How to fake a well-rested, healthy look on those days when you may be feeling neither.
Note: This is not about no makeup, but about natural makeup.

Make Your Skin Glow  Wash your face gently but briskly, perhaps using a gentle scrub. Apply moisturizer, maybe a little extra, and sunscreen. Apply a little foundation with a brush to even out skin tone; or go with tinted moisturizer. Bonus points if you have time to use a primer before the foundation.

**Try: ANEW Cleansers designed for the Age & Condition of your Face. Pick the Perfect One for YOU!
**Try: ANEW Solar Advance for the ultimate in sun protection. It Protects & Renews your skin!

Conceal the Problems   Light-reflecting concealers work beautifully to hide under-eye circles. Place a few tiny dabs of product under your eyes, and dab with a sponge to blend (do not rub and pull at that sensitive under-eye skin!), and get ready to witness a huge difference.
For blemishes, steer away from light-reflecting concealers, which can actually draw attention to spots and such. Using a small-tipped concealer brush, lightly dab your blemish with a concealer to help make it vanish.
**Try: ANEW Age Transforming Concealer OR MARK Save The Day Anti- Acne Concealer Stick.
**Try: ANEW Age Transforming Concealer OR MARK Save The Day Anti-Acne Concealer Stick.

 Make Your Eyes Pop
Two words for you: Eyelash curler. Eyelash curlers can take you from looking half-asleep to completely alert. Sure, you could spend hours creating a perfectly blended, shadowed eye, but if you need to get out the door, curling your eyelashes and applying mascara will give go a long way to making you look wide awake.
**Try: MARK Lash All You Want High-Volume Mascara OR SuperExtend Eye Accents Mascara OR SuperShock Mascara...Many choices in types & colors

Add Color A wash of color on the cheeks and lips is the cherry on top of your fresh-faced. Cream blushes and cheek stains are a lovely way to give a long-wearing flush to the cheeks without looking garish or dated, and I love how they give you that just-in-from-the-cold flush.
As for your pout, sheer lip glosses and lipsticks are your best bet for ensuring a natural finish.
**Try: Be Blushed Cheek Color OR MARK Just Pinched Instant Blush Tint
**Try: Glazewear Lip Gloss OR SuperShock Liquid Lip Shine OR MARK Glow Baby Glow OR the Newest Shine Attract Lipstick with built-in gloss.

• Secret #1: A Fresh Face -- Resist the urge to powder your face every time you refresh your makeup — the result will look cakey. Instead, use blotting papers to keep makeup intact as you remove excess moisture.

***If you like liquid foundation try “ANEW Age-Transforming Foundation with SPF15”. A natural finish, full coverage luxury foundation featuring ANEW Skincare Technology outsmarts the aging process. Instantly—minimizes fine lines, wrinkles, pores and age spots are visibly diminished for a more youthful finish.
After 1 week—over 90% of women showed improvements in skin texture and clarity.
After 4 weeks—over 90% of women saw a reduction in fine wrinkling and a more even appearance in natural skin tone. Advanced antioxidant complex helps fight premature signs of aging. Visibly minimizes wrinkles, fine lines & age spots. Natural radiant finish with Full coverage.

***For a creamy foundation, “ExtraLasting Cream-to-Powder Foundation with SPF16” with Medium coverage. Look flawless & natural for 18 hours. Resists water & sweat and stands up to heat & humidity. Feels featherlight and flexible all day with Natural luminous finish.

• Secret #2: Choosing a Concealer — ***Paul Innis, a world-renowned color expert, says “for blemishes, it’s best to use a concealer that matches your skin tone. ***But for undereye circles, go one or two shades lighter. Trying to match your complexion won’t give you the lift your eyes need.” As one of the most in-demand celebrity makeup artists, Paul has perfected the looks of many “A-List” stars and internationally recognized supermodels. He now shares his treasured trade secrets with you. Paul has worked with the Avon color lab to develop an expanded shade palette…so now there’s a more precise match for everyone.

**PRECISELIGHT TECHNOLOGY has innovative light-adjusting pigments, making your skin look natural wherever you are. Check out “Ideal Shade Concealer Stick” in a color that meets your needs.

• Secret #3: A Natural Flush — Cream blushes and cheek stains will give your face a rosy glow that looks natural. Use your fingertips to blend the product into the apples of your cheeks in a circular motion.

Peaches and Golden hues look beautiful on fairer complexions;
Coral shades look best on medium skin tones;
Mauves and Burgundies are most flattering on darker complexions.

“Be Blushed Cheek Color” Adds a healthy-looking glow to your cheeks with a blush of whisper-soft color. Dewy finish...adds moisture to dry skin..especially good during the winter months. Our creamy blush is easy to blend, won't streak.

• Secret #4: Defined Cheekbones — Use this simple contouring trick: After applying blush or bronzer to your face, lightly swipe a highlighting powder “Smooth Minerals Powder Foundation”made with pure mineral pigments for luminous color.
  
  **Try Transparent Glow, 730-860 to get the perfect highlighting effect on your cheekbones just above and below the color you've applied. This creates an instant face-flattering effect!
  
  
• Secret #5: Being a Bronzed Beauty — Fake a bake by sweeping golden brown bronzing powder along your forehead, cheeks, nose, and chin. A powder with light-reflective pigment will give an "airbrushed" glow. Just be careful not to go too dark for your natural skin tone.

**Try “Smooth Minerals Powder Foundation” in Bronze or a slightly lighter shade to give you that perfect glow.

• Secret #6: Subtle, Sexy Eyes — Smoky eyes aren't for everyone. If you're fair skinned, the look can be too much. Instead, opt for nude eye shadow (flattering on everyone!) or a pale gold on lids and gray, not black, eyeliner.

**Try “True Color Eyeshadow Quad” in Earthtones, Blushing Raisins, or Sandy Corals. For a gray eyeliner, take a look at “Glimmersticks Eyeliner” in Saturn Gray or Starry Night Blue.

• Secret #7: Perfectly Lined Lids — Unsteady hands can make it a challenge to apply liquid eyeliner. To ensure a smooth line, apply your eyeliner by painting little dots along your lash line, as close to the lashes as possible, then connect the dots. Easy!

**For a liquid eyeliner see “Glimmersticks Liqui-Glide Eye Liner” in Graphite or Black Plum.

• Secret #8: Long, Lush Lashes — The key to lashes with tons of length and fullness is to use “2” types of mascara together.

** Start with a lengthening mascara “SuperExtend Mascara”, then follow up with a thickening mascara, which has dense bristles to build volume, “SuperShock Mascara” with 15X the volume of regular mascara.

• Secret #9: Fabulously Full Lips -- To plump up thin lips, exfoliate once a week to stimulate blood flow. Try a moistened toothbrush to gently slough your lips. Then apply clear gloss to the center of your bottom lips — this helps reflect the light to make your pout pop even more.

** Use “BEYOND COLOR Plumping Lip Color SPF 15 with Double the Retinol”. 2X the Retinol for smoother-than-ever lips. Retinol is formulated to minimize wrinkles and boost collagen so lips appear more full & lush. Now we’ve doubled the retinol for greater results.

• Secret #10: Lip Color With Staying Power -- If you want your lip color to last all day, apply lipstick with a lip brush, and then add a coat of translucent powder to set the color. Repeat this once or twice and you can be sure your radiant red lips won't budge.

Stop the Summer Makeup Meltdown!

Dripping makeup is messy, and it can be a real turnoff.  But don’t sweat it! Here are some tips that’ll help you avoid makeup melt and show off your natural glow instead:

1.     Wear less makeup. The gym, jogging trail, swimming pool,  bike trail or just enjoying  the great outdoors are all places where you can get away with this, so go for it. Instead of full foundation, just add some face perfector with SPF moisturizer to help even out your complexion.

Try MagiX Face Perfector SPF 20 (578-917)! Magical air-light gel-powder colorless formula that makes all skin tones look flawless... invisible coverage; instant perfection. Apply evenly before sun exposure or as needed. (Available in tinted versions)
·         Banish shine up to 10 hours.
·         Targets pores: visibly minimizes pores with patent-pending Optix Light-Diffusing Technology.
·         Smoothes Skin: reduces the look of fine lines...skin feels softer than ever.
"This colorless formula is perfect for anyone who wants to look naturally flawless and beautiful without looking like you're wearing any makeup. It's universally flattering and a secret weapon in your makeup bag." -- Jillian Dempsey, Avon's Global Creative Color Director.

2.     Skip the blush — your workout will give you a natural glow.

3.      Use waterproof liner and mascara to avoid raccoon eyes. For a clean, natural look, I like 
·         GLIMMERSTICKS Waterproof Eye Liner! Our #1 liner...in waterproof! Long-wearing, creamy glide-on formula. Wears up to 12 hours. Retractable, self-sharpening. 
·         ExtraLasting Mascara! Lashes that outlast your day. 18 hours of full, fluttery lashes. Up to 7X lash volume. All the proofs you need: fade-proof, transfer-proof, smudge-proof, rub-proof and waterproof.

4.    Use a tinted lip balm instead of lipstick, and skip the lip liner so you don’t end up with an odd-looking outline around your mouth by the end of your workout. And no goopy gloss, either — it’ll just get all over your teeth and water bottle. 
·         ExtraLasting Lip Gloss Moisturizing! color lasts from coffee to cocktails. 8 hours of sensual shine. Never sticky, always sensational. 
·         OR
·         Slick Tint For Lips!  Add a hint of color to your lips. Goes on lightly to give lips that "just right" pouty look.

5.     Carry a towel for blotting the sweat from your face — pat, don’t wipe!

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