Beauty Makeup

This video is a time lapse of the process to take an ordinary woman from start to finish.

Here are some really great recipes that Beauty Makeup has found. Really easy do-it-yourself recipes. With organic ingredients and the love for the product, all your friends will be asking you where you got it from!

BEETROOT LIP GLOSS

1/4 cup beeswax
1/4 cup castor oil
2 tablespoons organic coconut oil
Organic Freshly juiced beetroot juice
Melt beeswax in top of double boiler. Remove from heat and add oils. Add as much beetroot juice as desired for colour. Store in jar. Transfer a small portion to a purse sized container for use when away from home. Any favourite essential oil may be added for fragrance.

APRICOT-ORANGE LIP GLOSS

1 teaspoon beeswax
1 teaspoon apricot kernel oil
1 teaspoon calendula oil
3-4 drops of essential oil of orange
Organic freshly juiced beetroot
Melt beeswax in top of double boiler. Add apricot kernel and calendula oils, stirring constantly. Remove from heat, add beetroot juice, for colour. When partially cooled, add oil of orange. Store in jar. Transfer a small portion to a purse sized container for use when away from home.

ORGANIC CHOCOLATE LIP BALM

1 teaspoon beeswax
2 teaspoons organic prime-pressed cocoa butter + 2 tablespoons organic cocoa powder
3 teaspoons organic oil of choice – organic coconut or olive oil or rice bran oil /jojoba 5-10 drops peppermint essential oil Vitamin E capsule 400iu Organic vanilla powder

Slowly melt ingredients in a double boiler or in 30-second spurts in microwave. Cool slightly and add vitamin E capsule (oil only) and fill steralized containers. You can adjust the ratio of ingredients to suit your liking. Keep in ‘fridge. Keeps almost indefinitely! Makes approximately 5 lip gloss jars. Enjoy!

They all have day jobs: Shira Kastan lobbies for a university. Leslie Munsell applies makeup for photo shoots and co-owns a hair salon. And Tracy Wilson Mourning heads a charity, filling her schedule with philanthropic endeavors.

All three are busy, high-energy professional South Florida women — who still found time this year to launch new makeup and skin care lines, fulfilling their entrepreneurial dreams and tapping into an industry many feel is less sensitive to a recession.

Formulating the products with the help of outsourced manufacturers, designing the packaging, creating a logo and website, marketing and selling to distributors — all have taken loads of time, effort and resources.
But all three women are excited to harness their creativity in a new direction, mixing business with beauty, offering something different to enhance a women’s daily aesthetic ritual.

“I think there’s a market for it,” Kastan said. “I think women will still splurge on themselves. And they should.”
Experts agree that the beauty business, while highly competitive, is an industry ripe for new small businesses. Unlike some other types of start-ups, contract manufacturing helps drive new enterprises and keep costs down.
“There’s always an opportunity for somebody with an idea to start up a cosmetics company,” said Jeff Falk, editor of Global Cosmetic Industry, a trade publication based in Carol Stream, Ill. “It’s a self-regulated industry, so there’s responsibility in launching a company and a line, but there are not some of the hurdles you might have to go through to get a food on the shelf or an over-the-counter drug.”

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We all know that women can be really hard to buy for. Walk into a store, one doesn’t know where to begin. Revlon has taken the initiative to help any Christmas buyer out, introducing its Christmas collection for the modern woman who likes to add a slight touch of glamour every day.

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We’re headed into the high season for “good” movies, and I think the one I’m most excited for is Country Strong, which opens next week. Sure, it doesn’t have accents, corsets, or lavish period settings, but it does have big hair and country music. Gwyneth Paltrow and Leighton Meester are usually known for their upper east side sensibility (the former was born to it; the latter plays it to perfection as Blair Waldorf) and we spoke to Country Strong’s head makeup artist, Sherri Laurence, about how she got these city girls Nashville-ready. “The country look these days is very put together—not a hair or a lash out of place,” says Laurence. “Their hair is very curled, with lots of extensions.

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At Smashbox we believe that “our knowledge is your beauty.” It all begins with Smashbox Photo Studios – the premier location for fashion and beauty photography. Dean & Davis Factor have created a place where trends begin and inspiration is everywhere. We take the insider knowledge and translate it into get-gorgeous award winning products and helpful artistry tips so our customers know all the secrets to looking beautiful.

I recently have seen more and more sites out there claiming you can make hundreds a day doing online surveys. Right!

The REAL TRUTH is most are scams and give you bogus or outdated information. I had actually signed up for one of these a few months back and was very disappointed to say the least. Oh yeah, and I made zero dollars.

However, the other night I was listening to a talk radio show and heard an interview with a CEO of a large company and he was talking about how they use independent research to evaluate their products and services. He went on to discuss how the internet has made it possible for them to get instant feedback from any population anywhere in the world. At the end, he mentioned the company and the site that people can sign up to participate. By the way, YES you get paid!

I signed up myself and I was amazed at the resources and professionalism of the entire site. I was able to sign up with different groups and started doing surveys immediately. The more surveys I did, the more I got paid! I’m still amazed and wanted to share it with a few close friends.

So if you’re looking for REAL SURVEY work then go here and check them out. They are for real!

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Alexander Mcqueen – Spring/Summer 2010

Check out the gorgeous makeup of this show. Not only beauty, but prosthetic makeup too!

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