Look fresh faced for video chat!
This year holiday celebrations, friendly hangouts, work meetings, and even first dates have gone virtual! These skin and makeup tips will have you looking bright, fresh, and radiant so when you pop onto your video chat you’ll look your absolute best.
scrub me secret: A fresh-faced, natural look is key to looking youthful and luminous. These tips are going to help your skin look its best (fast) and define your naturally beautiful features.
Fresh-faced skin tips from a professional esthetician:
Get rid of a pimple (or minimize it) fast:
It’s such a pain when a visible pimple pops up out of nowhere! To reduce redness, puffiness, and overall visibility of the breakout take these steps.
Do not push on it or pick at the pimple to try and extract it. This will only make it more inflamed.
Get a cotton pad or clean washcloth and run it under cold water. Apply to your pimple and apply light pressure.
Spot treat the pimple with hydrocortisone (yes the kind for bug bites!) and leave it on like a mask for 15-30 min. Remove gently with the washcloth or cotton pad.
Apply a soothing moisturizer, serum, toner, or powder. Skip this step if you don’t have anything like this.
Dab on a tinted moisturizer or BB cream.
scrub me secret: If you want to treat a pimple while you’re sleeping spot treat it with the scrub me soothing powder mask or kaolin clay before you go to bed. Wipe off this spot treatment in the AM and you will notice a big difference in the size of your breakout! scrub me soothing mask both soothes and detoxes the skin; kaolin clay does this as well.
De-puff & brighten eyes:
Before we get into makeup tips for bright eyes I’ve got a few great tips to share that take away puffiness around the eyes fast. You’ll need either a gua sha stone, jade roller, or a clean spoon. Put your stone, roller, or spoon into the freezer for 10-20 minutes. Apply nourishing serum or lightweight facial oil to your skin and then go take your chilly tool out of the freezer. Using the smooth flat part of the spoon or gua sha stone or the jade roller slowly glide underneath your eye from the tear duct all the way out to your temple. Use light pressure for this. Repeat this motion 4 times. Flip the stone over to the colder side and repeat on the other eye.
scrub me secret: extra points if you have collagen eye masks! Toss these into the refrigerator for an hour and then apply them to your eyes and leave on for the recommended time. This is great for smoothing underneath the eyes.
Get fresh/dewy skin:
Hydration is key to having dewy/radiant looking skin. Take these steps to infuse skin with hydration:
Optional but important first step. Sleep with a humidifier in your room to help skin retain moisture.
Saturate your clean face with a hydrating toner or plain rose water. This can be done using a spritz bottle or clean hands.
While skin is damp apply a non-pore-clogging moisturizer. I like rebalance from PCA best for all different skin types.
Finish off with a non-pore-clogging hydrating SPF.
scrub me secret: giving yourself an at-home facial steam treatment using the scrub me skin tea is another amazing way to give your face some extra hydration plus luminosity. after you cleanse your face, steam your skin, and then continue with the hydration steps.
Easy, natural makeup tips from an expert makeup artist:
Nora Spratt is the owner of Nora Faye Cosmetics and is the most amazing makeup artist I know. Nora has a wide range of makeup abilities but I specifically wanted to pick her brain about easy tricks that enhance our natural beauty. These insider tips and cosmetic tricks will have you looking fresh, fab, and totally natural on your video chat.
Tips for touching up brows:
Use a technical brow pen like the one from Anastacia of Beverly Hills. The pencil creates the thinnest most realistic brow hairs so they look really natural and you don’t have to use a lot of product. Just fill in your shape where brows are sparse.
Using makeup for a “glow” without looking greasy:
Nora suggests starting by prepping your face with the scrub me nourishing serum. Once that has absorbed into your skin use a tinted moisturizer and a highlight just on the top of your cheekbones and a dash above your brows for an all-over natural glow
A couple of easy contour tricks:
A brown color works best as your contour color. Make sure it has no sparkle and is a matte shade. Nora’s favorite is the hoola bronzer by benefit. Then use the number 3 to mark your contour. Meaning sweep your brush starting in the middle of your forehead then to the cheekbone then to your lowest chin area in the shape of a three.
What are your tips for bright-looking eyes?
Dash a small amount of a shimmer eyeshadow right in the inner corner of the eyes to make them pop. Such an easy trick!
Any easy tips for longer-looking lashes?
Curl your lashes first, then use a lash primer to coat the lashes. If you don’t have a primer you can skip this step. Then apply your favorite mascara in an upwards motion and slowly “shimmy” the lash brush from side to side while you apply. That makes sure each lash is evenly coated.
Is there a lip color that looks great on everyone?
Line and fill in your lip with a warm nude like “Nora Faye warm nude”. Once fully lined and filled in, layer it with nude pink lipgloss, the perfect one is the NoraFaye Tori Lippie!
Voila! You should be looking great and feeling refreshed with these skin and makeup tips. Happy holidays and happy New Year!