator and cleaned with soapy water or a brush cleanser.
Enriched with By Terry’s exclusive – futuristic sounding! – I.M.C. (Intensive Mimetic Camouflage) technology, that mimics the appearance of flawless skin thanks to ‘filterlike’ correcting prisms and light micro-sensors to reflect the skin’s radiance for a seamless, ‘airbrushed’-style finish. that mimics the appearance of flawless skin thanks to ‘filterlike’ correcting prisms and light micro-sensors to reflect the skin’s radiance. Fine mineral powders melt into the surface of the skin to create a powdery silky veil. Spherical pixel-focus powder pigments blur fine lines and wrinkles, even the skin tone and conceal imperfections with radiance.
Face illuminators should be one of the must haves in any make-up bag. It helps your skin to appear dewy in the right places. Illuminators add luminosity to women’s best features. It helps to highlight cheekbones, bridge of the nose and even cupid’s bow. Emphasis on the right features can make lips fuller or eyes appear bigger.
In 10 versatile, natural-looking shades, this sought-after stick will help you match and flatter your natural assets. Watch how to get a camera-ready complexion with one of our Nude-Expert foundation filter techniques. From a natural, nude finish, a soft, luminous effect or a contoured look.
FILTER 1 – INVISIBILITY: How to achieve a no makeup look
Celebrity makeup artist Leslie Dumeix creates a natural and fresh complexion using the new Nude-Expert Duo Stick.
● Step 1: use the matte side to match your complexion.
● Step 2: apply both shades together to the centre of the face.
● Step 3: blend outwards using the integrated sponge applicator.
FILTER 2 – LIGHT FOCUS.: How to brighten up your complexion
Celebrity makeup artist Leslie Dumeix demonstrates how to achieve a LIGHT FOCUS filter using the new Nude-Expert Duo Stick.
● Step 1: choose a slightly lighter shade than your skin tone using the matte side as your reference.
● Step 2: using the matte side, draw inverted triangles below areas needing illumination.
● Step 3: blend using the integrated sponge applicator.
FILTER 3 – ULTIMATE FILTER: How to create a sophisticated contour look
Celebrity makeup artist Leslie Dumeix creates a sophisticated, contoured and highlighted face with the help of Nude-Expert Duo Stick.
● Step 1: use the matte side to match your complexion.
● Step 2: apply both shades together to the centre of the face.
● Step 3: blend outwards using the integrated sponge applicator.
● Step 4: using the highlighting side, apply to ‘light-catching’ areas.
● Step 5: using a darker shade, apply the matte side to the outer areas of the face.
● Step 6: blend using the integrated sponge applicator.
The travel-friendly size has been designed to fit into your purse, meaning you can have flawless coverage and a radiant glow all day long, on the go.
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