Be Maui Brown! Body and Hair Oil

by Maui Vegas Inc
. made in Las Vegas, this natural blend of 15 oils is made right here in Vegas. The smell is clean and simple, wonderful for men and women. Originally made for tanning beds this is the best oil I have ever found. What it does for my hair and body is fantastic.

Aromatics Elixir perfume from CLINIQUE.

One of my favorite perfumes of all time. I have been wearing it since High school. I never grow tired of how the scent smells on me or someone else. This perfume is wonderful on its own or layered with another scent.

Mac Prep and Prime Skin Foundation Primer.

I love this primer for many reasons, but the biggest is there is no waiting time between applying the primer and the application of foundation. Many of the other primer’s on the market must have time to set or liquid or cream foundations will pill upon application. I love the light diffusing properties to the primer diffusing imperfections before foundation is even applied. 





MAC Graphblack Eyeliner.

I love this eyeliner because you don’t need a sharpener. The pencil is water resistant so it is safe for the waterline. The pencil is soft so the application is easy with no tugging.

MAC Paint Pot in Painterly 
Eye Shadow Base

One if not the most important part of doing your eye shadow application is the product you use underneath to hold the shadow on, prevent creasing and give vibrancy of color. Using a powder as a base for powder eye shadow will not achieve the professional look, using a cream base is always your best bet. I love painterly because it’s a neutral matte. Paint Pots set in 10 seconds, are water resistant and give up to 14hours of lastablilty on shadow.

MAC Mineralize Skin Finish Face Powder

This is one of my favorite powders of all time. Used alone or on top of your foundation, this is a triple jet milled powder. This powder can go on sheer or build to a medium finish. This powder just looks like skin, no matter how much you put on, it never fails me.

Understanding the basic rules of matte vs. frost is priceless.

I observe people using unsuitable textures on themselves and their clients all the time. One of the biggest mistakes I see people do with their makeup is to use frosted makeup products on areas of the face they should not.

Important rules of thumb:

Frost reflects light (even if its dark)
Matte absorbs light

What does all this mean to you?

• If someone has texture on his or her face examples; winkles, large pores, blemishes, or crinkled eyelids, using a frosty product will enhance that texture. Eye shadows, highlighters and blush with frost should not be used.
• If someone has an eyelid that is hooded or puffy using shadow with frost can make the lid appear puffier or more pronounced.
• Using a highlight with frost on someone with deeper wrinkles will make the wrinkles more pronounced.
• Using blush or bronzer with frost can make pores or blemishes appear larger.
• If a person has a crinkled eyelid using a frosted eye shadow will enhance the look of the eyelid texture making the individual appear older.
• If there is texture present, use a matte.
• Matte products come in as many colors as frosts.
• Matte products allow for more depth for carving out the shape of an eye or contouring a face.

Don’t throw away all your frost products!

The examples above do not mean you can’t use frost, just understand where and when it’s appropriate. Knowing this simple rule of matte vs. frost will give for a more flawless finish and professional application. Typically for a more mature face or one with large pores or troubled skin frost can still be used sparingly to highlight areas such as just beneath the brow and within the center kiss of the lips.

Have a happy day.
JC

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.

Matching your foundation correctly

• Never the hand (only test if your hand if it’s attached to your head).
• Never just the face. If you only color swatch your foundation on your face, it will only match your face.
• Do! Match the neck, it really doesn’t matter what color the face is. If you match your foundation with the neck you will never have a line of demarcation.
• Your bronzer and blush should be used only as accents to bring color back to the face and produce a sunny glow, simulating the color tones you have running through your chest and arms.
• Dust bronzer on forehead, nose, cheeks and chin. These areas naturally gain color fastest if you spent a day at the beach for example.
• Dusting these areas truly mimics a sunny glow and tanned effect, plus, you look like your head is on the right body.

Your foundation has one purpose and that is to even out and perfect the color of the skin on your face, creating a beautiful bare canvas within to work on. Remember Dolz, Foundation was not created to achieve a tanned look.

Have a happy day
JC

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.

Makeup can only do so much, ladies and gentlemen. Makeup can do quite a bit, but one fact is true, Makeup is only as good as your skin. That is so simple, slightly harsh but the truth. Women ask me all the time”can’t makeup hide my wrinkles and blemishes”. Unfortunately, no it can not. Makeup can only hide color and/or discoloration. Makeup can actually enhance the look of wrinkles and blemishes if you’re not careful. Only professional lighting and camera tricks can hide wrinkles, pimples and scars. So if you not walking around with a full lighting and camera crew, you must take care of your skin.

Cleanse, exfoliate, tone, serum, moisturizer, eye cream and spf to keep the skin in optimum condition. If you don’t, failed attempts at corrective makeup can make you look older and enhance the look of problem skin. In the advances of makeup and skincare there are some products that can help smooth out the skin and simulate improved skin temporarily. Try products that go on before makeup to smooth the surface so that makeup looks more even.

Primers can help smooth out skin because of the Silicone content. Silicone based primers also help foundation stay on for hours. Primer can coat a blemish or scar so foundation or powder glide over the top easier and don’t grab onto texture. I really like MAC’s Prep and Prime Face, but I truly love MAC’s Fast Eye Response Cream. Fast Eye was made for the de-puffing and smoothing of the eye area but it works better than almost any primer I have ever used. Caffeine (reduces swelling), Silicone and light diffusing particles make for the perfect primer, patted on top of a scar or blemish to help smooth the appearance, fantastic. I use Fast Eye Response as a primer daily.

One of My favorite TV channels is HSN. Go ahead and laugh, many have before. Home shopping networks are not what they used to be in the days where you imagine little old ladies sitting at home in flowered muumuu’s ordering fake diamonds and porcelain cat figurines. Now you are able to buy top quality products with no middle man. Sure, you may find less attractive packaging but only on exchange for fantastic values. One of my Favorite hosts on HSN is Adrienne; under Signature A. (Adrienne has been a makeup artist to the stars for years and use to carry her products in all major department stores) Adrienne develops fantastic quick fix products for women. My favorite of all time Signature Club A by Adrienne Secret C Rapid Lift. This product is a face-lift in a bottle. It pulls back that double chin, or “turkey neck” and smoothes out those wrinkles under the eye. It literally hides dropping lids and mouth lines. This is temporary but while it is on it will make you appear younger and for makeup artists, their job easier by smoothing out the canvas we work on. I have tried dozens of products that claim the same results, NEVER! Some don’t work well with makeup on top and some flake. Secret C Rapid Lift also is great under makeup as primer. Make sure to smooth on and massage back and in an upward motion as you want the face to look. This will assist the serum in lifting properly.

Last but not least, another favorite product of mine is Erase Those Fine Lines, by Model Co, This product also can give you the temporary appearance of a face lift. This product has amazing long term benefits it’s a bit pricey, however the temporary lift is worth it.

That is all for now. Here’s to hoping the next Cosmo we order gets us carded.

Have a happy day
JC