Aesthetics Second faceup attempt: Resinsoul Mei (critique desired)

To answer your direct questions:

-If the lip color you used was subtle, no amount of layers will change that. I would pick a darker, more vibrant color and build it up as needed.

-You definitely don't want to wet your pastels before using them, as it clumps them up and makes it look like a crayon drawing ^_^'

-For the eyes I like to blush in a wide area sweeping up to or almost to the eyebrow as well as the lower eyelid indent with a lighter color (still darker than the skintone though) then make each layer a smaller area with a darker pastel until only the very edge of the eye is rimmed with the darkest pastel. It's a lot like doing human makeup except you use more natural/ flesh colors instead of brighter ones (and if it's a girl or girly boy I do eyeliner with black acrylic too and highlight the browbone and inner eye corner with a shade lighter than the skin). You want to do your eyelashes after you do all your pastels and make sure each layer is sealed before you do the lashes.

As for some general critiques, I don't know if it's my monitor but it looks as though you got some pastel outside the boundries of her mouth pretty far? You want to be careful about that since it gives an "I tried to wipe off my lipstick with the back of my hand" look. If it's just my monitor, then feel free to ignore this ^_^'Also aside from what you already mentioned, the eyebrow and eyelash hairs could use work. Eyebrows and eyelashes are among the hardest things to do with a doll, but it helps to have a reference picture so you can see the direction the hairs grow on the eyebrows as well as filling the eyebrows in with pastel so they look more realistic.

All in all it's a lot better than my second attempt was and I hope some of these things can help.

 

Her face-up is nicely done; I like how each side of her face-up look mostly even.
For her lips, you could possibly use a brighter shade of pastel or try lightly painting thin lines of color (from the inside/center) to help them stand out more.
I personally like her eye make-up, even if it's a bit plain. ^_^ If you want more color, it would probably be best to apply the pastels before you do the eye liner or lashes.
You could also blush her body to match her head (if you wanted to), so the skin tone difference wouldn't be as noticeable.

 

first of all i think such pastel colour make up suits her wig very much

brows - try first apply some pastel as a base - just with brush u can correct it carefuly with eraser, and when u think the shape is ok start drawing lines - depend what u like watercolor pencil or brush with pastel, don't worry if it won't work few times, practice will make u a master, believe me

eyes - i would add a little shading in the outer corners and mark the upper line with thin line, u can also add a little pink/soft red on the low part of the eye so it will look more natural. lashes are like practice practice practice, is rly not bad as a beginner, just keep going and remember to never give up

lips - i love her lips. later just if u want u can draw lines - in this case with white watercolor pencil it gives more natural look, but i also love how it is now, like a light lipstick.

in general i would think about more blushing, don't know did u blushed her cheeks. u can try and see do u like it. i can also recomment u a pencil for human make up - i use one from oriflame, kinda round for eyelids, it does the job really nice. remember always also to have one bigger brush to clean up the head before every layer of mr.sclear.
and one more - is very easy to blush just the head for body, is much easier work than blushing body. i did such thing for my friend - head was white and body in ns, i mixed pastels in exactly same colous as body and just applied it on head, then put layer of mr.sc and then went to painting.

hope it helps somehow.