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5 Easy 2019 New Year’s Eve Makeup Products to Try

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For many of us, New Year’s Eve is all about the clothes, makeup, and hair. It’s a special occasion that gives us a chance to put a little extra sparkle in our look and happily embrace our holiday cheer. You don’t have to be a pro to pull off a great makeup look either. A simple and relaxed approach will still turn heads and not take hours to achieve. Here are a few tips for creating your own NYE makeup magic. Mattifying Primer Prep with Primer Your makeup will go on much more smoothly if you prep your canvas first. After cleansing and moisturizing your face, apply a mattifying primer with skin-plumping seaweed collagen that will fill in and smooth the appearance of fine lines. A natural primer with skin-healthy ingredients will also soften the face and eye area. Find a high-quality primer to minimize shine and achieve a flawless makeup application. Play with a Pewter or Navy Eyeliner (or Both!) An effortless way to glam up for the biggest party of the season is t

5 Last-Minute Christmas Gifts for Skin Care and Makeup Lovers

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Many skin care and makeup brands offer special holiday collections and gift sets at this time of year. If you’ve waited until the very end to do your shopping, there’s still time to hop online and find high-quality beauty gifts for your favorite skin care and makeup lovers on your list. Here are a few suggestions of beauty products all women would love to receive in their stocking or wrapped under the tree.  Pigmented Eyeshadow Soothing Gel Masks Intensely hydrating face masks are an indulgence we don’t often get for ourselves. Treat someone special to awesome gel masks that will make their skin feel like they spent some time at the spa. You can find nourishing masks made of “hydrogel” with plant cellulose as the base. It’s a natural mask that’s biodegradable. But before you toss it, your skin will absorb all of the good ingredients found in the mask, such as aloe juice, caffeine, ginseng, green tea, and vitamin C. Stock up for yourself as well! Pretty Makeup P

Get Your Holiday Glow on with These 5 Beauty Tips

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The holidays are a time to shine brightly from the inside out. Your sparkling personality is ready to celebrate with friends, family, and co-workers! Is your makeup and skin care regimen ready to go too? With a few low-key tips, achieve the Christmas glow you’re after this season. Don’t forget to include your regular cleansing and moisturizing routine along the way—your skin needs extra love this time of year. Full Coverage Foundation Korean Sheet Mask Applying a fresh, revitalizing, and natural bamboo sheet mask to your face on the day of a big event will feel fabulous. Ingredients like ginseng, retinol, and vitamin C are great for stimulating collagen and lessening the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Aloe juice and hyaluronic acid lock in moisture to soothe dry skin, while rosehip oil softens the skin and improves its texture. Your skin will feel and look radiant, and you’ll be one step closer to prepping your canvas for a night of fun. Hydrating Water

4 Tips to Have Confidence with Acne

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We are all on our own journey of loving the skin we’re in. With acne, we’re not only impacted by the way it looks on our faces but also how we feel on the inside about it. It can be hard to feel and be confident when we’re dealing with something that’s in plain view. Pigmented Eyeshadow Acne is a skin condition that many people have struggled with at some stage, and it can dramatically affect one’s confidence. But acne doesn’t have to rule your life! Here are a few tips for improving your outlook, which may lead to better self-esteem and even acceptance. You are much more than your acne. Confidence comes from knowing who you are as a person and that you deserve the best life has to offer. Look to Your Role Models Body-positive and acne-acceptance advocates believe everyone should feel at home in their own skin. They spread their message to the world through social media to give other people like them hope. Find those people—they are your tribe. They know that ac

6 Foundation Makeup Mistakes You May Be Making

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The fine art of foundation application should be so subtle that no one notices anything but how flawless and gorgeous your skin looks. Then you’d know you’ve mastered the most important part of your makeup—the foundation. Retinol Eye Cream But it may not be as easy as you think to craft this natural-looking base. From choosing the wrong shade to using too much foundation, we’ve all made some of the following mistakes. You Skip the Primer Applying a high-quality primer is an essential step right before the foundation goes on. It’s priming your canvas properly, acting as a barrier between your skin and the foundation. If your skin is oily, a mattifying primer will help prevent oil from seeping through, which can cause your makeup to slide. If your skin is dry, a quality primer will stop your skin from soaking up your foundation, causing your skin to look uneven. For a poreless, refined finish, choose a primer that you can rely on to keep your foundation in place

The Beautiful Benefits of Butters: Cocoa, Shea, and Avocado

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Many types of butters made from ingredients found in nature make your skin smell delightful and feel amazingly soft. There’s just something luxurious about cocoa, shea, and avocado butters. Don’t you think? Cream Foundation You’ve noticed them in your skin care products and cosmetics, but what else do you know about these butters? They’re similar in that they are excellent moisturizers that skin loves. Here are three common butters, a few of their attributes, and what you can find them in. Avocado Butter Avocados are rich, creamy, fatty (the good kind), and oh-so-delicious. They’re also good for you—your health, hair, and body. Avocados are packed with antioxidant vitamins A, D, and E, minerals, and unsaturated fatty acids, for starters. As a natural antioxidant, avocado butter helps protect the skin from damage caused by environmental stressors. Avocado butter is also extremely moisturizing and softening. As a key natural ingredient in cosmetics and skin care,

5 Beauty Products to Put You in the Fall Mood

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There’s nothing like embracing the fall season with instant mood boosters in the form of beauty products. Fall is about change, comfort, and balance. In the beauty world, this could mean any number of things, from new shades of natural mascara to the latest in fall lip color. If you have the fall feels, here are a few intriguing picks—and none of them have to do with pumpkin spice. Luxurious Shades of Lipstick Nothing says fall like a richly-pigmented lipstick in hues you don’t already own. Try going with a premium, natural lipstick that’s colored with fruit pigments of raspberry, plum, or grape. Vitamin- and antioxidant-packed fruits are not only healthy for your lips, but the shades are also gorgeous. To keep your lips soft and supple, shea butter and pomegranate oil are excellent ingredients to look for as well. When it comes to colorful, luscious, and long-lasting lipstick, you want only the best ingredients going on your lips.  Lavender Bath Salts After a