Seriously… The Food Scout in a Beauty event?!
To all foodies reading, I wasn’t lost or got my schedule muddled up. I know you are expecting a food or restaurant post from me but this time, I have to allot 1 post for a beauty brand.
One Saturday, I was invited by my beauty blogger friend, Rowena of Animetric, to her Shiseido Make-up event, Flawless and Radiant Make-up Workshop. She asked me if I was interested to learn basic make-up from Shiseido’s beauty expert. I know I’m not a beauty blogger but as a lady, I’m interested to learn anything about beauty. If you’re a woman, you know where I’m coming from and you can definitely relate.
A 2-hour make-up workshop sponsored by Shiseido enlightened me and made me appreciate make-up even more. Honestly, I’m not a big fan of applying make-up. Normally, I go to the office with pressed powder and colorless lip-balm. If I’m in the mood or I have a food event at night, I use mascara and curl my lashes. For evening events, my flushing red lipstick becomes my best friend. That’s about it. I go for low maintenance make-up routine. My mom trained me to love your natural beauty and simply enhance if necessary. If not necessary, leave it as natural as it is.Even though I am not a make-up enthusiast, I am still eager to learn more about it. I thought that there may be things I didn’t know, reason why I couldn’t appreciate make-up.
Since I’m not a beauty blogger, I couldn’t give you technical terms or specific make-up terms on this post. All I can share with you are the learning and beauty tips from Shiseido. So please bear with me. 🙂
Beauty Tips from Shiseido:
1) Focus on Skin Care more than anything else. Skin care was mentioned more than 10x at the event. When I heard “skin care” being the primary topic at the make-up event, my eyes got bigger and said to myself, “I’m at the right event!”. Just like Shiseido, I really believe skin care is so so so important that you don’t need to use make-up to cover up your face. With or without make-up, you still look fabulous because of your skin. Concealer can only do its role to cover up your pimples or dark spots but at the end of the day, you remove your concealer, the pimple or dark spots are still there. Putting skin care as the highlight, you remove your foundation, concealer and other colors on your face, you won’t be afraid to show the world the “real” you.
2) Eye cream is as important as moisturizing your face. Our age shows on our skin, most especially our eyes. Wrinkles and lines surrounding your eyes could be caused by dryness and age. We cannot prevent aging, but we can prevent our face from looking older than our age by moisturizing it. Eye cream is different from your regular moisturizer because skin surrounding your eyes are thinner and needs stronger moisturizer than your usual facial moisturizer.
3) Don’t go cheap on Skin Care and Make-up. Shiseido has one of the best skin care products in the world. The price might scare you off but you have to think twice that you are paying for quality, not only the brand. Besides, we are talking about our faces here. We don’t want to go for cheap products and sacrifice our face for that. I know ladies, it’s hard to be a woman. If you are taking your skin care seriously, invest on quality products.
Make-up is quite complicated to fully comprehend for me, maybe that’s why I’m a food blogger. Haha! But it’s good to start from somewhere rather than not at all, right? I’m really glad I had this opportunity to learn and get knowledge from Shiseido’s beauty expert. Because of this event, I appreciate make-up even more. It’s not simply for enhancing or prettifying our faces but to protect our skin from our number one enemy, the sun. It’s like a mask where you cover your face to keep it away from the sun, which can age your skin easily. Using make-up or skin care with SPF is truly essential. It’s not just for advertising or marketing the products.How fun it is to be a lady! 🙂
So many products to choose from? Shiseido team will not ignore you but welcome you in their stores. If you have some questions or concerns, seek help from them and they’ll give you what you need. If you are not sure what your skin type is, they have a machine that could test and show your skin type. In this way, your skin care and make-up product choices will narrow down and you’ll find the products that suit your skin.
Inner beauty reflects outer beauty. We can only do enough for our outer beauty because we cannot control how we age or how we will look 10 years from now. What we are in control is how we can make our inner beauty pleasant in the eyes of God no matter how old we are. We are all fearfully and wonderfully made, God’s works are always wonderful (Psalm 139:14). We should appreciate what kind of face or feature He gave us. Although He didn’t take wisdom away from us. He also gave us wisdom to take care of what He entrusted to us, our bodies, our face. Our job is to be good stewards of God’s creation (1 Cor 6:19). Not being obsessed on prettifying ourselves but simply taking care of this earthly body He gave us so that He may be glorified, no one else.
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