Stuck in a makeup rut? Brimming with bad beauty habits? Fear not! The New Year is the best time to pursue a brand new you! So arm yourself with these simple Beauty Resoltions and get ready to make 2011 your most glamorous year yet!
Massage daily
Whether she is beautifying a global superstar or catwalk model, top makeup artist Caroline Barnes swears by facial massage as it stimulates circulation and increases the skin's freshness, tone and luminosity. This is something that can easily be incorporated into your daily beauty routine. Simply introduce the technique when applying your day cream, massaging the face in sweeping circular motions and working your way up to around your eyes and forehead to really wake up the face.
Be bold
If you're stuck in a paint-by-numbers beauty rut with a routine reminiscent of Ground Hog Day, make this the year in which you experiment more. While pastels were big news for 2010, 2011 will be all about a complete colour blast - so try your hand at a bright and bold pout or line your lower lid with a flash of neon colour. Try Max Factor's
Colour Effects range and get inspired to play with brights! They're the perfect pick-me-up to refresh a tired look.
Drink more water
It sounds simple, but be honest are you regularly glugging your recommended two litres a day? Thought not. Never underestimate the power of H20 for improving not just your looks but your well-being. Regular consumption makes eyes bright, skin clear, flushes your body of toxins and even improves your metabolism.
Embark on a makeup bag detox
Still got a drawer full of eyeshadows and lipglosses that date back to the dark ages? Us beauty buffs tend to hoard our makeup, but it's vital that you bin anything that's passed its sell by date as all products, from lipsticks to eyeshadows, can become a breeding ground for bacteria. If your makeup has changed colour or texture, has seperated or smells unusual it should be consigned to the bin and never keep mascara for longer than four months. Makeup brushes should be washed with warm soapy water at least once a month and left out to dry.
Find the perfect colour match
If you're sporting a shade of foundation that's poorly colour matched to your skin tone it will undermine your entire look! To make sure your face-finish is seamless, always follow the tone from your chest up when choosing your foundation as this will ensure that from head to body the shade is consistent. Whenever you are testing foundations, try to make sure that you apply them in a natural light as unnatural light can fool you in to thinking that your makeup is even when it isn't. Dry skin makes foundation more apparent as it sits on the dead skin cells, so be sure to exfoliate regularly using a gentle, non-abrasive formula. Foundation-wise you might like to try Max Factor's
Xperience Weightless Foundation, which has a super-light finish but offers fab coverage. It's yellow-based tones neutralise redness and flatter most skin tones from pale to darl.
Perfect feline flicks
Immaculately lined and subtely winged eyeliner whispers understated glamour, so if you are yet to master the art, make 2011 your year.
Max Factor's Masterpiece Glide and Define Liquid Eyeliner makes lining those peeps supremely easy. The dinky applicator is a cinch to control so you can get close to the lash line and create a smooth sweep with one simple motion.
Do you have any Beauty Resolutions? Let us know what they are! x
