Use The Art Of Cosmetics With Confidence
We’ve all done it: purchased that compact or eye shadow or lipstick that was on sale, only to get it home and discover we’d wasted our money, even on sale! That’s why learning how to choose the best cosmetics for your skin can also be good for your budget.
The first step in using cosmetics properly is to learn your skin type. Skin can be dry, oily, normal or combination. Knowing your type of skin is essential because that’s how you select the kind of cosmetics best for you.
Skin is the easiest way to tell if we’re healthy, and the quickest way to judge our age if we don’t take care of it. For instance, did you know that skin renews its outer layer every 30 days? Plus it keeps our “insides” inside and protects our “outside” from bacteria. These are more reasons why it pays to be careful in choosing your cosmetics.
Seriously, if you’re not doing it already, you should immediately set up a daily routine to clean, tone and moisturize your skin. Each step in your skin care should have its own product, because each step serves a different function. Always think twice if you’re tempted by some all-in-one product that will save you time and money. A good skin care regimen takes no more than 5 minutes in the morning and 5 minutes at night. Surely you can spare 10 minutes a day to take good care of your skin.
Then comes the part that always makes women a little nervous: selecting the right shade of foundation to wear. Somehow those shades that can look so beautiful in the bottle in the store just don’t match well when we use them. Ever wonder why? Chalk it up to two things.
First, most stores use overhead fluorescent lights that wash out skin tones. This can lead you to choose a foundation that’s too light, making you look like Casper the Friendly Ghost. On the other hand (literally), we tend to test foundation shades on the backs of our hands. This is also a bad method because our hands get more tanned than our faces, leading us to choose foundation that’s too dark for our facial skin.
What to do? It’s easy. Test the foundation shade on the skin inside your wrist. That’s where likely to be closest to your facial tone. Then, if it’s possible, go outside to see how the shade looks in natural light. If an outside trip isn’t possible, see if the cosmetics counter has a “natural” light that can help you choose.
Remember what we said at the start about learning some medical facts for choosing cosmetics? Here’s a little more: Buy the best cosmetics you can afford. Why? Because in most cases, cheaper cosmetics can contain chemicals that are bad, bad, bad for your skin! Even higher price doesn’t necessarily mean good quality, so read the labels. Watch for such things as fragrance, chemical colorings and the like. Most good-to-best quality cosmetics don’t use such things, but always check to make sure.
Cosmetics have been used by women – and men, for that matter – for thousands of years to enhance our natural beauty. How lucky we are to live in an age when we can use cosmetic products that will enhance our skin’s health as well as make us beautiful.
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