Make-up Counter Disaster!

Cosmetics, General, Health on December 16th, 2009 1 Comment

Fear the make-up counter employees!
I recently was walking the Department Store Make-up Counters when once again, I watched a Mac make-up employee apply cosmetics without using sanitary methods.  Dirty brushes placed into the makeup pots and on the face over and over again.  STOP!
You are taking a chance of getting someone else’s eye [...]

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I reject the inject!

Cosmetics, General, Health, Skin care on November 2nd, 2009 No Comments

What are you doing to yourself?  Injections of Botox, or fat cells, cosmetic surgery, do we really have to go there?  I realize there are extreme cases that call for an exception to this rule.  For the most part, cosmetic procedures are deforming.
My husband and I were standing in line at an airport and a [...]

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#3 Foundation on your neck….ewh!

Cosmetics, General on July 7th, 2008 No Comments

Ok, maybe in the movies they put make-up on necks.  If you’re not being filmed, maybe you should reconsider where you face ends and your neck begins. A good foundation match should be feathered at the jawbone. You can easily achieve this with a foundation brush or my preference is to use a [...]

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#7 Failure to blend

Cosmetics, General on May 21st, 2008 No Comments

‘You don’t own a make-up sponge?’ Non-latex make-up sponges are indispensable. Bar-none, they are one of the best beauty buys. Once you begin to use them, you will wonder how you were ever able to function without them. I lovingly refer to them as ‘the eraser’.

They are inexpensive.
You can wet them and remove [...]

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#9 Did I hear you correctly, you never use a lip liner?

Cosmetics, General on May 19th, 2008 No Comments

I would be a jillionaire (a fictitious obscene amount of money!) if I had a dollar for every time I hear, ‘I wear lipstick but it just seems to disappear so sometimes I just don’t even bother’.

“Hello!” lip liners are a girl’s most incredible best friend. Heck, I can slap on a pair of [...]

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