Sarah's Everyday Styling Routine

It's time for round three of our Everyday Styling series with Sarah. Click here to see round 1 + round 2.  

I'm so excited to share my Summertime makeup routine! I feel that I should start out by sharing that I am an instructor at our town's Paul Mitchell school so my makeup ritual is a little more technical and involved than other gals. I've gotten my steps down to a science and the whole she-bang takes me about 15 minutes to apply. Also, my mom is an Avon Representative so I buy a lot of products from her. Here it goes!

I actually cannot believe that a photo of myself with naked brows will now live on the internet. With a small angled brush I use medium brown matte eyeshadow to create the top line of the eyebrow first. Then I fill in the interior and bottom line of the brow. I usually grab a Q-tip and fade out the perimeter of the brow to soften it up and make it look less "drawn on".

SHADOW: Sephora brand, medium brown (matte), BRUSH: e.l.f. Studio Small Angled Brush

This Summer, I've been beginning my make up with a tinted moisturizer (with sunscreen!) all over my face. Then I follow up with a concealer under my eyes, to hide dark circles and above and below my brows. This will help in the brow defining stage. Next I dust my entire face with a fair-colored loose powder foundation and then apply a more bronze powder just below my cheekbones with a blush brush. This small step helps to build the initial depth of the cheeks. 

CONCEALER: Avon Concealer Stick (light medium),LOOSE POWDER: Avon Smooth Minerals Powder Foundation (soft ivory),BRONZE POWDER: e.l.f. Cosmetics Clarifying Pressed Powder - Honey,TINTED MOISTURIZER: Benefit Cosmetics You Rebel Lite

Next, I move on to my lids. I start by sweeping a light brown matte shadow from the crease of my eye down to my lid. I follow with a darker brown shadow in the crease and outer corners of my lids. Then I use a peachy-rose on the lid and just above the crease. Make sure to blend these peachy spots with the darker brown.

LIGHT BROWN SHADOW: Sephora brand, light brown (matte), BROWN & PEACH SHADOW: Avon True Color Eyeshadow, Hawaiian Glow Duo (Satin Taupe and Rose Blossom)

Now it's time for the highlighting! This is a step is so important because it immediately adds more dimension to your face and draws attention to those highlighted areas. I use a highlighting pencil on my brow bones, inner eye corners, cheekbones, and around my lips. Then I use my finger to blend the product out. 

HIGHLIGHTER: Benefit Cosmetics Eye Bright Pencil

Next, I use a soft dark brown eye liner pencil. I always start on the outer corner and glide toward the center then apply a little on the outer side of the lower lash line. I LOVE the pencils with a little smudge sponge on the end! I use that little guy to soften the liner before I move on.

EYELINER: Maybelline New York Define-A-Line Eyeliner, Brownish Black

After I line, I move on to mascara. I always cover my lower lashes first and let them dry before I move on to the top lashes. This lowers the risk of mascara dots messing up what's already finished on the top lid and brow bone.

MASCARA: Rimmel London Volumeflash Scandaleys Mascara Black

I always finish my eyes before I move on to my cheeks. This way if I have product fall on to my cheeks then the cleanup is easy. Fixing mistakes on blushed cheeks means little erased patches that are harder to fix.

I start my cheeks by applying a cream bronzer with my finger very lightly on the bridge of my nose and under the cheekbones and blend upward. I give that product a few minutes to dry and apply my lip color. I finish my face with a pink blush on the apples of my cheeks and blend up and out. 

BLUSH: Avon Ideal Luminous Blush (Antique Rose), LIP COLOR: Avon Ultra Color Rich Lipstick (Pout), BRONZER: Stila One Step Bronze

Here's a photo of Sarah after her everyday makeup routine. 

When it comes to my hair I should tell you, I have a lot of it. I only wash it about every 6 days and lately I've fallen in love with Paul Mitchell's Forever Blonde Shampoo and Conditioner. I know, I know. I'm not blonde, but the ends of my hair have been lightened. Washing my hair less and using this keratin-enriched system keep my hair very healthy. So as I near that 5th-6th day of "lived-in" hair, I keep the styling simple. 

I use my smoothing iron to smooth out my fringe and the hair that frames my face. Then I tie a low side-pony really tight and gently loosen out some height at the crown and top of my head. Next, I use my smoothing iron again to curl the pony-tail in about 4 big sections. I end by wrapping a small section of hair around the hair tie to cover it. I end by applying a small mixture of Paul Mitchell Awapuhi Wild Ginger Styling Treatment Oil and Fast Form Cream Gel to the length of my pony-tail. 

Thanks for reading Sarah's Everyday Styling Routine. We will be back with another round soon! 

Comments

[Tish]

The pre-make-up photo is the best. Absolutely naturally beautiful. :)

[Josie]

Love this! I am totally beauty-things dumb, so pardon if this is a ridiculous question, but does the eyebrow shadow also work to make her eyebrows look lighter? Because in the all-natural shot they look more black and then in the done one they look more brown. Very cool!

[Ag]

I hope I don't sound psycho... but, Sarah, you are sooooooooooo beautiful!!!!! loved the style, obviously, but you are so stunning even with no make up at all. :)

[Mrs. Baker]

gorgeous!

[Kelsey]

So gorgeous...both before and after! You are so gorgeous Sarah! And I love your tips concerning highlighting/bronzer/blush.

I am seriously LOVING this series!

[katrina]

this is great! what color nailpolish are you wearing?!

[Jennifer]

She's gorgeous!

xo Jennifer

http://seekingstyleblog.wordpress.com

[JessicaP]

Not sure if this helps any of the replies above...

During half the year, I don't wash my blonde curls any more than 1x per week, twice at a push. Instead I opt to shower with silicone free conditioner (and soap for the rest of me - of course!) as recommended by a Curly Girls website and a close friend with more curl than me. These days I use Tresemme because it is available in Hong Kong. It is pretty good. As a teenager, I used horse shampoo and conditioner. It was great when my hair was long. I'm not sure what dry shampooing is though... would be keen to hear.

On the same note, I do have an issue in summer. The blonde would go green if I did not wash every time after swimming... this happened once as a kid - Trauma! (Note, I'm not a bottle blonde) As you can guess, this dries my curls out into a straw like frizz... I've tried swim caps, but these don't work. I wonder if RV has a solution for this? There must be a conditioner out there without silicone that can rinse out chlorine???

Maybe this is some miss match between generations and expectations - i.e. increase of persons using pools (with chemicals) and increase in hair washing frequency go hand-in-hand.

Cheers, Jess

[Women's Sandals]

she is really beautiful.

[Emilee]

I've been looking for a way to enhance my eyebrows, but everything looks too drawn on, but this is perfect! Love it! Thank you!

[Jessica]

Ohhh Sarah you look so good!
I've really caught the eyebrow bug. I use to never touch them (they're big enough), but now I think, how can someone not fill in their eyebrows?
The Lovelorn

[Lea]

Sarah is beautiful and I have to say, I think she looks better without the make-up. I think most women do and we should be proud to flaunt our natural beauty without the need to enhance it artificially.

[Jaimie]

Love love love these posts!! :) Keep them coming. She looks great!

[Lindsey]

You look like you're positively glowing! I really need to invest in some highlighter!

-Lindsey
http://ettu-tutu.blogspot.com

[cat]

i don't mean to be rude, but you look so much lovelier without makeup... especially without the brow stuff. your hair and skin are gorgeous!

[itziar]

Beautiful!
i usually do not make up myself, but love the natural way of this make up

http://mykitschworld.blogspot.com.es

[Kylie]

Love this look! Check out my blog: http://thechicstreetblog.blogspot.com/

[Linn]

Wow, she looks amazing! I wish I knew all those make up secrets (even after reading about them, I'm still not sure I could copy... ;-)).

[Tündéri Lonka]

beautiful girl, thank you for this tip!

[Kate]

So beautiful! I can't believe she only washes her hair every 5 or 6 days and it somehow looks so luscious and glossy!