Makeup Tips to Slash Years Off

Another year bites the dust. It's been a roller coaster ride. As experiences led to more wisdom and eye-opening lessons, the skin went on to mature as well. Getting older is generally dreaded, especially after 35. Personally, I believe it's beautiful. The little wrinkles attest to all the times you should never have gotten up, but did. The little bit of salt and pepper says you have learned a thing or two, the reading glasses that you now need to read the fine print just proves that your inner voice is now smart enough to say, "Hey! Read the fine print."

That's not to say that you should just let yourself go. Keeping ship shape regardless of age obviously begins with a healthy life style, you know... healthy diet, plenty of water, regular exercise, the usual, but makeup can help boost your look by kicking a few years off, making you look more vibrant, fresh and that of course, leads to more confidence. Look good, feel good has a lot of truth to it.

Here are a few tips that women can incorporate in their daily makeup routines that lead to more younger look:

Setting Your Makeup

So after getting the perfect makeup for an event, you'll obviously want to set it so that it lasts you for a good six to eight hours. The best way to do that is to set it either with a translucent setting powder (white) or with a setting spray. The reason you don't want to set it with a pressed powder or colored loose powder is because all that hard work you put in to get the intensity of everything just right can change quite a bit by adding on more color at the end. Translucent powders will not do that, neither will setting sprays that are all the rave these days.

My go to:

The Body Shop Vitamin E Face Mist and Chanel Crystalline Powder

My Current Everyday Makeup Routine- Makeup Application 101

We love our makeup products, they are our little handy helpers. But with so many options and overload of information it becomes difficult to make simple choices, like to use a matte or glossy lipstick, to use a tinted moisturizer or BB cream, or what type of concealer to use. The options are limitless. But most of us have that one standard method of applying makeup that works for you. So in this post I'll be telling you about how I do my standard everyday makeup and what products I am using, and little tips on how to add variety while still sticking to your routine in a time effective way.

My Skin Care Routine

It's sketchy at best. I have some skin care products that I have been pretty much using all my life. Since I never did have problematic skin, I just stuck to my favorite face washes, creams and such. I not strict about the regimen, but it exists and it was one of my resolutions to adhere to it better. Broke that one months ago. But I thought I have been asked about what skin care products I use and so today that's what I'll talk about. Let's be clear, skin care is important.....and it shows.

In the words of Coco Chanel:

How to Achieve That Beautiful Glow

A young woman asked me recently, how these models and Arab women get that super glow going on? What was the secret? Was it some product or was it a technique? Well the answer is that it is a combination of both. The dewy/glowy look makes you look instantly younger, fresher and for lack of a better word, 'hot'. This look is especially suited for the cooler months and for those girls who have dry or normal to dry skin. If carefully done, girls with normal to oily skin could also pull it off but I would not recommend this type of makeup for girls who have huge pore issues or super oily skin.

Concealer Tips, Tricks, Alternative Uses and Some of my Picks

Today's post will be slightly different and concentrate more on the tips parts than the review parts, but fret not, at the end I'll be telling some of my higher and drugstore favs.

Now it’s common knowledge that concealer is used to cover up blemishes, marks or pigmentation and a warm toned one will do wonders for your eye circles. But we’ll discuss how we can use concealer in other ways to chisel the effect of you makeup.

How I Cover my Under Eye Circles

Just like so many women out there, I suffer from extreme darkness under my eyes. Reasons range from lack of sleep to sinusitis to plain old genetics.

Literally no amount of used tea bags,  potato and cucumber slices, huge array of under eye creams or any other magical concoction has done jack to alleviate the issue.

The only thing to do then is to take help from concealers, but not simply concealers but correctors to be more precise.

Its pretty simple really: