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How to Contour and How to Highlight with Natural Makeup

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  A step-by-step guide on how to contour and how to highlight for your face shape In this blog we’ll teach you how to contour your face, how to apply highlighter, and how to  contour highlight  for your face shape (we’ll help you identify your face shape, too). We’ll point you to the right products for each step, including which natural foundations will work best as a highlighting/ contouring base, and will show you which tools to use to get the job done right! What Is Contouring? Essentially, when you contour you’re using shading or shadows to create an illusion of recession. Use contouring to help define or reshape your facial features. The areas that are not darkened or shaded then stand out! This can make your cheekbones look more pronounced, your nose more narrow or even help you reduce the appearance of the beloved soft under chin. You’ll instantly transform to a more sculpted Adonis self. What Is Highlighting? When you use the technique of highlighting, you’re doing the opposite
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Polyglutamic Acid: The Hydration Powerhouse in Your Skincare Routine

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  Get Ready to Plump Up the Volume! By now, we’re all pretty well versed in hyaluronic acid and the hydration halo it carries for quenching and plumping the skin. Let’s just say another ingredient with a crown of light has skyrocketed to holy grail status in the skincare universe. Alas, polyglutamic acid! And it has made its way down into some of the most heavenly natural skin products. Call it hyaluronic acid’s super-charged sibling,   polyglutamic acid   is a saint at holding   more   water in your skin and giving an overall moisturized, plumper, and rejuvenated complexion. While we have praised hyaluronic acid to the skies, it doesn’t mean it’s going to give its seat up to polyglutamic acid. Demystifying Polyglutamic Acid Polyglutamic acid is a humectant skincare ingredient. A humectant is designed to address skin hydration by not only preserving the existing moisture in the skin and diminishing escaping moisture but also by drawing moisture from the environment to keep the skin hyd
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Shower Gel vs Body Wash — What’s the Real Difference?

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  Decoding Your Bathing Essentials Shower gels and body washes, two similar yet distinct products, often raise such confusion. The need to understand the difference between these two products stems from the fact that our skin’s health largely depends on the type of products we use. This blog post will delve deep into the details, defining both products, highlighting their differences, and guiding you to make an informed decision. What Is Shower Gel? What is shower gel ? Often confused with body wash, it is a viscous liquid designed to clean the body. Introduced in the late 20th century as an alternative to traditional bar soaps, shower gels quickly became a go-to for many due to their convenient and hygienic use. Shower gels possess a thick, gel-like consistency that comes from a combination of water, surfactants, and a variety of other ingredients. Such additional ingredients can include humectants, which help retain moisture, to preservatives that increase shelf life. Many shower gel
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A Beginners Guide to BB Cream

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  What is BB cream and why (and how) should you use it? BB Creams exploded onto the K-Beauty scene when Korean women wanted alternatives to traditional foundations, which were too heavy and thick for their evolving beauty preferences. While a BB cream is more lightweight than the usual cream foundation, it still offers medium to full coverage as a normal foundation! What is BB cream’s benefit for us? Its smoother texture also allows BB cream to function as a primer by evening out skin tone for flawless makeup application. It often contains moisturizing ingredients which can be a dream come true for those of you looking to cut down on steps in your daily beauty and skincare routine. BB Cream, CC Cream, or DD Cream? Now that we’ve uncovered the little mystery  what’s BB cream , let’s explore more beauty multi-taskers. If you’ve at least heard of BB cream, you’ve probably caught wind of the others; CC and DD creams. As we discussed, BB creams are meant to provide clean skin with skin-heal
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