Beauty 101: The Natural, No Makeup Tutorial

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I love makeup.  I work in a world where make up isn't need and in some cases is a hinderance.  Pretend I'm a professional welder.  No makeup needed.  Due to this fact, I take advantage of wearing makeup every chance I get.  My husband had gotten used to the makeup-to-buy-groceries side of me.  

Getting to this point was quite the progress.  I blame it on my mother.  My mom, bless her heart is just terrible at being in style.  She had eye shadow and eyebrow pencil.  That was it.  I feel she was gifted them by a well-meaning college friend once and never added anything to the stash, instead just buying the same products for decades.  She never had anything to steal/borrow or even long for.  Pale pink eyeshadow just wasn't lustworthy.  

Fast forward to college where a new best friend help point out that makeup is your friend.  She was a great help, and I grew to be fairly competent at cream eyeshadow, glitter everything and liquid liner.  It was 1998, what were you wearing?  By senior year I needed to update my style realizing I might need to be seen as a grown up and not looking like Baby Spice did my makeup.  Cosmo makeup guide pages were my friend.  I would study them, see what products I needed to buy, wait for the Rite-Aid 50% off sales and off I went!   This strategy work for years.  Every season I'd check to see what I needed to look up-to date, adjust my look and practice in the mirror trying to emulate photos that I now realise were likely photoshopped to perfection.  

Enter the video tutorial.  Life changing.  A real life person applying makeup.  I could follow along, rewatch, emulate.  My struggles of trying to copy a photo now had a real life paint by numbers coach!  Awesome. Great way to spend a rainy day as well.  Upped my game, helping be a more polished professional.

One thing I struggle with is a natural look.  I feel it stems from that Baby Spice phase, more is better.  As most of my makeup needs are at formal events for my job (FYI I'm not really a welder) the heavier night look is appropriate.  I need to work on my day to day meeting and grocery shopping makeup.  Influenster put together this great tutorial on their YouTube channel about Rimmel FitMe line.  I've watched it a few times and put a few of the items on my shopping list.  Rimmel products aren't the most pricey so even though I'm still pretty thrifty I might be able to buy them all at full price.  I don't have a blush, never thought I needed it, but after watching this I'm going to pick one up.  

I'm going to count this towards my PhD of being a better grown up.  Enjoy!