Prevent Wrinkles Early

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Summer is just about upon us and all I can say is, please, please, please…use the sunscreen!! Dermatologist estimate that 80% of wrinkles, before the age of sixty, are caused by over exposure to the sun. Need I say more? Well, just in case I do need to - we usually only think about overexposure to the sun if we are at the beach, or outside all day. Do you think about it when you have your window rolled down, enjoying the fresh summer air? How about when you take that nice walk to lunch (more calories burned if you walk, right)? All the little exposures during the day add up to little tiny lines showing up early and getting worse later, especially with that delicate skin around your eyes. We must use as much care to protect and preserve our skin with preventative measures as we do when we actually see the wrinkles appear.

Make sure you use a moisturizer with sunscreen in it or, if your favorite moisturizer is without sunscreen apply one on top of your moisturizer. If you use foundation you can also use a foundation that has sun screen as part of its ingredients. When you are going to be outdoors all day make sure you use a sunscreen that is strong enough to protect you, and don’t forget your eyelids, top of your ears and hair part line! We don’t want skin cancer any more than we want wrinkles. Most of all, make sure you carry a bottle of sunscreen with you, it’s the times when your caught unexpected that will do the most damage. You know what I’m talking about, it’s such a beautiful day that you decide to have lunch on the patio. The conversation is so good and you are having so much fun that you linger for hours, and before you know it you look like a lobster. Avoid this situation with your trusty travel size tube of sunscreen, a must for every purse in your closet!

Stay tuned tomorrow, I’ll be highlighting my favorite my have sun screens!

Liz Earle For Eyes

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Let me first say that Liz Earle is just an amazing company, period. Each order comes with a very nice size sample of another product, each of which is so good I can’t help ordering a full size of it. In addition to the samples every order comes beautifully wrapped in delicate gorgeous white and silver tissue paper with “healthy beautiful skin” scrolled across it. This is good customer relations at the max.

The Eyebright Soothing Eye Lotion feels so relaxing on your eyes. This is exactly what my eyes needed! Just sweep a cotton pad dipped in the lotion across your eyes to revitalize them or put the soaked pads on your eyes for ten minutes, the smell is intoxicating yet gentle. You can feel the aloe vera soothing your skin and the herb eyebright is known for refreshing eyes. The minute I used this lotion I noticed the area around my eyes had a slightly calmer look and the slight puffiness dissipated. I also noticed that after using this lotion my eye lids felt very supple. Sometimes my lids get dry but I don’t like the effect of moisturizer on them because it interferes with my eye makeup, so the eyebright lotion is perfect leaving them supple but not sticky.

The thing I love the most about Liz Earle’s products is that a little goes a long way and one product has many uses. Her philosophy is that when you get it right you don’t need a lot of extra stuff. True to form, her Smoothing Line Serum is a multi-tasker. It is made to use around the eyes, but it can also be used on the neck to smooth fine lines and, this is the part I love, it can also be used as an oil free moisturizer for your whole face. What I really like about this product is that although it is a gel it doesn’t leave your skin feeling tight like most gel moisturizers. It feels light around the eyes and soaks in to the skin quickly leaving it soft and moisturized.

Clinique’s New City Block

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Oooo! Oooo! Ooooo! Have you checked out Clinique’s newest addition to the City Block family, City Block Sheer Oil Free SPF 25? I have always liked Clinique sunscreens, they are very gentle on your skin, but I love this stuff! Why? Because it is made with “no chemical sunscreens”. Did you know that your body absorbs 60% of whatever you put on it? That means that every time you put a sunscreen with chemicals on your body you are absorbing 60% of those chemicals inside of you. Clinique’s tag line “Make new City Block Sheer Oil-Free SPF 25 your urban necessity” is dead on. It’s not only oil free, it actually works to absorb excess oil so you stay fresher looking longer. Buy two, one to put on right after your moisturizer and one for your purse, for all those little moments that you think, damn, I wish I had thought to bring sunscreen!

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I Love You Mom!

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My mom is a classic beauty with a sexy edge. The kind of classic beauty that comes to mind when you think of Natalie Wood and Elizabeth Taylor. She began setting an extraordinary example for powerful women at an early age by using both her intellectual abilities and beauty together. Working in the Stock Market, Modeling, and performing with her beautiful opera trained voice - beauty and brains, the ultimate woman. Today she continues her pursuits by bringing her beauty and talent into homes all over southern california with her gorgeous and unique interior design company, Romancing Your Home Designs.

My mom started me of on the path to a love of beauty when she took me for my first highlights at age twelve, I loved it so much I’ve never returned to my natural color. She bought me my first mud face mask, Fango Active Mud by Princess Marcella Borghese. I loved that mask, religiously using it once a week and occasionally splurging and doing an all over body mask, at age fifteen I felt like such a woman. My mom also gave me the gift of great skin care, taking me to my first skin consultation at Clinique and starting me of on a commitment to a glowing completion.

Today, on Mother’s day I offer a tribute to my mom. My best friend, confidant, and an extraordinary woman. These are her beauty secrets, ssshhh! This is just between us girls. Here’s to you mom, I love you! (Whew! After writing this I need some of those chic sniffs tissues with the lips all over them. My mom would use the leopard print version.)

Air Stockings Premier Silk: This stuff rocks! It sprays on and looks just like hosiery without the added discomfort of another piece of clothing. Washes off with soap and water. Mom likes natural for just a tinge of natural hosiery.

OPI in Red: The classic of all beauty classics. This is a true red nail polish, the kind to wear on a sleek sexy night with your smokiest eye.

LipSense Lipstick: This permanent lipstick leaves your lips soft and will not, by any means, come off on your glass or your man! Gorgeous colors!

Emlin Concentree: Wrinkles be gone! This stuff really works for the toughest wrinkles. Makes your skin soft as southern humidity does!

My mom’s beauty secrets would not be complete without the colors that match her skin, hair and eye tones. She is a deep autumn with dark hair and dark eyes and she would not be caught dead in colors that didn’t look good on her. I would say this is her number one secret to looking young, beautiful, and sparklingly (yes, I made up that word) noticeable!

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