Everyone wakes up with redness or dullness sometimes and a sheer wash of color has you looking alive once more.

Tinted moisturizer or BB cream is the key player here.

You don’t have to eschew foundation completely, if that’s your thing and you have one that you love.

Mixing either with a dab of moisturizer will sheer it out a bit if the finish is too opaque or matte.

You want to look dewy not caked.

Spreading with your hands and fingers gives a more natural-looking application, a bit imperfect just like real skin.

If your freckles are showing through, you’ve got it right.


Work your glow

This is the fun part the one that gives you a radiant finish.

A cream blush that mimics your actual blush (or you can find one that looks like the color of the inside of your lips) works best for the most natural finish since you apply with it your fingers and can press it into your skin.

Bonus, if it can work as another moisturizer too.

A liquid highlighter dabbed on top of your cheekbones, bridge of your nose, brow bones and on your cupid’s bow gives you an angelic dimension to your face.


Go for contrast, not color

Veering away from the nude smokey eye or lined anything, you want to define your eyes and brows just by subtlety deepening them, not really adding color.

Curl your lashes. Instant pop, right? If you’re still not satisfied, a clear mascara will do the trick for adding a bit of depth in color.

For fairer faces, a tinted brow gel will do the trick for both brows and lashes.

Above all, a well-moisturized pout with no dry scaly bits will look the freshest.