An artistic hand creates elegant and enhancing looks that highlight your natural beauty. They also create the Wraiths of the Lord of the Rings, Frodo’s death pallor and

Sin
City’s horror.   

Ghoul EyesGo for it. Draw that black eyeliner on as heavily as you can, when you have a Broadway audience that needs to see you from the back row. Otherwise, for the day, be subtle and smudge it into your upper lash line and apply with a more exotic hand for the evening. If you are a subtly colored woman, use the softer shades of eyeliner than black. 

The Challenge: Look fresh and naturally you – subtly enhanced for day and dynamically for night? or like a matron from the 40’s covered in pancake make-up, or an emaciated and dissipated heroin user from the cover of some fashion magazine with gothic shadows and vampire lips.

The Look
Goth and matron have their place in the pageantry of life along with Broadway and the movie screen, but I think for the normal person, including those same actors and actresses, a normal, healthy and radiant you is the look you are going for. 

Bodacious Bond beauty and capricious Cat Woman celebrity Halle Berry genuinely loves Revlon’s cosmetics. As a spokeswoman for the Halcyon house of beauty, one would expect the simply gorgeous actress with “to die for” skin to speak favorably of their products and of course to wear them.

Halle Wears Revlon
But Halle really does wear them! She is a spokeswoman for Revlon because she glows and recommends them all the time so sensibly, she also gets paid for promoting them.
Halle’s Favs
Halle adores Revlon’s ColorStay foundation. In fact, she calls it her favorite Revlon product because of their range of colors. There is a color for everyone. She considers herself to have a challenging skin color to match. I think Revlon should make a color just for her, Cappucino Velvet!

f you really want to know the most stunning new trend and technique you can apply for the new you, look in your own mirror. That’s right! What was the single most gorgeous aspect of one of the most celebrated beauties of all time? the fact that all her features were stunningly irregular and sharply contrasting.

Nature Rules
The dazzling splendor of the Italian Super Star Sophia Loren eclipses all the pretty woman who selected their noses from a catalogue and fashioned their rib cages to look like emaciated wraiths. Her power is herself.

Halle Berry is one of the most photographed and acclaimed beauties of our day. She and Julia Roberts share the most featured beautiful woman of the year in People’s Magazine.  

Cappuccino VelvetWith skin as naturally lustrous and satiny/velvety soft as this former prom queen and Miss Teen All-America, one would expect her to proclaim the virtues of an exclusive, natural, and costly cosmetic line as her preferred choice. Not so. 

Revlon’s Longest Reigning Spokeswoman
Halle Berry has been a Revlon Spokeswoman for 10 years. Her skin is a result of the care and performance of the cosmetic line she represents. Her loyalty is well founded. Ever since she was a teen-ager, buying her first cosmetics, she has remained faithful to Revlon.   

Have you ever wondered, as you sit in the cushioned chair, under the lights, eyes fixed on the clear container sporting a blueish liquid and a myriad of combs, brushes, scissors or other beautifying tools who sat their last and what their cleanliness practices might be? I am sure that you , just like me, wondered whose face was last lightly dusted with that heavenly smelling pale, lustrous powder that I so love, but cannot quite lose myself into this delicious sensation because, did she have oily skin, aids, vd, acne,….?

Every artist knows that the care of their tools is essential for creating the master piece. And that is what we are. We are our life’s master work so let’s treat ourselves with the utmost nurturing and care possible.

Care of Brushes
Brushes are the most versatile and commonly used tool of the make up artist, whether you are a professional or simply the artist creating yourself. When your brushes start to look like fans and the tips become colored it is time to clean them with brush cleaner or alcohol. Use alcohol with a strength of 90% for sterilizing the brushes and applicators. You can also use soap and water but soap and water has a tendency to dry out brush bristles and reduce the longevity of your brushes.

It is very important to keep make-up fresh and free from contaminates. See my post in the Eye Make-up section for the tips on keeping your eyes free of infection. Here I have listed other tips to maintain health skin and contagion-free makeup. If you have read Geisha, then you know how make-up can ravage your skin. Follow these recommendations, and you will not have to worry.

Tips for Germ-free Make-up

1. Foundation has a shelf life of 18-24 months and then throw it away.

Cosmetics are notorious germ factories. They harbor bacteria causing infections because of their constant contact with bodily fluids and mucous membrane that collects bacteria. Serious eye infections can result from contaminates that collect in your eye makeup.

Keep Your Eye Makeup Free From Contaminates
Maintain the following disciplines to keep your eye makeup free from germs and preserve the health of your eyes:

1. Mascara is notorious for causing eye infections. It will usually last 2 months but if it starts to clump, speck, or become dry, it is time to retire it. If it smells bad, then you are already past the point of safety and you should probably rinse your eyes with a good, mild, wash to keep them clear of infection.

Cher is one Diva whose name is synonymous with glitter, glamour, and sensational physique. She is the show. Not one performer can rival her ability to thoroughly entertain and engage the audience.

Her love of color, glitter and sparkle only enhance her huge almond-shaped doe eyes, her full luscious mouth, and her natural high cheek bones. She is a woman that provides the artist wielding the make up brush with an extraordinary canvas for exotic creativity. All the glitzy glamour would look cheap on a less striking beauty. On Cher, the use of extreme color, dark eye makeup, strong colors on her mouth and a liberal smattering of sparkle simply made her natural gifts more pronounced.