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Eliminate Under Eye Circles (For Good)

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After a long work week, the last thing you want to hear when going out with your friends is «wow, you look so tired.» Sometimes even with 8 hours of sleep in our system, we still manage to look like we pulled two all-nighters in a row, thanks to those dreaded dark under eye circles. While rest is a crucial part of reducing the appearance of bags, there are many other ways you can avoid looking like a zombie in the off-Halloween Season.

woman putting on concealer under eyes.

First Thing’s First: Tackle The Reason You Have Eye Circles

Concealer can only do so much when it comes to purple blue bags under the eyes. Instead of trying to cover the problem, it’s best to tackle the problem at its source. For some people, the darkness is due to hyper-pigmentation in the area. Certain ethnicities are even more prone to this, such as Asians. Other individuals simply have certain genetics that make them more prone to puffiness in the eyes and face. This adds to the effect of apparent tiredness.

Retinol Is The Remedy

Retinol is a key ingredient for helping you to reduce wrinkles and reduce the appearance of aging in the sensitive skin around the eye region. This ingredient also helps to normalize the dark pigment cells in the eyes that create the purple blueish tone. Any retinol eye serum will help smooth the area and keep the skin your beautiful skin tone.

Caffeine- It’s Not Just For Coffee!

Certain creams and serums with caffeine can actually give your skin a boost, making your face appear more energized and awake. The caffeine also helps to make the skin around the eye look plump, so any shadows are significantly diminished.

Vamp Up The Vitamins

Vitamins aren’t just essential in your diet. They are also great for making your skin look smooth and rich, especially in the thin, sensitive skin patches around the eyes. Serums with Vitamin C are particularly useful in combating free-radical damage and hyper-pigmentation due to stress. Finally, one less thing to stress about!

vitamin c tablets with oranges.

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Keeping Up With The Kardashians’ Photoshop Fails

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The Kardashians have just finished their 16th season (yes, 16!) and it goes without saying that this family has invested a lot of money to look this good over the years. And with their own makeup, skincare, and clothing lines, it’s no wonder people follow them religiously on social media and try to copy their looks. However… with all the millions of followers and the amount of money reeling in for the sisters, you’d think they’d spend a little more money on editing their photos… Wrong. Here to breakdown some of the Kardashians’ worst photoshop fails on social media to date.

Just Forgo The Facetune, Kim

Facetune is an incredibly popular app used by many to edit photos. However, when using this photoshop tool, your face can go from subtly cute to straight up alien in a matter of seconds, as seen with Kim’s latest post.

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Who are these… CREATURES! For starters, the lips of Kim and her friend on the left take up about a quarter of their entire face. I don’t care how much lip liner you use, even a clown doesn’t have proportions that big.

Second, the noses are just all wrong. While Kim’s friend on the left’s nose looks like it was sliced at the tip, her other friend appears to have a big droopy rectangle pasted onto her face. This is not natural.

While there are so many other photoshop fails to comment on in this photo, what stands out the most has to be the eyes. I can’t even look at the girl on the right for more than two seconds. She looks borderline possessed, while the others all just have shiny bug eyes going on.

Catch These (Kylie) Hands!

Being the youngest self-made billionaire in the world doesn’t mean you are immune to photoshop fails. This picture of Kylie showing off her curves and beautifully manicured nails might seem relatively normal.

That is, until you take a second look at that freakishly smooth and long hand! It’s practically the size of half her arm! And last time we checked, she wasn’t out ballin’ on the courts. We call this a serious fail!

Photos: Instagram @KourtneyKardash

Save Your Makeup Look This Summer With This Secret

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You’ve just spent half an hour doing your makeup for a night on the town, complete with the perfect cat eye, when five minutes later you can already feel your face melting off. You haven’t even left your damn apartment, let alone entered a hot and sweaty bar… Ugh!

Summer can be a serious struggle when it comes to looking your best, but we’ve got the secret to keeping your face looking flawless all night long: setting powder.

All Setting Makeup Is Not Alike

You’ve probably already heard of a setting spray, which is a polymer-infused liquid spray to keep your makeup intact, however adding an extra layer of liquid to your face is not what you want to be doing in the summer. Talk about a sweaty, sticky situation…

Grease Free Is The Way To Be

That’s why setting powder serves as a real savior this summer. Instead of spraying on, this powder is delicately applied on top of your foundation with a powder brush. The ingredients are packed with oil-absorbing minerals, so your makeup is never greasy and stays put in the heat. While it’s especially useful during the summer time, given its grease-reducing properties, it is also a great makeup tool to have in your arsenal year round if your skin tends to be oily or combination.

Look Younger In Seconds

In addition to absorbing oil, setting powders enhance your makeup look by blurring fine creases and lines to make you instantly look younger. This way, you avoid getting the dreaded makeup that cakes and builds up in your wrinkles. No shame in having them, but that doesn’t mean you have to highlight fine lines for everyone to see!

Woman applying makeup with a brush, with smooth skin.

Setting powder is also great for reducing the appearance of your pores. This way your skin looks smooth and soft all day long.

A Versatile Addition To Your Makeup Bag

It’s safe to say setting powder is a very versatile product, because you don’t need to apply it to your whole face for it to be effective. Just a few dabs on common problem spots along the «T-Zone» is enough to make a big impact on the durability of your makeup look. So long sweaty, hello sexy!

Photos: Freepik

DIY acrylic nails: a salon finish from home

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Haven’t we all dreamt about permanently having perfect nails? The reality of it is that we can’t really keep running off to the salon whenever a nail breaks off, because of both the hassle it means, and the money we spend on it. Because let’s be real, getting your nails done is not exactly cheap.

Nails

Always perfect

Either because you believe your nails look better, or because you’d like to finally get rid of your ugly nail-biting habit, acrylic nails are an easy go-to when paying a visit to the nail salon.

We show you how you can get that acrylic nail finish without leaving your home, and for both less money and effort.

Prep your nails

Nail prepping

Pour some hot water into a bowl and let your hands rest in it until you can feel your cuticles softening. This will make pushing your cuticles back much easier, which will in turn make your nails look longer.

Get rid of your cuticles

Get hold of a cuticle remover and use it to take away excess skin. Then, push back the cuticles surrounding your nail arches to create visually longer nails. Now you’ve gotten them to look longer, you can go onto the next step.

Remove excess oil

Excess oil

Before continuing, make sure you remove any excess oil that might remain on your nails with polish remover. Thanks to this, you will notice how your fake nails stick in place for much longer.

The process

To obtain the desired «acrylic nail» look, you will need nail glue, like this one, as well as full sized fake nails, like these you can find on Amazon. Once you get hold of your material, you will have to find out which nail sizes are suitable for your own.

Fake nails

If you choose slightly smaller fake nails they will probably look more elegant and natural, rather than using those chunky fake nails; this would create a tackier look. But it really depends on your own preferences.

Time to stick on the fake nails

Start by applying a small drop of glue on each nail, on top of which you will later stick the plastic ones. You will notice how much glue you need as you go: apply enough so that the nails stick on, but not that much that will cause the glue to come out from underneath. If you feel like you haven’t applied enough glue, you can always add a bit more after.

Fake nails

Trim & file

Once you’ve stuck on the plastic nails, it’s time to trim them down, because it’s most likely they are now super long. You can take a regular nail-clipper and cut them off a bit.

After, you can go onto filing them: take a regular file and start shaping them. Bare in mind not to file the sides too much, as we’re not looking for a claw-like shape. We are rather going for a long, elegant look.

Throw in some colour

Colour

Choose the colour you want applied. We recommend the polish be of quick dry, as it will be more easily aplicable. A great trick we’d like to share with you, is that, in the case of applying too much product, or if you’ve «coloured out of the lines», you can always take the file you’ve used and gently remove it, instead of using polish remover. This will assure a nicer finished look.

Apply two layers of polish to your nails in order to obtain the desired «gel effect». They will look as if they came straight out of the nail salon. Lastly, apply a transparent top coat, and let dry.

Photos: Pixabay, Unsplash and Amazon