Glow With Tessa

🌸 NEW HERE? COME JOIN US.

If you’ve been watching my stories thinking, “I really should sort my skincare out…” — this is your invitation.

Tomorrow we kick off my 3-Day Spring Glow Session and you absolutely DO NOT need to already be a customer, know anything about skincare, or own a bathroom cabinet full of fancy products. 😂

We’re giving our winter routines a spring clean 🌸

☀️ What should stay and what can go
🧴 What our skin may need as the weather warms up
🔎 A little skin analysing
☀️ Sunscreen testing — including some very familiar brands
🎁 Prizes, education and plenty of my usual no-BS chat

And yes… apparently I’m bringing some VERY freshly tinted Angry Birds brows along for the ride. 😂🐦

My trusty Glow girls are already coming — but this time I’d LOVE to see some new faces in there too.

So if you’ve never joined one of my Glow Sessions before, this one is for you.

Comment GLOW below 👇 or send me a message and I’ll get you in.

🌸 We start tomorrow — 16 September.

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Who said we skipped the gym on girls weekend? 💪😂

Today’s workout:
Repeatedly lifting our alcoholic beverages to our lips. 🍹🥂
Excellent form. High reps. Very committed athletes.

Hydration was questionable.
Technique was flawless.
And somehow we’re already feeling the burn. 😂

Girls weekend antics — because 16 kids are at home with their dads and WE ARE OFF DUTY. 🙌🍸

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🍒 HIGH CHEEKBONE BLUSH — LESS IS MORE!

Today we’re talking blush placement for mature skin… and also demonstrating exactly what happens when you get a little too enthusiastic. 😂🙈

I’m using BlushSense in Cherry and let me tell you — she is PIGMENTED. 🍒

So I may have done a tiny bit of a piss-take to show you what happens when you go in with WAY too much. Because nobody wants to arrive at the BBQ, party or gala looking like they’ve spent six hours in the sun with no SPF. 😂☀️

The trick?

✨ Start LIGHT.
✨ Place your blush high on the cheekbone, sweeping upward toward the temple.
✨ Then slowly layer until you reach your desired colour.

For those of us with more mature faces, higher blush placement can be incredibly flattering. Rather than placing colour lower on the apples of the cheeks, which can visually draw the face downward, keeping it higher helps create a more lifted, sculpted appearance.

And remember… you can ALWAYS add more.

Taking Cherry off after you’ve painted yourself like a tomato? Slightly more challenging. 😂🍅

LESS IS MORE, ladies!

Save this one for your next makeup day 💕
And follow Glow with Tessa for more easy, realistic makeup tips for women 40+ — because sometimes it’s not your makeup… it’s WHERE you’re putting it. ✨

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People ask me how I manage 7 kids, a business and life…

I don’t.

Coffee does. ☕😂

Before school runs, makeup, orders, content, washing, feeding small humans and whatever other chaos the day decides to throw at me…

There is coffee.

Lots of coffee.

At this point I’m fairly certain Glow with Tessa is powered by caffeine and questionable amounts of sleep. 😂

Tell me I’m not alone — what’s getting YOU through the week? ☕👇

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