Do you dream of sporting beautiful, luminous and even skin, without having to invest in a complete skincare routine, or having to change your beauty habits altogether? Good news, these 12 silly tips are life-changing, but without complicating it too much. Follow the guide !
Thoroughly remove excess sebum
It is the basis for displaying beautiful skin on a daily basis and eliminating sebum and other impurities that blur the complexion: a good cleansing of the face. For this, arm yourself with a good cleanser to clear skin! Be careful to choose it according to your skin type, oily skin will not have the same needs as dry skin for example.
You can perfect your cleaning routine by applying a small lotion to remove lime scale from the water. Finally, do not forget to do a small exfoliation once a week to gently remove the dead cells left on the surface of the face and which could tarnish its radiance.
Pure Camomile Soothing Cleansing Cream – Yves Rocher
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Adopt the right actions to avoid dark circles
For beautiful skin, besides the importance of daily make-up, nothing is more effective than hydration. An essential step whether you wear makeup or not. We start by taking care of the eye area, an area where the skin is thinner, and therefore more quickly satiated. Hence the fact that it is advisable to treat her first and ideally respecting the right gestures. Indeed, to optimize the effects of the eye contour treatment on a dark circle or a morning pocket, it is better to respect the lymphatic paths.
The right gesture : with the pulp of the index finger, a mini-drainage is carried out by gently massaging the skin by small pressure in circular movements (and not by stretching the skin, so as not to crumple it, which accentuates the appearance of wrinkles) , about ten times from the outer corner to the inner corner of the eye. Then we do the same thing all around the orbit.
Apply your care from the bottom up
Here is a simple little trick, but one that is important when you apply your moisturizer: it is best to avoid pushing your face down (it already does this very well on its own). It’s a matter of weightlessness.
The right gesture : to properly hydrate the skin of your face with your day cream, start from the neck up to the forehead, and from the center of the face to the top of the cheekbones. Push-up effect guaranteed! A small step for us, a big step to defy the laws of gravity.
Leave your face moisturizer away from the eye area
Another beauty tip for applying your cream: be careful to avoid the entire area around the eye. Why ? Because our moisturizer is far too heavy in water for this fragile area. The surrounding skin is so thin that it absorbs everything, too much. And who says too much water, says swelling skin, says appearance of puffiness. It is for this reason in particular that there are treatments specifically adapted to this area (no, it is not ONLY marketing).
The peel for a new skin
Have you heard of peeling? This is a medical technique consisting in removing the upper layer of the epidermis so as to eliminate dead skin, but also spots, imperfections, wrinkles and fine lines … Obviously, this technique is exclusively practiced in medical practice by specialists, and costs between 150 and 500 euros depending on the concentration chosen (the intensity depends on the needs of the skin). It acts both in prevention and in cure to act against the signs of aging
If this technique impresses you, don’t panic, start gently with a peel whose light formula is specially designed to be used at home, once a week, or even daily for certain treatments. If the price is much more affordable, the results will be much lighter there too, but you should nevertheless already be amazed, especially on the radiance of the skin.
6. Apply your foundation with your hands
Now that you have beautiful, perfectly clean, hydrated skin, it’s time to put some makeup on. Then again, there are a few tips you should know to flaunt a flawless complexion. Whether you opt for a fluid foundation or a tinted cream, the same fight: stop brushing, let’s go with your fingers. Why ? Because the hands are “warm” and allow the molecules of the product to work with each other. The material is ideally warmed up, resulting in it melts better on the skin and the effect is much more natural. Of course, we do not forget to wash our hands thoroughly before and after.
7. Add a drop of serum to the foundation
Another advice to work on your complexion that comes directly from a beauty specialist. To thin out your foundation, give it a more natural look and give us a pretty glow in the process, add a drop of serum to the palm of your hand before applying it. Goodbye the plaster effect and too much makeup. It was Tom Pecheux, the star makeup artist, who whispered it to us at the bend of a parade backstage.
#BonusBoard : When you are tired, you avoid trying to hide it by forcing on the foundation. It only mummifies the face even more. So we rather calm the game by applying a drop of fluid foundation only on the axis of the face (we create a vertical line from the forehead to the chin) before stretching the whole outward.
8. Apply your concealer correctly
Beauty tip n ° 1: Take it easy. Why ? Because the concealer is more of an eye illuminator than a real camouflage tool. He plays with light to create a kind of optical effect, but his power is limited. When you really have dark circles under your eyes, it is better to go to sleep. The concealer will do nothing.
Beauty tip n ° 2: To apply it, tap it with your finger to avoid ending up with a big mark and new folds under the eye. It is applied “in a triangle” starting in small dotted lines from the inner corner of the eye, going straight down to the level of the bottom of the nose and going up diagonally towards the outer corner of the eye. We spread without going out of the triangle and avoiding getting too close to the root of the eyelashes.
9. To awaken the gaze, think of a pencil
After a night of madness, to arrive fresh at the office, apply a line of pencil inside the eye before blending lightly on the eyelids to erase small redness (shame). Guaranteed eye boost!
10. Exfoliate your lips
When we talk about exfoliating, we are not talking about taking out the pumice stone. You should know that the skin of the lips is 5 times thinner than the rest of the face. An ultra sensitive area therefore, which must be taken very great care. To make it very soft, you have to get rid of its dead skin (from time to time), and moisturize it intensely (all the time). So we give ourselves a little massage with specific gentle exfoliants (a little honey and sugar, it also works), and we can take advantage of the night to offer a mask with an ultra-hydrating, nourishing, plumping balm. .. To wake up with pink baby lips.
11. To remove imperfections, put your fingers away
You are going to tell me, “how to remove without touching?”. It’s true, blackheads, small pimples … are not the most beautiful effect on our face. But back ugly nails and other blackhead removers! Better not to touch them and treat them gently. Why ? Because piercing them would only slow their demise. This is the best way to make the infection worse and end up with a nasty mark. Basically it’s a bit like waking up a sleeping volcano.
We will avoid, and instead get down to finding the right astringent lotion (the best for tightening pores, drying out imperfections and unifying the complexion), remove make-up and gently cleanse morning and evening, and wait a little bit. A little tip for home made enthusiasts, you can also remove a small unsightly pimple by applying a mixture of water + baking soda on the unwanted. Leave on for a few minutes to dry it out. Let’s avoid making an enemy of our skin, it will give it back to us!
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12. Sweat
Sleep to have more beautiful skin, we knew it. But playing sports, isn’t that paradoxical? Not that much … Quite simply because sweating evacuates stress as well as all the toxins that clutter and tire our body through the pores. To put it simply, by boosting perspiration, the skin “self-cleans” and eliminates impurities and dead cells, while improving the microcirculation for better irrigation and better nutrition of the skin tissues.
The skin is better hydrated, more flexible, clearer, smoother, sharper … in short, radiant. In addition it is valid for the whole body. For the lazy, a trip to the hammam or sauna from time to time, and voila.
The best recipe: 40 minutes of racing (at the supermarket that does not count) + a hammam of about fifteen minutes. Without forgetting to drink a lot.