Tips for Wearing Body Shimmer

Hi, it's Amber Katz from BeautyBloggingJunkie.com and today we're going to talk about how to create your own body shimmer and there are a few steps to doing this. It ranges from very simple to medium complicated levels of complication. So the first thing you need to create your own body shimmer is a sparkly eyeshadow and when you're choosing a color, I recommend that you stay within your skin tone, so for example, because I'm very pale, as you can see, I'm the fairest of them all, and I have a slightly pinkish cast to my skin, I like to use Covergirl's Bedazzled Biscotti eyeshadow, but what you want to do is choose one that is shimmery, but it's within maybe two or three shades of your own coloring so that it doesn't look too off or too ridiculous or like you're painting another color on you. It's just supposed to enhance your natural bone structure and enhance your own natural skin tone, so that's the first thing. The second thing you're gonna need is a body lotion. Any will do, I happen to like ones that aren't fragranced just because they tend to be more moisturizing when they're not fragranced and they also don't have alcohol in them, so the one that I like is Olay Total Effects Advanced Anti-Aging body lotion. This is really nice because it really does a good job of hydrating but it also eliminates any type of crepeiness or any of the signs of aging that your body's skin can show, which hopefully mine isn't yet, but you know, it's never too early to be safe. And then the third thing you need is your favorite fragrance. Mine at the moment happens to be Tokyo Milk, Gin and Rose Water and that's just if you want to have a fragranced body shimmery lotion. It's optional, you don't have to do it. So what you want to do when you're using body shimmer is use a makeup brush like this one. I like ones that are kind of flat at the bottom and about this size is really good 'cause you can get into the smaller crevices of your decollete and shoulders pretty easily. Those big body brushes are really good if you're doing your arms and legs but as I mentioned for the decollete, and even for my arms and legs, I like one that's this size. So what you want to do is if you just want to do a simple body shimmer, you want to load up the brush pretty well. This is not an area to be economic, I think it really makes sense when it comes to body shimmer to load that bad boy up. So what you're gonna do is apply the shimmer where the light would naturally cast a gleam on your skin. So that's along your collar bones, definitely on your, the middle of your collar bone as well and then you want to load up the brush some more and get a nice gleam going on, on your shoulders and you want to do the other one as well and then to define your arms and make them look really long and slim and slender you want to just sort of do one little bit just along your arm bone and you want to do both arms so that they match. And that's really it for just simple body shimmer, but if you want a more long-lasting, hydrating, shimmery lotion for the summer. I like to take a plastic knife and really get into this body shimmer, mix it in my hand so I have, as you can see, a lot of eye shadow there. I'd say maybe, I cut like the corner of the shadow off in the package. Then what you're gonna do is spritz in, pump a little bit of body lotion. Now it's gonna turn a little bit of like a pinky color, which is normal. Don't fret. And then you're just gonna sort of rub it onto the skin and it imparts a really nice glittery glow and it's really easy to apply and it will wash off in the shower so if you're over the shimmer and maybe you have to go to work at your corporate job environment, not to worry, it'll come right off. So there we go. Looks great. And then if you want to create your own body shimmer glow with moisture and perfume, what you do is the same thing. You start out with, you cut yourself some eyeshadow which sounds strange to say but that's exactly what we're doing here, we're cutting ourselves some eyeshadow, we're pumping in a couple pumps of the lotion, and then to scent it, I like to spritz just a little bit into this mixture right here. Just one will do, you don't want it to be overwhelming. And then rub it all together and then again, it smells very nice, just do the same thing, rub it all over, all over your arms, a little bit on your decollete 'cause that's always nice, make sure to put some on your elbows because they can tend to get dry and that's it. That is the secret to body shimmer. Three ways to wear it, straight up powder, with a little bit of lotion, with a little bit of lotion and a little bit of perfume and you're good to go. You'll be gleaming throughout the entire summer. Hope you guys enjoyed that. Talk to you soon.