The beauty and aptitude of eyes to put across, beholder's attitude towards outside world have been praised all through the centuries. Eyes express the true emotions of its beholders even before they try to hide it. However there is good news for today's generation who want to appear unique in each aspect of life and try the latest styles in fashion.
Your lips are one of the sensitive parts in your body. However being exposed to the open air and many beauty treatments, they may lack their natural charm. It first occurs as the loss of the elasticity of lips, due to aging. The exposure to sun and the open air may also make them dry and chapped.

The lip caring formula in the lip conditioners hydrates, comforts and protects your lips, day and night. Majority of the lip conditioners include SPF 15 sunscreen plus Vitamins C and E. These ingredients protect your lips from UVA/UVB rays of sun. The firming techniques in the lip conditioners ensure the elasticity of the lips for a fuller look.
Most of the lip conditioners contain shea butter that hydrates, smoothes and soothes the lips. This lightweight conditioner for the lip is invariably formulated with SPF 15. This ingredient protects the lips from mild aggressions. Unlike many of the other lip creams, lip conditioners hold in moisture and provide gentle repair to dry lips.
Lip conditioners are usually colour free. In that case, those who hesitate to add colour to their charming lips, can use it. Lip conditioners are coming in a variety of flavours like vanilla, strawberry, chocolate etc. The main ingredients of lip conditioners are almond oil, shea butter, avocado extract, wheat germ oil, vitamins A and E.

The method to wear lip conditioners requires no special talent. You can wear lip conditioners under lipstick as a moisturizing base coat. If you are not comfortable with lip conditioners while going out, wear it overnight as an intensive moisture treatment. Now, condition your lips as never before!

Lip Color Tips

If you are not fortunate to have full lips, wear the lightest, frostiest lipsticks you can find. They will cause your lips to look fuller. Follow with Sacha Cosmetics lipgloss.To prevent lipstick from getting on your teeth, put your finger in your mouth and close your lips-when you withdraw your finger it will remove excess color...(read more)

Skin Care Tips

Make your skin look soft, moist and clear just in time for summer! Use a buffing cream after you cleanse. Pay careful attention especially to the rough spots (elbows, knees, and heels). Follow up with a moisturizer made for your skin type and use one that exfoliates...(read more)

Camouflage Tips

Use Kamaflage Cover Cream to conceal your skin blemishes. Kamaflage is yellow based and like our foundations will perfectly match your skin tone. Use it as a concealer or as a foundation...(read more)

Eye Makeup Tips

When applying eye shadow to the crease of the eye, keep your eyes open and slightly tilt your head backward. This will enable you to better see the shape you are creating and allowing the shadow to go into the crease...(read more)

Blush Tips

Be sure to do the blush test. Once you are done with your entire makeup stand back, look in the mirror. Check to see if your face is ‘balanced’. You should have on just enough blush to make you look as though you are blushing. If you have on any more than that you need to tone it down...(read more)

Concealer Tips

A concealer should match your skin tone or be one shade lighter. Use it to cover dark circles around the eyes, and any discoloration on the face. Another makeup artists trick is to apply concealer over foundation so it will cover and not be rubbed off...(read more)

Face Powder Tips

For warmer climates or in the summer, take special care to set your foundation with a loose powder, as heat tends to create slipping or running of your foundation. This is especially so in the case of cream foundation as they tend to have a higher oil content...(read more)

Foundation Tips

If you want your foundation to look sheer, apply it with a sponge. For more coverage apply it with your fingertips. Professional makeup artists prefer using a makeup brush as this will apply and blend the foundation beautifully...(read more)

Creating a Natural, Rosy Radiance

Cheek color should be used to enhance your complexion, not to change your natural skin tone. Use sparingly for daytime, then add more or a deeper shade for a more dramatic nighttime effect. For special occasions, dust a lightly frosted powder over your cheekbones for a subtle but alluring glow...(read more)

Getting Smooth, Soft, and Supple Lips

Apply a lip balm or conditioner throughout the day to keep lips hydrated and protected from the sun's harmful rays...(read more)

Perfecting Your Pout

For a glossy effect, apply lipstick then finish with a clear or nuetral color gloss coat for a moist, seductive shine. Remember, the more coats you apply, the more shine so turn up the volume!...(read more)

Shape Up Your Lips

To get plumper, pinker looking lips, do not touch up by drawing a hard lip line; smudge it so lips look fuller! For a more dramatic fullness, choose a lipstick shade with a hint of frost...(read more)

How to Get Well-Defined, Well-Groomed Brows

Brush your eyebrows straight up with an eyebrow brush. Using small straight scissors, carefully trim any hairs that are curly or too long. Then brush the brows back into their natural shape...(read more)

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Applying Natural-Looking Eyeliner

For a natural-looking eyeliner and the illusion of lusher, fuller lashes, use a dark brown eye pencil and carefully press a series
of dots between your lashes following your lash line...(read more)

Re: [CosmeticLab] Adding a potent Vitamin C powder to a bland moisturizer?

Hi Terri,

Just my 2 cents: If you are going to use l-ascorbic acid powder, I'd use it
at night, because as Angie said, it oxidizes quickly, even more quickly in
light. You can end up with an unsightly orange hue on your face (ask me how
I know!). But, l-ascorbic acid powder is extremely cheap, while the more
stable water-soluble versions (magnesium ascorbyl phosphate is one) are much
more expensive. Still, cheaper than buying the expensive, stable,
high-potency serums like those from Skinceuticals.
Here's another option: make a silicone based serum with l-ascorbic acid.
Using a silicone base will keep the l-aa stable, because the l-aa will not
dissolve in silicone, but you will have more like a suspension of the l-aa
powder in the silicone base. I've made this using Monistat Powder Gel (or
the generic version of it), which is just a silicone gel (no medications or
drugs in this!) meant for chaffed skin. You could also buy the silicone
bases available from Lotioncrafters or others online. I bought ultra-finely
powdered l-aa from The Vitamin Shoppe online (it's called C-1000 I believe)
so that the suspension would be less gritty feeling. I made mine at about
10% and added vitamin E as well.
When you put the gel-serum on you skin, the vitamin C powder will slowly
dissolve in your skin's surface moisture, and slowly be absorbed by your
skin. This helps reduce oxidation issues. Also, since the serum is
waterless, you don't need to worry about using a preservative (though you
could add one that's good for anhydrous products). I didn't add a
preservative to mine, and just kept it in the fridge in a foil wrapped
container (still want to protect from light). Also, I still used it at
night, again, just to further prevent oxidation issues.

Tomara


On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:48 AM, <AngiesHerbarie@aol.com> wrote:

> In a message dated 12/5/2008 11:00:20 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> stodbosh3@verizon.net <stodbosh3%40verizon.net> writes:
>
> Like many others in the current environment, I am having financial
> difficulties and can no longer afford to purchase my Vitamin C serum.
>
> With a nod given to stability and effectiveness, could it be equally
> effective to add a vitamin c powder to a bland moisturizer as needed on
> a daily basis?
>
> I have concerns regarding making and storing my own concoctions.
>
> Any advice here is very much appreciated.
>
> Terri<<
>
>
> Dear Terri,
> Using Vitamin C in skin care products can be problematic whether you make
> them yourself or add the vitamin c to a ready-made product. You mention
> effectiveness, but it's not clear what kind of functionality you are hoping
> to
> achieve with vitamin c. If you are using ascorbic acid, you may be doing
> more
> harm than good for your skin since ascorbic acid oxidizes within
> hours/days.
> If you are using a stable form of vitamin c then you could add it to a
> "bland
> moisturizer" without concerns over oxidation, but once again, it could be
> problematic because of destabilization issues for the emulsion or even
> microbial issues. It may be fine or it may not be fine.
>
> If I were you, I'd forget the Vitamin C powder altogether - particularly if
>
> you are on a budget and don't want to waste time and money.
>
>
> Angie
> The Herbarie
> _www.theherbarie.com_ (http://www.theherbarie.com)
>
> .
>
>
>


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