Quick Tip: Homemade Exfoliant

All our of exfoliant? Try this easy tip! Just take a handful of salt and incorporate it into your daily face wash. Voila! You have an easy, affordable, and effective exfoliant and wash all in one!

Make Up Love: Natalie Portman at Black Swan's NYC Premiere

We already raved about Natalie's hair at the New York premiere of Black Swan, but we just have to mention her makeup! With statement-making red lips, long, dark lashes and romantic curls, Natalie skipped her casual nude looks and chose the dramatic vibe of her new movie Black Swan.

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Mini Tips: Make Small Nails Appear Larger

If you have short or narrow nails, clear nail polish sometimes only makes your nails appear small. A darker nail polish will make them seem narrower, and hence longer.

For those of you with very small nails, using a nail polish with a metallic color can make them appear larger.

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Eye Care Tips

Sparkling, beautiful eyes are the best assets a woman can have. Do take time to cater to the special care that eyes need regularly.

Eat enough of Vitamin A and C. Take special care in the choice of eye make-up. Don't use make-up that can irritate and harm the eyes. Avoid spending too much time in smoky rooms and don't neglect a check-up on a regular basis.

Tip 1:

Soak 1 tspn dry Gooseberry powder in a cup of water overnight. Strain this in the morning and add 1 cup of plain water to this. Splash the eyes with this or wash them with the help of an eyecup.

Tip 2:

Dip a pad of cotton wool in some Rose water to which 2-3 drops of Castor oil is added. Place these soaked pads on the eyelids and relax for 15-20 minutes.

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Beauty Lessons: What's the Difference Between Serum and Moisturizer?

While serums can deliver moisturizer, most serums are prescribed to deliver vitamins, nutrients, or anti-oxidants into deeper layers of your skin where a regular moisturizer might not be able to reach. The molecular structure of serums is smaller than a moisturizer and therefore can easily penetrate the top layers of the skin for a more profound result. Serums are often used for exfoliation or to deliver important vitamins to our skin.

Moisturizers protect your skin from environmental damage and maintain the moisture balance within the skin. The larger molecular makeup of a moisturizer means it cannot penetrate the skin as far as a serum can, however, moisturizers are excellent for depositing moisture on the top layer of your skin and maintaining a balance of hydration.

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Beauty Tips: Instant Recovery for Chapped Lips!

Do you have dry and chapped lips? Wanna have the sexiest lips this spring? Here is some great advice:

• Use a regular toothbrush to gently exfoliate dead, dry skin off your lips. Place toothbrush on lips and gently massage in a circular motion.


• Pat dry and then apply lip balm.


• Avoid licking your lips. Saliva evaporates quickly and digests the thin membrane protecting lips, leaving lips drier than before you licked them.


• Smoking will constantly evaporate any natural oils on the lips.


• Stay hydrated by drinking plenty of water. Dehydration typically results in chapped lips.

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Tip: Easy Steps to Cleaning Your Makeup Brush

First, make sure to Spray with brush cleaner weekly. Once a week, spritz the bristles of your makeup brush, making sure to dampen both sides if the brush is flat. Wipe a clean cloth with the moistened brush until the brush comes clean.

Run the tips of the bristles under warm water. Pour a little baby shampoo into the palm of one hand. Holding the brush in the other hand, swirl the bristles around in the baby shampoo. Rinse the brush by swirling in a bowl of clean warm water. Use a cloth to wipe the brush clean; then lay it flat on a cloth to dry.

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Makeup Trend: Lilac Eyeshadow

Smoky purple eyes are bolder than black and look great on all eye colors, from baby blue to deepest brown.

The most wearable way to wear the trend?

• Apply a pale lilac eye shadow onto your lids and blend a dark plum in the crease.
• Extend the pale lilac onto your lower lashline with a stiff eyeliner brush, tracing a line from inner corner to outer corner.
• Complete the look with charcoal-inspired pencil liner around the eyes!
• Finish it with a warm light pink lip gloss on your lips.

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Makeup Tips: Enhance the Beauty of Asian Features and Skin

Black hair and pale but yellow toned skin are best complemented by soft, warm colors. Here are some awesome tips for creating the perfect look for this season!

• After applying your foundation, concealer and powder, sweep some lilac eyeshadow over your eyelid.
• Lightly fill your eyebrows with a dark brown eyebrow pencil to provide a strong frame to your eyes.
• A lick of blue black eye liner will emphasize your beautifully shaped eyes, and help correct any droopiness. Slick it along the lower lashes and into outer corners of your eyes to create balance.
• A warm blusher gives a wonderful boost to your complexion and brings out a natural glow.
• A baby pink or light coral lipstick will bring your lips into focus.

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Nail Trend: NUDE

Remember how trendy blue nail polish was last year? Well, it's time to leave flashing color behind for a few weeks and get ready for the next big thing in nails.



























CHIC'S PICK:
Opi Nail Polish Polar Bare from $8.99

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5 Musts About Wearing Mascara

1. Never, ever pump the wand - this adds air to the mascara container, which will only make your mascara dry out faster.
2. As a general rule, brown or soft black are best for daytime; black works best for night.
3. Use less mascara on lower lashes than on top lashes. Or forgo mascara on lower lashes for a more casual look.
4. If your mascara smells funny or is more than six months old, chuck it. The eyes are very sensitive to bacteria.
5. After you've coated lashes with mascara, add just one more layer to the outer corners. The extra coat will make your lashes look especially long.

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Step by Step Cat Eye

Before you get started with your cat eye application, organize a few essentials. In order to complete a perfect cat eye, you’ll need the following:

Makeup

* Liquid, pencil or powder eyeliner in black or dark brown (liquid is recommended.)
* Eyelash curler, try Shisedio’s fabulous curler.
* Black mascara
* Concealer
* Beige or taupe eye shadow
* Q-tips saturated in eye makeup remover.
* Tweezers


1. First, perfect your palette by removing any stray eyebrow hairs with tweezers.
2. Pat concealer in corners of eyes and lightly underneath to conceal dark circles.
3. Curl lashes with eyelash curler for added definition and lift.
4. Pull eyelid taut and lift at end of eye. With a steady hand, draw a line starting right above the iris, and extend, lifting and thickening the line to the outer eye. With a sweeping motion, flare line up; thickening the line and ending with a sharp point,
5. Brush a taupe or ivory shadow directly above the cat eye extending into the brow bone.
6. Apply 2-3 coats of black mascara.
7. Touch up any smudges with your Q-tips saturated in eye makeup remover.








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Matte Skin, Luminous Finish

Beautifully natural-looking skin was the big look for autumn/winter. For those not born with a fresh-faced glow, this look is all about the prep work. Prime skin with a moisturising serum or a few drops of MAC's Care Blend Essential Oils before applying your foundation; then dust with pressed powder for a matte yet silky finish.

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Beauty Tips to Look Perfect When Stressed

AVOID PROCESSED FOODS. It is now public knowledge that processed foods have high levels of chemical additives which are poisonous to our body. We should eat more fruits and vegetables that are rich in vitamins, minerals, antioxidants to help reduce stress, delay aging, and increase immunity of our body.

Some of fruits and vegetables rich in antioxidants are blueberries, tomatoes, carrots, and broccoli. Oranges and grapefruits are good sources of vitamin C. Magnesium, a mineral that fights stress, is often found in whole-grain products (oatmeal, popcorn, brown rice, whole-wheat flour, sprouted grains, whole-grain pasta, and whole-wheat bread), beets, and raisins. Bananas and avocados are loaded with potassium, a mineral known to preserve smoothness of skin. Yogurt also helps lower blood pressure.

Formulated vitamin and mineral supplements assure regular intake of required daily dose of vitamins C, E, A, K, and B complex that our body needs to stay active and young.

ENRICH THE MIND. Reading good books keeps the mind alert and dynamic. Watching movies or plays and engaging in conversation with people also maintain brain agility. A busy mind never gets bored. With the absence of boredom, discontentment and unhappiness will have no place to set in. And wrinkles will be absent, too.

FIGHT STRESS. Stress is caused by both negative and positive events in life: a sudden unemployed stage or a happy birthday party. Some of the symptoms of stress are: headache, sleep disorder, and depression. Stress can be managed through: exercise, relaxation and a healthy diet rich in magnesium. Enough sleep is as important as activity and food.

Here are some ways of getting to sleep fast:

1. avoid food (or snack) and caffeine intake before bedtime (coffee, tea, or chocolate),

2. no more physical exertion when sleeping time is near, and

3. take a warm shower and listen to slow music with eyes closed.

Here's how to relax: spread your full length on the bed and think of nothing. Imagine you're just floating in space.

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Skin and Water

There are few things as important for your skin as water.

Whenever your body becomes dehydrated it draws on its water reservoirs, one of which being your skin, and sucks out all the moisture it can find.

The resulting dry skin, not only looks unattractive but it also speeds up the appearance of wrinkles and other age-related skin deterioration.

Although it's crucial to drink plenty water to keep your skin hydrated from the inside, it's also vital to give it a helping hand on the outside as well.

A good moisturiser not only adds essential moisture to your skin but it also acts as a barrier to prevent moisture from escaping.

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2 ANTI WRINKLE TIPS

Want to maintain smooth and beautiful skin through the years? Follow these tips:

Exfoliation: This should be done weekly. There are a lot of scrubs available in the market. Using a good scrub according to your skin type, will remove dead cells of the skin, remove acne and redness. This will give your skin a scope to regenerate itself.

Sunscreen: This is a very important cosmetic to prevent your face the harms of the UV rays. Use a sunscreen everyday when going out and also at home. The mercury lights also shed UV rays that are harmful. Sunscreen should be used according to the skin type and the SPF should also be taken according to your skin type.

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Healthy and Beautiful Nails?

In order to keep the nails as clean and shine, as in a good shape, try by using some oils
and lemon. This will moisturize and leave them clean and smooth.

For strengthening the nails drink fresh carrot juice daily as they are high in calcium and phosphorus.
Also Jelly will make them really strong and will let them grow more quick and healthy!

Stay away from artificial nails as much as possible. Apart from destroying the underlying nail with their chemicals and glue, they might also lead to fungal infection of the fingernails.

If you are suffering from the problem of hangnails, it is advisable to eat food rich in protein, vitamin C and folic acid.

Ensure that half of your diet is made up of fresh fruits and raw vegetables. This will supple your nails with the required vitamins, minerals and enzymes.

Supplementing your diet with spirulina and kelp will help make your nails strong and healthy.


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HOW TO: Get Your Foundation Right

1. Moisturise first - applying moisturiser after cleansing but before you reach for your foundation ensures the make-up has a soft, smooth surface to bind to. 2. Don't forget your neck. It's a make up mistakes to have two tones for face and neck caused by stopping your make up at your chin. So always apply a little foundation under the chin and down the upper neck, blending it away as you go down. 3. Enhance, don't disguise. The purpose of foundation is to enhance the natural skin not cover it completely. So use as little foundation as possible to ensure you look like you, not your circus going twin (a white faced clown, in case you didn't get it).



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Stress, Beauty and Skin Affects

Stress affects beauty through skin condition worries such as blemishes as well as the loss of moisture, which occurs more rapidly when under stress. Dryness of the skin can create more fine line/wrinkles appearance and causes the skin to look dull and aged. Creating a skin care regimen can help fight stressed skin worries. It is important to wash and cleanse the skin with a mild cleanser that is appropriate for ones skin type (oily, dry or normal). Apply a daily moisturizer with sunscreen in the morning and a heavier cream or facial lotion at night. There are a number of products now that contain antioxidants that can combat stress effects by protecting the skin from free radicals. Dermatologists suggest not only using a skin care regimen for the outside of the skin but a healthy diet to nourish from within.

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Backstage Beauty at Versace

At the Versace show at Milan Fashion Week the beauty vibe was chic minimalism. In step with the clean, easy aesthetic that seems to be the norm come spring, faces were kept pretty and natural and hair was slicked back into a slicked back elegant chignon which was covered in black shiny sheets giving the look a fun, youthful twist.

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