With summertime quickly approaching, many find themselves wanting to break free of current products and try new things. A fiery hot season sets the tone for a quest for lightweight products that will stay in place all day long. Here is my list of 3 must-haves for summer!
A go-to lip colour
Looking for a hot new colour that will actually do your lips a favour? Toronto’s Bite Beauty offers the most incredible colour palette, while packing its lip products with natural goodness. Bight, light, bold, they have it all! These lipsticks contain natural? and organic ingredients—moisturizers ?and protective antioxidants like resveratrol,?organic fruit butters, and Manuka honey. Each of Bite’s lipstick contains an age fighting antioxidant called resveratrol. Great lips AND anti ageing, who could ask for more?
A liner that will stand the test of time (and humidity)
It shouldn’t be too much to expect that we look the same when we arrive home, as we did when we left that morning. MAC’s Fluidline is just the answer. This silky smooth gel formula is easy to apply and provides a longwearing, smudge proof look all day. Humidity doesn’t stand a chance.
The “no make up-make up”
What if you could protect your skin from UV rays, provide nourishing ingredients as well as get coverage? Welcome to CC creams. Colour correcting creams provide moisture, sun protection, anti aging qualities and tint. Dr Peter Thomas Roth tops the charts with his CC cream, which is packed full of vitamin C and actually helps to improve the appearance of uneven skin tone.
A woman’s wedding day is said to be one of the biggest days in her life. Gearing up to be the centre of attention can leave women seeking out new and fabulous ways to look their best. Here is a list of five beauty tips on what not to do before the wedding day, in order to keep you looking and feeling your best on the big day!
Tip #1 Tanning beds or Spray tans – Resist the urge to embrace your inner sun goddess. Hitting the tanning beds or reaching for the spray tanners so close to your wedding day, could leave you with an undesirable tone that you didn’t account for. Spray tans (despite what some advertise) can actually rub off on your clothing or worse yet, your wedding dress. Leave it to a skilled makeup artist to give you a bronzed and glowing look.
Tip #2 Chemical peels and Skin Rejuvenation – For anyone who saw the Sex and the City episode that features Samantha getting a chemical peel, I need not say more. Chemical peels, microdermabrasion and skin rejuvenating treatments can have great results. They also can leave some shedding dead skin for weeks or painful redness that feels like sunburnt. These clinical treatments all have their place and time, however the weeks leading up to your wedding is not that time.
Tip #3The newest and latest skin care – Stick to what you know. Skincare contains many ingredients, even if it’s a natural or botanical based line. Our skin seemingly has it’s own personality and “clashes” with some ingredients. Switching skincare can leave you with skin irritation, excess oil/dryness or even an allergic reaction.
Tip #4 DIY hair colour – Weddings are expensive! It’s easy to want to cut corners in some areas, so that you can allow for more in others. If you normally go to the salon to colour your hair, please resist the urge to save money by doing it yourself. What seemed like a money saving effort could leave you with a larger bill at the salon in order to fix a ‘colour gone wrong.’
Tip #5 Grooming your brows– Eyebrows are important and frame the face, yet are often neglected or forgotten about. For some reason, eyebrows seem to jump from a state of perfectly groomed to unruly, with what feels like no warning. Be sure to tend brows 3-5 days in advance, allowing for any redness and swelling to go down.
Trying new products and procedures can be fun and exciting but are also accompanied by a level of risk. Keep yourself looking picture perfect by avoiding beauty regime experimentation 4-6 weeks before the big day.
We all know that glorious feeling of freshly washed hair; squeaky clean I might even say. It feels great, looks so shiny and all you want to do is sit and spin strands of it around your finger all day long. Am I guilty of this? Oh absolutely. We’ve grown up in a society where everything has to be the newest, freshest and best it can be. So why wouldn’t we want the cleanest hair too?
I can clearly remember my hairdresser telling me at a young age that I should skip a day of shampoo. Did I listen? Of course not- I was young and “knew everything,” so clearly she must have been misinformed. Trouble is, she really wasn’t. There’s a lot of supporting facts and information that tells us that there may be something to this whole ‘second day hair’ madness. What do I mean by second day hair? Washing your hair on day one, skipping the second day and then washing again on day three. Let’s get one thing straight; neither I nor the information, which I’m referring to is suggesting that you skip a shower all together, simply just the shampoo. (I leave personal hygiene in your hands.)
When we wash our hair, we strip it of its natural oils. (Not all oil is bad – I’ll save this for a future blog post.) We are then teaching our hair that it must produce oil at a faster rate, in order to replace the oil, which we’ve just washed away with our newest shampoo that promises to make us look like the latest Pantene commercial. After all, who didn’t want to be a Pantene Pro V girl growing up? Does this mean that you have to wear a hat on the second day for the rest of all time? Luckily no. There are terrific products, which I’m sure we’re all familiar with, such as dry shampoo and powders. (Also terrific while camping!)
My favourite powder on the market right now is by Bumble and Bumble, called “Pret-à-Powder.” It’s designed to work as a dry shampoo but also to aid in styling. It’s marketed as a 3 in 1: Volumizer, Dry Shampoo and Style Extender. I still claim it’s a 4 in 1 because it’s smells so lovely. It has notes of nectarine, vanilla, orchid, musk and amber.
Can’t get on board with a loose powder? Klorane, a France based company, has an excellent dry shampoo spray that contains Oat Milk. Adding volume and texture to hair, while removing oil, this dry shampoo will help to soften, protect as well as moisturize. Klorane is a wonderful botanical based company, which is also great if you’re concerned about ingredients. It is sulfate, paraben and sodium chloride free.
Application Tip: Apply with care to the roots.
Powder – Sprinkle into the hair and massage into the roots
Spray – Spray about 8-10 inches from your hair
Wait a few minutes (while you brush your teeth perhaps) and then brush the product thoroughly through your hair.
If you’re going to take the big leap and enter the world of dry shampoos and powders, I do recommend that you pack your patience. Your hair is used to being washed every day and producing oil quickly. As with anything, there is an adjustment period. Give yourself and your hair, time to adjust to this new routine.
Wear what you love and love what you wear. Happy shampooing (or not)!
Spring is always an exciting time; those grey dreary days are over and bright colourful days are to come! Why not bring some of that colour into your makeup regime? Besides, makeup should always be fun, playful and inventive. Many women admit to falling into the same routine for years upon years, without ever changing a thing. Make up can be anything you want it to be, so why not make it colourful and fun!
For some reason or another, springtime consistently makes me think of blush, more than any other product (although let’s be real, the 40+ blushes I own, certainly speak for my adoration alone.) If you’re anything like me, you’ll be able to relate on the quest for that perfect blush . . .you know, the one that is the perfect hue, blends flawlessly and leaves you looking your very best? Well, I have met my match. Recently, MUFE (Make Up For Ever) released their HD Blush, named “Second Skin Cream Blush.” It is just that, a second skin of colour. The beautiful texture is so lightweight and seemingly melts into the skin. The colour selection is vast and longevity is surely impressive. There seems to be a lot of uncertainly out there about which blush is the “right one.” It’s more complex than lumping everyone into three groups; light, medium and dark. Everyone has an undertone, which plays a role in how a colour appears on your skin.
Colour Tip: Select a colour, which is similar to and compliments your natural lip colour. My faves from this collection would have to be #220, #315, #330 & #510. Remember; with any product it’s always best to start with a light hand and build the intensity slowly, to achieve the desired look. Wear what you love and love what you wear. Happy Blushing!
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