The Best Skin Care for Men: Milk for Men Tres Leches (now known as Seint Skincare)

A good skin care routine is crucial to having healthy skin. Every woman knows that. But who said men shouldn’t take good care of their skin too?! When it comes to skin care for men, it’s best to keep it simple so they’re not overwhelmed. And that’s why this is the best skin care for men: Milk for Men Tres Leches (now known as Seint Skincare)! It is simple to use and high quality. What more can you ask for?

Men’s Skin Care Routine

Just like any other skin care routine, it should consist of cleansing, toning, and moisturizing.

Cleanse: Even though men don’t wear makeup, they still need to cleanse their face each night to rid their face of the sweat, dirt, and oil that has accumulated throughout the day. Using a cleanser with a microfiber cloth will help grab at that gunk from the day extra well.

Tone: After cleansing, it’s important to use toner. Toning helps restore your skin’s natural pH level, reduces pore size, reduces redness, and refreshes your skin. You can either spritz your face and let it air dry or you can spray a cotton pad and rub it on your face. Either way, you will love the result!

Moisturize: After cleansing and toning, don’t forget to moisturize! You need to rehydrate your skin after a long day of work. Your skin will rejuvenate while you sleep, so take good care of it right before bed.

Seint Skincare for Men

Now that you know what your skin care routine should consist of, what products should you use?? Well, our Seint women customers already know the awesomeness of this skincare line. But now, men can learn to love it too! This  formula (now called the Seint skincare collection) is made for men and women! The manly bottles aren’t anything to be ashamed of and the musky scent is perfect for feeling clean.

The cleanser, toner, and moisturizer  and the Refresh Wipes are such high quality that will leave your skin feeling so happy and healthy. The moisturizer is extra healing…you will notice a huge difference, even though you didn’t even know your skin was in poor shape in the first place!

When you take a few extra minutes each day to take care of your skin, you’ll have healthier and glowing skin. Glowing skin isn’t just for women! You can have it too!

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Milk Masque: The Secret to Beautiful Skin

A daily skin care routine is crucial to healthy skin. But if you want really glowing skin, then you must incorporate exfoliating into your weekly routine. And the Maskcara Milk Masque is the secret to beautiful skin. We’ll tell you all about it!

Why Exfoliate

You must cleanse, tone, and moisturize daily. But that process alone won’t truly clean your skin. Exfoliating will help slough off dead skin cells, remove product buildup, increases your blood flow, smooths your skin, and can prevent wrinkles. It will help your skin glow!

How to Exfoliate

Now that you know how important exfoliating is, how should you exfoliate? Not just any exfoliator will do. One that is too coarse will scratch your skin and cause bacteria to enter the small lesions. And that won’t do! So, you must find an exfoliator that is gentle enough to do its work without hurting your delicate skin. Enter Maskcara Milk Masque!

To exfoliate properly, wash your face with Milk Cleanser and dry your face. Then simply take the Milk Masque in your fingers and rub it on your face in circular motions. This will gently scrub off that buildup. You can leave the masque on for a few minutes or you can wash it off after you gently scrub. Use the Maskcara microfiber cloths to completely remove the masque.

Follow Up

After you’ve cleansed and exfoliated, follow the steps up with toning with Milk Toner. This will help refresh your face and restore your skin’s natural pH levels. Then, finish your skin care routine off by moisturizing with Milk Moisturizer. This will hydrate your skin properly so your skin can rejuvenate itself while you sleep!

Don’t just have healthy skin be your goal. Have beautiful, glowing, and smooth skin be your goal. And you can get it by exfoliating a few times a week with Milk Masque.

Learn more about the daily skin care routine HERE.

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Basic Skin Care Every Woman Should Be Doing

Skin care shouldn’t be complicated. We live in a world that likes to over complicate things. There are tons of ways to do something, elaborate ways to doll things up, and bigger and better ideas to make something that is simple, complex. But that doesn’t have to be the case with skin care. Our skin is important and we need to take good care of it. But we don’t have to stress about the process. Let’s make it easy. Let’s make is simple. Here is what I think is basic skin care every woman should be doing to take good care of your skin.

Cleanse

You absolutely must, must, must cleanse your face every night! Do not go a night without washing your face with cleanser. You have just spent the day with makeup on your face and sweat, dirt, dust, and oil have all accumulated on its surface. See what I mean?! You do not want to sleep with that grim on your skin!

Simply take a cleanser and a microfiber cloth and wash your face with warm water. Splash your face with water and squirt some cleanser into the palm of your hand and gently rub the product into your skin in circular motions. You are removing all of that buildup from the day. Remember to focus on areas that will harbor more dirt like around your nose and on your chin.

Next, take a microfiber cloth and wipe off the cleanser. By using a microfiber cloth, you are ensuring that the dirt and grim is really off. The cloth acts as an extra grabber for removing all that buildup.

Exfoliate

This step does not have to be done daily, but only once or a few times a week, depending on the sensitivity of your skin. But it is still an important step that shouldn’t be missed! Exfoliating helps slough off the dead skin cells and product buildup. Have you ever noticed that your skin has some unwanted texture to it? Exfoliating will help smooth that surface and get it feeling oh so good! You can make a simple exfoliator at home or buy a great one. Either way, do it!

Tone

Toning is a step that is often neglected. Why do you have to tone?? Toning helps restore your skin’s natural pH level, reduces redness, minimizes your pore size, and refreshes your skin. Yes please! You can either squirt your face and let it air dry or you can squirt a cotton pad with the solution. Then take the cotton pad and rub it on your face. This is a great way to help remove any product that you may have missed during your cleansing.

Moisturize

This is the last step! Moisturize! Just like your body needs water to drink to stay hydrated, your skin needs moisturizer to stay hydrated too. Even if you have oily skin, do not skip this step! If you fail to moisturize, then your sebaceous glands will overcompensate and produce more oil. And you don’t want that. You want a youthful glow and moisturizing will help your skin stay that way.

And that’s it! With those simple steps (cleanse, exfoliate, tone, and moisturize) you are on your way to taking good care of your skin! Skin care shouldn’t be complicated. And with this basic skin care routine you can master good skin care habits!

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Contour

Blush

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3 Tips to Keep Your Skin Fresh in Winter

Winter time can be tough on skin. With the cold weather, dry climate, and harsh weather, it can confuse your skin and mess up your pretty face! It’s important to take extra care during the winter months to baby your skin so it remains at its best. Here are 3 tips to keep you skin fresh in winter!

Moisturize

Winter can be very drying on your skin so make sure to moisturize! A great option for your beautiful face is the Maskcara Milk Moisturizer. Oh my goodness. Never have I met a better concoction for my face! It soothes, heals, and moisturizes like no other! Another great option for your face or your entire body is simple coconut oil! Coconut oil makes such a great natural, cheap, and easy moisturizer. Trust me…your skin will thank me.

Drink Lots of Water

Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate! I’m actually really bad at this so this is a great reminder for me to drink up! Drinking lots of water can help your skin feel great and look great!

Exfoliate

Our skin collects product buildup and dead skin cells so it’s crucial that we slough off all that grim and exfoliate often! Make sure to choose an option that isn’t too rough on your skin. You want it to gently exfoliate, not scratch and damage your face.  This is a great option that your skin will love! Or, you can make a simple recipe with ingredients from your kitchen. I love simplicity, so this is my fave!

With these simple steps, you can keep your skin fresh in winter!

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All About Maskcara New Products

Maskcara is constantly coming out with new products! And we didn’t want you to miss out on any of these goodies! So we’re sharing all about Maskcara new products so you can choose what will work best for you!

Restore Brush Cleaner

It is so important to clean your makeup brushes regularly! If you don’t, your brushes will harbor bacteria and germs that you can spread to your beautiful face. Eeew. Also, if you don’t clean them regularly, you go through your makeup faster because the brush is soaking up all that extra product quicker and building it up on the brushes. Ouch on the wallet. So don’t forget to clean your brushes!

Maskcara has come out with a wonderful makeup brush cleaner that makes it easy for you to clean your brushes. You simply spray the cleaner onto a cloth and swirl and rub your brush into it to get it nice and clean. That’s it! It’s pretty awesome.

Restore Brush Wipes

Another great new product is the Restore Brush Wipes! Wait, what? Why would you need wipes if you have the wonderful brush cleaner?? Well, I’ll tell you! The wipes are great for wiping down your makeup…your foundation singles, powders, or eyeshadows. Bacteria builds up on those pretty colors and you want your makeup staying fresh and clean. Or you can use the wipes as another option for cleaning your makeup brushes. Win win!

Tres Leches Skin Care System

The Tres Leches skin care system is amazing! With its cleanser, toner, and moisturizer you are good to go with your daily skin care routine. These products are top notch and life changing. You can get the whole set for just $140. That’s a great price considering the quality and amount you’re getting…it will last for months!

Brow Brush

Maskcara has really awesome makeup brushes. But it was missing a very important one in its collection…until recently! Now Maskcara has an amazing brow brush! It’s called Know Your Angles Brow Brush. It is double sided with a wand on one end and an angled brush on the other end, making it a perfect combo for your brows. With a brown eyeshadow color or a contour shade and this brush, you are set! What more could you need??

Brush Collection

The new Brush Collection now comes with the new addition…the brow brush!

And that’s a wrap on Maskcara new products! Interested in one or more of them? Click here to shop!

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Simple Skin Care Tips Anyone Can Do!

Our skin is our body’s largest organ. Our skin accounts for 15% of our body weight. Our skin protects our bones, muscles, and internal organs. Our skin is important! Since our skin is so important, we need to take good care of it! Here are some simple skin care tips anyone can do…

Pillowcase

It is so important to change your pillowcase often. And when I say often I mean at LEAST once a week! The natural oils from our hair and face collect on our pillowcases as we sleep and we don’t want that seeping into our silky skin. By changing your pillowcase often, we’re ensuring a clean surface for us to lay our head and face on for a good night’s sleep.

Do Not Touch Your Face

When we touch our face, we are spreading germs, dirt, bacteria, and oils onto our beautiful face with our fingers. Eww! That’s just asking for blemishes and pimples to grow. It’s best to keep your hands away from your face during the day so you can have a nice healthy surface!

Wash Cloth

It’s crucial that you wash your face daily to cleanse your skin from all the dirt, grim, and product buildup collected from the day. A simple tip is to switch out your wash cloth daily so you have a nice and clean cloth to use to clean your face. When you wash your face with a dirty cloth, you’re just spreading dirt and bacteria onto your skin, and that’s no good! Make sure you change it out daily. Or if you have a microfiber cloth that naturally kills bacteria, then changing it out every few days will work too. The key is to make sure you wash your face with a clean cloth!

Drink Water

Our skin needs to be hydrated. A super easy step is to drink lots of water daily! If you want a nice healthy glow, then chug that h2o.

These are really simple steps that you can take to make your skin happy and healthy! Now get to it!

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5 Essential Skin Care Steps

We all want beautiful skin. Some of us have acne prone skin, some have dry, oily, or textured. No matter what type of skin you were blessed with, we all need to take good care of it! I’m a licensed aesthetician so skin care is really important to me. When I follow these 5 essential skin care steps, I feel more beautiful and my skin glows.

Step 1- Cleanse

It is so important to cleanse your skin daily! It’s ideal to cleanse morning & night, but it is essential to cleanse your skin at night. Ever since I went to skin care school, a night has not gone by that I haven’t cleansed my face….for real!! Think about how much dirt, grim, dust, sweat, and makeup that has accumulated on your skin throughout the day. You do not want to go to bed with that gunk settling in even more! Wash your face so you can have a nice clean face and your skin can renew itself while you sleep. Maskcara’s Milk Cleanser is top notch and oh so good for your skin!

Step 2- Exfoliate

Exfoliating your skin helps slough off the dead skin cells, remove product buildup, increases your blood circulation, and leaves your skin feeling nice and smooth. It is not necessary to exfoliate your face everyday day, in fact it can irritate it if you do. But simply exfoliate once to a few times a week to ensure that your skin is nice and smooth and healthy. 

I personally like to use a simple homemade recipe of coconut oil & baking soda. It makes a great exfoliant that everyone already has in their cupboard.

Step 3- Tone

Say what?! What is the purpose of toner? This is a very underrated step in the skin care process and one that needs to make its way into your life! Toning can act as a second cleaning process. By taking a cotton pad and your toner, you wipe your face to get the excess dirt & makeup off. It also helps minimize your pore size and balances your skin’s natural pH level. 

Maskcara’s Milk Toner is amazing! Or I like to use good ol’ apple cider vinegar (with the mother). Some toners have alcohol in them and this can be really drying for your skin. Whether you use a homemade recipe, something from your cupboard, or a toner from the drugstore make sure to tone your face once a day (I do it at night).

Step 4- Moisturize

Just like your body needs water to drink, your skin needs moisturizer to stay hydrated. Your skin is thirsty and needs to have that extra moisture to thrive. Make sure to moisturize your face in your daily routine, whether once or twice a day. A common misconception is that women who have oily skin don’t need to moisturize…wrong! Oily skin is still thirsty. You just may need to moisturize once a day instead of twice.

Maskcara Milk is an excellent moisturizer! I especially love it under my eyes. I also love to use pure coconut oil. I lather it on my face at night and let my skin hydrate while I’m sleeping. Either options are great!

Step 5- Spot Treatment

All of us are cursed with pesky pimples at some time in our life. The important thing is learning how to treat them. Sometimes it’s best to leave them alone, but if you must squeeze them, then make sure to gently use your two pointer fingers wrapped in tissue to avoid getting oil, dirt, or bacteria into the exposed area. Once you’re done, use a benzoyl peroxide ointment or some other acne treatment cream to spot treat the area.

I like to use an essential oil blend for those blemishes.

Those are my 5 essential skin care steps that I use and think you should too! Nobody’s skin is perfectly flawless, but if you take good care of your skin then it will glow!

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