How will you shine this Holiday Season.....with “Baby it’s Cold Outside” cheeks!

Create some “baby it’s cold outside” cheeks!

Sheer some fresh colour onto the apples of your cheeks to simulate a natural glow. Brighter blush is a super cute wintery frost bitten look that will brighten up your face even on the darkest gloomy winter day! The goal is to have it look more on the subtle side.

Check out this super gorgeous glowing look that was seen during the Imitation of Christ show at New York Fashion Week: Spring-2012! This is a look you can rock now, and it’s going to be around for Spring 2012 too! If you don’t have a brighter blush that pops, it would be a good investment now as it’ll carry you all the way to summer.

Bobbi Brown Pot Rouge for Lips and Cheeks in Pale Pink is a great “all-purpose” product.

Benefit Posie Tint or their original Bene Tint which is more red looks great!

Apply these fun productas onto skin that's been lightly primed with moisturizer so that they sheer better and will give you a more natural result. Bobbi Brown’s is more of a cream and Benefit’s is more of a stain. Both equally nice textures that give you that rosey cheek look.

If you prefer to work with powders we love MAC’s Pink Swoon blush for light to medium skin tones. It's bright but quite clear. Gives you that natural glow which makes you look healthy and fresh faced!

MAC’s Dollymix is a bit stronger of a fuchsia but with a light application, it’s perfect for light to medium skin tones and darker skin tones can wear it as well.

For rich darker skin tones, try MAC’s Frankly Scarlet which is more red and looks amazing on dark skin.

This trend of strong blush will be a stand-out trend for Spring/Summer 2012 as seen at New York Fashion Week. We adore this look from the Tracy Reece show. Lots of pink and red colours were seen on the runway as well as peach and coral.

We also love this look from New York Fashion week...the Jen Kao model below had a gorgeous shade of peach with a bright coral lip. Perfect for NYE and you can rock it way into Summer 2012.

Try Peaches Powder Blush from MAC!

How will you shine this Holiday Season...shine on with twinkling eyes!

Try a glitzy eyeshadow or eyeliner!

and Shine On with Twinkling eyes!

Want to sparkle this season...without looking like you’ve just finished doing crafts at the kiddie table?

To spice up your everyday look add a bit of glitz and glamour with a sparkly eyeshadow or glitter eyeliner.

NARS has a new eyeshadow trio called Arabian Nights that contains 3 gorgeous shades: black with red pearls, a black with purple pearls and a black with gunmetal shimmer bold black.

Sultry smoky eyes look gorgeous with a hint of sparkly. We also love NARS Night Breed which is a rich black eyeshadow with sparkly silver glitter. NARS also makes some pretty amazing soft eye pencils packed with glitter.

If you prefer eye-catching glitzy lids...try Urban Decay’s Stardust Eyeshadow which has a sheer wash of colour and delivers an incredible amount of twinkling sparkle.

 

One of the oldies but goodies is MAC’s Vanilla Pigment. Gorgeous on any skintone and has that right amount of sheen and glow.

One of our new favourite sparkly products is Sparklicity Pure by Tarina Tarantino.  This loose pigment has a microcrystalline sparkle pigment with no binder to get in the way of the luxurious and fantastical sparkling effects it creates. Its soft, muted shade layers perfectly with the rest of your makeup to accentuate the arch of the brow, eyelids, and even cheeks. These products come packed with soft opalescent colour, they are free of binders and they are made with reflex glitter that is more dimensional than those traditional glitters of the past.

So fun to play with! but be careful...it's a loose powder that flies around. Use a flat paddle-like brush instead of a fluffy broom shaped brush. You want to press the dust on strategically instead of it flying all over your face.

 For under $20... you can go to Sephora and pick up one of their gel-based eyeliners that pack some serious sparkle. Use it alone if you’d like but we prefer to use black gel eyeliner underneath so that it’s solid (creating some depth) with sparkles layered on top.

We love the eyeliners by Tarina Tarantino as they have colour behind them and sparkle. Tarina Tarantino's sparkling creations allow you to effortlessly indulge in a little elegant shimmer and shine.

We hope you find the twinkle in your eye this Holiday Season!

How will you shine this Holiday Season...Polish your nails!

Polish your nails!

Nothing says the holidays like a crisp classic red coloured manicure! Red never goes out of style and it is perfectly feminine! Or try a textured top coat in a colour that mimics silver bells. Keep the nails short and manicured to look ever so polished!

We love the bright red-orange shade Big Hair Big Nail in OPI’s Texas Collection shown above. It’s a brilliant red! It is so glossy that it looks almost wet after it dries.

NARS makes a gorgeous line of Shimmer Nail Lacquers.

Space Odyssey is a perfect silver polish with lots of sparkle.

Nars also came out with a Limited Edition sparkly shade called Night Breed. If you can find it, snatch it up.

We enjoy the metallic grey MAGNETIC nail Lacquer from Nails Inc in a shade called Trafalgar Square . It’s a revolutionary magnetic nail lacquer used to create designs. Very fun! Find it at Sephora!

How will you shine this Holiday Season...let me count the ways...





When the weather outside is frightful...Get a winter glow!

Start with your skin... EXFOLIATE and HYDRATE

If you don’t exfoliate on a regular basis you need to rush out and get an exfoliating scrub or an AHA night cream!

After sloughing off the dead skin stuck on the surface of your skin your moisturizer will soak in and do a way better job! All of the ingredients will be able to penetrate your skin instead of just sitting on top working on the dead skin. Invest in a richer than usual moisturizer for winter unless you get break outs.

If you use foundation, prevent it from looking cakey during the winter by mixing it with a few drops of moisturizer to sheer it out! Another option is to try a tinted moisturizer instead of foundation. The extra moisturizing ingredients will hydrate your skin as well as provide that coverage you are looking for. The coverage will be more sheer than most foundations but the payoff is amazing! If you find it doesn't cover quite enough...dab some concealer where you need it. We love Laura Mercier's Tinted Moisturizer SPF 20. If you like the model's skin in the Laura Mercier photo above....try this creamy lush product to even out your skin and give you that gorgeous natural glow...

To catch the light, dab illuminating lotion or shimmering powder on the upper corners of your cheekbones, brow bones, and the inner corners of eyes. These steps will give you glowing skin even in the cold dry brisk weather that is dehydrating your skin and making it look dull!

If you have warm undertones or a darker complexion try a gold illuminator. If you are quite fair try an icy light pink or a pale gold.

When in doubt go with a shade that looks good on any skin tone: Check out Orgasm Illuminator by NARS