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Eyebrow Makeup

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:31:45 +0000

Eyebrow is one of the most eye-catching parts on your face though you may not notice. If you ask a professional makeup artist for 5 must-have cosmetic products, eyebrow makeup is one of the 5 for sure. Eyebrow makeup comes in many different forms and having the best eyebrow makeup helps create a youthful appearance and reshape your face contour.

Eyebrow Pencil
Eyebrow pencil is the most common eyebrow makeup. It is also the origin of all other eyebrow makeup. The best quality of eyebrow pencil should be soft and smooth. You feel no tension when drawing your eyebrows.

Eyebrow pencil is easy to control and with one eyebrow pencil, you can use for a long time. But it also has drawbacks. You may have your eyebrows unnaturally or stiff drawn.

Tips: When drawing your eyebrows, hold the pencil at the end. Gently and quickly draw (soft and fast stroke) in the direction of your eyebrows. Blend the color well.

Benefit Instant Brow Pencil ($20)
This is your perfect brow pencil for soft, subtle, long-wearing definition in an instant. It glides on easily and leaves a natural powder-like finish. The other end is a small brush which allows you to smudge and blend. Three shades are available.

Eyebrow Powder
Matt eyebrow powder is the best choice for filling in and shape your eyebrows. It can be substituted by eyeshadow (same as your eyebrow color). Eyebrow powder gives a natural effect and it stays for a long time.

Inappropriate use of eyebrow powder usually results in heavy makeup eyebrows.

Tips: Apply eyebrow powder with a small angled eyebrow brush.

M.A.C. Brow Shader ($15)
This is a compact of two sheer pressed brow powders that work together as a combo to refine and define the arc of the entire brow area. It is available in five different shades.

Eyebrow Gel
Eyebrow gel is a light texture cream which quickly adds colors to and reshapes and intensifies the natural line of your eyebrows. You can use it alone or after the use of eyebrow powder.

M.A.C. Brow Set ($15)
A brush-on gel that strokes brows into shape. Adds shine and style. No flaking or stiffening. Tinted or clear. Also grooms lashes, sideburns and facial hair.

Eyebrow Cream
Eyebrow cream has excellent covering power. If you have few eyebrow hairs this is the most suitable product for you. But, it may not give you a natural look as eyebrow powder makeup.

Make Up For Ever Waterproof Eyebrow Makeup (around $35)
It comes in a kit with a tube of corrector and two tweezers. It allows you to lengthen and redesign the natural line of your eyebrows. The creamy texture gives a natural looking to your eyebrows. The results remain flawless for the whole day.

5 Best Mascaras

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:36:08 +0000

Eyes are the most attractive part of your face. To make your eyes more attractive, you need the best mascara to make your eyelashes full and thick. Every cosmetic brand is claiming their mascara is the best. You should get the following professional mascara reviews and find yourself the best mascara!

Lancome New Definicils Precious Cells Mascara

Lancome is the world class cosmetic brand. For every two mascaras sold in the world, one of them is from Lancome. In 2010, Lancome launches a new Definicils Precious Cells mascara which gives you excellent effect and at the same time regenerates your eyelashes.

With its precious plant cell extract, the mascara is able to regenerate the condition of eyelashes. It contains Hyaluronic acid, Madecassoside and Arginine for eyelashes hydration, strengthening and nourishing. These ingredients help prevent lash loss. In addition, it has multi-faceted brush designed to deliver optimal amount of product, while delivering lash by lash separation.

Le 2 de Gurelain Mascara

This duo-ended mascara has two brushes, one big and one miniature. The miniature brush is designed for the corners of the eye, catches the finer lashes. Applying the mascara onto your eyelashes, they become ideally long, thick and curved. The special polymer formula allows each lash to be naturally supple and individually defined without clumping and unevenness. This formula also provides exceptional hold to the eyelashes.

It comes with a light delicate vanilla floriental fragrance which is perfectly safe for the eyes.

Benefit Wonder Lifting Mascara

The most magical function of this Benefit mascara is the unique 30 degree brush head. This significantly lifts, lengthens and curls lashes to perfection. The mascara contains vitamin B5 which provides hydration to eyelashes.

With the buhrstone formula, the mascara is evenly coated onto each eyelashes with clumping from the root to the top. The jet black color makes your eyelashes look thicker and fuller.

YSL Mascara Volume Infini Curl

This mascara gives you curly and thick lashes with just a stroke by the high precision brush. The vegetal extracts provides holding, lengthen and color-stay effect to eyelashes. It also possesses excellent hydration and soothing function to protect the structure of eyelashes.

Helena Rubinstein Lash Queen Waterproof

This is the best waterproof mascara and best mascara for sensitive eyes. It turns your eyes into intense, captivating and wild feline eyes. Enriching with the stretch-leather like complex and vitamin E, the mascara provides you undefeatable length and volume eyelashes in one simple stroke. The mascara is waterproof and smudgeproof and stays on your lashes for 24 hours. It is Ophthalmologist tested to be safe for sensitive eyes and contact lens wearers.

Waterproof Makeup – 10 Best

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:45:44 +0000

In summer, all of us sweat a lot. Sweat and sebum melt down our foundation, mascara, eyeshadow, etc. If you wish to keep your face fresh at the beach, you must know the following 10 best waterproof makeup.

Guerlain Parure Gold Fluid Foundation (around $80)
This waterproof foundation makeup is able to keep the dazzling natural radiance of its color and matt finish up to 8 hours. It minimizes your imperfections like large pores. Skin looks natural and radiant. It is available in 9 shades.
This powerful foundation has skincare functions like regeneration, lifting and smoothing of skin because of ingredients like Myrrh Oil and Peptides.

Givenchy Prisme Foundation (around $63)
The palette of powder foundation from Givenchy is made from a finely milled, sheer, silicone-coated powder that provide you an ultra-fine powder texture for a flawless, natural-looking matte complexion. Three tone-on-tone shades provide customized results and a perfectly sculpted face. It contains Mat Balance Mica to absorb sebum, oil and sweat so that your skin stays shine-free. It is available in seven shades.

Smashbox Waterproof Shadow Liner Duo (around $25)
This eyeshadow is waterproof and won’t crease, fudge or face with its innovative formula. Two coordinating shades are included in a portable mirrored compact. It is your best choice for smoky eye makeup in one quick step. Four colors (cashmere, goddess, slate and smolder) are available.

Smashbox Jet Set Waterproof Eyeliner (around $22)
This eyeliner is used and recommended by many professional makeup artists and Hollywood stars. It is a gel-based waterproof liner stays blendable for 60 seconds then dries to a smudge-proof, budge-proof finish that lasts all day. It is perfect for lining both the inner rim and traditional line. 6 shades are available. It is advised to glides on with ARCED LINER BRUSH #21.

Make Up For Ever Aqua Creamliner (around $20)
This is a 2 in 1 cream-gel eyeliner and eyeshadow. It provides long-lasting and waterproof makeup and is recommended for smoky eye makeup. The creamliner is smooth and the color stays well.

Make Up For Ever Aqua Eyes Waterproof Eyeliner Pencil (around $17)
While it is more common for liquid and cream eyeliner to be waterproof eye makeup, Make Up For Ever launches this waterproof eyeliner pencil. It is highly concentrated in pigments and gives stable, luminous and pearly finish to your eyes even in the sea or pool. It is non-irritating and suitable for those sensitive eyes and those wearing contact lens.

NARS Larger Than Life Mascara (around $25)
This waterproof mascara is enriched with Vitamin E and Macadamia Nut Oil to give a silky smooth with lavish effects. It dries quickly and beautifully, with no smudging or flaking. It brings over-the-top drama to every lash. It is fragrance free and is Ophthalmologist tested to be safe for fragrance free and is Ophthalmologist tested to be safe for contact lens wearers.

Helena Rubinstein (HR) Lash Queen Feline Blacks Mascara (around $35)
It is a 4-in-1 waterproof mascara that makes your eyelashes thick, long and curling. Its generous formula enriched with ULTRA-BLACK pigments combined with an exclusive brush featuring anti-clogging brittles precisely tames lashes for an intensely captivating.

Benefit Cosmetics Benetint Rose-Tinted Lip and Cheek Stain (around $28)
This is the best-selling rose stain for both lip and cheek. This stain was created 30 years ago for a dancer. This is waterproof and kiss-proof. This rosy glow lasts for hours.

Artdeco Magic Fix (around $20)
Magic Fix is designed to seal every lipstick and prevents it from leaving traces on glasses and cups. It is waterproof and kiss-proof. But, it is not suitable for sealing lip gloss.

Beautiful Eyes

admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:01:49 +0000

Colors used in summer makeup look are very different compared to other seasons. Water colors like pink, orange, yellow, green and blue are the best for summer beauty eyes. To establish a rich summer feel, you probably use several matching beauty eye shadow instead of just one. Now we can learn how to blend these colors together naturally for this summer!

1. Orange Red Gradient
Though eye makeup in summer usually composes several colors, you can also make fun with only one eyeshadow color. Spreading out the orange red eyeshadow from your eyes gives you a romantic feel. Can you feel you are Ariel living in the fairy tales? With this strong eye makeup, you do not need heavy makeup for other facial parts like cheek and lips. Keeping them natural and nude is absolutely fine.

2. Peppermint
Green and blue together give you a feeling of fresh peppermint. This peppermint tone is a classic color combination for little fairy living in the forest. Apply blue eyeshadow to both upper and lower eye lids. Apply green eyeshadow to on top of the blue eyeshadow up to your eyebrow. Then, blend the two colors well.

3. Golden Pink
The combination of gold and pink gives the feeling of sunset glow. It is so feminine and elegant.

Apply light gold eyeshadow on upper eye lid. Smudge the light gold eyeshadow towards your eyebrow. Draw a short eyeline (1/4 length of your lower lash line) with a gold eyeliner pencil at the inner eye corner.

Mix gold and pink eyeshadow (or pink rough) together. Apply the mix from your outer eye corner upwards and outwards. Imagine you are painting an oval.

4. Bluish Pink
Blue is the most often used color in summer. You can use blue eyeshadow alone or you can match it with other colors.

Apply light blue pearl eyeshadow on your upper eyelid. Draw a lower eyeline with the same eyeshadow (instead of eyeliner). Smudge a little bit. Then apply light pink or orange eyeshadow on upper eye lid.

5. Swan Yellow
To have bright and sharp eyes, white is not the only color. You can use swan yellow to establish the same effect.

Apply light coral colored eyeshadow on your upper eye lid. Apply silvery green eyeshadow on your lower eye lid. Finally apply a small dot or swan yellow eyeshadow to your inner eye corner.

Draw a thin black eyeline on upper lash line. Draw a pearl white eyeline on your lower lash line.

Dramatic Eye Makeup

admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:17:42 +0000

Leopard pattern is always popular in the world of fashion and beauty. People wear clothes and paint their nails with leopard pattern. Have you imagined for a dramatic eye makeup tutorial for leopard pattern eyeshadow? This creative eye makeup is so sexy with your red lips. If you wish to be attractive in a party, you must learn this. Here you are!

How to do dramatic eye makeup!

Step 1: Apply foundation to your eye to even out your skin tone. You may also need to apply concealer. After the application of foundation and concealer, apply a layer of shinny cream eyeshadow (preferably gold or bronze).

Step 2: Draw an eyeline with an eyeliner pencil on you upper lid. You can end your eyeline at the outer edges with a slight upward tilt. Leopard pattern eyeshadow is wild and with the little upward tilt, you look younger, wilder and sexier.

Step 3: Now you can start drawing the leopard pattern on your upper eyelid. You do not need special painting tools or materials for that. You can simply use your liquid eyeliner. It looks complicated and difficult to draw the leopard pattern. In fact, you can imagine it as a small bracket and that will be much easier for you.

Step 4: After drawing your first small bracket, you can now draw some more randomly. You may have to be careful how far should each small bracket scatter.

Step 5: Then use dark brown eyeshadow to fill the center of each small bracket. You will see a very much completed leopard pattern.

Step 6: To be wild and sexy, you then need to draw an exaggerated eyelash on your lower lid. This lower eyeline must be extended and ended with upward tilt. Instead of eyeliner pencil, you may wish to use liquid eyeliner this time.

Step 7: After drawing the lower eyeline, apply some gold eyeshadow on the outer corner of your upper eyelid to make the whole makeup look professional. Be reminded that you only need the gold eyeshadow on the outer corner but not the whole upper lid.

Step 8: Apply your false eyelashes onto your upper lash line. After sticking your false eyelashes onto your upper lash line, you should push the false lashes upwards slightly.

Step 9 (final step): Apply red lip color to your lips. You may also apply gold and shinny lip gloss on top of your lip after that.

36 Best Celebrity Makeup

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:43:19 +0000

Darker complexion Look of Zoe Saldana. Lip makeup is the key for her!

Nude Look from Taylor Swift, Keira Knightley, Shu Qi, Blake Lively, Dakota Fanning and Ginnifer Goodwin. Simpe and neat!

Red Look from Scarlett Johansson Jennifer Lopez, Zhang Ziyi, Fox Megan, Hilary Duff and Leighton Meester. Elegant and classic!

Spring Orange Looks from Rihanna, Agyness Deyn, Diane Kruger, Amanda Seyfried, Charlize Theron and Keira Knightley.

Peach Look from Michelle Trachtenberg, Emmy Rossum and Zhang Ziyi.

Pink Look from Paris Hilton, Stephanie Pratt and Blake Lively.

Smokey Look from Sandra Bullock, Maria Menounos and Eve La Rue.

Modern Smokey from Rihanna, Lily Allen, Song Hye Kyo.

7 Attractive Eye Shadow Makeups

admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:37:02 +0000

Eye makeup is one of the most important parts for the whole makeup look. Different eye makeup changes your makeup look instantly.

Enticing and Bewitched Look
Eye makeup is the focus of this look. Peach and shinny eye shadow and the extended eyeline make the makeup attractive. The heavy makeup on eyes contrasts with the light face makeup. Light lip color gives people the gentle feel out of the enticing look. Peach and shinny eye shadow gives you an enticing and bewitched feeling.

Icy Look
This look is very icy and it definitely gives you a cool feel. The whole look is natural, nude and clean except the eye. To match with the silvery blue hair, similar color of eye shadow is used.

Eye shadow has been applied above eyebrow to match with the extended eyeliner to form a horizontal water drop shape. Remember to include your inner eye corner into your horizontal water drop shape. Eyeline is drawn thinner at the inner eye corner and thicker at the outer eye corner. For this look, lower lash line must be drawn.

Wearing color contact lenses can exaggerate the look a bit more for party!

Sweet Floral Look
Pink is the theme color of this sweet look. For a sweet feel, you do not need heavy dark color eye makeup. A clean face with light pink rouge gives the feel of early spring. The key for this look is the pink lower lash line. The dark pink lip color adds color and freshness to the whole look. As the eye makeup and face makeup is light, if the lip makeup is also light, the whole look will be pale.

Enticing Floral Look
This look is a good combination of red and green to give the floral look. Green eye shadow has been used for the whole eye lid. Green is more suitable for lighter skin complexion. Therefore, you can see the model is wearing the lighter color foundation. As the eye shadow color is very strong. You have to give darker color to your eyebrow.

Spring Look
Purple and green are the common colors for spring makeup. Using purple color for the eye shadow and green color to draw the lower lash line establish a perfect spring look. Though the purple eye shadow, green lower lash line and pink lips and rouge are quite colorful, they are mixed to give you a gentle feel.

Fresh Stylish Look
Apple green eye shadow gives you the fresh and stylish look. To be modern, you do not need to draw the full lower lash line. You just draw half of it. Same as the spring look. To use green eye shadow, your skin complexion must be lighter. To be more stylish instead of famine, instead of the red lip color, you use a light one.

Drama Look
There is no special feature for this look except the eyelines. Draw a normal eyeline. Draw another long eyeline above. To be modern, half lower lash line is adequate. See you do not combine the lower and upper eye lines in this look to establish the layers feeling.

Eyeshadow

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:57:54 +0000

Eyeshadow is the cosmetic that applied to the eye areas. It uses the color and shadow to establish the three dimensional feel to the eyes. There are different forms or eyeshadow including powder, stick and cream. You can also find both warm and cold colors.

For daily purpose, a three colors eyeshadow palette is adequate. The main tone plus one lighter and one darker colors can make you eyes look different. It is also common for ladies to use one color only to give a pure feel or nude look.

Eyeshadow has the power to change your whole look and therefore, you should pay more attention when choosing your personal eye shadow. Follow the following tips:

Number 1: Take your best pick eyeshadow with you when you have to buy a new one. This is to use as a comparison. Make sure this is your reference point, you should not buy the same eyeshadow!

Number 2: If you like to try different eyeshadow, you can choose the small one. The smaller ones are usually cheaper. If you find out that the eyeshadow does not suit you, it is not that wasteful.

Number 3: Never pick an eyeshadow that has the same color as your eye. The contract between your eye color and the eyeshadow color gives you the three dimensional feel.

Number 4: Low quality eyeshadow can deceive you with its bright and glamorous color. When you try to apply it onto your skin with the tester, you will discover the color will be too light. This low quality eyeshadow will not be long-wearing on your eye lid.

Number 5: As you will draw you eyeliner on top of the eyeshadow. It is better to first apply a little of eyeshadow on the back of your hand. Then use your own eyeliner to draw on the eyeshadow. See the effect. If the eyeliner fails to stay on the eyeshadow, you better not to choose that. You can do the same procedure when you buy your new eyeliner.

Number 6: By using three different colors of eyeshadow can produce three dimensional eyes more easily. But if you do not know how to choose, you can buy the eyeshadow palette. Choose the 3 or 4 shades eyeshadow palette. You can notice that there are always the three colors that you require (main color, lighter color and darker color). Usually the three colors are in the same color system like gold, brown and dark brown. These colors usually blend extremely well and natural.

Eyeshadow Palette

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:26:53 +0000

Spring is coming. It is the time to pack your winter look up and show off your spring looks. Spring is full of colors and it is the same for your eye makeup. The most popular colors in spring are brown and green. Instead of using only one dull color, eyeshadow palettes are your great help!

Channel Les 4 Ombres

The versatile smudge proof formula of Channel cosmetics eyeshadow palettes allow you easily smudge the eye shadow over your eye lids. This 4 color eyeshadow palette allows shade combinations that range from matte to satin to shimmer for unlimited looks. You can apply dry for subtle shading, or dampened for more intense color. It provides Iong-wearing results in even extreme climates. As Channel is a pricy brand and hence it costs you $56 for this four color palette.

Max factor

Max factor has a line of 4 color eyeshadow palettes that will be release in spring 2010 in Japan. The silky texture of the shadow makes it extremely easy to apply. The eye shadows are very colorful which add gentleness to your natural makeup look.

88 Eyeshadow Palette

If you like more colors instead of just four, you can have a choice of the Costal Scents 88 eyeshadow palette. You can choose among the original one, warm color one and the ultra shimmer one.

The original 88 eyeshadow palette is with highly pigmented shades. All shadows can also be applied wet for a deeper longer lasting effect. The colors are not shimmer.

The warm color is the most popular one these days. Unlike the original or ultra shimmer one, you can wear most of the colors from this palette. There is a combination of matte and shimmer and peals.

Though there are 88 colors, it is inexpensive. You can get them at around $19.95.

Manly 120 Eyeshadow Palette

If you are not satisfied with the 88 eyeshadow palette, you can try the Manly 120 eyeshadow palette. What you can find is actually very similar to the Costal Scents 88 eyeshadow palette with the super colorful colors with both matte and shimmer. It is inexpensive also at around $25-$30.

Urban Decay Eyeshadow Palette

From Urban Decay, you can find many different eyeshadow palette under different color system. They includes the 9 shades wall paper shadow box, 10 shades sustainable shadow box, 6 shades show pony shadow box, 6 shades preen shadow box and 9 shade deluxe shadow box. The price is ranging at around $36.

The most special one is the Alice in the Wonderland Book of Shadow. It is with 16 most popular eye shadow colors.

Mineral Foundation

admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:22:29 +0000

You may use foundation every day. Because you use it every day on your face, you should spend time choosing your best mineral foundation. Mineral foundation is getting more and more popular because of its inherent advantages.

- There colorings in the mineral foundation is not as easily dissolvable as the ordinary ones. Therefore, they are less likely to penetrate into your skin;

- Some of them contain Zinc Oxide which can help sooth sensitive skin;

- As most of them are oil free (powder form), they do not clog your pores. It also makes your mineral foundation makeup more long lasting;

- The mineral makeup foundation is very stable and does not facilitate the growth of bacteria. Therefore, they have a longer shelf life.

Bare Minerals Foundation

You can find bare Mineral Matte and Original SPF15 Foundation with Bare. ID Bare Minerals Foundation is the ideal mix of makeup and skincare. It is a problem-solving cosmetic that perfects and pampers the complexion. This makeup is so pure that you can sleep in it.

Matte SPF 15 Foundation offers shine-free coverage and extraordinary skin-renewing properties for a flawless, natural matte finish all day long. This foundation also helps minimize pores and smooth skin. Other than the original powder package, you can find a Matte Mini Refillable Buffing Brush package. The Mini Refillable Buffing Brush is pre-filled with Bare Minerals Matte SPF 15 Foundation infused with RareMinerals ActiveSoil Complex. It provides easy and convenience application. Original SPF15 Foundation gives you the silky, soft texture that looks like a powder foundation.

Revlon Colorstay Mineral Foundation

Revlon Colorstay is a loose powder foundation that combines pure, lightweight minerals together. Its ColorStay™ longwear technology helps your make up to last for up to 16 hours. This medium coverage foundation provides a color that won’t fade all day making your skin look both healthy and flawless, no matter how long your day is.

It is oil-free, fragrance free and therefore non-irritating. You can have choice of 8 shades.

Jane Iredale Liquid Minerals

Jane Iredale is a light-reflecting, mineral foundation in a special liquid formulation.

All nutrients are entrapped into the liposomes beads which are suspended in a gel of aloe vera and vegetable glycerin. When the liposomes beads are heated by the skin temperature, the nutrients are released to yoru skin.

Jane Iredale Liquid Minerals are of PH6 which is very similar to the PH value of skin. The foundation does not contain any fragrance and preservatives. It is suitable for all skin type and can be used for the delicate eye areas. With its excellent nourishing power, it covers fine lines very well to give you a moist and light look.

Estee Lauder Nutritious Vita-Mineral Makeup SPF 10

Estee Lauder is an originated foundation which combines the foundation and loose powder. It is a skin-loving mineral makeup is powered by pomegranate. Pomegranate is a strong anti-oxidant to fight the aging causing free radicals. With also vitamin A, C and E, the foundation energizes skin and makes it radiant. This foundation is able to cover your pore and yet does not clog them up. The oil control function of this foundation is very strong and the texture is very light. It is the same as it advertised as look good and feel good.

Borghese Hydro Mineral Natural Finish Makeup

This foundation is with a light liquid mineral foundation. It provides medium coverage for imperfections. It contains a lot of different skin nutrients and does not clog pores. It unique vitamin water formula makes it especially suitable for dry skin type. Borghese is better than other brands in terms of its nourishing power. You can feel the moisture in your skin for a long time even you have apply this foundation.

L’Oreal Bare Naturale Powder Mineral Foundation SPF 19

L’Oreal Bare Naturale Powder is an all around foundation. You can especially find that comes along with a built-in brush. It offers high coverage for imperfections. With its true match technology, you can find the foundation really matches your skin tone. The foundation is with the sunscreen function and protects your skin from UV aging.

Maybelline Mineral Power™ Natural Perfecting Powder Foundation

The Mineral Power foundation contains 100% of mineral ingredients that can sooth your skin and reduce redness. The powder is fine and light. It is produced from strict purification, combination and filtration process. It is oil free and does not clog pores. With its light and oil free nature, this foundation is best to use during summer time.