The Amazing "Face-Snatch-In-A-Cup" Makeup Artists Recommend When Women Need To Look Their Best
I've been doing makeup for fourteen years.
Brides, actresses, women who are about to be photographed and need to look the best they've ever looked in their lives, often on four hours of sleep.
I want to tell you something that I tell every single client who sits in my chair looking frustrated with her face.
It's not your fault and It's probably not what you think it is.
I had a client last year, a woman named Danielle, who came to me the morning of her cousin's wedding.
She'd done everything right, slept well didn't touch salt the night before, drank her water.
Even bought one of those stainless steel ice rollers and cut dairy because a woman at pilates told her it worked.
She sat down in my chair, looked at herself in the mirror, and said the thing I hear from women all the time.
"I don't understand why my face looks like this."
Her whole lower face was soft puffy around the cheeks, full under the eyes, slight double-chin...
She'd actually lost seven kilos that year.
I told her what I've had to learn to tell my clients, because nobody else was telling them.
About four years into my career I was prepping a model for an editorial shoot, a woman whose face I knew well from her trial the week before.
She walked in that morning and I genuinely didn't recognise what I was looking at.
Same woman, same weight, but her face was defined, she looked like she had a procedure done by someone very good.
I put my brush down and asked her straight.
"Did you get something done?"
She laughed. "No, I found a facelift in a cup."
Her naturopath had put her on a herbal tea a week before the shoot chosen specifically to get her lymphatic system moving again.
The tea is called Effectea.
It brews the most beautiful electric blue you've ever seen naturally.
Now I won't bore you with a long science lesson, but here's the short version of why it works when everything else doesn't.
Your body has a drainage system that runs right through your face, your jaw, your stomach and your fingers, and its entire job is to carry excess fluid out of your tissues and flush it away.
The problem is, unlike your heart, it has no pump.
It can't move on its own, and when it slows down the fluid just sits there, in your cheeks, under your eyes, along your jaw.
Which is why the ice roller only works for an hour and cutting salt helps a little and then stops.
You've been trying to dry the floor while the tap was still running.
The idea behind the tea is simple but powerful…
Eight herbs, one job.
Dandelion and parsley flush excess fluid through the kidneys while stopping your body holding onto the sodium that kept it there.
Peppermint, fennel and ginger open up the vessels and get circulation moving so the fluid has somewhere to actually go.
Fenugreek, chamomile and butterfly pea flower reduce the inflammation that caused the backup in the first place and protect the vessels doing the draining.
Every ingredient in this tea was chosen for one reason, to move the fluid your body has been holding onto out of the places you don't want it
You drink one cup in the morning while getting ready for the day, and that's enough for it to start working.
Within a week or two, women start looking like they've had a facelift.
"Honestly bought this thinking it was another gimmick. Week one my stomach was noticeably flatter and I hadn't changed a single thing. Still drinking it every morning, won't stop."
"I've spent so much money on things that did nothing. This actually worked. My face looks different, my rings fit properly again, and my sister asked if I'd lost weight."
"Was sceptical because I've been puffy for years and just assumed it was my age. Two weeks in and my jawline is back, wish someone had told me about this sooner."
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P.S. Danielle texted me a few weeks after the wedding to say it had done more for her face than the six hundred dollars of Botox she had last year. She told me I could quote her on that.
