Eye Brows – Forty, Flirty & Fabulous

Try a New Grooming Product From Tweezerman

With spring on its way, it’s time to start grooming again! At least for me it is, I find I get a little lazy during the winter months, when I am all bundled up indoors and outdoors! Try one of the following prodoucts from Tweezerman to start getting your beauty habits in shape — the sun will be here soon, I promise!

Folding Ilashcomb ($9.00 USD) — The perfectly spaced, gold-plated metal teeth glide through lashes to remove excess mascara, leaving your lashes looking long, lovely and clump-free. Comb cleverly folds in to protect teeth when not in use. Great tip: While still wet with mascara, comb your lashes (moving up, out and away from eyes). If applying more than one coat, comb lashes after each additional application. Make sure to look in a mirror when using this precision tool.

NEW Special Edition Hot For Dots Matchbox Itty Bitty Files ($4.00 USD) — Designed to fit easily into the palm of your hand and stored in any size purse, pocket or travel bag, the compact case conveniently houses a dozen durable, disposable mini files. Rough emery grains on one side tackle tough nails while a fine grade of emery on the other smoothly file.

Mini Brow Rescue Kit ($25.00 USD) — Keep your brows looking perfect any time, any where with this convenient, travel sized brow essentials kit. Fits in any makeup bag or purse for quick touch ups on the go.
Kit Includes:
Mini Slant Tweezer
Mini Browmousse™
Mini Brow Brush
Mini eyenhance Brow Highlighter
Stylish Travel Case

Tweezermate 10X Lighted Mirror ($15.00 USD) — Isolate even the finest hair for precise, easy tweezing with our optically correct and lighted 10X magnifying mirror. Clear from edge-to-edge with no distortion — you won’t miss a hair.

You can find and purchase these products at www.tweezerman.com. Enjoy

Make Your Eyes Look Their Best With IT Cosmetics

IT Cosmetics, the magically transformative beauty product company, has recently released two fantastic products to make your eyes look younger and more beautiful. They are (with descriptions from the website:

Bye Bye Lid Lines ($24.00 USD) is an anti-aging and crease-proof eye shadow primer that gives you the power to finally say “bye bye” to pesky eye shadow creasing and hello to maximum pigment payoff! Bye Bye Lid Lines offers a universal translucent finish that blends perfectly and invisibly into eyelids of every skin tone. The truly innovative formula contains high concentrations of Vitamins A, C, E & K – proven to help reduce discoloration while warding off free-radicals throughout the day. Plus the hydrolyzed collagen works to help smooth out the look of fine lines and wrinkles. This creates the perfect plumped canvas before you even begin to apply your eye shadow!

• Green tea extract helps to target puffiness
• Vitamin K helps to target discoloration
• Acai and grapeseed oil help to provide ultimate anti-aging benefits
• Paraben-free
• Fragrance-free
• Oil-free
• Non-comedogenic
• Hypo-allergenic

What I think: I believe eye primers are essential to keeping eye makeup fresh all day. This primer is amazing. Once applied, lines are smoothed and wrinkles seem to fade away. You get an even canvas to play with. The texture is silky, but it dries so that you can apply your shadow over it. My eye shadow stayed on for hours and looked great!

Brow Power™ Universal Eyebrow Pencil with Brow Enhancing Technology ($24.00 USD) transforms and adjusts to all brow hair colors. The oval shaped tip creates the most natural looking, believable brow and is perfect for both thin and thick brows. The long-wear formula is waterproof & smudge-resistant. It Cosmetics Exclusive Brow Enhancing Complex uses a patent-pending blend of cutting-edge ingredients to target the look of brow hair loss, and helps restore your brow hair follicles – promoting the look of healthy hair growth and health.

• Contains Brow Enhancing Saw Palmetto, Nettle Extract, Horsetail Extract, Green Tea Extract, Grapeseed Extract
• Paraben-free, Non-comedogenic, Hypo-allergenic
• Waterproof, Sweatproof and Smudge-Resistant
• Universal shade adjusts to all skin tones and hair colors

What I think: I sometimes forget about my brows. They are so dark that they are almost black and they have a pretty good shape to them. But they are getting thinner as I age. So a nice pencil that matches my color and is easy to apply really gives my brows (and whole face) a polished look. This pencil works on my dark brows when I press down firmly on them with it, but would also work on lighter brows with a softer touch. The spooly on the other end helps blend in and brush out unruly brows. I really recommend this product!

Visit www.itcosmetics.com to learn more and to purchase these great products! You can also visit www.qvc.com. Enjoy!

Bobbi Brown Makeup Facelift Collection

I work from home everyday except for Thursday, when I go into the office. Yesterday I walked in and the first person who looked at me said, “Wow! You look young”. Seriously.

So I had to remember what I had on, and then it hit me…I was using three products from Bobbi Brown’s Facelift Collection; the Brow Pencil, the Brightening Lip Gloss and the wonderful Tinted Eye Brightener.

Bobbi’s Tinted Eye Brightener ($38.00 USD), now in a NEW portable pen. This use to be available in a little pot, but now it is in a, easy to use pen. This takes a few twists at first to get it flowing, but then it saturates the brush and you can go to town! I find that it hides my under eye circles pretty well and brightens the eye area. I do think that the price may be a little much, but it is a nice product to have in your purse. Available in eight shades.

Brow Pencil ($20.00 USD) — Brows do frame the face, so it is important to keep them groomed. I have very dark brow and haven’t had to use brow products, until recently. My brows are now thinning and look a little faded. This pencil is easy to use to color in and define brows and even comes with it’s own sharpener. I use the darkest color, Mahogany — but it is also available in Wheat, Blonde, Grey and Ash. What I have noticed about this is that it is very creamy, but you only have a few seconds to play with it before it dries and WILL NOT BUDGE! This is great, because you do not want your brows migrating south, but just be aware if you need to smudge or remove.

Brightening Lip Gloss ($20.00 USD) This sheer, reflective formula wakes up your face and helps create fuller lips. I like to wear it alone, but you can wear it on top of lipstick. I liked the color of this gloss — a light pink called Popsicle that looked more wearable on than in the tube. I thought it might look a little young on me, but it is very pretty. The only down side to this gloss is that it is a little sticky and the brush fanned out on me and won’t go back into shape. It is available in 6 brightening shades, the two new ones are Popsicle and Nectar, a peachy-pink. It also comes in Peach, Pink, Pink Lilac and White.

Unruly Brows? Try Anastasia Beverly Hills’ Fabulous Products

Anastasia The Essential 6 Piece Brow Kit

For years, brow expert Anastasia Soare has shaped the brows of Hollywood’s biggest stars. She has created many specialized products that are geared to acheive perfect brows to frame the face. The Anastasia Essential 6 Piece Brow Kit ($75.00 USD) includes:
– Tweezers
– Brow Powder Duo
– Four Brow Stencils
– Duo Angle/Spooley Brush
– Brow Gel
– Eye Lights highlighting pencil

Here are Anastasia’s tips on how to use the kit (also if you purchase a kit, follow the short video — VERY helpful):

First, position the stencil over your brow after choosing the one that fits your brow shape the best.
Fill in the arch with the angled brush dipped in brow powder on your brows inside the stencil. Remove the stencil and blend the powder with spool end of the brush.
Using the tweezers, remove hair outside the stenciled area.
Apply the brow gel using the using the brush on the applicator, brush upward to condition and hold the shape of the brow all day.
The highlighter is applied underneath the eyebrow, along the brow bone and blended in to lighten the skin.

These steps only took a few minutes and really transformed my eyebrows. The tweezers are exceptional. They are very sharp and precise. The kit comes in three palettes of brow powder; Ash Blonde, Medium Ash and Brunette. I have the Medium Ash which works on me even though my brows are very dark. I use the darker color in the palette. Also wonderful is the highlighting pencil which gives a nice glow to my brow bone.

Visit Anastasia’s website at www.anastasia.net to purchase the products or find a retailer who carries them.