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Making a good impression at work is important and this includes presenting a groomed and neat appearance. Unfortunately for some of us who are make-up averse, this includes putting on some face armour and investing in beauty essentials to look your best, suitable for a professional setting. Fortunately, there are beauty products that allow you to put on as little as possible makeup for work without having to conform to narrow standards of beauty or youth – and still look eager and enthusiastic to give your best ideas and most dynamic energy at the office or with clients!
To look your best without needing heavy makeup, focus on using or utilising products like skincare, subtle makeup and grooming tools. Here are 6 easy-to-use beauty products from beauty brand Mary Kay that will help enhance your natural features and make you look professional without looking like a clown.
CC Cream With SPF 15
A CC (complexion correction) cream works like a tinted moisturiser that helps to hydrate your skin while offering some light coverage that disguises minor flaws. If your skin is generally problem free with only slight imperfections, then the CC cream is enough to help colour correct some redness or dark spots, while also brightening dull or sallow skin.
Get it here: Mary Kay CC Cream Sunscreen SPF15, RM85
Honey Glow Finisher With SPF35 PA++
If you’re trying to get that K-beauty glass skin effect without the heavy makeup tricks and your actual skin is not ready yet to go full bare-faced, give the Mary Kay Honey Glow Finisher a try. Its formulation is made of reflective pigments that come in a sheer pinkish cream texture that instantly smooths over your skin, covering up blemishes while highlighting your best facial features. Bonus: It gives the appearance of smoothening out any wrinkles as well, making you look more radiant and energetic.
Get it here: Mary Kay Honey Glow Finisher With SPF35 PA++, RM139
Multi-use Concealer
Forget using separate concealers for dark undereye circles, blemish spots, and skin discolouration. Just apply a multi-use concealer whererever you need your skin to look flawless and blend, blend, blend. Just one wand and one colour, to be used under your main face coverage be it CC cream, Honey Glow finisher, heavier coverage foundation, cream-to-powder foundation or any other coverage cream you’re using. The key is to apply the concealer lightly instead of building it up too heavily, and dabbing until it’s almost blended in. Trust that the concealer will be fully blended in when you smoothen a full face coverage product over it.
Get it here: Mary Kay Perfecting Concealer, RM49
Eye Brow Pencil
Such a small makeup tool that makes a big impact. In fact, if you really have no time to apply more than one item, make it the eye brow pencil. A pair of well-drawn or well-shaded eyebrows instantly give the appearance of well-groomed brows and highlight your eyes. It’s the first step towards making your eyes seem bigger, and thus helps make you look more alert and engaging. Get it here: Mary Kay Precision Brow Liner, RM49
Tinted Lip Balm or Natural Colour Hydrating Lipsticks
Keep your lips hydrated to keep it smooth and chap-free. Use a tinted lip balm to moisturise lips while also adding a pop of colour, thus adding some colour to your face, hiding any trace of fatigue or sleepiness in the mornings. All Mary Kay Supreme Hydrating Lipsticks, Unlimited Lip Gloss, and Semi-Shine and Semi-Matte Lipsticks all have moisturising and hydrating properties that keep your lips well-moisturised while it’s on your lips.
Check out all available colours here: Mary Kay Lip Colour Products, from RM55
Wrinkle Minimiser
Not to be ageist, but the reality is that these days the workforce is getting younger and younger and youth is highly valued. This could be because the impression is that the younger generation are better at understanding and using time-saving technology (hello, AI!) and viral trends, and are more willing to pivot ASAP when something does not go to plan. Refresh and revitalise your look with the Mary Kay Dynamic Wrinkle Limiter to project an image of youthfulness that matches the ideas and enthusiasm you’re excited to share with your team! Promising to give you injection-like results without needing any actual injections, the ingredients in this wrinkle limiter work together to soften any wrinkles and blur out lines, while helping to minimise the impact of facial expressions that might cause the formation of dynamic wrinkles. Look younger, feel younger, without the pain of injections, and without the weird side-effects as well.
Get it here: Mary Kay Clinical Solutions Dynamic Wrinkle Limiter, RM169
Each of these products will help to enhance your natural beauty rather than hiding it behind tons of concealers, foundation, powder, and too much colour. Not only will you have to spend less time applying makeup for work, enhancing your natural beauty often brings more compliments, which in turn will be a big confidence booster that will encourage you to show your best side at work (and at play, too, of course).
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