Respect My Face!

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

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 [...]

How’s your New Year’s resolution going?  Are you keeping up?  And I hope you have been taking good care of your skin with the simple steps of cleanse  ~>  tone ~> moisturize. But sometimes the simple 3-step regiment is not enough.  “Sometimes” means whenever you wear makeup; and “makeup” means anything that’s not your skin [...]

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 [...]

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:  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 [...]