Best Beauty for Busy Women Blog

Green is the new Black! HUNTER is a gorgeous rich hunter/forest green and it looks spectacular on any and every eye color! It REALLY does! It intensifies green eyes, brings out the gold and amber tones of brown and hazel eyes, and highlights blue eyes (SERIOUSLY!) How does it do this? Because Hunter is deep in color, it does all this with out over powering your natural eye color… In fact it actually enhances your natural eye color!

How can mineral makeup contain talc? I did not think this was possible? Talc can be drying to the skin. Sensitive skins can (and usually do) have adverse reactions to talc. But apparently the folks at bareminerals feel differently!

Is there Teflon® in my makeup? When folks think of Teflon®, they think of nonstick cookware… But not cosmetics! PTFE is trademarked as Teflon®, and although it was originally developed for cookware, it has been found in some anti-aging products and cosmetics. Mommy Makeup products do not contain any PTFE.

There’s a saying... "People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing".

Think about it... More than anything else, this saying should apply to your beauty products!

When I shop online it frustrates me when a website or brand does not share the product’s ingredient listing! I find this A LOT with the big beauty brands and all I can think is "What are you hiding?

"Why do I need to wear blush in the summer with a tan?" As much as we may enjoy a tan look, tanning really is not good for your skin. We all know about the sun’s damaging rays and skin cancer warnings. Bronzer gives you a tan look without the sun damage.

During the summer months, most of us wear less makeup. BUT we want the makeup we DO wear to last and not melt away at the first sign of a hot, sunny day...

So, here are some easy, breezy step-by-step tips to avoid a summer makeup meltdown.

Everyone loves a great looking lip color! The issue that most busy women have is getting your favorite lip color to last longer! 

Here is an old stage makeup trick that will make your most favorite lip shades last longer.

I call this The Tissue Trick!

TALC. It is a four letter word. And talc is an ingredient that you should avoid. Here’s why:

• Talc can be drying to the skin.
• Sensitive skins can (and usually do) have adverse reactions to talc.
• Talc can "scratch" the skin.
• And If talc is not processed properly, it may even contain some asbestos in it! 

Wikipedia states"In the animal rights movement, cruelty-free is a label for products or activities that do not harm or kill animals anywhere in the world."

And so you would think that in this day and age that most cosmetic brands are cruelty-free… Well, think again... Many brands are cruelty-free in the USA but not around the world!! 

When working with my clients I always find myself making what I call Beauty Analogies... Which is when I compare a makeup tip or beauty product to something that has nothing to do with the face or beauty at all.

Here are my top 8 Beauty Analogies for Busy Women

When it comes to taking care of our faces, most of us have good hygiene... We wash our faces morning and night, apply moisturizer, exfoliate etc. But facial hygiene also involves your makeup! Especially your mascara!

This has been said before but it is worth saying again... It is important to get a new mascara about every 3 months! Even if you think your mascara is still moist enough, or there is still plenty of product in the tube, at around the 3 month mark you should toss your mascara and buy a replacement. Here's why...