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The January 2009 issue of Ladies Home Journal highlighted a few products to heal and prevent dry skin in the winter months. One of them is Mary Kay’s Emollient Night Cream! This night cream can be purchased individually, but is most well known as one of the products in the popular Satin Hands Set. I use this cream most every night on my hands, although I know many women with dry skin use it on their faces at night. It is amazing what it can do overnight to heal my dry chapped hands from the cold air and all the hand washing from changing diapers.
Mary Kay is presenting this product in a limited edition set of the Emollient Cream in a jar with a travel size tube in a cute gift box. This is available only until the middle of March.
This product is a great treat for hands, feet, faces in need of some serious TLC.
If you are of an ivory skin tone like I am, you may also feel extremely white in the winter. Especially in Seattle, with the lack of enough days to catch some vitamin D rays, I am looking pale! Please someone tell me pale can be in! I’m not about to head to the tanning beds for some color and expensive cancer enhancers.
I came across this soft and pretty look. The model’s eyes have Mineral Eye Colors of Precious Pink, Sweet Plum, and Raisin. These colors can do double duty and create bold eyes, but in this case they are applied softly with the Precious Pink, blending them to a glowing look. Cinnamon Stick Blush gives her a rosy glow, along with the Frosted Rose lipstick and Gold Rush gloss to give her a natural and warm tone. Ivory skin tone is saved from a “death warmed over” to a beautiful winter face!
Michelle Obama has created quite the stir among fans, designers, stylists, and the general public for her fashion and style. She is classy, sophisticated, yet simply beautiful. She seems to gracefully hold the tension between the elegance of a queen that audiences hope for, yet the simplicity of a loving wife, mom, and that of the person you would expect next door.
The simplicity shows through in her personality and natural beauty. You get the feeling that she is confident in who she is, and she uses the mediums of fashion and makeup to only enhances and highlight who she is.
One moment I loved this week was at the first Inaugural Ball when Barack said, “Isn’t my wife good-looking?!” and the crowd started clapping and cheering. Michelle started clapping, smiling and looking at her husband until she realized what he had said and then she laughed and stopped clapping with an “oops” sort of look when she realized everyone was clapping for her! It was very cute.
The cold dry winter months can be brutal on your face. Your face may need a little extra TLC in the moisture department if you are experiencing extra dryness often manifested with flaking, irritated skin, and uncomfortable tightness. Two products that are worth adding in to your beauty return are Mary Kay’s Intense Moisture Cream or Mary Kay’s Oil-Free Hydrating Gel.
If you have normal to dry skin, this beautiful jar of Intense Moisture Cream delivers its name. Hydrating your skin for up to 10 hours, it leaves your skin immediately more radiant and oh so soft with the marine extracts, humectants, vitamin E, and essential minerals such as copper, magnesium, and zinc. Start by using this on top of your regular moisturizer whenever you feel dry, but especially at night when you go to bed. Add it into your morning routine if you continue to have dryness throughout the day.
Because of my more combination type skin, I use the Intense Moisture Cream for severe dryness, but I daily use the Oil-Free Hydrating Gel in the winter. This gel also hydrates the skin for up to 10 hours and restores the skins natural moisture balance. It’s a silky, non-greasy formula enriched with vitamin E, marine extract, and a green tea extract (good for you!). It feels great!
Get a free trial size of both when you purchase $40 or more of MK products through March 14. Click here for more information.
I apologize for the lack of postings lately! Can I blame 2 months of inaction on the holidays? Well, whatever the case, I am back and will be posting regularly now.
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