Hair Today-Gone Tomorrow-Beauty Tip Tuesday

Hair and the effects of everyday products.
For both women and men we take our hair and all that we do for it pretty seriously.
Especially, when we begin to see it thin and fall out.

Factors to consider if this begins to happen: Stress, age, heredity, illness, drugs, and/or temporary conditions such as pregnancy, or more precisely after pregnancy, and medications.

Then there is also what we apply to our hair. The products we are applying from end to roots, whether it's to color, highlight, thicken, straighten, curl, De-frizz, etc.

Avoid waxy topical products as well as mineral oil based cleansers and conditioners, these can be clogging to your roots, asphyxiating pores and by this, not allowing oxygen and essential vitamins to enter our skin and nourish hair that grows upon it.
So when it comes to everyday cleansers, look for soap free ingredients. (Oat and Bay Conditioning Shampoo by REN). Soap will only dry skin and hair, irritate the eyes, and possibly cause rashes.
Recommended for a once a month treatment; rinse hair with acetic-based, apple vinegar to dissolve waxy-residue build up along the hair shaft and scalp. Include a stimulating scalp massage with eucalyptus oil to promote blood circulation and help open up clogged follicles allowing for better hair growth.

The Airbrush Touch-Beauty Tip Tuesday

Airbrush makeup is not the newest trend in makeup application, in fact it has been around for decades! We could look back as far as 1925 where it was first used cosmetically for the film version of Ben Hur. This form of makeup application was primarily used for special effects in films.
Today many cosmetic companies/artists have joined the band wagon in creating a more portable compressor and fool-proof air-gun even for a novice.
I have fallen victim to some of these products, that certainly weren't cheap, and found the airbrush still cumbersome and ineffective. I've had better results with a sponge.
As the years have passed, I have made wiser investments in the compact airbrush and with that my results have improved ten fold. Now being more efficient, providing a wider variety of looks and effects whether on set or in the salon. In contrast to the classic makeup brush or even the sponge application, the airbrush can mist the finest veil of waterproof makeup creating a smoother finish for any skin texture. Touch up is a breeze, and the client has the satisfaction of feeling as though she has that flawless finish without all the weight of a cakey hand application. I have come to trust the makeup of Dinair and use even their compact airbrush and compressor for small detailed works. The weight and color spectrum of their foundations are pleasing and realistic. For tanning on the other hand I still rely on AirMaster, the power behind it is perfect for how often I use it(almost daily), and just by changing the tip of the brush I can adjust to body and face.

Good Morning America - How Dirty Is Your Makeup?

A few weeks ago we posted Has Your Make-up Expired? Low and behold we were on to something! Good Morning America and local KTLA has been reporting on this very subject.

Check out the video - but WARNING some images maybe too graphic.

Sloughing Off-Beauty Tip Tuesday

Summer is nearly around the corner.
Sandals and flip-flops are inching their way out of our closets.
Many of us are making a beeline to the nearest nail salon to polish-up those toes. But along with the days, weeks, and months of open toed shoes we are also going to be dealing with the dry cracking heels and callouses that go along with it. Frequent filing and hydrating treatments are pretty much ideal until I discovered a more "decadent" alternative! Farm House Fresh, FHF, has created a luxury, honey-based treatment for your feet that re-defines smoooooth.

			Honey Heel Glaze A scrumptious bottle of love for heels and toes. This divine honey-based moisture veil seals in moisture and brings rich color back to tired feet - simply brush on and rub into feet for chalkless bliss. This golden jar is a true guilty pleasure from the first moment you let it breathe - fragranced with velvety cinnamon notes, sweet cloves and actual honey. The finest of moisturizing elements have been incorporated from genuine honey, and aloe leaf juice to pineapple and papaya fruit extracts. Honey Heel Glaze is ultra-smooth, non-greasy, and addictive in every way. Includes application brush in a darling carrying box to delight your gift recipients. Contact Surface Beauty to experience this dreamy new foot treatment as well as many more delicious natural and divine body products from Farm House Fresh!

Beauty Tip Tuesday- May 4th 2010

Bite Your Lip!

If you are one of the fortunate who were born with a full-pout, no need to read on.
BUT,
if you are like me and many other women who desire a plumper-pucker, stick around.

A lucrative trend has been dispersing through these lands.
Lip plumping products!

You've got LipFusion, Too Faced "Lip Injection" treatment, Sexy Mother Pucker, Buxom Lips, Maybelline lip plumper, Urban Decay Big Fatty Plumper, DuWop Lip Venom, the list goes on and on.
You may have found yourself searching for that temporary solution(as opposed to actual injections) to acquiring a juicier yap, but beware of the most typical formulations found in these lip gloss/treatments and how quickly they may counter hydrate instead of treating your delicate pout. Most of these products contain irritants such as cinnamon, ginger, peppermint, cayenne, vitamin B derivatives, as well as supposed "collagen boosting" ingredients like marine collagen, to something called Vorexin, that the manufacturers claim to actually increase the collagen in our lips, (FALSE)but only to cause a "tingly" sensation, a very temporary "swollen" feeling, and in long term use of some of these chemically treated "treatments", will only dehydrate and chap the lips and in worse case scenario cause lip ulcerations.
I Have not tried every one of these lip products, but I think in these past ten or so years I have had my fair share of experimenting with at least a dozen or so. NONE, last longer than two hours. A "sensation" is all that it is, and depending the flavor and gloss texture, that is the only reason I keep wearing them on top of liner and lipstick for that fuller-effect.
Look for beneficial ingredients in the product so at least it will protect and hydrate your lips as you wear it. Such as aloe, Shea butter, almond oil, soy, vitamins E and A, Kukui nut oil, Sunflower oil, green tea extract, etc. If the product is screaming parabens throughout the ingredient list, you might want to steer away.
IE:( Bis- diglyceryl Polyacyladipate-2, Polybutene, Water, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Polysorbate-60, L-arginine, Titanium Dioxide & Mica, Microcrystalline Wax, Ozokerite, PhenylTrimethicone, Menthol, Methylparaben & Propylene Glycol & Diazolidinyl Urea & Propylparaben, Butylparaben).
You want a treat for your mouth not a chemical bath.

I have just the same interests as so many do to perfect my pout and get that sexy full-lipped effect when I "put on my lips". As a professional makeup artist I am an avid collector of what's new and what works out there. So for a product that looks beautiful, tastes sweet, and gives you that fuller appeal, I have two glosses to recommend. Buxom Lips, especially for the colors, and then there's RENEW lip plumper, the gloss,treatment, and shine is fabulous, and it gives a fun swollen appeal, unfortunately it's temporary.