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Top 5 Beauty Tips for the New Year

We all love tips to keep ourselves looking fresh and pretty. We recently attended a luncheon where the speaker presented several “Top 5″ beauty tips. Might be something for you to consider for your New Year.

Top 5 Beauty Products that make it look like you spent time on your make-up even when you haven’t:

• Concealer
• Lip gloss
• Powder
• Mascara
• Eyebrow Color

Top five products to have in your beauty wardrobe:

• Sunscreen
• Make-up removers
• Cleanser
• Moisturizer
• Eye cream

And this one, was just too funny (only because I only had three of them). They’re the Top 10 items everyone should have in their wardrobe. How many do you have in your closet/wardrobe? We’d love to know.

• LBD – The little black dress
• Black pants
• White blouse
• Shoes – 2 pumps (Black and Nude) and black boots
• Blazer or Leather jacket
• Denim Jeans, the darker the better
• Fitted Coat – Black
• Cashmere sweater – Black or cream
• Classic handbag – black
• Pearls

Source: BeautyBuzzBook.com

5 Worst Skincare Mistakes

Our StrictlyWeddings.com beauty expert, Renee Rouleau shared this video on taking care of your skin. Words of wisdom this Monday.

Wedding Makeup – Dramatic, Hollywood Eyes

Looking for a sexier look with your make-up? Think about enhancing your eyes with the “cat-eye” makeup style used by several Hollywood stars.

Cat-eye makeup is when the lined upper lashes finished with a subtle “wing.” First used in ancient Egypt, our most famous being the fashionable Cleopatra, today you’ll find the style used by Lady Gaga, Angelina Jolie, and Kim Kardashian.

Cat-eyes have remained in vogue because the technique elongates round eyes and is a makeup artist trick for helping larger eyes to appear smaller. It offers a unique twist on everyday makeup and makes the eyes appear smokier and sexier.

Are you game to try it yourself? Here’s how to get the look yourself (or call one of our many StrictlyWeddings.com Beauty partners!):

You will need: Black liquid eyeliner or a freshly sharpened black eyeliner or kohl pencil.

• Step 1: Begin by placing the index finger of your non dominant hand a few centimeters from the outside crease of your eyelid.
• Step 2: Gently pull the eyelid up into a slight slant.
• Step 3: Use the applicator that comes with the liquid eyeliner or the eye pencil if that feels more stable. You can also look for alternate brushes to work with your liquid liner.
• Step 4: Starting at the crease, draw a thin line with the eyeliner until it meets your finger.
• Step 5: Close your eye and blend the line onto the top of your eyelid where the skin meets the eyelashes. If you desire a thicker line, place the pencil just under the outside crease of your eye, and blend it back up into the line.

To finish off the look, apply eyeliner to your lower eyelid behind the lashes. This look works well alone or in addition to light eyeshadow and a coat of mascara. Although this is a fairly neutral eye, remember that less is more with this particular look.

The Wedding Mask

Too much sun before the wedding? Don’t have the time to go to the spa, yet needing to sooth that “sunny” glow so you can achieve that wedding glow (like our lovely bride here)?

Look into a new product by Erno Laszlo – Hydra-Therapy Skin Vitality Treatment. Our faces are not as fresh and resilient as our young brides, but after a day in the heat watching baseball, we found it wonderfully soothing when we tried it.

Hydra-Therapy Skin Vitality Treatment is a re-hydrating mask that refreshes and recharges the skin. It’s a deep moisturizing mask that also works to soothe and cool sunburned skin. It’s ideal before special evenings out, or anytime dull, dehydrated skin needs a boost of hydration. The re-hydrating mask lowers the skin temperature (up to 15 degrees) and has allantoain and zinc oxide as two of its ingredients to sooth and calm the skin.

(If you must tan before your wedding, you might want to read these tips on tanning.)

Photo courtesy of Penny Sadler Makeup Studio