When summer’s around the corner I always get fed up with putting on make-up every day. I just want to jump out of bed, take a shower, grab a coffee and get behind my computer instead of wasting time in front of the mirror. The only problem is that as a pale blondie I don’t have a natural glow and people actually ask whether I’m ill if  I go for the “I woke up like this” look (that combined with the wrinkles of my pillow marked on my face, definitely a no go). For one very short second I thought about going to the solarium but that would be incredibly stupid. I don’t want to have skin cancer or look like a raisin within 10 years so I looked for another solution.

 

After a few weeks of in-depth research I came up with the following action plan:

1. Take the time to go outside every day, have enough sleep and drink enough water

2. Dye eyelashes and eyebrows just a little bit darker so you don’t need to put on mascara every morning. It’s really easy to do it yourself with the Combinal products (available at Parfuma in Antwerp)

3. The eyelash curler from Shu Uemura is a must-have and use a little brush to keep the eyebrows in shape

4. Use just a little bit of the Bobbi Brown bronzer (during summer I always use sunscreen on my face before applying the bronzer, because I have an oily skin the Avène Cleanance SPF30 is perfect)

5. Apply a bit of blush on your cheeks as a finishing touch (I always use the powder blush from Clinique)

 

Besides the dying part, this only takes 5 minutes every morning and till now nobody made any weird comment so I guess Casper the friendly ghost officially belongs to the past!

Enjoy the sun 😉