Showing posts with label make up looks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label make up looks. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

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New Fresh Summer Makeup



Summertime-requires a shake up to your typical beauty routine, with the warm temperatures and days spent lounging at the pool or the beach. A good summer beauty collection includes sun protection, products-to-make your skin bronzed and glowing, water- and sweat-proof picks that will stay put all day long, and just for fun one juicy new lip color and a colorful-eye shade.
Glowing skin
Protecting your delicate skin with an SPF is always a good idea even under the gray Seattle skies but with the sun finally-peeking out from behind the clouds around here, it’s mandatory. After you moisturize and before you put on your makeup, try Lancome’s Bienfait UV SPF 50 ($35 atNordstrom). With a smooth and light matte finish, it offers great sun protection and even--retains its SPF after 40 minutes in the water or perspiring.
For a foundation and moisturizer in one, Bobbi Brown makes one of the most popular options out there: Her Tinted Moisturizer SPF 15 ($40 at Nordstrom) has sheer, natural coverage and skin-conditioning jojoba oil, so it goes on easy and leaves skin soft perfect for casual-summer look.
If you’re taking full advantage of the long, steamy summer nights, we recommend MAC’s Strobe Cream ($15 at MAC) to replenish your tired skin. Packed with-powerful botanicals, it freshens, and boosts the look of your skin. Plus, the vitamins, green tea and antioxidants-have a brightening, clarifying and moistening effect on skin. It’s the ultimate quick fix. Another quick fix for a common summer problem is the Zero Oil Matte Finish for Shiny Places ($12.50) from Origins. It will soak up excess oil and shine, and has a smooth matte finish, so you’ll be shine-free on your nose, forehead and chin all day and night long.
For those of us stuck inside the office during the week, who can’t get out to perfect our summer glow in the--sunshine, there is Dior’s Healthy Glow Powder ($46 at Nordstrom). This lightweight powder compact mimics the natural summer--glow of healthy, sun kissed skin and comes in two shades one for more fair complexions, and one for darker complexions.
Don’t forget about the skin on your arms and legs! Pacifica makes a summery-sweet smelling Coconut Crushed Pearl Luminizing Body Butter ($24 at Sephora), that will give your bare legs and arms a sexy, luminescent glow using crushed pearls, sea minerals and phytonutrients.
Kissable lips
Skin isn’t the only thing that can dry out in the summer sun -- your lips need a little love and care as well. Kiehl’s Lip Balm SPF 15 ($9.50 at Nordstrom) will protect your lips-from the elements and offer relief from chapped or cracked lips. Plus, you can choose one of the options with a-hint of color like a golden peach or a ripe berry.
For that juicy new lip color, coral is the shade of the summer. Laura Mercier’s Portofino Summer Collection Lip Glace in Nectar ($22 at Nordstrom) is perfect for its high-shine and hydrating formula. Plus, it's sheer enough to wear to the beach and still look breezy-and casual. 
Alluring eyes
First, make sure your eye shadow is going to stay put without smudging, creasing or caking in the heat. The Pro Prime Smudgeproof Eyeshadow Base from Nars ($24 at Nordstrom) is a lightweight primer that dries on contact and will keep cream and powder shadows-looking bright and fresh all day.
Soft and smoky metallic eyes are a big summer beauty trend, so get on board with MAC’s Surf Baby Crushed Metallic Pigment in “Summer Stash” ($32.50 at Nordstrom). These limited-edition crushed metallic pigments come in soft feminine shades of-pink and violet, silver and pearly white, in an easy to use see-through stack.
Don’t forget the waterproof mascara. Maybelline’s “The Falsies” Volum'Express ($5.94 at Target) is a great option at a super affordable price point, and doesn’t dry out quickly.
Must-have extras
Keep a pack of oil-absorbing powder-coated sheets in your purse this summer -they help eliminate excess oil and shine, so your-makeup stays fresh and lasts longer. The Oil Blotting Pureness Papers from Shiseido ($18 at Nordstrom) come in an especially pretty blue pouch.
For a fun little extra that is easy to take with you on-the-go, check out Bare Minerals’ Faux and Foxy Collection ($34.50 atNordstrom). This little kit gives you all you need to fake a just--back from-the beach or pool look when you’ve been trapped inside working all day. With Allover Face Color SPF 15 in Faux Tan, a mirrored--compact, brush, and 100-percent natural lip gloss in French Toast, you will be bronzed and-glowing in no time!
source: http://www.nwsource.com/shopping/beauty-body/fresh-summer-makeup-picks-hot-summer?cmpid=2628

Friday, June 24, 2011

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5-Year-Old Baby Girl Becomes a Online Makeup Star

Madison Hohrine of Hurst, Texas, is an expert at applying lipstick, applying-blush to the contours of her cheeks and applying mascara to her eyes.
She is such an expert, in fact, that millions of people are logging online every day to watch and learn from one of Madison's makeup tutorials.
What they see when one of Madison's videos pops up may surprise them.
Madison is just 5-years-old.
Despite her youth, Madison is a makeup applying, Internet sensation.
Her-tutorials on the video-sharing site YouTube, in which she covers everything from her favorite lipsticks, to what beauty products to buy, to how to bring out the colors in your eye with shadow, have generated over 1.2 million clicks.

Her video tutorial on the intricacies of makeup brushes alone was viewed more than 700,000 times.
Madison became fascinated by makeup as so many-little girls do, by watching her mom.
"I started watching the YouTube videos and she would watch them with me," Madison's mother, Mary Hohrine, told "Good Morning America." "And one day she just asked me if she could record herself just to see what she would look like doing the video."
A few brushes of blush and rehearsals in front of the camera later, and Madison was hooked. 
"Some people don't know how to put-makeup on," Madison explained to "GMA," of her fascination with cosmetics. "You can-put it on your eyes, your cheeks, your mouth -- it's so much fun."

What may surprise viewers of Madison's videos even more than her age, is the fact that the 5-year-old is not the only young makeup guru-turned Internet star.

Popping up more and more frequently next to Madison's videos on YouTube are those of other young girls, ages 3 to 11, who, like Madison, are just as well-versed in mascara as they are the fairytales and-alphabet letters more familiar to childhood.

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That young girls are-both using grown-up cosmetics and airing their makeup tips online has some parenting experts raising their eyebrows.

It's weird for a little girl to know about contouring and-makeup and angles," Dr. Logan Levkoff, author of the book "Third Base Ain't What it Used to Be," said to "GMA."

"We have a society-where we sexualize little girls, almost from birth on," she said.

In an age where celebrities, makeover shows and beauty pageants are all the rage, the trend is putting back in focus the question of whether little girls-and makeup is too cute, or too much too soon.

Experts such as Levkofk believe the young girls offering makeup tips online, and the public's fascination-with them, are the result of today's pressure-filled, beauty-obsessed society.

"The fact is all these 'Toddlers & Tiaras' shows, the products, whether it's push-up bras for tween girls or shapeups for girls to firm their butts, all of this-sends the message that our girls aren't good enough," said the New York City-based psychologist.

"It's the message that our-girls aren't valued."

But that is a message Mary Hohrine feels confident her daughter is not receiving.

"She is a normal 5-year-old," said Mary. "It's the same thing as if she's playing dress-up."

Mary says that does not mean she is not aware of the dangers of letting her daughter grow up too fast and so enforces strict rules-when it comes to allowing Madison free reign with the blush, eyeshadow and lipstick she flaunts online.

Though makeup made her famous, Madison is not allowed-to use products or wear any makeup on a daily basis.

"When she asks to be putting-makeup on every day, then I'll be getting worried," said Mary.