What is your make up/skin care routine

melissa-elizabeth

I'm 28 and up until a few years back, my skin was a nightmare! (Had eczema as a child, then reeeeally bad acne as a teen and then again in my early 20s and got put on roaccatane twice). I've kept using the same products (below) over the past few years and my skin has been fantastic, which is something I'd never thought I'd say! I believe the main product that helped was Dark Angels by Lush so if any of you are prone to an acne breakout or know someone who is, I cannot recommend this product enough! I might even go as far as to say it helped heal some of the scars as they are definitely not as noticeable. I used it every day initially until my spots cleared up and nowdays I only use twice a week along with my Angels on Bare Skin. Anyway, below is all the products I use.

Cleanser to take make-up off: Boots Essentials Cucumber Cleansing Lotion (£1 from Boots).
Eye Make-up Remover: Simple Baby Wipes
Moisturiser: Boots Essentials Cucumber Moisturising Lotion is brilliant, but unfortunately not moisturising enough during winter when my skin tends to get slightly dry, so I switch to Simple Protecting Light Moisturiser.
Toner / Hydrator: Tea Tree Water by Lush during summer or Eau Roma Water by Lush during Winter.
Facial Cleansing in Shower:(As above) Angels on Bare Skin by Lush five days a week and Dark Angels by Lush as a kind of exfoliator on the other two days, it is a cleanser but I find it too gritty to use daily over a long period of time (more than a week). If I do get the odd break out, I use it every day until my skin clears and then go back to using it twice a week.
Foundation: Estee Lauder Double Wear in Shell.
Concealer: Soap & Glory Kick !!! Concealer.
Face Powder: Emotional Brilliance by Lush
Lip Gloss / Lip Sticks: I don't fuss over my lips too much, as I tend to focus more on my eye makeup, so I prefer nude shades. My main go to is Collection 2000 Lock N Hold in Rock Steady.
Eyeliner: Collection 2000 Eye Definer for day time or Collection 2000 Lasting Colour Gel Eyeliner if I'm heading out for a wee bevvy, both in black.
Mascara: Maybelline The Rocket Mascara in very black.
Eyebrow Filler: MUA Eye Brow Kit.
Eyeshadows: I love the Sleek Palettes, they're so cheap for the quality and because they're so pigmented, you don't need to use that much so they last ages! The ones I use most often are Nude I-Divine and Vintage Romance I-Divine.
Blushers/Contours/Highlighters: Again, Sleek Palettes! I have the Sleek Face Form in Fair (Contour Kit), Sleek Brown Sugar Blush by 3 (Three blush shades) and Sleek Lace Blush by 3 (Again, three blush shades) My favourite shade of all is Crochet in the Lace Kit. I use my contour kit every day and it's nowhere close to being finished!

Other loves:
Burt's Bees Beeswax Lip Balm
Lush Bubblegum Lip Scrub (I use this in the morning before I put lip gloss or lip stick on).
Boots Essential Cucumber Eye Gel. (Can you tell that I adore this range?)

GBNI

To remove my make up I use Soap and Glory Peaches and Clean. Massage it in, then hot cloth it off. Currently using a Nivea night cream, but I don't like it! I am determind to use it up.

In the morning, I just wash my face with water then moisturise using Cien moisturiser. £1.99 from Lidl! Lovely and light and sinks in quickly.

Primer: Currently The Body Shop Moisture It

Foundation: I tend to mix and have a selection I use so the ones currently on my dressing table are MAC Matchmaster, MAC Face & Body, Revlon Colourstay and a L'Oreal one that's name escapes me! Just ran out of Studio Fix *sob*

Concealer: Again, I have a selection. MAC Pro Longwear, Benefit Boi-Ing (I think that's what it's called!) and a Collection one.

Eyeshadow: Urban Decay Naked. I got this at Christmas and have used nothing else since. Now to get 2 & 3! Although I do have a Maybelline Colour Tattoo in a gorgeous pink shade that I use.

Eyeliner: A Maybelline gel one or a MAC gel one for upper eyelids and for my waterline a Rimmel Kohl one.

Mascara: A YSL one. Think it's called Baby Doll.

Powder: MAC Prep and Prime.

Highlight/Contour: Sleek Highlighting and Contouring kit.

Blush: Either a MAC one or a Body Shop one.

Lips: Plain lip balm or occassionally, Revlon Colourburst.

All my brushes are either Real Techniques, Ciara Daly or MAC. Your make-up os only as good as the tools you use to apply it!

Ilona

A wash under the cold tap in the morning, slap on any old moisturizer. Same at night. :j
Ilona

lazer

Daily routine - soap & water
and simple moisturiser

If I'm going out somewhere other than work or shopping or something make up is mostly benefit or urban decay.

System

Skincare and makeup - as minimal as I can get away with. Its super sensitive and dry at the moment.

MrsE_2

Night Time, remove make up with cleansing oil, using body shop one at the moment, but fav is shu uemura, but its very expensive.
Remove with hot water & muslin cloth.
Finish with olay regenerist.
Occasionally I'll use an eye gel &/or syrum, but I don't usually bother.

Morning I use a facewash (varies, no real fav, olay is ok, sometimes I use a hot cloth cleanser with it) with my clarisonic.
Then use olay regenerist to moisturise.

Then I use foundation, usually no7 intelligent colour.
Powder, no7 or lately been trying ben nye (as used by kim kardishian).
Bronzer, using body shop one or bare minerals (warmth) at the moment.
Mascara, l'oreal double extension mascara (the blue & white, waterproof one) love it!!!!!!!
Eyeliner, using bourjois clubbing liquid eyeliner. Thats black, if its evening, I use a bronze/brown gel eyeliner to smudge out from it -avon shock gel eyeliner.
Eyebrow make up, using ILAH at the moment.
Lip liner, maybeline lip ink pen
Lip stick - revlon colourstay.

sofababe

Morning

Clinique Foaming Cleanser or Olay Daily Facials Foaming wash cloths
Olay 2 in 1 Serum/Day Cream (Love this!!)
Anew Reveralist Eye System
Urban Decay DeSlick spray
Bourjois CC Cream
Rimmel Wake Me Up concealer
ELF HD Powder in yellow
Avon Blush/Bronzer in Earthen Rose
Urban Decay All Nighter
Avon Eye Primer
Avon Blonde Glimmerstick Brow Definer
MUA Undressed palette (usually)
Max Factor Masterpiece Glide & Define liquid eyeliner
Benefit They're Real
Another spritz of Urban Decay DeSlick and whatever Lipstick and gloss I fancy and I'm good for the whole day, 10 hours!!

Evening

L'Oreal Micellar Solution followed by
Hot Cloth Cleanser, currently SD Radiance one
Olay Night Renewal Elixir Serum
Olay Firm & Lift Night Cream
Olay Eye Derma Pod

I also apply a decent hand cream morning, night and several times throughout the day.

Saturnalia

Morning: wash with Superdrug Tea Tree facial wash in the shower then a dab of the original Olay and and Body Shop lip balm. In the summer I use Neutrogena Ultra Sheer SPF50 instead of moisturiser.

Make-up done en-route to work: Missha BB cream, Superdrug Miss Sporty translucent powder, Sleek Rose Gold blusher, Barry M Brow Pen, Kiko liquid eyeliner in a dark shimmery purple, mascara is usually Collection 2000 but I'm currently on Maybelline Manga. And lipstick, usually Models Own Lip Stix.

Night: baby oil on cotton wool to remove my eye makeup then Superdrug Tea Tree cleanser & toner on cotton wool on the rest of my face. Followed by Lidl's own CoQ10 night cream if my face feels a bit dry, or Rosehip Seed Oil if it's normal. In summer I like washing my face with Lush Coalface to get all the sunblock off.

juliettet

Morning: Origins face wash-Checks and Balances then M&S moisturiser with SPF.
Liz Earle tinted moisturiser, Revlon cream eyeshadow pallet (my sister sends from Canada), Max Factor mascara, blue tube?, Max Factor cream blush, Burts Bees lipgloss.

Night: Liz Earle Cleanse & Polish, her toner if I get a deal from QVC, ditto any of her moisturiser. Every other night use A'Kin rosehip oil my favourite beauty product ever!

Also love Lush figs & leaves soap and L'Occitane almond oil in the shower.

Izadora

wannabeslim wrote: »

I would love to hear if anyone has found a non irritating, non greasy high spf for the face that wont make my make up slide off or give me bumps/spots

I've got fairly oily skin but have found that L'Oreal Revitalift SPF30 works really well for me. It's very often on offer at Superdrug/Boots as well.