Top beauty website ,Beauty Snob, recently praised our foundation of choice: Liquid Powder Mineral Foundation as being, and I quote, “…By far the most amaaaaaaazing mineral make up, ever!”
It also went on to glow over the Full Coverage Photo Finish Powder, “Bedroom Eyes” Pressed Eyeshadow, and Essential Lip Kit!
Read the full review at Beauty Snobs “Motivated Beauty” article.
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Once you have cleaned your face and used proper skincare (including exfoliation!), we’re ready to talk about prepping your “canvas”. The skin on your face is the foundation of your look. Like an artist builds paint on a canvas, this is what the rest of your makeover will be built upon, so we want it to be as smooth and even as it can be. When your skin is even, it allows the rest of your features to shine through and take center stage. Hopefully most of that smooth radiance can be accomplished by how we take care of our bodies, but if not, we can smooth out our complexion with some great products.
The products that are used when prepping your face are foundation primer, concealer, foundation, and face powder.
Now, why would we use these products? They serve a number of purposes: (more…)
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Though proper daily skincare will make all the difference in how healthy your skin is, many people forget about a step that shouldn’t be done daily, but is not to be passed over:
Your skin is constantly shedding, so you need to get the dead layers off. Doing so really makes a difference in how easily you are able to apply your makeup. It also gets down to the new, attractive layers of dermis. If you think about it, your dead skin cells aren’t going to be vibrant with health because they are, well, dead. So getting rid of them will improve the glow of your skin.
For a quick, cheap, at home fix that is gentle and more effective than the average store bought product, do the following:
Over the next number of weeks I will be posting a step by step guide designed to teach you the basics of makeup application and how to use it in a way that works with your life. My goal is to educate you on the types of makeup products, their purpose, how to choose quality items, and when and how to use them, or if you even need to use them at all. But first I want to start off with a little perspective on the role of makeup in the every day goddess’s (<–that means you) life.
Unfortunately, it is human nature to fixate on anything that we perceive as negative or anything that disrupts the “flow” of someone’s appearance. This basically means that if there is a blemish on your cheek or chin… an area where your skin is red, darker circles under your eyes, etc… it distracts from the rest of your features and ends up catching more attention than is merits. And to the human eye, something such as dark circles ends up stealing the show, so that it is harder for people to notice the beautiful eyes that the dark circles accompany. The role of makeup is NOT to CHANGE your features and structure. It’s not to make you something you are not,… it is simply meant to guide the eye of the viewer to the features you want to emphasize, the same way that a good artist composes a painting so as to focus the eye where they desire.
Good makeup makes people notice YOU….not your makeup.