Face

Redness. In order to get rid of redness instantly take a calming cream or any correction makeup tinted green and apply to the skin. The green color will help tone down the red one. If you blush easily you may have a skin condition, but you can’t do anything with it until you visit a dermatologist. If your skin is easily irritated and hyper sensitive use mild cosmetic and beauty products for sensitive skin and protect it from environment with special products with SPF and moisturizers.

Pimple. A fast fix for breakout is concealer. Using a concealer brush apply the product on and around the pimple and blend with the rest of the skin. If you have regular breakouts consult with a dermatologist because there are many reasons from hormone imbalance to stress that can cause pimple breakouts.

Dry skin. Dry skin is very visible under the foundation, so in order to get rid of it fast you’ll need a mild exfoliator that will remove the patches of dead skin. After that you can even your complexion using moisturizer (which is absorbed better when applied after exfoliator) and proceed with your makeup.

Your skin needs water, so in order to firm fix your dry skin drink plenty of water and use ultra-moisturizing or hydrating cream. Alcohol-based products as well as gel washes dry your skin. Use creamy cleansers and avoid products that contain alcohol.

Dark circles and bags around the eyes. To fast fix dark circles use moisturizing concealer. To get rid of bags apply cool cream or black tea bags on the eyes. Dark circles and bags emerge because of the water and sleep shortage, you can also reduce salt and sugar intake as they tend to keep water in the organism.

Hair

Frizziness. Anti-frizz products – gels and creams will help you smooth out your hair. To firm fix your frizzing tresses be sure you moisturize your hair with mild hydrating shampoo and conditioner.

Sleek hair. Your hair needs a little volume? Lower down your head and spritz your roots with hairspray, then style as usual. To achieve permanent volume be sure your hair is healthy and use volumizing shampoo.

Tangled hair knots. Try a leave-in conditioner on the knots then carefully brush with wide-tooth comb. To avoid hair tangling use hydrating conditioners or special easy comb hair products.

Lips

Chapped lips. Exfoliate dead skin with mild exfoliator and apply moisturizing lip balm before lipstick. To firm fix chapped lips avoid licking them in windy weather, use lip balm regularly to protect your lips, use lipstick with SPF, hydrate your lips with special oils and honey.

Thin lips. To fast fix thin lips use lip gloss that boosts the blood flow, and your lips will become plump and red. To firm fix thin lips moisturize them with lip balm to avoid cracking otherwise they will seem even thinner. You can also gently massage your lips with a tooth-brush while brushing your teeth.

Performing your beauty routine regularly as well as timely consultations with your health care provider will make the fast beauty fixes unnecessary for you.

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Late nights, sleep deprivation, sugar and alcohol are no-no things to the beauty. But sometimes they are inevitable and we all want to look our best every day. What to do if you haven’t slept enough but have to look beautiful in the morning? There are many tricks and ways to avoid eye bags and other signs of tiredness.

Nighttime routine. Yes, your morning beauty starts with your nighttime-before-bed routine. If you don’t follow this then you lowering your chances to look fresh and beautiful in the morning with less effort. Before going to bed drink a glass of water, try to minimize sugar and salt intake and elevate your head during sleep. Always remove makeup before going to bed. This will prevent the eye irritation and redness, beside your skin needs to breathe and rest from all the products. You can moisturize your skin after washing and toning it. Don’t use heavy creams at night though, they will only add puffiness.

Awakening routine. When you first woke up use eye drops to remove any redness or irritation. Cool (not cold!) compresses can help removing bags and blue colors under the eyes. You can throw your eye cream or mask in refrigerator for 5 minutes or use cool tea-bags. Black tea has great anti-inflammatory properties.

A bit of light massage on the eye area when applying your eye cream will help blood circulation. If you have time after this take a shower and let the light water stream massage your eyes. Exercise if you have time, it will boost blood circulation in the whole body.

Makeup. If your skin is tired and dehydrated don’t overdo your makeup. Use tinted moisturizer or mineral powder foundation for healthy glow. Illuminating concealer will add to the glow but is visible under the flashes, so be careful with that and blend it well.

If your lower lash line is pink or red, use beige eye liner. To make your eyes look bigger and distract attention from puffiness wear mascara only on your upper lashes. Stay away from red eyeshadow tints which include pink, purples and also from brown colors as this will only highlight your eye redness. Freshen up your lips with lip balm in sheer red hues.

It takes effort to stay beautiful in the morning especially with the lifestyle that doesn’t give you enough time to rest, exercise and sleep. But there is an absolute beauty routine that has to be performed. With our tips on how to look beautiful in the morning you will be able to do it without much problem.

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Let’s start with the basic beauty rules that every woman should follow.

Basic beauty rules

Healthy diet, clean water, exercise. Yes the basic rule of beauty tells us that we must eat healthy food and drink  clean water to nourish our cells and not overload our stomach with fatty foods. Eat more fresh vegetables and fruit and exercise every day. This will not only keep your figure slim but also will improve your immune system and lower the risks of catching a cold.

Moisturize. Help your skin get additional moisture by using moisturizer. Besides the moisturizer applied before foundation will make your complexion smoother without pores showing off.

SPF. Make sure your moisturizer or foundation contain SPF to protect your skin from daily exposure to the sun and sunburns. Besides SPF protection prevents flaking and spotting.

Do not over blush. You may end up looking like a clown if you overdo with blushing. Blush is needed only to highlight your cheekbones.

Do not use beauty products after their expiry date. Expired cosmetic and beauty products are dangerous to use. The bacteria tend to affect the lip color products and old dried mascara can increase the chance of infections.

Old beauty rules

Some rules get old as the time goes by.

Redheads should not wear red lipstick. Oh, they totally should! Look at gorgeous Christina Hendricks and no further explanation needed. She looks beautiful with her red hair and 50’s Hollywood star look.

Do not use conditioner on oily hair. If you have oily hair it doesn’t mean your ends don’t need a conditioner. The oil concentrates on the scalp so the ends can be dry so use oil-free conditioners. This brings us to another old rule, see below.

Brush your hair 100 times a day. Wrong! Your hair needs brushing but if you do that too often hair can begin to break. Brush your hair several times a day to distribute the oil to the length and the ends.

Do not pluck above your eyebrows. You can bravely ditch this rule because if you have extra hair growing above the eyebrow line it is perfectly fine to get rid of them. This will make your eyebrow shape clearer.

New beauty rules

Be ‘It’ girl. Look at Cameron Diaz or Drew Barrymore. They wear their wavy hair loose. Tousled tresses are the new sexy now. Allow your hair air-dry with some anti-frizz gel and complete the look by wrapping a small section of ends around a medium curling iron for just a few seconds.

Let your roots show. An inch of your natural hair tone is not only ok to show, they serve as a highlight. It of course does not apply to a bleached blond with dark roots.

Tan before going out. The warm skin tone requires less makeup and makes you feel sexy and glowing.This trend is not only summer thing, now the tanning products allow you glow all year-round.

Try shorter, rounder nails. It is practical to wear shorter and rounder tips, paint them in dark tones and be fashionable.

Don’t overdo your lip makeup. Full lips are ‘in’ so many women try enhance their lips with much of lips color products. However, in order to enhance your lips avoid dark lip liners and opt for clear gloss or skin-colored creamy lipstick.

Breakable beauty rules

Blue eyeshadow is a no-no. Gucci Westman thinks otherwise. At a Revlon summer editor preview Westman introduced her Summer Suedes palette and advised to use blue as an eye liner or highlighter under the brow bone.

Your manicure and pedicure should match. Who said that? Try brighter pedicure and softer manicure. Mix them up.

Choosing your makeup to match your skin tone. This doesn’t always work as some women can be both warm and cool-toned so experiment, choose the colors that complement and enhance your skin, lip or eye color.

Smokey eyes are only for evening. Not at all. A bit subdued smokey eyes can easily be worn at day light.

Dark lipstick. The lipstick should match your skin tone…are you sure? Guess what? The dark lipstick’s back and not only for a cold season. All spring and summer celebrities rocked the dark lips, for instance Rachel Bilson and Jessica Alba.

Beauty is relative, make your own rules and break the existing ones to enhance and accentuate your beauty. Not always what works for your favorite celebrity will work for you so don’t be afraid to experiment, look for something for yourself and alter the look you liked on someone and try it yourself.

Discuss more beauty rules: basic, old, new and breakable on MillionTalks.com.

You should start with a base to balance color of your skin and neutralize any redness you may have in the area under eyes.

Then apply foundation. Normally, there shouldn’t be any difference between the color of foundation and your complexion. That’s why you should test it. Use your fingers to apply foundation, but a moisturizing cream shouldn’t be applied before it. Also you shouldn’t rub foundation into your skin.

Better if you start applying makeup from the top part of your face. It would be more natural if you won’t apply eye shadows at all, but if you decide to use it anyway, you should choose pastel shades (beige, peach or bone color, depending your complexion) of two different tinges. Apply the lighter shade on the whole eyelid? And then use the darker one to set the outer corner off. Then use mascara, it would be better to use lengthening or twisting one, but not volume in order not to weight.

Then apply blush, starting from the most prominent part of your cheekbones moving towards the temples. Better to use a blush with a creamy texture as it suggests a more natural look than the compact one. Brush should be used parallel, but not perpendicularly to avoid uneven putting.

If to speak of lips natural shades for the lip liner, like beige or pale pink, are the best choices. As for the lipstick, better to choose matte colors.

Some more tricks for the best natural makeup

People with a fair complexion should use peach or pale pink makeup colors. But if you are an olive skin proprietress, cream and beige are the most appropriate colors for you.

Use the concealer in order to hide skin imperfections.

If you want to get an ideal natural look, your lips should look healthy. Therefore, exfoliate and moisturize them, at least one time a week.

Natural makeup is very easy to achieve with appropriate makeup products and practicing. Don’t stop trying; and achieving this look will become absolutely unstrained!

Watch and learn.

Step #1. Foundation.

Step #2. Prep and Eye Shadow.

Step #3. Eyeshadowing.

Step #4. Lashes and Lips.

Blue eyes, matte skin, bare cheeks, copper lips and neutral nails held sway the catwalk at Capitale, where the designer showcased his American West-inspired collection.

Estée Lauder Creative Makeup Director Tom Pecheux led a team of 15 artists to create the look for the 22 models to complement the designer’s inspiration, while famed manicurist Jin Soon Choi and her team polished their nails with a new color that was tested backstage.

In a press release, Pecheux said:

“When Derek showed me the fabrics that inspired his Fall 2010 collection – bold and muted tones mixed with earthy pigments including terracotta, greens and browns – I thought the make-up shades should be complimentary. So we chose a blend of bold blue shadows on the eyes, shimmering copper lips, and flawless, matte skin created with a light foundation — an on-trend beauty preview of what we will see for Fall 2010.”

Here is the list of the makeup items used on the models.

Eyes:

• Estée Lauder Double Wear Stay-in-Place Eye Pencil in Midnight Blue

• New Estée Lauder EyeShadow Tested Backstage – Shades Launching Fall 2010

• Estée Lauder TurboLash All Effects Motion Mascara in Black

Lips: Pure Color Crystal Lipstick in Crystal Beige

Skin: Estée Lauder Double Wear Light Foundation

Cheeks: Bare

That’s the trend!

• After skin nourishing, apply the corrector under the eyes and onto the inner eye corners. Thin layer of corrector on the upper eyelids will be a good foundation for eye shadows to keep them on longer and soother.

• Use the foundation color that matches your skin color best. Shade it with your fingertips. Choose pink or peach hues blush – depending on your skin color of course. Those who have round face shape, apply blush onto the center of the cheeks, and those with long (or oblong) face – onto the cheekbones. If you want your make up to look natural and sparkling, use blush with light-reflecting sparkles.

• Apply the beaming shadows of golden-peach or beige tints along the lashes line. To add some glam chic, brush slightly the inner eye corner with light shadows.

• Apply dark-tinted matte shadows onto the outer eye corners.

• Apply light eye shadows (the first hue) under the brow along the eye.

• Choose eyeliner of dark-chocolate or black-brown colors. Contour the thin line on the upper eye lid. Now make it a bit a bit thicker from the center to the outer eye corner to make the eye look bigger.

• Shape your brows and pencil them if necessary.

• Mascara your lashes in two or three layers.

• To soften your lips, rub them with your tooth brush and then put onto them a bit of oily balm and don’t touch them at least for 30 min.

• Choose the lip pencil and lipstick of the pink or peach-beige hues. Control if it fits the blush color. Apply the first layer and then blot them. And apply the second one.

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Not everyone knows, but there is a connection between your makeup and zodiac sign. So, let’s see what the Stars predict us to wear on our face in Make up Horoscope December 2009.

Miss December – Sagittarius

You girl don’t have boundaries; adore everything new, unknown desiring to experience all these. Sagittarius should try some soft beaming hues of golden-pink gamut this month. It will bring you the extra energy.

Matte lipstick of the bewitching rich colors will fit you just right. Try pinky blush tints. Your eyes should reflect your sole, Stars say.

Capricorn

This zodiac sign can achieve a lot using only her own efforts. Stars know that you are aware of all the novelty of the makeup trends but you rarely turn this interest into the buying process.

Don’t examine the products for hours to purchase something you really like as it will be the best of what you ever tried. If you are the fan of the natural cosmetic that’s great but if you are the fan of natural make up you should change it this month, without fail!

Switch the beige-brown hues to the bright darkened tints like dark blue, grey. Combine delicate green and grayish green colors. Your lipstick hue shouldn’t be brighter than your eyes.

Aquarius

Dear Aquarius girl, you are fulfilled with emotions, you everyday life is scheduled with all the possible plans, meetings; various events go one after another. On-going life absorbs you completely and you don’t have time to spend some of it for the make-up trends.

But do you really need it? Stars say that you should try one of this-season-fashionable-makeup trends. It can be one, but good and expensive. A fantastic lip gloss, blush or eye shadows made of the up-to-date silky texture. The colors should fit your eyes color or if they are brown then, there are no limits!

Pisces

Wonderful and mystical sign. So, these characteristics should become your motto in December. You’ll get an energy supply from the smoky-blue, violet, icy-pink shadows.

Bright eye liner will make your eyes look impressive. Scarlett or rosy lips are not the only choice you may have. Dark-orange tints will bring your image those mystery and amazement that will enrapture everyone’s attention.

Aries

The perfect make-up for Aries in December is classic and the simplest: foundation – on the face skin, mascara – on the lashes and brightly red lipstick – on the lips. This is the choice when you demonstrate your energy, power and desire.

It will look timely in office, at important meetings and crazy parties. Another variant is the pastel shades on eyelids, light foundation and untouched lips. This makeup says that you are very self confident, patient, and you don’t need to rush into attack to get something that will flow into your hands itself.

Taurus

Taurus ladies are almost beauty-addicted. You adore some impressive, expensive things and you can’t stand vulgarity avoiding the bright colors and looking natural.

Smoky shadows, grey, pink, white, beige, silver hues fit your eyes ideally. But taking into consideration your material nature, you should try bold colors and tints from time to time to attract what your life lacks of.

Gemini

You, Gemini, is one of the most unstable zodiac signs – double-faced, that’s why you spend hours choosing cosmetics and make-up. Strange as it may seem, but if you don’t like shimmering make-up, you should try it in December. Though the matte textures will be perfect as well.

Pay your attention to the contrasts. For example, white eyelid inner corner, dark grey eyelid (the rest part), violet eyeliner, grey-black mascara. Use the principle: one color gamut, but contrast colors.

Cancer

Cancer girl, if you like novelty, then it’s your month, Stars say. Feel that December is your experimental make-up one. Try opaline and glimmering colors that make your eyes look like precious pearls.

Slight foundation, tender hues of blush and raspberry-colored lip gloss will perfectly accompany the makeup composition.

Leo

When Leo enters the beauty salon, there is no chance for her to stay unnoticed. Leo buys all the most trendy, expensive – super-dupper. You, girl, know, what means a brand, thus you care a lot what kind of powder-case you take out of your clutch.

Gold color is given you by nature, so feel free to use it in all possible ways. Glimmering silver will also look so New Year. You are to make a holiday all month long.

Virgo

Vigor girl, you feel the fragileness of the beauty like no other one. You always know what fits you best having the great taste and sense of harmony. Don’t hide these character traits. Stars know that you are thrifty and will always try to find the analogue of the make-up expensive products you want.

But this month, you should afford yourself the ve ry soft ones with slight shimmering. Nature colors will emphasize your beauty: turquoise, blue, delicate-blue, emerald green, delicate green.

Libra

You, Libra choose shocking behaviour instead of luxury. Vanguard, extravagant and often provocative – this is your image. You will fit greatly the mix of colors like torques and yellow that no other sign will dare to choose.

You won’t look stupid or ridiculous. There are no cheer-ups for you this month as you are the spokeswoman of make-up fun.

Scorpio

You look better and better year after year. You know what you want being at the top of the refined taste and attractive appearance. Use the lipstick of the rich colors.

Graph clearly your eye lines. The upper eyelid should be outlined in a very thin way. You’ll also fit great the sharply accentuated cheekbones.

Pay your attention that these rules don’t do for the professional stage session, where the special one is needed.

So, how to makeup for the photos?

• Every make-up looks much paler than in reality. The photoflash of the amateur camera and studio lighting eat up the half of the colors. That’s why you have to makeup brighter than you’ve got used to.

• Pay a thorough attention to the face skin tone. Mask all the skin shortcomings (under-the-eyes-bruises, pimples, redness and so on) with a help of the conсealer and then apply the foundation onto the face and neck and decollete area if you’ll be in an open gown.

• If your ears can turn red, don’t forget to put on the foundation onto them as well, otherwise they’ll stand out significantly.

• Face skin often shines because of the photoflash, thus you should apply a powder giving the preference to the crumbly powder that mattes the skin better than the compact one.

• Apply the bronze-a-bit-shimmering powder onto the decollete zone and shoulders. It’ll give your skin brightness.

• Make your face sculptural so that it doesn’t look plain on the photo: shade your cheekbones with a darkened powder or matte beige-brown tinted blush. Mark out the nose wings and chin line so that they look clear.

• With the help of the powder or blush of the neutral hue you can shorten a too long nose visually shading its tip and narrow the face shading the cheeks.

• Give your skin a natural freshness with blush of the bright sparkling tints applying them onto the cheek “apples”, forehead and temples.

• Pay huge attention to the eye brows emphasizing them with shadows or a pencil chiming in with the color your hair or two tones darker if your own brows color is much lighter.

• The best palette for the eyes is the natural hues: beige, brown, smoky-grey, grey-violet, Champaign color, baked milk and ivory yellow. Stay away from the too bright, dark and acid colors that look awful on the picts. The perfect one is the texture with a soft satin gloss bringing the eyes some radiance.

• At first mark out the contour of the eyelids with a pencil that you should shade a bit. The smoky effect won’t let your eyes disappear on the photo.

• Apply the shadow of the neutral hue above the shaded pencil and add a mother-of-pearl shadows on the inner corners of the eyes and under-the-eyebrows line. Shade it well otherwise the contour will be seen under the photoflash effect.

• To make your eyes look bigger, use a soft pencil of the light hue applying it onto the line of the inner eyelid.

• Mascara the eyelashes lavishly. It’s almost impossible to overdo with it for the photoshoot makeup.

• Accentuate the lips contour otherwise they’ll be unclear. To make them look plumper, use a light-beige pencil.

• Choose a lipstick of refreshing tints: peach, light-corral, pink or berry hues. Stay away from too dark, too pale and unnatural acid colors.

• Put on a glossy moistening lipstick with a brush that looks much striking on the photo and doesn’t stress the chaps on the lips. Also you can apply some gloss onto the center of the lips.

What you should steer clear of making up for the photo sessions?

• Too pale tints of foundation, blush, powder that will bring you a vampire look.

• Sparkling lip gloss as it can behave unpredictably on the photo.

• Dry and matte lipsticks that make the lips look old and thin.

• Any contrast color compositions.

Dependence of makeup on different kinds of photoshoot.

• Digital pict has a peculiarity to strengthen the pink color, that’s why opt for yellowing hues neutralizing the possible redness.

• Daylight photo is the most merciless: it will depict all the shortcomings of the skin and makeup mistakes. Minimal makeup is the most appropriate. Mask all the problem zones with the consealer thoroughly, use the warm palette and shade the makeup well.

• Prepare for the evening and black-and-white picts accentuating the face contours: cheekbones, nose, forehead and chin. Mark out the eyes and brows as bright as possible. Stay away from the red lipstick as it might look black on the photos.

Knowing these tips you’ll be always in the right focus!

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Take a combination of foundation and powder (it’ll provide you with neutral face cover twice as faster) and put all round the face including eyelids and lips. That’ll allow keeping the make up for the whole evening.

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Use a pencil to apply the shadows quicker and easier. Choose the brown hue that’ll emphases the color of your eyes and will bring expressiveness to your look. Work up the whole eyelid surface with it.

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The fastest method to smoothing out the shadows is to apply the semitransparent powder. You’ll be able to dim their colors and shade the sharp bounds this way.

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Apply a layer of mascara along the lower and upper ones as well. The lower lashes are better to be done by the spiral tip of the mascara brush as it’ll prevent them against sticking together and you’ll save your time that you’ve got used to spend onto the combing the lashes.

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Warm blush of red-berry tint will bring rich colors to your skin. Put them on with the help of blush brush directing it according to your face shape type blush applying.

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Give your lips the bright calling hue with a berry colored lipstick putting it directly to the lips with an applicator. First goes the lower lip. Then press the lips tightly to each other to let the lipstick color to imprint onto the upper one. Quickly touch up the omitted spots on the lips and start your way out!

The main thing is to stay calm and self-confident if you are in a rush or there is something that you didn’t manage to do. Lift your head up proudly and don’t let any one think that the make-up you’ve done is in the way you didn’t want it to be.