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Make Up Tips for TV, Video, Photos, and Appearances [Live Video]

Make Up Advice For TV, Video, Appearances + Photos
It was an early call today so I thought I would pop on a Facebook Live to share some behind the scenes makeup advice for TV, video, appearances + photos on my way back from my TV appearance. Join me on my snowy walk through Madison Square Park in New York as I talk about the reality of knowing how to do your own make up when you get yourself out there as an entrepreneur or the face of your brand. RELATED: Video Style Tips For Social Media: How Authentic Should I Look On Camera? Lip Plumper Review: How To Make Your Lips Look Fuller For Camera Or Video Without Injectables [Facebook Live] Beauty, Branding + Business With PR Pro

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BIG beauty round up: What makeup do professional makeup artists really use?

Kid in a candy story time! And a dirty little beauty fake it secret... If you love makeup and how it can change your looks from glum to glam, you're gonna like this one. Especially, some of the tricks of the beauty trade. First thing to consider is that all makeup is not created equal. There's consumer cosmetics that many times have more advertising puff than powder puff. And then there's the pro brands that must stand up to the close eye of a camera. Professional makeup usually has a bigger bang for the beauty buck and tends to go on more even and lighter to allow for retouching without buildup. From selfies to big time, we all deserve to

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Bond Girl Makeup- Follow these step-by-step makeup tips for some 007 beauty thrills

Skyfall makeup parody
Have you seen the James Bond movie, "Skyfall" yet? I did and absolutely loved it.  Daniel Craig is right up there with Sean Connery in my book as best 007 and this movie has plenty of that old school sex appeal. Bérénice Marlohe is as gorgeous as expected as the new Bond girl. Here's something cool that you can takeaway: We've got the "Skyfall" makeup parody! Doesn't the model, above, look like a Bond girl? >>MORE: Beauty Yup, celebrity makeup artist, Kristina Brown, created the Bond girl makeup look with Votre Vu’s French Accents, available at votrevu.com, in this adorable spoof. Here's Kristina's Votre Vu makeup step-by-step on how you can prepare for a rendezvous with 007… Start out with a really hydrated, moisturized face.

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Top 10 Professional Beauty Finds- Use What Makeup Artist Pros Use via The Makeup Show

It takes a bit of makeup to look better than natural
It can take a lot of the right makeup to look better than natural on camera. One of my favorite pitstops to see what makeup artist pros use in their kits is The Makeup Show by The Powder Group trade show for beauty gurus. These may not be makeup brands that you see advertised in the pages of magazines, but are the brands used on many the models. >> READ: Professional Beauty Finds- What’s In Your Makeup Artist’s Pro Kit via The Makeup Show 2011 Take a peek at some of  my Top 10 latest and tried and true pro makeup goodies from The Makeup Show and consider adding some to your personal makeup kit. What I couldn't resist picking up at

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N.Y.C. New York Color Glams Up Drugstore Make Up

Beauty Products Review: Cheap chic cosmetics N.Y.C. New York Color is taking their line international and to celebrate its revamped launch they held a handful of intimate makeover sessions in a chic loft space in Manhattan, each session tailored to the skin tones and features of each woman present. The fact that only four sessions were had, each with roughly 10-12 woman, made it feel very exclusive. Bare faced upon arrival and after the makeup artist touched me up at the event. The week prior to the event I sent in a photo of myself so I could arrive to a customized makeup palette fit for my skin and eye coloring. That feature certainly added to the exclusivity and uniqueness

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Professional Beauty Finds- What’s In Your Makeup Artist’s Pro Kit via The Makeup Show

Just like a good recipe, it's all about the ingredients... Of course they are talented & know how to make you look gorge, but it's also about what products the professional makeup artist uses to create that master touch. Brad Boles and I have told you about how many beauty products that we actually toss, before we find the few great things to share with you. I did a pit stop over at The Makeup Show that wrapped in New York yesterday to get some inside dish on what the pros -- you know the folks who have a conniption if you tell them that you double-duty your lipstick as blush-- will be packing in their make up kits to

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Beauty Product Reviews and Tips- Conceal Dark Circles and How to Sculpt Your Face

The challenge to conceal dark circles started our product search & ended with a fantastic little box of tricks known to fashion and movie make-up artists for over a hundred years! I have been in the fashion, music video and film world as a make-up artist for over 25 years. Sharon Haver put me to the challenge to find the best dark circle concealer that does not look caked or dry for under and over eyes, and a great way to sculpt your face. The goal was to find products that were easy-to-use and worked for a more sophisticated age of woman- not a teenybopper who can wear sparkle and frost. A few surprises arrived from a menagerie of companies;

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YouTube Make-Up Video bug hits Courtney Love & Lauren Luke goes major

Courtney Love in her first and last makeup tutorial and Lauren Luke in one of her famous smokey eyes makeup tutorials on Youtube Lauren Luke, YouTube makeup queen isn't the only one rocking out on the beauty tips scene DIY makeup videos have become a Youtube phenomenon.There's a video how-to to copy almost every celebrity look that you can imagine. But how fab is it to get the tips from the source-- as unlikely a candidate as that source may be? Courtney Love is apparently a big fan of the makeup tutorial craze and created her own take on how she applies her makeup in what is billed as her first and last makeup tutorial on Youtube. It may not

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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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Beauty Breaking News: MAC cosmetics Friends and Family sale

Beauty bonanza, stock up until you drop… MAC cosmetics is having a 25% off Friends and Family sale online.They have NEVER done this before. At the end of the holidays they had a 25% off sale on their holiday kits (and that was unheard of!)! Use discount code MACFF9. Please make sure everyone knows this, as it is an amazing opportunity to stock up on MAC staples and maybe try a product or that they’d been wanting to try. Please be aware that this MAC deal ends at 11:59 EST on January 8th, and that this offer is only valid on the MAC cosmetics website, not at stores, pro-stores, or counters. Excludes VIVA GLAM products, Free shipping on orders over

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Models Without Hair and Makeup

And, they all woke up that way, not! One of my main reasons to launch Focus on Style as a syndicated column way back when was because as a stylist, I kept hearing myself reassure women that almost anyone can make the most of what they’ve got if they only know how to work it with the proper skills. Instead of feeling sorry for oneself that she was not born “amazing,” women need to understand the professional effort behind the illusion of beauty that they see in magazines and advertising pages and take note of the highly trained crew of hair, make-up, stylist, photographer, lighting, retoucher et al. which make the sometimes bland but highly photogenic model look drop-dead gorgeous!

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Recipe for Beauty: Make-Up Junkie D.I.Y. Birthday Cake

MAC Inspired Birthday Cake for a Make-Up Junkie…   Guest Blogger, the actor Christopher Graves shares his amazing cake decorating tips to create a custom-themed birthday cake for the ultimate make-up junkie, my agent Marla. I've been baking for years now, but recently have begun to really challenge myself with each project. Each baking project starts with taking a specific trait or preference of the client and then exaggerating it. My favorite creation– so far– is this cake, which I made for my good friend Marla, who is addicted to collecting all sorts of make-up, particularly M.A.C. cosmetic products.   Recognizing that Marla's love for make-up as a really great cake-decorating platform brimming with many opportunities, I created a list

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How to Seduce – with your makeup?!

How to Seduce, with your makeup?! Prescriptives launches the Seducers makeup color collection. Bazillions of us wish there was some magic potion to bone up on the oh so delicate art of how to seduce that special someone. If there was only an oil, a fragrance, a studied list of seduction tips, anything to lure in Mr. Adorkable in the cubicle across the way. Well, my romantics souls… when it comes to tantalizing tricks and homebrewed hocus-pocus, the best bet to master the art of seduction is The Seducers-- a sultry in an old-movie star glamorous kind of way, makeup collection from Prescriptives. The Seducers, inspired by those gorgeous and alluring black and white celebrity photos of the 1940's spin

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