TOP TEN TIPS FOR LOOKING PERKY THIS JANUARY

[RolandButter]

ok so no shopping to be done
dieting /cutting back
no going out to happen

so tis operation skincare and other simple tricks to reduce the morgue make up look.
we want california, we want healthy, we want glow.

what are your tips?

get your eyebrows threaded. It can take at least 5 years off you, and makes you look v wide awake and perky!

The protect/perfect serum - does it go on over or under moisturiser?

under

agree with eyebrows and alcohol, I have aged over the christmas hols

anusol on your eyes at night, but only a couple of times a week. stop boozing and smoking(does anyone still smoke?)

Don't use mineral make up; it makes you look like a pantomime horse villian.

Where does one go to get eyebrows threaded?

Eyebrow make up makes you look wide awake.

Protect your face from biting wind/cold with sun screen and covering lower part with a scarf. I work outside and spending long hours in bad weather can give you really dry and chapped skin, also broken veins in the long term.

god swedes i SO agree with you a bout the mineraly make up thing
like a corpse

blistexe is the only lip thing worht bothereing with

What should I be using to stop my lips drying out?

I wear lip gloss most of the time and vaseline at night

But they are still dry and flaky

ByTerry lip balm is wonderful stuff.

As others have said - fake tan, eat less and do keep up with waxing/shaving. It may be winter but I still like to be relatively hair free.

Am off for beautician overhaul on saturday.

I always think mineral make-up and piercing- blue fcoloured contact lenses make a good team. It's a scary-eyed-bread-knife look which is perfectly finished orf with a scarf that whiffs of 70s make-up.

lansinoh for your lips, hands/nails, round the nose and across your cheecks if very dry over night.

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So many good ideas on this thread. As a flakey, horned hoofed, hairy winter person, you've inspired me to sort myself out.

Don't put make up on when you are fresh out of the bath or shower.

Lanisoh I have already - happily my nips are fine and not in need of it - never thought to use it anywhere else... thanks

Exfoliate - tick
Defuzz - tick
Eyebrows tidy - tick
Quick swish with mascara & lip gloss before leaving house - tick
nails tidy and painted - tick
Cut down on alcohol - tick

Drink more water - must try harder
Exercise - must try harder
Hair - appt booked for next week

So not doing too badly really. Better than I have done in months if I'm honest, and I have been getting compliments on my appearance recently so it's clearly working.

Christiana - I should have said mineral make up makes me look like a pantomime horse. I'm sure you look lovely.

I use Vitalumiere and it is lovely but actually I still look like panto horse.

I love this thread. It feels like my natural home.

My feet are really horrid at the moment. I am thinking of going to a chiropodist. Has anyone ever been to one? I think I would probably book one in the next town and go in sunglasses and a beret. Book under a pseudonym (Justine Roberts ) and pay in cash. And never go to that town again.

Aah forgot about the bum cream on your eyes...!

and white eyeliner (applied carfully, not a la Courtney Cox) can get rid of red, tired peepers.

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Steal the DCs Ritalin

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don't wear lipstick of you have chapped lips, looks terrible! just stick to gloss or balm.

And wear pretty underwear - ideally matching. And please paint toe nails on nicely moisturised feet.

I'm a bit phobic about feet and am scared of yellow toe nails

i don't like curly girl method, need shampoo. also i have v fine hair so it gets weighed down. do agree with only combing when wet etc.

i went to scholl it was brutal and i got left with ragged toenails. no hard skin though.

so far this week i have dyed some hair, got rid of other hair, been for a run and to a pilates class. next up is redoing toes.