Hey Everyone!
With a little encouragement from a couple of friends, I made a video about the face care, hair care and make up that I use. For my blog, I will share with with the face care and make up products I use. I am writing this post, and making the products and tutorial vlogs because I enjoy watching the tutorials, but I haven’t found one that I like that is all about reasonably priced products, and simple make up routines for girls who don’t like to wear a lot of make up.
When I was younger I couldn’t wear make up, so once I went to college I started teaching myself how to use make up, and figuring out what skin care products actually worked for my face, as I have struggled for years to find face washes and such that didn’t make my face oilier than it already was.
I am not one who likes to spend a lot of money on products that you will use up, at the same time, for me to find products that actually work I gave up on the drug store aisles lined with products that don’t work for me. Other than my make up remover every thing I use on my face in terms of cleaners, toners and moisturizers are all from The Body Shop. The Body Shop is a U.K. company that I have known about since I was a kid, having gone to Canada to visit my mom’s sister and her family (Beings that it was Canada, they had U.K. brands sold mainstream long before the U.S. did.) I started using their face products in college, and found that they actually worked for more than five seconds.
The Body Shop face care lines that I use are the tea tree skin clearing line and the seaweed clarifying line. I use the tea tree line because my skin is prone to break outs, especially stress break outs. I use the seaweed line because I have combination/oily skin. I use them in combination with each other, and might use one face wash, a different toner, and the moisturizer from the same line as the face wash, it is all dependent on how my skin feels and looks at that point in time, as well as if it is day or night (for moisturizers).
My Makeup routine is really simple. I don’t like a lot of fuss, or spending a lot of time in front of a mirror “Putting my face on”. Growing up Makeup was something I was taught to not wear, but that only lasted until I went to college. While in college I taught myself how to apply what makeup I do use. I don’t like wearing a lot of make up just because I am outside a lot, and especially between mid fall and late spring the weather can be such that being out in the rain would ruin your make up. I usually use makeup when I am going out and about, but not so much when I am going to be out on adventures.
For my eye makeup I prefer Almay, and as you can see my eye liner, eye shadow and mascara are all from Almay. For foundation and pressed powder I love Cover Girl’s Tru Blend line of products. I used the pressed powder foundation and the regular pressed powder. using both in pressed powder form helps absorb excess oil.
By the time you are reading this my video showing you what I use should be live. I plan on making a getting ready for the day face, hair and make up routine in the new few days, which will also include my process for taking off my make up.
Adventure is my Middle Name 