A Thrifty Mrs
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Your beauty routineShare with me if you will your beauty routine?
Mine is pretty basic:
Brush teeth, shower, body lotion, cleanse, tone then moisturise face. I then dry my hair - very quickly and no styling is involved at the moment. I then spend all of 10mins doing my make up.
I do exfoliate face and body twice a week and get my eyebrows dealt with every three weeks.
But I'd really like to step up my beauty routine. So I was wondering if any of you could give me an idea of what your daily and special occasion beauty routine involves. I want to start feeling special!
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Violet Ecstasy
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Complete overhaul or every morning job?
Complete overhaul (e.g pre-shoot pamper).
* Shower
* Wash hair & condition - I use Brilliant Brunette stuff
* De-fuzz - used to wax but can't afford to atm 
* Scrub down with lovely smelling stuff (flavour of the month is almond & honey)
* dry off
* moisturise body with matching smelling lotion or body butter
* deal with manky feet
* Paint toenails & fingernails
* Straighten or curl hair as desired
* Facial skin care with Clinique 3 step system (occasional facepack)
* Brush teeth with Blanx toothpaste (good stuff for whitening!)
* Basic makeup = 10-15 mins (foundation, concealer, powder, blush, eyebrows, eyeliner & mascara then red lippy perhaps)
Daily is a shortened version of the above...
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Herr Geist
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Shower
Brush teeth
Shave (I'm lucky. Once a week. Thank you native American blood!)
Comb tangles out of hair and tie it back
Cover my body with whatever item of clothing is closest
That's the daily routine. When I'm preparing for an event, not much changes except for cologne and nicer clothes.
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Anna Fur Laxis
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At my age, life is one long beauty routine! 
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Herr Geist
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Well, keep it up! It's working nicely. 
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Cecilia Rouge
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| Herr Geist wrote: | Shower
Brush teeth
Shave (I'm lucky. Once a week. Thank you native American blood!)
Comb tangles out of hair and tie it back
Cover my body with whatever item of clothing is closest
That's the daily routine. When I'm preparing for an event, not much changes except for cologne and nicer clothes. |
Mine is exactly the same as this!  Except for a splash of Chanel.
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A Thrifty Mrs
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Thanks very much everyone.
So it turns out I'm not missing out some huge vital step?! Wahey.
Going into town today to treat myself to lovely pamper products.
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Anna Fur Laxis
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Do you wear SPF? If not, start today. x
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missrosethorne
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I use a gentle face exfoliant every day, really helps give a smooth make up application. With age comes anti-wrinkle cream at night time too...Make sure to wash make up brushes, especially if you use one for foundation.
And like Anna says, wear SPF every day! Clinique do a base called City Block, which is good, but most make up primers have a SPF to them.
Lots of handlotion just before bed or before leaving the house too
R
xx
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Lily Belle
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ok, mine is big and long......just how I like things!
Morning:
Shower (in which I : Exfoliate, shave underarms, wash and condition hair)
All over body moisturize with expensive lotions
Tone and moisturize with Origins A Perfect world products
Put in leave in conditioner and mousse before blowdrying hair
Dance about in underwear for about ten minutes deciding what to wear
Spritz on perfume and roll on deodorant
Put base makeup on (primer, concealer, foundation,blush)
Get dressed
Brush teeth
Finish makeup (eyeshadows, eyeliner, mascara, lipliner, lipstick, lipgloss, highlighter, brow pencil)
Evening:
Bathe in deep bubbly stuff (only if needed)
More body lotions
Cleanse, Tone and moisturize with more Origins products
Brush hair and spray in some Fast Fixx
Apply hand cream
Apply Solar Oil to fingernails, cuticles and any hard patches
Lipbalm
Every two weeks:
Get nails done
Have eyebrows waxed
Top up the blue hair colouring
Once a month:
Legs and Bikini wax
Body wrap (when I can afford it)
Yes, I know its a lot. But I have no job, so I fill my time with beauty routines.
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A Thrifty Mrs
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I do indeed use SPF - I have used a min of factor 40 for as long as I can remember. I burn if I so much as think about the Sun. Plus I don't want to look like a handbag in a decade.
Thanks for all of your lists and wow Lily Belle what a terrific list I shall be stepping it up to match yours now that I am working from home more often than not.
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Lily Belle
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Why thank you! Most people just laugh at my routine, but it does the job.
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missrosethorne
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it's not just SPF when in the sun, it's making sure your moisturiser has a SPF so you are wearing EVERY day - A lesson I learned a while ago....
xx
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A Thrifty Mrs
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| missrosethorne wrote: | it's not just SPF when in the sun, it's making sure your moisturiser has a SPF so you are wearing EVERY day - A lesson I learned a while ago....
xx |
Thanks, I already do because I had a terrible skin thing when I was a teenager and don't dare to leave the bathroom without SPF.
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Cecilia Rouge
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I feel rather appalled at my low maintenance beauty care here.
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Freya Fox
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| Cecilia Rouge wrote: | | I feel rather appalled at my low maintenance beauty care here. |
Don't worry mine is about the same.
I'm even quick showering, I used to live in a student house where you needed to put 50 Pfennig in a box to get hot water for the shower. You better be quick before it runs out and gets cold.
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Herr Geist
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My experience with quick showers is much the same. In basic training for the Marines, you had to shower fast before the hot water ran out. When you have 60 people in your platoon showering at the same time, hot water goes fast. I was usually in and out in less than two minutes and that was a very thorough shower. I take long ones now when I can, but if I gotta go, I can still hit the two minute mark and be completely clean. That is, if I don't wash my hair which I didn't have in basic haha.
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Cecilia Rouge
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I pluck my eyebrows though.
Yesterday I had a shower, exfoliated, moisturised and face packed myself up in honour of this thread.
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Herr Geist
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*looks around* shhhhh... I thin mine a bit, too. I don't pluck, though. I'm not that careful about it. I just run a razor over the top and bottom of the brow.
It's not like I have a unibrow or anything, but if I don't thin my eyebrows, it looks strange compared to how manicured I keep the rest of the hair on my face. The fact that I have to dye my eyebrows and facial hair doesn't help. I'd look funny with a blonde beard and black hair.
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Lily Belle
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You'd look like a badger. Warren would love you. Longtime.
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Herr Geist
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I now have a new #1 reason to keep dying my beard.
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A Thrifty Mrs
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| Cecilia Rouge wrote: | I pluck my eyebrows though.
Yesterday I had a shower, exfoliated, moisturised and face packed myself up in honour of this thread. |
I did my eyebrows and had a face pack too, made me feel a bit better about being a sloth. One day I may get round to getting the lawnmower on to these legs of mine. 
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Dolly Divine
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I find the best exfoliating face wash is Ocean Salt (possibly the name is slightly different) By Lush.
It has chunks of sea salt with grapefruit and vodka. It gets rid of spots and leaves you with a face as smooth as a babys bum!
x
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Ruby Rose
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I don't think I can answer this without sending you all to sleep, but needless to say my life is one long merry-go-round of twice daily cleansing, toning and moisturising - hair dying, waxing, manicures, pedicures, roller setting, scrubbing, smoothing on and on and on.
Oh and the daily inspection and massage of wrinkles, he he.
x
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A Thrifty Mrs
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| Ruby Rose wrote: | I don't think I can answer this without sending you all to sleep, but needless to say my life is one long merry-go-round of twice daily cleansing, toning and moisturising - hair dying, waxing, manicures, pedicures, roller setting, scrubbing, smoothing on and on and on.
Oh and the daily inspection and massage of wrinkles, he he.
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Sounds like some kind of bliss...apart from the wrinkle thing. I sent my husband out to by some face cream the other day with full instructions of what to buy and he came home with stuff for 60+ skin I'm 25, I nearly committed murder.
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Freya Fox
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| A Thrifty Mrs wrote: | | Ruby Rose wrote: | I don't think I can answer this without sending you all to sleep, but needless to say my life is one long merry-go-round of twice daily cleansing, toning and moisturising - hair dying, waxing, manicures, pedicures, roller setting, scrubbing, smoothing on and on and on.
Oh and the daily inspection and massage of wrinkles, he he.
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Sounds like some kind of bliss...apart from the wrinkle thing. I sent my husband out to by some face cream the other day with full instructions of what to buy and he came home with stuff for 60+ skin I'm 25, I nearly committed murder. |
charming lol, men are blind with these things don't kill him, best is to rely on yourself
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Cecilia Rouge
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| Ruby Rose wrote: | I don't think I can answer this without sending you all to sleep, but needless to say my life is one long merry-go-round of twice daily cleansing, toning and moisturising - hair dying, waxing, manicures, pedicures, roller setting, scrubbing, smoothing on and on and on.
Oh and the daily inspection and massage of wrinkles, he he.
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This is true. I am forever getting Ruby up at 4am so she can start her preening in time for us to be out of the house by 11am.
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Cecilia Rouge
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| Herr Geist wrote: | *looks around* shhhhh... I thin mine a bit, too. I don't pluck, though. I'm not that careful about it. I just run a razor over the top and bottom of the brow.
It's not like I have a unibrow or anything, but if I don't thin my eyebrows, it looks strange compared to how manicured I keep the rest of the hair on my face. The fact that I have to dye my eyebrows and facial hair doesn't help. I'd look funny with a blonde beard and black hair. |
We are one of those now...sssshhhh. The preeners will watching us now to see what daring beauty stunt we do next.
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Ruby Rose
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Miss Rouge, you promised you would keep this secret, you'll be telling people about my cryogenic sleep tank next!
x
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Cecilia Rouge
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| Ruby Rose wrote: | Miss Rouge, you promised you would keep this secret, you'll be telling people about my cryogenic sleep tank next!
x |
They already know we sleep together and that you tickle my toes!
I didn't tell you did I?, that the other night i was at Adam's, I dreamt that I hugged you in my sleep thinking you were Adam and I then woke up and shouted really loudly to Adam, "im sorry I thought you were Adam" thinking I was shouting and apologising to you"!!
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Dolly Divine
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Ha ha that made my morning! At work at the mo so that really cheered me up!
x
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Cecilia Rouge
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Poor Adam was very confused. I kept apologising and saying; no, no I was thinking of RUBY, not another man, its okay!
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Ruby Rose
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Tee hee, poor Adam. I don't think I've ever been so flattered in my life "I'm so sorry darling, I was just dreaming about Ruby!!!" that's made my day
xxx
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Cecilia Rouge
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| Ruby Rose wrote: | Tee hee, poor Adam. I don't think I've ever been so flattered in my life "I'm so sorry darling, I was just dreaming about Ruby!!!" that's made my day
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Lets hope the reverse doesn't happen and I end up touching you thinking you are Adam
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Ruby Rose
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That has happened once, a friend rolled over and wrapper herself around and uttered her boyfriends name in my ear! I piled all the bedding on her till she got really hot and rolled over, she'd have died if I'd of woken her up!
xxx
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Cecilia Rouge
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Haha my friend did something like that once and actually put her leg over me in the middle of the night, I woke her up and laughed at her.
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Ruby Divine
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A friend woke up with her hand wrapped around a male friends balls - luckily he stayed sound asleep so is still blissfully unaware that it happened!
Am horribly slack when it comes to any kind of beauty routine - but my mum has just bought me a moustirser from Aldi - apparently it out performed a lot of the top brands in trials - and it's only about £2!
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