I Updated My Makeup Routine: 5 Favourite Changes

I’ve made some little tweaks to my makeup routine and single-minded them to video: one of the changes involves my eyebrows, and you might once know well-nigh that one, but the other four are relatively new and snazzy. I know that the suspense will be killing you, so let’s get cracking.

Tweak One

My first makeup tweak is so puny and weird that I’m scrutinizingly embarrassed to be writing well-nigh it, but seeing as though social media’s USP is people sharing things so mundane it makes you want to lobotomise yourself with a corkscrew, I’m going to go right ahead. The makeup update, if you could plane undeniability it that, is that I’ve only been putting foundation or tinted moisturiser on the centre of my squatter rather than all over it.

See, I told you it was fascinating.

It’s increasingly of a convenience than a tweak and it has evolved from my habitual wearing of roll-neck or high-necked jumpers. For who wants foundation all the way lanugo their neck when their neck is going to be smothered in wool? Equally, who plane wants foundation on their chin, when their chin is permanently rubbing on the woollen roll-neck? Not I.

So I use the squatter wiring sparingly and lightly and only in the inside part of the squatter rather than right up to the edges which, in truth, is the only place that tends to need foundation anyway. Facial perimeters rarely have a lot of bothersome shit going on.

This tideway to skin-perfecting is weightier washed-up with a sheerer foundation or tinted moisturiser, something forgiving and ultra-blendable. If you try to do it with a longwear opaque wiring then you’ll probably run into trouble. My tint of current choice? Still ILIA Skin Tint (I use shade ST7) with it’s mega-glow.

Tweak Two

My next little fancy twist to the makeup tale is using blusher on my eyes. I know! What’s come over me? I saw Katie-Jane Hughes (amazing makeup artist) do it on Instagram to tie her vision in with the tincture and it was just so easy and fun and fresh, and the pink isn’t unquestionably directly virtually the vision so you don’t squint like a rabbit from Watership Down… It’s just a quick bosh with the skim at the outer edges and then tousle – watch the video unelevated to see this in action.

You can use whatever’s left on the skim from doing cheeks. Doesn’t matter particularly whether it’s a surf or powder tincture but I used the wondrous Freshfaced Surf Tincture from Beauty Pie here*. (Remember to use RUTHSENTME if you’re a new consumer signing up and you’ll get a bit off the membership.)

Tweak Three

Not plane a tweak, so I’m starting to finger as though this unshortened exercise is a lie, but I’ll plough on. It’s just a clumsy, crayon-y splodge of visionless eye colour at the outer corners in an upwards-facing wedge, composite in, to lift the vision and make them squint less tired. All this does (and again, you need to watch the video for the how-to) is wrench the lashline upwards so that the outer corners squint as though they sit a few mm higher than they did before. Tiny, subtle transpiration but it’s vastly effective. If you want a stronger optical illusion then do it with a solid line of eyeliner but it’s trickier to get right than the splodge-of-wedge-and-blend-it method. I used the spanking-new suit-all Vieve Eye Wand in Coffee.

Tweak Four

I genuinely can’t plane remember what this was and have to go when and watch the video. Please hold. I only had five underdone things to remember! I’d be rubbish at Kim’s Game now. Used to be scrutinizingly champion-level.

OK the fourth tweak is the gluing of the eyebrows using Brow Freeze. You know well-nigh this already, if you’ve read the previous makeup post but you must watch them stuff laminated and waxed and glued into place in the video. This Brow Freeze stuff is wondrous – my eyebrows end up well-nigh half an inch remoter up my face! Some might think this is a bad thing, I quite like it for a change. It’s a bit like when you move your bed to a variegated wall and it’s as though you don’t plane know who you are anymore. But reordering your facial features instead. Facial Feng Shui.

You can find Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Freeze here* – I would, and I surprise myself here, recommend getting the defended applicator that you have to purchase separately. Considering my way of dunking the brow skim at an worrisome wile is not massively convenient.

Tweak Five

The gloss in a stick. Apparently these Revlon Super Lustrous Glass Shine lipsticks have gone viral on Tiktok. If I could use Tiktok without crashing Tiktok, having to log out of Tiktok and having to then reset my Tiktok password each and every time, then I’d spend a lot increasingly time on Tiktok, but as it stands I just don’t have the energy for it. I’m constantly told I need to use it and upload videos there but it’s just so…chaotic. And noisy. Everyone is pointing at things on the screen, or talking loudly, or dancing. It feels like stuff stuck in an shopping game.

So I’ll take everyone’s word for it that these lipsticks are the new craze – it moreover makes sense, considering they really are excellent. As slick as a gloss but without the stickiness, they unquestionably do properly plump and shine the lips without any effort whatsoever. And they’re moisturising. Genuinely. I felt the effects long without the colour had slinked away.

My favourite shade is the Strawberry one – find it at LookFantastic and just well-nigh nowhere else considering everywhere seems to be out of stock!

Marvellous, we raced through those tweaks didn’t we? Now you just have the video to watch. Get to it…

I have my hair cut and coloured at The Suite in Bath (not an ad, I have unchangingly paid, just like to requite them a shout-out and I unchangingly get asked!). My pink jumper was a kind present from my friends at Scamp & Dude