Aimee's Everyday Styling Routine

Well, hello there! Aimee here, and I am so excited to be able to share my daily makeup routine with you guys. Now, I will have to say I’m not some kind of makeup guru or anything, but I do dabble in some makeup styling that is great for just my everyday. When I wake up in the mornings I usually start my skin care routine. It’s crucial to have a good base to be able to apply makeup to. I use an exfoliating facial sponge that you can find at most any drugstore and the 3-in-One Step cleanser by Vichy. Exfoliating is a very important step for me because of some of the makeup I use.  I also use their Vichy Vichy Aqualia Thermal Light Fortifying & Soothing 24Hr Hydrating Care.

I then apply my foundation, and this is where the exfoliating comes in. I use Etude House Precious Mineral Sun BB Cream with SPF 50 (a Korean brand). If you have never used BB cream you should give it a try. I prefer the Korean brands, because they match my skin tone better, but many American brands have their versions now as well. BB cream is a combination of SPF, moisturizer, a primer and a foundation. I swear by it, but you must exfoliate well, because it has a tendency to show dead skin. I then seal everything with the Etude House BB Magic Mist and Mineral Wear talc—free correcting powder by Physicians Formula. I then use a bronzer under my cheek bones.  Ada Cosmetics has a nice loose bronzer that I use in Golden. I then do the suck-in-cheek thing and put blush right on my check bones, I use contouring blush by Covergirl in Refined Rose. I then use a contouring (I’m all about that) eye shadow by Almay called Intense i-color. It goes by your eye color and has three shades to use on your lid, crease, and brow bone. It takes all of the guess work out of it. I brush a little of the lightest brow bone color in the corner of my eye as well. It opens them up and makes them pop (or at least that’s what I’ve heard the pros say). I line my eyes with Eyeko London Skinny liquid eyeliner in Olive.

I then use CoverGirl Lash Blast Volume Blasting Mascara. I like how the brush is shaped, and it really coats my top and bottom lashes without a lot of clumps.For everyday I usually use a lip gloss instead of any lipstick, and right now I am using Revlon Colorburst Lipgloss in Sunset Peach and Dandelion by Benefit. Peach really goes well on darker skin tones.  And that’s it for my everyday look! It’s clean and natural and that’s what I aim for. I also wanted to add how I take everything up a notch to transform the look from day the night. I usually just make the crease in my eye shadow a little more smokey and add a lip tint or lip stick. Here I am using Tangerine in the Sephora + Pantone Universe line, but I am also crazy about Tony Moly lip tint in Red Apple. When it comes to my hair I am not ashamed to say that I use extensions. In my line of work, broadcast journalism, it is not industry standard to have really long hair, so I use the same method as what was previously featured on the blog and you can see it here. The one thing I would add is that I use extensions with a coarser hair texture to match my natural hair. I don’t go with the bone straight hair because, my hair is naturally curly and it looks more natural that way.Thanks for letting me share my everyday styling routine! xo. Aimee

(P.S. See a few of our past Everyday Styling routines here, here, here and here. As always, a big thank you to every lady who bravely volunteers to share her styling routine with us.)

Comments

[Melanie]

That lip tint is such a nice colour! Love this routine, simple and sweet :)

[Tyler Anne Snell]

I love these segments and I love her routine! So pretty!

[Kate]

I love the tangerine lip color! You have such beautiful lips for it!

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[Diana]

Wow I love the styling! It just looks great.

[melissa]

Loving her tangy lip color!

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[Amanda Rose]

Thanks for another great makeup post!

[Brooke]

Thanks for sharing! I agree about the BB creams, I just started using them and I love them!

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[Jennifer]

Loving her eye makeup!

xo Jennifer

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[Clare]

I love your eyeliner! Liquid eyeliner is the bomb diggity (:

xo, Clare
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[jenny stokes]

Lovely! Love the lip color! So perfect!
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[Laura]

Love the lipstick color !!
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[Bethani Jade]

I love the styling routine posts!

I will admit that I am one of those girls that never learned how to wear make up or "do" my hair in high school, it just wasn't something my friends and I cared for.

But now that I find myself entering the professional world it is a skill that women are expected to have, and although it's fun to experiment on my own, it is great to see real life styling routines that I can actually pull off and don't require like 40 different products!

Thanks ladies!

Also I love love that color in the last photo! So cute!

[Kaitlyn]

Great post! I really love the orange lip tint with her skin tone! Beautiful.

[Kasia]

I love my BB as well! I like your routine but unfortunatelly I don't like getting up early so I have to do mine fast:D

[amanda]

I am into the simplicity of the routine because who has time in the morning? I also use that mascara. I have tried so so many, in brand and price range and I always come back good ole drugstore lash blast.

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[Pili]

Pretty girl! :D

love,
Pili.

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[laura]

I can only second Melanie: simple and sweet.

[Sarah Kyle]

beautiful!

[Jamie]

you look like mindy kaling in a couple of these pictures!

[Bianca]

Recently discovered the magic of BB cream too! Works wonders. Thanks for sharing, beautiful!

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