Beauty Answer: Just a few steps are all that’s needed to keep your eye makeup from smudging. First, take blotting sheets or tissue get rid of any excess oil or makeup from the eye area. Next, to ensure everything stays cemented in place apply a small amount of cream concealer.
Beauty Answer: With a good regimen changes and results should be noticeable within 2-3 months. Just like with regular hair (or hair which grows from the scalp) everyone is different and for some the process can be quicker or slower. The key is consistency and realizing that lashes need a little attention on a daily basis. Eyelash growth treatments, serums and lash conditioners help to stimulate your eyelash growth cycle so that lashes grow in thicker, longer and darker.
Cheap Can Be Chic: Here’s a little trick if lash conditioners are not quite in the budget at the moment. Buy a moisturizing lip balm and apply a little to your lashes every night.
Beauty Quickie: We have been getting a lot of messages in regards to lipstick and we thought this was an excellent question to explore. Liner is a great prevention method to keep lip color in …
Beauty Answer: Lip balm plays a major role in hydrating your lips which can become dried out and it helps prevent lip shades from absorbing into your lips do to the balm’s waxy texture. To …
Did You Know? Liquid Foundation can be made into a highlighter. Take a liquid foundation and a loose iridescent powder perhaps with a rose gold shade mix together and you have you perfect customized liquid highlighter.
Beauty Quickie: It is very wise to change up the beauty products you use as the seasons change. This is because your skin requires and has different needs during various parts of the year. Winter tends to be drier so your products should have a more moisturizing effect. Moreover, during summer which is approaching rapidly, use products containing lots of SPF to protect skin. Trust us, it is a complete myth that black skin does not need to worry about sun exposure.
Malaika Firth Shows us How to Get The Hottest Makeup Looks for Summer! What are the looks? They are: How to Get Mega Lashes, look effortlessly nude and how to get a translucent smoky eye.
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Glamour UK June 2015
Like their not big enough, the Swedish retailer H&M Launches Fast “Fashion for the Face.” H&M is taking over in a major. Everywhere you go even overseas H&M is as common to see as an McDonalds. Why? Because its affordable and they stay current with the fashion trends so that anyone can look chic and put together even if they can’t afford certain clothes at High-Street retailers.
Launching in September H&M will have more than 700 beauty pieces and up to 1,000 shortly thereafter. What will you find, everything! Makeup, body products, nail polish and hair-styling tools will be available with price tags ranging from $2.99 to $24.99. Amazing we know.
What’s great to about their products is that they are promising eco-friendly and silicone free materials which is a plus. So let the countdown begin to September to check out this new venture of H&M.
We came across a cute set of lip balms and just had to share! If you are on any social media platform it is safe to say that most likely you have seen memes and captions stating that you should,”Keep Calm,” for one reason or another. Rimmel has gotten in on the popular catchphrase by developing a line of affordable lip balms. The balms cases say to Keep Calm and: Kiss, Shop, Rock, Play and Party.
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Can Senait Gidey get anymore beautiful?! Apparently, the answer is yes… Gidey is featured this month in a beauty editorial for ELLE Canada. Senait does not roll solo in the spread she is joined by model Dauphine. The jaw-dropping makeup was handled by MUA Lloyd Simmonds and photographer Owen Bruce lensed the shoot. The editorial increases the drama going from a natural face to bold eye color and even a smoking dark lip.
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