With the recent social-distancing and stay-at-home practices, the meeting game has literally changed overnight. Our meetings now happen almost exclusively online whether for an interview, work, or a catch-up with friends and family. The Zoom life can feel a bit intimidating with our faces magnified front and center on the screen so I put together a list of my easy make-up tips and tricks for you to be camera-ready! Scroll down to read about all my clean beauty faves.
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Hydrate & Prime Your Skin: I always start the day using my Olie x Melissa Meyers Golden Ray Glow Drops. This deeply hydrating luxury face oil creates the perfect canvas for make-up and leaves skin with a dewy, velvety texture! It’s formulated with active French Marine Algae, an antioxidant proven to stimulate the production of collagen. This is a multi-tasking product, and it can also be dabbed on cheekbones over makeup for a natural highlighted glow.
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I use the KORA ORGANICS Rose Quartz Gua Sha tool to massage the Golden Ray Glow Drops into my face. Part of Miranda Kerr’s clean beauty line, this tool works to enhance your natural beauty by sculpting the face. It helps to relax tense facial muscles, encourage blood circulation, and reduce puffiness and fine lines. Given this stressful time, it’s a great TMJ reliever!
Apply Light Coverage and SPF: Next, I follow-up with a tinted moisturizer. Two of my favorites are Coola’s BB Cream and Ilia’s Super Serum Skin Tint. These are both clean beauty lines containing SPF, formulated to even out the skin tone and hide imperfections. It’s important to remember to wear sunscreen to protect the skin from damaging UV rays if you are working near a window or outside in the garden, as some of us do here in L.A.
The formula by Coola is one I’ve been using for years and I love the medium to dark shade for my olive skin. The mineral broad-spectrum SPF 30 formula offers a barely-there feel, while a sheer tinted coverage blends and perfects your skin tone. A proprietary bouquet of rose stem cells offers an advanced bio-complex to smooth, moisturize and replenish skin's natural resilience and improve visible signs of aging.
The ILIA Super Serum Skin Tint SPF 40 is available in eighteen shades and doesn’t contain any silicones, oils, or fragrances. It’s formulated with non-nano zinc oxide to protect against UVA, UVB, UVC, blue and infrared light. Other skin-benefiting ingredients include hyaluronic acid, squalane, and niacinamide which leave the skin smooth, plump and moisturized.
Make Your Eyes Pop: Ere Perez, an Australian natural and clean beauty company, is another one of my favorite clean beauty make-up lines. Their soft jojoba oil eye pencil is not only gentle on the sensitive eye area but also contains anti-inflammatory properties, helping to soothe any prior skin irritation while nourishing, moisturizing and conditioning the lashes. This pencil comes in ten different tones, but I love the bronzed brown since it creates a natural-looking frame that subtly and beautifully defines the eyes.
I like to use ILIA Limitless Lash Mascara—it gives lashes the perfect thickness and length. I love that the formula contains organic ingredients, such as natural shea butter, as well as bee and carnauba waxes to condition and nourish lashes, keeping them long and healthy. Plus, the applicator is very easy to use, which is the key!
Define Your Brows: Another favorite of mine from Ere Perez is their almond brow pencil. It’s perfect for creating brows that look naturally full and accentuated. Since stress and hormone shifts can lead to hair loss and thinning eyebrows, this pencil is perfect for filling in those bare spots that can crop up. The sweet almond oil nourishes the hairs and the skin under and around the brows, while Vitamin-E oil nourishes the roots, stimulating the growth of thick, dark and more resilient eyebrow hair. This product comes with a brush, which is perfect for shaping brows.
Add Some Color To Your Face: We don’t want to look pasty-white on-screen, do we? I like to dust my face with a bit of bronzer and dab the apples of my cheeks with Jillian Dempsey’s Cheek Tint to add a natural-looking, healthy glow. Jillian Dempsey uses bamboo stem extract along with other natural and organic waxes to glide on smoothly while delivering the perfect flush designed to last through zoom meeting after zoom meeting!
My go-to bronzer is by W3LL People. Their Bio Baked Bronzer Powder is a universally flattering shade with the perfect soft-matte finish. It’s baked like a powder but blends like a cream and is long-lasting, flawlessly balancing out skin-tone and helping me to look awake and glowing during my video calls. Super clean and eco-friendly, it also contains special ingredients such as squalane and honokiol help protect against free radicals.
Add Some Shimmer and Glow: To finish off your best video-meeting look, I recommend adding some highlighter to brow bones, bridge of the nose, and cheekbones to contour the face and define your best features. Natural light from windows, as well as indoor-lighting, will reflect off the product and light up your face for a refreshed, radiant and youthful glow.
Below are the highlighters that I’m currently obsessed with.
The rms beauty Luminizer comes in six different shades and contains castor seed and vitamin-E oil to hydrate and calm the skin, while also giving the face a soft luminous finish. The OG of highlighters, the light reflecting sheen never feels sticky or looks glittery. I love to use this one on my brow bone.
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The Westman Atelier Super Loaded Tinted Highlight by Gucci Westman complements any skin shade and type and contains key ingredients such as hyaluronic acid to help smooth and fill-in wrinkles, caper extract to reduce inflammation and jojoba oil, an antioxidant that helps to moisturize and protect against pollution and UV damage. Since it can also be used on the sensitive eye area, I like to wear this instead of eye shadow to make my eyes pop on screen!
I’ve also been addicted to The All-Glowing Creme Highlighter Stick in Rose Gold by Au Naturale for some time now. Formulated to be clean with organic oils, it provides a creaseless and weightless finish. I typically apply this product to my upper cheekbones and brow bone. It does a great job of highlighting my best features!
Add Gloss To Your Lips: I like to add a natural, universally-flattering pink-nude color to my lips, and my current fave also contains CBD to calm my nerves…yes, please! Saint Jane’s CBD- infused Lip Shine, in the color Bliss, is combined with sunflower, chamomile, and aloe - the perfect remedy to condition inflamed, dry, chapped lips. It glides on super smoothly to soothe and hydrate.
I hope these products brighten up your virtual meetings as much as they do mine! If you have any questions about any of them, feel free to DM me on Instagram or leave me a comment below.
Stay safe, healthy, and keep on glowing!
xxMelissa