7 Beauty Trends to Try Right Now

Posted by admin on 8th February 2009

Red lipstick with bronze blush

One thing that Dick Page hadn’t tried in his 10 years of doing makeup for Michael Kors’ shows: red lips. To add a fresh twist, he paired the retro look with bronzy cheeks. Page filled in the models’ lips with Shiseido The Makeup Smoothing Lip Pencil in Siren ($20) and Perfect Rouge Lipstick in Dragon, followed by clear gloss for no-goop shine.

Twisted updo

At Carolina Herrera, Orlando Pita stuck pins (try Goody ColourCollection Bobby Pins, $4, at drugstores) around models’ heads, then twisted hair up and inward over them. He secured it with more pins, rolled up the back, then blasted the hairspray.

Metallic plum eye shadow

Tardif’s must-have at Erin Fetherston’s show: Bobbi Brown Bobbi Brights Eye Palette. He dusted gold shadow onto eyelids and smudged a plum shade above the creases, extending it out into a V. Next came more plum along the top and bottom lash lines and lots of mascara.

Silvery eye shadow

This season’s looks-good-on-everyone trend: icy eye shadow. Backstage at Vera Wang, makeup artist Lucia Pieroni mixed two cool shades from the Clé de Peau Beauté Eye Color Quad in #14 to get just enough sparkle. For more intensity, use a wet brush.

Sexy pale lips

To get the pretty, mod lip color I spotted at Diane von Furstenberg, makeup artist Gucci Westman thought outside the tube. “These lips aren’t achieved by lipstick alone,” she confided. Westman mashed up and mixed together Revlon Matte Lipstick in Pink Pout, Revlon Matte Eye Shadow in Vintage Lace and Revlon Kohl Eyeliner in Pure White . The result: sexy, not chalky.

Beautiful messy bun

This is not your average ballerina bun. For roughed-up texture at Tracy Reese, stylist Nathaniel Hawkins pulled the models’ hair into a ponytail, spritzed on Tresemmé Thermal Creations Heat Tamer and then made a braid. Next, he shook the braid to “free up the loose layers” and twisted it into an imperfect knot.

Pink and bronze blush

At Tracy Reese, Mally Roncal told me her best blush advice: Think sexy and sweet by mixing pink and bronze. She blended her Get Cheeky! Dewy Blushes in Dawn and Ipanema from models’ temples down to the apples of their cheeks in a C shape. To make it not so innocent, she added dramatic false lashes.

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Cosmetics Can be Free

Posted by admin on 8th February 2009

With your sense of inner beauty already in place, you need to find a way to express yourself through your outward appearance gracefully yet inexpensively. Department stores make it difficult to afford the little things that help you put your best face forward, but web companies offer you the opportunity to own the finest in modern fashion for absolutely nothing. Whether it’s free makeup samples or accessory freebies, there is something on the internet to emphasize your inner beauty.

Beauty is free. It emanates from within each of us. But what the world sees of us is the image we create. Fashion, skincare, attention to details helps us to show the world how we feel about ourselves. How we present our moods, our feelings, our sense of pride and self determines how other people react to us. With so much depending on proper presentation, fashion and beauty regimens become instantly more important than many people may suspect. Along with that what we wear and how we look become as important as how we act or what we do.

Unfortunately, looking good is not free. It requires hard work, painstaking attention to details and accessories, time lost to shopping and searching, careful consideration of design, and bank accounts to pay for the drawers full of products that we will wear, smear, dab, and clip. We prepare our faces, pluck our eyebrows, shave our legs, and pierce our ears to show the world that we know the importance of looking good and the value of high fashion. We do these things willingly, but we don’t have to bankrupt ourselves to the cause.

In the old days, many of us lined up for holiday sales, promotional giveaways, and customer appreciation days with hopes of saving a percentage off or gaining a free piece or two for our makeup set or our travel bag. But the online marketplace has changed both how we shop and our manufacturers reach out to us, their consuming audience. With our position as consumers redefined, many of us find ourselves empowered as purchasers, testers, and advertisers. And more and more, we’re figuring out how to make the beauty network work for us.

One way our role as purchasers and product reviewers equates to big savings for us in the realm of products freebies available on the internet. Without going to all the trouble to fix your face and cinch your waist for a day at the mall, the plaza, or the outlet, you can now sit yourself down in your coziest computer chair to shop for your favorite fashion items online, from makeup and purses to shoes and dresses, to shop for the best discounts possible.

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Free Samples

Posted by admin on 8th February 2009

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Check out our catalogue of free and rewarded samples. Samples iclude cosmetics, makeup, lipgloss, revlon, maybelline and more.

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