Beauty Week - Day 1

Today is the first day of Beauty Week. During Beauty Week, I am going to try out different techniques for makeup, skincare, nail painting, etc. I used to do stuff like this all the time before I got married and started having kids. I even worked on creating a "Beauty Book" a long time ago, which was a big binder full of beauty tips collected and collaged from magazines (apparently Samantha stole it from me).

One of the main things that I'm going to do this week is actually wear makeup, do my hair, and take care of my skin. Confession: I usually only wash my face 3 or 4 times per week.... This week, I'm going to do it twice a day! (If you want to know about any of the products I use, just ask. I don't swear by many beauty products because I love trying out new stuff, but I do have a lot of stuff that I like.)

I'm probably going to use things I've posted on Pinterest for ideas of what to do this week. Today, I used different ideas from an article on Shape.com called "Beauty Secrets from the People Who Know Best." I just used ideas from a couple tips today. I took some napkins from the Starbucks in our Barnes and Noble because they are supposed to be good blotting tissue, but I haven't tested that out yet. I've been trying to drink more water because it's good for your skin. I tried to "preserve my blow out" with dry shampoo and a little fluff with the blow dryer, but it didn't really work for me. Maybe it's because my hair is too short and just looks weird when I sleep on it. I'm also using a DIY recipe of dry shampoo that doesn't work very well. And I washed my hair and put in a deep conditioner a little while ago and I'll be rinsing it out tomorrow.

The last thing 2 things I did were with my eye makeup. I layered my eyeliner by putting on pencil first and then putting on liquid, then I warmed up my eyelash curler with my hair dryer before using it. Both of those techniques are supposed to help your makeup last longer. I feel like my eyeliner did last all day, but my eyelashes didn't stay curled all day. So I would recommend the eyeliner tip, but not the eyelash curler one. Here's a picture of me right after putting on the eyeliner and doing the hot curler thing (I didn't Photoshop it because I felt like that would ruin the whole testing-things-out aspect):

 It's really not a special picture and I took it at a weird angle, so my nose looks HUGE, but I don't hate it and I usually hate most pictures taken of me. I don't think there's anything that special about the makeup, but whatever. Maybe tomorrow will be more exciting...