My Daily Make-up Routine

Hey guys! Today I thought I'd go through my daily make-up routine. I admit, this would have been a lot easier and probably more thorough if I'd have filmed this but I wanted to at least give you a snippet of the make-up I use and how I take care of my skin cosmetically and how you can too.

So let's get cracking!

This is the make-up I use on a day-to-day basis:

• Clinque Moisture Surge
• Clinque Superprimer
• The Body Shop BB Cream in number 02
• Collection Illuminating Touch Brightening Concealer in number 3 Glow
• Rimmel Stay Matte Powder
• Clinique Airbrush Concealer in Natural Fair
• Clinque Up-lighting Liquid Illuminator Bronzer
• Collection Work The Colour Eyebrow Kit
• Bourjous Khol and Contour Eyeliner Pencil in number 72
• Benefit They're Real! Mascara
• Clinique Chubby Stick in colour 12 Oversized Orange
• Mac Lipstick in Matte Viva Glam

As you can see, I've got a few Clinque products. Clinque is one of the main reasons why my skin changed for the better. I know it's pricer than other high street products but it is worth the money. The reason I love Clinque is that a lot of their products are super moisturising and they don't have any nasty ingredients such as perfume or other additives that cause your skin to be drier. Also, they have specific foundations to suit each type of skin, such as their tinted moisture surge foundation which I love. I first found out about them when I was referred to my first dermatology clinic. Before then, I was using Maybelline Dream Matte Mousse and trust me when say I used to cake it on, which not only dried out my skin but made it a lot worse. To be honest I don't think piling on make-up is a good idea for any type of skin! If you want to check out their prices or what to see where their nearest counter is, check them out here: https://www.clinique.co.uk/

If you can't afford it, no worries,  most high-street products are getting better than what they used to in terms of them being kinder to your skin, but please please PLEASE make sure you check what ingredients they have in them before you buy it! The last thing we want is for your skin to get more dry due to the perfume and other nasty cosmetics a lot of high street make-up brands have in their products. 

It is really a process of trial and error with make-up. If you're feeling confident, ask the make-up assistants that sometimes loiter around at Superdrug or Boots. If not, pick up a bottle, swatch it on the back of your wrist to make sure it matches your skin tone, check the ingredients and if you're happy with it, try it out for a while and see how it suits you and your skin.

If some days your skin needs a bit more moisture, you can always add a bit of your moisturiser to your foundation but from experience, when my eczema is starting to flare up on my face the best thing to do is just leave it. I feel like such a hypocrite saying this but if you should learn from my mistakes, my advice is just to make sure you're using all the creams you're supposed to and just let your skin breath. There's nothing worse than piling on mountains of foundation (like I used to) when you've got an eczema flare up.

With my make-up, I try to keep it light.

So before putting on my make-up, I wait until all my creams that I've put on  (I shall do a blog about this at some point) have soaked in and then I apply my Clinque Moisture surge, just to make sure that my skin is really moisturised and happy. 

On top of this I then apply my Clinque primer. Clinque has different types of primers for different types of skin, so this one helps calm down my redness which eczema so kindly brings to my face. The thing I love about this primer is that it doesn't only make my skin feel incredibly smooth after but it's also a brilliant base to put my make-up on.

At the moment I'm not using a Clinque foundation as I came across The Body Shop BB cream a few months ago and fell in love with it. It's incredibly lightweight and once I've got it on it looks like I'm wearing hardly any make-up - so very natural looking. 

To conceal some of my problem areas which I have, like the redness around my nose, some red areas on my cheeks and black rings under my eyes I use the Collection concealer, creating several small dots and then patting until blended with my ring finger. If I'm honest, I was a little disappointed with the Clinque concealer, as I find that the Collection one works ten times better and is a quarter of the price. So once I've concealed,  I then brush on the Stay Matte powder just so that everything underneath is longer lasting and put a bit of the Clinque concealer on my black rings as I personally think it brightens more than conceals, perfect for brightening under my eyes.

To finish off the skin I then dab on small amounts of the Clinque bronzer to under my hair line, just above my cheek bones and on my jaw line so it's all even around my face and then rub it in.

So now my skin is done, I'm now going to do my eyebrows using this kit. I know Collection's products probably aren't best for the skin, but personally my skin has never had any complaints using their concealer or their powders.

As you can see (I do apoligise for the state of this compact, it does need a bit of a clean!) there are three powders, ranging from dark to a lighter colour. What I do is I use the brightest powder just at the start of my eyebrow with the flat side of the brush that's provided and then gradually get darker using the other slanted side of the brush, using the browner colour and ending with the darkest powder at the end of my eyebrows.

Now the eyes - some people don't know this but the skin around your eyes is incredibly sensitive, especially for those who have eczema. As I've said in my second blog post, the skin around my eyes at the moment is quite dry and red so the last thing I want to do is put loads of eye make-up on top of it. So simply all I'm using is the Bourjous eyeliner on my upper waterline and a tiny bit in the corner of my lower water line, completing it with a few coats of Benefit mascara on my lashes.

To finish this all off, I put some of the Clinique Chubby Stick to give my lips some moisture before adding some MAC lipstick on top. I love MAC lipsticks, they smell so good! As they do include perfume, it is a wise decision to make sure you have a put on a moisturising lip balm beforehand to keep your lips looking nice and kissable.

Before

                                         

After!

So there you have it, my daily make-up routine!

If you've got this far, I really hope this was useful to you. But just remember, a little bit can go a long way. And if you have got the right make-up, it really can do your skin wonders and improve it rather than make it worse.

Until the next time,

Naomi

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