July 2016 Beauty Favourites!!

I know that my June favourites were late, but this one is on time. Kind of. More on time than last month's favourites at least.....

Since I went out of town a lot for the month of July, I honestly didn't bring a lot of makeup with me. I went out of town for my boyfriend's son's travel baseball. Which means I was out in the sun watching 13 year olds play a sport. I wasn't really looking forward to putting on a full face of makeup just to have it melt off my face in a matter of minutes. So I concentrated more on skincare and sun protection.

And for that, I started with cleansing my face. And I only brought my trusty Purity by Philosophy. I used this in the morning and at night. There's honestly nothing like it. It's gentle enough for my sensitive skin, but it cleanses and clears everything out that I need it to while washing my face, especially the sunscreen. This cleanser not only applied to my trips, but every single day of the month. And then some :) 

For my daytime moisturizer, it was and is always pertinent to have a moisturizer with SPF in it to protect from the sun, and I switched back and forth during the month from my Pharmagel Derma Brite SPF 35 to my Arbonne FC5 SPF 20. For my 'no makeup' days (brows and mascara, usually), I used my Derma Brite. For my makeup days, I used my FC5. Some of my foundations or BB Creams I use also have SPF in them, so that's extra in my mind. For the record, I also applied SPF 60 on the rest of my exposed skin (2 or 3 times) as I was out in the sun while watching baseball for a minimum of 6 hours each day.

For makeup, I mostly kept it minimal. Mainly because I didn't want to have half of my face melt off by lunch time and have to go through the rest of the day worrying what kind of monster I looked like. I do my makeup in the morning, and I go to work for noon until about 830pm, so my makeup either needs to last the ENTIRE day, or it needs to be not so noticeable when it starts breaking up on my face. Considering how hot it is, I opted for the not so noticeable route. 

And for those days that I wore makeup, I chose lightweight items like my E.L.F. BB Cream in Fair, and my Garnier Skin Renew rollerball concealer for my face, and basically just mascara and lip gloss. I don't necessarily have favourites of those, but the Benefit Roller Lash mascara and my Essence XXXL gloss are the ones I've been reaching for. 

I don't know about where you live, but where I live it gets FUCKING HOT AND HUMID in the summer time, so the least amount of products on my face, the better.

And that's it!! Thanks for reading!!

Byeeeeee :):)