Respect My Face!

Paul & Joe Beaute Disney Character Collection 2010 ~ Alice in Wonderland!

Multipurpose balms are all the rage in beauty magazines now, and Beauté Minéral have one of the best out there!  A must-have for jet-setting beauties and everyone else, BM’s Beauté Balm is handcrafted with rich, nourishing and all natural ingredients.   Organic shea butter, jojoba oil, rose hip oil and evening primrose oil moisturize, beeswax [...]

Recently I picked up PRO Makeup – Salon secrets of the professionals by Kit Spencer, who is a makeup artist with 10+ year experience.  I don’t think she is as famous as Kevyn Aucoin or Bobbi Brown, but her book is a wonderful reference and a fun read, and it has become one of my [...]

I’m not saying I’m a Doll, and it has nothing to do with the 60’s novel or movie of the same name… This is a little fun I had with my makeup.

The look was inspired by Anna Sui’s 2007 Spring/Summer Makeup collection.  I’d always wanted to try it out with Beaute Mineral products, and finally [...]

New year, new decade, it’s time to take up some new ways to take care of ourselves.  Since great skin is the basis of looking beautiful, let’s start with steps  to taking great care of our skins.
There are many ways and many things you can do to take care of your skin; but I swear [...]

Recently I came across some mineral makeup ads in magazines featuring “freshly shaved” mineral powder foundations.  Essentially it’s a pressed powder makeup with a built-in grinder to scrape the surface of the powder block, one thin layer at a time.  These “freshly shaved” mineral powders, offered by a couple of department store brands, are claimed [...]

Everything time I see an Olay Regenerist commercial, I am always reminded of this:

I came across this beautiful photo of Keira Knightley recently… It’s a shot from her latest Chanel COCO MADEMOISELLE ad.  And I thought, Oh my goodness, Keira looks hot!  And that’s one sexy shoot…

Magazine/Issue: InStyle / WHAT’S HOT NOW (September 2007 issue, p.432)
“Parabens are one of the most ubiquitous types of preservative [in skin-care products],” says Christopher Gavigan, CEO of Healthy Child Healthy World (healthychild.org). “When they enter the body [through the skin], they appear to mimic the hormone estrogen, which plays a role in the development of [...]

Magazine/Issue:  Allure / Body News (January 2006 issue, p.58) ~ by Kristin Cobb
 
Skin Experts often discourage women with acne from wearing makeup, but a new study shows that certain cosmetics can improve acne sufferers’ quality of life without aggravating their skin. Dermatology professor Nobukazu Hayashi and other researchers at Tokyo’s Women’s Medical University instructed 18 [...]