BEST MAKE-UP TIPS

Best Makeup Tips

Here are some great makeup beauty tips:

Beauty Tip: Stella McCartney and Yasmin Le Bon are big fans of Urban Decay's Lip Gunk. This gloss is described as "the richest, shiniest, sexiest stuff for your lips". It comes in a variety of colors that either shimmer or sparkle. These celebrity favorites are also flavored and scented!

Beauty Tip: Brighten your eyes and look wide-eyed with a shimmery soft metallic eye pencil. Line the inner corners of your eyes, the lash line or the brow bone. Try a pearly pink pencil such as Shu Uemura Drawing Pencil in Me Pink (ShuUemura-USA.com, $18), or N.Y.C. New York Miss Sparkle Highlighter Pencil (2.99)which is a shimmery white.

Beauty Tip: For clump-free separated lashes try the new eyelash comb mascaras. Try L'Oreal Volume Shocking 2-Step Volume Construction Mascara ($12.95, drugstores). It has a primer on one side and a thickening mascara on the other. The spaces between the comb are wide so more mascara is applied to lashes then usual for a thicker appearance.

Beauty Tip: If you are blonde, or have light eyebrows, there is something you can do to look more attractive instantly! You should darken your eyebrows slightly with either an eyebrow pencil or powder. Many blondes don’t, and when they finally try it, they are amazed at the difference that accentuating their eyebrows makes! Makeup artists often will give their blonde celebrity clients a light-browed look for a daytime event and a dark-browed look for a dramatic evening look. Be sure to apply eyebrow pencil with soft, feathery strokes and use a shade in the blonde family to look natural. Try Maybeline Expert Eyes Twin Brow and Eye Pencil in Blonde.

Beauty Tip: If you are red-haired, you may want to know that celebrity makeup artists often use an auburn eyebrow pencil on their red-haired clients during the daytime and a light brown eyebrow enhancer at night. Try Maybeline Expert Eyes Twin Brow and Eye Pencil in Auburn for day and in Light Brown for night.

Beauty Tip: Brunettes should have no trouble finding an eyebrow enhancer. Just remember to keep it soft, like a medium brown. Any darker is too severe, even for midnight-haired lasses. Try Maybeline Expert Eyes Twin Brow and Eye Pencil in Light Brown. Makeup artists tend to agree that black haired gals usually look best with a dark brown brow enhancer rather than a black one, which could look too severe.

Beauty Tip: If you wish to apply a sheerer foundation for a change, and you do not wish to invest money on a second one, do like celebrity makeup artists do, and simply mix the foundation with the moisturizer in your hand, adding more moisturizer/foundation, until you get the consistency you want. (This trick works only for liquid foundations).

Beauty Tip: If you wish to be creative with your lipsticks, and invent new colors, as a true makeup “artist” will often do, you can combine colors in the palm of your hand. If you like the shade, buy a small vitamin box (available at some drugstores). Cut off pieces of each color from the tube and mix together in the box with a tiny spatula or any flat tool. Apply the newly created color with your lip brush. Makeup artists tend to invent tools as they go along and often carry many “makeshift makeup tools” in their makeup bag.

Beauty Tip: If you have excess facial hair that you do not wish to remove, or if you want to lighten your eyebrows, try a cream bleach, such as Jolen, available in most drug stores. It will lighten your facial hair to a very pale blonde. If you’re lightening your eyebrows, keep checking what color the bleach has brought your brows up to. If you keep it on too long, your eyebrows will end up blonde. If your brows do end up too light, apply eyebrow pencil in soft feathery strokes to fill them in, or use an eye-shadow sparingly. In his instructional makeup how-to book, “Making Faces”, celebrity makeup artist Kevin Aucoin used a lightened brow on models of all different hair colors, even dark brown! Be very careful anytime you use bleach and never bleach your eyelashes!

Beauty Tip: If you are Asian, African-American, or have a skin shade that is hard to match, and can’t find a good shade at the drug store, you may want to check out celebrity super-model Iman’s line of cosmetics. This line is devoted to matching ethnic skin tones. Visit ImanBeauty.com. Many makeup artists recommend her realistic foundation shades.

Beauty Tip: Here is a little known celebrity makeup artist tip: If you wish to wake up your eyes, try applying foundation all over, even on the lids, being sure to blend extremely well. Apply sparingly. Immediately set with powder to avoid creases and sliding. Benefit’s Lemon Aid is a yellow-based concealer designed especially for this purpose. Visit BenefitCosmetics.com.

Beauty Tip: If you have light to medium skin, you may have yellow undertones to your skin color. A foundation that looks too yellow in the jar may look very natural when on the skin. Celebrity makeup artists do not let yellow scare them away. Test foundations by painting a stripe onto your jaw and walking outside with a mirror.

Beauty Tip: If foundation seems to slide right off your face, celebrity dermatologists and makeup artists recommend using an oil-absorbing product, such as Seban Solution Facial Oil Inhibitor from Cabot Labs, under your foundation, Apply it to grease prone areas like your nose, forehead, chin, or your whole face, if need be. Visit DeliveredDeals.com to purchase.

Beauty Tip: If your foundation seems to completely disappear during the day, set it in the morning with loose powder. If you need to, touch it up with pressed powder (it is of course, not practical to carry around loose powder). If your makeup still disappears, you may need to apply a lot of loose powder and really press it on with the puff. Then brush away the excess with a large makeup brush. Some makeup artists will brush the loose powder on the face with a large makeup brush and boycott the puff, as the puff can make the face look “too finished” for natural light.

Beauty Tip: Do not reapply makeup over faded makeup. Your face will look caked-on. Instead, keep a box of unscented baby wipes in your bathroom or purse, and use them to remove old makeup before reapplication. Do not use them as a substitute for washing your face, no matter how tired you are. Many makeup artists carry baby wipes in their makeup artist bag. Many celebrities don’t go anywhere without their makeup artists, so they can have makeup touch-ups anytime, anywhere. Can you imagine? Model Janice Dickinson even brought her makeup artist to her reality television show. If you just can't be bothered with makeup touch-ups try a long wearing foundation, such as CBSG's all-time favorite, Revlon ColorStay Foundation with the new ingredient "Softflex", which is truly miraculous and stays put for up to 12 hours.

BEST NAIL TIPS

• Here are some great tips for your nails:

Beauty Tip: Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Love-Hewitt and Britney Spears are fans of Hard Candy Nail Enamel. This nail enamel is famous for its fun colors that mix in fun effects like glitter, iridescence and pearlized finishes. Here you can find baby pinks and robins' egg blues. Each bottle's cap is bejeweld with a real Swarovski Crystal! Even though Hard Candy is loved by celebrities, the products are sold at rock bottom prices! Visit HardCandy.com.

Beauty Tip: Contrary to the television commercials of just a few years ago, soaking your nails in dishwashing liquid will only ruin them. So do not soak in it!

Beauty Tip: As stated above, dish-washing liquid is damaging to nails, so be sure to wear rubber gloves when doing dishes. You can also wear these for any other type of activity that can potentially damage your nails, like cleaning out the garage.

Beauty Tip: The smartest length for nails is to not grow them past ¼ inch. Any longer of a length will break easier.

Beauty Tip: The smartest length for nails is to not grow them past ¼ inch. Any longer of a length will break easier.

Beauty Tip: You may not know this beauty tip. Do not wear dark nail colors often. To do so will cause the tips to yellow. Always apply a base coast under dark colors.

Beauty Tip: If your nail tips are yellow, use a white pencil to color the underside of the tips, or get a French manicure. Do not dip the tips in bleach. While the tips will get whiter, they will also break off within a couple of days.

Beauty Tip: Be sure that you and your manicurist keep all nail tools sanitary. This is an important beauty tip to remember.

Beauty Tip: The bottom line is that adding anything artificial to your nails, besides polish (after a base coat, of course), will weaken them over the long run. It is best to let your natural nails grow and always wear a base coat and maybe some polish for protection.

Beauty Tip: If you want the latest technology in your nail-strengthening polish, try No More Breaks by Sally Hansen. This product contain unique combinations of ingredients in strong concentrations. It not only strengthens the nails but actually moisturizes them as well and can make the nails look better.

Beauty Tip: Many do not realize that nails need a balance. If you keep hardening and hardening them with coats and coats of product, they can snap easily. If you moisturize them regularly, they will be hard to prevent chips, yet flexible to prevent snaps. Try a heavy duty moisturizing cream like Eucerin.

Beauty Tip: To prevent chips, swoosh a little polish under your nail tips to “wrap” the paint job around the entire nail. This creates padding at the nail tip to protect against chips, and prevents the white of nails showing at the tip prematurely.

Beauty Tip: “Fine” emery boards don’t tear nails no matter how delicate. They are available at Sally Beauty Supply stores.

Beauty Tip: You should let nails rest for 2 to 3 days between manicures to let your nails recover.

Beauty Tip: If you have cuticles that wont’ budge, loosen them up with Creative Nail Design's AHA Cuticle Eraser (available at BeautySak.com). It takes on the toughest!

Beauty Tip: Here's another great nail beauty tip. If your nail tips have turned yellow, you can apply white vinegar to them.

CELEBRITIES` BEAUTY TIPS -revealing the secret

• Kelly Clarkson's Sweet Marathon

Celebrity Body Secret: After becoming the first American Idol, Kelly Clarkson, lost about twenty pounds by running on a treadmill for an hour and a half a day and by eating frozen grapes when she was in the mood for a sweet snack.

• Britney's Cheetos for Chicken Swap

Celebrity Body Secret: Britney Spears packed on 50 pounds during her pregnancy. After the baby was born she lost that weight by trading in her Cheetos for chicken and veggies. She also added swimming to her 90 minute workouts. She also does yoga, Pilates and weight training.

• Kirstie's Jenny Craig Slimdown

Celebrity Body Secret: After her days on Cheers, Kirstie Alley began to explore the gourmet food world. Her weight kept creeping up until finally she was so big that she couldn’t get many roles. So she decided to pilot a show which parodied her struggles as a plus-sized actress in Hollywood. The hit television show was called Fat Actress and aired in 2005 on Showtime. When Kirstie saw herself at 219 pounds on screen she had an epiphany. She realized she wanted to lose weight and get healthy. She lost 50 pounds in 10 months on Jenny Craig. She also works out at home and dances whenever she can. Kirstie wants to get back to her “Cheers” era weight of 136 pounds and feels confident that this new healthy lifestyle will get her there.

• Oprah's Fridge Lockdown

Celebrity Body Secret: In 1998 Oprah Winfrey weighed 237 pounds. When her heart started palpitating rapidly, her doctor ordered her to lose weight. This scary episode was a revelation for Oprah. She eliminated refined carbs, and began a weight training and cardio program with the help of celebrity personal trainer Bob Green. Oprah began to run for 5 miles a day. She also reports that her kitchen closes at 7:30 PM sharp! Oprah lost 87 pounds and has reached her ideal weight of 150 pounds!

CELLULITE- fight it !

When it comes to cellulite, don't expect miracles. But by combining good eating and exercise habits with stress reduction and occasional spa treatments, smoother body skin can result. An increase in circulation through massage definitely provides an assist. Endermologie also exfoliates the skin, leaving it soft and silky. The increased circulation also gives you a natural energy boost.

The key to preventing and fighting cellulite is to purify the body with a combination of exercise, a healthy diet, tension reduction and proper circulation.

• A detoxifying diet is a great way to start fighting cellulite. This means lots of fresh fruits, vegetables and whole grain foods. It also means eliminating coffee, soda, smoking and alcohol from your life. A low-fat diet, high in fiber and complex carbohydrates, is important because these foods are easiest for the body to break down, use and get rid of. Sugar, starch, salt, spices and animal fats are harder for the body to eliminate. A low-fat diet reduces toxins and assists in getting rid of the toxins trapped in the tissue. Drink plenty of water -- up to two liters a day -- to assist your body in getting rid of unwanted toxins and waste.
• Exercise is extremely important in aiding proper circulation. It firms muscles and the tissue surrounding the muscles.
• Massage not only pampers, it also assists in fighting and preventing cellulite. Massage helps restore the body's natural tendencies by manipulating the muscles, and stimulating the circulatory and lymphatic systems that break down fatty tissue. Massage targets areas that are difficult to stimulate with good old exercise (such as the inner knee and upper thigh areas). Try simply massaging each leg in circular movements, kneading the flesh as you go, for a couple of minutes each day to break down fat and get rid of toxins.
• Skin brushing using a massage brush or glove for a couple of minutes boosts circulation. Start at the feet, brushing the skin in an upward movement. Doing this daily before your shower helps revitalize and improve the skin's appearance. iVillage Beauty member Sandra Harris also recommends a product called Lipofactor, a firming product applied to the skin. "This is the first product that has actually worked. It has significantly decreased the look of cellulite."
• Tension not only stresses the muscles, it also causes the connective tissue that covers the muscles to seize up. Tension blocks the tissue, preventing good waste elimination. Relaxation and breathing help the body relax and work properly. Proper breathing eases tension, oxygenates the body and helps with purification.

BODY CARE TIPS

• Everyone hopes to have a perfect body but unfortunately no matter what we do, it just never seems perfect. You feel too fat, your nose is too small, your skin is too dry: the problems are never-ending. Perhaps it is not your body but your attitude that is not perfect. Realize that human beings are never satisfied - unconsciously, you keep wanting more and aiming higher. It is not completely unhealthy as long as you do not let it overpower you.

Despite the grave advice presented above, it is acceptable to correct real problems - like dry skin or the extra thirty pounds that don't belong on your body. But there is a healthy way of doing it without letting it adversely affect your daily life. On the contrary, it should make you look and feel better enabling you to feel more confident and positive.

• Weight loss is an issue that most women consider, whether it is to lose five pounds or forty. But not all are successful and most give up after sometime. Start with developing the right attitude and taking baby steps to implement it. We offer you tips and let you in on little secrets that can help you achieve your goal weight. For instance buying a non-stick pan can prevent you from using too much oil, or just chewing sugar-free gum can be better than munching while you cook. It is always the little bites and the urge to finish the extras that get you into trouble.

Remember to keep it simple and work on that attitude. Shed the all or nothing stance; if you fall, dust yourself and move on instead of completely letting go of your diet and bingeing. The best way to make sure you do not fail is to get your weight loss strategy right in the beginning. Do not completely stay away from your favorite food items; the craving will make the situation worse when you stumble on your diet. Instead indulge your cravings in smaller portions and in moderation.

• Weight loss apart, there is still the skin you have to take care of. Not just your face and hands but your whole body. Rarely do we find time to moisturize our whole bodies. It is then logical to assume that the only moisturizing your whole body receives is when you bathe. Make sure you use a soap, which is mild, and one that will not damage your skin.

While skipping bath a day sounds like a terrible sin, bathing too many times is also not recommended. It will only make your skin dry and irritable. Cleanliness is important but learn to enjoy your bath as a means for de-stressing. Pamper yourself with bath oils and moisturizers. The word pampering is most apt for pedicures! You do not have to spend all that time in the parlor as you can do it yourself in the comfort of your home. No matter which products you use and what methods you choose, remember to nourish your body with nutritious food, exercise, positive thoughts and some pampering!