I know you guys don't particularly come here looking for post you'd normally see on a beauty blog but I promise I'll only continue this series when there are significant updates. Shake on it? Sorted.
So day one of the challenge went better than expected. I got up and managed to get all of the stuff done somewhere between 5-10 mins. For the purpose of this exorcise I'm going to just be going 'natural' every day make up. To me that means the following:
- Primer
- Foundation
- Concealer
- Setting powder
- Very light contour
- Very light blush
- Minimal highlighting (only because it's in the same palette as the last two and I feel mean to exclude it)
- Mascara
Nothing too complicated. Now if I'd just managed to get through the day normally I wouldn't be making this post. So why are we hear you ask? Because I got so many comments on it!
Comments ranging between somewhat neutral observations like 'You don't normally wear make-up.' to outrageous things like 'You look great today/with make-up on.' One of my favorite comments of the day was from a friend of mine who first said I looked nice and then, after recalling that I don't wear make-up at all, said that I do it really well for a beginner. Day made.
That was the up side. Now for the down.
Obviously with wear comes tear. Make-up never looks exactly the same when you put it on as it does at the end of the day when you take it off. Or so I'm told. Despite putting primer on before hand, my foundation went a little weird throughout the day. It seemed not to want to cling to my skin and instead started cracking (I guess you could call it). It wasn't noticeable from a distance and when I expressed my concern to my friend she said she hadn't even noticed it until I pointed it out. But it still bugged me that it was happening.
She suggested that there were two possible causes of this problem. 1) I hadn't put moisturizer on (I had assumed primer would do the job) and the drying of my skin was causing the shift OR 2) I just had the wrong foundation for my skin.
I figure I may as well try the moisturizer thing first and, if that doesn't work, fork out for a new foundation. A few weeks ago I bought an Endota Spa skin care starter kit which includes this little bottle of 'skin drink' A.K.A moisturizer.
But one thing everyone on the interwebs recommended was getting a moisturizer with SPF 15+ in it because make-up doesn't protect your face from UV rays. In places where I've had bad pimples before I do have some remaining red/purple pigmentation and UV rays can make that pigmentation worse or slow down the healing process. So I decided to dig out a moisturizer with a little bit extra something in it to protect my skin from the sun and help get rid of those pesky after pimple marks.
So I'll be using the normal moisturizer after my night time cleanse and the SPF 15+ one during the day to keep my skin and make-up from drying out and to make sure I don't get any nasty sun spots.
Another minor problem I had was with my concealer creasing a bit under my eyes. Hopefully getting a good eye primer will sort that out quick smart. I won't have the chance to pick one up tomorrow so I'll just have to live with it for now. Hopefully on Sunday I'll have the chance to pop to the shop and grab one.
That's pretty much it from me for now. Tomorrow is going to be the real challenge because I have to be up at 9 to get to work at 11. Making sure I get up in time to do my skin care and make-up routine with be troublesome but it's all training for if/when I have to do this same thing at Disney.
- Lily
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