Sunday, November 6, 2011

Winter Make up

The key to successful application of winter make up is keeping in mind the harshness of winter weather and the wearing of traditionally darker clothes. Unlike summer with its light clothing and sunny humid days, winter is composed of dry days and warm clothing. Winter make up should accommodate the weather and reflect the heavier clothing and darker colors. That means you put away the light foundations and summery eye colors and bring out the oil based moisturizers, protective foundations and matte eye shadows in fall and winter colors like grey and brown.
Winter make up should begin with an oil based day moisturizer which prevents skin from drying out due to the low humidity and cold. At night, it's important to use a heavier moisturizer with essential vitamins and other skin rejuvenating ingredients immediately after the shower in order to seal in moisture. When you choose a foundation for winter, the matte finishes are more appropriate than shiny bright finishes. The eye shadow colors should reflect the colors in your winter clothing to create a unified and polished look. In addition, puffiness under the eyes which is common in the winter can be downplayed through skillful use of very pale yellow under eye cream.
It's typical for people to have paler skin in the winter than they do in the summer. Winter make up should be applied in a way that adds color and vitality to your skin tone. In the summer the face is rosier due to sun exposure with its dose of Vitamin D. In the winter, the lack of sun means winter make up should include a light tint that matches skin tone without being obvious. The basic foundation should be one shade lighter in order to make the skin look brighter.
These are just a few tips for the application of winter make up that can make your skin look healthy and glowing despite the darker colder weather.

Winter Beauty Tips

1. Try a creamy facial cleanser
Cleansers strip away moisture as part of the job of removing makeup, and dry winter air tends to magnify the problem. Gel cleansers can be very drying, but creamy ones like Dove deep moisture creamy facial cleanser and Neutrogena deep clean cream cleanser should help.

2. Mask the problem
Use a moisturizing facial mask to replenish moisture lost throughout the day.

3. Look for a humidifier
If your skin feels dry and tight even when you're inside your home, there may not be enough moisture in the air for you. Scan the sale pages for a portable humidifier. Make a note to yourself to clean the filter regularly (if they get yucky they breed bacteria).

Socks Off Your Winter Pedicure Clients

1. No Polish Necessary. If fear of smudged polish is keeping your clients away, let them know there's an esthetically-pleasing alternative (and one that doesn't involve going barefoot in the snow). "During the winter, some clients choose not to get polish since they're wearing shoes and socks, so instead I put lots of cuticle oil on their toenails and buff them with an extremely fine buffer to make them shine," says Cindy Wentzel, owner of Nails at the Carriage House in Newmanstown, Pa. If a client definitely wants polish, try applying cuticle oil to the finished nails before having the client put her socks back on to prevent the polish from smudging, Wentzel suggests.

2. Seasonal Services. Familiar wintertime smells can evoke feelings of comfort in your clients, so why not incorporate them into your pedicure services? "We enjoy celebrating the holidays with our season-specific pedicures such as a Pumpkin Spice Pedicure and a Peppermint Swirl Pedicure," says Bill Byron, owner of Salon Eclips in Arcata, Calif. Other popular holiday scents that lend themselves to pedicures include cinnamon, cocoa, and hazelnut. You can even take a do-it-yourself approach, like Wentzel does, by blending together different lotions to create a unique scent for your salon. "I mix scents like coffee and coconut or coffee and oatmeal cookie. It smells like someone is baking cookies right in the shop," Wentzel says. Also, don't forget about hot stone foot and leg massages, which are great add-ons to winter pedicures.

How to Not Ruin Your Pedicure in the Winter

Giving your feet a successful pedicure during the winter is an ideal way to treat yourself to a little rest and relaxation -- while keeping your toes warm. Traditionally, pedicures require that you forgo any contact with your toes until all nail polish dries. During the winter months you must reconsider your pedicure technique to ensure your feet remain cozy. Employ several household products to give your feet a soothing treatment and embrace the spirit of the season at the same time.

Winter Beauty Tips

Changing temperatures mean a change of routine in all parts of the world, even in a country like India that is almost in the tropics.
Understanding what your skin goes through in winter can help you tweak a few habits to get a glowing complexion and healthy skin in winter. Here are a few tips to help you get it right!

Get the blood flowing
  • Exercise is crucial to staying healthy through the winter months. A daily routine of aerobics and cardio exercises can loosen up your muscles and joints and keep you limber throughout the day—and the winter.
  • Start your day with a hot shower. This will compensate for getting out of bed early.
  • Before you get out of the shower, switch to cold water for about 15 sec and back to hot for 15 sec. Repeat this for 2–3 cycles or for about 2 min. This simple hydrotherapy technique revitalizes the skin by stimulating blood flow throughout the body.

Saturday, November 5, 2011

12 Winter Makeup Tips


Winter makeup requires extremely different approach than makeup for other season. Why? Because cold weather might be devastating for looks you work on for several hours. In this article we share some interesting tips for winter makeup, explaining what you should avoid in makeup and best alternatives for things that work in summer time but do not work in winter season.


Make Up Tips for Winter:

  1. Choose good face cream to apply under your makeup, so it will last long.
  2. If you are going to be exposed to cold weather for longer than 20 minutes, do not use creams that may leave a moisture level just under your makeup, it may destroy your makeup. If you use moisturizer, make sure you choose light consistency moisturizer so skin of your face will absorb it fully before makeup application.
  3. You can use silicone based foundations in winter's cold days, they are good to work with.
  4. To party in winter, choose powder make up foundation, it's more resistant for temperature changes.
  5. If it's really cold outside, avoid liquid foundations, they do not like temperature changes. Read about makeup foundations.
  6. Mascara, eyeliners or lipliners should be waterproof – you will be sure that your makeup will stay on.
  7. Loose powder may cause skin dryness and give effect of cracked skin.
  8. Avoid cream blush in cold days – they contain vaseline derivatives substances, not recommended during cold days.
  9. When you choose blush or eyeshadows, pick mousse one and avoid eyeshadows that contain vaseline.
  10. Choose lipstick that contains beeswax instead of lip gloss.
  11. Avoid pink and red makeup colors in winter if you don't want skin redness effect.
  12. In winter time make up is not as much sensitive to cold as to drastic temperature changes. If you change environments from very cold to very hot (from outdoor to indoor), your makeup is in danger – thanks to intensified blood flow to the skin's surface.


Fall & Winter Makeup Trends


When it comes to makeup lasting all day, the fall and winter offer the best months since you don’t have to worry about mascara and eyeliner melting off of your face or coming off in the pool. Fall/winter is also the time when you’ll be able to experiment more with gorgeous autumnal colors and the classic smokey eye look. As for lips, you’ll want to find the right shade of red so you can complete your seasonal look.
Moving past the general advice, the fall and winter makeup trends for 2011 are shaping up to be bold, sweet, soft and sexy. But before you can complete this year’s trends, you’ll need the basic tools of the trade like foundation, concealer, blush, eye shadows in natural shades, lipstick, lip gloss, brow pencil or powder, and of course mascara. Assuming you have all of this, keep reading the makeup trends for fall and winter 2011, and decide what will be your go-to look.


Soft Makeup Trend
One of the trends for fall/winter 2011 is something everyone should be familiar with because it’s been popping up more and more amongst women and teenage girls. The look is nude, and it is a hot look for fall and winter, as well as timeless and traditional for those low maintenance days. To achieve a nude look, you’ll need clean and healthy skin that is nearly flawless. Fortunately,

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Saturday, September 24, 2011

6 Homemade anti-aging solutions


It is very natural process and every body has to face aging process.When our age exceed and our skin gets the symbol of aging. In this way our skin becomes fragile and weak due to different causes. By taking usual anti-aging homemade remedies we make our skin immature and gorgeous.
Here are some easy and useful homemade anti-aging scrubs;

    1.Homemade scrub by using tomato and potato:

Top amazing secrets for anti- aging


Anti-aging is very big problem that effect on our beauty. There are different treatments available in market that reduce anti- aging problem. We can make our personality gorgeous.

Secrets:

If we adopt following routine then this problem will lessen greatly. Cleansing, toning and moisturizing are three fundamental rules for beauty and gorgeous personality.