New Year's Eve chores, incomprehensible weather outside the window (worse than frost only slush with a gusty wind), catching a cold at the wrong time and half asleep as luck would have it on December 31 - a real test for our facial skin.
The task of being fresh and rested not only on the night of January 1, but also during the New Year holidays is not a trivial task. Especially when this task is complicated by the indulgence of eating tons of salads and drinking alcohol.
However, there is a solution. It is more than real to survive the New Year's gastronomic hell and downed daily routine, while remaining beautiful and rested.
I. Cleansing: we talk about him so often... And not in vain
New Year's bustle, celebration with friends, a joint trip to the Christmas tree in the central square, even alcohol - all this gives our skin dirt and sebum mixed with dead skin cells. Of course, your friends and acquaintances will not notice this if they are not oklemavishie still from the holiday. And in a photo of poor quality, taken on a smartphone in the evening light (a life hack of the results of the rejuvenating makeup of an average beauty blogger), nothing so terrible will be noticed either.
However, in this situation, the makeup will be awful. But Christmas, Old New Year, interesting New Year's events in restaurants and just meeting with friends are ahead.
In such cases, you understand how important skin cleansing is!
Remember the correct cleansing sequence:
1. Lips
In order for even the most budgetary and terrible in texture lipstick to look good on the lips, the place of application requires thorough cleansing. Apply a little face lotion on a cotton pad and with smooth movements (you shouldn't press on the lips) remove the lipstick residues from the corners to the center of the lips.
If you were wearing long-lasting lipstick, use hydrophilic oil instead of lotion for makeup remover.
If the skin of the lips and the area around the eyes is mega-sensitive, there are special removers with aloe extract, sold in L'Etoile.
2. Eyes
A friend in need is a friend indeed. So, on New Year's holidays, the two-phase lotion will be your friend. It will help with make-up removal and at the same time soften your eyelid skin and the area around the eyes with oil, which will also restore the lipid profile of the skin (in other words, it will organize a nutrition procedure for it).
Apply the lotion on a cotton pad, hold it on the eyelids a little longer so that the makeup texture dissolves better. We clean the eyelashes in the direction from their base to the tips.
3. Skin on the face
Everything is simple here: we remove the makeup with micellar water, then wash off with foam and rinse the face with warm water.
Then apply a nourishing cream to replenish lipid deficiency, which was formed due to the use of cleaning agents.
II. A beauty arsenal that will turn the gloom over the neck into a cheerful and fresh face
The first and most important thing I would like to say is that my last year's find retains its status as the best New Year's SOS product!
SOS Face Mask Organic Kitchen "After Party" (you can read my last year's review here). Nothing has changed: it moisturizes and tones perfectly. The composition has not changed, all the same vitamin C, fruit acids and panthenol. The price is also democratic - no more than 100 rubles per can.
The next weapon in our secret beauty arsenal of forever young, fresh and cheerful ladies is cloth masks.
Alginates - to the side. There is also carboxytherapy. They are, of course, good. But if you do not feel well or have not completely moved away from the first day of the celebration, then there is nothing easier and better than applying a cloth mask and relaxing in it for a couple of minutes.
Don't be afraid to shop for cheap, supermarket options for cloth masks. Their basic function is to moisturize. And the most moisturized face a priori cannot look dull and tired.
If you are sick and do not like the chill from the cloth masks, then hold the package under running hot water for a couple of minutes. The mask will not cool down, you will like this life hack ;-)
Scrubbing lips require a special scrub. If your makeup bag doesn't have a lip scrub, you can grind the oatmeal and scrub it. No oatmeal? Mix sugar and honey in equal proportions.
Before you scrub your lips, you need to steam them. Either after taking a bath, or soak a towel in hot water and apply it to your lips for 4 minutes.
For reddened eyes - Vizin to help. normal whites of the eyes solve half of the tired look problems.
For those who still have not found their own foundation, but on New Year's holidays it is so necessary.
Take a closer look at Divage's Fluid Foundation. Acne will not cover, but it is persistent and gives a weightless coverage. No mask effect, and will block light redness.
For those with colds - in eye makeup, a natural and neutral gamut would be a win-win. Reds, copper, purples and wine shades will not work. from the side it will look as if you do not leave the monitor for days.
Couperose is a thing that spoils a fresh and rested appearance worse than banal puffiness in the morning.
I'm not even worried about the issue of puffiness. My readers have known about patches for a long time. But rosacea appears for some reason always at the wrong time, especially during the New Year's run, when we run into warm rooms 20 times a day in frosty weather.
Masks, creams and other products that contain extracts cope with rosacea: green tea, blueberries, bamboo leaves, horse chestnut, nettle, ivy, Asian centella. Heavy artillery - vitamin K, they even treat rosacea.
Agents with glycolic acid can enhance couperosis.
III. Remember how as a child you were looking forward to the New Year
Dear ones! As a realist, I will tell you honestly: a lot of disappointments will still touch us in front of us, the nervous system will have fun with interest, we will shed tears in liters. We will spoil a lot of people next year, just like us. All small victories will not be achieved without defeats, and not all the consequences of our victories will be positive. Swearing, problems, reasons to be sad and gain pounds await us. But not today.
Not today, not tomorrow, not the day after tomorrow, not the next two weeks. Let's all celebrate this New Year well: walk up, have fun, eat, spend hours lying on the bed and watch TV, relax in full. We all deserve it.
Every year someone sums up the results and says that this year was difficult, but full of events, etc. They said the same about the past years. But none of this matters if the beginning of the year is not remembered at all.
Many have forgotten how to celebrate the New Year. It's not about how much fun you have with your friends. And not in how much money is left to continue the banquet.
The point is that our story in the new year should simply start from scratch. We have to "reboot", gain strength and really rest. Only in this case, even if December is the lousiest in your life, the festive mood and the anticipation of the New Year will not disappear anywhere. It is important! This will keep you strong, and life with all the ups and downs in the context of a year will seem harmonious to you. This is as it should be, however, not everyone notices this.
People have forgotten how to leave all the problems last year. Have forgotten how to feel the festive atmosphere. They do not believe in the authenticity of the holiday. This is because there are no memories that would motivate to endure all the bad things in the past year in order to meet a new one.
Happy New Year, my dears! And may everything be fine with you!
