Happy morning to you all! This is the time of the day when you have to decide what can I do to enhance my beauty that will last me pretty much all day....here are a few of my favorite things, and you need to pick and choose amongst them according to your budget, cause there are always great recessionista products in the drugstores, as I believe I mentioned previously, and there are mid to higher end products that will work for you.
Assuming you have all cleansed your face, and added moisturizer and SPF (important for every single day of your life, as the damaging rays get thru even when cloudy, even when driving, as many of you know because you might have more pigment on one side of your face than the other...)here are some of my favorite cleansers and moisturizers: I love gentle, so Dermalogica Special Cleansing Gel is fabulous & you need about a dime size to cleanse your whole face after moistening your face with warm (not hot, not cold) water. Another one I really like, especially for those nights you may be tired, or mornings, is CVS' own brand of cleansing & makeup remover towelettes which are texturized to deep clean and remove impurities. I like the ones that come in the blue & white packaging, $4.99 for 30!! These have chamomile, which is calming, as well as Vitamin E & Triple Teas for antioxidants. It feels good and you are exfoliating somewhat at the same time, and being good to yourself, because there is no way you should go to sleep with makeup on your skin....Also in CVS, there is a line called Dr. Dover and I have tried his Cell 2 Cell moisturizers & eye cream, and they work very nicely. There is one for day with SPF and one for night to prevent wrinkles, which I really liked ($19.99). More on the moisture front: I have been using as of late Kiehl's Abyssine Lotion with SPF 15, which has amazing ingredients from the magma of the ocean floor and is very gentle. They also have a moisturizer without SPF that is organically gathered and 100% Natural Origin from the ACAI Berry from the Amazon, and you can look on the Kiehl's website and see the various products in the two lines, i.e. serums, and the exact prices, which are not high, and they have a wonderful video about how the Acai Moisturizer is made. Study your ingredients. I know most of you are probably very conscious of what you are putting on your skin. These two moisturizers cost about $44 each, which is not bad at all, and you need about 3-4 drops/pumps to do your face & neck.
Okay, now say you are a new Mom and barely have two minutes to yourself, or can't even look in a mirror or splash your face with warm water!! While you watch the baby, sit down for a moment, use one of those towlettes, you don't need to rinse unless you are irritated somehow without rinsing it off, and apply (only if you are in a warm climate or have really oily skin) a tinted moisturizer like Laura Mercier's, which comes in Oil free and in moisturized & has SPF 20. If your skin is a little to the drier side, I would add a teeny bit of eye cream under your eye (don't go right near your lashline...could be too irritating) & you can use the eye cream on your top lip area, as those areas have thinner skin than the rest of our faces (favorite eye cream...La Mer Eye Concentrate, gentle and great!! worth the money!). So one minute or less and you have cleansed, and take a little bit of your tinted moisturizer (another good one is from LORAC with SPF 30...great!!) & spread it gently on forehead, cheeks & chin and even under eyes, and you have evened out your skin. You may or may not need a clean little disposable sponge to even out edges and pat under your eyes and by brows, as you don't want it going in your brow hairs, etc., but that should have taken a minute or two. This will work for any busy woman, and we all know who we are!! All of us! I am attaching a few links for you to see me talk about some recessionista products that I acually used on models for Stylecaster.com, one of which is a Revlon Antiaging foundation with SPF 18, I believe, that has it's own brush and comes in about 8-10 colors, and is wonderful also, and only about $14.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR8cd3okxhI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uY1ZWKvf5w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vneL3F9D4Jk
Also shown are two other videos showing other fabulous Revlon products amongst others, like Korres Lip Butter ($9) and the gorgeous Crystalline Laura Mercier loose powder I have mentioned in other posts, which I use for highlighting areas on the eyes and cheekbones....
Okay, now if you have any extra time in the morning, take your favorite mascara (I love Korres Provitamin B5 & Rice Bran or the Covergirl Lash Blast mascaras, either the original for volume or the new lenthening one, which I haven't yet tried on myself, but given as a gift...) and really wiggle your mascara brush in to your top lashes for one or two coats. This will make you look like your eye color has brightened and popped, and if you wiggled it in well, it will make you look like you even have eyeliner on. Because your pupil is black and the rim of the eye is charcoal to black, a black mascara will totally do the most for the eye on a daily basis. Then you can add some eyeliner, if you have time, some lip butter or gloss (Korres Cherry Oil glosses are gorgeous as well as the lip butters and oh so good for your lips!!) and a little blush. Your blush should look like it is coming from you, and my favorites are Eve Pearl's powder trios (she has great powders as well as cream blush colors) which are so easy to apply with her fan brush...you just go across all three colors with your fan brush, and softly apply on your cheekbones with a slightly angled application from the outside to inside of your cheekbones. Again, I can do this without looking in a mirror if needed, it is that easy. Also, I love cream blush, and Eve has great ones, as well as Kevyn Aucoin's Pink and Peach colored cream blush, which you can do with your fingers, and you need so little, quick, easy, no brush needed!
Well, that's the basics for today....have fun, love yourself every day, play & enhance, and if you have a special event, please feel free to contact me for that special makeup application! Enjoy your day!!
Thanks for all the great tips, Coco! I forgot all about cream blush - I love it and haven't used it in so long!
ReplyDeleteHi, Coco! I am so happy you are doing this. You are simply the best and you are so generous to grace us with your knowledge and spirit.
ReplyDeleteI just finished watching your youtube segments and have a question about the revlon colorstay eyeliner, which I happen to adore and use all the time: Is there a right way to use it UNDER your eye? When I put it right inside the rim (above my lower lashes), it looks beautiful but fades very quickly. However, when I use it right below my lower lashes, it never looks right. Is there a right way for me to do this, or should I give up on the idea and only use it on my eyelid? Please advise!! xoxoxoxoxoxoxo
Carrie
As to your question, I think it is just because the tear ducts have to flow on the inside of the eye, so it is a spot that needs to tear, and according to another friend I was talking to who has tried to line her eyes with waterproof pencil, it doesn't last for her either. I have never had it last on me when I did it, always need to do that touch up, unless you have layered it over and over.
ReplyDeleteTo do it thinly underneath, you need a tiny smudge brush, and it is good to take a pointy q-tip with some non oily eye makeup remover squeezed out of it and run it along the underside of your line (or on top also) to perfect the width and look of the line you crave...