Do you know how to take care of your face skin? # 1. My morning routine.

It is very important to take care of your skin in particular of your face skin. It is particularly subject to the outside attacks: pollution, temperature changes. But it is also sensitive to the products you use such as make-up and cosmetics. 

To take care of your skin well, it is necessary to use adapted products according to your skin type and to follow these three fundamental steps:

-  Step 1: Cleansing 

In the morning, this step helps your skin eliminate the sebum and the dead cells accumulated on the surface during the night.

Personally, I use two products to clean my face. First of all, I clean my face skin in the shower with the « All-In-1 Nettoyant et masque ultra-purifiant » by Nivea Visage. Its price:  € 6 (150ml). After moistening my face, my neck and my low neck, I apply this product by making circular movements. Of course, it isn't the goal to pickle the skin! Then, I rinse my care with some lukewarm water. 

Step 1 : Cleansing in the shower

After taking my shower, I use the «Lait Démaquillant Apaisant » by Mixa. Its price: € 5 (200ml). I apply on a small hazelnut of the cleansing milk on a cotton pad and I mainly clean my eyes because I could not with the precedent product.

Step 1 : Cleansing with a milk

- Step 2: Moisturizing

Applying a moisturizer helps maintain the role played by the protective barrier of the skin and maintains its elasticity. It also helps delay the appearance of aging signs.

For this step, I use the « Crème légère très hydratante et bien plus encore » by Sephora because I like its light texture that does not give me the impression of sweat. Its price: € 17.90 (50ml). For optimal efficiency, I applied this cream using my fingertips to make circular movements.

Step 2 : Moisturizing

- Step 3: Exfoliate

This step should be realized once or twice a week, not more. Exfoliation let remove dead skin cells. 

To exfoliate my face skin, I use the « Gommage lissant doux » by Nivea Visage. Its price : € 6,50 (75ml). When you have to use cosmetics products in the shower, it is the same routine. First, moisten your skin. Then, apply your care on your skin. Finally, rinse off it with lukewarm water.

Step 3 : Exfoliate

Now, it is your turn to find your skin care routine. Please respect it to keep your skin nice and healthy!

Mascara Volume Effet Faux Cils d’YSL : my love, my friend

In my life, I collected mascaras as the crushes of a 15-year-old teenager. Every time you believe that it is the good one and it's always the same story.

At first, you are seduced by the mascara's packaging which is downright glamorous and so sophisticated. You already imagine it in your possession :  " How it would look well in my bathroom! ". After long watched and admired it, you throw yourself on it as you would jump on the last chocolate of a box: " That's it: Now, it's mine! ". Then, when you back home, you test the coveted mascara and here comes there the drama :

- " Is the color not rather intense or do I have toned down eyes? "

- " Uh.. Was it not written great volume / stretching / bending effect on the mascara's box? I don't see anything ! "

- "Help! The mascara makes me have spider's legs instead of lashes!"

In short, the object of your desire is frankly not good as you hope...

Then, you feel guilty because you know you have the attention to leave it. How can you confess your project to it? First of all, this mascara made you literally fond of it. You hear so much about it in the Glamour magazine that you feel guilty : all women want this cosmetic product that they should able to kill for it! And you? You really want to leave it. And whitout mercy, you abandon it promising that you will stay friends.

I said that every time it was the same story but fortunately there are some happy ending! I finally found the mascara of my life: Mascara Volume Effet Faux Cils d’Yves Saint Laurent.

Mascara Volume Effet Faux Cils d’Yves Saint Laurent

How beautiful this mascara is with its elegant and very smart packaging made with gold. How amazing it smells! Well, what is the interest of having eyes which are smelling good? You will tell me : none. However, it is a real pleasure to smell a light scent when you are making up and even when your lashes are beating.

Now, let's speak about efficiency. What does this mascara for real? Officially: " The velvet look becomes reality. With the MASCARA VOLUME EFFET FAUX CILS, the ardent supporters of doe eyes no more need false lashes. They finally found their perfect and natural ally. The secret of this mascara? A brush specifically designed to amplify the performances of its formula. The look is intense and glamorous." 

Obviously, the brands are always modest about their products, aren't they? But this time, I enough agree because this mascara ideally suit with my lashes. Warning, I am talking of course about MY lashes because you must know that each kind of lashes is associated with a different mascara! I don't think I have particular problems with my lashes, I don't have any issues with their length, their thickness or their curvature but I necessarily want precise things to get a great look! Personally, I like mascaras which make extra volume for the intense side of the look. On the other hand, I don't like mascaras that don't correctly seperate the lashes. It is necessary to find the right balance for your mascara and I think that I did with the Mascara Volume Effet Faux Cils d’Yves Saint Laurent. Take a look at this picture:

Before/After using the Mascara Volume Effet Faux Cils d’Yves Saint Laurent

Even if I am crazy of this mascara, I find it some flaws... I blame it for drying faster for example. After two or three months, you have to buy back a new mascara... and this mascara costs a lot (€ 28,75) so it's better having a planned budget for make-up. However, I love this mascara so much that I am ready to make some concessions for it on the condition of being more demanding with other products I use. 

Finally, I hope that you will also fall in love with this mascara or that at least, you will find the mascara which corresponds to your lashes! 

Did you said "Beauty" ?

Hello everybody! What a hapiness welcoming you to my new blog called "Beauty Secrets" which talks about... "Beauty" ! Thanks for those who are following!

Beauty ? Wait, did I really said beauty? Beauty, beauty... okay but what is it exactly?

If we take a look into a dictionnary, we have got a totally abstrated definition. According to The Larousse: "Beauty : quality of somebody, something who (which) is beautiful, in compliance with an aesthetic ideal". 

Now, we are not really well advanced... And what does mean "beautiful"? According to the same source : 

" Beautiful : having qualities that arouse an aesthetic pleasure of visual order; being nice and causing welfare; being well suited and satisfactory."

Well, do we not hold an interesting thread here? "Being nice and causing welfare; being satisfactory"... Beauty is only the fact of feeling good about yourself! That's is the truth, guys! There is something beautiful into each person so be yourself and love you! 

Moreover, because I am speaking about accepting the person we are, I must show you what is feeling good and beautiful thanks to an advertising created by the brand DOVE. The marketing team at Dove argue in favour of the beauty of each woman. So they staged in their advertising ordinary women laughing together. These women look so natural, beautiful and so self confident that they are an example for everyone, being a man or a woman. I let you judge it by yourself : 

The beautiful women of Dove's advertising

Because I want you to feel as well too, I am going to reveal you my tricks for feeling good and pretty. Do not hesitate to share your experiences, your feelings and even your advice ! In short, criticize! 

Having said that, I wish you a good visit on my blog and one more time :  here you are welcomed!