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Eyebrow Grooming Tips to Look Instantly Polished, Prettier and Even Younger

Great looking brows are an instant beauty lift that you MUST never forget! How to keep your brows looking good The brow area helps open the eyes and gives your face the appearance of being well cared for, more relaxed, and even younger! You need to first find the right shape which in my opinion should be done by an expert. Once you've gotten the right look, you can easily keep the shape. Eyebrow waxing can be done in a salon in a matter of minutes! Keeping your eyebrows looking good is not difficult but needs regular maintenance. You can tweeze them all by yourself with a good tweezer and magnified mirror. Eyebrows in every shape and thickness to flatter

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Makeup and Beauty Tips to Look Fabulous At Age 50

Turning 50 can be amazing if you know what it takes to keep your gorgeous on... Don't freak out and throw in the towel once you turn 50! Understand the beauty secrets and makeup tips to keep you looking vital, timeless, and beautiful as we mature. Every day is a preparation for the days that follow. Take care of who you are today for what you will look like tomorrow. Always grow and tweak, and roll with life's punches to keep yourself looking vital, fresh, and modern. Never get set in your ways (that's the first way to look old and dated) and understand the little fixes and modifications to look beautiful at any age. And what's not to love

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Beauty tips to look slimmer

Out with the old and in with the new you! Happy New Year from Paris! If you're like me, you may be motivated to trim down immediately after all the holiday goodies! I felt snug in my skirt so I decided to get back on track! There are easy ways to create a slimmer look depending on the shape of your face. Don't worry about your double chin, you'll be fine if you get back into the swing of things. Concentrate on your eyes with a nice shadow-liner-mascara combination that draws attention to your personality. When you get ready for blush, there are certain things you need to know to get that slimming effect you're looking for. Choose your blush

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In Their Words: M.A.C. Pro’s Caroline Donnelly opens up on beauty

Backstage Beauty Exclusive: Caroline Donnelly shares her insider makeup tips exclusively with Focus On Style Caroline Donnelly, M.A.C Pro Team Senior Artist talks to Kirsty Armstrong about the atmosphere working backstage during London Fashion Week, her desire to ‘make up' singer, Paloma Faith, and must-have makeup products to stock up on for Spring. Caroline Donnelly is a member of the M.A.C Pro Team and collaborates with designers to create makeup looks for fashion shows and magazines around the globe. She's worked with a range of celebrities including Erin O'Connor, Elizabeth Jagger and Kylie Minogue. Her work has been published in British Elle, The Observer and InStyle and she specialises in body painting and beauty makeup. But how do you make

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Beauty Tip: Loose Powder Cleans up Eye Shadow

Fashion Week beauty prep to stay pretty all day long… Looking for a time saving tip to keep your makeup fresh and fabulous for Fashion Week? Use a generous amount of loose powder under your eyes before applying your eye shadow. Now you don’t have to worry about your eye shadow sprinkling under your eyes and becoming messy when you try to clean it up when you apply eye shadow. The trick is that the shadow will fall right on top of the loose powder and when you have finished applying your eye makeup, you will see that when you lightly dust away the loose powder, the excess shadow dusts right off with the powder without a mess. Ta-da! You

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Anti-Aging Beauty Tips: Younger Looking Hands

Get the Upper Hand on Looking Young… Hands can show your age, that’s not news, but there are some new ways to get - and keep - your hands looking younger. Even some 30-something celebrities have been photographed and ridiculed in the press and online because of their “claw-like” hands. It’s easy to forget about hands because you’re usually looking at yourself from the chest up in the mirror, but just a few extra minutes and some quick shortcuts can take years off your hands. Tips For Younger Looking Hands: 1) Lose the blues. I found this tip by accident one day while experimenting with SPF lotions. Tinted sunscreen does double duty when it comes to your hands. Not only

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Anti-Aging Beauty Tips: Aging Backwards 101

How to feel younger in a snap… People ask me all the time, “What is Aging Backwards?” It’s not a magic pill or lotion or potion, we wish, but it is a series of small habits that, when incorporated into your daily life, can yield big results. Someone said to me recently, “Look at you, you just sit around and have beauty treatments all day long, don’t you?” Actually, nothing could be further from the truth. It doesn’t take “having beauty treatments all day long” to keep Aging Backwards. That’s the “beauty” of what I do. I find all kinds of secrets, tips and shortcuts to pass along that make it easy to look and feel young while still living

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Mr. Beauty Tips: Summer Makeup Tips to Beat the Heat

Summer makeup tips to beat the heat
Help, I'm in a summer makeup meltdown… When it becomes summer in the city, or in the country for that matter, I know many women who decide to wear much less or no makeup at all. Besides the fact that it can feel like it's suffocating your pores when they want to breathe, makeup just tends to literally melt off the face when the temps go up. I'm here to tell you that just because the mercury is rising doesn't mean you need to go au natural if you don't want to… There are a few solutions to the summer heat foundation problem: Liquid Foundation- If you are using a liquid foundation definitely go with a water-based product.When it becomes

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Anti-Aging Beauty Tips: The Inside Scoop on Aging Backwards

How to stay fresh and vital when it's too hot to go outside… Summer can be a real scorcher in many parts of the country. No matter where you live, storms of some sort are also a reality. When you’re stuck inside, there are a number of ways to take advantage of the time and keep (or start) Aging Backwards. Here are some indoor tips for when Mother Nature keeps you cooped up inside. Aging Backwards Indoor Tips 1) Jump rope. I always keep a jump rope or two in the house. Jumping rope is one of the best exercises you can do for Aging Backwards. Experts say that “interval” exercise, or doing several sets of raising your heart rate

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Mr. Beauty Tips Goes to Paris: Chance Encounters of the Chanel Kind

The sweet smell of Paris chic… I'm baaaacckk! Yes, Mr. Beauty Tips is back from an amazing trip to beautiful Paris, France! This has now become a yearly adventure for me and I can't complain at all. First of all before I go any further, you must know that about the Velib public bike system. In a nutshell, there are Velib bike stations located all over Paris. For a nominal fee (or 30 minutes free!) you can take a bike from one area of Paris and drop it off at another bike spot. Voila, in between Point A and Point B you experience the beauty of Paris! Having the freedom of the Velib allowed me to be out in the

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Beauty Tips: Take the fright out of winter damaged hair with protein hair conditioners

Protein power for pretty hair… If you are like many of us at this cold and dry time of year, your hair is, how shall I say… scary! This is especially true on the days when it is so dry that the electricity in the air makes your hair look like a fright movie. Expand that crazy frizz if you have chemically treated hair. Don’t get me started… you have got yourself a recipe for dry, damaged and downright scary hair! What does all this have to do with protein you ask? Well, I bet that most of you are familiar with the benefits of moisture during winter weather and how it quenches the thirst of dry and parched skin

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Beauty Tips: Blush for a cheeky flush

Do not fear the Blush… Ok, here’s the skinny on blush… People tend to fall into two categories when it comes to wearing just the right amount of blush: none and none! A bit of blush can take you from appearing sickly to snazzy in just a few seconds. Going paleface is especially important at this time of year when a little flush of warm cheeks is just the beauty picker-upper that you need. You cannot help but notice the women who wear an overload of cheek color that makes them look like they escaped from the circus– pretty SCARY! The fear of looking like a clown can make any woman skip wearing blush altogether. Yet, the right blush application

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Beauty Tips: Eyelash Tints and Lash Perming, yay or nah

Mr. Beauty Tips, our beauty detective solves the mystery on how to get long eyelashes… Just in time for big nights out, like New Year's Eve, luxurious eyelashes are on everyone's mind. As a beauty pro, I feel that lash tint and eyelash perms are really over-rated– yes, some ladies even opt to perm their eyelashes in the hopes of a sexy and flirty wink. In belt-tightening times such extreme measures are also very temporary for the cost. Since obviously, your eyelashes are near your eyes, the types of products that can be used to dye or perm your lashes are quite mild compared with what you can put on your head, and should only be administered by a professional

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