Hygiene Alert: At the cosmetic counters, use the disposable applicators and Do Not Double Dip! If you are unsure, ask the Beauty Advisor for assistance!

Oily skin needs moisturizing too! Othewise your moisture barrier starts producing oil to hydrate itself, thus making your skin oilier.

Brown Eyes? Play up your eyecolor with purple eyeshadow shades. Define your eyes with a plummy colored eyeliner.

Green or blue eyes? Wear earthy metallic eyeshadow shades to make eyes really pop. Define them even more with a ccoordinating eyeliner .

Toner...Expensive Water?

A certain prestige brand (which I respect fot the most part so shall remain nameless her) teaches it's new consultants that toner is nothing more than expensive water.  Not true.  A toner does two things for your skin.  The first is to remove that last layer of grime that your facial wash doesn't always get to.  The cleaner your skin is, the clear is stays.  The second thing it does is really toners function and that is that it closes up your pores and rebalances your skin's ph level...getting it ready to accept what treatment you are next going to apply to it.  Soap and cleansers change the ph balance of your skin so when you use them you need to get the ph level back to normal or your next steps are for naught.  You can do this one of 2 ways...wait 2 hours for skin to do it on it's own (I do not know about you but I do not have that kind of time) or you can pick the easy way and swipe some toner on your face.  You do not need to worry about getting an expensive toner...good ole witch hazel is one of the best.  But so long as it is a toner....it will do the job.  Hope this clears up some confusion or mystery.  

Get a GOOD Beauty Routine

Okay...I admit it....I AM OBSESSED WITH SKINCARE!!!!  I do not find this to be a bad thing.  Especially as my 41st birthday is approaching and people are shocked to learn that I will be 41 as the tend to think I am in my early 30s...I must be doing smething right.  So what do I do?  I'll tell you.

First of all...I make sure to drink at least 35 ounces of water each and every day.  I can do this because I follow the principles in The Water Secret by Dr Howard Murad.  It is agood read and tells you quite a bit about hydration which is the building block to beautifu
l skin.
I never go to bed with makeup on.  I clanse my face thoroughly morning and evening.  Ater which I apply a repair product followed by a moisturizer.

my go to products are:
Cleanser...Estee Lauder Verite Light Lotion Cleaser....GREAT for my sensitive skin
Day time  repair is Estee Lauder Even Skintone Illuminator...evens out ALL signs of skin discoloration...literally.
Daytime Moisturizer...Avon Reversalist...because it has an spf 25
Nightime I use Este Lauder Take It Away makeup remover and then cleanse with the Verite
Nightime repair is Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair.  This is the one product I simply cannot live without. It helps with my dry flaky spots. my skintone and my fine lines beginning to show up.  Seriously...get out and get a bottle of this.
Nightime Moisturizer is Avon Anew Genics....this stuff you can feel working.  It tighten and brightens.
My eye creme is nw Avon Anew Genics but before that was EsteeLauder Advanced Ight Repair.

Does it seem like alot to you?  Takes me 10 minutes a day....to take 10 years off the look of my skin..yeah its worth it!

Happy Valentine's Day

I hope you all had a beautiful Valentine's Day.  I hope that you took some time for you today and pampered yourself.  It's not too late to run a hot bath.