How to Wash Face for Facial Skin Care

Series Summary

Taking care of your skin is one of the best methods to looking young and vibrant. There are several steps to good facial skin care, but the basics include cleansing, toning and moisturizing. Cleaning and caring for the skin prevents cracking, inflammation, and infection—as well as wrinkling, dry spots and aging. Taking the right measures to care for and protect your skin will help keep it looking its best, especially if you wear makeup everyday.

Once you’ve done all of the natural things you need to do for your face, you may decide that you still fancy a bit of makeup to add accents and colors in all the right places. There are tried and true makeup application techniques and color principles that should be followed for a natural and beautiful looking result.

In this free skin care and beauty video series, learn how to take care of your face, both by cleansing it and putting on makeup. Our expert will walk you through a professional skin care regimen prior to guiding you through a few simple steps to applying makeup. Watch these short clips and use a few of these hints in your own routine. You might just find they work great for you.

Video Transcript

"Hello! I'm Peggy Hafernick and I'm speaking on behalf of Expert Village. Today we're going to be talking about skin care and applying makeup. I'm an independent beauty consultant for a leading cosmetic company in the U.S. What you've already done is you've pulled back your hair because you don't want your hair to be in the way. You want to have a full view of your face while you're doing your makeup. First of all, we need to prepare our skin for the makeup. What we need to do first is to cleanse our skin. If you'll take one of these cloths and wash your face or wet your face for me. Wet your face down a little bit. We're going to apply a product to your face that is a cleanser. You can just take the cleanser with your hands and apply it to your face in a upward and outward motion. Kind of a gentle scrubbing as you do so. You want to apply it all over your face."