Everyone seems to have an opinion on the best way to maintain a healthy glow. While your mother might swear by a serum she's been using for a decade, your best friend will nag if you're not following the step-by-step regimen she recently discovered on Instagram. With so many recommended products and so-called "sanctioned" advice on skin care, how do we know what to follow and what to ignore?
Sure, you've mastered the art of contouring, but the last thing you want is for all your hard work to smudge and melt away as you go through the day. And while setting sprays definitely help in this regard, you're probably going to want to take it up a notch with a little beauty technique called "baking." Don't worry, you won't need an oven to do this — just a concealer and your favorite setting powder (and a little patience).
Caffeine wakes us up in the morning, but its energizing properties also extend to beauty. Many of us are familiar with how tea- and coffee-rich skin care products can wake up our faces and eyes. But caffeine can also be found in makeup products to provide an extra boost, or should we say shot?
You know what they say — beauty is pain. Almost all of us, at some point in our lives, have suffered in the name of beauty. From the first time you waxed your legs to performing your regular eyebrow tweezings, a little pain is pretty commonplace in the beauty world. It's almost always worth it... except, of course, when it isn't. Which brings us to the little topic of full-face threading (yep, pretty much exactly what it sounds like: using the popular eyebrow threading technique to remove all your peach fuzz). So, what's the deal? How much does it hurt, exactly? And is it worth the pain? Read on to find out.
