Hey guys, it’s Mi-Anne and this is Beauty With Mi.
Every morning I wake up at a quarter past seven.
I make coffee on my French press
and go to my terrace where I think about the day ahead
and read a couple chapters of my favorite book:
Harry Potter, in French.
Then, when I feel like I’m ready to take on the day,
I retire to my vanity for my skincare
rituals and my makeup routine.
Just kidding.
I don’t do any of that.
In reality, I wake up 8:50 with 20 minutes
to get out the door.
So this is how I get ready in the morning.
So first thing’s first,
I always brush my teeth and wash my face.
Then I get my cleanser
and that is Glossier’s Milky Jelly.
Bam!
Done.
Ready for skincare.
I start with this toner by Pixi.
It has glycolic acid in it
which is going to help exfoliate my skin.
And then,
after I put this on,
just kind of tap it like this.
It exfoliates my skin.
To top that off,
I use a little bit of this serum by Bare Minerals.
It has salicylic acid in it which is blemish-fighting.
Then, since that’s kind of enough hydration
in my skin on the day-to-day in the summer
because I use a tinted moisturizer,
I’ll usually go in with a mattifying gel primer
and then a tinted moisturizer.
So right now I’m really into this one by Benefit.
This is called The Porefessional: Matte Rescue.
It’s a gel primer.
It’s silicon-free.
It keeps my makeup on longer,
which is definitely a plus
when it’s literally 95 degrees out,
AKA right now.
It’s really, really, really hot.
Then I move on to my tinted moisturizer.
This one’s by Nars.
It is so good.
It’s called the Radiant Tinted Moisturizer,
which means that it does have a little bit
of a dewey, shininess.
But I think that when you couple it
with a mattifying primer,
it kind of makes your skin
just look very natural.
What I really like about this tinted moisturizer
is that it gives a nice sheer veil of coverage.
Powder is an essential step.
When it’s freaking blistering hot outside,
it keeps your makeup on longer.
It makes your face matte.
And when it’s really hot, like it is right now,
I’ll use a liberal amount of powder
because I don’t want my makeup just melting off
throughout the day.
So now that my powder is done,
I’m going to move onto my bronzer.
And today I’m going to use this one by Han.
It uses a bunch of organic ingredients.
It’s a natural bronzer.
It has cocoa powder in it.
And it’s a really nice matte and tawny color,
which makes it kind of perfect for contouring
and bronzing.
So on the day-to-day,
I don’t go crazy with the contour.
I just kind of dust it under my cheekbones
and then I move on to blush.
Blush, blush, blush.
I’m going to use this blush.
This is a Clinique blush.
It’s so pretty.
It looks like a flower.
That’s like pretty much my face done.
I just need to do highlighter,
which is my favorite step.
I always go back to this one by Becca.
It’s called Champagne Pop.
This is an eyelid primer by Lorac.
You can tell it’s been well-loved because
the label is just totally destroyed.
But I always use an eyelid primer because
my eyelids are super, super duper oily.
And I will go in with a little bit of eyeshadow.
I’ll usually just use a little bit of
a matte, mid-tone brown shade.
So this is the Tarte in Bloom palette.
It’s a beautiful palette.
So I put this in the crease of my eye
in windshield wiper motions
because basically this is going
to define my crease which is this little area
right here under my orbital bone.
And that’s going to give my eyes
kind of a more round and open appearance.
So now I’m going to move on to my mascara.
I’m going to use this one by Catrice.
It is waterproof.
I only use waterproof mascara.
It’s the only thing that’ll hold my eyelashes up
when I curl them.
I think of it as hairspray for my eyelashes.
I like to get really close
so I'll use a handheld mirror.
I’ll go really close to my eye.
Curl it.
Curl it up in little pumps.
Look at the difference even just like when
I curled this eye and I didn’t curl this eye.
This eye just looks so much more awake.
Wiggle at the base and pull up.
When it comes to mascara, especially,
I’m a big fan of drugstore stuff.
I pretty much exclusively use drugstore mascaras
because they're so good.
And you have to throw them away
after six months anyways.
So you might as well just get a $10 or less tube.
Sometimes I'll just leave like this if I really don’t have time,
like if I woke up past 8:50.
Since I do have time today,
I’m going to use a little bit of eyeliner.
It’s from L’Oreal.
This collection of liners is really, really good.
It’s super pigmented.
It lasts all day.
I wore this eyeliner for 11 hours
at a music festival and I came home and my wings
were perfect.
Yeah, okay.
You can go.
Last but not least, lips.
Day-to-day, I’ll usually just use something
that is really quick and easy to apply that’s not
going to be a lot of maintenance.
I have loved Maybelline Baby Lips for years.
I think I got my first tube of it
when I was in high school.
This one is my favorite one.
I think this one is Cherry Me.
And I put it on.
And it just gives a nice little flush of red.
So that is my makeup done.
It usually takes me around eight to ten minutes
to do my full face, which means I have about
10 minutes to do my hair and get dressed.
So my hair routine is super duper fast.
I have my trusty flat iron
and I will curl my hair with it really quickly.
I’ll usually put it on a pretty high heat setting,
anywhere between 380 degrees
Fahrenheit to 400.
It will create a very soft wave
but you can go in and make it wavier if you want.
It can be messy.
It doesn’t, it’s not a perfect pin curl.
So if you have a few bits that are straight,
people aren’t really going to notice.
To finish it all off, I will spray a little bit of salt spray
through my mid-lengths to
give it a little bit of hold and also just
give it more of that beachy quality.
Smells like a beach vacation.
And there you have it: that is my hair done.
And I did that in less than five minutes.
So that means I have five more minutes to get dressed.
To those of you who wake up really early in the morning
and have all the time in the world
to get ready, I have so much respect for you.
But for those of you who are like me,
who wake up really late and only have a few minutes
to get ready, I hope you took something
away from this video.
Thanks for watching!
And oh!
It is 9:10 and I’m going to leave to go to work now.
Bye!
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