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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 Foundation and Eye Makeup for Swimming

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.

Eyelash Extension Kit

admin — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:59:24 +0000

We have talked about eyelash extensions in another post of mine. It is a new and semi-permanent way to extend your eyelashes. Most of the people or celebrities may have their eyelashes extended in a professional salon. Of course, that costs quite an amount of money. If you wish to try this new technology at a low cost, you can probably find several brands of home kits available online.

Ardell DuraLash Eyelash Extension Kit
If you are not an eyelash extension professional, you can still get your eyelashes extended at home. You can try this Ardell DuraLash Eyelash Extension Kit which is designed for home use. It is a great product yet simple and inexpensive.

For a full set of this eyelash extension kit, you will find everything you need including easy-to-follow instructions, DuraLash Individual lashes, Adhesive, Remover and Tweezers for easy application. Compared to the eyelash extensions performed in a salon, this kit is much cheaper. It costs you only $15 – $20.

Beyond Beauty Lashes Premium Eyelash Extension Kit
Other than Ardell DuraLash, you may also find this Beyond Beauty Lashes Premium Eyelash Extension Kit available online. This extension kit costs much more than the Ardell DuraLash one at around $80 -$100. The kit includes:

Aluminum Made Beauty Case
Jar of J-Curl Black – (8mm)
Jar of J-Curl Black – (10mm)
Jar of J-Curl Black – (12mm)
Jar of J-Curl (Brown)
Jar of J-Curl (Purple)
Jar of J-Curl (Blue)
Medical Grade Power Black Glue
High Grade Glue Remover
Jade Stone
Highest Quality Tweezer – Straight
Highest Quality Tweezer – Curved
Handy type rubber Air Blower
False Lashes to Practice with
Battery Powered Eyelash Curler
Medical Non-Woven Adhesive Tape for Under Eye
Bag of Micro Fiber Q-Tips
Pair of Scissors
Eyelash Comb
Sponges
Instructional VCD
It is a more comprehensive kit compared to the Ardell DuraLash. But, the customer feedback for this product is not really good. Users are saying that the instruction is not clear and some of the kit items are missing. Given the price difference, you may wish to try the Ardell DuraLash instead.

There are actually some more brands of eyelashes extension kits like Oasis and Xtended Beauty, available online. As these kits are for home use, their quality varies. You have to be reminded that, there is always risk doing your eyelash extension at home by yourself. Before you actually try the kit on your eyelashes, you may wish to try it on false eyelashes first!

How to Use an Eyelash Curler

admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:45:35 +0000

No matter you would like to apply your makeup or not, it is always a good idea to curl your eyelashes. Curling your eyelashes makes your eyes look bigger and brighter. Many of you may be a little bit frightened to use such metal or plastic tool to your delicate eyelashes. You may hear from others that they feel really painful when using the eyelash curlers.

For the normal manual metal or plastic curler, you should follow the following steps:

1. You should clean your eyes as it works best for eyelash curlers. You may apply your eye shadow and eyeliner first but make sure you allow it sometime to dry. Never apply mascara before curling your eyelashes.

2. For metal curler, you can turn on your blow dryer blow the hot air to the curler for 5 -10 second. Feel the metal to see if it is too hot, if not you can use it right now. This action is to make the ordinary metal curler function as the heated eyelash curler. For plastic one, this is not suitable and you can skip this procedure.

3. Prepare yourself with the best eye position for eye lashes to be curled. Look downwards at around 45 degree. If you are not used to such position which hinder you to see your own action. You can put a mirror in front of you and tilt the mirror a little upward to help.

4. You can now open the curler, clamp your eyelashes near the roots. Hold for 10-30 seconds. When I mean hold, you should hold it. Some people clamp for 5-6 times over the 10 seconds, which may not result in better result than just holding it! When you hold the eyelash curler, try to even out your force so that force can be spread from the pad evenly to the eyelashes.

5. After clamping the eyelashes near the roots, move the eyelash curler a bit towards the end of eyelashes and clamp the eyelashes again at the middle part (the middle between the end and the roots). This procedure is taught by the makeup professional!

6. (You do not need to curl the lower lashes!).

7. Open your curler and then remove it!

8. Repeat on the other eye.

A final reminder is to be very careful as both your eyes and eyelashes are very delicate and fragile! Try the eight steps above immediately to make your eyelashes curler!