You don’t have to be incredibly strict with beauty to fully embrace it. Creating your look should be fun and inventive! It doesn’t need to be strict and regimented.

No matter what your skin looks and feels like, it is important to wash your face at least once a day. Regardless of your personal beauty regimen, make a habit of always completely removing all your makeup prior to cleaning your face. If you don’t properly clean your face, it can cause clogged pores and often acne.

If you’re stuck on what colors to use for eye shadow and lip color, look to your hair! Your hair color can actually have a great influence on what colors will compliment you best. If you are a brunette, try using a dark mahogany eye shadow as a multipurpose tool. This color can be used to fill in your eyebrows, line your upper lashes, and even work to help cover gray roots in your hairline.

Like mentioned above, it is important to wash your face at least once a day. Before going to bed for the night, part of your routine should be removing the day’s makeup. Gently scrub your face with a warm washcloth with your favorite cleanser. This step is important to keep pores clean and prevent breakouts.

Substitute aloe gel for expensive moisturizers, witch hazel for costly toners and pure castile soap with a clean cloth for those high priced cleansers. When you use organic, natural items, your skin will brighten up instantly. If you need even more moisture, add some vitamin E.

To improve your lip color application, always apply lip balm first. The balm will keep your lips soft and moisturized allowing your lip color to go on smoothly. To keep your lipstick or gloss color pure, try using a basic, untinted lip balm.

Beauty tip for tired eyes! Eye gel will help reduce the appearance of puffy or tired eyes. Keep this in the refrigerator, and use it for an extra boost if you are really tired. You can feel very tired without having to show it on your face. Just make sure to use the gel on a clean face. Another option is to leave a spoon in the freezer overnight and use that as a cold compress on under eye bags.

Put your vegetables on your skin. Vegetables have many health benefits when you eat them, and several more when used as a beauty treatment. Try cool cucumbers or sliced potato on your eyes to relieve puffiness and redness. Use water left from boiling cabbage, broccoli, or kale for a healthy skin toner.

Choose your eye shadow based on your eye color to make your eye makeup really pop. If your eyes are blue, shades of brown are the most flattering. For brown eyes, try purple shadows like lavender or plum. If your eyes are green, golden shades are very flattering, as are many shades from the brown family.

Avoiding piling on foundation is a great tip in looking more well rested. Try using a tinted moisturizer instead and then apply a beige eye pencil, this will counteract the redness around the eyes and leave you looking refreshed and ready for the day.

By using a pressed powder as an eye shadow base before applying the color you can avoid your shadow from creasing during the day. It helps absorb any oils on the eyelids.

Beauty is more than precision-based. If it weren’t, then only professionals could buy and use the products. Hopefully these tips have opened your eyes to the wonders of beauty and the small tips and tricks you can use to perfect your look. So get out there and start practicing!

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