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December 31, 2008
Nars Cosmetics truly cares for the modern woman..
Life is a roller coaster ride, dance party and glamour show all rolled into one, and a girl has got to look her best. Nars is a makeup wardrobe for the woman who wants to be modern, thrive in the cutting trends of fashion and design.
The line was developed by François Nars, a fashion photographer who took New York City by storm in the 1980s. While working with the world’s premier fashion models, Nars discovered that it was his passion to help women look beautiful and feel empowered. Nars realized that women find their identities through experimenting and having fun with makeup. There are no rules when it comes to beauty. Whatever makes you look good and feel great is right for you.
Whether Nars is a stylish accessory to truly bring the glamour to a night on the town, a guilty pleasure for when you need to feel glamorous or a makeup standby you just can’t live without, the power of Nars Cosmetics is hard to deny. It’s more than just makeup. It’s a state of mind, a sense of independent being, a class of cosmetics that goes beyond the ordinary.
Besides what it does to your skin, Nars cosmetics features packaging that’s truly special. Using rubberized materials that are nice and sensual to the touch, Nars cosmetics feels special right off of the shelf. That’s what makes it such a great gift item. From the moment it’s unwrapped, Nars brings a feeling of special wonder that’s beyond words. It’s luscious, but modern, classy yet versatile. Nars packaging has created trends in the industry, being both functional and eye catching, stylish and chic.
They have a complete line of powders, lip glosses, lip sticks, foundations and eye shadows. It’s skin care line is especially enhancing, utilizing the best vitamins, minerals and botanicals to truly care for and treat your skin. The more we care for our skin, the younger it becomes and the healthier it feels. As we naturally age, however, we must pay special attention to our skin’s more demanding needs, treating and enhancing our skin to retain its vitality.
We wear makeup to set the trend, to live on the cusp of fashion in glamour and glitter. Nars’ line of makeup has a world reputation for setting those trends, for setting the bar for what makeup can become. Be modern in the world of makeup. The world is yours now, ready for you to make it your own.
December 30, 2008
Are your cosmetics safe? Don’t compromise health for beauty: When we use cosmetics, we do so to become beautiful. Makeup should essentially enhance our health, not compromise our bodies.
Sadly, 90 percent of the cosmetics on the market have never been evaluated for safety. An average cosmetics consumer uses a combination of products that contain over 200 different chemicals each day, some of which have been found to cause skin cancer, birth defects, and may even have a harmful effect on your memory. Do you know what’s in your makeup bag? Are you using safe cosmetics?
We shouldn’t have to compromise our health to be beautiful. Real beauty comes from a healthy appearance, a invigorating lifestyle and a healthy feeling of well being. What we put in and on our bodies contributes to our well-being, and makeup is a big part of that.
If we want to look and feel good, we need to use makeup that’s healthy, cosmetics that not only make us look good but enhance the health of our body as well. Makeup needs to be free of dangerous and harmful chemicals. It needs to be safe and natural.
Many makeup brands contain known carcinogens or suspected carcinogens, including acrylamide, diethanolamine, formaldehyde, and coal-tar colors. Some contain substances that disrupt your endocrine, such as parabens and nonoxynol.
Some contain phthalates, a group of industrial chemicals that have been linked to early puberty, asthma, birth defects and decreased sperm counts. Nail polishes, for instance, frequently contain phthalates to prevent chipping or flaking. Often, the harmful phthalates are simply listed under the catch-all of fragrances, and can be difficult to spot.
Other cosmetics even contain metals such as lead or mercury that can poison your skin and seriously compromise your health. Luckily, safe cosmetics can be a reality. As public awareness continues to grow, more and more consumers are demanding makeup that’s safe to use, free of carcinogens and phthalates.
As the market for natural and organic makeup grows, consumers find more options for healthy, safe makeup. More and more cosmetic brands are signing pledges that the ingredients of their products are safe and chemical free. From Bare Beauty Mineral Makeup to RJ Mineral Cosmetics to Nature’s Paradise, many makeup companies are realizing that the best markets lie in blends that don’t compromise the health of their consumers.
December 29, 2008
When an actress steps out onto a stage, she walks into the middle of the audience’s imagination.
Any stage makeup artist needs to keep this in mind.
Unlike using cosmetics at home, makeup for the theater is designed to make us something we’re not. On stage, we are pretending, we are becoming somebody else. Theatrical makeup transforms us into the audience’s imagination.
Which makes it vital to mask what an actor or actress looks like in real life. When working with stage makeup, a cosmetic artist blends creativity and imagination to transform the theatrical player into the character, so that we can live, breathe and taste the new personification in all the splendor of theatrical imagination.
Whether working for the stage or the movie screen, theatrical makeup artists must first cover or remove any negative features of the actor or actress, angles or blemishes that may distract or portray the character in an unsatisfactory light.
By the same stroke of the makeup brush, however, some negative features can be highlighted or enhanced in order to make a villain look especially evil, or to add character. Just be sure that the makeup does not distract or subtract from the visual flow of the performance.
The most obvious distraction is a tattoo, since body art generally marks the individuality of the actor or actress and not the character. Most people wouldn’t realize it, but many famous performers like Johnny Depp are covered in tattoos, which have to be meticulously covered anytime he is on camera.
Even if new tattoos need to be added in the case of a pirate character, musician or maybe a villain, those shouldn’t be the original tattoos of the performer. Tattoos indicate individuality. A performer’s tattoos are their own.
When they are portraying a character in the audience’s imagination, any visible tattoos should be created purposefully to suit the character, not the personality of the actor or actress.
Generally, using less makeup is preferable, depending on the size of the theater, the lighting and the type of production. Unlike personal cosmetics, theatrical makeup can often be harsh on a performer’s skin and can have allergic reactions.
Too thick a foundation can cause a fair-skinned actress’s face to turn an unsightly orange, adding an unnatural element to the production that harms believability. Practice and experiment before opening night to get the amount just right.
But above all, blend stage makeup to bring out character. Theater is about imagination, and the best theatrical makeup is creative and adds the personality the director hones and the audience looks for. Make the audience believe. Make them forget there’s a stage in the first place.
December 28, 2008
Catch a sniff of a Jafra cosmetic, and you’re hooked for good!
Hey, we all love trying new makeup brands with our friends. The beauty of Jafra Cosmetics is they do business with your friends. You don’t have to loiter through idle department stores sniffing this brand or that, nor do you have to wade through an ocean of cosmetic Internet sites when you can find everything you need under one roof. If you love that personal touch, that experience of trying on a new makeup in the company of your own friends, spending an afternoon making yourselves beautiful because, why not, you deserve to.
And so do the people you love to spend time with. A career with Jafra cosmetics is like throwing one dress up party after another. You remember those long lost days of tea parties and dressing up. A cosmetics party with Jafra isn’t much different, only this time it’s cosmetics and spa treatments and the good life. Since many women choose to sell them out of their home, inviting friends over for makeup makeover parties, Jafra cosmetics presents an ideal way to both have a beauty parlor party and get together and just be with the girls.
Truth be told around the powder room, Jafra Cosmetics is one of the best kept secrets in the world of makeup. Use it a few months, and you’ll look and feel years younger. It instills moisture in your face that enhances and returns beauty to the skin, absorbing and protecting against sagging aging agents.
Jafra cosmetics features an impressive ray of products like the Royal Jelly Line, Vitamin C Peel Kit, Royal Almond Collection, Time Corrector Nighttime Firming Moisturizer, Time Protector Daily Defense Cream, Eau d’ Arômes revitalizing fragrance spray for women, Adorisse, Tender Moments, the baby brand, Eau de Parfum for women, and JF9 Black cologne for men.
Perfume scents, smooth skin cream to make you years younger, and body spa products bringing waves of elegance into your own bathroom, any one Jafra cosmetic will enhance your life with beauty and youth. Not only that, but the makeup line also presents many unique employment opportunities, the very kind that can transform womens’ lives and give them the financial integrity and professional success to ride the crest of their dreams.
For the girl who likes to throw a party and share her love of makeup with friends, Jafra cosmetics presents an opportunity for you to share your passion for cosmetics. With a flexible schedule where the opportunities are up to you, Jafra cosmetics can be sold out of your home, at the office, to your neighbors or even your friends in your tea, garden or book club.
Jafra cosmetics offers a world of makeup to share with your friends. Whether selling and earning a steady profit with a vantage of opportunity, or simply seeing what new product a friend might b interested in, you’ll find Jafra cosmetics to be a stylish way to spend an afternoon getting beautiful.
December 27, 2008
 Paula Dorf cosmetics are some of the most sought after in the worlds of film, television and music. It’s no wonder its built a reputation through such celebrity fans that include Reneé Zellweger, Jessica Simpson, Debra Messing, and Sandra Bullock, or that her cosmetic line has regularly graced the pages of the latest issues of Elle, In Style, Allure, and Harper’s Bazaar. Paula Dorf makeup has the fashion trends in movies, television shows and other forms of popular entertainment.
Featuring a high quality, easy to use cosmetic line, Paula Dorf cosmetics are known to last. They don’t fade, blemish or sweat throughout the day, maintaining your beauty from the moment you first put it on in the mirror in the morning until your washing your face before bed. These are colors that stick with you consistently and reliably, bright and sustainable.
Many makeup products simply didn’t exist before Paula Dorf created them. Many of these innovations she developed working in Hollywood film, music videos and fashion magazines during the 1980s when she worked on studio sets. In fact, she started crafting brushes from art supply stores, which led her to develop the award winning Foundation Brush, Eye Transformer Brush and Cheek Cream Brush. These were such innovative designs that they earned her patents, inventions that are often poorly imitated in other lesser name cosmetic lines. In the world of cosmetics, there are many imitations and phonies. None have Paula’s natural touch.
Paint brushes from an artist’s studio? Does it get more classic than that? Paula’s signature phrase is that every woman should become her own makeup artist, so it makes sense that it began literally from an artist’s supply store. Paula Dorf makeup empowers women with their own creativity, pushing them to discover new looks that bring out the natural beauty inherent within.
Her products are 100 percent hypoallergenic, which is good news for those with sensitive skin. You can use these products and not risk breaking out into hives, rashes or other allergic reactions. The best part is that her makeup is never tested on animals, so you can rest assured your health didn’t come at the expense of the health or comfort of a harmless animal.
Plus, her makeup line features a guarantee. If you are not satisfied 100 percent with your purchase, you get a complete refund, no questions asked!
It’s easy to see why its one of the leading cosmetic brands in the industry, bringing innovative beauty products to the homes of so many women. Paula Dorf may be good enough for the movies, but it’s her passion to make every woman look great…thanks Paula!
December 26, 2008
 Makeup has come a long way from its days of highlighting the stars on the movie screen, but it’s real magic comes in making us all look and feel.. like movie stars.
Max Factor, Sr. had some big dreams when he arrived at the World’s Fair in 1904 to promote his line of rouges and creams. When he saw his first picture show, his dreams blew the roof off the theater. Factor realized that the actors and actresses needed to look perfect on the big screen, bigger than dreams themselves, and he knew that cosmetics held that key. He developed a line of makeup, that unlike the theatrical makeup of the day, would not crack and cake. With his dream of versatile cosmetics, Max Factor, Sr. turned Hollywood and the cosmetics industry on its head.
Any make up stylist may live in the shadow of Max Factor, Sr., but every one of them still lives his dream. A make up artist strives to make every person look like a movie star, like they’ve just stepped off the set with Bogart and the bright lights, like pearls and diamonds were mere trivial necessities of the life. We all want to look beautiful, like movie stars, like we’re diamonds stepping out onto the night to glitter. Any make up stylist worth his or her eyeliner brings out our Audrey Hepburn around the edges.
These days, an extraordinary development of technology and product line have made a make up artist a fascinating career. Truth be known, the cosmetics industry is enjoying its most promising times, and those who ride the crest of this wave enjoy both a flexible schedule and a fulfilling salary. Thanks to new television channels and shows dedicated to the developments of makeup, more makeup brands, new media and innovative developments in skin care, makeup has become a door of opportunity.
Being a make up stylist is a promising job, whether your sculpting Hollywood fashions on the big screen, or whether you’re making every girl feel like she’s just walked off a movie set. You can work one-on-one with fashion and photographic models, actors and musicians on the stage, priming their gleam to fit the flash of a magazine or the glitter of the bright lights.
Whether you’re making movie stars or making regular women feel like their priming for the movies, a career of makeup design holds promise and glamour. We all want to look like movie stars, and why not? Hollywood is where dreams are made. When we make our own dreams, we’re our own big screen.
December 25, 2008
Natural lipstick enhances the beauty of your lips- why risk the skin of your mouth with synthetic poison? Your skin is the largest organ on your body, and your lips are the closet part of that organ, the very center to your mouth, forming the gateway between your inner being and the outside world. Why would you risk your lips with the taste of poison?
Don’t take your lipstick lightly.. find out what’s in its ingredients. Many lipstick brands feature harmful petroleum products, some, including widely respected brands, even contain alarming amounts of lead! Stories of lead in toys and toothpaste run the news every day, but many reputable sources are beginning to suggest these same harmful amounts of lead can be found in your lipstick. From your makeup bag to the lips of your very mouth, lead could be poisoning your body and adversely affecting your health.
In 2007, the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics tested 33 brands of lipstick. The results were surprising and may make you seriously reconsider what you are applying to your own lips.
They found that over 2/3 had higher than the FDA’s allowable lead rate for candy. How much lead should you worry is too much lead in your lipstick? If you value the health of your lips, any level.
Luckily, natural lipstick brands on the market make organic lip gloss a viable option. As more women become health conscious and concerned about the ingredients of the cosmetics they use on their bodies, a huge market has grown for organic lip gloss, leading to a variety of choice and opportunity. Natural lipstick can be found in any shade and glimmer, and it can be applied to long throughout the day, even in direct sun.
It’s good to be aware of what we put in our bodies. We want to live as healthy women and we shouldn’t compromise our health in the name of beauty.
Lipstick is easily absorbed through the skin, especially as we naturally lick and feel our lips through the course of the day. Think about how much lip gloss can be absorbed right into the content of your skin, and you might not even know it. What’s in that lip gloss? Petroleum chemicals? Lead products? Other synthetic ingredients that might compromise the health of your skin?
Your lips form the skin of the surface of your mouth, and therefore absorb anything that touches them. Don’t take health risks for beauty, especially when there are many organic cosmetic lip glosses that still enhance your lips with color while also being healthy. We all want to look great, but we don’t have to poison ourselves to do it. Taking care of your skin begins with your lips. Natural products that enhance through beauty through organic ingredients enhance the health of your lips while bringing out their essential beauty.
December 24, 2008
An artist doesn’t just need a single paint, but a whole host of colors to blend the mind of her imagination. When we are beautifying our appearances, we are no different: we are making art. Every color, shade and skin-tone needs to be at our disposal, ready to fit any fancy, fashion trend or spirit that suits us as we begin the day.
To cover the full extent of our imaginations, especially when the fancy strikes us, we need an extensive make up palette, one that leaves every possibility at our disposal. The more encompassing our makeup selection, the more range and freedoms our imaginations can take.
Truth be known, the best beauty discoveries are stumbled upon, often accidentally, when a girl is simply trying new possibilities on for size. An extensive, versatile make up palette helps keep that range of discovery open.
You never know what color combination will strike just right, bringing out the perfect blends of shadow and gloss, until you’ve experimented freely and tried new tastes on your palette.
With a versatile makeup selection, you should be able to swap rock star rocker with party princess, the dame of the ball with professional girl on the go. You don’t have just one look.. you’ve got a dozen pretty faces, and you’re always trying them on for size.
There’s a different face for every occasion and custom, every celebration and formal event. Ladies, we’re complicated people, so it just makes sense that we have a number of faces we have to put on! And we’re discovering new faces every day. Every time we look into a mirror and experiment, we are trying a new look, which can lead to some exciting discoveries.
There’s nothing more refreshing and new than re-inventing your appearance, becoming whole and new again, unrestrained and spontaneous. Ladies, we’re reborn every time we sit down in front of a mirror.
No one color covers all of us. As women, we are full and invigorating, and only a complete line of makeup at our fingertips can equal that promise of possibility. We need to keep our options open, especially when it comes to our cosmetics. Our beauty is worth experimentation and development.
Finding new looks and recreating ourselves is what makes us artists. Cosmetics and fashion at their heart are creative, passions fueled by imagination and personality. So keep your imagination open. A wide range of cosmetics at your disposal will free your creativity and make you a new woman!
December 23, 2008
When you’ve turned on to a great beauty product, finding a wholesale price to help you live your new found fashion more affordably makes it more viable to look great every day.
We all love to look good, primp and pamper our faces, skin and bodies with cosmetic products and spa treatments that make us feel like we just left the salon.. we love to feel the caress of luxury on our skin and faces as we enjoy top notch beauty products.
Often, the brand-name products, especially those recently developed and innovatively released on the market, carry hefty price tags. But thanks to the world of the web, you can get those same brand name makeup shades, perfumes and moisturizers at a discounted price. Thanks to the versatility of the Internet, cheap makeup is now a reality for virtually every woman.
The web puts all your makeup options in front of you, almost as if you are sitting down before a mirror and deciding how to pretty your face. There’s a wide selection, all for perusal and purchase with the touch of a button. Since you have the whole world of makeup at your fingertips, the makeup world will naturally compete for your attention.
There are countless bargains to be found on the Internet, either through seasonal sales, wholesale price offers, or surplus discounts. You’ll never have to pay top dollar for your favorite makeup brand again.
Life is just too short to don imitation, but many women worry that the latest trends and beauty developments are just too expensive. Not true. Those top notch products are competing for your attention, and many sites are willing to offer a discounted price.
Wear brand-name makeup, the kind that beautifies the scent of beauty magazines, and never pay full price again! It may take some surfing and discriminate selection, but the bargains are out there, waiting to be picked up.
Why not? You deserve to look great, and it shouldn’t have to cost you a fortune. If you peruse the department stores, you know what an expense it can be fulfilling your passions with the latest trends in beauty and cosmetic products. The top name brand items can shrink a girl’s pocketbook like a balloon.
But stroll through the Internet, and the world of cosmetics is at your fingertips. Selection unwinds infinitely, and for the discriminating eye, bargains can be found in the nooks and crannies. Never pay top dollar again.. pay the Internet bill instead and do all your makeup shopping from home. The world is your oyster.. It shouldn’t cost a gorgeous pearl to look like a jewel.
December 22, 2008
 Elizabeth Arden makes a Visible difference, continuing a tradition of innovation in skin cream: when it comes to breathtaking steps of skin care innovation, Elizabeth Arden Makeup stands out in a crowd.
Collaborating with a scientific chemist for the first time in makeup history, Elizabeth Arden unleashed Venetian Cream Amoretta, revolutionizing cosmetics by bringing science to the powder room. The daughter of Canadian tenant farmers who led a makeup revolution, Arden was the first to match makeup creams to skin tone, introduce the benefits of science and chemistry to her cosmetic line, and even invented the concept of a makeover, earning her the reign of queen in the modern cosmetics industry.
Elizabeth Arden makeup continues to inspire innovative blends of skin cream, especially with its Elizabeth Arden Visible Difference, a refining moisture cream complex that keeps skin youthful through a rich, emollient layer of moisture that cushions dry skin. The cream not only prevents moisture loss, but returns a feel of softness to your face, making it youthful and fresh again!
The cream is pleasant to use, refreshing, and adds a soft shine to your skin that makes it smooth and silky. It helps protect against wrinkles and unnatural drying, enhancing your skins smoothness and shine by sealing in the moisture.
It’s dermatologist, allergy and clinically tested, so you can trust that its healthy for your skin. Elizabeth Arden has a long reputation of bringing the best scientific and chemical concepts to the world of cosmetics, creating products that are not only beneficially healthy, but scientifically sound. Elizabeth Arden makes the most out of beauty.
The product also works well with Elizabeth Arden’s Ceramide Plump Perfect Firming Body Soufflé, a luxury body treatment moisturizer that protects the skin with an advanced anti-aging formula. It also ideally complements Elizabeth Arden’s Ceramide Time Complex Moisture Cream, which also works to minimize the visual appearance of aging. These products protect the beauty of your skin, keeping it soft, supple and shiny like it was when you were young.
It’s no wonder Elizabeth Arden is considered one of the world’s most exclusive cosmetic brands, boasting fans throughout history that include the likes of Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth II, Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Kennedy, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Wallis Simpson, and Maime Eisenhower. Her innovation has enriched all our lives as women as we continue to enjoy the benefits of her cosmetics.
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