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February 25, 2009
What’s in your makeup? Check out the ingredients of the cosmetics you are using. You may be surprised. Many cosmetic brands are made from synthetics, harmful oils and unnatural ingredients that irritate your skin. Often, you could be using these products and suffering allergic reactions and not even know it. Your latest breakout may not be the result of stress at all. It may be a direct reaction from the makeup you are using.
Fortunately, there’s Almay Cosmetics for the hypoallergenic. Made from all natural ingredients that organically treat and enhance the health of your skin, Almay is made for the sensitive in mind. It uses a variety of herbal extracts that medicinally heal your skin. Meadowsweet is used to treat oily skin, while cucumber extracts can naturally moisten dry, patched skin. Other Almay products use grape seed oil that’s also good at returning the skin’s natural health.
New for Almay Cosmetics is their Pure Blends Makeup. It’s 97.4 percent natural, so you know what you are getting is healthy. It’s lightweight and fragrance free, so you don’t get that heavy caked on feel or the unnatural smells that can make you sick by the end of the day. It’s good for evening out the complexion, creating flawless skin that just seems to glimmer naturally in the sunlight. It features an enhancing blend of antioxidant fruit and flower extracts, Lotus, Orchid and Acai that help to nourish and hydrate the skin. It’s a great way to feel natural, feel as if the very flesh of your skin was the petal of a flower itself. It’s also talc and paraben free, so you know it’s natural and perfect for allergic skin. It’s even been dermatologist tested and approved.
Featuring an irresistible line of colors, Almay makeup features every color in the spectrum so you can find that perfect match. Some seasons call for a more relaxed color; while other seasons, winter especially, call for a brighter boldness to keep things interesting. Almay comes in such a wide range you can meet and suit any mood and occasion, even mixing blends to create a customized complexion of your own.
Cosmetics should be good for you, be made of natural ingredients that work to medicinally heal your skin and enhance its pores. Makeup that features unhealthy parabens, oils and preservatives work against your health and make you older than your time. There’s simply no need for that. Using extracts as natural as cucumber, lilies, and aloe, Almay brings nature back to the world of makeup.
Why should you settle for anything less than the natural earth?
For an early taste of spring, check out Chanel Make Up’s upcoming spring collection
If you are anything like me, you are sick of winter right down to that chill in your bones. When you feel gray cold days like a weight, that’s when you need an extra splash of color in your life. In the world of cosmetics, it’s never too early to think about spring. In fact, a bold spring-like color can be the perfect thing to lift you up, the perfect cure for winter’s down and out blues.
The cosmetics industry is always thinking a season ahead. That means its time to get colorful with the brightness of spring. Even if the ground is still frozen, you know that deep down, the earth itself longs to thaw. Those flowers are underneath the earth just waiting to begin life again, and so are we. Our spirits jus need a little lift, an early breath of fresh spring even though April seems so distant.
Chanel Make Up has announced its Spring Make Up collection, which means spring can be that too far around the corner. Their upcoming season features Bohemian chic shades that celebrate earthy tones with all the lush of spring. Combining earthy and bohemian for a hip, sophisticated feel that’s also intensely natural, their spring collection is sure to make you feel fashionable yet classically earthy. The line features deep color shades that are great for night and day that contrast well with their selection of nude and boldly red lips. It’s earthy, yet mysterious, sensual let calmly determined.
For truly lush lips, Chanel Make Up’s Rouge Hydrabase Crème Lipstick comes in six new shades- Fuego (a ocean-coral red), Fiesta (a natural apricot), Euphoria (a sexy pink), Beige Desire (a bold sensation), Rose Rebelle (a more subdued pink), and Gipsy Scarlett (for that wild sense of red). For lips so glossy they’ll shine in the newness of spring, Sher Colour Lipshine SPF 15 comes in a nice copper. For a more subtler glimmer, Glossimer comes in an elegant rosewood.
There’s a practicality to Chanel cosmetics that’s truly classic. The products are slim for very clean lines that create a more refined effect. The colors last long, keeping their bright shine throughout the day, even in the more intense months of May and going into summer. The bright spring colors are the perfect lift for the winter blues. Their earthy nature gives a stylish approach to beauty that’s refined, but organic, pure yet hip and sophisticated.
Check out the new colors from Chanel Cosmetics. They’ll have you thinking spring, even if your wrapped deep down under blankets and it’s still snowing outside.
February 21, 2009
Subtly bold and open to fun
Curiosity killed the cat. When I first heard of the collaboration between Mac Cosmetics and Hello Kitty, I just had to give it a try.
Combining the stylish youthfulness of the Hello Kitty world with the colorful sophistication of Mac makeup, the Hello Kitty Collection is a high-end line of brightly colored cosmetics that’s more fun to collect than a girl’s night out.
Really, this is a cosmetics line that gets a girl noticed. The Hello Kitty Collection introduces a new blend of youth to the cosmetics world, a fun-seeking spirit that’s carefree and open to possibilities.
This line of Mac Cosmetics features two collections, Hello Kitty Colour Collection and the higher end Hello Kitty Couture. Both bring a hip element of youthful style to the world of makeup, imaginative yet adventurous and creative at the same time.
The Hello Kitty Mild collection features eye shadows, eye liner and lipstick in a more subdued color line that subtly suggests innocence with an openness to fun. It’s a purrfect line for that innocent look that’s so good at being bad.
Every good girl needs her thrill, a dance with temptation that’s innocent and wild at the same time. The subtle colors don’t speak too loudly, but their message is clear. For a mild style that still not afraid to get what it wants, the Hello Kitty Mild collection brings out your subtle side while still maintaining that sense of stylish fun.
Of course, there are nights when subtlety goes right out the window. Sometimes you want to hit the club scene boldly and turn heads. If you like being the burning center of a party, it might be a night that calls for a dash of the Hello Kitty Wild collection, which features brighter colors for when you want to reach out of your skin.
Adored by women throughout the world for its wild sense of style, the Hello Kitty Wild line breaks boldly out of the mold, sleek, luring with a dash of unpredictability.
Just released for this past Valentine’s Day, the Hello Kitty makeup line is so fresh, it’s all the cosmetics world can talk about. Since announcing the partnership last November, Mac has created a stir in the cosmetics industry.
Finally the sophistication of Mac makeup and the stylish fashions of the Hello Kitty world have merged, and the results are rather surprising.
I’ve found the colors enticingly subtle, the sort of tender boldness that’s not too over the top. There’s enough variety in the blends to fit any type of mood, whether calm and subdued or more daring and dashing. It’s a youthful cosmetics line that’s creative and fun, perfect for when you want to get out on the town and just be free.
February 19, 2009
Staying young with special skin beauty treatments
Like a rose gardener tending to the petals, if we care for our skin everyday, we’ll look and feel younger. The secret nobody tells you is that as you get older, it takes extra care in the treatment of your skin to maintain its youth. We all know older women who look much younger than their age. The secret is the special things we do to take care of our skin, tricks that maintain our beauty despite maturity. Skin beauty tips are like well kept secrets best shared between girls.
Wrinkles happen, but who has to know? By applying highlighter to your creases, your wrinkles virtually disappear with the added color. When it comes to skin beauty, a smooth, unblemished face suggests a feeling of youth. A little covering goes a long way.
Whatever you do, stay away from skin powder. While it may make the skin soft, it also accentuates wrinkles for that old lady look. Skin powder collects in the creases, forming a caked on look that makes the wrinkles more obvious, even deeper and stronger than your natural age suggests.
Use sunscreen every day. Don’t save it for the beach. Even in mild sunlight, the ultraviolet rays build up over time, parching and depleting your skin so it ages faster. Use a dab of sunscreen like you would any other makeup. Not only does it protect your skin against the sun, but many brands contain medicinal ingredients that enhance and treat your skin so it naturally feels younger.
Use a skin mask regularly to firm and tighten your skin with healthy skin tones. It helps your skin reflect natural light, countering shadows for a healthy, shiny look that appears youthful and bright. The mask works to cleanse your pores, giving your skin a clean healthy glimmer of natural beauty.
Use moisturizer regularly. It enhances your skin to make it supple, soft, and full of youth. It’s one way a girl can treat herself special all day long. A simple dab throughout the day not only makes your skin feel fresher, but you’ll feel newer too. A lady has the right to feel like a princess everyday, even in the stress and hustle of the professional world. A dab of skin cream is a simple pleasure, but it’s the little indulgences that bring joy to an otherwise dull routine.
We’re all going to age, but if we pay special attention to the beauty of our skin, we can grow old gracefully. As we get older, we need to take extra care of ourselves, using a variety of cosmetics and skin treatments to enhance and maintain the health and youth of our skin.
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