You made it to the last installment of this series! Feel like a makeup pro yet?

Remember to check out the posts from earlier today if you are just tuning in. We’ve been doing an extended class today that has been broken up into 5 posts total: one from two weeks ago and 3 from today at 8 am ET, 12 pm ET, and 4 pm ET.

Let’s talk about steps 8 through 10.

Step 8: Brows

Never forget the brows! While the main function of your brows is to keep sweat, dirt, and other debris from getting in your eyes, brows also serve as a major form of communication to those you come into contact! Brows can help show expression, emotion, and even mood changes. Over the decades brow shape, color, and thickness have changed, but one thing remains consistent: brows are an important part of a makeup routine!

Filling in your brows to make them more pronounced can add a whole new dimension to your make up routine! Brows make the biggest difference! Depending on your natural coloring, you can pick from our Multitasker line, which contains 4 colors great for filling in brows. These colors are:

• Light: Great for those with blonde and grey hair
• Tan: Great for those with dark blonde and light brown hair
• Medium: Great for those with hints of red in their hair
• Dark: Great for those with dark brown or black hair
• You can also try any of the Dark Foundation colors that best match your brown color!

To fill in your brows, you will need a precise angled brush. Apply the brow filler in small strokes that follow the natural growth pattern of your hair. You will notice that your eyebrow hair grows upward then slowly fans outward. This is to protect your eyes by naturally forcing sweat and other particles outward around your eyes. Follow this stroke pattern to create a natural look. Brush out any excess if necessary.

Did you know you can shape your brows to accentuate the natural features of your face? Check out this video to learn all about how to properly shape your brows!

Step 9: Eyes

 

Palette

The new Savvy Minerals by Young Living® Eye shadow Palette No. 1 is AMAZING! Each shadow is infused with coconut oil, shea butter, and lavender essential oil for velvety smooth application and easy blending and building. This palette gives you all you need in an eye shadow palette—colors that complement each other and that give multiple style options. You can easily take your eye makeup from a simple day look, to a dramatic ‘night out’ smokey eye using this palette. Since the powders are pressed, it’s convenient to take on all your travels, or if you’re a busy woman, throw it in your purse and apply it on the go! The eye shadows are vegan and cruelty-free, great for sensitive skin, and made with naturally derived ingredients.

Watch this video to learn how to take your eye shadow from a natural, day look to a bold, night look! Haley covers lots of great application tips!

Have you tried the new eye shadow palette? What are your favorite color combinations?!

Mascara

Did you know that typical mascaras contain harmful ingredients that can cause eye and health problems? Many times, these ingredients can clog the oil glands in your eyes, which can lead to dry, itchy, irritated eyes; and in some cases, these ingredients can even make your lashes fall out!

Young Living’s Mascara is infused with Lavender essential oil, which helps condition your lashes. It also has unique ingredients like hydrolyzed jojoba esters and coconut fruit extract, which are very nourishing to lashes. This mascara is perfect for giving you a natural look that makes your lashes appear longer and more defined. It is a versatile mascara that all women will love! For those of you who may want a more dramatic look, the mascara layers easily; just be sure to wait in between applications as the product needs some time to dry before adding more.

This video shows you how to apply Young Living mascara.

Our Mascara is formulated using non-nano and naturally derived ingredients. It was clinically tested for ocular irritation and is safe to use on sensitive eyes! You will love our Mascara!

Eye Liner

Step 10: Lips

Whether you wear a full face or just some color or gloss on your lips, you’ve made it this far! Congratulate yourself for learning as much as you can about ditching products that don’t help your skin for products that aren’t made with chemicals or ingredients you can’t pronounce fully. Let’s talk about your options for lip gloss and lip sticks.

Lip Gloss

Savvy Minerals by Young Living™ Lip Gloss provides natural-looking sheer to medium color coverage while adding shine that isn’t sticky! This lip gloss moisturizes and softens lips, while making them look fuller.

This lip gloss can also be worn over Savvy Minerals by Young Living Lipstick to go from a fresh, natural day look to an evening look with a bolder color impact! Plus, they are infused with Peppermint essential oil.

The colors listed from top to bottom are:

• Abundant – Natural medium pink
• Embrace – Natural nude pink
• Journey – Natural brownish bronze
• Maven – Rich plum
• Headliner – Bright Pink
• Anchors Aweigh – Coralish red

What is your favorite lip gloss color?

Lip Stick

Just a swipe of lipstick can make you feel more confident, beautiful, and add glam to your style, but did you know that most lipsticks contain harmful toxins and preservatives? Not only can these chemicals absorb through the pores on your lips, but they can also be accidentally ingested. If you wear lipstick every day, that toxic load can build up over time!

An FDA study in 2010 found lead in 400 lipsticks at levels up to 7.19 ppm (parts per million). Lead can pose serious health risks, including neurological effects, high blood pressure, thyroid dysfunction, and reproductive toxicity. It is so harmful that the government banned it from house paint in 1978 and from gasoline in 1996. However, it is still found in many cosmetics and some packaged food! Lead does not show up on ingredient labels, and it has been found in a wide range of lipsticks—from cheap brands to luxury brands.

Don’t stress! You can still feel beautiful wearing bright lipstick without lead or harsh chemicals! Savvy Minerals by Young Living® Lipsticks is formulated without parabens, phthalates, petrochemicals, bismuth, talc, synthetic fragrances, or synthetic colorants!

There are now three different lipstick formulas available:

Original five lipsticks are: Adore, Daydream, On A Whim, Uptown Girl, and Wish. These colors have more of a silver, frosty finish. They contain simple ingredients: Castor seed oil, sweet almond oil, candelilla wax, beeswax, vitamin E and minerals for coloring.

The Tangerine essential oil infused lip sticks are bright, bold colors! These colors (listed from top to bottom): It Girl, Miss Congeniality, I Dare You, Mic Drop, Bedazzled, and Sweet Life. They have slightly different ingredients than the original formula, do not use almond oil, and are infused with Tangerine essential oil.

The Cinnamint Infused lip sticks have a creamy, velvety texture. They glide on your lips like butter and the colors are perfect for fall and winter! The formula is vegan, and contains Orange, Peppermint, Spearmint, and Cinnamon essential oils. The colors (from top to bottom): Icon, Muse, Untamed, Posh, Siren.

Below are the ingredients used in some of the formulas and why:

Castor Seed Oil – Castor oil is a vegetable oil obtained by cold pressing castor beans. It was used by the ancient Egyptians and Greeks for a wide variety of uses. In India, castor oil has been prized for its skin-supporting properties. Castor oil is commonly used in cosmetic products such as creams, moisturizers, and hair care products.

Grapeseed Oil – Grapeseed oil is extracted from the seeds of grapes. The seeds are loaded with powerful antioxidants.

Beeswax – Beeswax is the purified wax from honeycombs. Female worker honey bees of the genus Apis produce the natural beeswax. Bees fly 150,000 miles to yield 1 pound of beeswax. Beeswax is used as a binder and provides a rich emollient to creams, which is especially good for dry skin.

Candelilla Wax – The candelilla plant belongs to the Euphorbia species. It is a flowering plant that has a similar appearance to cacti, but it has milky latex. Candelilla wax serves as a protective seal for the plant and helps it retain moisture. Candelilla wax helps increase the thickness of the oils in the lipsticks, giving them structure, allowing for a smooth application, and keeping them solid.

Vitamin E – Vitamin E is great for the skin and helps maintain the appearance of healthy, youthful-looking skin.

Sunflower Seed Oil – Sunflower oil is commonly used in cosmetic products, and it includes palmitic acid, stearic acid, oleic acid, and linoleic acid.

Jojoba Seed Oil – Jojoba helps protect the skin and helps it maintain its natural moisture. It’s one of the reasons why the lipsticks will glide on your lips smoothly without leaving greasy residue.

Coconut Oil – This is a very popular ingredient in cosmetics and beauty products for its antioxidant and conditioning properties and for helping the skin stay protected from drying. Who doesn’t love coconut oil?!

Shea Butter – Obtained from the fruit of a tree native to Africa, shea has become a favorite to not only the natives but to everyone who uses it. It is composed of rich fatty acids that condition and nourish skin, hair, and nails. This is why natives have used it for centuries in everything from homemade ointments to hair treatments and body butters.

The bright colors come from the minerals, not synthetic dyes or colors.

What is your favorite lipstick color?

Tips for Healthy Lips

Smooth lips will enhance the appearance of your lipstick or gloss. How do you keep those lips looking lush and smooth, especially during the winter months? Below are some easy tips to keep your lips hydrated and feeling fabulous!

1. Moisturize regularly! Did you know your lips are made of skin? The skin on your lips is significantly thinner than the skin on the rest of your body, and it doesn’t contain any sebaceous glands—the glands responsible for secreting oil onto your skin to help it stay moisturized. So how do your lips stay properly moisturized? Their only source of natural moisture is through saliva, so your lips can become chapped very easily! Young Living has awesome lip balms that use a coconut oil base, as well as other natural ingredients such as beeswax, sweet almond oil, jojoba oil, rose hip oil, essential oils, and vitamin E. Choose from three flavors: Lavender, Cinnamint, and Grapefruit.

2. Protect! Just like the skin on the rest of your body, the skin on your lips is sensitive and needs protection from the sun. When spending significant time outdoors, remember to add some of YL’s Mineral Sunscreen Lotion around your lip area. It’s infused with skin-loving essential oils such as Helichrysum, Carrot Seed, and Sacred Frankincense. Don’t skip this step just because it’s cold outside! Your lips can still be sunburned while skiing, sledding, or participating in other winter activities.

3. Exfoliate! By exfoliating your lips, your lip balm will work more effectively. This will also make your lipsticks and glosses apply easier and look better throughout the day. We are super excited about the YL Poppy Seed Lip Scrub: It gently exfoliates and can also be used as an overnight moisturizer. Win, win! It contains cocoa butter, mango butter, avocado butter, and shea butter, as well as citrus fresh essential oil blend, and of course, poppy seeds which help exfoliate! To use, apply a pea-sized amount to your lips; then exfoliate by massaging in small, circular motions. Use a damp cotton pad to remove. For day use, follow with your favorite lipstick; for night use, follow with a moisturizing lip balm.

5-Minute Face

Are you a busy woman who is constantly on-the-go? If this is the case, you may not have time for a full Savvy face every single day, and that’s okay! Most women would probably agree that their makeup routine changes daily depending on the time they have to get ready.

For a quick 5-minute Savvy face, the products used are going to be different for everyone. So, how do you figure out which products you should use? We recommend considering what you believe to be your best features. Do you love your brows? Do you get a lot of compliments on your eyes? Do you love your smile? Maybe you have fabulous glowing skin! Figure out what you love about your face, and when you’re in a hurry, work to accentuate those features!