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How To Look Flat Out Fabulous For $50!!

I recently did a major job with Cover Girl, and was able to work all day with their fab new products.
I couldn’t help but notice that a girl can get herself nothing short of flat out fabulous with these products for under $50!!

So here’s your  5 step guide to gorgeous for spring using Cover Girl:

1.) It all starts with a great base. For spring you want something light, luminous and lovely to make your skin look fresh and dewy.Cover Girl NatureLuxe Foundation is a higher end product with some luxury ingredients.

This foundation has a luxurious lightweight feel, its silky formula goes on smoothly for a polished finish, and its infused with jojoba and cucumber.
Cover Girl NatureLuxe Foundation $11.99

2.) I am a huge advocate of cream blushes. They make the skin look so radiant and fresh, and are super quick and easy to apply with either your fingers, or with a foundation brush.

Cover Girl & Olay Simply Ageless Sculpting Blush combines cheek color with Olay Regenerist Serum, so you can sculpt and contour your cheeks at the same time as infusing them with a youthful glow.
Cover Girl & Olay Simply Ageless Sculpting Blush $10.99

3.) They eyes have it with these fantastic new Smoky ShadowBlast Eye Colors.
 A clever two step system for creating bold, smoky eyes, there are six expertly coordinated shade duos, created by the amazing Pat McGrath. The sticks have a rounded end to use all over the lid, and a complimenting color on the angled end to use in the crease and along the lash line. Smoky ShadowBlast takes the fear factor out of doing a smoky eye, instead making it easy for anyone to create a professional look. So quick and simple!

SmokyShadowBlast Eye Color $7.49

4.) If you want to look high speed fab you’ve got to give your lashes some serious love. Create mega length and volume with LashBlast Fusion Mascara. Featuring Cover Girl’s biggest brush ever, you can max out each and every lash with intense volume for a big bold look.

Smudgeproof and rubproof this buildable, lengthening formula gives you a dramatic fan of lashes, with no clumping and no flaking.
LashBlast Fusion Mascara $8.99

5.) Spring/Summer 2011 is all about a bright lip, and you just cannot beat the Cover Girl Lip Perfection lipsticks. I am obsessed with the hot fuchsia shade Spellbound. I wear it every single day!! Designed by Pat McGrath these lipsticks are bright gorgeous colors that can completely transform your day (and your lips!)

Enriched with Silk Therapy Complex Lip Perfection lipsticks create soft, smooth, beautiful lips in just 7 days!
You immediately feel the moisturizing benefits of the lipstick, and the colors are To. Die. For.
Make sure you check out Spellbound – your face will look brighter, your teeth will look whiter, and you’ll fell like a million dollars! If fuchsia is too much for you, look at Enchantress, a sweet, bright fun pink.
Cover Girl Lip Perfection $7.49

So there you have it! A 5 step guide to gorgeous for spring, with a price tag that comes in at under $50.
($46.95 to be exact!)

Single Girl’s Survival Guide

A couple of my girlfriends have recently gone through completely devastating break ups.
You know, the kind where you can barely get out of bed in the morning, you just don’t know how you’ll ever live through it, the ones that leave your soul bleeding.
You know how bad that feels.
And if you don’t, then you either haven’t lived enough yet, or haven’t ever loved hard enough.

Anyhoo, I also have a bunch of girlfriends who are single. (some of the most ‘single’ girls I know are married, but that’s another story), and the common thread seems to be a dread of facing Valentines Day alone.
As such I decided to create the Single Girl’s Survival Guide To Valentines Day.
Its a simple day by day plan to get you through this week.

DAY ONE:

One of the best distractions is to change up your look. Do something you’ve always wanted to, but never tried. Go against the grain and try a look you never did before, because his lordship didn’t like it.
Live a little.
Here are some ideas for you:

1.) Change your brows
A simple change in your eyebrows is the easiest way to completely revitalize your look.
Find a brow specialist in your town, and if nothing else have a consultation. A brow expert will reshape and re-groom your brows to optimize the shape not only of your eyes, but your entire face.
Sometimes even just tinting your brows to their perfect shade is all you need to make your eyes look wide awake and vital.

2.) Try Injectables

This one comes with a caution.
Some of the most spectacular faces I ever work with have been artistically enhanced with a needle here and another there… Anything from knocking out a few wrinkles, to filling in marionette lines, the change injectables can bring to a face are nothing short of amazing. The caution comes in your choice of administrator – really, really do your research, and find a doctor who’s work is spectacular, and who will leave movement and expression in your face. (you don’t want to be walking around for the next 3 months with a perpetually freaked out look on your face!) And don’t go doing anything too drastic…
The one that I would absolutely love to try (but am far too scared to) is under eye filler. When performed by an absolute genius this is quite possibly the most drastically fabulous thing you can do. Most doctors won’t go near it though, which to me, is warning enough.

Celebrity hairstylist Kim Vo, looking gorgeous!

3.) Change Your Hair
 Not a drastic change though. Do something subtle. A softly side swept fringe is totally alluring. Add some highlights and low lights to create new dimension to an already fabulous cut, or maybe splurge on a truly fabulous cut from a bona fide hair savant.
Depression somehow isn’t quite so depressing when you look great (and know it)

4.)Try A New Foundation
There are some truly gorgeous new formulations on the market, designed to make your skin look luminous and radiant. When your foundation is fabulous, the rest of your makeup follows suit, whereas you can do the absolute most sensational eyes ever, but if your base looks icky, your whole look suffers.
If there is a Sephora near where you live, go have them find a good foundation fit for you, have them put it on you and walk around in it all day before you buy it. You don’t need any more remorse in your life right now, especially not buyer’s remorse…

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5.) Try Something Bold

Try out one of the new season’s bold lip colors.
My absolute favorites at the moment are MAC Something New and Cover Girl Spellbound. Both are hot, vibrant, exciting fuchsia. They instantly make you look a live and
vibrant, make your teeth look white, and are so totally pretty.

Just make sure that whatever you, you do it for all the right reasons. Do it 100% for you, and you alone

New Lips From Nars

I seem to be talking a lot these days about Nars products, but I love them, so why not? I use tons of Nars both on myself and in my professional makeup kit, so they are easy to talk about!

Here comes another new product from Nars, Velvet Gloss Lip Pencils.

The pencils take everything we loved about their ‘Velvet Matte’ counterparts, and swap out the formula for a glossy lip instead of a matte one.
Iris Strubegger models the collection’s gorgeous ad campaign. The new pencils give a non-sticky luminosity to lips, while featuring a lightweight formula enriched with Vitamin E.

Taking lips to new heights in six beautifully buttery born to shimmer shades, it just doesn’t get more alluringly glossy than this!
The shades are:
Baroque – raspberry sorbet
Happy Days – pink coral infused with a gold shimmer
New Lover – gold infused strawberry pink (my favorite)
Frivolous – iridescent seashell pink
Hopi – honey beige
Club Mix – sheer grape

Here’s a cool little movie about them, featuring subtle and beautiful makeup by Diane Kendal. Fabulous.

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