Everyday Face: Part One!

When you very randomly decide to drastically change your life, it's really hard to have confidence. I feel like I knew my last job inside and out, and now I feel like my whole life is inside out and I don't know what I'm doing with myself every day when I wake up. A really big  support for my is everyone who has taken the time to let me know "I read your blog, I'm so happy for you, and you're going to be amazing!"  You're all so encouraging, so supportive, and I appreciate it so very much. 

I have a girlfriend who was always curious about my daily makeup application and whenever I would mention something she didn't know about she'd ask intently and then go out to her nearest beauty store and ask the salesperson for recommendations and obtain the product for herself. The products she had no idea about but ran out and bout anyways that stand out in my mind would be Primer and Setting Powder. It's funny because these are two products I hardly ever leave the house without putting on my face, and she didn't even know they existed! Unfortunately we both changed jobs and I don't get to see her beautiful face every day anymore, but maybe she'll read this post and get some new pointers!

I'd like you give you an overview of what goes on my face for a regular day. This will sound like an excess of makeup to most of you but this is my full face. I do not do this EVERY day. If the boyfriend and I are just having a lazy day together usually tinted moisturizer and mascara will suffice. This is my full, 'everyday' face, when I feel like looking as what I see as over the top perfect.

Prep The Face
Always cleanse, tone, and moisturize! Never start your makeup routine without a fresh face. It would be like trying to paint art over a canvas that has already been painted on. You want your face to be clean, fresh, and ready for a new day! Once I apply my moisturize I usually give it a few minutes to soak in. I find this to be the best time to blow dry my hair. I can't just sit there and wait because I'll inevitable begin applying stuff on my face before the moisturizer is all absorbed and that's just bad news.

Prime the Face
I have very uneven skin. When I was growing up I suffered from some severe acne as a teenager and I have a few scars on my face from that lovely and memorable time. For this reason I always use a primer on my face to help fill in the mild scaring, large pores and those developing fine lines. I have a variety to choose from but most of them contain SPF. I have a moisturizing one I use after I've maybe had an obscene night of drinking because my skin gets really dried out and I look terribly haggard, but generally any primer is acceptable.

Even the Face
Foundation! I have very red skin over the last few years and this leads foundation to be a huge staple in my life. This is another product I normally try and obtain with SPF in it because sun protection is important! Anyone who has seen my makeup collection has noticed the huge lineup of foundations I have available. Mostly I like trying many different kinds and seeing that works best on me, but I also just LOVE foundation.

Foundation is the basis of painting my picture. Foundation is applied all over the entire face, including the neck. I'm sure as a pre-teen you all experienced the same as me and had the dreaded line on your chin. This would've been from a combination of having the wrong foundation colour, and NOT BLENDING DOWN THE NECK. If you do anything when doing your makeup, make it THIS. Then make sure the foundation is blended all over your face, even up into your hair line. I normally use a foundation brush that offers optimal buffing to literally buff the foundation into my skin. Many years ago I would maybe apply foundation with my fingers or a small sponge triangle from the dollar store and take a minute or two to apply it, but these days I normally spend a good 5-10 minutes buffing the foundation into my skin to ensure great coverage and a perfect blend. If someone knows you're wearing foundation, you're not wearing it right!

Conceal
Most people actually apply concealer before their foundation, but I've gotten into a routine of applying it after my foundation. This way I can see if there are any spots, red marks, or dark circles my foundation didn't conceal alone. This actually leads to me having to put less product on my face because something I would've originally put concealer on may have been sufficiently covered by my foundation! Normally my concealer is only applied under my eyes because I'm getting old and constantly have dark under eyes (I never thought it would happen to me...) but occasionally I have to conceal a blemish that isn't sufficiently covered by my foundation, or cover the redness that happens around my nose.

Set That Face!
One of my other favourite products is setting powder. It's really become a staple in my makeup routine due to the fact that I have oily skin. This causes my foundation to actually become moist and move about during the day which is something NO GIRL WANTS! If you get too close to my t-zone and I haven't applied setting powder, you're going to get unset foundation on you. Setting powder I apply all over the face (and neck!) with a large kabuki brush. I never loved kabuki brushes so much until I loved setting powder so much.

Once I've covered my face in all this crap it has to set. It's like letting the paint dry on the wall. You can't immediately start putting the rest of your face over this base because it will all start to smudge. This is normally when I would move on to straightening my hair because this distracts me for another 5 minutes that I have to wait around. Otherwise, I pluck my eyebrows a little bit.

Seeing as I put so much stuff on my face on a regular day this post is getting a little longer than I had originally imagined, I'm going to break this post up. Stay tuned for the next steps for your beautiful face coming this week! Let me know if you have any questions, and stay beautiful!!