The Perfect Flawless Face

Are you sick of envying those fresh faced women you see walk past you on the streets? Well no more! I'm here to help you get the look you've always wanted! A smooth fresh natural looking face that will break necks! Read on for tips tricks and more from a pro!

1. Lets start with a concealer for all those uneven spots. Use a light hand ladies! You can use a yellow based concealer for under eye circles, and green tinted for blemishes. Use your finger to lightly tap it directly on spots, and then pat in a circle. Smearing and pulling is not only bad for your skin, but it also moves most of the concealer onto surrounding skin and off problem areas! Pat, pat, pat!

2. Now we're ready for foundation! My favorite is Max Factor's PanStik. You can vary the coverage to suit your needs. For skin that needs moderate to heavy coverage use a cosmetic wedge sponge and swipe across top of stick. For lighter to medium coverage consistencies use a slightly damp sponge in the same manner. Again remember to pat on. A quick series of pats, moving quickly all over your face is a technique called stippling. Its like making a series of little dots all over your face and going over them again and again until they're blended. You should need no more than two swipes of the stick. Any more than that and you're caking in on honey. Remember to blend blend blend! Into your hairline, down your jaw, and ears. You don't want a clown face!

3. Now blush! I prefer a mineral powder blush, as creams and gels swipe and slide off by the days end. Stains-- should be left strictly to the pros, or practiced when you have plenty of time and no place special to be! An apricot or peach shade looks good on almost all skin tones. Smile a wide natural smile, and using a big fluffy make up brush swipe blush over the apples of cheeks and up cheek bones into hair line. Now make the fish face ( to make cheek bones more pronounced) and be sure you have swept blush along cheek bones only and not below it! Be sure to step back from the mirror from time to time and make sure you're not using a heavy hand! If you've gone overboard use a simple tissue to swipe off some color. Tip: swipe powder over lips and eyes too. It will help eyeliner and lipstick stay put.

4. Let's set it all with some powder! I'm in love with Coty's Air Spun translucent powder, a beauty legacy since 1935! Swirl a make up brush in the powder. Now holding your make up brush vertically with bristles pointed up knock in straight down on the counter. This causes all that loose powder to fall down into bristles instead of resting on top. This way the powder is distributed more evenly across your face instead of being concentrated wherever you touch the brush first! Gently blow off any excess you can see. Now start across cheeks, over the nose, across the forehead and to the chin. You should not need to re dip your brush in powder! Light hand! Light hand! This also softens the intensity of your blush.

5. Okay, time for fantastic peepers! Start with Almay's Color Intense i- Color eye liners in the shade that corresponds to your eye color! Each is formulated to make your unique eye color pop! They are self sharpening, and have the tiniest bit of shimmer (not sparkle, yes there is a difference) to them. Make a thin line as close to your top lash line as you can get from about the middle of your eye out to the corners. With your finger gently smudge the liner further down into lashes. We don't want a pronounce line here! Now for bottom lashes: don't line the actual inner rim of eyelids. Stay right on top of lower lashes and again line only from the middle out, making them meet in the corner if your lashes naturally don't. For mascara I cannot live without Max Factor's Hydrofuge 2000 Calorie in black brown! It even comes in waterproof! Hold the wand horizontally and get it as close to the base of top lashes as you can without rendering yourself blind. Now slowly wiggle the wand in your lashes back and forth as you slowly move up the lashes to tips. The wiggling motions insures you coat every lash, and separate them for maximum fullness and no clumps! If blinking a few times, gently not crazy spaz blinking doesn't coat your bottom lashes to your liking simple hold the wand horizontally again and touch the wand to lashes. Don't drag through them or even wiggle it. Bottom lashes with too much definition leave you looking like Twiggy.

6. Time to define those brows! I like powder, because honestly pencil is just too harsh looking. Use a color about two shades darker than your hair color. Using a small angled brow brush pick up a little powder. Gently make small sweeping strokes to fill in and elongate (if needed) your brows. Step back a few times during application to again make sure your not over applying. A little really does go a long way. Pluck any obvious strays! But do NOT over tweeze. Full brows are much more natural looking than teeny skinny ones that leave you looking permanently surprised! If it ends up looking too intense a brow grooming brush can save you. Swipe through brows a few times and it should have loosened the powder to give you a less stern look!

7. For lips I like to apply some good old Carmex to condition them. Tip: you can also use carmex and a Q-tip to fix any eyeliner, mascara uh-ohs. It works just like Vaseline! Then top with a non sticky gloss, Burt's Bees makes some great ones, in a neutral shade. You can go for pinks or nudes but stay away from hot pinks, magentas, red, or other wild colors if you're going for the natural look.

Final step! Take a small make up bag with you (stash it in the car if worse comes to worse) Fill it with a tube of carmex, your lip gloss shade of choice, some oil absorbing blotting papers, and a small compact mirror. Add a rockin' attitude and a handful of confidence and you're set!