The importance of cleansing your face before bed. JUST DO IT!

How many times have I heard someone say ``I was too tired/too lazy to wash my face before bed``... ``I shower in the mornings anayway``... ``I wasn`t wearing any makeup that needed washing off``...

Hearing someone tell me they don`t cleanse their face before bed is like nails on a chalkboard to me... cringe-worthy.

Anna Pursglove recently wrote an article for Dailymail UKrelating how she bravely decided to challenge herself to not cleanse her face before bed for one month.  After one month, her skin specialist announced that her skin had aged by a DECADE!!

So what happens to our skin while we sleep?
Skin regenerates itself while we sleep; dry skin sheds, creates collagen & elastin, elimintes toxins... And as we get older (inevitably every day), our skin needs all the help it can get!

Makeup and external pollutants create a barrier on the skin during the course of the day, and not washing off all the `guk` on a repeated long term basis can cause more damage than we may have thought:

• prevents the production of collagen and elastin (the stuff that makes your skin tight and youthful) therefore causing saggy and wrinkly skin
• prevents old skin shedding to make new for the new younger skin
• cloggs pores, therefore creating larger pores and acne
• irritants get locked in and can cause allergic reactions and redness
• uncleaned eyes can cause infections and lash dandruff 

Do I need to continue??

It is hard to offer a suggestion of cleansers, because every skin need is different, but I can tell you that my cleansing routine includes Ponds cold cream with a hot face towel followed by a quick wash with african black soap. 

So now that you will all start cleansing before bed, please take the extra 5 seconds to moisturize as well to help keep your face hydrated and healthy.  Your future self will thank you for it. :)

How to determine your face shape

This post will be helpful to both the men and women! It doesn't happen often! What is it?

How to determine your face shape.

Figuring out your face shape can help in MANY different ways: 

1) Applying makeup

2) Finding the style of glasses/sunglasses that will best suit you

3) Figuring out the most complementary eyebrow solution/shape 

4) Best haircut/hairstyle 

Here is a breakdown of the most common face shapes:

OVAL: Face is more long than wide, narrow but prominent cheekbones, face gradually tapers towards chin, generally symmetrical.

SQUARE: Face has strong features, as wide as it is long, wider jaw, square chin.

ROUND: Face is as wide as it is long, rounded features (forehead and chin), wider cheekbones.

HEART: Length of face is a little longer than wide, wider forehead tapering to a pointed chin, hairline is pointy in the middle and rounded on either side.

OBLONG: Face is more long than wide, outline roughly resembles a tall rectangle with rounded corners, may have prominent chin. 

TRIANGLE: Face is a little longer than wide, broader jawline, smaller forehead 

DIAMOND: Face is a little longer than wide, tapered hairline, pointed jawline, widest at temples/cheekbones. 

So how to figure out your face shape? One way is to stand in front of a mirror, pull your hair back and trace the outline of your face with a bar of soap onto the mirror. A second way is to find a photo of yourself and draw the outline of your face onto the picture. 

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4 steps to make your eyes pop!

They say the eyes are the windows to the soul.... If that's true, why not play up the eyes to make them really stand out?  Here are 4 easy steps to play up your most important feature :)

** photos used were found on google images

1.  Cover up the dark circles:
Dark Circles and puffiness make eyes look tired and alot smaller.  Concealer and highlighters can definitely do the trick.  For dark circles, a salmon-toned concealer will help correct the browny shadows.  Also, drinking LOTS of water eliminates toxins from the body and can also help to keep the dark pigmentation and puffiness at bay.

2. Pump up your lashes!
More than once, I have preached the importance of curling your lashes to help open up the eye.    So curl those lashes, and use a volumizing mascara (like L'Oreal's Voluminous or Rimmel's Scanadaleyes) to help set the curl and really give you a thick, dark lash-line.

3. Define your brows
Sparse brows can often make the eyes look droopy, thus adding to the "i look tired" effect.  Lightly filling in your brows with a pencil or a powder will help define the brows and help give you a more youthful appearance.  The brows are also an important step to help make your eyes stand out more!

4. Highlight in the right places
The art of highlighting is an important step that most tend to overlook.  Though it may sound complicated to do, achieving a successful highlight on the eye is really quite easy.  You can use a concealer, a nude pencil or a nude eyeshadow powder to achieve this.  Simply apply a bit your product to the "inner V" of the eye, the center of the eye lid and under the brow bone and blend using your finger-tip.  That's it!  you can see in the before and after that this little trick helps give your eyes a more open and alert look!

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