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" Brit beauty Michelle Keegan is much more than a soap star; the household name is a serious style inspiration and one (gorgeous) half of a prime time power couple, being engaged to ex-TOWIE boy Mark Wright since 2013. She can also add &amp;#039;spokesmodel&amp;#039; to her profile as she was announced this week\u00A0as the face of Garnier Ambre Solaire. But while Michelle may have a secret sun-bed past, her faux glow now comes from faking, not baking and the 27-year-old has a refreshing approach to how she looks. From loving carbs to feeling more confident without makeup on, there are many sides to Michelle.  1. On self-tanning &amp;quot;Always exfoliate and moisturise before you tan. Don&amp;#039;t just moisturise the dry bits - you know your elbows and your knees - moisturise everywhere. And always spray the inside of your arms and your legs, so it doesn&amp;#039;t leave white lines. With the Ambre Solaire No Streaks Bronzer Self Tan Body Mist (that&amp;#039;s my favourite!) you can do your back easily because you don&amp;#039;t need to rub it in. It sets evenly. If you keep moisturising your skin everyday it lasts well.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;When I go away, I do like to sunbathe and relax in the sun but I use SPF. I use factor 30 on my face and 20 or 30 on my body. &amp;quot;When I was younger I didn&amp;#039;t use high SPFs because I wanted to look as brown as possible, and I thought putting oil on and stuff like that was the way forward to get that tan.\u00A0Whereas now I&amp;#039;m more cautious. I think everyone goes through that phase don&amp;#039;t they, of wanting to look brown and wearing oil and burning themselves. I used to use sunbeds, which I now wouldn&amp;#039;t do. Definitely not, stay off them!&amp;quot;         Gonna miss these nights @wrighty_ &#128076;&#127865; A photo posted by michkeegan (@michkeegan) on Mar 16, 2015 at 2:12pm PDT     2. On working\u00A0out &amp;quot;If I&amp;#039;m quiet in the week, I&amp;#039;ll go to the gym maybe 3 or 4 times, but this week I&amp;#039;m busy so I haven&amp;#039;t gone yet. When I go to the gym I never do cardio, it doesn&amp;#039;t really work for me. It makes you fitter and it makes your stamina better, so it&amp;#039;s better for your heart, but for me weights and resistance training is what sculpts your body so I do that.&amp;quot; \u00A0 3. On eating healthily &amp;quot;I really wish I was super-healthy. I love food. Food for me is probably like one of the best things in the world. You get excited for food don&amp;#039;t you? So why stop that! If I have a bad meal one day, I&amp;#039;ll try to have a good day the next. Or if I have a bad breakfast, I try to have a good dinner. I just think with diet, everyone takes it so seriously now but as long as you eat in moderation, it doesn&amp;#039;t matter. That&amp;#039;s what I say. I had chips with mayonnaise today for my lunch so tonight I&amp;#039;ll probably have a healthy option.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;My ultimate favourite meal is baked camembert cheese with a garlic baguettes. Bake them in the oven and dip it in the cheese. It&amp;#039;s the best thing on a Saturday night - that and a glass of wine. Hello!&amp;quot; 4.\u00A0Her makeup must-haves &amp;quot;My lashes are Ardells, I use the strip lashes. On my brows I use HD Brows products and get them threaded by them too. I like the Laura Mercier tinted moisturiser because that&amp;#039;s also got an SPF in it and foundation-wise I like NARS and Giorgio Armani for night.&amp;quot; 5.\u00A0Her hair essentials &amp;quot;I love Phillip Kingsley, The Elasticator, which you put in your hair when it&amp;#039;s wet and you dry it through, or when you&amp;#039;re on holiday you can use it as a mask. I also like Moroccan Oil, that&amp;#039;s really good. I use the new Garnier Ulitmate Blends shampoos, they&amp;#039;re really good.  &amp;quot;If I&amp;#039;m going out I blow-dry it. I&amp;#039;ve learnt how to do it well \u2013 I even do my mum&amp;#039;s hair. My tips are to always point your hairdryer downwards, so the little fine bits don&amp;#039;t come up. And use a really good barrel brush.&amp;quot;  6. On giving makeup a skip sometimes \u00A0&amp;quot;I prefer wearing no makeup anyway, because I like the contrast when you go out at night and you look different. I actually feel more confident with less makeup than I do with makeup on. I don&amp;#039;t know if it&amp;#039;s because I was playing Tina (on Coronation Street) for 7 years and I didn&amp;#039;t wear makeup at work, that I just got used to it.  7.\u00A0Maintaining her\u00A0pearly white teeth &amp;quot;My sister is a dental nurse so she comes home with teeth whitening kits. It&amp;#039;s like a gum shield which you put gel in and you wear it overnight for twice a week. I do mine maybe once a year. Also I don&amp;#039;t really drink a lot of tea or coffee, or red wine, and I don&amp;#039;t really eat curries, so I don&amp;#039;t stain my teeth with that.&amp;quot; 8.\u00A0On her beauty idol\u00A0 &amp;quot;My beauty idol is Jessica Alba. She&amp;#039;s natural and gorgeous. And she doesn&amp;#039;t wear too much makeup or anything like that. Just really natural looking girl. And she&amp;#039;s a really good mum as well, I follow her on Instagram, and she&amp;#039;s always talking about her kids and her husband. So yeah, she&amp;#039;s definitely up there.&amp;quot;Michelle Keegan is the face of Garnier Ambre Solaire Self Tan range\u00A0 Related:\u00A0MICHELLE KEEGAN IS OUR NEW COVER STAR!  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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