We girls think we have it bad, having to wade through the plethora of modern beauty choices. All you have to do is delve into the past beauty aids to be eternally grateful for today’s fabulous choices.

For instance Cleopatra the Queen of Egyptian glamour had to grind crushed carmine with smashed base of ants eggs’ Yuk’ to color those famous lips, and grind lapis if she had a yen for blue eye shadow. Ditto with malachite if she was feeling inclined towards green eyes on any given day. Even though she had 10 million slaves to do her bidding, imagine the bother.
 
Greek beauties had to make a paste of ground seeds and berries to brighten their fair cheeks. They first coated their bodies with a white powder so their skin was very white, it was later discovered that the white powder contained arsenic and actually destroyed the skin and was often quite deadly.

Its summer! And its time for your lips to glow, softly and vibrantly, on hot sultry, summer nights. How do I do that? You may ask. Well as always Makeup World is at your command. We wave our mysterious magic makeup wand and all is revealed.
 Shiseido beckons us to glaze our lips with their new brilliant and translucent tubes of glamorizing, glimmering lip-gloss. A simply must for those heated summer nights, sexy elegance and luscious innocence, capture the summer with the tantalizing colors of iced rubies, tangelo glo and naughty night berry.
 
For even more fun for you and your luscious lips try Mocktails, for the sheer sexy and sultry look of summer. Mocktails are named after exotic tropical drinks. They come flavored like your favorite cocktails but without the alcohol.

Compacts have been around since May West said those famous words, “Is that something in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?” Compacts have never gone out of style.
Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe may have said, “Diamonds are a girl’s best friend,” but they should have included the humble compact. In old movies we were always saw the sultry blond  heroine powdering her nose while looking in the mirror, of her ever-present compact.
 
Now Natural Glamour brings the compact up to the present day, with a pressed powder that is so natural you hardly know you are wearing it. Natural Glamour leaves skin looking smooth and radiant, giving skin a natural healthy glow. These beautiful compacts are perfect for travel, and perfect for touch ups on those hot summer nights when soft glow, turns to unwanted shine.

Many women think, “Hey! It’s summer! I don’t need any makeup, I can be makeup free for three whole months, right?”

 Wrong. Nothing could be further from makeup truth. More than ever that precious gift from God, your skin, must be protected at all costs. Many things can cause damage to the skin, and over sinning yourself or should I say over sunning yourself is up there in the top three.

Summer foundation should look like it does not exist, it should be light with an SFP of at least 15. It should make you glow like a firefly on a hot June night. If you are using a bronzer you can still use a sheer foundation to give you that soft evening glow. Your skin should look moist yet kissed by the sun.

Soft and sultry that’s the look for the summer. A moist natural glow that doesn’t look overdone. How do you achieve a soft natural look in the summer heat when it comes to eyeliner? Makeup World is here as always to show us the way. There are a hundred brands out there all offering wonderful solutions to eyeliner that slides off in the summer heat. Lets face it -who wants to look like a Panda in the middle of a melt down?

Its summer the sun is shining it is Hot! Hot! Hot! and you want to look absolutely fabulous. But as you girls know we cannot, I repeat cannot, overdo makeup in the hot humid heat of a sultry summer.

In the summer more is less and the more natural the look the better.

The major packaging for our makeup needs today comes in compact form. They vary - from plastic, to pewter, upwards from solid silver to gold plated. They come engraved with beautiful flowers or modern geometric designs or they can even be personalized with your own name or initials.

Why would a person wear lip-gloss? A person may ask - is there an answer?

Is it so you have a buffed glossy look?  Or so your best friend can comb her hair without a mirror, these are mysteries yet to be solved. Maybe its so flies stick to your lips in the summer, therefore you don’t swallow them. Personally I wear it on dates where I’m not really attracted, that way if he tries to kiss me he just slides off! I have heard they are coming up with a new glo in the dark lipgloss, so at night you will always be on target when attempting a liplock in the dark.
 
Joking aside lipgloss makes your lips look more luscious, more kissable with a softer sexier look, In summer it’s nice to forgo lipstick and wear lipgloss instead, it looks great with a light summer tan, gives a fresher more youthful look, and doesn’t melt of your face in the summer heat. So try some lip gloss and open up to a new shinier you.