Face Massage

It is very essential to know the correct methods and procedures of massaging your face, as wrong movements can do more harm than good. You could stretch your skin and loosen your facial muscles by massaging too much. To begin with, you should massage before a mirror, and not just while walking around the house and singing away. Unknowing, you might sometimes stretch your skin by massaging your face too hard, or by pushing and pressing your face in some direction or the other. So use your mirror, which will tell you if any such thing is happening.

It is needless to point out that the massage should be done on a clean skin, and of course your hands should also be scrupulously clean. Take a bit of the cream and spread it gently all over face-and do not forget your neck. Consider your neck as very much a part of your face, and not a part of your body only.

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NIGHT MAKE-UP :

This can be bold, and you can be a little more adventurous. Use a tinted foundation for a dry skin, and a pancake for an oily skin. Cream rouge is a better choice, as it spreads on nicely, without stretching the skin. Do not leave a line of demarcation. Blush-on is the best rouge. Make the correct choice of colour. For a frosted eye-shadow, keeping in mind the shade of clothes you are ging to wear. Use very little of it, starting from the middle ofyour upper lid and finishing under the brow end. Use one eyeliner to draw a complete line over the upper lid, keeping as close as possible to the eyelashes and taking it out and above. Always keep your eye-brows tidy by tweezing the stray hair which make the natural line untidy.

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THE COLOUR FOR YOU

For the day, always select a darker shade of powder foundation, than is your true colour. Use an invisible foundation during the day. At night, you can easily wear a shade lighter than your complexion. The sequence of make-up too is as important as the selection of the correct colour.

DAY MAKE-UP :

This should be natural and light. Select a good moisturizer. Tab and blend it evenly all over your face and neck, and dab on a bit of compact powder. A little line drawn with a black eyebrow pencil or liquid eyeliner from the inner corner of your, keeping in line with the curve of the lower eyelid and going up gradually, would be enough for the day. Shade your eyebrows also after brushing them in place. Apply a little mascaraon the eyelashes and finish off by applying

lipstick and a mellow coloured eye-shadow, if you must. Just of touch of rouge is enough , or a

blush-on could be used.

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It is better to understand the correct meaning of make-up. Some women take it simply as an application of powder, rouge and lipstick. And sme others are given to a theatrical use of cosmetics. Neither attitude is correct. Make-up means the enhancement of natural beauty by the use of cosmetics, in perfect harmony to the individual complexion. Colour harmony is the secret of perfect make-up. You can accentuate your good features and play down the not-so-good ones with aid of make-up.

More often than not, one is inclined to buy cosmetics because of their attractive presentation or perfume, without really considering the colour that would harmonize with a particular complexion. Often, the colour of lipstick, rouge, eye-shadow, and accessories like bag, shoes, jewellery and dress are not taken into consideration. to make the perfect picture of a well- groomed person one has to be thoughtful in selecting the colour of one's cosmetics.

SPECIFIC SKIN CARE

Dry Skin: These need a good nourishing cream which is non-drying, as well as a rich vitamin night cream, to nourish the skin and replenish the grease that is lost during the day and in the course of washing and cleaning. They would also need a skintonic to tone up the skin and keep it looking healthy and fresh.

Oily Skin: These are a problem to keep clean, so one should go in for a very good liquid cleaner, which is not greasy. To nourish the skin use a light cream, for heavy creams will give rise to pimples. A good astringent cream will help the skin to remain less oily, and keep the pores clean. Also use a good face pack once a week to keep the skin looking clean and free of pimples. A light moisturizer for use during the day is also a must.

Older Skins: For these skins, use a night cream that is also a hormone cream. Treat it as a dry skin and select the cosmetics accordingly.

Younger Skins: To treat these skins, follow the prescribed for greasy skins and use the same preparations.

Skin with Pimples: Wash this skin with tepid water twice a day, and rub ice all over the face, and three or four times a day over the area where you have pimples. Dab a little listerine diluted with rose water on the pimples. Do not Use any greasy cream.

Skin Care

Basic Skin Care

You cannot develop a good skin overnight. You have to consistently work for it with the right routine and the right products. If you have a good skin it is essential to preserve it with regular care. Years of carelessness cannot be compensated by going in for an expensive range of products, or by caring for it over much . The best results are obtained by regularity, and a progess is slow.

The best care for your skin is to cleanse it properly. Use a good cleaning milk and wash it off with water or properly, as the case may be. Then use a good night cream to massage your face. Always massage the face in upward and sideways strokes, and the area around the eyes in circular, outside-inside movements. Then tap the skin under the a little to prevent puffiness and lines. Wipe off excess cream with a tissue, and leave a bit of it around the eyes. You should never sleep with the cream on at night, but let your skin breathe. Moreover, the skin will absorb all the cream it can in the first ten minutes, and leaving it on for more time is just a false consolation.