The Juicy Beauty Word

If you haven't heard, Urban Decay makes fabulous eye shadow palettes! One of their shadow palette collections is called the Naked Eyeshadow Collection. There 4 Urban Decay Naked  palettes with  12 shades of neutral shadow colors packaged in a box with a mirror that resembles a watercolor paint box and a really great eyeshadow brush. Sooo fun!  Each palette  has it's distinctive theme of neutral, nicely pigmented shades that blend easily and last all day. There are also Naked Basics eyeshadow palettes. We'll talk about them another day. Today is about the 4 Naked Palettes with 12 eyeshadow shades and what makes them different. Let's compare them! The Urban Decay Naked Eyeshadow Palettes The Naked  Eyeshadow Palette The first palette in the Naked collection is simply called Naked Eyeshadow Palette. It has a warm bronzy cast to gives you a warm summery glow. The shadows have a variety of finishes: matte, satin, shimmer and glitter. This palette wor...

ooo la la! Look what I got for Christmas! It's the Urban Decay Naked Illuminated Trio! There are 3 gorgeous shades of shimmering powders in this box that can be used on your face and on your body to brighten and highlight the skin with a glowing sparkle.  The light reflecting glitter particles in the silky powders are micro fine so the shimmer left on the skin is gentle. These are not highly pigmented powders. They only leave a hint of color. A  gold champagne A marbled taupe An iridescent peachy pink The palette comes with a soft double ended brush that feels good on the skin and it has a nice large mirror. Here are all three on my skin. Twilight is on my eyelid. Oasis is on my brow bone and pyrite is on my cheek bone.  I love this powder on my eyelids. It really brightens and creates a nice barely there look. Very soft and very sexy! I used the pyrite on my decolletage on New Years Eve. My friend's daughter was enchanted with the ...

Dyson has created a blow dryer in signature Dyson high tech style. How cool looking is that? It is sleek and beautiful! Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer This is the supersonic blow dryer in fabulous fuchsia and gray.  It also comes in white and silver.  You can see right through it! The folks at Dyson did a 5 year study on hair to see how extreme heat affects the hair's shine. They found that high heat can damage the hair by putting holes in the stands of hair causing it to look dull.  Hair that has a smooth outer layer called the hair cuticle that reflects light making the hair look shiny and healthy. A roughed up cuticle or a cuticle with holes in it will look dull. The Features that Make it Special Dyson set out to create a blow dryer that is powerful (1600 watts) that blow dries hair quickly without damaging high heat. It combines high air pressure with perfect temperature control. The dryer has an intelligent heat control system with a micro processor...

Q. Why does my regular nail polish (not gel polish) stay on great on my toes but chips in a couple days on my fingernails? A. Your toes live the life of luxury protected in your shoes..... no washing dishes, no scrubbing bathrooms and no frequent washing during cold and flu season !  Nails are porous. They absorb water becoming soft and more pliable when wet. Nail polish is not porous. It doesn't absorb water. The polish stays hard and chips away from the pliable nails. Avoid contact with water to help your nail polish last. Also, the longer the nails are, the more chance of nail bending. Another reason polish on toenails wears well is, toenails tend to be thicker and harder than fingernails. Polish stays better on hard nails because they don't bend. Tips to help your nail polish last Base Coat Use an adhesive base coat before polishing your nails with color. Zoya Anchor works well. Quality Polish Use polish formulated to be long wearing on natural nails. My c...

We all are searching for that elusive fountain of youth with skin care products and skin care devices. Do they work? Many actually do improve the look of the skin. They may not make you look as if you had a face lift, but they do make the skin look firmer and a little younger looking. NuFACE is an anti aging skin care device that you can use at home to make your skin look younger. A woman came to our salon to demonstration on this device a little while ago. One of us salon girls was the model.  The demonstrator treated half of our model's face so we could see what NuFACE actually does.  It was amazing!!!  The treated side of the face was noticeably smoother and lifted. Her  face actually looked saggy on the untreated side. T hat was just one treatment. The model said please, you have to do the other side!!!  NuFACE uses microcurrent to tone the muscles (which lifts the skin), define the jawline and smooth wrinkles. Microcurrent is a low level electri...