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Who Doesn’t Love A Good Highlight?

Apr10

highlighter tube 2You know the difference between having your makeup done by a professional and doing it yourself? The highlighting and contouring! It seems like everywhere I look recently there’s someone showing you how to use different color foundations or concealers to paint your face up to contour it. The people in the pictures look crazy, and I don’t know about you, but it looks a little bit difficult to master at home on your own.

Now, in studying makeup artistry, I have learned how to do the crazy looking concealer contouring too, or as my friends like to call it my clown makeup. I do it when I have somewhere important to go, or if I’m having photos taken, and I definitely do it when I am doing someone else’s makeup for photos or events. However, for everyday life and work I don’t need, nor do I have time to do all the crazy concealer contouring tricks.

But I do have one that I do even for my natural look that just gives you that little extra glow. I use a little bit of highlighter above my eye and along my upper cheek bone and it makes a big difference.

I have tons of makeup, I mean it’s out of hand, so when I was looking through my Sephora Birthday gift I found a great Benefit highlighter that came in a tube like a lipstick, and it was a gold color. I like it especially because it was free, but I think a pink tone is better for this highlight. So, I went looking and found a fabulously-affordable dupe for Benefit High Beams ($26) in ELF Cosmetic’s Shimmering Facial Whip in Lilac Petal. Ready for this…it costs $1! Does it get any better than that?

You only need a small pearl sized amount each time for both eyes. I make three dots; one in the middle above the eye, one right beside the eye, and one below in the center of your eye on top of your cheek bone and then I rub them together in a “C” shape until it fades to perfect glow. (See pics below)

You have the perfect easy highlight for on the go that will make you glow. This trick will make you instantly look and feel better. Buh-Bye tired looking eyes. Slap on the face make up, your 3D mascara, this highlighter, and some lip gloss and you will look amaze-balls on the go in less than 5 minutes flat. No one will ever know you’re a crazy busy, tired, mom on the go!

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Get your Essential Shimmering Facial Whip here: http://www.eyeslipsface.com/elf/face/shimmer/shimmering_facial_whip

 

 

Who wants to be told they look skinny in the hospital after giving birth?

Mar4

I got the trick! Belly Bandits! It totally worked!

I ordered my Belly Bandits about a month before my due date. They give instructions on the website for how to measure in your 8th or 9th month to determine what size you will need.  I had seen the Belly Bandit in various magazines well before ever becoming pregnant and kept the idea in the back of my mind for when the time came. Well when I became pregnant they even sold them in my OB’s office, where someone suggested waiting until I came back for my post-partum appointment to get one. Don’t do that!

Use the tips and if you can remember to measure at 8 months and then measure again at 9 months to see what size to buy  to wear in the hospital immediately after giving birth. I can tell you it makes all the difference. You’re stomach starts to flatten out almost instantly.  It’s totally worth rit.

It kind of stinks that you will have to buy multiple sized Belly Bandits to change out as you shrink down, but you will be happy you did. Additionally, they provide much needed back support and I have heard they are extremely beneficial for mommy’s who have C-sections. Hang on to your Belly Bandit, because I have another post coming soon on my favorite wraps that work even better with your recycled Belly Bandit! 🙂

http://bellybandit.com/

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