Feeling Pooped Or Just Look Like You Are!!!

Some Quick Beauty Fixes For A Tired You.

You get your 6-8 hours of sleep a night. You de-stress yourself with yoga or some other exercise routine, you feel great but you still look tired. How come, you ask? Well maybe one of these simple fixes can cure your faux fatigue. Sodium other wise known as salt leaves you looking puffy. Salt helps the body hold onto water which causes you to look puffy and tired. So try to limit you salt intake especially around the holidays where it seems that salt is everywhere. Go easy on the foundation.

Foundation can sink into your wrinkles making them more pronounced and even worse making you look older. Try using a tinted moisturizer instead because it gives a flawless glow. Drink your H2O. Water helps to fight against the dehydration of you skin which increases wrinkles. When using eyeshadow try to avoid using rose colors, plums and browns because they tend to enhance redness in your eyes. Lastly, try to avoid sleeping on your face. When you sleep with face down fluid pools in your face making it puffy. I hope you find these beauty tips helpful. Let me know how you do. Information found at www.glamour.com

Gold Rush

Winter's Back, Ho-Hum.

Even though during the winter most of us aren't able to enjoy being out in the sun you can still bring the sun's golden rays to your face. I read a great article in Allure magazine today which talked about using gold toned make-up to fake a sun kissed look and I wanted to share it with you. Use a little gold eyeshadow to the inner corners of your eyes. This color works well with brown eyeshadow or you could try placing a dot of gold eyeshadow to the center of your lids over your favorite eyeshadow.

To bring an all over your face golden color; dust a soft gold powder to your cheekbones. Just above the eyebrows and your chin. For your lips you can choose a gold colored lipstick or gloss. If gold color lipstick sounds like it's too much for you then you could try a light beige or sand colored lipstick. Then swipe a little bit of gold in the middle of your lower lip.

Allure also had another great idea to give you a quick brightening to your hair. Dust gold powder along the part of your hair with a fluffy make-up brush and then use a little hair spray to help keep the powder in place. Give it a try and play around with the gold make-up and let me know how this works for you. http://www.allure.com/

Smok'en

Smokey Eyes Are Hot This Season. Great For All Eye Colors And Is Easy To Do.

1. Cover the entire eyelid up to the brow-line, with your favorite matte neutral color.
2. Apply metallic gray or copper color eyeshadow with shimmer to lower lid up to crease of eye.
3. Use black eyeliner on top and bottom of lash line.
4. Then, use grey eyeshadow on lower lash line.
5. Finally, don't forget your black mascara. Curl lashes first and apply 3 even coats of your mascara.

Heavy Metal Is Back, No! Not The 1980's

Get A Rock'in Holiday Look.

For Your Eyes:
Metallic eye colors like silver, bronze and gold are hot this season.

For Your Nails:
Use a dark nail color and a short square shaped nail works best with a dark polish.

For Your Lips:
Try a natural or nude lip gloss.

Kiss Winter Skin Bu-Bye

Here Are A Few Simple Tips I Have Tried To Help Keep My Skin Nourished And Flake Free In The Winter...

1. Drink your H2O, it keeps the skin hydrated. Even though, you are not sweating like you do in the summer, you are still loosing water through your skin naturally throughout the day.
2. Use humidifiers. Winter air can be very drying, especially if you use heat for warmth in the winter.
3. Take shorter showers and immediately apply liberal amounts of moisturizer cream after your shower.
4. Go fragrance free. Fragrances in laundry soap and fabric softeners can irritate winter skin.
5. Thicker is better. Try mixing good old fashion Vaseline with your favorite body cream for extra protection. (Don't forget trouble spots like knees and elbows)
6. Try a lotion with a shimmer to give skin a healthy wintry glow.

Please comment on some wintry moisturizing tips of your own.

"Lighten Up!" Beauty For Your Face

1. Use a light shimmering eyeshadow as a base. Make sure it is applied to the inner corners of eyes and just below your eyebrows to make eyes get noticed.
2. Use an eye brightener, that brings light and radiance to the skin. This helps to erase signs of fatigue and brightens complexion. Can be used to other areas of your face.
3. Go for the gold. Try a bronzer, such as one with gold tones to get a healthy glow. Apply to face, neck and chest area.
4. Or you can chose to use a tinted moisturiser, such as Stilla Illumination Tinted Moisturiser. This helps to make skin look flawless.
5. Don't forget your pearly whites. Grab yourself an over-the-counter tooth whitening system and unwrap a bright new beautiful smile.

Please leave me a comment and let me know if this worked for you and look for your link in my best of the best comments post every Friday.

BEAUTY TREATMENTS

If someone asked me "What is the one thing that you like to do to make yourself feel good?",  I would have to say that treating myself to beauty treatments would probably be #1 on my list!  Taking a time-out for monthly beauty treatments from our busy everyday lives to make ourselves feel (and look) good can do wonders for for a girl's confidence.

Now while my most favorite beauty treatments lie behind the big, beautiful red doors at Elizabeth Arden's Red Door Spa there are MANY at home beauty treatments that I like to do for a quick beauty pick-me -up. Check out some of my favorite beauty treatments from The Red Door Spa as well as some of my favorite at home beauty treatments that help to erase stress and renew and restore my hair and skin.

Beauty Treatments for the face -The Red Door Spa Champagne & Roses Facial

"Splashes of complexion-toning champagne, paired with the long-known replenishing qualities of the rose, gently exfoliate and deeply hydrate the skin. Arms, neck and shoulders are massaged with warm stones as a rejuvenating collagen mask is absorbed. Beautiful, petal soft results for all skin types."

Beauty Treatments for the skin - The Red Door Spa Cream and Sugar Scrub

"A gentle sugar exfoliation followed by a hydrating body massage with cream, intensifies moisture absorption for lasting softness. Sensitive skin friendly."

Beauty Treatments for the body - The Red Door Spa Signature Stress Melter Ritual

"An integration of soothing services. Olive oil skin softening scrub, plus aroma therapeutic body wrap and massage, melt stress and rebalance spirit."

My favorite at home beauty treatment for my face consists of The Kate Somerville ExfoliKate Exfoliator , the Fresh Rose Face Mask and the Prevage Face Advanced Anti-aging Serum. These products help to smooth, even-out, hydrate and put the glow back to my skin.

Please let me know what you think about my favorite beauty treatments.  Till then!  B.