The Perfect Khaki Eye

Fall eye shadows are typically nothing to get too excited about. 
Most years we see the same old beiges, browns and berries, and it leaves us a little uninspired.

Fall/Winter 2010 however, brings a little excitement to the makeup table, in the form of Khaki.

Khaki is huge this season! The 2010 Khakis are a little more complex than their predecessors, a little more interesting, but still require a few good tricks to make them look sensational.

1) Be really well concealed and color corrected under the eyes. Use pinky/peachy toned color correctors to cancel out the blue/gray tones. Applying an ivory or vanilla concealer will just make the under eye look ashy and gray. The murky depths of a khaki shadow can leave you looking tired if you're not well cleaned up under the eyes.


2) Khaki shadow looks best when you're wearing a full cover, luminous foundation. The olive undertones in khaki can make the skin look sallow, so fire up your most beautiful base, and breathe some life into your autumn cheeks with a fresh hued blush.

3) Look for khakis with deeper green hues. Don't go too pale or too olive as these can give a very bruised look. Depth in color will make your eye look more robust.

4) Avoid flat shadows - go for something with a gold shimmer to it. My favorites this season are Chanel Vert Khaki and Bobbi Brown Forest, both of which have a delicious metallic golden sheen to them, reflecting gold and emerald without being frosted. This immediately wakens and enlivens the eye, while maintaining smoking smoldering intensity.

5) If you have flat olives or browns in your makeup drawer, bring them to life by mixing metallic coppers or bronzes with them, or laying a shimmering gold shadow over top. A good gold shadow creates all kinds of options to reinvent shadows that are looking old or dull.

6) The best way to wear a khaki shadow is as a smoky, moody eye, well blended and with a bold but buffed out liner and tons of mascara.
 

Get Your Leopard On!!

Normally fall fashions get overwhelmingly tedious with all the gray/brown/blackness that reach out and hit you over the head like a dulled mallot. But not this season. Fall 2010 is giving us a little excitement in the form of leopard prints. Fun, fabulous, fantastic leopard!

Kate Moss - always perfection

We are seeing leopard everything - from shoes

to handbags to belts and scarves.

 Fall 2010's bottoms look best dressed in a leopard thong...

thong by Sensuelle

The divine leopard print coats and jackets that ruled the runways, can kick up any old black ensemble and make it super sleek chic and cool.

Moschino

Unless you are JLo or Jackie Collins don't try to pull off head to toe leopard. Instead of suggesting a little inner feline you'll look like you're unleashing your full on cougar! Ideally wear one statement piece (dress/coat) and counterbalance it with a simple solid, or take a couple of fab leopard accessories and use them to bring the drama to anything you own.

When using more than one leopard piece, make it more interesting by layering different sized and colored prints, and combine different textures.

There are two major makeup trends to pair with leopard this season.

The first is a smoldering, sexy eye coupled with a soft nude mouth. Major eye shadows to use are a metallic shimmering eggplant, or a copper khaki shimmer. Make sure you make the eye very sultry, buffed out and with considerable depth.

Angelina Jolie, gorgeous in leopard

Use a full bodied foundation, give your cheeks lots of autumnal love, then soften it all with a dewy finish on a nude lipstick.

Maxim Magazine's sexiest woman on earth, Christina Hendricks

Divine.

The other major trend is to again use a full, luminous base (try Makeup Forever HD) a well contoured cheek, and this time add in a power brow - well groomed and defined, a soft, bare eye shadow on a well lined heavily lashed eye and set the whole thing alight with a bright, bold, catch me if you can red lipstick. Avoid burgundy reds, purple reds and dark reds. If you only buy one piece of makeup this season, make it a bright, modern, exciting red!

Fierceness!

Here is the SheKnows.com Daily Dish segment all about leopard for fall 2010:

Four Quick Steps To Lighten and Brighten Your Eyes

Nothing will undo your look more quickly than dull, tired looking eyes. Whether you wake up with puffy eyes or whether you sit in front of a computer all day and wind up looking exhausted, having a few good tricks up your sleeve can make all the difference in the world.

 Four quick steps to lighten and brighten your eyes!

 1) Use a good de-puffer under the eye.

I love Kiehls Facial Fuel Eye De-Puffer. It soothes, cools, hydrates, gets the circulation going and de-puffs all in one easy step. I also love that it comes in a stick form instead of a lotion or gel. 

2) Curl those lashes!

A really high speed way to open the eye is to curl the lashes. But not all lash curlers are created equal! Some just flip the lash up, or don't shape it nicely. Makeup artists all over the world swear by the Shu Uemura lash curler (www.shuuemura.com) due to its perfect shape. (always curl before applying mascara!!)

3.) Use a supersonic mascara

such as Cargo's incredible Texas Lash mascara. In Texas they like everything bigger, and this mascara is no exception!! Put on several coats and build some big, dramatic exciting eyes.

4) Use a highlighter.

Again from Cargo I love the Eyelighter pen. Keep one in your handbag for a quick freshen up after work, use when getting ready to go out, or on those days when you need a little extra something in the morning. This double ended pen simplifies age old makeup artist trick of using both matte and frosted highlighting shadows. The pointed tip puts a matte shadow under the brow, under the lower lash line and at the outer corner of the eye, while the rounded tip puts a soft shimmering highlight to the inner corners of the eye. Your eyes look instantly bright and alive!

Bronzer 101 SheKnowsTV

Summer is all but over, yet we're not quite ready to lose that lovely sun-kissed glow, so its time to break out the bronzer!
But not all bronzers are created equal, and the shade that is gorgeous on your friend can look hideous on you, so here's the girlfriend's guide to bronzing, as seen on She Knows TV.

1. Find your formulation. 
When all is said and done, gels and creams can be trickier to get even and smooth and to keep looking perfect all day, so go with a powder compact - its way easier!


2. Find your correct color.
If you have a pale skin you will look best in a bronzer with a rosey gold champagne undertone.
If you have a medium or olive complexion you will win with a golden copper undertone.
If you are a dark goddess look for something with a deeper red undertone.


A little shimmer can be beautiful, and really bring some light and life into the skin. Look for bronzers that have very small particles of shimmer. Basically if you can see and identify individual shimmer particles, they are too big, and your skin will look crazy shiny.


3. Application.
Don't try to color your face in with bronzer. Its need to hit your skin where the sun would. Across the forehead, the top of the cheek bone and bridge of the nose, and the chin. You can run a little along the jawline too.
Think of doing a number 3 across forehead, cheekbone, nose and chin.
If your collarbones are visable, dust them too.


Your application should be light enough that you can see freckles through it.


The bronzers I showed in the segment are actually from my makeup kit. 
Here is the 411 of what was on the table.


On Lisa I used Guerlain's amazing Terracotta Powder in shade 2.

Beyond brilliant, this product is the benchmark for all bronzers. Guerlain first introduced the Terracotta powders in 1984, and they were the first bronzers on the market. To this day they are the biggest selling bronzer, with one unit selling somewhere in the world every 25 seconds!!
I love these because they give the warmth and luminosity of a natural tan. They also are moisturizing, long wearing and oil controlling.


Cargo Cosmetics Bronzer in Medium

A staple in my kit and in my personal product arsenal. I love the subtle sun kissed glow it gives, slightly shimmery and sheer. This award winning bronzer avoids the overly yellow trap that many bronzers fall into. Totally gorgeous!


MakeUp Forever Bronzer

I am a huge advocate of Makeup Forever! Their products are amazing. On the table I showed their bronzer in shade #5, which has a lovely red undertone for my dark skinned girls. It comes in several shades, so no matter what your complexion is they have one for you.

Update on Spring Summer 2011 Runway Hair & Makeup

Today's Daily Dish on SheKnows.com was all about what's happening with hair and makeup on the runways at Fashion Week NYC.

We shot this one two days into Fashion Week, and here's what we were seeing:

Hair:

Three main trends emerging with hair were all fabulous and fun (and easy for you and me to duplicate!)
1. Hair was completely pulled back from the face. Richard Chai showed it pulled back then worn long, Christian Siriano showed it pulled back and up.

2. Hair had a very deconstructed look and feel. Instead of being pulled back severely, it was loose and soft. Flyaways were not only okay, they were cool (yay!)

3. Hair was soft, feminine and flirty. Its easier for us to look lovely when hairstyles are soft and casual! Soft, high buns, ponies and side braids made for stress free tresses.

Makeup:


1. With the hair pulled back it was all about having a perfect complexion. Fire up your Clarisonic, bust out the deep cleansing masks, and get your skin extra lovely for spring!
Toss any matte or heavy foundations, and replace them with products that let your beautiful skin shine through. Use a luminizer or highlighter along the top of your cheekbones, temples and bridge of your nose to make your skin look truly radiant!


2. Brows are soft and lovely, cheeks are well defined, but pretty in pinky-nude shades.


3. Eyes are smudgy and muted, lips are either barely there bare with muted pink undertones, or
popping with bright invigorating color.

muted at Prabal Garung

lip popping at Cynthia Rowley

Predictions for Spring Summer 2011

So Fashion Week is about to start (today!)

and the good folks at SheKnowsTV

asked me to pop in and do a little predicting

as to what we might be seeing this next week 

on the runways in New York.

I gave them 4 ideas:

1. Mad Men inspired early 60's style shift dresses

a la Jackie O

2. Wide weave lace.

3. Clogs.

Look for high heeled clogs like these ones from Chanel

4. Uplifting and energizing pastels in shades such as gladiola, daffodil, viola, and iris.

Lets see if I was right...

Beat The Heat: Skin Care Tricks

We shot a segment for SheKnowsTV on how to Beat The Heat with skin care.

I talked about C. R. B

Cleanse

Repair

Boost

Cleanse:

You may have to change up your cleansing routine during the heat of the summer months. Humidity promotes excess oil production, and can lead to break outs and clogged pores. If you are somewhere humid, consider changing to a cleansing wash rather than a milk.

Dry heat sucks all the moisture out of your skin, so a wash may strip your complexion too much. A cleansing milk may be better for you.

Excess perspiration, SPF from the days at the beach, muggy humid air - all kinds of environmental issues can clog pores and change the texture of our skin.

Clarisonic gives you a six times deeper cleanse, really cleaning out those pores, stimulating the skin and lifting away the dead surface cells.

Loved by dermatologists, and adored by models and celebrities alike, Clarisonic is quite possibly the most significant innovation in skin care in the past 10 years.

I absolutely swear by mine. (available at www.beautyatskindeep.com)

Repair:

Changes in climate can really stress your skin out, so you need to have some tricks up your sleeve to pull off some quick repair work. Or some preventative maintenance.

One of the best options is to take 10 minutes every couple of weeks and give yourself a mask.

Here are three fabulous options, available to everyone, everywhere via BeautyAtSkinDeep.com   

If your skin is more on the oily side, or you're having breakouts, acne, back acne, chest breakouts - you know the drill - you need a mask that will super deep clean and pull out all the excess oil and detox those pores. Gently.

Alaskan Glacial Mud is a sustainable, organic, hand harvested mask. Extremely popular and loved by all who use it, 10% of the profits from the glacial facial go back to the environment.

 Astara Golden Flame Hydration Mask

This one is for those of you living in a dry heat, or who need extra hydration. Dried out skin looks lifeless and dull, so you should use a hydration mask every week or two to repair and add extra moisture back into the skin.

Dehydrated looks drastically older than well nourished skin! 

Astara Violet Flame Enzyme Mask

My favorite way to exfoliate and remove all the dead surface cells is with an enzyme mask.

This one nourishes, detoxes, puts moisture back into the skin and soothes. I love multi-purpose multi-taskers!

And it smells divine too!

Boost:

When beating the heat you may also need to give your skin a good boost.

Your moisturizer that works fabulously for most of the year, often needs some extra help to get you through the summer months.

Credentials B5 Hydragel  

This is a lightweight oil free gel formula that delivers moisture deep into the skin and holds it there. Super soothing and cooling, you can use this by itself in more humid climes, or use it before moisturizer when your regular product needs a boost.

 Too much sun or wind? This one is a great skin recovery product too!

Find it at www.beautyatskindeep.com

 Cold Plasma

Cold Plasma by Perricone MD is the ultimate booster product.

This one addresses the 10 main signs of aging: wrinkles, enlarged pores, loss of smoothness, impurities, uneven skin tone, redness, discoloration, loss of firmness, dryness and loss of radiance. It is in fact, a skin solution for all ages and all skin types.

Designed for year round use, it is also a fantastic summer time boost to the skin. I use it nightly under my night time moisturizer. Smoothing, firming, brightening, expect dramatic results from this revolutionary product.

Find Cold Plasma at www.perriconemd.com



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Face Shapes and Hairstyles

In keeping with the SheKnows TV Chat Pack episode about hairstyles and face shapes, I'm going to get into a little more depth about face shapes and hairstyles.

Here are 6 face shapes and the best hairstyles for them as well as which ones to avoid.


Round
If you have a round face, the goal is to create less volume around the face, thereby minimizing the roundness. Try cuts that fall just below the chin. Soft, graduated layers are ideal because they make the face look slimmer while they remove the bulk and weight from the sides. Wispy tapered ends and side swept bangs create a lovely illusion, and modify the roundness.
Avoid one length blunt cuts, volume thru the middle, and short curly hairstyles. They will all maximize a round look.
Celebs with round face shape include Christina Ricci, Kirsten Dunst and Drew Barrymore

Square
If you have a square shaped face you want to play down the strong angular jaw. Long layers starting at the jawline and working their way thru the length, creating movement are lovely on a square face , as are side swept bangs. Curls are fabulous too.
Avoid one length bobs, blunt cut bangs, and any blunt cuts that end at the jawline.

Celebs with square shaped faces includethe lovely Sandy B, Demi Moore and Kristin Scott Thomas.

Oval

Oval is the most versatile shape, and can pull off pretty much any look.

Avoid short layers with height at the crown as this will elongate the face too much. If the hair is curly avoid a blunt cut as this can give a pyramid look. Curly hair on an oval face is best when shoulder length or longer, to weigh it down. Avoid short curly hair if you have an oval face shape.

Celebs Jennifer Aniston, Cindy Crawford, Julia Roberts, Cameron Diaz

Heart

A heart shaped face is wider at the temple and narrower at the chin. Heart shaped faces look completely gorgeous with cuts that are chin length or longer, carry weight in the nape to balance out the narrow chin, they are lovely with chin length bobs, side parts, swept forward layers around the upper face, wispy bangs. Be sure to emphasize those beautiful cheekbones!

Avoid short full styles that emphasize the upper face, too much height at the crown, and severe slicked back looks. (unless you are Victoria Beckham, in which case by merely breathing you are close to perfection and nothing else matters).

Celebs include Posh, Naomi Campbell, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Emmanuelle Beart

Rectangle

Rectangular face shapes need to add width but not height or length. Brow skimming bangs, chin length bobs, curls and waves are all fabulous as they add the illusion of width and soften the angles of the face. Long layers with pieces hitting the nose, chin and collarbone are totally lovely. Keeping length in the back and slightly shorter sides creates a beautiful, soft frame to the face.

Avoid too much height at the crown or long straight looks as they will just lengthen the face too much.

Celebs include Gwyneth Paltrow, Janet Jackson and Gabrielle Reece

1. Diamond

This is perhaps the most exquisite face shape of them all. Virtually everything looks divine on a diamond shaped face. Sometimes a little extra weight at the nape can balance out  a chin that's very narrow, but in general, you're perfect anyway.

Just think Linda Evangelista. Perfect.

Chat Pack!!

A few weeks back I shot a new series for SheKnowsTV called Chat Pack.
Chat Pack is a little bit like the view. Four ladies talk current issues and things of interest,
with a special guest on each episode.
Not only am I the makeup artist for the show, but I was also the special guest on two shows, one of which aired last week.

 my SheKnows Chat Pack Promo shot

It was called "Making The Cut" and is all about hairdos and how tos.


We talked about a couple of things I have already blogged about, Dry Shampoos and
Brazilian Blowouts

We also touched on which hairstyles look best on which face shapes. 

Here is the first episode of Chat Pack. I hope you'll enjoy it and check in on the others too!

Beat The Heat: SPF

We just shot a really important segment for the Daily Dish on SheKnowsTV that was all about facial SPFs.
Here are some of the key points we covered, and the product details.

*Facial SPF is a crucial component in your skin care regimen, possibly the most important component. 
*Up to 90% of skin aging comes from sun damage. This damage won't necessarily show up immediately. In the years ahead you will start seeing dark patches, or hyper-pigmentation, which are very difficult and expensive to remove.
*The sun breaks down collagen, which in turn leads to a loss of elasticity, leaving you with saggy, lifeless looking skin. 
*Lack of sun protection also opens you up to the dangers of skin cancer.




*Regular sunscreen that you use on your body will frequently break your skin out and leave it with a coarser, thicker texture, so it is important to have a separate facial SPF product.

*Sunscreen needs to be applied liberally. You should coat your face, throat and decollete every single day with an SPF of at least 30.

* Although there is debate as to whether or not an SPF higher than 30 is actually more powerful or not, it is generally accepted that the higher the SPF, the longer the protection.

For example: if the UV index today is 10, the average person has about 10 minutes before their skin will start to burn. If you wear SPF 30 you will have 30X 10 minutes, or 300 minutes before you will burn.

The clock starts when you apply the product, so if you apply SPF 30 at 7am when you're getting ready for work, it has probably run out by noon, or at least lost significant potency. So go for the highest SPF you can find.

* We get most of our sun damage just doing our regular daily things, such as walking to and from our cars, which is why dermatologists want everyone to wear sunscreen every single day.

Here are the products I discussed on the show:

For Everyday use

Rhonda Allison Zinc Protection Cream

This is a fabulous daily SPF that can be 

used alone or over moisturizer.

Great for all skin types

www.rhondaallison.com

Kiehls Super Fluid UV Defense SPF 50
This very lightweight, translucent, oil free and 
water resistant sun protection leaves the skin 
with an ultra matte finish. It has powerful,
long lasting broad spectrum UVA and UVB
protection, which is photostable. (maintains
the level of protection) 
www.kiehls.com

For A Day In The Sun  

Heading to the beach? A picnic or a BBQ? Or maybe you're doing an outdoor activity? Anything that's taking you outdoors for the day requires an even stronger formulation. Here's what I recommended:

I love this SPF 58!

Cotz is free of chemical sunscreen filters. Its water and sweat resistant, dries clear and is fragrance free.

www.beautyatskindeep.com

I love this one too!

Individual sachets, each containing one SPF 30 towelette. What I especially love about this is that it is fragranced. Tocca's beautiful Stella fragrance. So when you've been out in the heat and need to reapply your sunscreen, the convenience of a single serve sachet combined with something that doesn't smell like coconuts and pineapples is so refreshing!

Probably more for the body than the face, but I had to include it - its so lovely!

www.tocca.com

 How fabulous is this??

SPF 30 in crushed mineral form. (Also available in SPF 50)

Great on its own as a facial SPF, Colorescience Sunforgettable also makes the absolute perfect touch up SPF product, for everyday use or for the big day out.

Super convenient to slip into your handbag, lightweight and easy to apply and reapply over makeup, you can top off your sun protection before heading out to lunch, before going out for after work drinks - anytime you need to add more facial sunscreen.

Perfect in both humid and dry climates, the sheer convenience of it will keep you reapplying.

Recommended by the Skin Cancer Foundation.

                                                                          www.colorescience.com