How To Look Fresh Under 10 Minutes

Have you ever found yourself just staring blankly at your makeup stash early in the morning and don’t know what products to use to make you look less ugly? 7 foundations, 9 blushers, 27 eye shadows and 9 lipsticks just staring right back at you, just low-key judging your lack of willpower to say no to another nude eye shadow shade. Well, we all been through this, if you haven't, it’s coming for you when you least expect it.

These past few days have been hectic! 7AM call time all the way in Timbuktu for 4 days straight with 3 to 4 hours of sleep the night before. Getting ready in this state of being can be overwhelming sometimes. That's why I made sure that I have my makeup routine down to a science so that I can get out of the house in under 10 minutes.

To help you make your life easier, I want to share some of my tips and tricks that can get you out of the door looking like a million bucks in less than 10 minutes too!

TIP #1:

Make a 10-minute playlist and listen to it while you’re getting ready.  The goal here is to finish your makeup by the end of that playlist. I get a jolt of adrenaline when the last song on my playlist goes on. I pretty much go ham during the last 2 crucial minutes. Which brings me to my next tip.

TIP #2:

Keep your makeup simple. If you can get away without a winged liner, then skip the step and go for a simpler liner technique; e.g. tightlining or smudging. We’re trying to look like Kate Hudson doing her grocery shopping and not Kylie Jenner on the red carpet (because that's just physically impossible lah k sorry).

Know what makeup look suits you the best and simplify it to the very core. I've always admired how Koreans do their makeup. They have very minimal steps yet they always turn out looking so fresh. With that in mind, I took the essence of Korean makeup, which is to enhance a person's features rather than altering them, and made it into my own everyday makeup routine!

STEP 1

Conceal your under eye circles and the corners of your nose and lips.

STEP 2

Even out your skin with a tinted moisturizer/BB or CC cream/foundation depending on your skin’s severity.

STEP 3

Apply a brightening eye shadow all over the eyelids, tightline with a brown or black pencil eyeliner, curl your lashes and apply mascara.

STEP 4

Fill in only the sparse areas of your eyebrows with an eyebrow pencil that is slightly lighter than your natural hair colour.  This is to avoid any harsh-looking brows. Another plus point for this tip is that if you're not a Brow Picasso, any mistakes you make won't be too visible as compared to when you use a darker shade of eyebrow pencil. 

STEP 5

Bronze it up for dimension! The keyword here is to BRONZE and not to contour, therefore, a slight shimmer in your bronzer is ideal for achieving that glow-from-within look (although I think it's easier to just get knocked up but donor insemination is not an option here). 

STEP 6

Get rid of your chapped lips with a tinted lip balm or lip oil.

STEP 7

Take a selfie and post it up on Instagram with the hashtags #iwokeuplikethis #nomakeup .

TIP #3:

Have a designated box where you keep the things you ACTUALLY wear on a day-to-day basis. So those glitter eyeliners and rainbow-coloured pigments should not be in there. Unless you do wear those everyday, then you do you, girl.

I have a plastic box, nothing fancy or Tumblr-worthy. It’s just a practical clear plastic box I got from Muji that I put on the table facing the window for lighting purposes. This way you won’t look like your face was superimposed onto your body when you step out of your house.

The items you place in this box should be similar to the items you would bring to the gym for a quick touch-up after your workout. But have fun with it too because what you keep in there is not set in stone, so if you want to switch it up every once in a while, do just that. I know I personally would switch up my cheek product depending on how tipsy I want to look that week 😏 . 

And that is all I have for you this time! I hope it helps you or at least inspires you to come up with your own 10-minute makeup look. Product details will be listed down here too if you want to know some of my current makeup favourites.

Too Faced - Born This Way Naturally Radiant Concealer in Light Medium (RM134)

IT Cosmetics - Your Skin But Better CC+ Cream in Medium (RM165)

MAC Cosmetics- Eyeshadow in All That Glitters (Refill - RM55)

NARS - Eyeliner in Mambo ($23)

Shu Uemura - Maison Kitsuné for Shu Uemura eyelash curler

Maybelline - Lashionista Endless Length Obsession mascara

MAC Cosmetics - Veluxe Brow Liner in Deep Brunette (RM83)

Make Up For Ever - Pro Sculpting Duo in 02

Clinique - Pop Oil in Nectar Glow (RM83) http://bit.ly/2gXqe6T

Clinique - Sweet Pots Sugar Scrub & Lip Balm in Sweet Rose (RM88) http://bit.ly/2gSI2xb

See you again next week!

♥

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