One of the biggest mistakes in makeup I see, are people’s misuse of foundation and bronzer to make themselves look more tan. Honey, you are the color you are….be good with that, your color is beautiful. It is important to remember that your face and neck always should match. In this day in age of harmful rays of the sun, many women are no longer slaves to the sun, but still want to look tan or sun kissed in the face.

Do not try and achieve this by buying a foundation 3 shades darker them your current skin tone. Walking around with a face that is 3 shades darker then your neck is not attractive. Now you look like you borrowed someone else’s head.

Ha!

Do not take bronzer and put it all over your face if your neck is not the color of the bronzer. If you want to take your foundation and bronzer and blend it all the way down your neck, that is a simple way of darkening the neck to match but it can be messy and get on your clothes and then if your body is tan. EEEK! What to do? Most important, match your foundation to your neck. We are slaves to the skin care, which means many women’s neck’s are darker then their faces. Receiving micro peels, laser’s, lighten products; a woman’s face maybe lighter than their neck. Women will put SPF on their face but not their necks, or will tan the body and not the face; all these woopsies can produce a lighter face than neck, result. read more…

Listen Ladies, I know that you’re always wondering “What makeup should I keep in my bag for an evening out?” We all know it’s not easy stuffing 23 products into those Fabulous yet unusually tiny Marc Jacobs handbags, so hear are my suggestions for what I believe to be the most important. read more…

I have always loved makeup and skincare. From the time I was a kid and played with my mothers’ products in the bathroom, acting out the commercials for an eye cream or a lipstick.

My mother would drop me off at CVS and I would grab a candy bar (cause I was an emotional eater; and I love candy) and a diet coke and spend two hours sitting in the isles looking at products, reading ingredients. I wanted to understand how this product was going to make me beautiful, that was the promise; so how.

Over the years I have found that one important part of makeup is skin care. Clients expect makeup to take years of bad skin care, no sunscreen, bad eating habits, no moisturizer (which is insane) and wish it to magically be concealed with one product alone. read more…

Hey everybody!

I would like to share with you an age old secret I could not live without.

In today’s excessive market we are bombarded with thousands of new hair products and if you’re anything like me you’re an equal product employer and give everything a try at least once. We are slaves to our favorite styling products and quite often these products are overused. In return the hair has much synthetic buildup on the hair shaft and scalp that even the best hair clarifying treatment by our favorite manufacturer can not remove. So, how do we safely and by the way, organically remove the chemicals/products/dead skin/pollution from our precious locks you ask?

Well here is my favorite age old secret! It’s probably in your kitchen right now. read more…

Hey all you make-up addicts out there, I wanted to share with  you my top 4 FAV product recommendations. As a professional artist, I can assure you I have experimented with a plethora of brands/Products. Countless models, Entertainers and Actors have served as my guinea pigs in the past and to them I am forever grateful!  Experimenting on these clients has allowed me to weed through a ton of products out there and find the best of the best. Ok! Ok! I won’t keep you waiting any longer! These are must haves! read more…