Tips For a Good Night of Sleep

Beauty doesn't come just from a good skin care routine or good makeup tips and products, it also comes from the inside. When your body feels good, your face will automatically look better. What we eat, what we drink and the way we sleep. And when we sleep well, our face reflects it.
So, if you have problems falling asleep at night, here's some tips on how to have a good night of sleep:

• Create a sleep schedule: try to go to bed (with no distractions) everyday at the same time;
• Pay attention to the food you are eating: don't go to bed feeling hungry, or too stuffed. Eat at least 3h before going to sleep;
• Create your own bedtime ritual, like cleaning your skin with a specific product such as the Younique Awake Facial Cleanser, apply a good moisturizer, like the Brilliant Daily Moisturizing Gel also from Younique, light up an aromatherapy candle and drink a cup of camomile tea. 
• Create a comfortable environment, dark, cool and quiet bedroom;
• Don't take naps during the day. Or if you do, limit them to 30 minutes maximum;
• Get some exercise. Really, get some physical activity in your weekly routine, even if you can't go to the gym, do some walking or jogging outside. Being in shape will help you to get a good night of sleep.

Makeup trick: Where to Highlight

In terms of formulas and consistency, you can highlight with powder or cream, and it's not rocket science. Use a proper brush, like the Younique's Concealer Brush, which is perfect for both powder or cream consistency.
You can highlight with a concealer, with a lighter shade of foundation in cream or powder, and for the eyes you can also use a Mineral Pigment, like the Curious, from Younique.
Follow the above scheme and remember that the key is: blend!

Quick trick: How to Intensify Your Smokey Eye (without eyeliner)

You want to rock a smokey eye, but your out of black eyeliner? Or maybe you aren't a fan of a dramatic smokey eye with the eyeliner, but still want to make it intense?
Here's a quick trick!

After having your smokey eye all done (whether you have used black and grey colors, or brown, burgundy or purple), dip a thin or a liner brush, like the Younique Liner brush into Rose Water, and after picking a black pigment, like the Moodstruck Minerals Pigment Powder in Corrupted, Risque or Devious and line the lash line and under the waterline. And that's it, pretty simple!

Be Ready In 10 Min (Or Less)

 

Tic toc, tic toc, lets go!

Step 1:

•  Apply moisturizer (30 seconds);

Step 2:

• Concealer: grab a brush (Younique Concealer Brush) and dab it into the Moodstruck Minerals Concealer, also by Younique (30 seconds);

Step 3:

•  Apply BB Cream, check out Younique's BB Flawless Complexion, available in every skin tone (1 minute);

Step 4:

• Fix your brows. Use a brow comb sprayed with hairspray, if you need to fill them use a pencil, or a pigment closer to your hair color and apply it with the Liner Brush by Younique. (2 minutes);

Step 5:

•  Apply mascara (2 minutes);

Step 6:

• Apply the blush (30 seconds);

 Step 7:

• Apply the lipstick or gloss (30 seconds);

Step 8:

• If your hair looks too messy when loose, comb it into a high ponytail. If you prefer, make a bun, by twisting your hair and secure it with bobby pins and hairspray (3 minutes);

 Step 9:

• Spray your perfume or eau de toilette and smile ;)

How to Reduce Dark Circles

There are many factors that contribute to the appearance of dark circles, such as fatigue, stress, poor diet, heredity, excess sun, smoking, alcohol intake, among others. The spots also appear during the premenstrual period and during pregnancy because the eyelid may become whitish due to iron deficiency.

To reverse the problem, it is best to take some basic precautions to avoid or reduce dark circles. Ideally, for example, is a good night's sleep (preferably sleeping eight hours a day to allow the restoration of tissues). If your sleep is restful, your skin the next day will be much prettier, even around the eyes. Take care of food, drink plenty of water, lower alcohol and salt, use concealer it will help give the eye around a healthier appearance.

Tips to reduce dark circles:

• Sleep well

Sleeping well is one of the main tips for those who want to reduce dark circles . Therefore, the recommendation is that you sleep eight hours a day as it is during sleep that the skin is restored and recovers.

• Wash your face with cold water

Many people find that washing your face with warm water helps relieve the appearance of dark circles, Which is wrong. While the warm water promotes vasodilatation, which favors the appearance of dark circles, the cold water promotes vasoconstriction of blood vessels, causing the opposite effect, softening dark circles . Compresses of ice water also decrease swelling and darkening of the eyelids .

• Massage the region

Making a massage around the eyes causes the swelling subsides. However, in order to obtain the results you should massage twice daily.
The fingers should glide smoothly, making slight pressure, going from the inner corner to the outer upper eyelid.Then start again from the inner corner of the eyes, but at the bottom, and go toward the outer corner. The massage should start at the tear duct (located in the inner corner ) and finish at the other end .Give light taps in the region with the tip of the index finger and the middle, alternately finger.When finished, close your eyes, and with the ring finger, press the tear duct for ten seconds, making a small circle .

• Moisturize your face

Moisturize the skin daily makes her be more beautiful. Use a good daily moisturizer like the Brilliant Daily Moisturizing Gel by Younique .The facial moisturizing is useful to disguise dark circles . This is because a good hydration in the region of the eye, the skin thickness increases and consequently the facial vessels in this area are not so apparent.

• Apply a compress teabag on your eyes

Place cold compress of chamomile tea on the eyes is one of the ways to reduce dark circles . This is because chamomile has calming and anti- inflammatory action , and have an effect of vasoconstriction. The tea should be made ​​more concentrated and, before applying the compress on the eyes it should go to the freezer for a few minutes.

How To Clean Your Makeup Brushes

Taking care of your makeup brushes is very important, because of the bacteria accumulation, something to be aware of, to prevent zits and other skin issues.
But caring of makeup brushes isn't like washing normal brushes, they are delicate therefor they need special attention:

• If you don't have a specific makeup brushes cleaning product, or don't want to invest in one, use baby shampoo, as it is delicate enough not to ruin the makeup brushes bristles and fibers.
• Don't let the water and the shampoo pass the metal part, because when the water enters the metal part of the brush, will get in contact with the glue that sticks the bristles together and ruin them, so they will start to come off.
• Let them dry on a clean towel, preferably close to a window or close to a natural ventilation point. Put them against the wall with the bristles on the towel, so all the water is absorbed.
• Never ever put the bristles facing the tap water, so the water doesn't get inside the brush, and it doesn't get deformed.
• Use your fingers to wash the brush, in soft circular motions.
• Avoid squeezing the brush too much, so the bristles don't come off.

A Guide to Countouring

Contouring is one of the best techniques in makeup, because when well done, it can magically change your face, improving your best features and making everyone look like a fashion magazine model. On the other hand, when it's not well done, the results can be dramatically drastic.
The 3 main products for a perfect contour isn't just your regular foundation plus a darker one to create the "shadow". For a perfect countouring you will need your regular foundation (because contouring in a skin without foundation can look really fake and unnatural), a bronze powder, preferably with no shimmer, or a darker foundation.
It can be either a powder formula or a cream formula, in both cases, make sure you blend the products really well, for a natural finish (both from Younique). A great set of brushes is highly recommended, since they are designed to buff the product in a natural way. Try the Younique brushes, as they are very good quality brushes that won't leave the cakey effect.
You also need a blush, for a healthy glow in your cheeks, and a little bit of the illuminator. Illuminator isn't exactly essential, but it will give you a nice glow of a fashion magazine model.