8 Beauty Tips for the Summer!

1. Protect Your Skin: Protect your skin from UV rays by using a sunscreen with an SPF of 30 or higher. 
2. Chic Travel Pouches: Favorite luxe resort line Calypso St. Barth makes an appearance at Target this month with a collection of limited-edition tie-dye- patterned cases ideal for toting your beauty essentials to the pool or beach.
3. Wrinkle-Hiding Tanner: Finally, a two-in-one product that gives a natural glow and fills fine lines. Clarins Instant Smooth Self Tanning slides on over moisturizer, and there’s no need to use foundation.
4. Pumped-Up Polish: A sunny coral-pink or red polish adds the perfect dose of color to a neutral-hued swimsuit or sundress. 
5. Sheer Lip Color: Bright pouts are turning sheer for summer. Six new translucent gloss-meets-balm lip shades from Yves Saint Laurent provide just the right amount of color and moisture.
6. Leg Bronzer: Minis and shorts call for tan gams. To banish pasty skin in a pinch, try rubbing on Guerlain Terracotta Jambes de Gazelle Bronzing Mist, a fast-drying, nonsticky tinted formula (not a self-tanner) that leaves behind a fruity floral aroma and washes off in the shower.
7. Skin Luminizers: Add radiance to your complexion by topping your regular bronzer with a highlighting pink or peach blush. Contour your cheekbones using a matte bronzer, then add some shimmer for a healthy glow. We like the long-lasting powder options from Lancôme and Estée Lauder.
8. Shiny Hair Booster: Bumble and Bumble Shine On spray contains light silicones to keep frizz at bay. Plus, the petite bottle packs easily in your beach bag for glossing touch-ups throughout the day. Mist it on dry hair to gain back luster and give your color a lift.

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5 Tips for Flawless Skin

We all know that one baby-faced person with perfect skin. No blemishes, no dry spots - just a smooth, clear, radiant complexion. How do they achieve and maintain such a perfect complexion year-round? Here are some secrets.

1.Science and Medicine. The main thing women use to achieve the baby-face complexion are pills. There are several different kinds of pills that can control acne; birth control, hormones, antibiotics or pills specifically made for controlling acne. If you want to go this route, talk with your doctor and find out which would best be suited for you. If you are nature-oriented and do not want to mess around with pills, keep on reading. There are more beauty care secrets!

2.Use Cool Water. Many of us have long been taught that drying out your skin is the best way to control acne. We have news! It's not. Drying out your skin will cause it to produce more oil to gain back its 'protective layer'. Washing your face with a mild gel, such as Cetaphil or Spectrojel, and rinsing with cool-lukewarm water will keep your skin clean and clear without drying it out.

3.Keep Hydrated – Inside and Out. Aside from drinking plenty of water each day, fill your sink with lukewarm or cool water and add a few drops of oil. Coconut oil and Almond Oil are great choices. Hold your breath and soak your face for as long as you can. Come up for air and keep soaking for about 3-5 minutes. Your skin loves to soak up water, and you probably know that after having a long bath your skin feels the most soft and smooth. Finish your soak by immediately applying a light, unscented facial moisturizer and either let your skin air-dry or gently pat dry with a towel.

4.Blot Excess Oil. If your skin is constantly oily and shiny, blot with oil absorbing sheets. There are many different brands and they all have one main goal; to remove excess oil without the need for adding more pore-clogging powder to your face. Keeping as less stuff off your face as possible will keep it looking fresh and healthy.

5.Keep it Clean! The number one rule of maintaining healthy looking and flawless skin is to keep your hands off it. Your hands and fingertips are crawling with bacteria. You don't want this on your face and seeping into your pores. This is the number one way breakouts occur! Try to keep as much away from your face as possible and always remember to wash off your makeup at the end of each day.
Following these simple beauty care tips will give you smooth, clear and hydrated skin making it easy to apply makeup or feel confident without wearing any cover-up at all.

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21 Beauty Tips for Women

1. Sleeping on your back will prevent many wrinkles and breakouts on your face, and even wrinkles in your cleavage area.
2. Wearing clothes that are tight make you look heavier. Even a slim girl can bulge over too-tight jeans.
3. Put on a coat of clear nail polish before a colored polish to keep your nails from discoloring.
4. Being angry really does take away from your beauty now and will result in more wrinkles later.
5. Wearing less make-up makes you look younger.
6. Vitamins and minerals are needed for health and beauty, but more is not always better. Too much Vitamin A or Selenium can cause hair loss. There is nothing beautiful about losing your hair.
7. If you are unhappy with a hair conditioner, it will still make a great "shaving cream" for your legs in the shower.
8. When shaving, don't stretch the skin or you could cause ingrown hairs by shaving hair off slightly under the skin.
9. Drink plenty of water and get eight hours of sleep every day.
10. Tighten bra straps as they stretch out, or buy a new bra when they can't tighten any further, to keep the bosom looking young and perky.
11. Instead of shaving over and over, with the hairs coming in darker and thicker each time, try waxing. Waxing to remove hair will result in softer hairs each time and result in permanent hair loss after a few sessions. Aussie Nad's is an all-natural product which is easy to use.
12. Sleeping on two or three pillows at a time, or putting a wedge pillow under your regular pillow will help get rid of dark circles under your eyes.
13. Exercise while dieting is a must or your skin will be too large (and saggy) for your smaller body. It is much, much tougher to tighten skin after your body shrinks than as you go.
14. After washing your face, rinse in cold water (fair-skinned people should use cool instead of cold) to close the pores and tighten the facial muscles.
15. If you are out of quick-dry spray for nails, dip your fingers into a bowl of ice-cold water. (Don't to touch the sides of the bowl.) Your nails will dry very quickly.
16. Good posture can make you look much slimmer.
17. Wearing a low heel will give you better posture than wearing flat shoes.
18. Wearing very high heels too often will give you a masculine, muscular calf instead of a feminine, rounded calf.
19. Renew thick nail polish by adding a few drops of fingernail polish remover to the bottle.
20. Make a nail polish bottle not get stuck closed, put a thin coat of Vaseline inside the lid.
21. Clean hair brushes occasionally with dish soap and borax. In a dishpan of very warm water, add 1/2 cup of borax and a few drops of liquid dish soap. Swish the brushes to stir, rinse, and let air dry. Scrub any stubborn spots with a used toothbrush.

Lips Beauty Tip

Having a hard time trying to achieve sexy super pouty lips? Here are a few steps in order to achieve this look that pairs perfectly with a dark smokey eye or a simple clean fresh look!

What you will need: lip balm; lip primer /lip erase/ foundation/concealer; lip pencil; lipstick and lip gloss.

First of all you want a clean canvas much like how you use foundation to achieve an even and clean look on your face as a whole; you want to do the same with your lips. Since most people do their lips last, start with applying a clear lip balm on your lips before applying the rest of your makeup so that your lips will be nice and moist and soft and ready to go once you get to this last step in your routine. I like to use Blistex Deep Moisture Renewal Sunscreen/Lip Protectant. You can use whatever lip balm treatment you would like for this step. You can also use MAC's Lip Conditioner in a jar or tube.

Once you are ready to begin you will want to wipe the excess lip balm off your lips so that you can apply a lip primer/lip erase such as one from MAC Cosmetics or Urban Decay. You can skip this step if you want or you can even use your regular foundation/powder. The point of this step is to even out the color and texture of your lips, and create an even base so that your lip color has something to stick to. Again if you don't want to do this step you don't have to. Some people find this step unnecessary or too drying on the lip.

Using the right lip pencil is crucial at this stage. Even if you are only applying lip gloss defining your lip can save you from the lip gloss or lipstick from bleeding outside of the lines and in the case of lip gloss it can save you from looking like you are drooling. Not a good look on anyone! If you are going for a super clean look you will want to choose a pencil that is a nude or light pink and for a darker look you may want to venture into a purple or even a black pencil (you can use a black eyeliner pencil if you are going for a black or dark wine color).

Start by lining your top lip first. Use light feathering strokes to outline your lip. Begin with your cupids bow. You don't need to go outside your natural lip line for this look. Instead of over-emphasizing the cupids bow try to make the lines more of a straight line or slightly curved line rather than a strict 'V' shape. This is more flattering on most people. Also at the corners you might want to slightly draw the line inwards to draw more attention to your bottom lip.

Next outline your bottom lip. This is where you can over-emphasize your natural lip line, but be careful to only do this in the center of the lip. Don't forget to line the corners and then fill your lips in entirely.

*note this is very important to do if you have not used some sort of primer or base.

Once you have finished lining your lips you can move onto the lipstick. You can use the tube or a brush for this step. All depends on your comfort level. Using a lip brush is sometimes easier to use when you are manipulating your lip line (e.g. exaggerating your natural lip line or making the lip line look smaller; which we are doing both for this look); but if you are comfortable just using the lipstick itself that is fine as well. You will want to use a darker lipstick than lip gloss, or use a clear lip gloss if you are going for a nude lip, or even a slightly lighter nude or pink gloss. You will want to avoid glittery glosses. Also using a matte finished lipstick works best for this look. MAC has the Mattene lipsticks that work great for this and Rimmel has some excellent glosses including a black gloss that will work if you are using a matte black or purple lipstick.

Once you have the lipstick applied its time for the gloss. You don't want to put this all over the lips, just in the center of the lip on both the top and bottom. Just purse your lips together a few times and do the finger trick in order to keep lipstick off your teeth.

If you happen to have lip piercings everything is the same except for the lining of the lips as you may have to line around the actual piercing. Try to keep the center of the lip line thicker than the sides and make sure to wipe the jewelry off so that there isn't product all over the rings so the look doesn't turn into a gooey mess!

Last step is to use concealer with a small brush to clean up your lip line ever so lightly which also helps to keep your lips looking fresh and crisp. Do this lastly to define the line more. You can still skip this step if you wish but it really can make a huge difference. Voila you are done and your pouty lips will surely get noticed!

Relatively simple but can add a polished sexy dramatic look to any one's lips and overall style!

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