Summer 2009 makeup tends towards pretty colors. Gone are the boring nudes. What are they compared to this season’s dramatic eyes and glorious pops of color? The color of summer 2009 is a far cry from the nudes of past seasons.

How do you get away from nudity and add some pretty color to your face without looking like a clown? Too much color, done incorrectly, can look gaudy, not beautiful.

Go for that naturally pretty look. A bright and radiant look befitting a bridle. Or the high school cheerleader.

Wear pink!

There are several ways to do makeup this season.

You can focus on the eyes with dramatic eyes in pretty colors, but keep the rest of your face pale or in neutral tones.

You can focus on the lips for a sexy pout, lots of lashes, but the rest of the face is relatively bare.

Or you could go for a pretty pink color on your cheeks, eyes, and lips to make everything shine.

Pink bridges the gap between color and nudes. It gives you a believable rosy glow that is radiant and pretty. However, she does not try to hide the fact that she is wearing some makeup, even if it is light makeup.

Here’s how you can get that pretty pink look in just 7 steps:

1. Start with great skin. Or at least, the illusion of great skin by applying a foundation or tinted moisturizer to even out your skin tone. Choose one that exactly matches your skin. Apply to forehead, nose, cheeks and chin and blend well with fingertips for a dewy finish.

2. Grab a large blush brush and choose a baby pink blush if you’re a blonde, a medium pink if you have medium to dark skin, or fuchsia if you have ebony skin. Dust the blush on your cheeks. Apply the remaining blush on the brush lightly over the forehead, nose and chin so that everything is radiant.

3. Apply a pink eyeshadow to the entire lid with an eyeshadow blush. Pink a pink that is one shade brighter or darker than your blush.

4. Using your eyeshadow brush, apply a lilac or mauve shadow (violet if you have ebony skin) in the crease of the eyelid and in the outer corner of the eyes.

5. Line upper lash line and outer edge of lower lash line with black kohl.

6. Line the inner corners of the eyes with bright white eyeshadow. Dip a clean eyeliner brush in water, then brush over your eyeshadow and use it to paint the inner corners of your eyes.

7. Use a lip brush and paint baby pink lipstick on your lips if it’s just right. If you have medium to dark skin, paint over a pink lipstick. If your skin is very dark, then use a fuchsia lipstick.

That’s all. You have a pretty look in pink that is perfect for a summer romance.