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Game Day Beauty and Makeup Tips for Football Season!

We have all your beauty and makeup tips for game day!

Football season is back and for all you lady pigskin fans we have the best beauty and makeup tips for game day! For the die-hard female fans who tailgate before home games and cheer from the stands, looking good can be just as important as a win! Fashion and football have crossed paths before, and we are here to tell you what you need to look good from opening kick-off to the end of the game!

If you haven’t already heard, the NFL has implemented a new rule about what kind of bags people can bring into the stadiums. However, we can’t keep the new clear bag rule stop us female fans from looking great at the game when we are cheering for our favorite team!
So what should you be packing in your see-through bag?

1) Moisturizer – Apply it first to a freshly washed face.

2) Sunscreen – Make sure you have sunscreen on you to protect your skin from the sun’s harmful UV rays, especially if you root for a team in a warmer state!

3) Liquid foundation – It’s quick and easy to apply, plus it looks natural! You don’t need to carry a brush with you because you can just apply it by hand!

4) Concealer – Perfect for getting your eyes looking refreshed. Maybelline’s cover stick is perfect for bringing with you and touching up blemishes and dark spots.

5) White eyeliner – If you don’t already have one, get one! Apply it to your waterline to make your eyes appear bigger. Add some to your inner eye corners to make them pop!

6) Eyelash curler – A must have tool on game day. Get those gorgeous “falsies” looking lashes with a few quick strokes!

7) Blush – Makes your face glow when you are cheering for your favorite player!

8) Tinted gloss – Place on your lips for a finishing touch. Get one with your team’s color to show off your loyalty!

Must Try Beauty Tips for the Fall

Check out these great fall beauty tips.

Sadly, we are starting to transition from summer into fall. Sometimes beauty and skin care can take a back seat when it starts getting colder out. Jeans and hoodie weather can make us care less about our looks. It is important to continue taking care of your skin all year round, so check out these beauty tips that will have you looking amazing this fall.

#1 – Cleanse, Tone, and Moisturize Daily

If you want flawless facial skin, you need to cleanse, tone, and moisturize daily. Rose water is the best cleansing agent. Use a cotton ball to dab the rose water and apply to your face for an instant fresh feeling. If you cleanse twice a day, you can prevent the breakout of pimples on your face. Always follow your cleansing routine with toning. Tulsi water works as a great nourishing toner. Lastly, make a mixture of onion juice, multani mitti, and honey. This concoction is an amazing natural moisturizer that will bring out the natural beauty of your skin.

#2 – Use Lime Juice as a Scrub

You can mix lime juice with sweet almond oil and sea salt for an all-natural face scrub. Apply the mixture on your face using a circular motion to remove dead skin cells from your face. This will give your face a radiant glow. You can also use lime peel to help fade scars and pimple marks.

#3 – Cucumbers!

Cucumbers are one of life’s best beauty aids. You can improve your complexion by applying a paste of cucumber mixed with raw milk. Let the mix rest on your face for 15 minutes so it can completely seep into your skin. Wash the remaining product off with water and your skin will feel soothed and softened.

#4 – Get Rid of Wrinkles with Tomatoes

Tomatoes are great anti-oxidants. You can mash two large tomatoes and apply it evenly over your face to help keep wrinkle-free skin. After 20 minutes, rinse the tomato paste off your skin with cold water. Tomatoes are also great for treating oily skin. The naturally acidic properties of tomatoes will help balance the skin and get rid of excessive oil. When treating oily skin, apply tomato to your face and let it dry for 15 minutes before washing it off with warm water.

#5 – Beauty Rest

Don’t forget that you need good sleep, that’s why they call it beauty rest! Getting six to eight hours of sleep every night is essential for revitalizing your skin and repairing damaged tissue. Also be sure to drink lots of water every day! Water is one of the best things for keeping your skin hydrated and beautiful!

Skin and Beauty Tips for Teens

Check out these makeup and beauty tips that every teenage girl should know.

Becoming a teenager is exciting. You enter high school, can get your driver’s license, and you start to become an adult. At the same time, your body is going through a lot of changes and girls start to get very self-conscious about their looks. We are here to help you girls start learning what it takes to keep your skin healthy and looking beautiful! Here are some important things every teenage girl should know when it comes to skin and beauty.

Water

Water is the key to life and it is extremely important for your skin. If you don’t drink enough water, your skin will never be as clean and clear as you want it to be. Besides being good for your overall health, water cleanses the skin to avoid acne!

Skip the Foundation

It can be very tempting to put on foundation, but it’s for older woman. Enjoy your young, healthy, and fresh skin. During your teenage years, especially since many girls will develop acne, it is better to not apply any foundation at all. If you really want to apply some makeup you can cover up blemishes with some concealer and follow it with a powder or tinted moisturizer.

Stay Natural

Natural hair is beautiful. Don’t go for a whole different shade if you get your hair done, the trick is to let the natural streak of it show. If your hair is very dark, go for a darker shade or add in some lighter colored highlights.

Less is More

You’ve probably seen the girls who think putting a pound of makeup on makes them look prettier. Stick with the motto that “less is more” and apply makeup sparingly. You want to look natural and at the same time highlight your attributes. At your age, all you need is great mascara, concealer for blemishes and gloss.

Pat the Concealer

The basic rule when it comes to concealer is to pat it on, not rub it in. Place a little bit of concealer on the pad of your finder and pat it in. If you need to cover up some acne, just pat a small amount of concealer on the zit.

The Many uses of Vaseline

Not only is Vaseline one of the best and cheapest eye makeup removers, it is also a great way to heal chapped lips. After you apply the Vaseline, wipe off the excess with a tissue and your lips will stay soft and moisturized.

Pre-Wedding Day Beauty Tips for the Bride

Brides to be should be preparing themselves with these pre-wedding beauty tips six months before the big day.

Every girl wants to look amazing on her wedding day. From the dress to their hair and makeup, the bride should look perfect. Experts say that brides should be preparing themselves to look picture perfect on their wedding day six months in advance. Here are all the pre-wedding beauty regiments every bride should be doing.

Lips

You’ll definitely want to get soft, kissable lips for when you smooch your husband for the first time. Brush away flakes of dry skin with an infant toothbrush soaked in baking soda and water. Apply some healing ointment and in no time your lips will be ready for your first kiss as a married couple.

Teeth

A picture perfect smile doesn’t come naturally for many people. A cosmetic dentist can typically correct teeth with veneers. If you don’t want to endure the painful hours in the dentist’s chair, there is an alternative. Lumineers are now being used by thousands of dentists and can be applied in just two short, painless appointments.

Makeup

A bride’s makeup should bring out her natural beauty. If you are a woman with warm skin tones, you will look best in pink, coral, peach, amber, brown, and red colored makeup with yellow undertones. Girls with a cool skin tone should choose pink, berry, lilac, mauve, or red colored makeup with blue undertones.

Skin

A cleansing program will help get your skin looking amazing before the big day. Use a cleanser that is appropriate for your skin type in the morning, a daily moisturizer, and makeup remover and cleanser at night. You should also use a gentle facial scrub once a week.

Hair

If you are planning on changing your hair color before your wedding day, experiment several months before. This way if you don’t like the way it looks you will have plenty of time to correct it.

Nails

Weekly manicures will help keep your nails healthy. You should have a manicure a few days before your wedding day. A pale pink color or French manicure will look great and chips won’t show much on them. Your nails will look great during the rehearsal dinner and the big day.

Precycle and Recycle your Beauty Products!

By shopping for your beauty care products smartly, you can precycle and get rewards for recycling them later.

Precycling is a new term referring to the act of reducing hard to recycle waste before it starts. You can precycle by choosing products that already have recycling solutions in place or that are packaged in materials that are easy for you to recycle locally. Personal care and beauty products aren’t as easy to recycle as a soda can or water bottle, look for precycling solutions to ensure that the packaging won’t end up in the landfill.

Some beauty care products use recyclable packaging and may even have take-back programs for empty containers. Some companies even offer freebies and other incentives for recycling their products!

Precycle Products

Korres products come in packaging designed so that each individual part can be separated and recycled. 99 percent of the product packaging can be recycled.

Aveda was the first beauty and personal care company to offer post-consumer PET packaging. Most of the brand’s plastic bottles use a minimum of 80 percent post-consumer recycled milk jugs. The recycled content in the Aveda Men line alone saves over 300 tons of virgin plastic per year.

Sally B’s Skin Yummies is a small company that is dedicated to recyclable products. The company intentionally uses glass jars, BPA-free plastic, and aluminum lids for packaging.

Freebies for Recycling

Kiehl’s will give you freebies just for returning their empty bottles for recycling. Every bottle you return to a Kiehl’s store will get you one stamp on your Recycle and Be Rewarded! card. Three stamps will get you a free lip balm, five will get you a travel collection product, and ten will earn you a full-sized product. Since starting the program, Kiehl’s customers have returned over a half a million bottles for recycling.

Alima Pure has perks for its customers who return their empty jars for recycling. Five empty jars from full-sized products will get you a $5 coupon for a future purchase. The only catch is you have to send the jars in using recyclable materials. Any items sent in using bubble wrap, packing peanuts, or other hard to recycle materials are not eligible for the rewards.

MAC accepts returns through their Back to MAC Program. If you return six containers of make-up to a MAC counter or their website, you will receive a free lipstick of your choice.

Try Refillables

Some of the large, well-known cosmetic and beauty companies offer refillable products. Stila, Bare Escentuals, and Jane Iredale all offer refillable compacts for eye shadow, blush, and foundation. Once you use up the product, simply swap out the color pan and continue to use the same compact.

With all these different recyclable packaging and rewards program you can look good and help out the environment at the same time.

Airbrush Makeup is great for girls to use when getting Senior Portraits done. No more retouching makeup in-between outfit changes!