MakeUp Journal

Green tea is mostly know as a healthy drink or a good alternative to coffee.  Its good for other things also, like your skin! 

By drinking green tea, you are fighting against the free radicals in your body. Free radicals occur naturally through the process of metabolism, infections, and certain chemicals. These oxygen radicals can eventually cause damage to your cells, proteins, and DNA in your body which are very important elements to help keep you beautiful and healthy.

Countless nutrients are of paramount importance in protecting against and repairing damage from free radicals including both vitamins C and E and carotene.

Makeup is something most women use on a daily basis.  This industry is so expansive and there more products than you can count making it too much sometimes.  But how do you know which products are as good as people say and worth the money? How do you know what product is the best for you?Forgetting the advertisements you see all over  TV and plastered in every magazine is  an important factor in choosing makeup. Just because a particular product is well advertised doesn’t make it good and worth the high dollar price you are paying for it. More often than not, a cheaper product will yield the same, if not better results.

Raw Natural Beauty helps women look their best without putting potentially harmful, irritating ingredients on their skin. Much of RNB’s time is spent on researching new ingredients, technologies and resources from around the world to offer women the safest options available. RNB’s goal is to help change the beauty industry to develop higher standards and “green” methodologies of product development, performance and safety.

RNB created a fabulous natural, look with mineral-based makeup called “Naked Illumination”. Here are the steps to creating that look:

Bobbi Brown has a way with makeup that is amazingly generous and intuitive. She is especially sensitive the the issues women have about the way they look. She offers methods to take attention away from problem areas and draw more focus to her clients’ best features. Bobbi is a chaml when it comes to make overs, and it’s not surprising that her work is showcased on Oprah.

Bobbi Brown is a professional makeup artist with her own line of cosmetics products. About her life in makeup, Bobbi says ” I wanted to look like Cheryl Tiegs when I was 13 years old. She was thin, blue-eyed, and blonde - the epitome of beauty in the late ’60s. I couldn’t have looked any more different - and I spent a lot of time feeling bad about what I wasn’t. Then I saw Ali MacGraw in “Love Story” and I finally saw the possibility of my own beauty. This epiphany impacted how I viewed myself, how I saw other women and it ultimately led me to my career as a makeup artist.”

Yves Rocher offers a full line of natural, botanical makeup. The cosmetics genius began his lifelong ambition to provide women with natural beauty care as a child.  “His vision was to put plant-based recipes to work to create beauty products, which he would make affordable for women everywhere. In 1956, in the attic of his family’s home in LaGacilly, a small village in rural France, Yves Rocher created his first cream from a plant named Celandine. His pioneering spirit continued, as he became one of the first in Europe to ban cosmetic testing on animals.”

I’m a D.I.Y. kinda girl, so these facials are perfect for me.  They’re simple and quick and can be made from simple items that can be found at your neighborhood grocery store.  For example, create a thick paste from some oatmeal and water and apply it to your face.  Allow it to dry and rinse off with warm water.

Like so many other retro trends, 50’s style makeup is becoming fashionable again. As is the case with other 50’s fashion trends such as full-skirted dresses and cat-eye glasses, 50’s is also finding an increasing number of interested experimenters. By going in for 50’s style makeup, you can now look gorgeous and classic as well as making a unique statement about your style and who you are.

The advent of color motion pictures was responsible for the boom in 1950’s makeup to begin with. Suddenly people began to see their favorite celebs with perfect faces in full fabulous color and wanted to mimic their look. ‘Pancake’ was an invention of this particular era and was used by movie stars to hide certain flaws on their faces. Suddenly women in every city wanted beautiful red lips, neutral toned eyelids and flushed cheeks.

I wake up at 8 a.m. every morning and am ready and out the door by 8:30 on most days.  I just don’t see the need in spending an hour or two every single morning just to go sweat off that makeup at work, ya know?  Here are a few simple things that get you looking great in a short amount of time.  If you’re a bronzer kinda girl, try this.  Use a self-tanner regularly rather than applying your bronzer daily.  I, personally, skip the bronzer.  I’m proud of my paleness!

Ladies, don’t underrate the tools you need for proper makeup application. Look at what professional makeup artists are using. If the pros are carrying a bag of tools for their trade, what makes you think you can do without them? Your personal look is just as important to you as a celebrity’s look is to a celebrity. In your makeup kit you’ ll need the basics:  cosmetic Brushes, Cosmetic Containers, Makeup Mirror, Tweezers, Cosmetic Bags, Eyelash Curler, Cosmetic Case and Makeup Kits.