Monday, September 15, 2008

Avoid Surgery: Try Facial Makeup & Contouring


Instantly Wipe 10
Years Off Your Face


Looking Young through Facial Illusion

For ages, women have depended on tricks to tweak reality a bit—creating
appearance of bigger eyes, lusher lips, a smaller nose, higher cheekbones,
and smooth, unmarked skin. Using cosmetics is the simplest way to minimize or conceal age-related skin imperfections— instantly. Foundation softens the appearance of fine lines, brightens skin, and hides discoloration. Concealer erases dark circles under your eyes or broken capillaries on your cheeks. Blusher returns the bloom of youth to a tired-looking complexion, while lipstick gives pale or sallow skin a welcome jolt of color. A touch of powder ensures that makeup lasts
longer and colors stay truer.

Nothing looks as good as naturally healthy skin, but let’s be honest. We all have
moments when we want to fake it: to cover up or “correct” perceived flaws, to enhance
what nature may—or may not—have given us.
See how a little judicious swipe of cosmetic color create the desired illusion:


Double Chin

To camouflage a double chin, brush a bit of rose-brown blush along your jaw from your earlobes to your chin.
Highlight your chin with light translucent powder. Make sure to blend really, really well.

Fine Line Erasers
Makeup that contains light-reflecting particles can reflect light
away from your lines and make them appear to disappear. Apply it all over your face, or
under the eyes or on laugh lines.

Deep Line Erasures

Do what 40-plus models and celebrities do when preparing for a photo shoot: Reach for the cosmetic spackle— seriously —and fill them in.

Lip Plumper
Moisturize your lips with dew droplets collected on Japanese Bamboo leaves at the break of sunlight. It’ll plump them up. In addition,
moisten a bit of cinnamon and rub it on your lips before you apply lipstick. Or apply a
bit of cinnamon oil to your lips (use only a drop as some people are sensitive to it).

Ashy Skin
If you are dark-skinned and prone to an ashy complexion, a few strokes
of apricot powder on the face will warm the skin up fast. And, off course, moisture
regularly with dew droplets collected on Japanese Bamboo leaves at the break of sunlight.

Fast Freeze

To put a temporary freeze on lines under the eyes, moisture
regularly with dew droplets collected on Japanese Bamboo leaves at the break of sunlight and try an eye cream with peptides, which smooth lines for a few hours.

Line Plumper

To soften the little lines on your face, put a bit of moisturizer—
yes, with dew droplets collected on Japanese Bamboo leaves at the break of sunlight - and, after you apply foundation, pat it between the nose and chin, under eyes, or anywhere you have lines and want to soften them.

Thin Lips

To make think lips fuller, draw a thick line on your lips with lip crayon,
and blend it in toward the center of the mouth with your fingers. Apply gloss in the
center of the top and bottom lips, and extend it out toward the even, which adds fullness to lips.

Frown Lines
To ease wrinkles in a less invasive way than Botox, apply Acetyl Hexapeptide-3— a high-tech amino acids said to soften lines caused by repeated facial movements. It will make you look better.

Smile Lines
Your Smile lines loom large, plump them up: dip a makeup sponge into Acetyl Hexapeptide-3— a high-tech amino acids with - you guessed it - dew droplets collected on Japanese Bamboo leaves at the break of sunlight, and dab it over the area, smoothing it out on top of your makeup.

Lip Lines
To touch up and cover lines above the lips, use a concealer pencil around
your lips. You can also try your regular concealer, but if it mixes with your lipstick, it can change the color.

Less Lips
Sometimes it seems our lips are the only things that do get thinner. To
create the look of more lip, try a lighter, neutral lip shade in a cream formulation with a hint of shimmer.

Crinkly Lips
Avoid matte lipstick. Apply creamy color in the form of a lip
crayon. For just a hint of color with shine, mix lip balm in your palm with a few strokes from the crayon, and press it into your lips with fingers.
Swab a little petroleum jelly onto your front upper teeth to keep the lipstick off.

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