What’s the biggest craze out? Mineral make-up and I am GLAD to say I am apart of it. My weapon of choice is Bare Mineral’s (Bare Escentuals). If you keep up on my post you will find mention of it often. I am a Baremineralaholic (my made up word ), but for good reason. Mineral make-up is becoming one of the hottest beauty trends I have seen in a long while. With the first mention of mineral make-up back in the ’70’s, this new craze spread like wildfires.

Mineral makeup claims numerous health/skin benefits, stating to be so natural you can sleep in it. I love it simply for the way it makes me look. With one sweep of the brush, I have the airbrushed skin look going on. Simply Great! Mineral makeup gives you a natural, light, lasting glow. Other makeup products strive for what this makeup has already done. I usually break out or have some other nasty side effect from makeup, but not this one. Could it be the missing irritants, such as fragrance and preservatives, maybe? Bare Minerals has my skin looking even toned and healthy, I don’t know how they do it, but they do it. Now almost everything is capable of coming in the small powder jars. I know, because I have a whole case of mineral makeup .

Good for your skin or not, I love it. I haven’t any trouble wearing it and you’d have a hard time ripping my flawless face brush from my hand . If this is your first time hearing about mineral makeup, "where have you been" and if you have heard about it you should already own some and know what I am talking about!

Just Swirl Tap and Buff yourself to beautiful skin!

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There have been so many mornings I have woken up and looked like I have been out partying the night before; puffy eyes, dark circles, skin looking lack luster and I hadn’t done anything. Maybe, waking up with the baby at night was doing it whatever the reason, I paid no real attention to it. Then one day, someone asked me “are you tired”, I felt fine and I hadn’t been dragging around. All it took was one look in the mirror and I realized what they were talking about. I looked exhausted, like I had been on some long journey with no rest and was just getting in, I hate looking that way. It seems like for no reason at all, sometimes we look worn out and drained. Call it stress, fatigue, poor diet, or whatever….I just wanted it gone! So I started my quest of finding any tricks or products to make me look more rested and awake.

      I was watching QVC one day and I saw a product for tired eyes, that was right up my alley. So I ordered with the quickness. The product was Wei East’s Eye Soothers, and I love it. The China Herbal Eyes Alive cream, especially, works great. I don’t know how it does it but when I put some on, my eyes look awake. It also comes with eye pads that feel cooling when you put them on. Another product I tried and liked was Avon’s Anew Alternative Intensive Eye Cream, it helped the dark circles under my eyes and helped with puffiness…not too much different than the Wei East.

     There are other things you can do to help combat the tired look. Limit or eliminate alcohol and salty foods. Drink more water, you should be drinking atleast 8, 8oz glasses of water a day. Do the cucumber or tea bag on the eye, make sure each are cool and let sit on closed eyes for 5 mins. (You can try Wei East’s Eye pads..they are great for this). Cold spoons applied to under eye area can also help with puffiness.

     There is also an eye massage you can do to the eye area. It is very easy to do, you start at the tear ducts using your middle or pointer finger do small circles following the bone all the way to the outer corner of the eye. Then keep going across the brow bone. You can do this about 3-5 times and it will make you feel and look rested. I usually do this at night or when I first wake up.

     If all else fails and you still are fighting under eye circles, go for concealer. I use Bare Mineral’s Foundation with the concealer brush. But any concealer you like can do the trick. Have you found any items or tricks that work well, drop me a line and let me know! “Knowledge is best shared ”

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