Easy Skincare Tips

Every woman would like to be beautiful. When was the last time you looked at a model and thought, “Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be born beautiful, like that?”

Did you know that most women we deem beautiful, either in the movies or up on the catwalk, are not born beautiful? They’ve just learned how to make the most of their “natural resources” to create their own individual illusion of beauty.

Here are a few of their beauty secrets you can make into your own.

Most models have always been admired for the youthful naturalness of their beauty. The basic reason is that they have found their foundation and makeup colors that are the key to their beauty. Wouldn’t you like to know what color works best for your skin?
To help you draw out your natural beauty, each person has colors that will work for their skin tone, and their skin tone alone – what a beauty secret that would be! Just think, and I’m sure that you see this all the time, what the wrong color foundation does to one’s natural beauty.

country beige foundation by Ella Blue Beauty

Here is what a famous modeling agency has to say – “The wrong color foundation makes any woman look older, unattractive, obviously “made up”. Yet most women today do use the wrong shade because they must choose it by guess work, and because cosmetic lines only offer a limited number of colors, recommended according to some vague grouping of hair or skin coloring.”

(Quoted from John Robert Powers, creator of the Powers Modeling Agency in the 1950s.)
What do you do then to find the color of foundation that works for you?

cream beige foundation stick by Ella Blue

Just think as an artist prepares a canvas with a special natural wash before starting on his masterpiece - you must set the stage for your makeup. By wearing foundation, it smooths out the texture and evens out the tone. Some models have someone who can tell them what color they need and away they go. It’s not that simple for the rest of us.

The key to a natural look is to find that one distinct color out of hundreds that fits you. For starters, if this is your first time wanting to try mineral foundations, ask the website owner if she will sell you
samples of the colors she offers. Most will, and that would be the best way to try mineral foundations. I recommend that if you are shopping, first go to a department store that has samples of their colors. Foundation in a bottle sold at the drugstore is not going to be very helpful. To start judging what color would be best, try 3 or 4 side by side on the back of your hand. It’s not the best place for final
decisions, but it is a very helpful place to start narrowing down the colors that might work first.

After choosing a few you feel might work, now is the time to try the foundation on your face. The best place to try is along your jawbone.
If it looks like you are adding color because the foundation is too dark, go lighter. If the color looks unnatural, it’s going to make you look older, and that is not what you want. Actually, what you are
looking for is a shade of foundation that is just a smidgen lighter than your skin because it will make you look younger.

Take three colors of foundation you think may work and apply three thin stripes along your jaw line with downward strokes. Take the time to wait to see what each color looks like when it is dry – if possible, and this would be the best way to judge – look at the three stripes in natural light. You will know right away which color is wrong by how it just “sits” on your skin. Standing out against the other two tells you that it is not the color for you.

If the color of foundation is right, it will almost blend right into your skin with the edges almost gone. If none are right, then try until you find the right one.

Once you feel you have it, remove all three and apply the color again along your jawbone, but take time to blend it in. It should be imperceptible. Now, if possible, try that color of foundation all over your face as the final test. If, after one hour, it still looks great, you have the right one. If it has become chalky looking, it is probably too light, and that means that it is back to the three stripe test again.

You also need to know the types of foundation there are. Foundation comes in four basic formulas – mineral, water-based, oil-based, and oil fill.
How to tell which foundation type is best is another article by itself. Again, the best formula is the only one that works with your skin, not against it. There is more to foundation than meets the eye. By testing
it, you can find the best color for you. And knowing your skin type will tell you which formula to use.

Copyright 2007 Kim Snyder Owner of Overall Beauty geared to make sure you have all beauty products, articles tips, and tricks that you need to be as beautiful as you are!

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Have the best Holiday Day Ever!

Merry Christmas!

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Before I started my own business I really had a problem finding gifts. It got to the point that I absolutely hated shopping for birthday and Christmas presents. It wasn’t that I’m against gift-giving in general, but more like because I never know what to buy for my friends and family. I never felt I was creative enough to come up with unique presents for all the different occasions, so I usually end up buying the same old neckties, colognes, perfumes, and small kitchen appliances. Pretty boring, huh?

Obviously, it’s no fun either giving or receiving these things and I should know I have been on the receiving end of gifts such as those. I started asking people for unusual gift ideas that will make my special occasions a lot more interesting. I’ve after receiving all kinds of excellent suggestions, I wrote them all down and thought these would have a good starting point the next time I’m called upon to buy a present.

For example, one of the unusual gift ideas a friend recommended was an “experience” of some sort, such as a flying lesson, beauty makeover, or wine tasting class. Who wouldn’t love a beauty make over? Get a couple of friends together and have a Spa party or something cool like that. For guys driving experiences are extremely popular as well, even I would love a chance to take a Ferrari or other luxury automobiles out for a few hours. For the more adventurous and skilled drivers  there are even Nascar, F1, or rally driving experiences for sale! When looking at unusual gifts for someone special, one doesn’t check the price tag
first. Or you will go right back to boring really fast!

I’ve got to admit that these unusual gift ideas are about 1,000 times better than anything I’ve ever given anyone in the past! The experiences I just mentioned sound sweet, but most of them are way out of my price range.  Can you just image what it would cost to drive a Ferrari? Me neither. I was actually hoping that someone would give me a few unusual gift ideas that are both fun and affordable. In this time and age money shouldn’t stop you found finding that right gift. The best gift always comes from the heart no matter what it is.

Since I now run a beauty based website with gift ideas, why not check to see what else I could find online? My first few searches led nowhere, but then I hit the jackpot and found tons of unusual gift ideas that are well within my budget. I discovered cool gadgets that can melt the ice in key locks, locate WiFi hotspots, or wireless charge for a cell phone.  If you have friends into fun things like scrapbooking, love unusual books, always has to have first edition there will be a website out there for you to find. I also learned about
how to create personalized photo books, where to buy authentic movie memorabilia, and how to order a gourmet dinner and even cook a gourmet meal if I wanted too.

There are always websites that feature experts in just about every hobby anyone could possibly be into! I came across numerous websites that feature experts offering free advice about all kinds of gift-giving occasions. They go far beyond simply listing unusual gift ideas, some even focused  on how to determine what kind of presents your friend would appreciate based on a number of different factors. Like basing a gift on your friends personality or love a color or hobby. There are all kinds of websites you can find that will
even help you build your own gift basket based on what you feel needs to be in it! How awesome is that?

All in all, I became confident that I had got enough information and resources to safely get me through the next few years of birthdays and Christmases. I tend to share what I learn with my friends now who are all looking for that one special gift that their friend has never received. With all of these unusual gift ideas at my fingertips, I’ll never be stuck giving neckties and perfume again! Unless that is what they wanted of course!

Copyright Kim Snyder Offering only the finest in beauty products, for family and friends. Visit us today at Overallbeauty.com for all your gift-giving needs!

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What do most people do when they are stressed? They frown. And when you frown a lot and for a long time those frown lines and the associated wrinkles on your brow become permanent fixtures on your face and the wrinkles make you look older. Natural skincare helps relax the lines but stress will make it stay. It’s better for your skin overall to find ways to cut back on your stress in your life.

Have you ever noticed how people with very little stress in their life look a lot younger than others of the same age?

It is not only the effect that the stress has on the lines of your face but also the way that it affects your health as a whole and that can age you considerably.

Stress can deplete you of nutrients in the body and this will have a negative affect on your skin, nails and hair.

Hair can start thinning in times of stress and fall out and often the hair loss becomes permanent. With a change in your chemical makeup due to the stress your hair can suddenly turn gray too.

Nails can become brittle and lose their condition.

Skin can become dry, flaky and other skin irritations and problems can occur, some of them causing permanent damage to the skin. That’s when you need to start using more organic skincare products such as
Intensive Therapy Face Cream
Blood pressure can rise and diets can change due to the increased need to boost energy levels. Often the choices of these energy boosters are not the best and energizing drinks or high carbohydrate foods are chosen for an instant lift. These soon turn into a weight problem where the percentage of fat in the body increases and the metabolism slows down.

If things continue along this path diabetes is something that will be an issue.

That is just a quick summary of some of the things that stress can cause to happen and it becomes very clear when reading that why stress is detrimental for anyone trying to look and stay young.

One problem quickly leads to another and before long there are more problems to contend with that increase the stress levels even more.

To stay young you need to lead a stress free life and when there is no way to avoid stress you need ways to cope with it so it has the least impact on your life.

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Facials are one of the most common types of skincare. Its important to give yourself a facial because your face is always exposed to the environment and everyone sees your face.

A spa facial is more than just cleansing your skin, it softens your skin and with the massage that you receive, it helps with tension as well. A spa facial gives you relief from the tension you feel in your forehead, around your eyes and mouth which can have a relaxing effect on your whole body.

Spa facials generally include no less than five steps:

Cleansing

Exfoliating

Mask

Massage

Moisturizing.

To give yourself a spa style facial at home you need to get together all the ingredients you want to be using. Pick a facial cleanser that is most suited for your skin type. Choose a organic/natural cleanser will treat your skin better than anything you can buy that is mass marketed.

You can create your own exfoliants from certain fruits and other products you may have in your kitchen.

Papaya is a natural exfoliant when its mashed together with a tsp. of honey. It may also irritate your skin so please test first.

To create a tightening mask you will need a clay or clay like product. For a soothing and nourishing mask try dry milk powder, mixed with lemon, honey and oatmeal enough of each to create a paste.

Mashed bananas and avocados have a natural oil making them great for moisturizing masks. For dry skin mash enough ripe avocado to make 2 tsp. and blend it with 1 tsp honey. Spread over all your face avoiding your eye area and leave on for 15 minutes. Rinse off with warm water.

For exfoliating, moisturizing mask and may prevent acne scarring, try wheat germ! For dry skin you will need:

1 tsp wheat germ

2 tsp honey

1 tsp lemon juice

1 tsp almond oil enough to create a paste. Gently massage into your face and neck avoiding the eye area. Leave on for 10 minutes then go onto your next step in your spa style facial at home. Extra tip about wheat germ, to help reduce possible scarring caused by severe acne try massaging a few drops of wheat germ oil into your skin after cleansing. Do it every night.

You will want to experiment first to make sure you are not sensitive to any of the ingredients you have in mind to use. Like wraps and scrubs, a facial should be done no more than once a week.

Great skin always has a healthy looking glow that reflects the time and effort you devote to it. Anyone who wants to maintain a healthy looking glow to their skin can benefit by giving yourself a spa style facial at home. And it saves you money as well!  Copyright Kim Snyder Owner Overallbeauty.com The only place to find the finest in organic/natural handcrafted skincare, bath & body products as well as pure mineral eye shadows and blushes. Visit Overallbeauty.com where deals are made in your favor!

Check out these moisturizers that would work great for you when doing your own spa style facial!

Love mud masques? Check out Vintage Body Spa Glacial Mud Masque

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1-For a light sheer look, dampen  your facial sponge before applying your creamy foundation. If you are into wearing mineral foundation don’t forget to tap then apply to your face in circle movement.

2-Use foundation all over your eyelid, powder with a mineral veil before eye shadow application. This helps to keep color truer and it will last longer. Use one that is transparent so as not to take away from the eye shadow color.

3-Make sure to blend the foundation on to your jawline and slightly on to your neck. Otherwise you will have a line from your jaw to your neck and it looks like you didn’t go past your chin. If you are not sure you got it, check yourself before leaving your home.

4-Don’t test foundation or concealer color on your hand. Match the skin on your face and neck. Try it on your jaw line and walk out into the sunshine if you can to view it. That way you will know that you have the most natural color for your face.

5-Be careful with shimming eye shadows, they tend to collect in the creases specially if you are over the age of 40. Some makeup that you wore when you were younger will not work now. Read Makeup Tips for Over 40

6-Take a look at what you have in your makeup drawer and see if what you have isn’t too old. Each time of the year has colors that work best for it, winter time is darker colors of eye shadows and nail polishes, springtime its pastels and light colors. But always go with colors that work for you.

7-If you have large and open eyes, do not use loud or bright eye shadow colors that will over emphasize the fullness. You want them to be soft.

8-On deep-set eyes, you should use eye shadow colors that are on the light side of the color spectrum.

9-To avoid lipstick from feathering, line your mouth with a lip pencil and apply powder over foundation.

10-As you get older your natural color fades. You need to wear a little brighter of a lip color. Don’t go really wild with the lip gloss either or matte dark lip stick colors. Matte or super dark lipsticks just doesn’t look good for women over 40. They make your mouth look smaller.

11-Always choose a lip liner that matches your lip color. Don’t line your lips with a lip liner that is darker because it shows up. You want your lips to speak for themselves as soft and kissable, not hard and out of date.

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Elvira this could be you!

Halloween need not be all creepy, scary or bloody. We are women after all, don’t you want to be beautiful, out-standing, a knock-out? Let the guys do the blood, lets go out as the stars we are.
This could be you! As easy as watching a 20 minutes from the Halloween DVD! There are more looks but this one looks like it would be most fun to be.

Over at Overall Beauty they are now offering till Oct. 31st 2008 a Special Deal you hear about here first!

With any order of 3 or more Overall Beauty Minerals you get this Halloween Makeup DVD FREE! Mineral eye shadows colors by Overall Beauty that are most recommended are Storm! Plum Pizzaz, Bronze Turquoise, Pretty Eyes Gold, Pink Magic just to name a few!

Be a good fairy this year with this makeup look.

Check out this look! Be the good fairy this year with these simple makeup tips! Found only on Halloween Makeup Collection DVD! Don’t care for blue? Try it with any color you wish and with Overall Beauty Minerals, you get choices in mineral eye shadows that you will love to use over and over again, not just for Halloween!

Pure mineral makeup is the way to go, and we got it!

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Halloween comes around every year making millions of kids happy of course but what about you? Don’t you do want to fun things on Halloween as well? Most men really dig going looking as grossed out as possible and some of their partners are cool about it but what if that just isn’t your thing? What if you want to be that sexy playboy bunny or Marilyn Monroe, a fairy or anything like that? You are really not going to be wearing ripped up clothes, and dirty things, you are going to be wearing a costume that is going to cost you about 60 +dollars correct? Do you want your makeup to reflect you normal everyday makeup or do you to really look like a playboy bunny, or farm maid, sexy cop?

Its time to step out your shell and be someone else, and truly play the part! Why not half the world is going to be out there with you right?

The style of makeup you will need to do is going to be a bit harder to do because you need more but not looking like you went at it with a paint brush.

Halloween makeup use to be tons of it and the brighter & wilder the better! It was like you wanted to be able to be seen from across the room and give a great first impression. You never know who you might be meeting at all those Costume parties, Costume Contests, Masquerade balls, Themed Night Clubs that we as grownups love to be at on Halloween right? A lot of these parties happen all year around, but Halloween just seems to bring more grownups out to play. Why not go looking like Super girl this year?

Some Halloween makeup ideas are going to take a lot of different colors to make the whole look come together. What’s different about going glam instead of ghoul is the style of course of the makeup and what you do to create it.

After you have pick out the costume you want to wear this year its time to decide how to do your makeup. Don’t bother going out and buying more makeup, you wear makeup everyday anyway right? Why buy makeup that is geared and created just for Halloween? Unless you really dig black nail polish, most colors you will need you already have. This is you we are talking about, use what you know works with you, not some cheap stuff you are not even sure who makes it, just use yours.

Take a good look at your face and decide what is your best feature and as always work with it. For our example, we are going to use farm maid. All of these ideas and tips can be found on a DVD called Halloween Collection One with more information on the how’s to step by step.

For a farm maid, or cowgirl you are going to want simple, but it still needs to be seen. So more makeup than usual will be needed but tasteful done.

Start off with your best feature you are going to want to play up, and we are going to use eyes as our example.

A farm maid is going to have a simple innocent look such as doe eyes. That look is still something you will need to plan out because you want it to last you all night under all types of lighting.

Start off with your makeup primer, or foundation all over your eyelid. This is to keep your makeup in place. Next you will need a all over color and for this look pick something really light such as a cream or white.

Smudge your base color on the lid, blending up and out towards the brow till it pretty much just fades away. A nice gray would work well for this.

Next you need to intensify that color with a darker color by adding it to the crease of the following the natural curve of the socket. Lighten under the brow line and use a round makeup brush to smudge it the two colors together starting from the outside in.

Go easy on your eyeliner and do wear mascara. If you look younger than you are, your eyes will be just right for this look. Just make sure that your  mascara doesn’t get all over under your eyes, it will take away from this look. No smoky eyes here! You need to look young and innocent so stay simple with what you are wearing as well.

Don’t forget your blush so use a pretty baby pink and place it on the apple of your cheeks for your farm maid or cowgirl look.

This is the Halloween you need to set away from looking like you are going to be playing with dead people all night and walk out into the spotlight looking totally hot! Anyone can be a ghoul but only those with the true know-how of how glamorous makeup is done can pull off the more beautiful looks. This year let it be you! Have fun this Halloween, and watch out for all those ghouls!

Copyright Kim Snyder Overallbeauty.com

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Acne skin care should really start before the acne actually appears. Acne is a issue that happens to all ages with even babies getting it. The whole idea to care for your acne issues to be proactive instead of reactive. Taking care of your skin before acne can appear is better for you and your skin.

What is Acne? Acne is characterized by pimples, black/white heads, redness and cysts. Depending on your skin and even your heritage will decide for you just how few or rough of a breakouts you may have. It happens when our pores get clogged with too much sebum which is produced by our skin glands.

There are misconceptions about how you can get acne. It really has nothing to do with your age, what you eat or the amount of stress you may be under. Who hasn’t heard these words?

“Don’t eat chocolate, it will give you pimples!” “They say that eating greasy foods can give you zits.” Is not the food we eat, or the stress we are under, acne is just a fact of life. But it you don’t take care of your skin with daily cleansing and moisturizing you may have a breakout.
Teenagers are the most common sufferers of acne, purely because of the hormonal shifts that are associated with puberty. Current figures indicate nearly 85% of people will develop acne at some point between the ages of 12 and 25. Acne is most common among teenagers, affecting teens between the ages 12 and 17.

Check out the rest of this article at: What is Acne?

Here an amazing best selling acne product that may help with your fight against your acne breakouts Minty Fresh Face Wash by Ella Blue. It was created by a wonderful store owner of  Ella Blue here in Elk Grove, CA. Created for all ages! Even if you have dry skin, you can use this product!

Minty Fresh Face Wash is a good choice for taking care of cleansing your skin. This is an amazing minty cleanser that is great for those looking for a squeaky clean without stripping your skin. This whipped ph balanced cleanser is perfect for oily to normal skin types. Your skin won’t turn to petrified wood after a wash with this thanks to Aloe Vera and Shea butter. While the mint leaves you feeling as clean as a whistle! If you are searching for a cure to your multiple personality skin…Then you need to check it Ella Blue Minty Fresh Face Wash, many just swear by it. It’s a product you try once and you will use it for life!

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Although dry skin can be a frustration no matter where you have it, it’s perhaps at its most annoying if it’s on your face. Not only is it on view for everyone to see, but dry and itchy facial skin can also be some of the hardest to care for, for the very fact that it’s open to the elements all the time. Thankfully, there are quite a few options available for you to help with your dry skin, but to make sure you know what one’s the best for you, it’s useful to know what causes dry facial skin in the first place.

The Cause of Dry and Itchy Facial Skin

The main cause any dry skin is a lack of moisture to the area. Just like a desert will become arid since there is no rain, your skin will also become hard and flaky, and this is where you get that itchy feeling on your face. Although sunshine will cause a lack of moisture, you’re not safe in the winter months, as cold can be just as effective as heat in making your skin dry and itchy.

Check out the rest of this article at: Do you have Dry, Itchy Facial Skin?

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