Choose a sheer liquid foundation and apply it onto a cleansed and well-moisturized face. If you want to make your foundation flawless-looking and to make it stay put on for longer consider applying a makeup primer before the foundation. The aim of a primer is to prepare the skin for the makeup application, to pamper the skin and creating a protective base for longer- lasting, natural looking foundation.

Consider applying a light-reflecting face powder if your skin is absolutely clear and free of pimples, scars, blackheads, whiteheads, brown spots and other skin imperfections. Apply the powder with a big, round powder brush over the entire face or only to the cheeks.

Use a blush in pink or peachy shade as these shades suit almost everyone and look more natural. Apply the blusher with a blush brush and build the color gradually. Use a powder blush as it last longer than a cream or gel blush. Choose brighter shades as they will make your skin glow and will freshen your skin.

Lipsticks or lip glosses in brighter shades will also make your skin glow. First outline your lips with a nude lip pencil or with a natural-toned lip liner and use a lipstick brush to apply the color evenly. Remove the excess with a tissue and then apply a second layer for a more saturated lip color and for a longer-lasting lipstick color.

Digestive Cleansing
This is one of the ways to rid the body of the accumulated junk in your digestive track. Digestive cleanses may involve fasting, wheatgrass juice, or juicing, cayenne pepper, enemas and colonics. Each of these is intended to assist the body in the process of elimination. Often the results of digestive cleansing include feeling more clear-headed, lighter, more aware, less fatigued, and energized.

Tongue Cleaning
Ever notice that slimy white film on your tongue? That’s the mouth’s elimination system and one of the causes of bad breath (the rest of it is coming from your digestive system). A tongue scraper can be used to scrape off coated tongues first thing in the morning.

Detox Bath
Use a combination of epsom salt, sea salt and baking soda to help pull out toxins from the skin. This one can be especially beneficial to ease emotional imbalances.
Skin Brushing / Dry Brush
Brushing your skin with a dry body brush is one of the best ways to clean your skin. It may feel kind of odd but it is more effective than brushing your skin with a wet soapy brush or sponge.

Water Flush
Most of us know that it’s important to stay hydrated and drink lots of water. Practice of drinking 2 litres of warm water first thing in the morning to flush your system.

1. Tap or lightly blow on the applicator brush to remove any excess blush before applying to prevent a harsh and uneven application.
2. Apply your blush on the apple of the cheek and carefully blend towards your natural hairline.
3. If you have two shades, apply the darker one on the apple of the cheek first, then use the lighter shade to highlight. Blend well so there is no visible line between colors.
4. Highlight your temples, forehead and chin.

Some tips to make your cheeks appear healthy
To know “where to glow” bend over for 30 seconds, then slowly stand up. Where your cheeks are flushed is where you are meant to blush. Apply your blush there and it will be naturally rosy every time.
Cheek color should be used to enhance your complexion, not to change your natural skin tone. Use sparingly for daytime, then add more or a deeper shade for a more dramatic nighttime effect. For special occasions, dust a lightly frosted powder over your cheekbones for a subtle but alluring glow.
Make sure to blend your blush into your foundation well or it will tend to look unnatural and add the appearance of 5 years to your looks.

Make a greater effort to take good care of your nails, and you will be thrilled with the way they complement your wardrobe and your own personal style. Consider the following tips as a way to enhance the health and quality of your nails.

Avoid Brittle Nails
Avoid using your nails as tools. This means no picking, scratching, digging, pinching, etc. You know who you are! Increase the amount of calcium in your diet. Use products containing alcohol, especially perfumed lotions, sparingly. These items can make nails prone to breaking.

Healthy Nails

Apply speed-dry nail polish when time is of the essence. Drink lots of water. Keep your body hydrated everyday to maintain healthy nails. Fortify your diet with FDA approved vitamins or supplements. Your fingernails count on you to be responsible with your health and your diet. Unless instructed otherwise by your physician, increase your daily doses of Vitamin A, Vitamin C, calcium, folic acid, protein, Vitamin B12, and zinc. Touch up your manicure on a daily basis to prevent chips and cracks.

Nail polish tips

• Finish with a clear topcoat to add gloss and sheen. Start with a base coat to strengthen and protect the nails.
• Store nail polish in the refrigerator to maintain a smooth consistency.
• Try not to store nail polish in a room that becomes cold. The nail polish bottles may break without warning, leaving you with a big mess.
• Wear rubber gloves when you do chores that involve continual submersion in water or contact with harsh detergents or chemicals.

To start, the foundation for mature skin should be close to medium-weight. Mature skin has wrinkles and a heavy foundation can actually make the wrinkles look deeper. If you have mature skin, you should always err on the lighter or sheerer side of foundations. A sheer or medium-weight foundation will reflect light and cover up many blemishes. An oil-based foundation should be applied on top of a daytime moisturizer designed for mature skin.

When make-up is too heavy, and doesn’t blend into your skin tone or highlight your best features, it can actually make you look older. We’ve all seen women who obviously think more make up is better, but that’s a fallacy when it comes to mature skin. Also, your eye shadow and brow colors should blend with your skin tone. The eye shadows used should be cream based, because they will moisturize while hiding flaws. The appearance of dark bags under the eyes can be minimized with a conceler is one shade lighter than your foundation.

Another tip for applying make up for Moms includes using a very small amount of blush on the cheeks that creates a glowing, rather than a clownish, look. Also, make up for Moms should include lipstick with moisturizer in the formula.

Careful selection and application of make up for Moms can enhance any mature women’s beauty. Soft application and color designed to highlight natural beauty, while downplaying signs of aging, usually results in melting the years away.

If you want to change your skin care routine by using herbal soap or other natural products, you should definitely talk to your dermatologist before making the change to make sure that your skin will not have a negative reaction to this change. You may also want to try bathing with your natural soap first before applying it to your face.

If you are sensitive to the product and need to find something different to cleanse your face with then you may have to explore more. If you are buying herbal soap from your local health food store, you can ask the attendant which natural ingredients would be best for your skin, in order to make sure that you are happy with the product.

You have to be careful in selecting the soap. If you take the wrong one you may even suffer from skin diseases. Since the choices vary extremely from person to person depending on your skin its sensitiveness and other requirements you are advised to consult your dermatologist repeatedly, before taking any important decision.

Visit Your Dentist
As a certified professional, your dentist can make sure your teeth and gums stay healthy for years to come, and he’ll be able to catch any issues that arise between visits. To avoid painful dental procedures like root canals down the line, visit your dentist just to make sure no additional complications have the chance to develop!

Brush Twice a Day
Brush your teeth in the morning, and then before you go to bed at night. Don’t do it for the sake of doing it. Brush well to ensure you clean every corner of your mouth. Make sure you also gently brush your tongue and the roof of your mouth to get rid of any potential bacteria that may be trying to lurk there!

Floss Once a Day
Floss is good to practice before you go to sleep at night, since you’ll be less rushed for time. Push the floss gently into place between each set of teeth, and move it back and forth a few times. Then, make a curve with the floss and slide it up and down the edge of each tooth, ensuring that all surfaces get cleaned.

Make Smart Choices
When it comes to personal nutrition, the health of your teeth is effected by the things you put in your mouth. Try eating more fruits and snacks with natural sugars, or decide to only consume processed sugars at mealtimes. Snacking on things like veggies and yogurt between meals is a better choice for your all around health anyway, so making it a part of your daily dental regimen will do double health duty.

The word foundation means, the basis, of your makeup routine. If it isn’t right, your whole look may be off. Foundations are either oil or water based. Some skin experts will tell you that if you have oily skin, you should use a water-based foundation, and if you have dry skin, use an oil-based one.

Applied properly, foundation can make any complexion seem healthy and flawless. The aim is to leave the skin looking as natural and unmade-up as possible. Before you start, think hard about your complexion, as you may not need to apply base over the entire face. It is important to choose a foundation similar in color to your own skin. This is really easy-it is a matter of trial and error, and will take at the most an hour of your time in a department store or makeup center. Try one color on the inside of your wrist (never on your face) and walk around for a few minutes. Now look at the shade again, and then try another one. It is well worth the time to find a foundation that will look good on you.

If you think you will be interested in contouring and or highlighting your features, you need to buy another foundation a shade lighter than the one that matches your skin, and one that is three shades darker than your basic color. Again, a good cosmetician or a salesperson in a cosmetics department can help you choose the colors you will need.

Apply the color by filling in the shape of the brow between the hairs where needed. Fill in only at the front or underneath the brow, or through the brow itself. Groom your brows with a clean mascara brush or similar tool. Move loose hairs into place and blend color for a more natural appearance.

When you are finished with the filling process, with the help of upward strokes, brush the brows back into the place. Prefer using an eyebrow brush for this purpose as this will help soften and shade the eyebrow pencil coloring to make it look more natural.

To see the natural line of the eyebrow and where it needs to be filled, comb your brow with the help of an eyebrow brush or a toothbrush in the direction in which it grows.

• Begin with the first step of applyling the lipliner at the center of your natural upper lip line to define the bow then work toward the outer corners to complete the line.
• Start at one corner of your bottom lip then follow your natural lip line all the way to the other corner.
• Choose a lipliner that matches your lipstick or a flesh tone shade for a soft, natural look.
• To get plumper, pinker looking lips do not touch up by drawing a hard lip line; smudge it so lips look fuller! For a more dramatic fullness, choose a lipstick shade with a hint of frost.
• To avoid lipstick on your teeth, put your index finger in your mouth and then draw it out slowly with your mouth closed. What you see on your finger is what would have ended up on your teeth!