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Makeup & Beauty Tips on How to Make Your Foundation Last

Share your best tips and tricks for making your foundation last all day long!  Feel free to share your experiences, how you mastered techniques, or what you struggle with.

My Tips

1. Primer goes a long way!
2. Set your makeup with a setting or finishing powder (the former should work better, but depending on your skin type, finishing might be enough).
3. Carry blot powder or a pressed setting/finishing powder with you to touch up and prevent your foundation from degrading throughout the day.

Makeup & Beauty Tips on How to Grow Your Nails Out

Share your best tips and tricks for growing out your nails!  Feel free to share your experiences, how you mastered techniques, or what you struggle with.

Temptalia’s Tips

1. In the past, Sally Hansen’s Hard as Nails worked well for me, but this was 10+ years ago.  I haven’t had issues growing nails out in at least that long, so I don’t have any great tips
2. Regularly use hand lotion/cream to keep your hands, cuticles, etc. hydrated.
3. If you bite on your nails, try lightly brushing on acetone/polish remover, lemon, or something spicy a bitter nail treatment (thanks to reader AS1929 for sharing these!) over the edges to deter yourself from biting on them. This is a short-term solution that I’ve done (with polish remover) to help break the habit and make you very conscious of what you’re doing.

Thanks to Sue for today’s topic!

Makeup & Beauty Tips on How to Wear Blue Eyeshadow

Share your best tips and tricks for wearing blue eyeshadow!  Feel free to share your experiences, how you mastered techniques, or what you struggle with.

Temptalia’s Tips

1. Wear it as an eyeliner, whether smudged with your favorite eyeliner or as the only eyeliner color.
2. Wear it in the crease to darken but not overwhelm the eye.
3. Wear it on the inner corner (a brighter or paler blue) to add a pop of color.

Makeup & Beauty Tips on How to Sharpen Your Eyeliners

Share your best tips and tricks for sharpening your eyeliners!  Feel free to share your experiences, how you mastered techniques, or what you struggle with.

Temptalia’s Tips

1. For really soft/creamy pencils, put them in the refrigerator or freezer to help them harden to minimize waste.
2. Clean out your sharpener between uses so that colors don’t get mixed.
3. Sharpen with sure, moderately fast turns of the eyeliner–don’t go too slow but don’t go too fast.

Thanks to Gweng for today’s question!

Makeup & Beauty Tips on How to Use Eyelash Primer

Share your best tips and tricks on using eyelash primer!  Feel free to share your experiences, how you mastered techniques, or what you struggle with.

Temptalia’s Tips

1. Roll the primer brush across lashes and focus on separation of lashes so it doesn’t look or become clumpy.
2. Use a lash comb to help separate lashes and even out the coverage of lashes in the primer.
3. Let it set for a few seconds before applying mascara (but not too long).

Thanks to Jessica for today’s topic!

Makeup & Beauty Tips on How to Effectively Remove Your Makeup

Share your best tips and tricks for removing your makeup!  Feel free to share your experiences, how you mastered techniques, or what you struggle with.

Temptalia’s Tips

1. I like cleansing oils for removing heavier makeup, because they really break down the makeup and remove everything while cleansing all in one step.
2. If you are wearing really heavy makeup, bold lip color, etc., you might want to take a cotton pad with makeup remover on it (I use Lancome Bi-Facil usually) and remove that portion first.  I’ll do this if I wear really bold lips, so I don’t smear red lipstick all over my skin!
3. You can use toner on a cotton pad to remove last bits of makeup and any makeup around the hair line or Q-tip dipped in remover for eyeliner.

Thanks to Dorothy for today’s topic!