Not to sound narcissistic, well OK maybe a teenie weenie bit. Over the last few months I have had more compliments about my skin than I've had compliments in general my whole life. Now I would love to chock it up to healthy eating and good genes, but there seems to be a pattern. I only seem to get these compliments when I've put make up on. So I must be doing something right, and if that's the case, It would be wrong not to share it right?!
So here is my everyday (well when I feel like making myself up for the daytime) no make up, make up look!
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| yes that's a caved in ceiling, courtesy of my pops! |
Skin care is KEY!!
You without a doubt need to start with a great base. I am lucky that when i was growing up, I didn't really have much of an acne problem, so I have little blemishes. This doesn't mean I don't take great care of the face though!
I'm a great believer that its all about your lifestyle, so I mostly keep to healthy fats, iron rich foods. I also love my smoothies (recipes in my lifestyle blog!). I always add Flax seed to my smoothies which is amazing for your hair and skin.
Anyways I keep my skin care regime simple. I wash with luke-warm water, use a perfume free sensitive skin friendly face wash, then since with cold water to close the pores.
I use Shea or Cocoa butter based moisturisers after. If I;m a little dry I like to use a tiny bit of pure Shea butter. That is literally all I do!
I do this daily. Weekly I will use a nose strip to rid myself of blackheads.
ON TO THE MAKE UP!!!
Apply Benefit Dr Feelgood to my T-Zone and apples of my cheeks. I get pretty oily so I really can't skip this step. Dr feelgood is amazing to tame the oil and lasts all day long!Then I go on to the brows. It's the same way I always do them, so if you want to know what I use, check my other post on Oktoberfest.
Prime time! I use Maybelline baby skin for my tone, erase any pores and smooth that skin. for the rest of my face I use cheap but effective George face primer.
Colour correction. I use LA girl orange colour correct for under my eyes, round the bottom of my nose and my chin. It evens out any dark areas on my face.
I then use a flat top Kabuki brush and dot some tinted moisturiser as my foundation. I hate using foundation or a normal day look so I use the Elf tinted moisturiser in Espresso. I stipple it all over my face, including over my eyes, paying close attention to where I have placed colour correction. I leave the under eyes! 
Time to Highlight the crap out of my skin. Again I apply concealer and powder as I've told you before in my MOTN post. I won't bore you with it again.
I go over with the beauty blender on my lid, then set it with my usual face powder (L'Oreal pure match).
Then I bronze my face to snatch it. I don't like to contour for a day look so I just use my usual Sunkissed Dark bronzer as a contour and to also warm my skin.
Blush, I swap from coral, to orange toned depending on the time of year. Right now I love a pinky orange tone!
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| EOS lip balm, organic and natural |
You can never forget the highlighter! I use my fave Revolution highlighter. It's a great champagne colour in the tub, but on the face its a gorgeous Gold tone. I highlight the tip on my nose, Cheekbones, between the eyes, inner corners of the eyes, brow bone, above the brow arch and cupids bow.
I think add some EOS strawberry lip balm to make the lips kissable and I'm done!!
I use this as a everyday look but also the base of most of my glass looks. I will just switch up to foundation for more coverage.
What do you think! I love the flawless no make up look!!
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