Flawless Makeup Start With Flawless Skin!

Before you can have flawless makeup you must have flawless skin. So taking care of your skin is highly important. You must cleanse, tone, and moisturize. First step is to cleanse your face. You must pick the right cleanser for your skin type. For example if you have oily skin you want an oil free cleanser or believe it or not an oil cleanser. The reason you want an oil cleaners is because the oils act like Mrs. Pac Man and eat away at the excessive oils. Drink a lot of water this helps oily skin as well. If you have dry skin you want a cream cleanser and normal skin can do a foam or cream cleaners. There are ways to check what your skin type is. First wash your face and lightly pat dry face. Do not put on any moisturizer on for about 3 hours. Press a single piece of tissue to your face and remove it. If there is no oil on the paper and your face does not feel flaky and tight you have normal skin. If there is no oil on the paper and your face feels flaky and tight you have dry skin. If oil comes off your cheeks,forehead and nose you have oily skin. Now if oil comes off on the forehead and nose but not on the cheeks you have combination skin. However, if your skin reacts to new products by becoming itchy,red , inflamed, or it is blotchy and tight then you mostly have sensitive skin. Once you have chosen the right cleanser you can buy a toner. Before I go forward if you are new to having a skin care regime I would advise you to sample every product you buy first. Also sample these products one at a time. This is just in case you are allergic to a product you can pin point which product caused you to have a reaction.
After you have selected a toner you can now go on to your moisturizer. This can be more complex then people think, a moisturizer that to heavy for the skin can cause break out due to the moisturizer being too heavy. Well a moisturizer that is to light for the skin will make the skin dry, dull, and lifeless. There is two type of moisturizer that is for the face and eyes. Now within these two types are many categories for the face and eyes. Lets talk about you face for awhile. You have anti-aging for the more mature women, oil-free for again oily skin, day and night creams as well as ones with SPF (sun protection formula). I will go back to this, you must identify what your skin type is to find the right products for you. However, if you find yourself having a difficult time figuring out what’s your skin type is getting a little help will not hurt you. With this said seek out professional advise. You can go see a licensed Aesthetics or a Dermatologist. As for your eye cream the one is not as complex. You can get an eye cream for anti-aging, puffiness and firmness. There is no cream that will make your dark circle disappear, especially if you have had it all your life. So for now we will use concealer for that and that I will discuss later in a different discussion. Just get some good rest, drink a lot of H20 and no smoking this is very bad for your skin. Visit Fifthavecosmetics.com for all your beauty needs.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR! NEW YEAR NEW YOU!

Happy New Year everyone! I hope everyone had a happy and safe New Year. Well the new year always brings new year resolutions..... losing weight,to stop smoking etc. However, does anyone say to themselves I want to give myself a makeover this year. I hope so because this is the time for a new you. Throw out that foundation that you have open once and left it there the whole year. Toss those eye shadow that you know you will never wear. It's times to get some new makeup believe it or not your makeup spring collection is on it way. This is the best time to get new palettes, lip color and more. Not everything is for everyone so chose your colors carefully. If you are new to using eye shadow palettes start with warm color you can not go wrong. Try the dark colors on the lower lid, light color on the crease and the lightest color right above the brow. Make sure to get your foundation and primer. Everything you need for your makeover to make you feel beautiful. You can find all your makeup needs @ Fifthavecosmetics.com through Amazon.com CHECK MY WEBSITE OUT YOU WILL LOVE IT.

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Buy Beauty Holiday Gift After the Holiday

Ok so the holiday's are almost over and you might have brought all the things you may have needed. However, retailers always have the best bargains after the holiday's. You can really luck out with holiday gifts sets because retailers need to sell them so they can make more room for new inventory coming in. If you don't take advantage these items get shipped back to the factory and sometimes get destroyed. Yes ladies that is what happens when you don't buy a particular item they sometimes destroy it or make it into a tester item. Anyway, the prices are always great and for the most part the are markdown about 2 or 3 times before they are ship off. So if you love to buy gifts ahead of times for the next holiday season always buy your sets right after the holiday.

It's Been Along Time

Well folks I am back. I had my second son in October and he has been a joy to our family. Being pregnant with him did all types of things to my face. In my 29 years of life I had oily skin and had to change my routine. I love my tinted moisturizer but I had to change this even the oil-free was not helping. So I started wear mineral press powder and that did the trick. I choose this because I knew I wanted to use a base that would be good for my skin. However, I did not want to inhale those little particle in the loose mineral powder while carrying my son. So mineral press seemed like my best bet. I was using Laura Mercier however Lancome also makes a good press. Most company now have mineral press it's up to you which one will work best for you. My lip was also going hey wire. I had to buy lip polish to take the dead skin off and then condition them after. I tried not to do to much to myself since I had what the called the "Pregnancy Glow". Every time I would try my skin would breakout anyway so I said the hell with it. Anyway guys I will be on my blog more often to give you update on the latest makeup trends. My next blog BUY YOUR MAKEUP PALETTE AND GIFTS AFTER THE HOLIDAYS.
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Makeup During pregnancy

So I have not been blogging in a while. Very sorry about this but I am expecting my second son in Novermber. I have been tried, gumpy, and all types of emotions. As I am checking my email it hit me I have not been on any type of network since I become pregnant not even facebook. I thought to myself this would be a good time to blog about how pregnancy can effect the skin and honey it can. It can effect the skin both good and bad. With my first preganacy my face was a smooth as a baby behide. With this one I have break outs and I just want to scream. Thanks goodness I don't have the mask face though. I know that this will go away after the baby is born but it is annoying to see your face looking like Bumpy Johnson. As much water as I drink you would think I would have smoother skin but no I do not. I can't complain though is not as bad as I have seen in the past. I will just keep doing my skincare and everything else.
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You can't keep it forever!

So I was asked this question "Does make up expire? and if so long does it last?".
Well the answer to that question is yes. Makeup does have a life expectancy for example a mascara life expectancy is only 3 months so if you have a mascara that you have been holding on to for 6 months now throw it away. Mascara hold bacteria on the wand so just think you are put that right on your eyes. DO NOT stock pile your mascara. Foundation has a shelf life of 12-18 months so does your blush and eye shadow. Just like mascara ladies eye shadow should not be in your makeup bag for more then 18 month. You must throw it away or risk getting in eye infection and that is no fun. Lipstick you can hold on to a little longer. However, we run through lipstick and gloss faster then any other makeup product. Now if you just brought makeup and for any reason and it smells funny take in back right away this mean it is rotten. You makeup should never have any weird smell especaily if you just purchased it. This goes for moisturizer,face serum, eye cream ,and eye serum you only have a expectancy of about 18 months and should not smell. By then you should be done with these product anyway and should be replenishing your products.
Now you know how long to have you makeup ladies. Happy shopping!
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Tools to make your look happen!!!

So I was doing a makeover and my client love it. However, she posed the question that many of my clients have, How do I recreate this look?. Well ladies if you are looking to create or recreate a look you must, must have the tools to do this. You can not go with one little paint brush to paint an entire apartment. You will need many brushes and tools to make it happen. With this said I love a great brush that can with stand heavy usage. When you are looking for brush make sure you ask what kind of hair they are using for there brushes. I like goat hair or any kind of hair like that. I not a fan of synthetic hair but there are some brush that work better if they are synthetic. If you have never brought brush or just have a few I will give you an easy guide the next time you visit a makeup counter. First thing is you want brushes with a cheat sheet ,this is what I call it. This mean that the brush will have the name of it on the brush itself. So if your looking for a concealer brush it will say concealer brush at the tip of the brush. Second thing is ask how long there brushes last ,some have a longer life expectancy then others. Lastly you want to take care of you brushes as best you can. You can go to Sephora and get some brush cleaner and shampoo. You want to clean your brushes about twice a week with you brush cleaner and once a month with the shampoo. When you wash them with the shampoo lie them down flat to dry and the will be good as new. When you keep up the maintenance of your brush you will avoid them for holding bacteria and break you out. Also can have the for many, many years. Now going back to creating or recreating a look for yourself you should ask the person at the makeup counter which brush would be the best on there line ,for lets say blending your shadows. The perfect look comes from the perfect tools. There are many different brushes, you have your cheek brushes,concealer brushes, multiple eye shadow brushes as will as lip brushes. Now you will find more brushes at a counter then this but I just wanted to show you how many tool you will come a cross and that you don't become overwhelmed. There more you go to a makeup counter and look around the different counter you will become more familiar with the many tools that are offered to you. Happy shopping ladies.

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