Conceal the right way: Next, she used in my skin concealer, a shade lighter underneath my eyes, on my chin, between my nose, and my forehead. This method makes those areas bright and glow. It also concealed dark eye circle underneath the eyes. Next, she used a blush to give my face a little colour. Cream blush is trendy right now because it is simple to build up and produces a flush that looks quite natural. Avoid too much blush on your face so that you don’t come across looking clownish. “For a natural make up, less is more,” said Joy.

Apply setting powder: Here, she used a setting powder, and nothing works better because it guarantees a long-lasting result. Joy disclosed that your face makeup will be literally set onto your skin by the “invisible” phase in your makeup regimen known as setting powder. Essentially, “setting” your makeup means keeping it immaculate for as long as you can. At this point the makeup was starting to take a little bit of shape but not completely defined yet. For this step, she lined out my already shaped eyebrows. My face had started to glow here.

Use a concealer: The LA Girls concealer was the finishing touch to my eyebrows as it gave it a sharper and defined look. She used it to veil all the extra brow and line from the eye pencil and this made my brows pop. She also used a concealer that is my shade for a more natural look and finishing. She then added an eye shadow from Blossom USA eye shadow palette. She used the colour ‘suede’ and ‘bubbly’ to get a perfect shade, although she explained that the choice of colour depends on skin shade or outfit choice.

Use eyeliner: The eyes are important aspect of your face, and she made sure to define and bring out my natural eye shape by using the mabrook eyeliner to define my eye shape, and this brought a lot of glow to my eyes.

Smooth on Lip-gloss: Because we’re going for a more natural look, she used a lip gloss because lipstick might be a bit much depending on the colour. I personally love lipglosses and nudes are my favourites for a more natural look.

Finish up a Powder: The make up at this point was cooking and looking nice. But we still had to do the finishing touches and that’s when Vee powder came in! She used a suitable powder that was exactly my skin shade to give it a natural look, which was used to smoothen out the skin.  

Finishing up with the eyes: My face was sitting pretty at this point and she finished up with eyelashes extension. This definitely made me look prettier and gave a more mature look. “The lashes should not be too long and too full if you’re trying to achieve a more natural look,” said Joy.

Set the make-up: She used the Kiss beauty setting spray to set the make-up. Joy said this would help the make-up stay longer and fresh all through the day. Little wonder, hours after the make was done, my face was still intact. It felt bad cleaning off the make up because it still looked great even at night. I was surprised my makeup didn’t fade.

Final look: The make-up sat pretty well on my face, and there wasn’t t too much going on, which means I can rock this look every day.

Anita Chinedu is a beauty and skincare specialist.