I recently came across a great little product – Yves St Laurent Touche Eclat Radiant Touch – a definite must-have for any girl with a make-up bag. In fact, with it comes some of the best beauty advice I’ve heard in a long time.

• Use the Radiant Touch pen to highlight between the eyebrows and along the line of your nose. Following this beauty advice tip will allow your eyes to appear wider and more alert.

• Apply the Radiant Touch product to the hollow under your lower lip – in your chin – for a fuller lip look. Another great beauty tip for your lips – apply this product around the contours of your mouth to accentuate your beautiful mouth.

• Finally, use this product to give your face an instant burst of health and rejuvenation. The luminizing pen gives your complexion a look of freshness that can do nothing but improve your appearance.

Yves Saint Laurent Radiant Touch #1 Luminous Radiance ( Light Beige ) An exclusive radiant touch highlighter Helps refresh your makeup while brightening up skin Incredibly reduces your skin’s dullness Revives & nourishes your skin’s natural glow Leaves your makeup looking flawless & radiant Suitable for all skin types

No matter who you ask, or what type of beauty advice you are looking for, using a luminizing pen to help fill in fine lines and give your skin a fresh look is fast, easy and rewarding. I love it because it’s like an instant pick-me-up; especially when I’ve been up late the night before! Beauty reviews everywhere are sure to give this product rave reviews.

What makes Jennifer Anistan so beautiful? Well although I believe that most of her beauty comes from within, there are one or two beauty techniques that she regularly uses to accentuate her sparkling personality. Here are a few of the strategies that she uses to keep up her All American beauty image:

• She routinely uses a bronzer on her skin, applied lightly, to give her that sunkissed look.
• She drinks tons of water and even represents a bottled water company.
• She highlights her hair. Highlighting dark hair can give you an instant boost. It makes your face appear brighter and can even make you look younger.
• She whitens her teeth. White teeth will take years off of your face.

The shape of your eyebrows can make a world of difference to your overall appearance. Well groomed eyebrows can make your eyes look brighter and more awake and can even help you look younger or more sophisticated depending on your arch. Look at how Angelina Jolie’s well shaped brows and you’ll realize one of her personal beauty secrets.

There are various methods of removing unwanted or stray hairs from your eye brow line:

• Waxing - eye brow waxing is quick but can be painful and can leave the area red and puffy for a few hours. It is in my opinion the fastest and least precise method of removing hair. You really need to be careful that you only take off the hair that needs to be taken.
• Stringing - This method is a bit more precise but some claim that it is just as painful as waxing. Basically with this method you use a thread to pluck out individual hairs quickly. I prefer this method to waxing because it does not usually leave the accompanying redness.
• Plucking - the slowest method of eye brow shaping but also the most precise. It will take you longer to pluck each strand but if done carefully you are less likely to overpluck.
• Laser hair removal - this should be done by a professional and is the most costly but the results stay a lot longer.

The object of eye brow shaping is to remove unwanted hair while keeping the shape of your brows. You basically want to get the stray hairs the creep in below your brow line and the stray hairs that develop over the brow line while keeping your natural shape.

Beauty Cosmetic Guide offers a step by step process on how to shape your eyebrows. They tell you exactly how to get those gorgeous arches that we all love.

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Advice on How to Style My Hair

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September 3, 2008 at 3:49 pm · Filed under Beauty Reviews

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If you’ve got hair that is anything like mine, you see a challenge in the mirror every morning. My stylist, a fabulous young man who cuts my hair wonderfully, has recently convinced me to stop washing my hair so often. Yes, that’s right, to wash it less!

Not only has this given me more time in the morning by cutting down on the length of my showers every other day (and hey! It’s green!), but my hair actually looks better. It’s not burdened with over-clean hair which is a signal to the hair follicles that it needs to make even more oil! In addition, since my hair looks so great, I’ve found that I have more of a desire to spend time with it.

I recently picked up some tips on just how to style my hair, without spending TONS of time on it. I’m pretty busy, and can’t really spend lots of time in front of the bathroom mirror every day, so using these tips has helped me to cut down on my style-time.

• Start with a good shampoo (every other day, of course). If it’s not a hair-washing day, a good rinse in the shower is enough.
• Before blow drying, apply volumizing spray – Oscar Blandi Volumizing Spray is my favorite, – to sections of hair. Separate the sections with either a hair brush or by flipping over and separating parts of your hair with your fingers.
• Blow dry your hair, again going in sections, applying a bit more volumizing spray at the roots when you’re done.
• Finish up with hair spray, serum, or a balm, depending on the look you are going for.
• Blow your great hair (and yourself) a kiss in the mirror and go get ‘em!

It is that easy to style your hair and look great!

Sincerely, Caterina P.S. I found a great hair care site that tells you the right way to wash your hair for optimum results.

Looking for some basic makeup advice? Well, you’ve come to the right place! When applying makeup, there are some simple steps that almost everyone should follow. They are easy, relaxing, and end with you looking your best!

Basic makeup advice:

1.Clean your skin with a gentle, alcohol-free cleanser. This will help remove any dirt, build-up or environmental residues you might have on the surface of your skin.

2.Tone! A nice, light toner helps to reduce any excess oil you have on your face.

3.Moisturize. Use a cream that is made for the delicate skin of your face; it is lighter in texture and won’t drag your skin down by the end of the day. Any good beauty reviews you read will tell you to moisturize. Choose one with some sunscreen in it, too.

4.Apply some primer. Sephora makes the Tricks of the Trade Perfection Primer, which helps to brighten and give your skin a warm glow. Designed as a highlighter base, it has pink pearlescent micro-particles and soft-focus pigments that reflect the light for that warm glow you’re looking for. A primer is a good product to add to your beauty regimen, since it helps ensure makeup application and makes your makeup last longer!

5.If you’re using a foundation, go ahead and apply this next. Blush follows, then eye shadow, liner, mascara, and lips.

Whether you’re going all-out and applying makeup to your whole face for a night out on the town or are toning it down for the office or a trip to the zoo, following this basic makeup advice will help your makeup last longer and keep your face fresh all day long.

Do you have long beautiful hair? Well, if you are looking for a way to help others without having to dip into your savings here is an easy answer to look even more beautiful and feel that way too.

There are thousands of children with hair loss in this country, either because of natural hair loss or due to serious medical conditions like cancer.

Here is a simple thing that you can do to help:

The next time you go for a haircut bring a bag and have your stylist put the cut hair in it. Then have the hair donated to locks of love. “Locks of Love is a public non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children in the United States and Canada under age 18 suffering from long-term medical hair loss from any diagnosis.”

Can you imagine a better feeling than helping these kids feel better about themselves while doing something that makes you feel better as well? Remember, the next time you get your hair cut and admiring your new do that you can help a child feel just as fabulous in three easy steps.

We all want thicker lashes and you see dozens of commercials on tv promising the look of longer lashes but not that many that say that they can actually make your lashes longer and stronger naturally. Well today I am doing a review on Revitalash, the newest $150 a tube craze. Their claim:

Use Eevitalash on your upper and bottom lashes for sixty days and actually have longer, thicker, healthier eye lashes.

What is in it:

Vitamin B Conditioner Lashgrow

Does it actually work?

Well every reviewer I have seen, including Extra Tv is calling it a “miracle” Here is a quote from one such reviewer:

“ ‘ I have no lashes to begin with,” Dayna said. “My makeup artist actually laughed at me the first time he saw my lashes.”

But after applying Revitalash to her upper and lower lash lines – just like eyeliner – for nearly two months, Dayna had a whole new set of luscious lashes.

“I can’t believe it, but it worked,” she said.’”

RevitaLash Eyelash Conditioner RevitaLash is a unique eyelash conditioner that will help you achieve significantly Longer, Thicker, and Fuller eyelashes. Like liquid eyeliner, RevitaLash is simply applied once a day. Within three to ten weeks, your own natural eyelashes will look spectacular: Longer, Thicker, Fuller! These exciting results are seen in women of all ages! No matter how short, fragile, thin, or sparse your eye lashes are, RevitaLash can help you achieve long, beautiful, healthy looking eyelashes.

Since we discussed honey as a beauty treatment yesterday, today I am going to give you a simple 3 step honey facial mask solution.

• Take a warm towel and apply it to your face to open your pores.
• Spread honey on your face and leave it there for a minute or two. Avoid the eye areas.
• Wash off with cold wet towels. This will close your pours.

Then just apply your normal moisturizer. This is a simple way to exfoliate your skin and leave it feeling and looking fantastic.

The latest question posted was about honey and hair. Apparently there are a lot of “all natural” hair care products that claim to have honey in them. Now I know that I have mentioned that honey is a good exfoliant and has great antibacterial properties but as a hair care ingredient, it leaves a lot to be desired.

Honey is sticky. What you want is a product that leaves your hair smooth. Honey will not do this. Plus it is difficult to get out of your hair. Go to the old standbys for your hair - natural oils as a conditioner maybe or a beer rinse to give your hair body.

Use honey to exfoliate your skin. Combine it with an oil base and the natural sugars will exofliate your skin leaving it feeling silky smooth.

Picking colors that compliment your skin tone can seem a bit complicated. In the winter we naturally get paler and in the sun, most of us are working on our tan either naturally or with a little help from the cosmetics industry.

The colors that look best on you are going to be the ones that you pick when you are palest. According to ivillage.com,”Observe the color of your nail bed or pinch the skin under your arm (or any place the sun never shines). Does the tone tend to appear more reddish-orange, reddish-blue, pinkish-blue, peachy or yellowish? Once that’s determined, you’ll have a benchmark for your natural tone. The colors that will look most organic against your skin are the colors you find in your skin. Conversely, the colors that will create vibrancy are those that contrast.”

Or you can try this tip by essortment.com, ” Holding a piece of white paper up to your face and identifying the main color you see will help you decide into which category you fall. Still, it is easy to get confused by these terms, so to simplify the process try this simple test. Try on a white shirt and then a cream or off-white top. If you look better in the white blouse, you most likely have cool skin. If the cream top is more flattering, your skin is probably warm. Another good indicator of skin tone is which jewelry looks best on you. Silver tends to work well for cool skin while gold makes warm skin glow. Either of these methods will help you to easily identify your coloring, at which point you can begin selecting make-up colors that will look excellent on you.”

Skin tones usually fall into two categories - cool and warm. Mediterranean skin tones would be in the warm category. Individuals with Scandinavian backgrounds, for example, would fall into the cooler skin tones.

Play with these colors. You may have to go a shade darker when you tan and a shade lighter during your palest moments. As for the colors that you should use for your eye makeup, look to your eye color and apply makeup that really brings attention to your eyes.

Also make use of your eye liner, as we discussed in our last blog.