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Foundation (maybe tinted moisturizer), filling in brows, a light blusher (something like Benefit Sugarbomb), and maybe a coat of mascara. I’ll try to toss a lipstick or gloss into my bag for later!
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concealer
eyeliner
eyeshadow
blush
highlighter and lipbalm!
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Covergirl Aqua Smoothers foundation, light blusher, Falsies mascara, Sephora khol liner in Chocolate and I never leave without Chapstick!….If I’m lucky I’ll get to my brows, but they’re pretty thick by themselves.
Crazy, I just got done watching grav3yardgirl’s 5 minute makeup challenge vid on YT! Haha.
My 5 minute face:
– Concealer
– MAC MSF Natural or MUFE Face & Body, whichever is closer and easiest in the moment.
– LOADS of mascara. Currently, I have been using L’Oreal Voluminous Million Lashes.
– Shape & Fill in brows with MAC Charcoal Brown.
– BLUSH! Seriously, I need color on my face if I’m wearing this little makeup.
– If time remains, I tightline my upper lashline.
– I’m usually running out of the house as I apply a lip product of some sort.
I’ve become a master of the 5 minute face. 😀
– foundation
– eyeshadow
– mascara
– blush
– luminzer
– balm now, gloss later
Just foundation, eyeliner, and mascara. Sometimes I even skip the eyeliner.
Concealer, powder, and mascara are the essentials. Foundation instead of concealer if my skin is acting up. Sometimes I’ll put a bronze shadow on my lid and in my crease and add a touch of blush since I’m so pale. Lip products can always be put on later.
Usually I’m “all or nothing” with makeup. I don’t like to just do it halfway, so if I don’t have at least 15 or 20 minutes I usually won’t bother. Unless I’m having a particularly bad skin day (like now), I’m usually fine with just something to control the oil like Smashbox Anti Shine. But in five minutes, if I had to, I could probably do BB cream, powder, brows, cream eyeshadow, mascara and a lip butter. They’re all pretty quick steps and I could still get a full look out of it.
Concealer on the dark circles/highlight eyes, mascara, cream blush on cheeks, and lip color if I have one on hand.
For me it’s a light reflective concealer under my eyes (Clinique Airbrush concealer), spot concealing (Laura Mercier Secret Camouflage), bright pink blush (Bobbi Brown Pot Rouge – Pale Pink) – I also use it on my lips – and black mascara. This is my fail-safe 5 minute makeup routine 🙂
First of all skin care. I use Advanced Multi-Protection Anti-Oxidant Creme SPF15 and Multi-Level Moisture Eye Gel Creme. Than a a little bit foundatıon , blush(prefer soft colour like clınıque blushing blush or bourjoıs blush 95 rose, mascara ( Sumptuous Bold Volume Lifting Mascara )and lip gloss ( smashbox lip enhancing gloss-After glow or Chanel Glossimer in Pampille etc. )…..just five minutes enough to feel good 🙂
My five minute face consists of foundation, blush, concealer, brow pencil, and something on my lips (could be lipstick, gloss, stain, or balm). If that doesn’t take five minutes, I’ll tight-line with black pencil liner and curl my lashes. I put a travel makeup bag in my purse or backpack so if I have time for makeup later, I can put on some eyeshadow, mascara, and/or whatever I think I need.
5 minutes??? That’s it?!! …::: FREAKS OUT :::…
Okay, so if I had only 5 minutes I would do: brows, all in one foundation, powder, neutral eye, blush and gloss. If I had time I’d bronze and a few coats of mascara.
Like you Christine, I’d dig through my make-up bag for the stuff I missed 🙂
Foundation (possibly sheered out with moisturizer if I’m really short on time), a quick coat of mascara, a quick dash of blush, with chapstick in my pocket for the rest of the day.
Usually I have no five-minute face… I have a five-second outfit and then I take my time doing my makeup as usual. Some days, though, I’m just too tired/uninterested to think about it. Those days it’s the Stila Correcting Primer, lip balm, and black eyeliner. That’s it.
I’m exactly the same. Outfits take no time at all, it’s makeup that can fill up 20-30 of my remaining “getting dressed” minutes haha.
Tinted Moisturizer
Cream Blush
Rosebud Salve + MAC Kinda Sexy
and Eyeliner (MUFE Aqua Eyes 1L) depends on the mood 🙂
foundation, brow, eyeshadow, eyeliner, lipstick
Just 5 minutes hahaha? in 5 minutes i can just use a bit of concelear, powder all over my face and lipgloss
Neutrogena Black Brown volumizing mascara on my eyebrows, as well as dark brown NYX or Revlon brow powder and/or Bobbi Brown Brow Pencil in Mohagany. My brows are messed up :(( (only partially recovered from years of messing them up trying to fix the continually eroding shape myself)–if my brows are done I feel comfortable, next comes lipstick/lip tint or chapstick, then if there’s still time a swipe of black pencil eyeliner on the lash line and lower waterline…
Moisturiser,A little concealer and MUFE HD compact powder…a swipe of guerlain rouge g, good to go 🙂
I don’t have a five-minute face, since my skin isn’t the best and I need at least that long for foundation and concealing. I could do foundation, concealer, mascara and blusher in under ten though – that would be my minimal makeup.
Tinted moisturizer, powder, a little blush or bronzer, mascara, and maybe tinted lip balm or gloss.
Make-up base – Givenchy ActiMine
Cream Blush – Mac Blushbaby
Brow shader MAC for brows
One coat of black mascara
Tinted moisturizer, eyebrows, and powder. Done! 🙂
Tinted moisturizer or bb cream, undereye concealer, blush, loose powder, brows and lipbalm!
5 minute makeup look or 5 minutes to get ready?
coz i’ll just focus more on my skincare, sunblock, and lip balm.. curl eyelashes and out the door.
Make up look.. will be lip balm, concealer under the eyes, brows on, and eyeline upper waterline.
Foundation or TM, brown pencil eyeliner (I’d rather forgo eyeshadow than eyeliner), mascara, blush, sheer lipstick or lipgloss.
If I have an extra minute, I’ll throw in a cream shadow; if I’m running really, really late, I’ll leave out the eyeliner and blush – that’s more of a two-minute face!
Foundation with the 187, strobe cream on cheekbones and temples, set it with MSFN, Benefit Benetint on cheeks. Filling in brows, Urban Decay Sin on the lid, smudge MAC sketch on the upper and lower lashline and one or two coats of mascara. Some Nymphette lipglass and I’m good to go.
For me a five-minute face is a naked face. I can’t possibly do something useful makeup wise in only five minutes. I would put concealer on my blemishes (if I have any), but to me that doesn’t really count as wearing makeup.
Mineral powder foundation, concealer, MAC Painterly Paint Pot all over the lid, Omega or Charcoal Brown in the crease, Gosh Metallic Brass liner, a cool toned blush and either some lip gloss or Plumful lipstick.
Concealer, translucent powder, define brows, kitten smudge pot all over the lid and to highlight the browbone and inner corners, Maybelline Falsies waterproof, Benefit Posietint, Benefit High Beam to highlight, Benefit Hoola to contour, Revlon lipstick in Blush
Blush is SO much more important to put on blush! Much more important than lipstick, eyeliner or eye shadow! I would have said the same asbyou! 🙂
primer done beforehand while running around, then tm/foundation, setting powder, blush, highlighter, lipstick on the go. usually this is my work routine in which i skip mascara because my eyes are watery from yawning…
Tinted Moisturizer. MUFE Aqua Cream 13 on lids (the nude/pink one) Coat of Mascara. Black liner on lower waterline. Nars Laguna Bronzer. And if theres time a touch of blush either tarte dollface or exposed.
I honestly can’t remember when I haven’t left myself more than five minutes to get ready, but if I ONLY had five minutes, the following would be musts:
Fill in brows
Curl lashes & apply mascara
Line waterline
Tinted moisturizer
Blush, such as MAC Fleur Power or Benefit Sugarbomb
Lipgloss of some sort
Tinted moisturizer (sometimes, but not always), a little bit of concealer for under-eyes and spots, MAC pressed blot powder, filling in brows, a fairly light blush, highlighter (something quick like Benefit’s Watt’s Up), waterproof mascara, and a Revlon lip butter (usually Pink Truffle or Peach Parfait).
Sadly, my foundation/concealer makes a five-minute face impossible- it takes about 10 minutes to cover up all my acne scarring. After that, though, I can be done in five minutes. Eye primer, MAC Brule washed from lashline to brows, MAC Wedge in crease, MAC Print smudged around eyes (instead of eyeliner), black eyeliner on the inner rims. Mascara, brows, touch of blush or bronzer, nude lips, and done.
More than 5 minutes…no matter what I do, 5 minutes just doesn’t happen for me…
Concealer, cream blush, powder, maybe mascara.
Tinted moisturizer, concealer, MAC Honesty e/s all over lid, MAC Boutique Brown in the crease, eyeliner, mascara and I’ll toss a cheek stain and lip gloss into my bag. Usually I can do this in three minutes with two minutes to spare to put on my shoes and get myself out the door!
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One eyeshadow color, liner, mascara. Done.
Tinted moisturiser, Eyeliner, mascara, lip gloss/ lip stain
Primer, concealer, sometimes tinted moisturizer depending on whether or not I feel like it, translucent powder, eye primer just to make sure my lids aren’t oily/one shade, sometimes a brow and inner corner highlight, mascara, blush, highlight (if I’m not wearing Hot Mama blush), and lipstick/gloss.
If I just hava 5 minutes.
Hm, liquid foundation, a little bronzer, black mascara and a rose or latte macchiato brown lipstick, maybe a pink gloss.
Tinted moisturizer, Tarte cheek and lip stain in Tipsy
It’s more like my 2 minutes to get to class face 🙂
revlon color stay foundation
fit me concealer
loads of tartes light camera lashes
nars madly blush (works as bronzer and blush)
tightline with MACs smolder eyeliner
then throwing on a lip product out the door.
Mac studio fix powder, blush, benefit creaseless cream shadow in rsvp, and mascara. That’s pretty much my bare minimum 🙂
Tinted moisturizer
Concealer
Powder
Blush
Brow gel
One neutral eyeshadow
Mascara
Lipstick, gloss or tinted lipbalm
And a SMILE! (Because I did all that in 5 minutes!)
In five minutes I can finish: brows, top lid of eyeliner with inner white corner, brow high lighter, a dusting of powder for under eye circles (and to even out redness on my nose around allergy season), and then I’ll pop a mascara in my purse for later (if I remember).
And even then…sometimes that can take longer than 5 minutes, depends on how awake I am.
Undereye concealer, loose mineral powder, and maybe some blush. Later in the day I might add gloss. Then toward the end of the day when I go on camera, I’ll curl my lashes and add mascara.
tinted moisturizer or Origins Vitazing
mascara
blush
chapstick
I’m a pro at this with 7:30am class everyday!
In this order, just incase I run out of time, but usually I can get all this done if 5 minutes.
Primer
Concealer
Powder Foundation
Eyebrows
Benefit RSVP
Mascara
Blush
-Laura Mercier Radiance Primer
-MAC MSF Natural in Medium Dark for foundation with a kabuki brush
-MAC MSF Natural in Medium Deep for bronzer
-MAC Hush cream colour base for highlight
-Urban Decay Perversion liner to upper water line
-Benefit They’re Real Mascara or Giorgio Armani Eyes to Kill
-Clarins Eclat Minute lip perfector in 02
I just did a 5-minute face this morning because I was short on time. I use:
– concealer
– bb cream or tinted moisturizer
– brow pencil
– blush/bronzer/highlighter, whichever I’m in the mood for
– tinted lip balm
– mascara
I would have loved to put some shadow or liner on, but this is enough to perk up my appearance for the day.
concealer, cream blush, powder, filling in brows, mascara, and lipstick!
Concealer, foundation, mascara, champagne cream e/s, blush and lipstick.
I like to put music and take my time for makeup. It’s a relaxing and enjoyable moment. If I don’t feel like taking my time, I go out without makeup. At all. And I can speed up my process as much as I want. If I have 5 minutes, I’ll just skip concealer and eyeliner. I never put lipstick. The rest stays.
-MAC MSF natural in Medium plus
-Clinique brow powder
-Too Faced face palette bronzer
-Any blush (Benefit Hervana, Coralista, Korres Natural, NARS Orgasm…)
-Benefit eyeshadow in Nice melons as a highlighter
foundation or tinted moisturizer
concealer
1 light eyeshadow
mascara
blush
lipstick
If I have an extra minute, I’ll throw on MAC Powersurge on my lower waterline/lash line. I wear glasses and I find this helps lighten up the whole eye are quite a bit.
Oh and I would quickly run some brow gel to lighten my intense black brows.
Tinted moisturizer
Mascara
Blush
Lip product
Concealer and set 🙂
Scrub with Yes to Cucumbers face wipe, apply Biore Hard Day’s Night moisturizer, eyeliner, blush, maybe mascara, maybe eyeshadow, depending. Lip balm.
I don’t have a five minute face, because I need at least 15 minutes to do the minimum. Actually, my normal make-up routine (MO – FR) takes about 45-60 minutes. Yes, I am a make-up junkie 😉
Makeup application and speed is something I seriously struggle with. It always takes me forever to do my makeup!! In 5 minutes I’d probably only be able to apply:
-Garnier BB Cream
-Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Eraser Dark Circles
-Mac Mineralize Skinfinish Natural
-Lip Balm
Concealer, quick swish of eyeshadow, gel liner on top, loads of mascara.
This is also my everyday face.
Tinted moisturizer (w/sunscreen)
Concealer around eyes
Mascara
Lipstick or gloss
If I have a few extra seconds, blush is the next thing I apply, followed by eyeliner.
Tinted Moisturizer, Powder, Mascara, Blush, eyebrow powder and maybe a cream shadow
Dermalogica Sheer Tint Moisture in Medium, Almay Smart shade blush, Korres lip butter and a Bright lippie!
Diorskin Forever compact applied with a damp sponge
UD Chopper on lid
BE Flawless Definition Volumizing mascara
Any lipstick; lately it’s been Hourglass Ballet.
Concealor, Mineralized skinfinish, filling in brows, mascara, lipbalm
Colour correcting primer (givenchy acti-mine in kiwi)
Clinique instant pore minamiser
Lancome clicky pen concealer thingy
MAC Mylar all over eyelid
Whatever Mascara I have opened
Clear brow gel
Whateber gloss or lipstick i fancy
All of this takes less than 5mins as there is no real blending, I could get away with no brushes if i didnt have any about (wouldn’t recommend that though)
My current go to 5 min face, assuming I”ve already moisturized:
Bourjois Healthy Mix Serum foundation applied with fingers
quick coat of Maybelline Full n Soft mascara, top and bottom lashes
quick dusting of Laura Mercier translucent powder
sweep of theBalm Hot Mama blush on cheeks
Burts Bees tinted lip balm in Hibiscus
In 5 minutes?
Too faced BB cream with fingers(love it!)- no need for powder as the cream helps in controlling my oil!
Bobbi brown corrector for my dark circles
Mac studio finish to spot conceal
Mac Posey cremeblend blush applied with fingers
Maybelline (any one) mascara
Chapstick
– under eye concealer
– bright blush
(Virgin Isle, Optimistic Orange from Mac or Tipsy from Tarte)
– black mascara
My five minute face which is usually the time it takes. I guess it has something to do with little to no acne scarring and building small amounts rather than piling on at once. But it’s usually:
1. Primer
2. If I decide for liquid Revlon Colorstay for face and undereye in two different colors; small drops (maybe pea size and a lot smaller for undereye)with 109 then set with MSFN(very lightly in t-zone and undereye). Otherwise only MSFN all over.
3. Blush(9.93/10 it’s MAC Eversun)
4. MAC Fix+ (must have for me when wearing anything on my face)
5. Mascara (loads)
6. Maybe Eyeliner
7. Lipstick(Revlon Gentleman loves Pink or Viva Glam V or L’oreal Balm Mauve)
And that’s all folks!!!
Concealer
Gel blush
Sheer wash of gold eyeshadow
Sheer coral lip
Tinted moisturizer + powder foundation
Neutral eyes w/ brown liquid liner
Sometimes brows
Lip balm (sometimes tinted)
Blush