How To Fake Awake

- Once you're out of bed, do some jumping jacks to get your heart going and the blood flowing. If you aren't a morning person or hate morning exercise, skip this step.

- Wash your face with a gentle cleanser and lots of warm water. The splashes of water should help wake you up a bit.

- Moisturize, apply sunscreen, and your usual base (foundation, concealer, tinted moisturizer, whatever). Set with loose powder.

- Apply black or brown eyeliner to the top lids making sure to stay as close to the lash line as possible.

- Using an eye shadow brush (for powder) or your finger (for cream), apply beige or champagne eye shadow on the lid and just above the crease.

- After curling lashes, apply black mascara.

- Using a blush brush, apply a peachy-pink blush to apples of cheeks.
Don't know where the apples of your cheeks are? Smile. See the parts of your cheeks that pop out the most? Those are your apples.

- Apply a peachy-pink lip gloss, finish with another dusting of loose powder all over the face, and smile!

TA-DA! You now look awake, but you still feel like crap, right? My favorite way to perk up is with, you guessed it, caffeine! Not with a giant mochaccino with three shots of espresso, but with green tea. Tea has more caffeine than coffee and is packed with antioxidants. So, instead stopping at the coffee shop for a high calorie (and high priced) mocha-frappa-cappa-al-paccino, brew a cup of green tea at home (Ten Ren is a great brand of tea and is my favorite). If you don't like the taste, add a little honey for some sweetness.

Have a Nice Day :-)