Showing posts with label beauty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beauty. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Get Your Self-Confidence Back With Botox

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Get Your Self-Confidence Back With Botox

***Guest Post Monday***

Let’s face it, ladies: as you get older, the pressure to look your best doesn't go away. In fact, it gets even more intense. Thank god for Botox. While it used to be controversial topic and received a negative stigma in the media, today it is a wildly popular cosmetic procedure that is used by both men and women. It also offers secret health advantages, in addition to wildly improving your self-confidence. Botox helps you get your groove back and is a non-invasive procedure that can take years off a person’s age. Such a change can be dramatic in all aspects of your life, impacting your job, relationships and personal sense of self.

So yes, a few simple injections can help you look and feel better. And while most associate the procedure with the cosmetic benefits it offers, did you know it could also help relax eye muscles, thus correcting crossed eyes, blurred vision and eyelid spasms? If you suffer from migraines, studies have shown that injections have improved the symptoms of chronic headaches and pain. And there are even more sneaky secret health benefits you may never have heard of before.


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For example, administering injections in the bladder can help increase volume and reduce inconsistencies in urination. (Weird, gross but true!) Better control of one's bladder will undoubtedly make a person feel more comfortable in any public situation. Sweat is another issue of embarrassment that can be better controlled with cosmetic injections. It reduces excessive and unpredictable sweating by temporarily stopping the underarm glands from producing sweat. (Sweat will still be produced elsewhere on the body.) Arthritis, or other joint pain, also unfortunately develops with age. This painful ailment may affect your mobility. Recent studies have indicated that regular injections can alleviate shoulder, knee and hip pain due to arthritis and associated joint issues. If you are suffering from any of these conditions, please consider the quick and easy solution of regular injections.

According to the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology, a person's mood is lifted when their facial muscles are paralyzed and, therefore, unable to frown. It’s simply science that if you are continually smiling, you’ll develop a brighter outlook on life, which is infectious for the people around you. It’s no wonder that the surgery is often referred to as a spirit or a mood booster. With a cheerful outlook and a renewed sense of self, you’ll reap the benefits of higher self-confidence, which is pretty much the sexiest trait of all. This will shine out (since smiling is contagious), and make you irresistible. 


This cosmetic surgery simply has so many benefits that often go overlooked. Regular visits will reduce wrinkles by tightening and contracting your facial muscles – if you live in the Toronto area and are interested in receiving Botox treatments, click here to learn about facial injections. Not only is their website informative, but should you book an appointment, you’ll be dealing with a clinic who is the top Botox provider in Canada, with over 20 years of administering cosmetic injections. Clients will feel the physical benefits almost immediately. (At the most it can take up to two weeks to see the full effects.) If you want to feel and look your best, especially as you grow older more vulnerable to the effects of aging – get Botox. Get your self-confidence back with safe, non-invasive injections.

Saturday, October 11, 2014

I HEART Lash Closet!

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I HEART Lash Closet!

Happy Saturday Lovelies!  I want to share with you my new obsession...Lash Closet!!!  Yes, Lash Closet!  Lash Closet in your online destination for natural looking lashes and lash beauty tools!  From Lash Closet's website:


"We have a huge interest in make up and you could even call us an false eyelash junkie! We have searched all over the world for the best products in beauty.  We stand out from the rest because of our unique product line up.  We were becoming a little bored by just the average beauty products and makeup lately and decided to put together a store with great products from all over the world.

Our love for false eyelashes is strong and we believe it completes every makeup look. We carry many different lines that are of the highest quality and that are durable plus comfortable to wear, and yet very affordable.  No matter whether you like your lashes natural, or dramatic, there has to be a design that suits your look of the day when you shop with us. Our products are guaranteed to make you beautiful in an instant.
We are passionate about providing you with the best service when you buy our products.  We are a family owned business that has built it’s company on the belief that our customer’s needs are of the utmost importance.  Our entire team is committed to getting you your products fast."


Lash Closet has a wide array of lashes from synthetic to human, from strips to individual lashes, adhesives and even skin care items.  They have a little something for everyone. All of Lash Closets items are affordable and in stock.  The reviews for Lash Closets customer service are phenomenal.  However, my favorite aspect of Lash Closet is the subscription service.  Yesssssssss the subscription service!
That's right lovelies, you can choose to receive new lashes weekly, biweekly, monthly, or bimonthly.  You customize your own packages.  Subscriptions are automatically paid for by the credit card you put on file and are automatically billed once the products have been shipped. If at anytime you wish to cancel your subscription simply log into your account and unsubscribe before your next delivery period. Packages will vary based on the combination of the items that are select. Luckily for you, Lash Closet is offering an extra 10% off using code: subscription! Hi-five!  Go ahead place your hand on the screen for a little cyber hi-five!  Not going to do it?  That's okay, just make sure you visit Lash Closet today at http://www.lashcloset.com!  Lash Closet and it's subscription service is epic and has all your lash needs!  Here's to your beautiful lashes!  As Always, Happy Shopping!
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Friday, May 16, 2014

Guest Post: 5 Unique Fashion Trends and Make up Tips to Look Fresh

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5 Unique Fashion Trends and Make up Tips to Look Fresh

 
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“Less is more” is the in thing this 2014. Simplicity is key whether it be in makeup or hair this year. Looking fresh and young will definitely amp your personality.

Celebrity stylists prefer simpler looks this year. “Simple is edgier and sexier,” so they say. Their advice is to focus on accentuating only your eyes and lips.
Here are 5 unique fashion trends in hair and makeup to keep your cool and look fresh this season.

1.      Shimmer and glitter are so last season. Tri-colored correction creams are better than last year’s BB cream craze. Heavy foundation should be avoided. Applying moisturizer before foundation or creams is the key in achieving a fresher look. You must remember that in attaining that fresh look is through flawless complexion.

2.      For your puckers, choose colors that match your skin tone. Later this year, radiant orchid and plum are going to be a hit. Dark-colored girls should consider orange and bright coral for their lips. While white-skinned girls can try matte and red.


3.      In fashion, the bright, electric shades of the 80’s funk are your best bet this year. But pastels such as light pink and blue will still make you look elegant and classy.

4.      The short and textured hairstyles of the 70s will be your “throwback look”. “We're gonna see a lot of shorter cuts from like, Pamela Anderson, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Hudson,” said Louis Phillip Kee, owner of the salon of the same name. Meanwhile, longhair is still your staple winning look.

5.      Start sporting low ponytails for that simple yet fresh look. Braids will make a comeback especially those styles that wraps around the head and looks like a crown.

You can always experiment on your looks and styles depending on the occasion, season, and mood you are in.  Make sure that you won’t regret it if you decide on changing something for good, more especially when it comes to changing your hairstyle. If you badly need a new one but just want it to be temporary, you can make use of wigs and hair extensions so that you can just remove it whenever you want.


About the Contributor

Mariliz is one of the beauty and hair care writers at BeautyHairtoToe.com.  Aside from that, she’s also one of the beauty gurus at Arreis Cheveux.  Her passion for beauty and make-up inspires her to share her knowledge and help women with beauty woes. Follow her tweets at @ ArreisCheveux in Twitter.


Monday, May 12, 2014

Adventures of a Makeup Misfit: What the Pluck?

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what the pluck?
Adventures of a makeup misfit

***Guest Post by the Makeup Misfit***

          You're looking in the mirror and notice that your eyebrows are looking a tad disarrayed.  You begin to wonder, how shall I remedy this dilemma? Should I shave them at home or at a salon? Should I get them waxed? And we've all wanted to try the latest attempt at eyebrow maintenance, threading! Every woman strives for the perfect movie star arch that compliments her eyes and accentuates her face. Like Joan Crawford, you remember her signature eyebrows like you remember the famous line "no more wire hangers!" Well, eyebrow maintenance Mommie Dearest is a necessary evil. The road to this heavenly conquest is sometimes paved with good intentions. We wax, shave, thread and yes pluck (tweeze) our eyebrows into the straight and narrow, curved and sleek silhouette of exquisite submission all in the name of beauty.


           Shaving your eyebrows, if you know what you're doing, can leave a clean beautiful curve to your eyebrows that accentuates any eye. I've tried shaving my own eyebrows and let me tell you I leave this task to the professionals. Any time I try to accomplish this goal myself, I always hear Shug Avery in my ear saying " that razor looks dull to me Ms. Celie!" I imagine myself, going along with precision and all of a sudden, I hear that call of the Dinka tribe as Nettie turns away and blood runs down my face! NOT PRETTY.  Needless to say, I go to my favorite stylist, pay her my money and TIP, then walk away with beautifully arched eyebrows.

Now waxing, I would say is the fastest method to eyebrow madness.  The waxing experience is not bad AT FIRST!!! It starts off  with warm wax sometimes a little hot. The stylist or technician applies the wax in a generous amount to the desired area and then a strip is pressed over the wax. Here comes the fun part, as the strip is snatched off your face the entire room goes silent, tears run down your face and temporary paralysis occurs. You find yourself  blacking out and spiraling down a rabbit hole, passing Alice and the Mad Hatter! As you regain consciousness, you realize that beauty is pain.  Just as we endure stiletto pumps, girdles and underwire bras, women everywhere have endured the pain of waxing. In my experience, waxing has lasted longer than shaving so there is a benefit to this method of eyebrow maintenance.

            We've all seen those horror films where some unsuspecting damsel in distress is strapped to a table and forced to undergo agonizing and excruciating pain at the hands of a psychopathic killer, well anyone that plucks eyebrows is that psychopath in my opinion. I am convinced, it takes a certain type of person to pluck eyebrows and an even more mentally disturbed individual to subject themselves to plucking. Plucking is not an art to me it's more of a sadistic act of cruelty that pushes the limits of beauty to the edge by the ends of your eyelids. And even after you've succumb to the madness of plucking it's sometimes not as accurate as the previously mentioned methods of eyebrow maintenance. Sure you can do this at home without any assistance but who would want to? I for one reject the idea of plucking eyebrows as an archaic medieval practice invented in a dungeon-esque torture chamber by Dr. Frankenstein or Dr. Moreau.

  

            Whether the Color Purple is your shave, you enjoy free falling into a wax filled Wonderland or maybe subjecting yourself to the suspenseful thrill ride plucked right out of a H. G. Wells novel, when getting your eyebrows manicured you must truly choose your own path. Whichever you decide, only you know your threshold of pain in order to acquire your Hollywood look. Though exquisiteness comes at a price ranging from a bag of large popcorn to tickets on Broadway, when you make your première I guarantee no one will take their eyes off of you! 


Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Oasap Limited: Womens Fashion

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I am currently coveting Oasap Limited.  Oasap is an online retailer that offers everything women's fashion! Shoes, clothes, accessories and beauty products fill this awesome high fashion site!

(Feel free to click on the outfits you like to be taken to the Oasap Limited site!)
Tell me this isn't delicious!  I dare you!
I just ordered this one!
This is so fabulous
Love it!



From their web site 

"OASAP is a global online store dedicated to high-street fashion by offering various kinds of women’s apparel, bags, shoes, jewellery, accessories, beauty products, etc. 
OASAP was founded in late 2011, however, has already grown to the leader of high fashion online store. We keep updating products at a high rate every day. Now we update more than 600 new products each week. Those products mentioned definitely belong to the latest fashion trend.
OASAP's mission is to make you close to the planet's most cutting-edge fashion, no matter where you are or what class or age group you are in. Pursuing fashion is the right of every woman."

That's right, pursuing fashion IS the right of every woman! (Smile)There clothes are so haute (and affordable!)

Right now they are offering 20% off your first order (until 12/12)

Oasap Women's Fashion Store - 20% off First Order, Free Shipping Worldwidely, 30 Days Unconditional Return

As well as 40% off for select back to school fashions!


Oasap Women's Fashion Store Back to School Sale - 40% off Campus Style, Free Shipping Worldwidely 
Click on the banners to receive the discounts!

Psst...Act now and enjoy free shipping!! 

As always, Happy Shopping!

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

When I Grow Up I Want to be an Old Woman

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When I Grow Up I Want to be an Old Woman

I have never been afraid of aging. I don't know if it's because the women in my family age so gracefully...or because I never bought into the youth obsessed culture we live in. Everywhere we look, we are bombarded with pills, creams, tighteners, brighteners, shapers, and surgeries that we are told we need to stay youthful. Most of the models used for advertisements are comfortably younger than 25 years old. Some were into Hana Montana the year prior, but that's another story all together.

Youth is wonderful, it really is. However, it's such a short period of our lives! I refuse to believe that we peak in highschool or college, and if you feel you did...well, I feel sorry for you. I created this post to celebrate the beauty of all ages. Since the beauty of youth is celebrated daily, I specifically sought out older women to highlight.



So in my search to find beautiful older women, I came across the Ms. Senior America Pageant.  I am so going to enter in 29 years! (yikes, I didn't realize how close it was!)

According to the website, the Ms. Senior America Pageant,


 "The Ms. Senior America Pageant is the world's first and foremost pageant to emphasize and give honor to women who have reached the "Age of Elegance."  It is a search for the gracious lady who best exemplifies the dignity, maturity and inner beauty of all senior Americans. The Ms. Senior America philosophy is based upon the belief that seniors are the foundation of America, and our most valuable treasure.  It is upon their knowledge, experience and resources that the younger generation has the opportunity to build a better society."


Let me tell you this pageant is awesome!



The current pageant winner

Kudos to all of these beautiful women!  For more information click here
Without further adieu, beauties of all ages!

 Beauties in their 30's:

I wanted to find a picture where she wasn't all done up and this shot fit perfectly.  Minimal makeup except for the red lip which I adore.


I really wasn't offended by M.I.A giving people the finger during the Super Bowl.  I mean, get over yourselves.  As much as I like football, let's be honest here...What do most people do during the Super Bowl?  Drink, curse, eat and gamble.  If that isn't an environment conducive to giving someone the finger, I don't know what is.  However, I digress.  Believe it or not M.I.A is 37!  Yes darling, and she looks marvelous!

Beauties in their 40's



Salma Hayek, 'nuff said.


Halle Berry, Halle Berry...Yes, Miss Thing is in her 40's and let me tell you, I wish I looked half as good as she does now!

Beauties in their 50's

Yes, Madge has had some work...and I have seen her looking less than fabulous but for 54...she looks pretty damn good.


Yves St Laurent once said Iman was his dream woman, and at 56, we can all see why.

Beauties in their 60's:


Vera Wang is 63.  Yes 63.  She is super stylish and still beautiful.

Beauties in their 70's and beyond!



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Carmen Dell'Orefice is hands down one of the most strikingly beautiful women I have ever seen.  I personally think she is more beautiful now than when she was younger...but that's just me.  By the way, she is 72.

**Correction**Carmen Dell'Orefice  is 81!!!! 


Our obsession with youth is detrimental to us all.  Besides the shallow aspects of beauty, we are largely ignoring seniors who can offer us wisdom, experience and tradition in our fast paced, overly stressed lives.  Furthermore, this is just an opinion, but our obsession with youth seemingly breeds pedophilia, one simply has to watch Dateline NBC's Chris Hanson, To Catch a Predator to come to that conclusion.


Besides the child predators, this obsession with its multi billion dollar marketing machine telling us we are not thin, youthful, or pretty enough is damaging to our self esteem.  I encountered a seven year old who told me she was counting calories!  A seven year old for god sakes! Things have gotten so out of hand, that vaginal rejuvenation (a.k.a designer vaginas) is quickly becoming one of the most sought after plastic surgeries.  God forbid our vijayjay doesn't look like whatever porn stars vagina!  Because really, we should all aspire to be like porn stars.  (Is there a surgery for saggy testicles? I'm just saying.)


I have no answers, I have no idea what will turn our society's attitude towards aging.  Yet, we all need to embrace our age, our looks, our lives and our bodies no matter what age!


So how do you feel about age and aging?  Which one of these beauties do you admire, and why?

Timetospa.com (Steiner Leisure Limited)



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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Style Icon of the Week: Brooklyns' Own Ms. Lena Horne

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Style Icon of the Week: Brooklyns' Own Ms. Lena Horne


It's been two years since Ms. Lena Horne passed away, but her image, style and grace have yet faded from our memory.

Born June 30, 1917, in Brooklyn, NY (Bed-Stuy), she would grow to become a famous actress, singer and civil rights activist.

Lena Horne was raised by her mother, an actress, and then by her grandmother, Cora Calhoun Horne, who took Lena to the NAACP, the Urban League and the Ethical Culture Society, all centers in that time of activism. Cora Calhoun Horne sent Lena to the Ethical Culture school in New York.

At age 16 Lena began working at Harlem's Cotton Club, first as a dancer, then in the chorus and later as a solo singer.  Lena then went on to work as a dancer and singer for Noble Sissles's orchestra, gaining popularity with both black and white audiences, though in keeping with the racial status quo of the '30s, she was denied entrance to all-white facilities and hotels in most of the cities where she headlined on stage. Following her film in The Duke is Tops (1939), Lena was signed as a specialty performer by MGM Studios.

In most of her film appearances, Lena would sing in a sequence separate from the plot line and her white costars, so that her scenes could be edited out when shown in certain Southern theatres. She managed to survive on these terms and even won leading roles in two major-studio feature films, Cabin in the Sky (1943) and Stormy Weather (1943) - both of which had all-black casts. Hollywood's attitude towards African-Americans in the '40s was slightly better than in the '30s, but producers still treaded very slowly and cautiously: Lena was allowed romantic interests in her two starring films, but her leading men were middle-aged comedians and dancers like Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Dooley Wilson, and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson. Additionally, Lena was allowed to be sexy but not too sexy, her most erotic scene in Cabin in the Sky, wherein she was discreetly "nude" in a bubble bath (the bubbles providing censor-proof camouflage) was removed from the film, not to be seen in public until shown in the 1994 compilation That's Still Entertainment.

 Lena's career suffered in the '50s, when she had difficulty securing TV work not only because of her race but also because of her friendship with Paul Robeson, the famed black singer who'd embraced Communism. Eventually talent won out over ideology, and Lena starred on Broadway in Jamaka in 1957, following this personal triumph with numerous media and live performances. In 1969, Horne returned to films in Death of a Gunfighter. Still beautiful and in terrific voice, Horne went strong into the '90s, attaining the rare status of Living Legend.

She died in 2010 at the age of 92.
At 90, she gave us younger women a run for our money!

Besides being a legendary performer and activist, Lena also was a style icon. Lena wore outfits and gowns that accentuated her small waist and shapely legs.  Her makeup was subtle, yet beautiful and she chose accessories that added pizzaz to the piece not overwhelmed them.


The beautiful Ms. Lena Horne was a true star. She had grace and style...and a look that was undeniably her own.



Foulards!
Beautiful makeup!

Beyonce wears this same silhouette often!
Her gloves are to die for!