How do I get that healthy, glowing skin look?

Makeup artist Katie Jane Hughes is known for her celebrity clients’ glowing skin. When asked to spill her beauty secrets, she says that it all comes down to skin care. “The thing that I think is so important about glowy, fresh, gorgeous, glossy skin is making sure that your face is properly clean,” she says. “You’ve got no dead skin on your face and no dullness lingering that is going to inhibit your skin from glowing the most.”

Achieving that base through exfoliation can be done either with a product, such as a brightening toner or serum, or with your washcloth.

Hughes is also strategic about the placement of her skin care prior to applying makeup, applying the products with a thinner texture all over her face while reserving thicker textures for places where she knows her skin is dryer, such as her cheeks.

“It’s a priming technique that will make sure your makeup is going to last longer,” she says. Finally, after applying a foundation or a CC cream to the face, she recommends using a powder on areas prone to oiliness, such as the T-zone.

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