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Try of these new looks, just out for spring! Celebrity Makeup Artist, Ildiko, created 4 looks this season with this new color pallet: Coastal Colors. The shades are gorgeous, reminiscent of the sky, ocean, and beach – perfect for this season of summer and being outdoors.
This quote was on the first page of Mary Kay’s LOOK magazine this winter. I love it. It’s not often you see a cosmetic company talking about real beauty.
It’s tall and petite. Pear-shaped and hourglass. It’s moms, grandmas, sisters and girlfriends. Beauty knows no bounds. It comes in all shapes, sized, colors and ages. And it starts from within — from head-turning confidence to just-because kindness — true beauty deserves to be shared and celebrated…
My hands-down favorite Mary Kay product is the Miracle Set. If I was posed the “island question” this would be the one skincare piece I’d choose to take with me. Makeup is great for enhancing beauty, but the condition of your skin is the most important. You only have one face.
THE MIRACLE SET: (Cleanser, Day and Night Solution, Moisturizer) Why do I love this? It does it all, with great results!
-cleanses, exfoliates, and refreshes;
-protects against UVA/UVB rays;
-helps relax expression lines;
-delivers vitamins, antiozidants and collagen-enhancing peptides to firm skin;
-hydrates for up to 10 hours.
The list almost leaves you tired, except it’s doing all the work, not you.
TimeWise 3-in-1 Cleanser: Why use a cleaser, then toner, then mask, only to have great skin in 10 minutes, when you could have in 2 minutes? This cleanser is mild enough to use twice a day and leaves my skin the perfect balance of clean, yet not too tight.
Day Solution: I am all about the spf to protect me from UVA and UVB rays and this one is a spf count of 25! Add in a little calming peptides to relax my almost 30 year old expression lines, and I’m in. I love that this serum is so light. Sometimes spf product can feel heavy, but this is just silky and light.
Night Solution: Wins the most-improved award…as in it does the work of most improving the condition of my face and fighting the fine lines and wrinkles. This pretty product with it’s colorful beads of vitamins, antioxidents, and collagen-enhancing peptides, makes me wish I could eat it to get my daily recommended dose as well!
TimeWise Moisturizer: Love this. I use it morning and night. A light moisturizer that leaves me feeling like Goldylocks when she tastes the baby bears porridge – “Just Right.” It hydrates me all day and I don’t feel oily or dry.
Customers ask if they can use separately, and of course you can. But I fully recommend using them all together! The minimum would the cleanser and moisturizer, but if you want the full anti-aging benefits, use them all. It’s like asking if the cake will taste as good or look the same without an ingredient. These products were created to work together to achieve the results.
Oh, yeah, did I mention the results dermatolists saw when tested in a 12-week clinical study?
83% had a reduction in fine lines and wrinkles
Up to 25% improvement in skin elasticity
100% had softer, more supple skin
46% improvement in more even skin tone
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.
Beautiful You 