Δευτέρα 29 Ιουλίου 2013
BEST MAKEUP FOR YOUR FACE
There are so many makeup tips floating around in the beauty blogosphere that it can be difficult deciphering which tips are best for you. We've spoken with some of the best beauty experts in the industry to come up with makeup advice specific to face shape, eye color and hair color. These tips are meant to make the most of your natural features so that you look your best with the least amount of time, energy and products.
Use these makeup tips to decide what looks best on you!
WHAT COLOR ARE YOUR EYES?
It's important to consider your eye color when deciding on shades of eye makeup. Matching your eyeshadow to your eye color can look too monochromatic, so instead we've come up with some tips to help your natural eye color stand out. Use these tips below to decide what makeup hues work best with your eye color.
WHAT COLOR IS YOUR HAIR?
Factor in your hair color to determine what makeup hues work best on you. By making the proper color choices with your eye shadows, blushes, bronzers and other makeup, you can make subtle enhangements that make a big difference in your look. Use these makeup tips below as a guide for the shades and techniques that work best for women with red hair, blonde hair and dark hair.
WHAT SHAPE IS YOUR FACE?
Our faces are common categorized into six main shapes: oval, square, round, heart-shaped, oblong and diamond-shaped. Use these tips below as a guide to determine what makeup techniques work best for your face shape. You'll find advice on eye shadow and eye liner, foundation, blush and more.
If you're not sure what shape your face is, find out here: How to determine your face shape >>
- Makeup tips for oval faces
- Makeup tips for square faces
- Makeup tips for round faces
- Makeup tips for heart-shaped faces
- Makeup tips for oblong faces
- Makeup tips for diamond-shaped faces
Remember: Looking great is not about the amount of money you spend on your beauty products -- rather it's about applying the proper techniques and colors to enhance your best natural-born features. Use these makeup tips specific to your eye color and hair color, as well as your face shape to achieve the best look possible.
5 Ways to Wear Your Favorite T-Shirt in a Stylish Way
Who doesn’t just love a worn-in, slightly faded t-shirt? From ones with funny catchphrases or pictures, to those that act as souvenirs from memorable nights, tees are a great way to make a statement about yourself.
Between concert keepsakes, sorority and club uniforms, and the crazy and hilarious selection at Urban Outfitters, I’ve managed to stockpile probably 50 t-shirts over the last couple of years! Sure, they’re comfortable, and awesome for lazy days (or even to sleep in!) but what’s a girl to do when she wants to rock a tee AND still look stylish?
Yes ladies, you can have your cake and eat it too. Today, I’m going to share a few different ways you can rock your favorite t-shirt and still look unique and cute for class. Read on!
1. Add a Cute Jacket
One of the most basic ways to spruce up a t-shirt is by pairing it with a cute structured jacket or a cardigan, as opposed to a frumpy hoodie. Small details, like adding a ring, fishtail braiding your hair instead of throwing it into a sloppy ponytail, and wearing gladiator sandals instead of flip flops can make all the difference in how you look and feel. The best part is, these little extras take just seconds to add — you’ll look great, but still make it to class on time.
2. Try It with a Skirt
Another easy way to wear a t-shirt and still look cute is to tuck it into a skirt. I especially like this pretty pink circle skirt since it’s slightly high-waisted – it’s dressy enough to wear on a date or look put-together in class, but isn’t so fancy that you compromise comfort. Pair this look with wedges — stilettos can look strange with something as casual as a graphic tee — and finish the look with a quirky fedora and statement ring.
3. Go for an Androgynous Look
The relaxed look and feel of your favorite tee will look great with a pair of boyfriend jeans and a few deliberately placed menswear accessories. Experiment with beanies, classic leather belts, different pairs of casual shoes, and menswear timepieces. You’ll look casual and comfy, but not sloppy. Finish with a handy messenger bag.
4. Try It with a Vest
A denim vest is a fun, unexpected way to add a rock and roll feel to an otherwise basic jeans-and-tee look. This look is especially chic with a concert t-shirt, or printed pants! Finish off the outfit with a bold pair of shoes, eye-catching earrings, and a tough-looking bracelet.
5. Pair It with a Maxi Skirt
This outfit has a bit of a Carrie Bradshaw feel to it: It’s bold for sure, but with the right amount of confidence, it’s easy to pull off! One way to make good use out of your maxi skirt is to pair it with a t-shirt. Make sure the tee isn’t too busy, and knot it right where the skirt begins for an ultra-chic look. Finish the outfit with a headscarf, classy ring, and ballet flats.
What Do You Think?
How do you dress up your t-shirts? How many do you think you’ve accumulated over the last few years of college? Would you ever pair a t-shirt with a skirt? What other pieces do you have trouble styling? Leave a comment and tell us what you think!
What Is Skin Tone?
What Is Skin Tone?
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We all have different skin tones, it's part of what makes us who we are. But what exactly is skin tone and how does it affect your style? Skin tone is an important foundation element in personal color and style. Why is that? Because your natural color palette, best colors that nature created for you, comes out from 3 major elements:your eyes, skin and hair. Because skin is the biggest organ in our body, this makes it one of the most important ingredient in color identification. It probably sounds a bit scientific, but don't you worry. In few simple steps, I will show you how to determine your skin tone and find whether you are Cool or Warm.
The human skin tone can range from almost black all the way through almost white and every hue in between. This is caused by the amount melanin in our skin and our individual melanin levels are pre-determined by our genes. There are a number of variables that effect our genes, therefore effecting our melanin levels such as race. Although, there are also external factors that change our tones such as age and time in the sun. All of these factors determine how you find your skin tone so as to wear the perfect matching make up products or required colours for clothing.
Firstly, you need to know if you have a cool or warm skin tone. Simply check the colour of your veins: If they look to be more of a blue colour you have cool undertones, if they look more green you have warm undertones.
Now that you know that you skin is Cool or Warm, you can determine what season you are. There are 4 seasons: Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring. If you have acool skin tone you will either be Summer or Winter. If you have a warm skin tone you will fit into either the Autumn or Spring category. Now let's delve even deeper into Seasons.
Summer is Cool. If you are a summer tone, you should wear lilacs, soft purples, pale blues and should choose pastels and soft neutrals with rose undertones. Hair often contains blue, blue-violet, silver and ash-like undertones. Eyes are usually seen to be light blue, gray-green, blue green,black or stark brown. Generally, cool tones go better with the blue half of the spectrum. Their metal colours are silver and white gold.
Winter is Cool. Winters have blue, red or pink undertones. Their skin colour can range from pale pink to white, be olive or be an extreme dark brown/black. Best metals for winters are silver or platinum.
Spring is Warm. Springs usually have a golden undertone and seem to have a peach or cream hue. Spring people generally have strawberry blonde hair, dirty blonde hair, red hair, freckles, rosy cheeks, and green, aqua or blue eyes. Springs should wear clothes that have yellow undertones. Colours like peach, coral and pastel orange-pinks look best on Springs.
Autumn is Warm. Autumn types have golden, warm or yellow undertones and should wear colours such coffee, caramel, beige and some golden toned reds. Autumns tend to have hair with hints of orange, yellow or gold. Their eye colours are generally dark brown, hazel or deep green. For Autumns, the best metals are gold, bronze or copper.
Once you know what Season are you, it goes even deeper. Each Season divided by 3 category. I made a graph for you to visually see the 12 Color Analysis System.
Understanding what skin tones are and how yours influences you specifically, it will help you in the long run with shopping for clothes that are best suited to and to find the closest match for beauty products. It will have an obviously positive effect on the way you look and, in turn, the way that you feel thus increasing your confidence!
Do you know your skin tone? Did you ever tried to find out or maybe hear about it from someone? If you have any difficulties or need some confirmation, I am here to help!
Check out E-Color Analysis and discover your best colors!
How to get Beauty Sleep
How to get Beauty Sleep
Since I moved to Barcelona It has been quite a busy lifestyle, but I really like that.
I like the rush, endless to-do lists, meeting new people. It's very exciting!
Anyway, I was thinking how to wake up beautiful every morning when you life is pretty hectic.
Here are my thoughts.
It's all about comfortable Bedroom
Try to remove all the gadgets and TV. I know it's hard from my own experience but that's the only way to really get a good night sleep. Put some lavender oil on a humidifier to gently spread the calming scent throughout your room. And probably the most important thing~ invest in a good bed!
Take a Warm Bath
For me warm bath or even a shower works wonders. I feel so relaxed and calm
and can fellow sleep in a minutes after.
Get Into A Routine
Nightly Beauty Ritual
Holiday Hair How To
I love {this is glamorous} blog! It is so stylish and Chic. They have this wonderful tutorial on How to style your hair for the holidays. Check out simple Step by step tutorial.
8 Simple Clothes Shopping Strategies
8 Simple Clothes Shopping Strategies
If you want to have great wardrobe, full of choices, to create sophisticated and trendy outfits, strategic planning of your shopping trip is the answer.
Only when you have a plan, aka shopping list, and know exactly what you have in your closet and what is missing, only in that case you can be your own shopping expert with great cloth to wear and money saved in your bank account.
1. Two to three color wardrobe
Keep your wardrobe of separates down to two or three basic colors for maximum versatility and ease.
2. Stay Away from Trendy Clothes
3. Don't try t Save on Wardrobe Foundation
Buy you wardrobe foundation garments in the best quality you can afford.
4. Take Shopping Seriously
Do not shop with the purpose to make you feel better. Shopping is a serious deal. You don't want to waste you hard earned money on unnecessary cloth that you later regret. Remember the cost per wear rule? Always carry shopping list with you because you never know where you can find that perfect dress that you have been looking for for awhile. Never shop last minute for an important or expensive garment.
5. Debt Free
Smart girls look great and have money in a bank, never forget about it. Only nice quality purchases that are planned or not very expensive thendy pieces that you can wear for one season. Don't go into debt over clothes!
6. Shop designer labels when on sale
I currently reside in Barcelona and here twice a year, every store has a Mega Sale with up to 80% off. So, instead of going to cheap stores and get dirt cheap cloth, I skip that step and go straight to designer stores. The thing is, you will get amazingly beautiful, high-quality pieces at the price of Zara or a little more To me its a fair deal and I would advice you to do the same.
7 Accessory Matters
Develop an accessory wardrobe to vary the look of your clothes. I have tons of necklaces and bracelets. Sometimes I wear the same blouse and only change accessory. First of all, when you wear cool necklace, everyone notice that. Who doesn't love extra attention? But most importantly, nice colorful piece of jewelry can change outfit look completely and take you from bohemian to glamorous in a seconds.
8. Price Beyond the Price Tag
Consider the price beyond the price tag. If you can't afford to dry-clean the garment pass it by. Look for a good dry-cleaner and tailor in your area and become their best friend.
What is your shopping strategy? Do you plan it ahead or you prefer to do it spontaneously. I would love to hear your ideas and comments.
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