AM-PM: A beauty-routine guide that helps balancing out your day at the office

Some of us study, others intern and thirds already work in the fashion and beauty industry.

We have packed schedules, challenge ourselves on a daily basis and try to fulfill the expectations at our workplace.

Thereby, we might forget that parallelly to working hard, taking time for ourselves is essential, in order to maintaining our drive and positive self-perception.

The following guide provides you with beauty essentials for a busy day at the office, including products for quick yet effective morning and evening routines, which fill up your skin’s energy level.

Most importantly though, we introduce three ‘must-have touch up’ products that transform your simple office makeup into a worthy after-work-event or press day look.

Make-up at the office should be effortless yet chic, has to make you feel refreshed and awake, but should not take much longer than five minutes.

Impossible? No. We put together a collection of beauty products, which have an easy and fast handle, are available in several shades and can be perfectly fitted into small clutches or the standard day-to-day office bag.

1. “MIND OVER MATTRESS” – Robin Sharma

Everyone needs a good amount of sleep, but no matter how long we slept, it always seems to request a high-level of self-discipline to getting up and ready in the morning.

However, rising early can boost your energy-levels and avoids immediate stress.

The mornings are the time of the day when we are cured after a good night sleep and still got the whole day in front of us.

Getting up in the mornings short before having to leave the house gives us an immediate feeling of anxiety and stress, whilst rising early enables us to appreciating some quiet time and starting with a relaxed and easy morning routine.

This may include a work-out session, a self-care routine or the last preparations for the day.

We show you what these  variating options can look like.

1.1 MORNING WORKOUT

No worries, you do not have to start your day with a box fight or a hot yoga session.

Though, going for a run or doing some yoga exercising can wake you gently.  

Tory Burch or Arianna Huffington from Huffington Post told Glamour.Uk that they swear on a pre-work morning work-out or meditation.

1.2 THE IMPORTANCE OF AN EASY MORNING ROUTINE – AND THE MAGIC THREE

A morning beauty routine has to be short yet efficient.

These three beauty products can make you feel awake and fresh, without having to put too much effort and patience into its application.

Firstly, cleanse your skin and make it shine.

The Pixi Glow Tonic cleans and refreshes your skin and furthermore makes it shine.

Afterwards you can start  applying the beauty essentials.

Begin with the  tinted face oil by Kosås, which has a similar effect to a simple foundation. Its super light texture and three types of pigments, perfectly evens skin tones and minimizes imperfections.

Add a brush of the cream Jillian Dempsey blush. The organic plant waxes moisture your skin and make you look fit and healthy.

The Juice Beauty Ultra Natural mascara brush is specifically used to create a non-sticky, long lashes effect.

You will not feel over the top, but still fit and motivated for the day.

You are good to head off now.

1.3 LAST PREPARATIONS

Prepare your lunch box, answer the first emails or just get an overview of what is going to happen during the day. This helps to structure and prioritise tasks that have to be done during the day.

2. OFFICE TOUCH-UP

Spontaneous upcoming event invitations are nothing uncommon for the fashion industry.

And that is why it is never a bad idea to be prepared.

It is not important to bring your whole beauty collection to work in order to be fully set up, it only takes a few essentials to give your visage a brief touch up.

Always carry three products: An illuminating concealer, eyeshadow and a powering lipstick.

All three items can transform your casual ‘day-to-day look’ into something glamorous and can be easily carried around, without causing you a painful backache.

We have looked at a couple of concealers and tried to present the most convincing one to you, which next to the good price point offers an incredible outcome.

Our little lifesaver is called the Surratt Beauty Skin Concealer and with its stylish packaging and handy size perfect to carry around in your bag all day.

Same goes for the Wander Beauty ‘On The Glow Blush And Illuminator’.

This multi tasking tool makes your teint look fresh and gives your lips a slight shimmer.

The nude and shimmery eyeshadow by RMS Beauty compliments the tone of both, the chosen rose coloured blush and the Wander Beauty two in one.

Last but not least add some lip gloss to finish up your look.

We have picked the By Terry lip gloss Baume de Rose, as it makes your lips look soft and thick, and has a peeling effect that parallelly moistures.

An easy to wear evening look, which looks chic yet not over the top and will make you more confident to put yourself out there to network, network, network.

3. DO NOT FORGET TO GIVE YOUR SKIN AN ENERGY BOOST AFTER A LONG DAY

Firstly, it is absolutely important to clean your skin after a long, busy day.

During the whole day, our skin suffers small irritations.

If we would not react and specifically take care of it, those little irritations could turn into visual impurities.

No wonder, removing your makeup with a non-alcohol, oil and silicone free remover, such as our Glam Observer pick ‘ The Grown Alchemist remover’, should not be the only step taken in order to helping your skin to properly recover from a long day.

Using a soft cleanser, such as the Shani Darden foam cleanser, is important as they relieve the pores from any pollution particles.

Our pick is ideal for normal and oily skin types.

The Joanna Vargas Vitamin C Face Wash takes your old skin cells off and supports the revitalising process of your skin during the night.

Lastly, apply a light night detoxing moisturizer to push the skins revitalising process during the night.

Therefore it is important to notice, that they should be oil free.

The Chantecaille Water Flower Fluid provides your skin with all necessary vitamins, is oil free and perfect for young skin.  

It is such an easy way to looking healthy and fit plus remaining a clean skin, even during a busy and stressful period at the office.

Most importantly though, daily beauty routines give you a little private time, in which you can fully concentrate on yourself and your personal needs.

Even though it is true that hard work is influencing your career and the pace towards achieving your goal the most, listening and reacting to your personal needs has a huge impact on your motivation and drive.

This article is in collaboration with niche-beauty.com, but Glam Observer has selected the beauty products.

Words by Lilly Meuser

Model: Jennifer Gilmore

Agency: Core Management