Basically I look like a scruff! I don't have any set routine so forget sometimes to do my eyebrows until the are hideous werewolflike messy and my nails are ignored. My skin is atrocious too. I just never seem to be able to look groomed and pretty!!
Do you have a daily / weekly / monthly grooming routine?
How much time do you spend on your looks?
I am thinking that professional help might be needed! Tempted by HD Brows but they would look wrong if the rest of me is well a mess.
I have just never been organised about all this beauty stuff. It is like everyone else was taken into a secret "how to be groomed" lesson that I missed out on. Come to think of it, I missed the "how to style your hair" and "how to dress so you don't look like you got dressed in the dark.... in your Nan's wardrobe" lessons too!
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How to be groomed?
blobtobetter · 14/02/2012 21:03
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I keep thinking I should do more to my nails than just keeping them clean & trimmed. I don't really fancy painting them all the time, so perhaps a buffer would make them a bit smarter? I saw this LD 4-in-1 buffer & nail file - what do you think?
btw, my facial lady told me to start using toner (she suggested Simple) as some face washes can leave behind a residue & the toner will also help remove that. The same lady did my wedding make-up with BE & I've used nothing else since - love it!
The last time I used purple eye shadow (many years ago) I looked like I had bad bruising! - perhaps I chose the wrong shade? (I am 'natural beige' (BE) with blue/green eyes) - I do wonder if I actually know how to put eye shadow on 
- do you know of a good youtube clip or tutorial somewhere?
Make up - try Lisa Eldridge.
And how long should nail buffers last - mine do maybe two uses and they stop working - is it me or am I using the wrong sort? Last buffer was a Sally Hansen variety and then the rougher bit went completely smooth. Maybe my nails 
carpe in my experience, unless you actually have proper ridges in your nails that need removing, the buffers from poundland work absolutely fine so it doesn't matter if they don't last (I get 2 or 3 uses from each one, only do it once a week and you get 4 in a pack so I essentially pay £1 every 2 months on buffers - not bad eh?).
bessie if you have green in your eyes put a shadow with gold in it on...it will highlight the green flecks...
And when all else fails with eyes - just wet them down and apply them with an eyeliner brush as a thin line on the top lash (no flick required but stop about a 1/4cm before you get to the outer corner of the eye - if you go all the way it drags the eye down and makes you look tired). Navy blue looks great on everyone as eyeliner and makes the whites of your eyes look whiter 
Oh I so need to find a Poundland!
On the down side, DH was at Tesco at lunch time and phones to ask if we needed anything (I've got him well trained! 
) and so I directed him to the make up aisle to source me primer... and it was blooming' sold out 
D'ya think that's the power of MNet and mrsmartin?!
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oooohhhh mossy you are going to feel so glam. And there's nothing wrong with just using one colour eyeshadow-alot of make up artists are now doing single-colour eye looks. I just sweep over the eyelid with my finger and then blend the line with a clean eyeshadow brush (to do a smokey eye etc is really easy - see the eldridge link further up the thread). Just have a play - it is fun to play with make-up !!
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