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How to Contour: Your Fast Guide to Great Contouring

How to Contour: Your Fast Guide to Great Contouring

Face contouring has become one of the most asked-about beauty skills in recent years – and for good reason! Great contouring can accentuate your very best features to give your entire face a visual lift. With the right concealer and foundation palette, you can achieve contouring success for less money and effort than you might think.

Hot Festival Beauty Looks You’ll See Everywhere & How to DIY

Hot Festival Beauty Looks You'll See Everywhere & How to DIY

Now that festival season is underway, and more warm weather events are around the corner, feel free to embrace the hot new festival beauty looks you will see everywhere this summer. Here are makeup tips for dazzling eyes to how to use bronzer to achieve the complete boho festival look to boho your beauty regimen.

Promote Healthy Nails With Simple Strategies

Promote Healthy Nails With Simple Strategies

When was the last time that you really took a close look at your fingernails? If you are like some of us, you might simply avoid looking too closely at them at all. Fingernails are actually important indicators of overall health and wellness and will reflect the state of your skin health in particular. Taking care of the skin on your hands means also giving some attention to your fingernails.

Packing Beauty Essentials for Travel

Packing Beauty Essentials for Travel

We have all been there – an unexpected phone call invites you on a weekend get-away with all your best girlfriends, you get spirited away on an impromptu road trip, or you suddenly remember that you need to be out of town for a few days attending a cousin’s graduation. Last minute trips and unexpected changes of plan can be very exciting but they can also leave you scrambling to pack all the necessities. All too often it happens that you pack too much of something you do not need and not enough of something you do.

Color Correcting Powder: Your Power-Concealer

Color Correcting Powder: Your Power-Concealer

By now, you are probably well aware of the ways that color can help you contour your makeup to provide the profile you want. What you might not realize, though, is that this is not the only way to control your appearance and to gain the upper hand in the presentation of your complexion. Using a color correcting palette as a base before you begin to lay down the foundation can not only help you with contouring, it can also hide blemishes, including injuries.

Makeup Essentials for Women on a Budget

Makeup Essentials for Women on a Budget

Cultivating your personal beauty does not have to break the bank. You can find color correction makeup, daily moisturizers, cleansers for sensitive skin, top quality makeup brushes, and many other beauty essentials for surprisingly little money. Picking up just one or two items at a time is all it takes to begin building a personal beauty collection that serves all your every-day needs.

Perfecting Your Highlighting Technique

Perfecting Your Highlighting Technique

Highlighting and contouring are two closely related makeup techniques that have the ability to radically transform your face when done correctly. People use color correction, highlighting, and contouring to look younger and to draw attention to their most attractive facial features while downplaying their problem areas. Perfecting your highlighting technique requires getting to know your face very well and discovering which looks are most flattering.