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  Just like our parents always told us, life is not fair. Ice cream has calories, money doesn't grow on trees, and Jennifer Lopez is immune to the process of aging. 
The actress/singer/dancer/mom/superhuman is 47 years old, and she looks amazing every time she's spotted in the world mingling with the rest of us regular people.
As if that wasn't bad enough, she even looks perfect in the least flattering of situations. 
This is what she looks like in a "food coma" on Thanksgiving.

This is what she looks like walking down the street on a freezing winter day.

This is what she looks like on a casual night just lounging around with the kids.



 Me and my baby
A photo posted by Jennifer Lopez (@jlo) on Oct 7, 2016 at 11:24am PDT



But before you spiral into a fit of jealousy-fueled rage, we have some good news. No, we can't help you look like a celebrity after you eat a pound of turkey, but we can help you channel your inner J.Lo after a long flight. 
Makeup artist Kate Best, whose clients include Lopez and another fountain of youth patron, 52-year-old actress Vanessa Williams, shared her in-flight beauty tricks with MailOnline, and they may just change the way you travel forever.
Some of these tricks are easy, like putting your hair in a bun, ditching your pre-flight makeup, and drinking extra water.
"The best way to avoid getting off the plane with your hair looking like a bird's nest is to tie it up in a ballet-bun on top of your head when you board," Best said. "It won't pick up any grease from your face and keeps it under control so you can just shake it out upon landing."
She advises you remove any makeup with a "mild cleansing wipe" upon taking your seat, because it won't last and will just dry you out.
But here's where a little extra effort is required.
After cleaning your face, Best recommends applying a SKII Facial Hydrating Mask. Even model Chrissy Teigen devoted herself to these after hearing J.Lo uses them. 

I use SK-II face masks because I was told Jennifer Lopez uses them and I will do whatever she does in the face realm with no shame.
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) May 28, 2012

They go for a steep $17 per sheet, but you can also pick up a $6 version at Sephora.
Other products to pack in your carry-on bag? A refreshing toner to spray on your face post-mask, anti-aging cream, eye cream and lip balm.
Best says you should try to nap, of course, but if you really want to do it like a star, she recommends a "silk eye mask and even a pillow case if possible. It's the gentlest on your skin." (Kim Kardashian has been known to travel with a silk pillowcase in hand.)
All these lotions and silk sound super glamorous, but looking red carpet-ready is not all fun and games. 
"Drinking alcohol–sadly–accelerates the skin dehydration process ten-fold," Best said. "I stick to hot water with lemon." 
Consider your buzz officially killed.
If you follow all of these tips, chances are you'll feel like an A-lister by the time you're retrieving your suitcase from the baggage carousel. But if you really want to go all in–maybe there's someone special waiting at arrivals, wink, wink–there's one final step.
Just before landing, Best says you should "nip to the loo"– that's British speak for run to the bathroom–and "brush your teeth and use eye drops to take down any redness."

Then you can let your hair down, use another cleansing wipe on your face and dab off any oil with a tissue before starting her on-the-go makeup routine with a primer and some "dewy foundation."
"Dab some concealer under the eyes, and sweep a black eyeliner from the outer to the inner edge of the eyes. Then, a lick of mascara and some lip balm and you're ready to disembark," she said.
And if all else fails, there's one accessory no celebrity nor experienced traveler exits a plane without: a good pair of sunglasses. Just don't blame us when the paparazzi bombard you at the gate.

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 Celebrity make-up artist and Visionaire founder, James Kaliardos, began dabbling in make-up when he was just seven. He now makes up the most famous faces in the world including Hillary Clinton, Madonna, Julianne Moore, Barbra Streisand, Nicole Kidman, Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus and Victoria Beckham.He was in Sydney recently to talk make-up and how to be "way better than pretty".
    James Kaliardos now makes up the most famous faces in the world including Hillary Clinton. Photo: Getty Images
    On his childhood "It began very early – I was seven and I used to watch my mother do her make-up. She had Jackie O hair and a Maria Callas face – Onassis would have loved her. She wore a lot of eye make-up and pale lips and I tried making her up and I was really good at it. So I just kept doing it on everyone I could get my hands on. I just loved the idea of transformation. The make-up thing happened really naturally and for fun I assisted Francois Nars and Kevyn Aucoin".
    James Kaliardos for M.A.C Moons of Satin Face Kit Photo: M.A.C Cosmetics supplied
    On inspiration"Now Voyager with Bette Davis who transforms into a beautiful women. There is something about transformation that I have become obsessed about. I think make-up is so interesting because it's like a non commitment, you can just wipe it off, but it really does have a big impact on being able to change the way you look."
On selfie culture "Now it's so much about this weird popularity thing: I hate non-talent and selfie-taking."On foundation "Before I begin a makeup session, I exfoliate the skin and I put a lot of moisturising cream on to improve texture. I like to keep everything sheer with moisturising foundations."On cheeks and lips "Shaping and shading your face is also very important. My new collection is about the ultimate edit that I use every day when I am on a shoot. A glowy cheek is really youthful; it's about looking healthy, polished and clean. And remember, red lipstick works on everybody."On eyeliner"Eyeliner application is kind of like writing. Lift your chin so your eyelid becomes flat and your eyelashes are not interfering with your view of the line. Take the liner from halfway along the lid as the centre of the lid is very hard to do."Highlights I worked a lot with Miley Cyrus who is very independent and very talented. She has a really beautiful voice and very professional attitude towards work. And then I worked with Hillary [Clinton] who was just incredibly cool; I really wanted to go the inauguration. 
  
   
    
   VOTE!! When I do someone's make-up I'm so close, physically, I'm right in their face, in their space. For me, Hillary was so kind, such a listener, interested, caring, engaged in the conversation, conscientious, SUPER Intelligent.  
   A photo posted by James Kaliardos (@jameskaliardos) on Nov 7, 2016 at 7:52pm PST
   
  
 Beauty mantra Screw being pretty – you can be way better than pretty. It's not about how other people perceive you, it's about how you perceive yourself and what gives you the kick. If you want to go out with glittery eyeshadow, then just do it. Beauty tools I believe in having the right tool and letting the tool do the job. This takes the guessing game out of it.
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 I love a nude lip pencil to shape the lip and then you can put any colour lipstick at all over it.PS Kaliardos is about to launch his first collection with M.A.C and our favourites from the range include: Moons of Jupiter Full Face Kit; Jumbo Penultimate Eye Liner, Stratagloss Pyrite (a pinky beige with gold reflects) and Bloodstone Lipstick (a great mid-tone red)]]></description><link>http://blog.travmaga.com/screw-being-pretty-hillary-clintons-makeup-artist-on-the-power-of-makeup-the-sydney-morning-herald</link><guid>2738</guid><author>Diva</author><dc:content >http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/t/q/5/v/d/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gtq4vu.png/1485932467526.jpg</dc:content ><dc:text>'Screw being pretty': Hillary Clinton's makeup artist on the power of makeup - The Sydney Morning Herald</dc:text></item><item><title>Makeup bag detox: how to tell when your beauty products are past their prime - Times LIVE</title><description><![CDATA[Most women can easily hold onto makeup products for years, but, unlike food or medicine, there often aren't any glaring expiry dates on these purchases. On some products like face creams, you may notice a tiny icon of an open jar accompanied by a number followed by the letter m. This symbol highlights how many months the product can be used for after you've opened it — the tricky part is remembering when that was.To help you keep track, use a permanent marker to write the date of first use on your products. It's also important to pay attention to how a product looks or smells — any change can tip you off that it's time to toss it out.You might also not be aware that storage plays a role in the shelf life of your products: exposure to heat, humidity and even ambient air can cause formulas to degrade faster. Avoid storing makeup products in your bathroom; rather keep them in a cool, dry bedroom cupboard.USE THIS DETOX GUIDE TO HELP KEEP YOUR COLLECTION FRESHMASCARA, LIQUID AND GEL EYELINERToss after: 3 monthsMascaras and eyeliners are the first to go when detoxing your makeup bag. Any bacteria collecting on your products have a first-class ticket to causing eye infections. Mascaras and liquid liner tubes are also a breeding place for bacteria as they are dark and moist. Never pump the wand of your mascara as it forces air as well as bacteria into the tube. Carefully pull the wand out and wipe off excess product from the opening.OIL-FREE FOUNDATION, LIPSTICK AND LIP LINERToss after 1 yearFoundation formulas tend to degrade and split faster if they are oil-based. Oil-free foundations and lipsticks are less likely to expire quickly as they contain less oil. Spritzing lipstick and lip liners with rubbing alcohol before use sterilises the surface and prolongs shelf life. Toss out any of these products if their smell or texture changes.CREAM BLUSH, FOUNDATION, EYE SHADOW &amp; CONCEALERToss after 12-18 monthsThough their texture will not change as fast as a product with a liquid formula, cream products are best blended in with the fingertips, making them susceptible to bacteria. Eliminate excessive finger contact by using a brush to apply a small amount of product to the back of your hand, then use your fingers to apply onto the face. This way the cream is warmed up by the skin, making it easier to blend.NAIL POLISHESToss after 1-2 yearsNail polishes can generally last for a long time if not left open or in direct heat. When a polish reaches its throw-away date, the formula tends to separate, dry out or become thick and clumpy.POWDER BLUSH, BRONZERS AND EYELINER PENCILSToss after 2 yearsEye pencils have longevity as they are regularly sharpened, renewing the product surface used on the skin. Powders, such as blushes and bronzers, have less chance of breeding bacteria as they do not contain moisture. Products applied with brushes have less contact with fingers that can transfer bacteria to the skin - just make sure the brushes used are regularly cleaned.MAKEUP BRUSHES AND SPONGESThe makeup tools we use contribute to the shelf life of makeup products. Brushes should be cleaned once a month* while sponges need to be cleansed after the first week of use, but should not used for more than two weeks. What about the hygiene of your brow pencil with brush end? When the bristles become clumpy, run the brush under warm water and rub the wand between your fingers with soap.*Beauty editor's tip: "Use shampoo to clean makeup brushes. Gently work the lather in the same direction as the bristles to keep its shape."]]></description><link>http://blog.travmaga.com/makeup-bag-detox-how-to-tell-when-your-beauty-products-are-past-their-prime-times-live</link><guid>2740</guid><author>Diva</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Makeup bag detox: how to tell when your beauty products are past their prime - Times LIVE</dc:text></item><item><title>How To Switch Up Your Makeup Routine If It Hasn't Changed Since High School - Elite Daily</title><description><![CDATA[
						You’ve been doing your makeup since you were a teenager, right?You probably can’t remember how it all started or where you bought your first lipstick from. In fact, you most likely can’t recall anyone teaching you how to do your makeup at all.To view this video please enable JavaScript, and considerupgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 videoAccording to a study done by YWCA USA, women in the United States spend around $7 billion on cosmetics each year. There’s no denying women are buying and using makeup, but quite a small amount of them were ever properly taught how to do it.If you’re starting to get fed up with your same old makeup routine, and Kylie Jenner’s Instagram selfies make you want to re-vamp your entire cosmetic bag, here are some tips to help you seriously step up your makeup game this year:1. Line those lips.Ladies, don’t be scared of lip liner.I know you are probably envisioning those super dark lines that look like you just drank a glass of chocolate milk, but it doesn’t have to be like that!If done right, liner can make your lips appear fuller and more defined, all while helping your lipstick stay longer and prevent it from bleeding.Lead cosmetic artist for MAC, Gisel Calvillo, suggests putting a more natural color liner on the lips to make them appear their biggest.Celebrity makeup artist, Melanie Inglessis, suggests using a dark lip liner to define the bow and the middle of the bottom lip before blending it with a lighter color.2. Use a spoolie for your brows.What’s a spoolie, you ask? It’s basically a hair brush for your eyebrows.Groomed brows are quite the trend these days, and those using spoolies are ahead of the game.Essentially, these little wands look similar to mascara and are used to evenly disperse color and keep stray hairs in check.Many eyebrow pencils come with a built in spoolie so you have everything you need to get the greatest brow.According to Makeup.com, some of the best brow buys are Lancôme Le Crayon Poudre and Maybelline Eye Studio Master Shape Brow Pencil.3. Get the right tools.The tools of the trade are what will really step up your makeup game.Forget about using your fingers and the occasional Q-tip. If you want your makeup to look professional, you are going to need the right supplies.To view this video please enable JavaScript, and considerupgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 videoIf you are ready to stock up, some essentials include:– Lip brush– Flat eyebrow brush– Precision angle brush– Blush brush– Small blending brush– Concealer brush– Foundation brush– Fluffy powder brush4. It’s all about the contour.Contouring is all of the rage these days.It seems that all the celebrities are doing it, and the topic in general can be seen trending all over the internet. Once reserved for photo shoots and runway models, real women are learning the tricks of the trade.In a nut shell, contouring is enhancing the facial structure and giving shape to areas of the face by using makeup.According to this article by Teen Vogue, contouring is easy, and they actually lay it out for you step by step.5. Get the lighting right.The right lighting is an essential ingredient in how well your makeup turns out.If the lighting is too dark, what you think is perfectly done foundation could actually look horrific when exposed to bright light. Similarly, if your mirror isn’t magnified enough, you could be missing out on your makeup’s true potential.To view this video please enable JavaScript, and considerupgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 videoHave you ever noticed the light bulb encrusted makeup mirrors that are depicted backstage in Hollywood films? They are there for a reason, and that is to provide the best light possible for getting makeup and hair perfectly right.According to an article by Style Caster, LED bulbs work the best for makeup, and adding a tool like a Hollywood Mirror to your makeup area would help immensely.6. Use complimentary colors on your eyes.Your eyes are kind of like the centerpiece of your face, and making them stand out can change your whole look.When it comes to eye shadow, using colors that are opposite of your eye color will actually make them stand out more.If you want to make your eye color pop….Blue eyes: Anything with orange will make your blue eyes pop. Peach, gold, apricot and anything with an orange undertone is best.Brown eyes: Almost any color will work well with brown, but purple and blue make them stand out the most.Green eyes: Colors with red undertones will make green eyes pop. Try shades that have some wine or plum coloring to them.7. Take a makeup class.Sure, YouTube is full of makeup tutorials that you can watch for free, and that is fantastic.However, if you want to really learn the tricks of the trade and find out what works best for your unique face, taking a makeup class could really be worth the time and money.Sit and take notes as a professional shows you what to use and how to use it in order to look your most beautiful.Subscribe to Elite Daily's official newsletter, The Edge, for more stories you don't want to miss.					]]></description><link>http://blog.travmaga.com/how-to-switch-up-your-makeup-routine-if-it-hasnt-changed-since-high-school-elite-daily</link><guid>2739</guid><author>Diva</author><dc:content /><dc:text>How To Switch Up Your Makeup Routine If It Hasn't Changed Since High School - Elite Daily</dc:text></item><item><title>40 Expert-Approved Beauty Tips to Hack Your Makeup Routine - MarieClaire.com</title><description><![CDATA[1. For full lips go for a glossy look. Try first outlining the perimeter of your lips using a concealer brush dipped in bronzer two shades deeper than your skin tone. Then, top pout with gold, peach, or coral gloss.2. When your lips look larger, it helps to slim your face down. The best way to beef up your mouth is to dab a shimmery gloss in the middle of your lower lip (on top of a lip-tone lipstick or gloss).3. Play up your pout— it reminds people you're no pushover—with a deep, dramatic lipstick. Use your finger for a personally stamped finish. Highlight the area above your bow with a brush of gold eyeshadow.Moisturizing Dry and Inflamed Skin

Getty1. Rose and lavender work wonders in calming skin inflammation, according to Michele VanLandingham, ingredient information specialist for Dr. Hauschka Skin Care. Olive oil is also a great cure for all things dry, including peeling cuticles.2. Prevent dead-skin pileup by using a pumice stone in the shower—and don't be tempted into using a razor. That will only cause more skin to grow back. Pamper your feet with moisturizing facial masks.3. Lance Etchison, skin-care aesthetician at Bluemercury in Washington, D.C., suggests incorporating one new product at a time. "And, since most active ingredients take effect over time, don't give up if you don't see immediate results," he advises.4. For daytime moisturizing, think layering: Use an antioxidant serum under a face cream, topped off with sunblock. To prevent flaking, consider light exfoliation once a week. Moisturizing without exfoliating first can result in breakouts and dull skin.5. Water, paper, chemicals: all dry up soft hands. "You have to fight back every day," says Jan Arnold, founder of Creative Nail Design. "Exfoliate to slough off dead cells, then slather on a rich cream to compensate for how few oil glands you have."Advertisement - Continue Reading Below6. Here's a secret for super-smooth, quenched lips: Use your richest eye cream on your lips! Note: Be sure it's a "hydrating" formula, not "firming"—which is code for drying.7. Sure, it's chilly in the morning, but don't be tempted to crank up the heat in the shower. Hot water followed by cool, dry air leads to rough skin. To lock in moisture post-shower, pat yourself dry, and coat skin in an alpha-hydroxy lotion.8. For flawless skin choose a cleanser and moisturizer appropriate for your skin type that you can use a.m. and p.m., and then supplement it weekly with a purifying face mask. Also, consider using a nightly skin treatment that exfoliates dead skin cells.Optimizing Your Nail Care

Getty1. We love the look of a perfect sheer manicure on long, tapered talons as much as the next woman, but who's got the time? For equally elegant, less fussy nails, go short, round, and dark. File your nails so they line up with the tips of your fingers and round the corners.2. Low on cash but still want to indulge? Pamper your feet. If you're going to indulge in any spa treatment, go for a pedicure. It costs more than a manicure (though much less than a body treatment), and it lasts for weeks.Creating a Natural-Looking Glow

Getty1. Naturally pale but want a healthy glow? The good news is that you don't need a lot of makeup to achieve great-looking skin, says New York makeup artist Paula Dorf. For natural-looking results, apply glow products to the apples of your cheeks, the bridge of your nose, your hairline, and chin.2. Sidestep streaks by mixing self-tanner with moisturizer before applying. This dilutes the formula so you achieve a more natural, less stripe-like effect. See our guide for the best no-streak self-tanners here.3. To avoid an orange-y look with self-tanner, after application, wipe a cotton swab or a damp paper towel across your eyebrows and along your hairline.Counteracting Wrinkles

Getty1. Treating your neck like your face doesn't work. "Your neck ages in its own way and so has special needs," explains Adrienne Denese, M.D., Ph.D. "Neck tendons shrink through the years and become more visible and the thin skin in this area doesn't respond to lasers and peels as well as your face does." She suggests good posture and neck stretches.2. "I frequently see women with deeper wrinkles on one side of their face—the side they sleep on, of course," says New York dermatologist Heidi A. Waldorf. To avoid "sleep lines," opt for silk or satin pillowcases and pile on the antiaging products.3. The choice is yours: Lower your calorie intake by a third or add antiaging resveratrol (from grape skins) to your regimen. Both send your body into survival mode, which can increase your lifespan and help maintain youthful-looking skin. But before you start drowning your liver in cabernet, know that the recommended 2500 mg per day requires 15 glasses of red wine.Follow Marie Claire on Facebook for the latest celeb news, beauty tips, fascinating reads, livestream video, and more.]]></description><link>http://blog.travmaga.com/40-expert-approved-beauty-tips-to-hack-your-makeup-routine-marieclairecom</link><guid>2741</guid><author>Diva</author><dc:content /><dc:text>40 Expert-Approved Beauty Tips to Hack Your Makeup Routine - MarieClaire.com</dc:text></item><item><title>How to Get Beyonce's Gold Eye Makeup - People - PEOPLE.com</title><description><![CDATA[
				
You don’t need Beyoncé‘s voice to shine like the powerhouse star.
Her makeup artist, L’Oreal brand ambassador Sir John, reveals the secret behind Beyonce’s amazing glow is a touch of gold, like the jaw-dropping metallic makeup look she often wears (like at last year’s Super Bowl). Luckily, we had the chance to hang out with the makeup artist himself, and he taught us exactly how to score the look for the How It’s Done video above. Trust us — it’s beyond easy.
When Beyonce’s performs during “golden hour,” or when the sun begins to set, Sir John says he opts for metallic shades, which add the illusion of light on her face. “It was too early in the day for a dark smoky eye, so I gave the eyes some light with metallics,” he says. “Stay away from super smoky silhouettes during the day, which can drain the complexion.”


To create her look, Sir John began with the lips, applying a metallic gold shade, like L’Oreal’s Infallible Pro Last Lip Color in Lasting Ginger, before moving onto the eyes. Using the L’Oreal Eye Shadow Quad in Boudoir Charm, he applied a matte brown shadow on the inner and outer corners of the lids to create a defined shape and add dimension, blending it into the crease with a clean, fluffy brush.
Next, he applied the eye shadow, first applying a metallic rust shade on the center of the lid, followed by a highly pigmented gold metallic shadow, which Sir John taps onto the center of the eyelid with his finger, layering it over the rust color.
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And if your skin is fair, he recommends going for a pearly or ivory shade, which complements lighter skin tones, while golds and coppers pair perfectly with olive to caramel tones.
To finish the look, Sir John creates a healthy glow with a swipe of a coppery peach blush. Then, he defines the lashes with a thin line of brown liquid eyeliner (he used Urban Decay Razor Sharp Liquid Eyeliner in Demolition) at the base of the top lashes, followed by up to four coats of L’Oreal Voluminous Feline mascara in brown.
Why not black mascara? “Brown is going to give the effect of having a lot more lashes,” he explains, adding that the softer shade directs all of the attention to the eye shadow, rather than the lashes.
Watch the video above for the full tutorial.
What’s your favorite look of Beyoncé’s? Sound off below.
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                    The creative agency Milk Studios is known for its fashion-savvy and buzzy events. And in February, it jumped into new territory when it launched its own retail product, Milk Makeup.

The 85-piece line covers pretty standard territory: concealer, foundation, blush, highlighter, eyeliner, brow pencils, and a variety of eye coatings. The colors are saturated, they shimmer, and much of the makeup has a glossy finish. Everything is cruelty-free. Standout products are riffs on classics, like its "Holographic Stick," which is a purple-tinted highlighter spruced up with real meteorite dust and pearl powder. There are also opalescent eye pigments, sticky eyeshadows that feel like they could withstand a week at Burning Man—or in my experience, a rainy rooftop rave after which I fell asleep fully made up. (Even in the shower it took some scrubbing to remove the eyeshadows.)

Milk Makeup's hook is a character: the Milk Girl. Company cofounder Mazdack Rassi says this "girl" is the kind of person who takes five minutes to put on her makeup in the back seat of a cab as she’s being ferried between chic events. She's too cool to want a full makeup mask. Accordingly, Milk encourages swipes of colorful eyeliner and dabs of lip color. The vibe is experimental—a trial-and-error spirit that encourages consumers to buy a medley of simple-to-execute looks. Everything is meant to be practical: Blotting papers double as rolling papers; all products are designed to be rolled on or applied with a finger. No brushes or powder puffs necessary.

Milk Makeup's blotting papers double as rolling papers, naturally.
"The tagline, 'Milk Girls do their makeup quick' was a concept I internalized into tangible products and formulas," says Milk Makeup COO Dianna Ruth, who’s worked for Hard Candy, Sugar, Hello Kitty, and Bliss. "One-handed easy application, no additional tools, good-for-you ingredients, and quick but expressive makeup."

Milk Makeup's hook is a character: the Milk Girl. She's too cool to want a full makeup mask.Milk is not the first production house to launch its own line of cosmetics. Smashbox Studios, a Los Angeles photo studio, debuted a makeup line in 1996. But Milk’s new venture is less an extension of its photo studio and more representative of niche brand power. Big brands like L'Oréal, Clinique, and Revlon no longer dominate the entire market. Small cosmetics companies are breaking through.

"People want to know that they have something special," says Karen Grant, global beauty analyst at the NPD Group. Last year, the market analytics firm noted big growth for independent prestige beauty brands. Among the top five growth companies for 2015 were three independents: Anastasia, Too Faced Cosmetics, and IT Cosmetics, which sold to L'Oréal for $1.2 billion this year.

The key to the 85-piece line is simplicity and spontaneity.
Grant says one of the big reasons freestanding makeup labels are getting so much love is because of a change in shopping attitudes. Consumers are trusting individual products rather than committing to one brand. Makeup companies no longer have to have everything, she says, they just have to have that one sought-after product: "It’s less about having a wide array than having something that they’re known for. Anastasia Beverly Hills Beauty and Cosmetics, founded in 1998, has been successful because of its focus on eyebrow products, for instance. This phenomenon has paved the way for newbies like Kylie Jenner, whose line of neutral matte lipsticks sold out in 30 seconds last year.

But it’s not just consumer values that have changed. The rise of beauty vloggers, Twitter, Facebook, and Medium are also a contributing factor. In September, NPD reported that more people were turning to the internet for makeup advice than print or broadcast. Makeup users largely rely on trusted friends or word of mouth to source new products, but what defines a friend may depend on how old you are.

For millennials, friendly tips come from social media feeds and YouTube videos even despite complaints that these high-paid "influencers" are just part of the corporate machine. The report says the internet is one of the top five channels for buying makeup, ranking "just below department stores but ahead of direct sellers, national chains, and beauty supply stores." Which means social media is now a key marker of success and relevance. According to a new report, Jenner’s cosmetics have appeared in social posts more than 1.3 million times since launching in October 2015. Compare that with Estee Lauder’s mere 373,000 mentions. Online is also where makeup buyers are increasingly going to shop, according to NPD. For the 12 months ending in October, online makeup sales were up 36% compared to 13% for retail sales.

Since Milk Girls "do their makeup quick," every product is designed to be rolled on or applied with a finger.
"Like my 15-year-old niece, when I was with her in Minneapolis, she comes home and goes straight up to her room, does her homework, then goes on YouTube," says Milk cofounder Rassi. In order to appeal to this generation, Rassi tells me, he’s trying to become part of it. He spends nights reading blogs and watching vloggers talk shop and monitors how these reviews affect sales. He says a vlogger reviewing Milk’s products out of Ohio can lead to the sale of hundreds of lipsticks in a given evening. "And then Vogue will talk about [us] and we’ll sell four," he says.

Rassi knows the fashion world well. His wife, Zanna Roberts, a senior editor at Marie Claire, partnered with him on Milk’s nascent line. And Milk Studio's connection to the New York fashion elite is well established. On any given day, you might see photographer Terry Richardson or Annie Leibowitz walking its hallways. The studios also host Vogue cover shoots as well as Fashion Week runway shows from the likes of Proenza Schouler and Chromat.

"People show up on our doorstep and they just want to make stuff," Rassi says, hunched over a low coffee table stacked tall with thick art books. He is very tall and I am very short, and I imagine he’s trying to create more intimacy in the conversation by leaning in. We’re sitting in his white-walled former warehouse office space where sunlight streams in through skylights in a vaulted ceiling. The walls are covered with skateboard decks and giant photographs, most recognizably, a portrait of Kate Moss from her Calvin Klein days and Steve McCurry’s Afghan Girl.

A vlogger reviewing Milk’s products out of Ohio can lead to the sale of hundreds of lipsticks in a given evening.It’s this culture of art-chic cool that Rassi has tried to inject into his makeup brand. In an introduction video, Milk defines the brand as encompassing "punk fashion," "art kids," and "the next generation"—or Gen Milk for short. As for the "it" Milk Girl, she certainly doesn't adhere to binary definitions of gender. The company's website features a diverse set of women and men to represent the Milk Girl. There are three men among Milk’s lookbook of 47 "girls," one of whom is transgender. So far, about 5% of Milk Makeup's customer base is male.

Milk Makeup is sold at Sephora and Urban Outfitters.
Milk doesn’t yet have the reach of its similarly minded competitors like L'Oréal’s Urban Decay and LVMH’s Kat Von D Makeup. Last year, L'Oréal’s cosmetics brands generated $6.06 billion in annual revenue; Estee Lauder, $4.2 billion. Milk, a private company, hasn’t released revenue figures, but momentum seems to be strong. When it debuted, Milk sold out of its signature Holographic Stick in a month. Its Cooling Water stick followed, selling out in two months along with three other products, suggesting that Milk might be capable of creating the "it" products Grant mentioned earlier. Milk Makeup is now sold in 100 Sephoras and 50 Urban Outfitters around the country.

What does growth look like moving forward?

It could mean being scooped up by one of those massive brands. "The big guys are on an acquisition binge," Grant says. "When you are hot and they feel you can add a unique dimension to their portfolio, they are going to acquire you." Beauty-brand acquisitions are up 44% this year, according to CBInsights. Revlon, L’Oréal, Estee Lauder, Unilever, and Johnson &amp; Johnson are among the biggest acquirers. If Milk can prove its makeup brand can pump out must-have products to a devoted younger audience, it could win big in a sale.

Though Milk Studios is familiar with this process—last year, it sold its MADE Fashion Week incubator to WME IMG—Rassi says he's not looking to break off the cosmetics branch just yet: "At this point, less than a year in, our No. 1 priority is to grow the company and scale."



                    
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            Flique is a 40-piece cosmetics line designed by CharlotteIncludes eyeshadow, contour and highlighting palettes Star says it has been her 'dream' to create a makeup range  By

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She's made no secret of her penchant for beautifying herself so it was only a matter of time before Charlotte Crosby unveiled her debut makeup line. The 26-year-old Geordie Shore star and beauty aficionado has teamed up with Easilocks to create what she is dubbing a 'luxurious, affordable and cruelty-free cosmetics range.'Flique is a 40-piece cosmetics line, including a six-shade contour palette in a mix of cream and powders, two £34.99 ten shade eye shadow palettes, a £39.99 ten shade highlight palette, a £19.99 ten colour lip tint collection, two  brush sets and an eyelash range.    
    
      

    Beauty aficionado Charlotte Crosby has teamed up with Easilocks to create what she is dubbing a 'luxurious, affordable and cruelty-free cosmetics range''I am so excited to announce my new makeup range,' said Charlotte of her latest coup.'It has been my dream to launch my own makeup range. I get so many comments from my fans asking for make-up tips and breakdowns of my look, so this is for them.' Charlotte, who often proclaims her love for the Kardashians and Jenners, has no doubt taken inspiration from beauty buff Kylie, who has a similar range on the market.

Kylie's eyeshadow kits, which are similar to Charlotte's, set her fans back around £33 and sell out repeatedly when she unveils them online. Charlotte's foray into beauty could well follow a similar path to her idol's; her fans were raving about the news on Twitter.'Charlotte Crosby is coming out with her own makeup and I'm so buzzed,' wrote one, whilst another added: 'Charlotte Crosby's makeup range is to die for, wonder who's gonna be my fave n get me it all for Christmas this year.'     
    
      

    Flique is a 40-piece cosmetics line, including a six-shade contour palette in a mix of cream and powders, two 10 shade eye shadow palettes and an eye lash range    
    
      

    'I am so excited to announce my new makeup range,' said Charlotte of her latest coup, which is similar in style to Kylie Jenner's    
    
      

    Charlotte has made no secret of her love of beautifying herself and often posts videos showing off her contouring skills     
    
      

    Speaking about her decision to launch the range, she said: 'I get so many comments from my fans asking for make-up tips and breakdowns of my look, so this is for them'Aside from her venture into beauty, Charlotte's personal life has hit headlines after her ex, Gaz Beadle, had a major epiphany on Geordie Shore on Wednesday night.His much-publicised relationship with former-cast member Charlotte has, to some, been the love story of the entire show.But Charlotte announced earlier in the year that she was done with the show - and alleged cheater Gaz - and was leaving.She has been absent from the current 13th season of the reality show about a group of oversexed Geordies living together, and in the forthcoming episode it becomes clear how Gaz really feels about this.
    
      


    
      

Kylie Jenner's eyeshadow kits, which are similar to Charlotte's, set her fans back around £33 and sell out repeatedly when she unveils them online, rightStill partying in a villa on the continent, Sophie is told she has one more evening with the group and then she'll be jetting back to Newcastle.The group go out, to mark her last night and head to a beach party where Gaz asks the boys which of them are looking to hook up that evening.When Aaron asks Gaz if he's 'on the pull' he shakes his head - which in itself is an odd reaction from the infamous lothario.'I realised that I actually miss Charlotte a lot more than I thought I did,' he explains. The couple have had a turbulant relationship over the past few years, charted consistently on the MTV show.Their on/off relationship finally came to an end earlier this year following allegations of Gaz cheating.     
    
      

    Gaz's much-publicised relationship with former-cast member Charlotte Crosby has, to some, been the love story of the entire show and he admitted he misses her 
            

            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
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            ]]></description><link>http://blog.travmaga.com/geordie-shores-charlotte-crosby-unveils-makeup-range-to-rival-kylie-jenners-daily-mail</link><guid>2703</guid><author>Diva</author><dc:content >http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/12/06/17/3B19D2FC00000578-4006250-image-a-30_1481043897663.jpg</dc:content ><dc:text>Geordie Shore's Charlotte Crosby unveils makeup range to rival Kylie Jenner's - Daily Mail</dc:text></item><item><title>I embraced a natural makeup look and it turned out to be a really great thing - Yahoo News</title><description><![CDATA[I grew up in rural Michigan with two older brothers in a house that backed up to a tree farm we’d play in almost every day. I was not exactly set up to be a “girly-girl.” My mom didn’t wear much makeup or make a big deal about it, so I didn’t even really encounter makeup until years later when my oldest brother got a serious girlfriend. Even then, I didn’t ever wear more than a little mascara. I couldn’t help but wonder, “Was I missing out on something by wearing very little makeup?”It wasn’t until I moved to Los Angeles that I began to understand just how little makeup I used and how narrowly I used it. At that point in my life, makeup was an entirely utilitarian thing – I did it so my blonde eyelashes didn’t disappear from my face. But when I saw woman after woman on the streets of LA with flawless skin, stunning lipstick, and luscious, smoky eyeshadow, I got really self-conscious about how little makeup I was using. Was it enough? Should I be using more?I think the thing that finally broke my insecurity that I just wasn’t wearing enough makeup was seeing a friend who normally wore a lot of makeup with a clean face for the first time. I remember what a shock it was to see how different she looked. I realized that I didn’t want that – to be unrecognizable without my makeup. I wanted people to see my face, just maybe my face a little…better. Here and there, at least. I didn’t want to completely change my face.Here’s the other thing I realized thanks to my friend and to so many other girls who wore more makeup than me: Makeup can be fun!I could play with different colors and styles, find out my own preferences and discover how different types of makeup worked with my skin tone. I could try playful shades of lipstick without it changing my face. A little BB cream and foundation could even out my skin tone. Eyeliner and mascara could make my eyes bigger and set them off against my light complexion.I discovered I could enjoy using makeup even if I didn’t use it to drastically alter my appearance.unnamed-11MoreI have found the natural makeup look that works for me, and makes me feel like the best version of myself. The key is that, with everything I do, I am sure not to actually hide away my own face. That’s my choice, to pursue a natural, if slightly more flawless, version of myself.unnamed-2More Author  Finding the best makeup for you.Subscribing to a monthly makeup service like Ipsy is a great way to learn what kinds of makeup you favor, as well as a good way to get introduced to new ones each month. Typically, you fill out a brief questionnaire when you subscribe that helps you think through your beauty style, thinks like whether you prefer lighter or darker makeup and what types of products (i.e. mascara, lipstick, eyeliner, nail polish) are your favorites. These questions can help you realize makeup habits and preferences of yours that you may not have noticed before.If you find a product you like, explore more products from that brand.If you enjoyed their eyeshadow, look into their lipsticks. Be careful not to get stuck with the same few products because you could be missing out on great (and fun) new items! The beauty industry is always evolving.Don’t stress out about finding the “perfect” beauty routine. Discover what you like, be open to new products, and enjoy the process. What matters most is that you feel confident when you look in the mirror.The post I embraced a natural makeup look and it turned out to be a really great thing appeared first on HelloGiggles.]]></description><link>http://blog.travmaga.com/i-embraced-a-natural-makeup-look-and-it-turned-out-to-be-a-really-great-thing-yahoo-news</link><guid>2706</guid><author>Diva</author><dc:content >https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/vIk5L50DwgQb.mD5U0DY9g--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9ODAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/homerun/hello_giggles_454/7a8c9fd87364a5c4b8011d41b693ea2f</dc:content ><dc:text>I embraced a natural makeup look and it turned out to be a really great thing - Yahoo News</dc:text></item><item><title>How to Shop for Drugstore Makeup - TeenVogue.com</title><description><![CDATA[Let's get one thing straight: shopping for makeup at the drugstore is usually far from easy. Sure, everything's relatively cheap and the quality has definitely improved — which we're totally about — but the unflattering fluorescent lighting, coupled with the fact that there aren't any on-site experts to answer all your burning beauty q's tends to make the whole process pretty difficult. But before you give up and revert to spending all your cash at Sephora and high-end department stores, allow us to step in and shed some light. For this, we asked a few of our most trusted makeup artists to divulge their best tips for the aforementioned drugstore shopping spree.1. Make a wish list: Browsing the aisles can get overwhelming at the best of times, considering the total lack of testers at all our favorite drugstore haunts. To help narrow things down, we find it helpful to compile a list before you step inside. That way, you'll know exactly what you're looking for. Some of our favorite recommendations come courtesy of the pros. For instance, celebrity MUA Benjamin Puckey has a concise list of go-tos that never let him down. "My favorite drugstore brands are Maybelline for their fabulous mascaras, concealers, foundations, cream liners, and highlighters; NYX Cosmetics for their matte lipsticks, lip creams, powder blush, and concealers; and CoverGirl Queen for amazing products for deeper skin tones," he says. Don't have an MUA on speed dial? Try browsing the Instagram feeds of your favorite beauty pros; chances are, they'll share their secrets every once in awhile!2. Consider sticking to certain products: Unless you’ve done your research — meaning you read multiple reviews and looked up a slew of swatches — you should generally avoid buying things like base products on the spot. Why? Because it’s much harder to gauge how the product will look and feel on the skin since you often can’t try it out for yourself in the store. Makeup artist Emma Day says she tends to spend her money on pricier foundations, and instead turns to the drugstore for things like tinted lip balm, kohl eyeliner, cream blush, and fake lashes. Makeup artist Elisa Flowers also mentioned that she opts for lip and eye pencils at the drugstore rather than department stores, as she finds the quality and consistencies to be super comparable. 3. Know your skin tone: We can’t stress how important this one is, especially if you’re looking to buy a new foundation or concealer, as it’ll take away so much of the guess work. “Knowing your skin tone is essential if you don't have access to makeup testers,” she [who is she] said. “Your skin tone can be determined by looking at the veins in your wrist — golden undertones will have a greenish-olive cast, while cool-reddish tones will have a purpley-blue hue,” she explained. “Neutral skin tones will have a mix of green and blue — look for clues on the foundation bottle like W for Warm or C for Cool, or words like Tan or Sand indicating warmth or Rose and Porcelain hinting toward cool,” she added.4. And your skin type!: Again, super crucial when going to buy base products. “Look at textures based on your skin type,” Elisa said. “Oily skin does well with matte formulas, and dry skin looks great with luminous textures.” She also added that you can bring your old foundation with you to compare. 5. Do your research: One of the easiest things you can do is to look up the products you’re interested in beforehand. That’s what’s so amazing about the internet and bloggers — everything is out there these days. “Looking up foundation swatches before shopping can be helpful if you can compare your favorite brand and color to other colors and brands out there,” Elisa said. “Reviews on YouTube are extremely helpful because you can see the products and hear feedback,” she added. You heard her: use these outlets to your advantage before spending money. 6. Know WHAT to research: Figuring out what to type into that search bar might seem like common sense, but Benjamin taught us a few, cool tricks that will help make the results even more accurate. "If I want to buy Maybelline lipstick, I'll Google 'Maybelline swatches' and pages will come up of people who have taken the time to swatch their lipsticks, even on different skin tones and in different types of light," he explains. "Pinterest is also an excellent drugstore makeup resource. A great reference is the website temptalia.com, which has a whole library of lipsticks categorized in brand and color. I also like to search 'drugstore dupes 2016,' which gives you lists of the drugstore alternatives for your favorite, luxury makeup products.7. Find natural light: The lighting in drugstores is generally horrific — but if you can try a product on close-ish to the exit where the most natural light will be, it’ll be much easier to tell whether or not the product works for you. “My suggestion with colors is to try something on and see how you like it in natural light and then go back and purchase,” Emma advised.8. Know the return policy: Before buying a plethora of prods that may or may not work out, look online or call to find out the store’s return policy. This way, you’ll know if you can buy more without the risk of having to hang onto something you don’t like. This tip definitely comes in handy when it comes to foundation shopping at the drugstore. “Get two shades!” suggested makeup artist Molly Greenwald. “Many drugstores like Rite Aid allow returns on products that's didn't work for you!” Meaning: you can totally return whichever color foundation didn’t match. Want to know which stores will let you return that mismatched foundation without having to call them up? Benjamin provided us with a resource that breaks down different return policies. "If they don't provide testers, how are we to know exactly what the color will look like once applied?" he points out. Now, you won't have to worry about that. Happy shopping!Related: This Viral Video Proves That Drugstore Makeup Works Just as Well as Luxury Makeup]]></description><link>http://blog.travmaga.com/how-to-shop-for-drugstore-makeup-teenvoguecom</link><guid>2699</guid><author>Diva</author><dc:content /><dc:text>How to Shop for Drugstore Makeup - TeenVogue.com</dc:text></item><item><title>How to Do Your Eye Makeup for Photos - TeenVogue.com</title><description><![CDATA[We're all for anything that will make us look better in pictures. Especially when throwing on our favorite golden butterfly Snapchat filter isn't an option — seriously, why won't Snapchat just make that a permanent thing? If you've noticed your eye makeup — sans filters — isn't doing anything to give you bigger, more defined eyes in photos, listen up. Despite all of the makeup news overload that honestly has even us confused as to what you should actually be doing to look your best, upping your selfie game isn't as complicated as you might be thinking. To simplify the process, we turned to Melissa Murdick, makeup artist to Selena Gomez, and Allan Avendano, who works with celebs like Olivia Holt and Lucy Hale. Sharing their best eye-enhancing tricks they've perfected on photo shoots, red carpets and sold-out arenas, the secrets to faking wide-awake, doe-like eyes are right this way.Lighten and brighten.First thing's first, you need to eliminate any dark circles under your eyes. Whether you're sleep-deprived from an exam study sesh or you won the genetic lottery and inherited your dark circles. "We all know that when you’re tired, under eye concealer is your best friend — but don’t stop there," Melissa says. "Dot a bit onto your eyelid and onto the skin at the inner and outer corners of your eyes to brighten up the whole area. Curling your lashes and applying a jet black mascara wakes your eyes up and diminishes the appearance of dark circles, too," she adds.Allan agrees, sharing one of his red carpet tricks, "Using a concealer that is one shade lighter than your foundation with a bit of a yellow undertone brightens the under eye giving you a well-rested and refreshed look," he says. For complete dark circle coverage, Allan says to use a pinkier concealer for fair skin tones, peach for medium tones and orange for darker skin tones before your usual concealer that matches your skin tone. Just make sure to blend it all together! "Blending is key so that you don't look cakey," Allan explains.Add definition.Whether you prefer a full makeup look or you favor a barely-there approach, for bigger, more wide-awake eyes in photos, you need to add some type of definition. "Using any kind of eyeliner adds definition and will make sure your eyes don’t disappear," Melissa explains. You can create dimension by lining just the top lash line, lower lash line or waterline (or line them all!) as close to the lash line as possible for a subtle look or thicker for a more dramatic take. "[Another] easy way to add dimension to your eyes is to use products that reflect light, like a shimmery or metallic eyeshadow," Melissa says.A tried-and-true trick.It might not be a new tip, but Allan (and we can confirm!) says the quickest way to make your eyes look bigger and brighter is to pop a white liner along your waterline. "Line the bottom waterline with a white, beige or even a soft silver liner," Allan says, adding, "[Then], highlight the inner corner of your eyes with a pearl or champagne shimmer." For a two-in-one approach, use a shimmering white liner like the Estée Lauder Double Wear Stay-In-Place Eye Pencil in Pearl, $24, so you can line your waterline and then draw the brightening color at the inner corners of your eyes, using your fingers to blend it in.Pick your preference.If you're doing a full eye makeup look, Allan says you can never go wrong with a smoky eye, and can even use it to make your eyes look bigger. "The key is to work with your eye shape," he says. "In general, I like to elongate the eyes so I use darker bronze tones on the outer corners and golden tones on the inner corners," he says, using eyeshadow shades for a classic bronze smoky eye as an example. "This gives dimension and transforms the eyes into a sultry shape." .If you're more of a minimalist when it comes to your makeup, you can still make your eyes pop. "A great beauty tip if you’re a mascara and go kind of gal, is to apply the tiniest bit of Vaseline, or Aquaphor or even clear lip gloss — whatever you have — onto your eyelid," Melissa says. "This adds some dimension and dewiness that looks really pretty in the light," she explains.Blend, blend, and blend some more.To create the illusion of bigger eyes, don't close them in with sharp eyeliner and shadows. Melissa says to make sure you don't just stop your eyeshadow where your eyelid ends. "If you blend up and out past the crease, your eyes [will] look instantly bigger." As for liner, she says if you notice that lining your eyes from inner to outer corner makes them look smaller, just stick with lining the outer half of your top lash line. And don't forget to smudge. "Smudged makeup gives a hint of definition without any hard lines," Allan adds.Related: THIS is the Secret to Doing a Smoky Eye in Under a Minute]]></description><link>http://blog.travmaga.com/how-to-do-your-eye-makeup-for-photos-teenvoguecom</link><guid>2698</guid><author>Diva</author><dc:content /><dc:text>How to Do Your Eye Makeup for Photos - TeenVogue.com</dc:text></item><item><title>How To Rock 60s-Inspired Makeup Like A Pro - Essence.com</title><description><![CDATA[
        
        
              
        
              
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                  Not only did Jordin Sparks sing her heart away in SPARKLE, she also brought the sixties back to life with her flawless, nifty style!  Whether it’s teasing the hair to pin it up, or using a bump tool to place in the hair, the high-bump is always making a comeback – and this Halloween is the perfect excuse to set that trend all over again!
              
              
        
        
        
              
        
              
                  


              
              
        
        
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            How heavenly! In case you you were trapped under a rock last week, the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2016 happened for the first time ever in Paris. Although it doesn't air on CBS until December 5, we already fell in love with the incredible beach waves and subtly sexy makeup on Bella Hadid, Gigi Hadid, Irina Shayk and more of the Angels. To find out the secret to their boudoir beauty, Stylish talked to Tom Pecheux, the lead makeup artist for the 2016 Paris show. As it turns out, the trick is not in what you apply, but in what you skip out on. 
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            ]]></description><link>http://blog.travmaga.com/heres-the-secret-to-victorias-secret-fashion-show-2016-signature-makeup-us-weekly</link><guid>2700</guid><author>Diva</author><dc:content >http://img.wennermedia.com/square-400/alicia-vikander-8add3fbc-469c-4186-b5b4-30aaa2432ce7.jpg</dc:content ><dc:text>Here's the Secret to Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2016 Signature Makeup - Us Weekly</dc:text></item><item><title>Get the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Makeup Look (VIDEO) - Allure Magazine</title><description><![CDATA[When you walk backstage at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, a couple of things are apparent: The room is awash in pink, the place is literally crawling with reporters and cameras, and the models (many of whom arrived at 10:30 a.m.) look more doe-eyed and lit-from-within than they normally do. In other words, the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show makeup look is beyond glow-y, beyond bright-eyed, and of course, beyond sexy. Makeup artist Tom Pecheux told Allure how to try the look at home.“The makeup today is a mix of a French glow—natural, effortless skin—and a very Hollywood glamour makeup on the eyes, plus a glossy lip,” Pecheux said. “Victoria’s Secret is bringing wings to the girls, I’m bringing me to the wings of the eyes of the girls.” Watch him demo the look above, then learn how to get the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show makeup look with his step-by-step instructions below.More of the latest on the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2016:See Every Single Runway Look from the 2016 Victoria's Secret Fashion ShowThis Is Who Will Be Performing at the VS Show (and No, It's Not Taylor Swift Again)Here's Everything About the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show by the NumbersThe SkinPecheux dabbed concealer on any spots and applied Max Factor foundation all over for a semi-matte finish. He then contoured the cheeks with bronzer and added Max Factor Miracle Touch Creamy Blush to cheeks before applying highlighter to the tops of cheekbones.The EyesPecheux left the brows as natural as possible. On the lids he used a blend of neutral shadows from Max Factor’s palettes to create depth without darkness, and used a grey liquid liner to create a cat eye. He set the liner by adding brown pencil liner to the top, and finished with two to three coats of Max Factor False Lash Epic Mascara on the tops and bottoms of lashes.The LipsTo create the models' glossy pink lips, Pecheux used Victoria’s Secret Velvet Lip Matte in the muted pink shade Adored with gloss on top to catch the light of the cameras. Pink Models wore a more dusty rose shade, Perfection (which, by the way, is a shockingly non-drying matte lip option.) According to a source at Victoria’s Secret Beauty, it’s been selling out in stores across the country, and there are more colors in the works for next year.WireImageThe result, as you can see above? Angel-approved glam: “I really love the look. It’s superglowy, and we’ve got these beautiful lashes,” says Victoria’s Secret Angel Romee Strijd. “It’s classic VS.”Now, watch the craziest moments of the 2016 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show:]]></description><link>http://blog.travmaga.com/get-the-victorias-secret-fashion-show-makeup-look-video-allure-magazine</link><guid>2697</guid><author>Diva</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Get the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Makeup Look (VIDEO) - Allure Magazine</dc:text></item><item><title>Moroccan TV Segment About Using Makeup To Cover Signs Of ... - NPR</title><description><![CDATA[
      
            
    
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   On Nov. 23, a morning talk show on Morocco's state television aired a segment on using makeup to conceal bruises from domestic violence. It was part of a promotional effort for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, coming up two days later.   The reaction was swift and negative. The TV station apologized.   But according to researchers and government surveys, the idea of covering up domestic violence reflects local attitudes. In Morocco, when a man beats, rapes, slashes or burns his wife, it's not uncommon for the woman's friends, families — even the police — to tell her to go back home and keep her mouth shut.   To learn more, we spoke with two specialists on this topic. Rothna Begum is the Middle East and North Africa women's rights researcher at Human Rights Watch. In September 2015 she interviewed 20 women who had experienced domestic violence in Morocco, and she has also interviewed dozens of women's rights activists, lawyers, social workers and people working with domestic violence survivors. Sarah Kambou is president of the International Center for Research on Women.   
            #aworldadrift Morocco TV. Makeup tutorial show how abused women can hide bruises. ]]></description><link>http://blog.travmaga.com/moroccan-tv-segment-about-using-makeup-to-cover-signs-of-npr</link><guid>2704</guid><author>Diva</author><dc:content >https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2016/12/02/screen-shot-2016-12-02-at-3.08.12-pm-55_wide-44c1cd29ed3576bfbd42077e825c64b293928be1-s1100-c15.jpg</dc:content ><dc:text>Moroccan TV Segment About Using Makeup To Cover Signs Of ... - NPR</dc:text></item><item><title>Moroccan TV shows how to cover domestic violence bruises with makeup - CNN</title><description><![CDATA[The state-owned 2M TV caused controversy with its segment on Wednesday showing a makeup artist covering blue "bruises" on the eyes and cheeks of a model."It's a painful and sorrowful topic, but on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, we will show you the makeup [to cover the signs] of beatings," said the smiling artist. "It is a topic we lack the courage to discuss." The segment, which apparently also used makeup to create the "bruise," angered activists, who said it normalized domestic violence. Activists also created a petition on the change.org website calling for punitive measures against the morning show."Do not cover domestic violence with makeup, condemn the aggressor," said the petition, posted by a group calling themselves Concerned Moroccan Citizens."As Moroccan women and as feminist activists in Morocco, and in the name of all Moroccan people, we denounce the message of normalization with violence against women. We demand severe sanctions against this show, 'Sabahiyat,' and the channel 2M," they added.They encouraged signatories to contact the High Authority of Audiovisual Communication, demanding it take action against 2M and "Sabahiyat."The channel apologized two days later, saying the segment was inappropriate, an editorial error of judgment and in violation of its policy of 27 years that advocated for women's rights. It also removed the video clip from its website. The apology did little to placate the outrage. Social media users continue to condemn the channel and the petition had attracted more than 2,000 signatures by Monday."The media attacks the core of all plans to combat violence against women," Moroccan politician Saadiya Elbahi wrote on Facebook. "It normalizes violence against women, legitimizes it and covers it with makeup." Domestic violence is not a crime in Morocco and, according to a government survey conducted in 2009/10, two thirds of women had experienced physical, psychological, sexual or economic violence.A draft bill criminalizing domestic violence was passed by the first chamber of parliament, the House of Representatives, in Morocco in July.However, due to a general election last month, it has yet to be reviewed by the second chamber, the House of Councillors.According to Rothna Begum, Middle East and North Africa women's rights researcher at Human Rights Watch, the draft bill does not do enough to ensure victims will get the help they need from authorities."It is a step forward. It does provide for some protective measures but only where a victim has started a prosecution, and women often tend to drop prosecutions because of pressure from their families," she said.CNN contacted 2M TV and the High Authority of Audiovisual Communication. They did not immediately respond to a request for comment. ]]></description><link>http://blog.travmaga.com/moroccan-tv-shows-how-to-cover-domestic-violence-bruises-with-makeup-cnn</link><guid>2702</guid><author>Diva</author><dc:content >http://i2.cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/161128101354-02-morocco-makeup-large-169.jpg</dc:content ><dc:text>Moroccan TV shows how to cover domestic violence bruises with makeup - CNN</dc:text></item><item><title>'No-Makeup' Trend: How to Use Makeup to Achieve a Flawlessly ... - ABC News</title><description><![CDATA[

Celebrities such as Kim Kardashian and Kendall Jenner are embracing the “no-makeup” makeup movement: that is, using makeup to achieve a toned-down, natural look rather than going for obvious drama.

The look is also popular among actresses Kerry Washington, Jessica Alba and Amanda Seyfried, who’ve all been spotted going lipstick-free on the red carpet.

Michelle Lee, the editor in chief of Allure magazine, appeared on “GMA” to discuss the look and offer tips for how people can achieve it at home.



The Tips

1. Hydrate. Well-hydrated skin look luminous. Simply layer on a few drops of face under a classic moisturizer. Bonus points if the moisturizer contains sunscreen.

2. The next step? Primer. It absorbs excess oil and blurs large pores so you can use less foundation later.

3. Liquid or cream blush. Apply that before foundation to get that natural, lit-from-within flush that won’t get splotchy or streaky.

4. Now it’s time to apply foundation, but use it as a concealer, not all over your face. Since foundation is sheerer than concealer, smooth a dot or two under your eyes and around your nostrils. Blend it around the inner corners of your eyes. Bonus tip: Add a touch to your eyelids in place of eye shadow.

If you feel as though you still need more coverage, add a drop of foundation to a damp makeup sponge, then press the sponge to the target areas. Then pat on some liquid highlighter.

5. A good makeup sponge is a “no-makeup” secret weapon. It can add pigment to the skin and remove excess coverage and can make the difference between foundation looking like makeup and looking like your skin, but better.

6. For the final touches, curl your lashes and add a few light coats of mascara. A lightweight mascara is best for this look because it defines lashes without looking obvious. For lips, mix a pinkish-nude or pinkish-brown lipstick (depending on your skin tone) with lip balm.

7. For a perfectly groomed brow, comb on a tinted brow gel, focusing the most color on the arches (where brows are naturally darkest).
]]></description><link>http://blog.travmaga.com/no-makeup-trend-how-to-use-makeup-to-achieve-a-flawlessly-abc-news</link><guid>2664</guid><author>Diva</author><dc:content /><dc:text>'No-Makeup' Trend: How to Use Makeup to Achieve a Flawlessly ... - ABC News</dc:text></item><item><title>How to Look More Awake Instantly Without Makeup or 3 Cups of Coffee - Glamour</title><description><![CDATA[Saying "you look tired" to another woman is a girl-on-girl crime as high up there as giving Regina George a Kälteen bar. As much as we're all juggling these days, of course we're tired! That said, it still doesn't mean you always want everyone knowing you didn't exactly get eight hours sleep.While using heavy makeup to disguise exhausted eyes sometimes works, other times it can just make you look as if you're wearing a mask of your face. Spend the same amount of time invigorating your skin and combatting signs of fatigue (instead of covering them up) and you'll be in a much better place by the time you're ready to walk out the door. You might not even want to wear any makeup at all—your call. Here, our favorite skin-saving and eye-awakening tricks that don't involve a single drop of makeup.Breathe in an Invigorating ScentStep one to looking more awake: Actually wake up. And yes, coffee might help, but you could also try something a little bit gentler, like essential oils. Muji's so-space-age diffuser ($120, muji.com) vaporizes oils into your bathroom or bedroom, so you can go about your business while inhaling a restorative, heavenly scent. Try its "Refresh" blend of citrus and eucalyptus oils, or look for peppermint or rosemary oils, which are also known to make you feel more alert.Give Your Skin a Fresh FlushBringing some color and life back to your skin is one of the easiest ways to look more well-rested and generally alive. You could do this by working out for 30 minutes or—since we're guessing you're like most of us and probably don't have the time—you could grab your best facial mask and go to town. We love the Glossier Mega Greens Galaxy Pack ($22, glossier.com), which features white clay, avocado, and greens to help detoxify and hydrate skin to a very satisfying degree. Put it on for 10 minutes while you're styling your hair or eating breakfast. #multitaskingClear Up Bloodshot EyesIf you've been up all night—and not exactly chugging water and doing yoga—your eyes are probably dry and red, or just generally dead looking. Give them some moisture and relief with eye drops or, for a more natural alternative, put fresh cucumber slices on your eyes for five minutes. Cucumbers have antioxidants that help reduce irritation while the cold temperature (assuming they came from the fridge) also reduces inflammation.Reduce Puffiness and Dark CirclesWhen you haven't been getting enough sleep, your eyes are usually the first thing to go. Deal with the situation head on with a hydrating, de-puffing eye mask, which you can wear while your facial mask does its work (and maybe even grab an extra 10 minutes of sleep while you're at it). One that'll get the job done? BioRepublic Lost Baggage Under Eye Repair Kit ($5, bloomingdales.com). Alternatively, if you'd rather DIY it, you can put two used green tea bags in the refrigerator for thirty minutes, then use them as a cool compress on puffy eyes for 15 minutes.Rehydrate Dry, Cracked LipsKim Kardashian is a fan of the newly launched KNC Collagen Infused Lip Masks ($25 for 5-pack, kncbeauty.com), which have fewer chemicals than many other formulas, but plump and hydrate lips just as well. If your lips are feeling extra dry (thanks, matte lipstick), exfoliate with a lip scrub (or toothbrush!) first, then apply this mask for 15 to 20 minutes and you won't even long for lip balm. The results will be that good.Groom Brows and Curl LashesOnce you've brought your skin back to life, and given your eyes some very necessary lubrication and hydration, there's one more thing you can do to look refreshed without picking up a tube of mascara. Comb your brows and curl your lashes. You'll look purposefully fresh faced, instead of like you slept through your alarm clock. To get that eyelash curler really working, gently heat it up with a blow-dryer for a few seconds before curling lashes.Spritz Your Skin Throughout the DayNot sure if all that work is going to get you through a grueling day at the office or a birthday party you need to rally and attend? Stash a facial mist in your bag to refresh and your hydrate skin throughout the day. While it doesn't yet come in a travel size, we love the Kate Somerville Nourish Hydrating Firming Mist ($48, nordstrom.com). It's light in fragrance and doesn't sit on top of skin like many mists do. It's also packed with skin-loving ingredients and free of alcohol.For more tricks on waking up tired eyes and skin, check out:-The Makeup Trick Bella Hadid Uses to Look More Awake Instantly-Quick Makeup Hacks That'll Instantly Make You Look More Awake (Even If You Barely Slept!)-The Makeup Trick That Will Make Your Eyes Look Bigger and Brighter]]></description><link>http://blog.travmaga.com/how-to-look-more-awake-instantly-without-makeup-or-3-cups-of-coffee-glamour</link><guid>2667</guid><author>Diva</author><dc:content /><dc:text>How to Look More Awake Instantly Without Makeup or 3 Cups of Coffee - Glamour</dc:text></item><item><title>How to Recreate Kim Kardashian's 2016 MTV VMAs Makeup and Hair - Celebuzz</title><description><![CDATA[
                                                                                                                                                        
    
        
        
            
                
            
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Want to look like a million bucks? Look no further than Kim Kardashian’s latest red carpet look.

The reality star is breaking down all the makeup and hair products her glam squad used for the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards. In a tutorial shared on her app, Kardashian says she didn’t want to get too dolled up because she was still so inspired by her recent super chill Mexican vacation.
“I’ve had a lot of amazing looks at the MTV Video Music Awards over the years, but my glam at the 2016 VMAs was probably one of my favorites. My makeup was by Mario Dedivanovic and hair by Michael Silva,” she writes. “We were so inspired by my recent trip to Mexico and its vibes of light makeup and wet beach hair.”
Here’s the step-by-step guide on achieving her look:
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Dedivanovic applied Laura Mercier Soft Foundation in Maple to Kardashian’s face for a “glowy skin.”



Mixing a golden highlighter with a rosy one, he layered on Laura Mercier Face Illumination in Addiction and Laura Mercier Face Illumination in Devotion to make the skin appear sun-kissed.



Dedivanovic then used Laura Mercier Caviar Stick Eye Color in Sand Glow on the inner corners of Kardashian’s eyes to make them pop.



For the lips, Laura Mercier Velour Lovers Lip Color in Sensual was blended in with a finger for a softer look.



Lastly, Dedivanovic set everything with a spray of Tatcha Luminous Dewy Mist.



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To get “wet” beach waves, Kenra Platinum CC Snail Creme was applied to Kardashian’s damp hair, coating the tresses from mid-length all the way down to the ends.



Next, Silva worked Kenra Platinum Revive Oil into the hair with his fingers before spraying on Kenra Platinum Texturizing Mist.



Using a diffuser like the ghd Air Professional Performance Hairdryer, Silva dried the hair while keeping its shape. He then created a “natural wavy texture” by taking sections of the hair and applying heat using the ghd Platinum Styler.



To hold everything together, a fine mist of Kenra Platinum Finishing Spray was spritzed on.




                                                    
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 			    			When it comes to makeup looks you're constantly wanting to steal, there's really only one name that comes to mind.Kim Kardashian is the queen of looking effortlessly radiant at all times, and that's primarily due to the fact her go-to makeup guy Mario Dedivanovic is a master of his craft. Last night's VMAs look was another fine example of that. Curious about the inspiration behind Kim's Greek Goddess-esque look? Keep scrolling for a quick interview of the beauty guru as well as a step-by-step instructional on how to achieve that glow at home. (Hint: You're going to need a great highlighter.)

				
					
					
						
					
				
			
				
				
					
				    		
				    		
				    		
	 			    			Are there any must-use products for Kim?We always use a BeautyBlender. It really helps to give the skin even coverage.What kind of skin prep is involved for a look like this?Not a lot of work is needed because she takes great care of her skin. I typically cleanse the face, apply moisturizer and that's it. She has naturally beautiful skin, which makes my job easy.How involved is Kim when deciding what look you're going for?Since we've been working together for so long, she has complete trust in me. Sometimes she'll come in with a vision, but she trusts me to make any changes I think are necessary. We really collaborate on her looks.

								
				
				
			    		
			    		
			    		
 			    			What was the inspiration behind this specific look?I was really playing off of a Mediterranean inspiration. I wanted Kim to look like a Greek goddess with dewy, clean makeup. Her whole look last night was relaxed and sexy, so I wanted her makeup to align with that.Any last words?Try using the Laura Mercier Face Illuminator Powders on the body for an extra sheen!
					
					
						
						
										
						
							
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	 			    			How to Get Kim's Flawless, Bronzed Complexion: Step 1: To give Kim a natural look, Dedivanovic applied Laura Mercier Candleglow Soft Luminous Foundation in Maple to even out her complexion and give her a "lit from within" glow.Step 2: To ensure her flawless look lasted all night, he dusted a setting powder all over her t-zone.Step 3: Mario contoured Kim's hairline, nose and cheekbones with Laura Mercier Matte Radiance Baked Powder in Bronze-03 to give her skin a sun-kissed, radiant glow.Step 4: To give the cheeks a summery flush, he lightly dusted a peach blush. It added a pop of color without distracting from her lustrous skin.Step 5: Dedivanovic then applied Laura Mercier Face Illuminator Powder in Addiction to the inner corners of Kim's eyes and on her cupid's bow to brighten her complexion. And dusted Laura Mercier Face Illuminator Powder in Devotion along her cheeks to highlight her cheekbones.Step 6: Lastly, he lightly spritzed her with Tatcha Luminous Dewy Skin Mist, giving her skin a fresh gleam.Your turn.]]></description><link>http://blog.travmaga.com/how-to-get-kim-kardashians-radiant-complexion-e-online</link><guid>2665</guid><author>Diva</author><dc:content >http://www.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/2016729/rs_634x1024-160829095328-634-kim-kardashian-mtv-vmas-ls82916.jpg</dc:content ><dc:text>How to Get Kim Kardashian's Radiant Complexion - E! Online</dc:text></item><item><title>Beyoncé's Makeup Artist Shows Us How To Do The Perfect Cat Eye - Huffington Post</title><description><![CDATA[







Sir John is responsible for some of Beyoncé’s most iconic looks ― the Met Gala, Lemonade, the entire Formation tour, to name just a few.
We were lucky enough to have him come into the HuffPost offices and chat with us about working with some of the biggest names in music, fashion and beyond. 

He also answered a ton of beauty questions and demonstrated how to do an easy and flawless cat eye.
Here are some things we learned:
1) Want to make your makeup last all day? Practice duality.
“Whenever you’re using a cream foundation, use a powder foundation. Whenever you’re using a cream eye shadow or gel eye shadow, make sure you top it with a powder. Whenever you have that duality, that double layer, you get a Teflon face.”

2) Need to get rid of under-eye circles? Get movin’.
“Whenever you have dark circles under your eyes, all that is sluggish circulation. If you increase your circulation, running for 30 minutes a day, elevate your heart rate, you’re going to have better blood flow and you’ll have less dark circles.”
3) The best tool to remove makeup mess-ups are pointed Q-tips.
“Everyone’s like, ‘How do I perfect my wing?’ The answer is pointed cotton buds.” 

Want more? Watch the whole stream below and see Sir John’s expertise in action:

If you want more Sir John, check out his site and his Instagram account. He’ll also be hosting a Master Class in NYC during Fashion Week.
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UNFORTUNATELY we are not all blessed with perfectly flawless skin and to cover any imperfections we automatically layer up our foundation. This, ladies, is what causes the dreaded ‘cake face’. It happens to the best of us, we pack on the concealer, foundation and more concealer to cover an imperfection. Here I show you how to cover your imperfections whilst still showing your natural beauty and not being a “she wears a lot of makeup” kind of gal.  1. Do not apply a thick concealer before your foundation  This is a common mistake and I did it for years to try and cover my acne. By applying a thick concealer you are making your makeup look thicker and more cakey. Instead pick a light concealer that’s not too creamy and apply your foundation first as it might cover your imperfection.  2. Pick a foundation that covers your imperfection without being too thick or pigmented  Instead of applying layers and layers of foundation, use the thinnest consistency you can find, whilst still giving you enough coverage. This will make your skin look more flawless. As foundation ages it tends to thicken in consistency, toss it if it is more than a year old as it will just sit on your face.  3. Do not put your foundation and concealer on with your hands  I put my foundation on with my foundation brush or damp beauty blender. If I have a spot, I will use both. This combination ensures an even coverage. It is so important not to use your hands if you are prone to acne as your hands can retain dirt and oils. The rubbing action with your hands will cause micro-exfoliation. This will cause unnecessary lifting of dry patches of skin and will make your foundation look bumpy and rough.  4. Use a translucent setting powder rather than a pigmented powder  The pigment will give you more coverage, however, it will make you look extra cakey and more texturised. Instead use a translucent setting powder, it will set your makeup all day and leave your skin looking flawless.  5. Blot, blot, blot  When oily during the day instead of reapplying your translucent powder over your foundation and making a paste, blot your face with toilet paper or tissue. This will take away any oiliness. 

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It’s time to admit it, folks: Kylie Jenner is a bonafide makeup maven. Whether you love, hate or are infatuated with the 19-year-old and her burgeoning cosmetics empire, the numbers don’t lie: Every product Jenner touches turns to gold bronze. 


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The Kyshadow palette and shades.
That sentiment has never rung quite as true as it did after July’s launch of Kyshadow: a nine-shade eyeshadow palette with an almost too-clever name in a range of neutrals, that sold out as quickly and with as much gusto as her lip kit range. 
In a Snapchat (what else?) tutorial that was posted when the palette first launched, Jenner used all nine colors to achieve quite the babely bronze look:

There’s just one problem: It’s sold out and there are no known plans to re-stock. We had no choice but to figure out which products might do a similar job.
Over the course of our research, celebrity makeup artist Kari Bauce had somewhat of a revelation. 
The look, as well as many other combinations of said look, can be just as, if not more easily achieved, using just one beloved item: The Anastasia Beverly Hills Original Contour Kit. 


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The Anastasia Contour Kit and shades. 
“But that’s a contour kit for your face! Why would you use such a thing on your eyelids?” you might ask.
Well, first of all, unlike Kyshadow, this miraculous product is actually currently available for purchase. As beloved as Anastasia products are, they are in stock both on the brand’s website as well as at your other favorite cosmetic retailers. Second of all, its individual pots pop out, so you can replace them on an as-needed basis instead of having to replace the entire kit (which, Bauce points out, includes colors you may rarely use).
The contour kit also comes in three shades, making it perfect for a range of skin tones and oh, did we mention it is just as effective at contouring as it is at, shall we say, Ky-touring? Talk about double duty.
So, with the medium to tan palette version of the kit in tow, we set out on a journey to achieve this seemingly-difficult-but-actually-quite-straight-forward look.
Join us, won’t you?
1. Start by brushing Peaches &amp; Cream all over the lid and brow bone as a highlight.


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2. Create a base for the crease using Macchiato and a blender brush. 
3. Using that same blender brush, add a combination of Havana and Espresso to the middle of the crease, working outward.


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4. To add depth, add Espresso on its own to the very outer corner.
5. For a bit of shimmer, add 10k to just the middle and inner lower lid.
6. Using a small blender brush, mix Havana and Espresso again just under the lower lash line to create a subtle shadow.


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“And voila,” Bauce declares. “You’re a Jenner.”


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Jenner-fied. 
An angry Jenner, perhaps, but a Jenner nonetheless.
In conclusion: One product, six steps, two more dollars in your pocket (Anastasia’s contour kit retails for $40, Kyshadow for $42), and most importantly, countless hours saved not refreshing Kyliecosmetics.com over and over again. 
Your perfectly dressed eyes will thank you.


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        After winning a gold medal in the shot put at the Summer Olympics in Rio — the first in the sport for an American woman — Michelle Carter is just about ready to shift focus to her other passion: makeup.
      
      
            
        But first, she has a few more track meets to get through. Not that the 30-year-old Carter, who also runs a beauty business in Texas, minds. After all, she's still riding the high from her performance in Brazil, when she hurled the shot 20.63 meters, breaking an American record in addition to clinching the gold.
      
      
            
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      		  Michelle Carter competed in the women's shot put final at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
      	
            
        "It's still surreal," Carter told TODAY by phone from New York, where she was catching a flight to Europe for the Diamond League meet. "Every time I look at (the medal), I can't believe it's mine. It's something I've dreamed about for so long."
      
      
            
        RELATED: From hair secrets to wedgies, the answers to all your Olympics style questions
      
      
            
        Carter is hard to miss on the field, and that's not because of the athlete's imposing stature. Instead, it was her cherry red lips, perfectly groomed brows and flashy jewelry that caught fans' attention in Rio. As she tells it, it's simple: If she looks good, she performs well. And Carter's not alone — from gymnast Simone Biles' glitter eyeliner to runner Shannon Rowbury's fuchsia lipstick, many Team USA stars used makeup as a form of self-expression this year, and a way to stand out in the sea of red, white and blue.
      
      
            
      
            
        "I think it's important to do whatever makes you feel your best," Carter, from Red Oak, Texas, said. "For some people, being bare-faced is wonderful. Others like a little bit of mascara and eyeliner. Others want a full face (of makeup)."
      
      
            
      
            
        Plus, it's her (other) job: Carter runs a business called Shot Diva, which is also her nickname, in Texas.
      
      
            
        "I've always loved makeup and hair, since I was a child," she said. "In college I would do my teammate's hair and their makeup sometimes. I did a friend's makeup at the 2008 Olympics and she said, 'Have you ever considered taking classes?' For some reason, it had never crossed my mind."
      
      
            
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        But it did spark something in Carter. Once that season ended, she returned home to Texas and signed up for cosmetology classes, and then launched her business. Through Shot Diva, she does hair and makeup for weddings and other events, and hopes to soon start her own cosmetics line.
      
      
            
      
            
        As a "diva" in a sport that's long been stigmatized as unsexy, Carter is challenging the stereotype head-on, and proving that shot put athletes can also be feminine.
      
      
            
        "At the end of the day, we're women first — we just also happen to be great athletes," she said.
      
      
            
        That confidence is something Carter hopes to impart on a younger generation through the sports camp she runs, You Throw Girl. She coaches girls on the physical aspects of sports such as the shot put, but also how to balance that with becoming a woman.
      
      
            
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      		  Carter won gold in the women's shot put in Rio.
      	
            
        "We want them to take care of themselves, feel their best, eat healthy and understand that it's OK to have muscles — because in some sports, you need those muscles," Carter said. "We want to make sure the female athlete as a whole is taken care of. We don't want to put them in a box. We want to take away the box so they can be all they can be."
      
      
            
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        Carter’s goal is to teach young girls not only the strength it takes to heave a metal ball across a field, but also how to accept the body that gets them there.
      
      
            
        “They look to people who are in the limelight for that inspiration,” she said. "Being a female athlete, sometimes your clothes don't fit right, if you have a small waist and broad shoulders, or strong hips. And it’s OK to embrace that.”
      
      
            
      
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In the second part of our Preen Series, Claire Mulleady, senior makeup artist at MAC Cosmetics, teaches us how to do a fresh, effortless no-makeup look that doesn’t require a gazillion products. This look is inspired by the diffused trend seen on the runways of Fashion  Week which Claire worked in last season.  The diffused trend isn’t just another “no makeup” makeup look as it’s all about making the skin’s color come out rather than imposing color on the complexion. By skipping out on harsh lines and sculpting techniques the look is sophisticated but easy to do and adjust to your own preference and skin color.



The trick here (other than having great skin) is highlighting your natural glow plus an ombré lip that’s more about a flushed look rather than a shocking statement. We bet this look wouldn’t take ten minutes of your time. Perfect for this busy work week, right?
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MAC Longwear Paint Pot in Groundwork
MAC Extended Play Lash Mascara in Endlessly Black
MAC Velvetease Lip Pencils in Temper Tanturm and Red-dy To Go
MAC 217 Eyeshadow Brush
MAC 188 Duo-Fibre Brush
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This tropical eye makeup look is perfect for the patio, the pool party, a summer wedding or a night out on the town. Pair it with the sleek wet look hairstyle (find Tee's tutorial here) for a for an ultra elegant summer look. Follow Huffington Post Canada Style on Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter!
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					King Kylie stuns once again in a gorgeous selfie where she shows off her irresistible glow and long lashes! The star knows how to keep it glam and simple all at once. Keep reading to find out how to get this easy summer go-to look.

Kylie Jenner, 19, has taken the beauty world by storm. Fans can’t stop obsessing over her beauty line, Kylie Cosmetics, and we can totally see why – the star rocks her own makeup like no other! Who wouldn’t want to recreate this perfect summer look? With long lashes, flushed cheeks, and plump nude lips, this is great for a hot summer day or a night out on the town.

Kylie’s makeup artist, Patrick Ta, shed some light on which products were used to create this simple look. He posted a few images of Kylie from the day sharing that the secret to her lengthened, defined lashes came courtesy of falsies from Ardell. Since they looked so natural, we have a feeling Patrick used the individual lashes, which lets you go as subtle or bold as you like.

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For her natural flush, Patrick turned to a palette created by one of Kylie’s other fave pros, Hrush Achemyan. Teaming up with Tarte Cosmetics, Hrush’s limited-edition eye and cheek palette contains the perfect matte coral shade that Patrick chose for Kylie. To match her lip to her cheek, Patrick used one of Kylie’s own liquid matte Lip Kit shades, Exposed.
For the finishing touches, Kylie wore her hair in loose, beachy waves which draped over her shoulders. Undone waves are an easy way to amp up any look. Plus, you don’t have to worry about your hair getting out of place — the more tousled, the better!
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DAYTIME MAKEUP. Miss Universe 2015 Pia Wurtzbach in a makeup tutorial video posted on Facebook. Screengrab from Facebook/Miss Universe 
MANILA, Philippines – Makeup is a must for beauty queens and Miss Universe 2015 Pia Wurtzbach is showing her fans how she achieves her own daytime look. 
In a new video posted on the Miss Universe Facebook page, Pia shared her daytime makeup tutorial and must-haves. Some of her favorites include products from MAC, NARS, and Laura Mercier.
Along with the tutorial, Pia shared her favorite makeup tips, reminding everyone get the products that are a great match for their skin tones. Blending is key, she said. 
Here's a list of the the products Pia used and mentioned in her tutorial: 
Mac Softening Lotion
Mac Fast Response eye cream
Mac Prep + Prime in Radiant Pink
Nars Multi-protect primer
Mac concealer in NW25 or NC35
Mac Studio Sculpt foundation in NC35 and NC42
Laura Mercier transparent loose powder 
Mac Eye Brows in Spiked, Lingering, and Fling
Laura Mercier eyeshadow palette
Black eyeliner pencil to tightline
Mac Studio Chromagraphic Pencil in NC15/NW20
Mac Haute &amp; Naughty Lash mascara
Mac Mineralize Skinfinish in Medium Dark
Mac blush in Harmony
Nars blush in Dolce Vita
Mac lipstick in Kinda Sexy
Mac Lipglass in Ariana Grane Viva Glam
Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector in Opal
After finishing her makeup, Pia said: "I hope you guys like this makeup tutorial. This is everyday makeup. Again there are no rules in makeup. You just have to find the products that are right for you. You don't have to exactly follow what I do. But really. it's just trial and error, experiment and have fun."
Check the video above how to score Pia's look. For her night makeup look, check the video here. – Rappler.com        

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            The tennis player Madison Keys, 21, who is competing for the United States in the Rio Olympics, will also be one to watch at the United States Open, starting at the end of this month. The hard-hitting upstart has been making waves with her baseline game since she turned pro at 14 and has been hailed as the face of the next generation of American women’s tennis.When it comes to tending to her actual visage, Ms. Keys, who grew up in Iowa and now lives in Boca Raton, Fla., says her beauty regimen is a mix of her upbringing and her demanding practice and travel schedule.Skin CareSince I practice early in the morning on most days, I wake up and wash my face with Clean &amp; Clear Morning Burst. I feel like it actually does wake me up a bit. Then the first thing I put on is sunscreen. I do it within 15 minutes of waking up so I’m protected by the time I’m out the door. I use the Neutrogena oil-free sport formula for the face. For the body, I use Neutrogena Wet Skin spray. I try to get at least SPF 50 on me.After practice, I hit the shower, of course. I’m obsessed with the Bath &amp; Body Works Warm Vanilla Sugar line. Someone gave it to me when I was 14, and I’ve been using it ever since. I use the sugar scrub and body wash and lotion. Sometimes you think maybe you should outgrow certain products and try something else, but I still really like it.I use moisturizer only at night — Philosophy Hope in a Jar. Two or three times a week, I do a Caudalíe face mask. It’s a purifying one because I have combination skin, and I’m sweating so often. It can be really tough to keep clear skin, especially if you’re wearing a visor. It’s just sitting on your head, and you break out underneath it. It can be a disaster.
    
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MakeupI have pretty even skin tone, but being out in the sun all the time, I get red cheeks and a red nose. I don’t like heavy foundation, but if I use something tinted, it helps blend everything together. I’ve been using Urban Decay One &amp; Done — it has primer, SPF and a tint in it.For eyeliner, I use the Urban Decay 24/7 pencils. I use black or brown most of the time, but if I’m going out, I like purple because it sets off my green eyes. I also use Benefit They’re Real mascara.For eye shadow, I love the Urban Decay Naked palette because it has so many colors all right there. Then I use the Urban Decay setting spray. It’s so good. Otherwise, living in Florida, you’ll go outside for 20 minutes and realize, “Oh, my mascara is sliding off my face.”I tend not to wear blush, but I do love highlighter: Benefit Watt’s Up. If I’m going out, I put it on my nose, my cupid’s bow, under my brows and on my cheekbones.I’ve always been more of an eye person, but recently I’ve been really getting into lip colors. I like the Tarte matte lip stains. They travel well and stay all day. I’m on Instagram a lot. There are so many makeup artists doing looks, and that’s why I’m so into lip color now. Sometimes I’ll just go in my “Explore” page and look for videos, but mostly I follow @WakeUpandMakeup.FragranceWhen I was at the Australian Open this year, one of the player gifts was a department store voucher. I wanted a new fragrance. The second I tried Giorgio Armani Sì, I loved it. I’ve been wearing it for six or seven months now.HairIt’s usually straight up into a bun when I wake up. But at the end of the day, I let it down. Every girl who has really curly hair fights it at some point, but I’ve become way more open to wearing it natural, and I’m loving it. I use the Bumble and bumble curly hair line — that’s shampoo, conditioner and styling. I’m constantly in the sun, and my hair is pulled back tight, which can cause so much breakage. Sometimes I’ll just leave the conditioner in for an entire day. I also love putting in coconut oil.My natural color is a really, really dark brown. Right now, it’s dark at the roots, but I wanted to go a little lighter for summer, so there are some blond pieces, like balayage.
    
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Other ServicesI get manicures and pedicures every two weeks. For my manicures, I get gel. Colors, I usually go with black and dark purple, but sometimes I do a navy. I really like Lincoln Park After Dark by OPI.I have a physical therapist who travels with me. He’s actually a chiropractor, but he also does acupuncture, so I get acupuncture almost every day. I’ve had lots of injuries in the last couple of years, so I had to take that extra step to hire somebody. I hate needles, but this doesn’t hurt. It’s really interesting how one day acupuncture can be used to treat muscle soreness, and another day for relaxation, and it’ll put me right to sleep.Diet and ExerciseI have to eat pretty healthy to stay in shape, but a big part of my diet is having that occasional dessert. My favorite is Ben &amp; Jerry’s Half Baked ice cream. But I have to watch it. I’m lactose intolerant, so sometimes I’ll do the Ben &amp; Jerry’s lactose-free line.For a tennis player, the toughest part of training is the off-season. That’s when we’re doing tons of tough fitness — maybe two to three hours in the gym. Obviously as you get closer to the tournaments, you spend more time on the court. Right now, I’m spending two and a half to three hours on the court every day.Continue reading the main story
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					Wearing a low ponytail, a coral lip and dewy, highlighted skin, Priyanka Chopra looked so stunning at the ACE Awards in New York City on August 2. Get her exact makeup look below!

Priyanka Chopra, 34, wowed in a yellow Jason Wu dress for the occasion. Her stunning hair, which was pulled into a sleek, low ponytail, was done by hairstylist Jennifer Johnson. 

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Stephanie Brooke Barnes, who is the key makeup artist on Quantico, did the look for Priyanka’s big night out.

She shared the breakdown on her Instagram.
“Ok guys! Here’s a beauty breakdown from tonight’s #aceawards red carpet look from my work on @priyankachopra ! Foundation: @lauramercier candlelight glow foundation in maple, liquid bronzer @armani maestro glow in #8 , highlight is @kohgendo liquid illuminator , setting powder: @kohgendo translucent , brows @viseart , powder bronzer : @narsissist in casino, cheek @kevynaucoin Capri new bronzer/cheek duo , eyeshadows @viseart @lauramercier, @lauragellerbeauty and @narsissist palettes, @evepearl liquid eyeliner pen.”
She continued: “@ardell_lashes in individual shorts compliment her lush lashes, also wearing @mwestmore body coverage protector in golden radiance and last but not least: lipstick: @temptu in blazing coral mixed with @Clinique poppy pop! Thanks for the love guys! ]]></description><link>http://blog.travmaga.com/priyanka-chopra-at-ace-awards-gorgeous-hair-makeup-how-hollywood-life</link><guid>2601</guid><author>Diva</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Priyanka Chopra At ACE Awards — Gorgeous Hair &amp; Makeup: How ... - Hollywood Life</dc:text></item><item><title>How to Wear Summer's Best Makeup - Observer</title><description><![CDATA[
		Francois Nars beautifies Kate Moss
Summertime is undeniably one of the best time to experiment with new makeup looks. Starting off with a base of a healthy tan, it’s easy to swipe on sparkling bronzer, try out a super bold lip or line your eyes with an unexpected hue.
However, when trying out a new product, a little bit of guidance is much preferred. We all know that it can be difficult to figure out how to apply a highlighter that gives you dewy skin, rather than unintentionally turning your face into a disco ball. We turned to the experts (which in this case would be makeup artists and beauty brand founders) to figure out how to properly apply this summer’s top makeup products, from Christian Louboutin’s ultra shiny lip color to Glossier’s brand new highlighter stick.
Lancôme Miracle Cushion Liquid Cushion Compact Foundation

Lancôme Miracle Cushion Liquid Cushion Compact Foundation in 140 Ivoire, $47, Lancome-usa.com
Tarek Abbas, Lancôme National Makeup ArtistHow to apply: “I like to apply the Lancôme Miracle Cushion Liquid Cushion Compact Foundation using a natural-bristled brush like the Lancôme Precision Cheek Brush. I prefer a more natural effect, so I will apply very little to the edge of the brush and buff the foundation into the skin. The cushion is great for touch ups and on-the-go.”
Keep this in mind: “Always make sure to blend the foundation down into the neck area to avoid creating a line where you’ve stopped. Regardless of the season, I always use same color foundation as a baseline. In warmer months when the skin is naturally a bit darker, I will mix the foundation with a small amount of liquid bronzer, or use a long-lasting bronzing powder like the Lancôme Star Bronzer to lightly dust the areas of the face where the sun naturally kisses so that it looks most natural.”
Charlotte Tilbury Wonder Glow 
Charlotte Tilbury Wonder Glow Instant Soft-Focus Beauty Flash, $55, Charlottetilbury.com
Charlotte Tilbury, Celebrity Makeup Artist and Founder of Charlotte Tilbury MakeupHow to apply: “For an effortless, ‘makeup free’ dewy look, moisturize your skin with my Magic Cream, then apply Wonderglow with your hands or using a brush, to the entire face. Focus on the top of the cheekbones to give your face an instant lift.”
Keep this in mind: “I can’t live without WonderGlow – a skincare-make-up hybrid which is an instant soft-focus beauty flash for the skin. It contains breakthrough fluorescent core technology which re-emits natural light for luminosity. A dream for tired, dull and hungover skin!”
Christian Louboutin Loubilaque
Christian Louboutin Loubilaque, $85, Christianlouboutin.com
Christian LouboutinHow to apply: “Contour lips with a shade of Lip Definer closest to the tone of the natural lip contour. This will ensure that the lacquer is contained and its wear is optimized. Using the tip of the applicator, begin shaping the lip contour starting with the cupid bow and working your way to  the corner of the lips. Repeat on the bottom lip, starting with the center. Starting again with the cupid bow, use the flat part of the applicator to color lips, gently stroke side to side. Repeat the same process on  the bottom lip. Turn the wand sideways and use the very tip to extend the color to the corners of the lips.”
Ramy Arch Angel
Ramy Arch Angel, $34.99, Ramy.com
Ramy Gafni, Brow Expert and Celebrity Makeup Artist Keep this in mind: “Pomades, pens, pencils and gels will adhere the best during hot summer months, whereas powder formulas are the least long wearing. Choose a brow filler in a neutral shade that’s one or two shades lighter than your brow hair color, but opt for one or two shades darker if your brow shade is blonde or gray.”
How to apply: “Apply Brow filler directly onto your eyebrows, not above or below the brow, but right through the center of your eyebrow. Start at the front of your brow and apply filler in a straight line up to your peak, then proceed in a straight line from the peak to the outer end (or tail) of your brow. Then take a spooly brush and brush through your brows to remove excess makeup and blend what’s left behind so that you’re left with natural-looking fabulous brows, not made-up looking brows.”
Glossier Haloscope
Glossier Haloscope, $22, Glossier.com
Eva Alt, Glossier Social Media EditorHow to apply: “I apply Haloscope in Quartz in a half-halo from brow to cheekbone and in my cupids bow, which gives me that perfectly dewy sheen.”

Keep in mind: “If I want to look like I’ve had some sun, I’ll use Topaz on the tops of my cheeks and across my eyelids for a warmer glow.”
Nars Bronzer in Laguna and Casino
 NARS Bronzing Powder in Casino and Laguna, $39 each, NARS.com[/caption]Jake Broulard, NARS Lead Makeup StylistHow to apply: “Bronzer should be applied under the cheek bones, on the side of the face, down the edges of the nose and under the jaw line. The best way to apply bronzer is with the NARS Ita Brush to ensure proper placement, then blend and diffuse the pigment with NARS #11 Bronzing Powder Brush.”
Keep in mind: “Summer is the perfect time to use bronzer because we often retain more color on our body than on our face. Bronzer is an easy way to even things out. I often recommend having both Laguna and Casino Bronzer in your makeup wardrobe. Laguna Bronzer can be used when you get a touch of summer color and Casino for when you retain the most pigment, I often mix the two for when you are in-between.”

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        A makeup artist has shown how to look like Suicide Squad supervillainAnastasia Stacie Vanelli looks eerily similar to Harley QuinnHarley Quinn is played by Margot Robbie in the much anticipated movie  By

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With luscious blonde locks and stunning blue eyes, it's little wonder Margot Robbie is one of the most beautiful women on the planet.But when the Australian actor hits screens as supervillain Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad this week, she'll be hardly recognisable.In what is set to be one of the biggest movies of the year, Robbie will play Quinn, who with a pale face, smudged makeup and freaky eyes will quickly become a Halloween favourite.And now in just a few steps you can get a similarly scary look, thanks to makeup artist Anastasia Stacie Vanelli's tutorial.Scroll down for video     

        Freakish similarities: Makeup artist Anastasia Stacie Vanelli has videoed a makeup tutorial of how to look like Margot Robbie's character Harley Quinn from the upcoming Suicide Squad movie    

        Unrecognisable: Hollywood star and Australian actress Margot Robbie plays the role of Harley Quinn in the blockbuster movie which comes out this weekBeginning with white 'clown' makeup, Ms Vanelli from Limassol, Cyrpus, applies foundation all over her face and neck.Taking a black pencil, she then outlines her eyes, before amping up the scary Harley Quinn look.'I’m going to take a smudge brush and smudge it. It doesn’t have to look clean, the messier the better,' Ms Vanelli said.She next uses blue eye shadow and after applying it to her eyelids begins adding it to her cheek, lightly brushing to create a crying effect.With her left eye looking completely blue, she then moves on to her right eye and using a red shadow completes the process.



    

    How to be Harley: Beginning with a white foundation, Ms Vanelli applies it all over her face and neck before moving on to her eyes

    

    Colourful contouring: Using red and blue eye shadow one her eyelids she begins to look just like Robbie's scary character'Looking crazy right?' Ms Vanelli says as she colours in her eyes.Using a pencil to fill in her black eyebrows, she then adds a generous amount of mascara to her lashes.Finally, using a fine paint brush and a black gel liner, she draws a small love heart and the word 'rotten' on her right cheek, ensuring she looks just like Harley Quinn.    

        Finishing touches: With a white face, coloured eyes and bright red lips, Ms Vanelli looks every bit the supervillain

    

    Spot the difference: With a baseball bat in hand Ms Vanelli looks exactly like Robbie's character (pictured right)After finishing her makeup the artist picks up a baseball bat, dyes her hair blonde - with one red and one blue pigtail - and chews vigorously on her bubble gum.With her lips smudged a deep red, she has nailed Quinn's freakish appearance.Complete with an evil laugh, Ms Vanelli looks every bit the Joker's accomplice, and displays what is set to be a popular Halloween party outfit come October.
        
        
    
      
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


    
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    1:24 p.m. EDT July 27, 2016Want to look like you woke up Flawless?The "no makeup" look is on every screen we see, but it's not as if all of these celebs are rolling out of bed and stepping heel on the red carpet or running to Trader Joe's completely cosmetics free.Kendall Jenner rocks the look in L.A. (Photo: Amanda Edwards, WireImage)To get the deets on how to achieve this fresh-faced look, we chatted with Achelle Dunaway, the Global Artistic Director for the affordable cosmetics line e.l.f. Dunaway, who has been with the brand for more than a decade, says the new trend is in-line with the movement toward self-acceptance."(The look is) really just empowering of loving you and feeling confident in you and not having to change the way you look," she says.Embrace serums, moisturizers and primers.These help lay a great foundation on which to build your look. Dunaway suggests pausing a minute between applying all three to let each seep into your skin. So scroll through Instagram, check out the latest Snapchat filter and chill.She also says that in addition to making your skin look flawless, primers preserve your look for longer.Apply a lightweight foundation.This will let your natural beauty come through.Highlighting is key.While thumbing through the month’s read for Emma Watson’s feminist book club, you highlight the words that you want to stand out. The same concept applies here.Keep your eyelids natural.“I sort of like the contrast, matte all over the eyelid and metallic on the inner tear duct,” advises Dunaway. “(It) gives you that well-rested look that is so key for all of us.”America Ferrera sports minimal makeup in June. (Photo: Joe Scarnici, WireImage)Pump up your lash volume.Dunaway says adding a few individual lashes on the outer tip of your eye will “give this cat eye look without having to do a heavy eyeliner.” Just a few lashes will really open your peepers.Be playful with your pout.If you’re really committed to the look, keep your kisser neutral. But Dunaway says this look also pairs nicely with the colors and lip lacquers of the moment. See more of those here.Use a setting spray.“(A setting spray) is like a hair spray for your face, which is basically helping set your makeup,” says Dunaway. Just a few sprays will lock in your look.Before heading for the beauty aisles, take a look at these products that will help you achieve the latest trend in beauty.AutoplayShow ThumbnailsShow CaptionsLast SlideNext SlideRead or Share this story: http://usat.ly/2aa1S3F]]></description><link>http://blog.travmaga.com/how-to-get-the-no-makeup-look-usa-today</link><guid>2607</guid><author>Diva</author><dc:content /><dc:text>How to get the 'no makeup' look - USA TODAY</dc:text></item><item><title>How to get Alicia Keys' stunning no-makeup look - AOL News</title><description><![CDATA[
                    
                      












By: Donna Freydkin

From Mila Kunis on the back-cover of "Glamour" to Demi Lovato in the pages of "Vanity Fair" to Alicia Keys' fresh-faced visage at the Democratic National Convention, the no-makeup trend is the prettiest look of the summer (as an extra, see our interview with Kunis above).

Keys, in fact, has publicly embraced the #NoMakeup movement, sick of slathering on cosmetics to fit in and live up to society's idea of what's beautiful.

"'Cause I don't want to cover up anymore. Not my face, not my mind, not my soul, not my thoughts, not my dreams, not my struggles, not my emotional growth. Nothing," she wrote in Lenny Letter.

She looks radiant, natural and mind-blowingly gorgeous. As did Lovato during a 1995 "Vanity Fair" shoot in which she banned makeup and retouching.

So we consulted with a few beauty industry pros to see if the rest of us, those not blessed with Kunis' and Keys' bone structure, could follow suit.



Dior celebrity makeup artist Daniel Martin, who works with Jessica Alba and Amy Poehler, says the trend is here to stay.

"Social media has created this whole platform for makeup. You go on Instagram and see contouring and strobing and a smoky eyes. We're so inundated with this that we need to see skin again and real people and real light. The more comfortable people are with not wearing makeup, the more comfortable they are with who are," he says.





The key, he says, is to emphasize the positive. "The makeup is to event out discoloration, if anything, or a random pimple and dark circles. No one is going out with nothing. They want to look as even and natural as possible," he says.



He points to Jessica Biel, who "does no-makeup makeup so well. It's about enhancing your natural features without overdoing anything, flushing the cheeks with a bit of color. You don't see her overly done."



Martin says to focus on adding touches of color to cheeks and lips."Curl your lashes and add maybe just a bit of mascara. Curling the lashes helps open up the eyes. Have a great cream brow. Add a bit of radiance to the skin, with a heavier moisturizer," he says.





And he points to one of our favorites as a go-to. "Face oils are great for that too. Don't use too much in the summer because the oil can sit on the skin and it cooks your face if it's hot out. For lips, use a lip stain. Not liquid lipstick, but Sisley Phyto Lip Twist," he says.





Sana Cordeaux, makeup pro at beauty-on-demand app Veluxe, says going natural is doable. For everyone. Yes, everyone.

"The no-makeup makeup look is in because it's a classically beautiful look. A lot of women are seeking a natural and clean face these days. The no-makeup look provides women with an effortless and clean appearance for everyday wear," says Cordeaux.



It's especially ideal for summer, when your makeup sweats off anyway. "The no-makeup makeup look works well when done with BB creams because they are a lot lighter than foundation. Powder and liquid foundations tend to look and feel too heavy during the hot summer months, so BB creams are the best beauty bet when battling a heatwave," says Cordeaux.



Her how-to: 

Always moisturize and hydrate skin. This is the best base for the no-makeup look

Use neutral eye shadows, creams, nudes and light browns. Eye shadows should be matte, not shimmery.



Brown pencil liner is best. Avoid using anything too dark — black is a definite no for the no-makeup look.

Fill in brows so there is still some open spaces between the hairs. Leaving spaces allows the look to appear more natural.



Always lighten and brighten the under eye area with a concealer that is 2 to 3 shades lighter than your skintone. This gives you a natural and effortless "awake" look.

A light dusting of blush on the cheeks is plenty to give a little color to your look. "Gingerly" by MAC is a great versatile color for all skin tones.

Use a nude tone lipstick or skip it altogether and opt for a neutral gloss.



  

                                                                          
    
    
                                                                                                                                                          
  
  


    

    
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            Portrait of singer Alicia Keys, New York, 2001. (Photo by Anthony Barboza/Getty Images)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            Alicia Keys (Photo by SGranitz/WireImage for The Recording Academy)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            Alicia Keys, winner of multiple NAACP Image awards, including Outstanding Female Artist (Photo by Jason Merritt/FilmMagic)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            Eli Harris and Alicia Keys at the Lower East Side in New York, New York (Photo by James Devaney/WireImage)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            WASHINGTON - JANUARY 20:  Alicia Keys performs during the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball  on January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama is hosting ten Inaugural Balls this eveing. Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States today, becoming the first African-American to be elected President of the US. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            PARIS, FRANCE - MARCH 06:  Alicia Keys attends the Chanel Ready-To-Wear Fall/Winter 2012 show as part of Paris Fashion Week at Grand Palais on March 6, 2012 in Paris, France.  (Photo by Tony Barson/WireImage)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 28:  Alicia Keys attends the 98th Annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Washington Hilton on April 28, 2012 in Washington, DC.  (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
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                            Alicia Keys arrives at The Gordon Parks Foundation Awards Dinner and Auction at Cipriani's Wall Street on Tuesday, June 3, 2014, in New York. (Photo by Scott Roth/Invision/AP)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            Swizz Beatz, left, and Alicia Keys, attend Keep a Child Aliveâs 2014 Black Ball at the Hammerstein Ballroom on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014, in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            US singer Alicia Keys performs during the 13th music festival Mawazine in Rabat on June 7, 2014. AFP PHOTO / FADEL SENNA        (Photo credit should read FADEL SENNA/AFP/Getty Images)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 03:  Alicia Keys and Swizz Beats attend the 8th annual Keep A Child Alive Black Ball at the Hammerstein Ballroom on November 3, 2011 in New York City.  (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            Swizz Beats and Alicia Keys attend 'Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty' Costume Institute Gala on April 2, 2011 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 26:  Swizz Beats and Alicia Keys attend the screening of 'Five' at Skylight SOHO on September 26, 2011 in New York City.  (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            Riccardo Tisci, left, and Alicia Keys, right, attend Keep a Child Aliveâs 2014 Black Ball at the Hammerstein Ballroom on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014, in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz attends the 2014 Angel Ball, hosted by Gabrielle's Angel Foundation, at Cipriani Wall Street on Monday, Oct. 20, 2014, in New York. (Photo by Scott Roth/Invision/AP)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz attends the 2014 Angel Ball, hosted by Gabrielle's Angel Foundation, at Cipriani Wall Street on Monday, Oct. 20, 2014, in New York. (Photo by Scott Roth/Invision/AP)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2014 file photo, Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz attendsthe 2014 Angel Ball, hosted by Gabrielle's Angel Foundation in New York. Keys announced Tuesday, Oct. 21, that her husband, producer-rapper Swizz Beatz, will co-host the 11th annual Black Ball on Oct. 30 at New York Cityâs Hammerstein Ballroom. (Photo by Scott Roth/Invision/AP, File)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys enjoy the sounds of Janelle Monae at The Gordon Parks Foundation Awards Dinner and Auction at Cipriani's Wall Street on Tuesday, June 3, 2014, in New York. (Photo by Scott Roth/Invision/AP)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            Alicia Keys arrives at the 56th annual GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys arrive at the 56th annual GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 13:  (L-R) Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz peform at Webster Hall on December 13, 2012 in New York City.  (Photo by Johnny Nunez/WireImage)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            NEW ORLEANS, LA - JULY 04:  Alicia Keys attends the 2014 Essence Music Festival on July 4, 2014 in New Orleans, Louisiana.  (Photo by Johnny Nunez/WireImage)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            RABAT, MOROCCO - JUNE 7:  American singer Alicia Keys performs during the last day of 13th Mawazine Music Festival on 7 June, 2014. (Photo by Mustapha Houbais/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - NOVEMBER 09:  Alicia Keys performs during the outside broadcast of the MTV EMA's 2014 at  on November 9, 2014 in Glasgow, Scotland.  (Photo by Shirlaine Forrest/Getty Images for MTV)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            In this photo provided by StarPix, recording artist Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz attend Niche Media's annual Gotham gala in New York, Monday, March 15, 2010.  (AP Photo/Dave Allocca, StarPix)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            Singer Alicia Keys and husband Swizz Beatz arrive at the "Keep A Child Alive Black Ball" at the Hammerstein Ballroom on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            Director Alicia Keys and husband Swizz Beatz attend the Lifetime and Sony Pictures Television premiere screening "Five" at Skylight SoHo on Monday, Sept. 26, 2011 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            Alicia Keys, left, her husband Swizz Beatz, second from left, Cassie, center, and Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, and an unidentified woman, right,  attend to Kanye West presentation for Women's Fall-Winter, ready-to-wear 2013 fashion collection, during Paris Fashion week, Tuesday, March 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Zacharie Scheurer)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            Alicia Keys, left, and Swizz Beatz arrive at the 54th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys arrive at the 2012 Billboard Awards at the MGM Grand on Sunday, May 20, 2012 in Las Vegas, NV.  (Photo by John Shearer/AP Images)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys attend Keep a Child Aliveâs 10th Annual Black Ball on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 27:  Singer Alicia Keys arrives at Unite4good And Variety Host 1st Annual Unite4:humanity Event on February 27, 2014 in Los Angeles, California.  (Photo by Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys enjoy the sounds of Janelle Monae at The Gordon Parks Foundation Awards Dinner and Auction at Cipriani's Wall Street on Tuesday, June 3, 2014, in New York. (Photo by Scott Roth/Invision/AP)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            Alicia Keys and husband Swizz Beatz arrive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala benefit, celebrating Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada, Monday, May 7, 2012 in New York. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            Alicia Keys, left, and Swizz Beatz arrive at the 55th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013, in Los Angeles.  (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            American actress and singer-songwriter Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz arrive at the Cannes festival palace, to take part in the NRJ Music awards ceremony, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013, in Cannes, southeastern France. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        

          
            
                            Recording artist Alicia Keys, left, and her husband, producer Swizz Beatz, right, attend a screening of "The Inevitable Defeat of Mister &amp; Pete" hosted by the Cinema Society &amp; Tommy Hilfiger on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)
                          
          
        
                                
                
                
        ]]></description><link>http://blog.travmaga.com/how-to-get-alicia-keys-stunning-no-makeup-look-aol-news</link><guid>2609</guid><author>Diva</author><dc:content >http://cdn.vidible.tv/prod/2016-07/20/578fb1cc44c8a334be034c0a_1280x720_U_v1.jpg</dc:content ><dc:text>How to get Alicia Keys' stunning no-makeup look - AOL News</dc:text></item><item><title>7 Truths About Sweatproof Makeup - Allure Magazine</title><description><![CDATA[When it's hot AF, sweatproof, budgeproof, pool-proof, melting-on-the-subway-platform-proof, and heck, even permanent makeup all sound pretty damn appealing. But as anyone who's ever experimented with makeup that claims it's never going anywhere knows, sweatproof cosmetics can be a fair-weather friend. (And some of these products don't even work at all.) Here's what the labels really mean—and how you can get the most bang for your buck.1. Don't believe everything you read.  "The FDA only regulates the terms 'waterproof' and 'sweatproof' when it comes to over-the-counter sunscreen," says cosmetic chemist Ni'Kita Wilson. But that's only the tip of the iceberg. As of 2011, even sunscreens couldn't label themselves as such considering "these claims overstate their effectiveness," according to the agency's website. (Ask any chemist: It's damn hard to get sunscreen to be truly waterproof.) That's why you'll now probably see the word "resistant" in place of "proof" on your bottles.2. Check the label carefully.    Not the flashy one on the front…the itty-bitty black-and-white list of ingredients on the back. According to Wilson, there are a few film-forming additives you can look for that are good indicators that the product will stick around. The first category is silicones like dimethicone, cyclomethicone, and cyclopentasiloxane, and the second is polymers (copolymers and crosspolymers are both common). Because film formers aren't water soluble, pigments stay locked in place. You'll see these in our favorite water-resistant or long-wearing eyeliners, mascaras, foundations, and lipsticks.3. Powders are a different story.  According to Wilson, water-resistant powder is practically impossible to create. "Powders tend to rely on ingredients that absorb oil, like talc and silica, so they're more sweat resistant than water resistant," she says. (This powder blush is particularly amazing.) But if you're really after longevity, cream blushes and shadows are typically a better bet.4. The FTC has your back.  All of the above is not to say that makeup is just labeled willy-nilly. Katie Colmerauer, who helped develop Arrow, a Birchbox makeup line for active women, explains that companies must submit claim substantiation and supporting evidence to the Federal Trade Commission for any label wording. "Once certain criteria is met, the claims can be made," she says. (A relatively fascinating list of deceptive claims uncovered by the FTC is here.) According to Colmerauer, the difference between long-wearing products and water-resistant products is that long-wearing ones are formulated to last about eight hours but aren't necessarily water-resistant. Water-resistant formulas are the most long-wearing and resistant to high-humidity climates and swimming.5. Primers are preferred.  Rather than investing in an entirely new stash of beauty products for the summer months, most makeup artists we spoke to suggested getting a great primer instead.  won our most recent Best of Beauty Award in the category and—ding ding ding—contains silicones and powders to help grab tightly to whatever it is you put on next.6. But you don't need two.  Unless you're anti–Marie Kondo and want to fill your bathroom with tons of items that serve only a single purpose, a swipe of facial primer on your lids helps liner and shadow cling as well as one formulated for eyes only. If your eyes are supersensitive, though, an ophthalmologist-tested eye primer, like Clinique Touch Base for Eyes, isn't the worst idea.  7. Botanicals are a bonus.  The one downside of silicones, polymers, talc, and silica is that they're overachievers. They can be a little too good at locking in makeup, which can make skin feel a little heavy or suffocated. One solution is to throw botanicals into the mix. "Very small amounts of polymers paired with botanicals such as mango-seed butter and coconut water help the product feel light and airy but still able to last through a workout," says Colmerauer.  Pretty Powerful: The Olympic Fencer Dagmara Wozniak on Her Take-No-Prisoners Beauty:]]></description><link>http://blog.travmaga.com/7-truths-about-sweatproof-makeup-allure-magazine</link><guid>2608</guid><author>Diva</author><dc:content /><dc:text>7 Truths About Sweatproof Makeup - Allure Magazine</dc:text></item><item><title>Highlighter Makeup: How to Use Illuminator, the Subtle Way - E! Online</title><description><![CDATA[

					
					

									
											
					
				    		
				    		
				    		
	 			    			We all love a good sheen, but there is such a thing as highlighter overload.The stunning starlet walking down the red carpet? Gorgeous. The walking bike reflector? Not so much.Luckily, there's an industry trick you can use to get that subtle, summer-perfect glow: go out of order! If you're using a high-sheen illuminator, apply it on to skin before your foundation. This will take the intensity down a notch but still give you that lit-from-within look, advised Milk Makeup artist Nathan Gamboa.

								
				
				
			    		
			    		
			    		
 			    			The perfect product to do this with? The recently released yet super futuristic Holographic Stick.Instead of the typical golden pigment of most illuminators, this product promises an iridescent, silvery-lavender-like sheen. (Read: You can have a lot of fun with it.)However, if you are looking for that high-voltage effect, there are plenty ways to go about it."To apply over a full-coverage foundation, rub your finger directly onto the product and tap onto the skin rather than sweeping it directly on the skin," added Milk Makeup expert Istvan Hrichak.You can also swipe it on your lips, alone or on top of a bold shade, or use it under or over eye shadow.Stellar, we know.]]></description><link>http://blog.travmaga.com/highlighter-makeup-how-to-use-illuminator-the-subtle-way-e-online</link><guid>2603</guid><author>Diva</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Highlighter Makeup: How to Use Illuminator, the Subtle Way - E! Online</dc:text></item><item><title>Selena Quintanilla MAC Makeup: How To Get Early Access To The Highly-Anticipated Cosmetics Line - The Inquisitr</title><description><![CDATA[
                                                                Selena Quintanilla is being honored with a MAC Cosmetics collection of her own – and you can have early access to it!
According to E! News, a makeup line inspired by the style and spirit of the late singer will be coming out later this year. MAC Cosmetics collaborated with Selena Quintanilla’s family – including her sister Suzette Arriaga – to help create the collection.
Dreaming of #MACselena as the iconic pop star x MACcosmetics collection is almost here: https://t.co/uQuD9RtMoH pic.twitter.com/RjcRDpUAC3
— Sanchita (@Miss_Shopoholic) July 23, 2016The report states that Suzette opened up about her vision for the MAC Cosmetics line as well as her appreciation for Selena’s fan base over two decades after her passing.
“I wanted the colors to be about her personality, what she wore on and offstage. She has been gone for 21 years, and for this collaboration to happen, it’s pretty much incredible. It just shows the love her fan base has even though she’s passed. It’s a great honor to have MAC collaborate with Selena’s name and her fans.”
Before the MAC Cosmetics collection inspired by Selena Quintanilla is made available to the general public, the cosmetics manufacturer has created an opportunity for early access. How can you get it? By being a member of the #MACSelect club!
MAC Cosmetics even promoted the opportunity on Twitter along with a sneak peek at a part of the Selena collection.
#MACSelena will be avail to pre-shop for Obsessed &amp; Devoted #MACSelect members! Sign up: https://t.co/IG8bLa8eMU pic.twitter.com/LgjOSkFYA1
— MACcosmetics (@MACcosmetics) July 22, 2016
Joining the #MACSelect club will allow you to pre-order the lipsticks, bronzer, eye shadows and blush from the Selena Quintanilla-inspired collection. Instead of dealing with product availability when the collection is released in October, members that took advantage of the pre-order opportunity will already have theirs reserved and ready.
Selena Quintanilla was shot and killed on March 23, 1995 at the age of 23 by Yolanda Saldivar – the president of Selena’s fan club and manager of her clothing boutiques.
#WCW The Legend #SelenaQuintanilla!She was murdered before i born but she’s a huge inspiration for me! #RIP pic.twitter.com/0OKB7fnMkg
— Dreamer❤ (@RayniDash) November 13, 2013
The Queen of Tejano, Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, was tragically murdered by her fanclub president 21 years ago today. pic.twitter.com/GqFLuTRy4c
— Exorcising Emily (@exorcisingemily) March 31, 2016
As mentioned by Suzette, Selena’s legacy, and the impact that she left, is still felt by countless fans, critics and other celebrities more than two decades after her tragic death.For instance, to celebrate her life and the 21st anniversary of her final studio album Dreaming of You, Madame Tussauds will reportedly unveil a wax figure in Selena Quintanilla’s honor on August 30.
Wax figure of #Selena coming to Madame Tussauds Hollywood https://t.co/PDDdiQwfAohttps://t.co/uXWwifkI7y
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) July 19, 2016
Colin Thomas, the manager of the Madame Tussauds Hollywood museum, opened up about the museum’s decision to create a wax figure of Selena in a press statement.
“At Madame Tussauds, our figures represent icons who have made a significant impact on our culture. That perfectly describes Selena. Her influence has transcended generations and her passionate fans continue to be inspired by her to this day. We recognize this and in response, we are proud to join her fans in celebrating her legacy by immortalizing her.”
The museum is even hosting a contest that give Selena’s fans the chance to win VIP access to the exhibit’s launch party along with an annual pass.
According to ABC 13, Thomas claims his team of artists and sculptors worked alongside Selena Quintanilla’s family to “really capture the singer’s iconic pose, expression, signature hairstyle, makeup and wardrobe.” They reportedly even visited The Selena Museum located in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Selena Quintanilla will also be honored with a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame next year.
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In a quick video posted to Instagram on Wednesday, Selena Gomez’s makeup artist Melissa Murdick shows us how to recreate the pop sensation’s copper smoky eye. Using a few different shades of eyeshadow and a black liquid liner, Murdick creates a dramatic look that could work both for the stage and cocktail hour downtown.
For an ultra-glamorous look, she adds huge fake lashes at the end to bring the eye drama into high gear.


As you can see, the final look is simply stunning.


Who wouldn’t feel ready to rock out with a look that eye-catching?


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					Becky G just sported the perfect summer makeup look for the Premios Juventud Awards and her makeup artist shared his step-by-step how-to. Find out how to copy her bronzed beauty, ahead, using products you can find at the drugstore!

Before Becky G, 19, hit the stage to perform her song, “Sola,” on July 14, she hit the makeup chair for a flawless beauty look. Then, the petite singer channeled her inner Britney Spears onstage, by performing with a giant snake for the Teen Choice-style awards for Spanish-speaking celebs.

But even with a python on her shoulders, we couldn’t take our eyes off of Becky G’s stunning makeup, which included bronzed skin and a matching bronzed smokey eye and lip. Etienne Ortega, her makeup artist, shared every CoverGirl product he used to create the look for the brand’s spokesmodel.

PICS — Click Here For More Award Show Beauty Looks!
For her base, Etienne started with CoverGirl Clean Matte BB Cream in Medium Deep and Cover Girl Clean Matte Pressed Powder to keep her makeup in place and “fight shine on the carpet in the humid Miami weather.” Adding a sunkissed glow to Becky’s skin (and serving as a light contour), Etienne used CoverGirl truBlend Bronzer at the cheekbones. To soften the look, he then applied CoverGirl truBlend Blush in Medium to the apples of Becky’s cheeks before turning his attention to her eye makeup.
Filling in her brows with CoverGirl Pow-Der Brow And Liner in Dark Brown, Etienne created a shimmery bronze smokey eye with the CoverGirl truNaked Shadow Palette in Goldens. For dramatic lashes, Etienne used CoverGirl Super Size Fibers Mascara, and he completed the look with a natural lip thanks to CoverGirl Oh Sugar! Lip Balm in Caramel.
HollywoodLifers, what did you think of Becky’s latest makeup look? Did you catch her Premios Juventud performance?

				
													
						
				

			

			

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        Kalei Lagunero has more than 51,600 subscribers on YouTubeFlorida fashion and beauty blogger demonstrates simple trick in videoInvolves shaving cream, various temperatures of water - and elbow greaseBy

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We all know from experience that white clothes and foundation do not mix.But fashion and beauty blogger Kalei Lagunero, from Florida, has a simple trick which she claims will remove stubborn makeup stains in just a minute.After demonstrating the hack on YouTube, the video has amassed an impressive 54,000 views.    
      White clothes and foundation don't mix. Or rather, they do, all too well. Kalei Lagunero shows us how to fix it    
      The YouTuber has amassed 54,000 views on a video of her showing people her simple trickKalei - who identifies herself as a digital influencer, music engineer and producer - demonstrates the simple trick using shaving cream, various temperatures of water and a lot of elbow grease. Her comments feed has been flooded with praise and thanks from other women whose soiled clothing has been saved as a result.Cinnamin FlowerBomb commented: 'OMG girl you are a life - well clothes saver lol! It worked perfectly... used this on a new stain &amp; this also got out an old stain in another white shirt tht even bleach couldn't do..THANK U!!'

Meanwhile Alyssa Tanks said: 'It really works it won't come all the way off when you're just using the shaving gel but then once you put it in the washer it will be out and I used it on my white Nike hoodie.'And ron jefferson added: 'My wife is going to be so happy!! She has a favorite tank top and this worked like a charm. Thank you very much!!'Kalei boasts more than 51,600 subscribers on YouTube, where she posts videos on makeup tips, tricks, styling advice, health, fitness and more.The tutorial goes like this:1 Kalei rubs foundation on one of her favourite white shirts (don't do that).    
      Kalei rubs foundation on one of her favourite white shirts to demonstrate just how effective her hack is2 Apply shaving cream to the stained area. She uses Satin Care by Olay.    
      Apply shaving cream to the effected area. She uses a gold can of Satin Care by Olay3 Allow the shaving cream to sit there and soak in for a few minutes.    
      Allow the shaving cream to sit there and soak in for a few minutes so it lifts off as much foundation as possible4 Then, rub in the shaving cream to the shirt as best as possible. Use elbow grease because you're going to need it.    
      Rub in the shaving cream to the shirt as best as possible. Use plenty of elbow grease    
      Kalei's comments feed is flooded with praise and thanks for saving numerous articles of clothing5 Rinse in cold water.6 Go back in with more shaving cream.7 Rinse in hot water.At this point the stain should have disappeared. 
        
        
    
      
    
    
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            There’s a special type of despair that’s triggered when TSA confiscates your fancy, full-sized moisturizer after you’ve forgotten it was stored inside in your bag. All those thought-out, self-packed lunches in order to afford that gorgeous cream — and for what, amirite? Sadly, the TSA isn’t the only enemy to your expensive liquids, creams, and gels. In the summer, miserable heat waves can serve as another leading cause of premature death for our best beauty staples. Lipstick bullets can literally bead up with sweat. Makeup melts. Creams and lotions can separate and become weirdly chunky. Serums straight-up switch color. And the worst part? Your fancy anti-aging products could even lose their efficacy. So, what can you do?We could rack up a crazy AC bill (and supersize our carbon footprint) by keeping our apartments climate-controlled 24/7 to preserve our beauty stash — if you even have an AC unit. But thankfully, our coterie of beauty pros have better ideas. Ahead, beauty chemists, a celebrity makeup artist, and a dermatologist share the best tips for keeping your beauty products chill and spill hacks for saving weather-worn items if they've already suffered from the heat.Begin Slideshow
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									Update your eye makeup with soft pink eyes which are so dreamy and  reminds us of the beauty of a freshly bloomed flower. Pink eye shadows  paired with dewy skin is one of the hottest trends this season and can  look flattering on all skin tones. Here’s how you can pull off the trend  like a pro.



Use a pink liner to line the eyes: This is one of the easiest ways to nail the trend. Opt for a bright pink liner to draw a line along the upper lashline, extending it outwards to create a feline flick. Remember to keep the eyelids free of colour to make the makeup pop. You can also apply a black liner across the tightline to give the eyes more definition. Finish with two coats of black mascara.

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Opt for a pink blush: Did you know that a pink blusher can double up as an eyeshadow? After applying an eye primer, softly blend the blusher on to your eyelids until the edges have blended. Finish with two coats of black mascara.

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          Warm or cool? No, we’re not asking you how you want your coffee. Rather, we're talking about the all important step to finding your perfect foundation. Also commonly referred to as yellow or pink, and sometimes neutral, your skin’s undertone helps you choose the best makeup shades for your complexion that will give you a natural finish. While knowing which way you lean is supposed to make shopping for products easier, actually confirming whether your skin is warm, cool, or neutral isn’t always so straightforward. That’s why we’ve enlisted the help of three celebrity makeup artists to fill us in on easy, foolproof ways to reach a verdict on whether your skin is warm, cool, or neutral.
Get to Know the Back of Your Hand
“If you’re noticeably warm or cool, you want to go towards face makeup and lip colors that match your skin’s undertone. If you have a really hard time identifying this, chances are you’re probably neutral,” explains makeup artist Andrew Sotomayor. “Since many foundations will tell you directly on the bottle if they’re warm or cool, starting by matching your perfect foundation can set you up with your skin’s undertone.”  To do this, he recommends taking a warm and cool shade that look like they could be potential matches and tapping them on the back of your hand. Whichever one blends in seamlessly is the correct undertone—it’s as easy as that.
RELATED: We Found the Best Bronzers for Every Skin Tone
Consider Your Jewels 
Instead of swatching, Sotomayor says that the answer to your undertone shade may lie in what you wear. If you feel like you look better in 24K gold, which is clearly more yellow, then you have a warm undertone. If you feel like you look better in rose gold which has traces of pink to it, than you have a cool undertone. Sotomayor notes that if you regularly mix and match your metals, chances are you’re neutral.
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Stick to Your Jawline 
Aside from matching your makeup, another thing to consider when you’re figuring out your undertone is what you want your foundation to do. Makeup artist Edward Cruz says to consider your lifestyle and makeup style when deciding on a warm or cool undertone shade. “Some people become more warm or beige during the spring and summer seasons, and go back to pink in the winter,” he explains. Cruz recommends swatching potential matches along your jawline to decide whether or not that’s the shade and look you want to go with. His final tip: Stick with a makeup shade that’s the same color as your neck, or one shade lighter to brighten and lighten up your complexion, and never go darker when it comes to face makeup. 
Pay Attention to Your Tan
How your skin reacts to sun exposure can also help you determine your skin’s undertone. “If someone tans well and rarely burns, they tend to have a warm undertone,” says Allan Avendaño. “On the other hand, if someone burns easily, they more than likely have cool tones.  There’s also the possibility of being neutral, where you have a combination of both.” 
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Makeup isn't all that big a deal in the scheme of things. But if you're like me and you go to the trouble of applying it on a fairly regular basis, you want to make sure you're not doing things wrong. Otherwise, what's the point?
And when I say, "wrong," I'm not referring to techniques that go against some sort of vague makeup application "wisdom," like the old, "Go heavy on the eyes or the lips, but never both!" rule. At the end of the day, I think everyone should just do what makes them feel great when it comes to aesthetics, regardless of whether it's technically a "makeup don't." If you love your neon purple lipstick and hot pink eye liner, go for it and more power to you!
What I'm specifically getting at are things many of us do with our makeup that could be actively harming our skin or causing long term damage. Because I don't think the majority of us would keep making these mistakes if we knew what they were doing to our complexions.
So if you're a regular makeup user, and skin health is important to you, take a look at the below 11 mistakes a ton of us make that can actually be causing damage.
1. You Rely Too Heavily On Built-In SPF




    
          
      
      
    






'Sun' Broad Spectrum SPF 50 Face Cream, $21.50, Nordstrom.com

According to a piece in Reader's Digest, many makeup users think they're being proactive by using foundations and BB creams with built-in SPF protection. However, dermatologists note that most people don't use enough makeup product to actually get the full benefits of the SPF, and also often miss their ears and necks. Instead, they stressed the importance of applying an actual sunscreen before applying any kind of makeup — regardless of if the makeup contains sun protection. It's the only true way to be sure you're protected.
2. You Sleep In Your Makeup



    
          
      
      
    






In that same Reader's Digest piece, Harold Lancer, MD, a Beverly Hills dermatologist, said to never go to bed with makeup on. “Without cleansing, cosmetics get into pores, which can lead to congestion.” I personally keep face wipes by my bed for days when I'm just too tired to wash my face over a sink.
3. You Scrub Too Vigorously When Removing Makeup



    
          
      
      
    






In a piece for The Wall Street Journal, Susan Taylor, medical director at Society Hill Dermatology in Philadelphia, noted that a lot of people seem to think that the harder you scrub, the better. However, she noted that facial washes have chemical components designed to break down dirt without scrubbing, and doing so will only irritate the skin and strip it of healthy natural oils.
4. You're Not Prepping Your Skin



    
          
      
      
    






'Photo Finish' Light Foundation Primer, $16, Norstrom.com
According to Cosmopolitan, "prepping your skin" — AKA applying moisturizer and primer — isn't just about making your makeup look better and last longer. They noted that it literally helps create a barrier between your skin and the makeup, helping to prevent clogged pores. So don't forget to prep!
5. You Don't Let Your Foundation Dry



    
          
      
      
    






Maybelline Fit Me! Foundation, $5.99, Drugstore.com

OK, this tip from Cosmopolitan isn't actually about skin health, but it's something so often overlooked that I couldn't help but mention it. Most people don't realize that liquid foundation — no matter what the brand — takes a few minutes to set and dry. Wait a minute or two before moving on to the next step in your routine for best result.

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If you're a makeup lover, it can be totally tempting to test out every sample and product the second you get it home. However, Good Housekeeping noted that our skin is delicate and should not be a considered a testing ground. Instead, test out a sample size on your arm to avoid unexpected negative reactions on your face.
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The same Good Housekeeping compilation piece reminded us not to forget about our lips when it comes to exfoliating, moisturizing, and especially sun protection. My personal recommendation is to invest in some lip balms with SPF protection and reapply it regularly.
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According to Karen Hammerman, M.D., a cosmetic dermatologist in a piece for Women's Health, "Taking a [makeup] break allows the skin to replenish its natural moisture level without having layers of makeup occluding it." So if your skin is breaking out or looking congested, consider letting it breath for a day or two.
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A compilation piece for The Loop's Style section reminded us to wash our makeup brushes regularly. You'd never apply makeup with your hands without washing them, right? So don't make the same mistake with your brushes. This is a super easy way to avoid unnecessary breakouts.
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In a piece for The Tribune, beautician Shahnaz Kamran noted that the area around our eyes are extremely sensitive, and therefore eye makeup can be especially bad for us once it's past it's usage date. She also said to always be extra careful when applying anything to the eye area in general, including lotions and creams.
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OK, this last foundation-related tip also isn't necessarily about skin health, but I thought it was worth mentioning. On her YouTube channel, celebrity makeup artist Lisa Eldridge noted that she often finds that her clients think they need 80 percent or full coverage when it comes to their foundation, when really only about 20 percent of their skin needs evening out. Remember, less can be more, especially if you're going for a more natural and fresh-faced aesthetic.
Makeup is designed to help us feel great about the way we look, so the last thing we want is for it to actually be harming our skin. The good news is, the more informed we are, the better we are at making healthy decisions when it comes to makeup and our bodies. So don't fret — just be conscious of what you put on your skin!
Images: Pexels (9); Bustle
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          If you’ve been paying even a little bit of attention to the beauty scene lately, you know that neons are having a moment. The bright hues are popping up everywhere (like your Instagram feed and on basically every celebrity) and keep you looking chic no matter where you’re headed. But take it one step too far and you can end up looking like an ‘80s princess on Halloween. So, in order to prevent that from happening, we chatted with celebrity makeup artist, Jamie Greenberg, on how to master the "everyday" neon look.
“There is a way for everyone to be part of this trend even if you are not into crazy colors,” she explains. “But, I definitely recommend taking one part of your face to focus on, rather than doing neon everything.” Makes sense, right?
Here’s how she breaks it down, look by look.
Eyes
Greenberg is a huge fan of neon blue mascara. “It’s quiet but still gives you that cool look in nonchalant way,” she says. “To achieve, first curl your lashes, then layer a few swipes of blue mascara on top." We like Benefit’s They’re Real! Lengthening &amp; Volumizing Mascara in Beyond Blue ($24, sephora.com)
If you want to make the neon look a bit more noticeable (and why wouldn’t you?), swap out the blue mascara for an electric-colored eyeliner. Greenberg swears by Colour Pop’s Crème Gel Liners ($5, colourpop.com), which come in amaaaazing neon oranges, yellows, and pinks. “The shock value of the eyeliner is fun to play around with,” she says. “I love splitting the eye space to do a hot pink and hot yellow.”
When rocking both of these looks, Greenberg recommends keeping the rest of your makeup neutral. To keep things balanced, she suggests finding a lipstick that enhances your natural lip color and dabbing it on with you finger to create a stain finish.
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Lips
“For this look to really be pulled off correctly, its really all about creating a dewy, healthy look for the rest of your face, and then having a flush of color in your cheek to compliment your lips,” she recommends. To make your lips pop against your summer glow, Greenberg swears by a florescent pink lip. We live for Anastasia Beverly Hills Liquid Lipstick in Party Pink ($20; sephora.com).
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Cheeks
We gotta say, this look seems like it would be the hardest to pull off. “Sometimes the stark flush can be too much,” explains Greenberg. “It’s really about blending a highlight and neon blush together so that you getting a flush that looks like you just sprinted.”​
Interesting! Well, if you're asking us, we'd probably lean towards a neon pink or orange blush that can be blended out. Blue is cute, but we'll save that for the eyes. Thx. 
Now that you've got these pro tips by your side, you can go ahead and replace your nude lipstick (at least temporarily) with a neon. Oh, what hue? That's totally up to you. 
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                Anna Kendrick arrives at the premiere of 20th Century Fox's "Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates" on June 29, 2016 in Hollywood, California.
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        Easy, breezy makeover! Anna Kendrick attended the Hollywood premiere of Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates on Wednesday, June 29, wearing her naturally curly hair in smooth, voluminous waves. And all it took was one special product.PHOTOS: The Best Braided Hairstyles in Hollywood
        
    
    
"Anna’s hair is naturally curly and fine, but she has a lot of it," celebrity hairstylist Craig Gangi tells Us Weekly. "Curly hair tends to be dry so one of my favorite products for her is the Leonor Greyl L'Huile de Leonor Greyl." The Oscar-nominated actress smoothed the oil over her hair the night before, then washed it out the next morning. "[It] softened Anna's hair and gave it instant shine," Gangi says.Leonor Greyl L'Huile de Leonor Greyl, $59, leonorgreyl-usa.comOnce Kendrick got in the chair, the stylist, who also works with Missi Pyle and Susan Sarandon, used Leonor Greyl Eclat Naturel styling cream to both nourish the hair and add texture. He also added a touch of Leonor Greyl Mousse au Lotus Volumatrice at the roots for lift.PHOTOS: 5 Beauty Products That Will Make You Look AirbrushedAnna Kendrick arrives at the premiere of 20th Century Fox's "Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates" on June 29, 2016 in Hollywood, California.
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        Gangi blew out the Trolls star's hair in two-inch sections using a round brush, pinning each one up for five minutes "to create volume [without] curl." He brushed out the curls, then spritzed with Leonor Greyl Voluforme to lock the style in place."After brushing it all out, I gave her a side part and pushed her hair behind her ears to show off her beautiful shoulders and the gorgeous strapless [Calvin Klein] dress," the stylist explains. The end result? "A Parisian woman leaving a salon after getting a great blowout.” Zac Efron, Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza and Adam Devine attend the premiere of 20th Century Fox's "Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates" on June 29, 2016 in Los Angeles, California.
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            As for Kendrick's blushing beauty — particularly those rosy cheeks — celeb makeup artist Vanessa Scali started with Physicians Formula #InstaReady Beauty Balm BB Cream. She then applied Super BB #InstaReady Contour Trio BB Stick in Blush right on the apples. Physicians Formula Shimmer Strips Custom Eye Enhancing Extreme Shimmer Shadow &amp; Liner in Glam Nude added a touch of shimmer to the eye lids, while the Physicians Formula Eye Booster Instant Doll Lash Extension Kit offered created those lush lashes.Be a trendsetter! Sign up now for the Us Weekly Style &amp; Beauty newsletter to get celeb fashion, beauty tips, and more delivered directly to your inbox.

                
                    
                

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				One of the joys of summer is the chance to incorporate bright colors into your look, but before you throw on that bold lip, take note: Technique is key. Class may be out of session, but beauty influencer Claudia Sulewski and beauty guru/Katy Perry fan Emily Draznik agreed to school us in Wearing Bright Makeup 101 using Katy Perry’s Katy Kat Collection. 
If you haven’t already heard, Katy Perry recently dropped a makeup line with COVERGIRL, and it includes a couple very bold shades for your eyes and lips, just in time for all the boardwalks and barbecues you’ll be hitting up.
To show you just exactly how to pair your bright makeup with your summer ’fit, Claudia and Emily tried a lilac lip — paired best with toned-down whites and pinks…

	
		
		

		


.. and the ~high-fashion~ black lipstick, which can elevate pretty much any outfit — even one featuring plastic visor shades.

	
		
		

		


Check out the video below to see more colors from the line that all the girls are excited to wear this season. We promise you’ll be rocking A+ looks alllll summer.
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			]]></description><link>http://blog.travmaga.com/how-to-amp-up-your-summer-outfit-with-bright-makeup-mtvcom</link><guid>2515</guid><author>Diva</author><dc:content >http://imagesmtv-a.akamaihd.net/uri/mgid:file:http:shared:mtv.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/EmilyLilacLip-1466786212.jpg?quality=0.85&amp;amp;format=jpg&amp;amp;width=480</dc:content ><dc:text>How To Amp Up Your Summer Outfit With Bright Makeup - MTV.com</dc:text></item><item><title>How to apply contour make up in 20 minutes - Independent Online</title><description><![CDATA[Women around the world spend large amounts of money on beauty product to enhance their looks.
Kylie Jenner of Keeping up with the Kardashians fame is the latest celebrity to cash in on the booming industry. Her lip kits, various shades of lipsticks and lip glosses, are in high demand.Make up artist Rushana IsaacsWith a number of online make-up tutorials and step-by-step guides for applying the perfect face, there is no excuse for having a bad make-up day, says Rushana Isaacs of Rushana Isaacs Makeup Artistry (Rima).
The 22-year-old make-up artist and beauty and fashion blogger regularly shares make-up tips videos with her 21 000 Instagram followers.
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“When I finished my matric in 2013 I studied at the The Make-Up Issue where I learned how to do different types of make-up styles such as beauty, TV, theatrical and special effects make-up and everything that had to do with make-up,” Isaacs said.
She soon landed her first job at Calvin Klein, working as their in-house make-up artist and as an events manager.
Now working for professional Italian make-up brand Flormar , Isaacs recently launched her own range - Rima Cosmetics 10-piece brush set. The gold and white brushes are R395 per set and can be used for buffing, contouring and applying eye shadow, among other things.
A lot of my followers, the majority of them are in high school or are students, are always asking me where they can buy affordable and quality products. Brushes are expensive, I thought why don’t just start my own brush line.
They have been selling like crazy and it is the only brushes that I use now, she says.
The next thing I am planning to do is to start an eyeshadow palette and liquid lipsticks range like Kylie Jenner. I am obsessed with her range.
 Her everyday look takes about 20 minutes to create.
“I moisturise first which is like super important to me. Skin care is more important than make-up to me. I cleanse, tone and moisturiser before I apply a primer, another key factor. I do my highlights with about five shades of foundation colour, then I do my contouring. There is never a day where I do my make-up without contouring because if I don’t, I look very flat.” she says.
Contouring, the art of enhancing and defining your features, is the hottest make-up trend at the moment. Understanding what and why you are contouring is key, says Isaacs.
Contouring is not just to raise your cheekbones or to make your nose thinner, but it’s actually to add definition and dimension to your face. When you contour, you add highlights and dark shades to your face. Contouring makes a huge difference to your make-up and I will never skip it in my make-up routine, she says.
Isaacs’s biggest make-up no-nos include applying products with your fingers.
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“With your fingers you are actually using way more product, especially with foundation. Your fingers will soak up all the moisture, changing the colour of the foundation. And your make-up will separate faster.
Also, with your fingers you are not going to get an even coverage. You will look quite blotchy. Using a brush your coverage is going to be more flawless and your make-up will stay on longer,” she says.
“I see a lot of women applying way too much blusher. To me blusher is outdated, I don’tt wear it at all because if I have a fully made-up face and I add blusher I will look borderline drag queen. Rather use a bronzer to add a bit of flush on your cheeks,”says Isaacs.
For more information on her brush set or to connect with Rushana Isaacs on Instagram: Rushana Issacs and Snapchat @rushanaisaacs.
CAPE ARGUS]]></description><link>http://blog.travmaga.com/how-to-apply-contour-make-up-in-20-minutes-independent-online</link><guid>2516</guid><author>Diva</author><dc:content >http://classic.iol.co.za/polopoly_fs/inlpicscopy-of-copy-of-ca-life-page-done-1.2039512!/image/579285890.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_501/579285890.jpg</dc:content ><dc:text>How to apply contour make up in 20 minutes - Independent Online</dc:text></item><item><title>How to Clean Your Makeup Brushes the *Right* Way - Yahoo News</title><description><![CDATA[From Marie ClaireCleaning makeup brushes is one of those laundry list annoyances-kind of like dry cleaning, AKA hand washing-that rarely seems necessary. "You can just NOT clean makeup brushes, right??" says the lazy girl in me.Welllllll, not really, according to the professional beauty artists who create fresh makeup canvases for stars every day. Dirt and oil from the skin combined with powder accumulate in the brushes we use frequently, and without regular sudsing action, they can cause skin irritation and breakouts.Dallas-based makeup artist Joanna Hathcock, for one, recommends a regular rinse every two weeks, if not weekly. If you have extra-sensitive skin, of course, that process may need to happen every few days.But how do you actually, uh, do that? After all-as any novice learns the hard way-it's not just a matter of running your brushes under the sink and calling it a day. Every makeup pro has their own specialized way of doing things, so here we unpack some of the most efficient ways to get the job done without ruining the brush itself.Beauty vlogger Desi Perkins provides two step-by-step methods below of cleaning brushes, from the most basic (dish soap/bar soap and olive oil) to a more specialized way of removing dirt.[embedded content]We lazy girls simply working with what we have in the kitchen can settle for Method One:1. Perkins works with a regular Palmolive dish soap and olive oil, mixing mostly dish soap and a small amount of olive oil in a bowl. As she explains, the dish soap works to disinfect while the olive oil conditions.2. She dips her dirty brushes into the mixture, head down, and swirls them around on the textured mat. Note that instead of working the brushes against her hand, the textured mat (that she sourced from a Dollar Store!) creates more friction while breaking up the dirt and powder.3. To finish, she rinses the brush to remove all remaining soap and residue. As a substitute for the dish soap, she also recommends using bar soap, a favorite of makeup artists like Mario Dedivanovic and Lottie to remove dirt and condition brushes.For Method Two, Perkins goes ahead and reaches for a cleanser specifically designed to nourish and clean brushes.FWIW, makeup artist Gucci Westman recommends a cleanser like Eminence Organics natural brush cleanser for every day use and shampoos like Rahua for deep cleaning brushes.1. To begin, she starts out in the sink this time, dampening her brush by holding it with the bristles downward (to avoid the moisture breaking up the glue in the brush head). The less moisture by the handle, the less likely your brush will fall apart on you ]]></description><link>http://blog.travmaga.com/how-to-clean-your-makeup-brushes-the-right-way-yahoo-news</link><guid>2514</guid><author>Diva</author><dc:content >https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/trA3M7LTaIyHVkineQ6OcA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9ODAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/homerun/marie_claire_447/1a78348e05ea235adf480b09f4e9561c</dc:content ><dc:text>How to Clean Your Makeup Brushes the *Right* Way - Yahoo News</dc:text></item><item><title>Recreate Gemma's modern face of makeup from the cover. - Elle Magazine Australia</title><description><![CDATA[
     
    Recreate Gemma’s modern face of makeup from the cover.
    Want to know exactly what was used to make our cover girl look so beautiful, and how? Victoria Baron, makeup artist for Chanel, gave us the scoop.

Great makeup starts with skincare. Warm your serum and moisturiser in your hands before you apply it to help it absorb in. Try Hydra Beauty Micro Sérum, $124, and La Solution 10 De Chanel, $132, both Chanel, 1300 242 635.

Stipple foundation on with a brush for a better-blended finish. Try Les Beiges Healthy Glow Foundation, $89, Chanel, 1300 242 635. Then use a medium-sized fluffy brush to dust powder over eyelids, under the eyes, around the nose and on the chin. It helps the makeup to last past lunch. Try Les Beiges Healthy Glow Sheer Powder, $84, Chanel, 1300 242 635.

Brush brows upwards before you apply any product – it’s what makes the look modern and fresh. Using a small angled brush, apply strokes of colour to your brows. The mixture of shades in this one helps to give full brows more natural dimension. Try La Palette Sourcils De Chanel in Naturel and Brun, $84 each, Chanel, 1300 242 635. 

For lips with extra punch, apply lipliner all over them as a base colour. Gemma is wearing Le Crayon Lèvres in Désir, $46, Chanel, 1300 242 635. Sharpening the pencil right before you use it helps to neaten the edges. Then go over that with lipstick. Try Rouge Allure Velvet in Rouge Feu, $52, Chanel, 1300 242 635. Applying it with a brush will again ensure neat, structured edges. If it still doesn’t look perfect enough, you can go around the lips with concealer and an angled brush to tidy up any smudging.

Refresh your brows by brushing them up again.
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Design by Katja ChoCleaning makeup brushes is one of those laundry list annoyances—kind of like dry cleaning, AKA hand washing—that rarely seems necessary. "You can just NOT clean makeup brushes, right??" says the lazy girl in me. Welllllll, not really, according to the professional beauty artists who create fresh makeup canvases for stars every day. Dirt and oil from the skin combined with powder accumulate in the brushes we use frequently, and without regular sudsing action, they can cause skin irritation and breakouts. Advertisement - Continue Reading BelowDallas-based makeup artist Joanna Hathcock, for one, recommends a regular rinse every two weeks, if not weekly. If you have extra-sensitive skin, of course, that process may need to happen every few days. 

GiphyBut how do you actually, uh, do that? After all—as any novice learns the hard way—it's not just a matter of running your brushes under the sink and calling it a day. Every makeup pro has their own specialized way of doing things, so here we unpack some of the most efficient ways to get the job done without ruining the brush itself. Beauty vlogger Desi Perkins provides two step-by-step methods below of cleaning brushes, from the most basic (dish soap/bar soap and olive oil) to a more specialized way of removing dirt. We lazy girls simply working with what we have in the kitchen can settle for Method One: 1. Perkins works with a regular Palmolive dish soap and olive oil, mixing mostly dish soap and a small amount of olive oil in a bowl. As she explains, the dish soap works to disinfect while the olive oil conditions. 2. She dips her dirty brushes into the mixture, head down, and swirls them around on the textured mat. Note that instead of working the brushes against her hand, the textured mat (that she sourced from a Dollar Store!) creates more friction while breaking up the dirt and powder. 3. To finish, she rinses the brush to remove all remaining soap and residue. As a substitute for the dish soap, she also recommends using bar soap, a favorite of makeup artists like Mario Dedivanovic and Lottie to remove dirt and condition brushes. For Method Two, Perkins goes ahead and reaches for a cleanser specifically designed to nourish and clean brushes. FWIW, makeup artist Gucci Westman recommends a cleanser like Eminence Organics natural brush cleanser for every day use and shampoos like Rahua for deep cleaning brushes.1. To begin, she starts out in the sink this time, dampening her brush by holding it with the bristles downward (to avoid the moisture breaking up the glue in the brush head). The less moisture by the handle, the less likely your brush will fall apart on you ]]></description><link>http://blog.travmaga.com/how-to-clean-your-makeup-brushes-the-right-way-marieclairecom</link><guid>2490</guid><author>Diva</author><dc:content /><dc:text>How to Clean Your Makeup Brushes the *Right* Way - MarieClaire.com</dc:text></item><item><title>Kate Moss: 'Lila tells me how to do my make-up' - TV3.ie</title><description><![CDATA[
					
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Battling on: Vanessa Pelz-Sharpe was diagnosed with breast cancer two years ago
Vanessa Pelz-Sharpe during her treatment



There are hundreds of articles written about all the wonderful things people discover about themselves when they go through cancer treatment. Scores of people discovering their bodies can take them through marathons or their pets could save their lives. While I would love to be part of that inspirational pantheon the only thing I discovered when I had cancer was how vain I was. And that isn't, necessarily, a bad thing.



It always seems that when I write about myself, I want to draw a huge black line dividing my life from pre-cancer when I was faced with all the normal problems someone just turned 30 goes through (Where is my life going? Will I ever find someone to love? Do I have wrinkles now?); then, after, when I was suddenly very aware of my own mortality.

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A few weeks after my 30th birthday I found a lump in my breast while taking my bra off. Three days later, I found myself in the Royal Free Hospital being jabbed and scanned in their breast clinic. I went away for Christmas in pain from the needle biopsy and fretting about a possible centimetre-long scar. When I returned in January 2014 I went alone to my follow-up appointment convinced it was a formality, and looking forward to peeling the last bandages off. Instead, I was told that I had stage three breast cancer and would need a mastectomy, removing my entire right breast, and some lymph nodes in my armpit. I had a fortnight to say goodbye to my breast. At first I wrestled simply with the unfairness of it all. I cried all the time - at home, on buses, in doctor's surgeries, at dinner with sympathetic friends.
It wasn't my mastectomy that upset me: I knew that having one breast was a temporary inconvenience, at worst. And internally I congratulated myself on having overcome the societal pressure for women to constantly criticise our own appearances, to see our bodies as works in progress that will never be quite ready for public consumption. When I grew up my second wave feminist mother would ask me why I wanted to moisturise. "You've just cleaned your face, why do you want to put s*** on it?" she'd snap as I begged her to buy me a bottle of Olay. Even though teenage me seethed, desperate to spread that pink gloop on my cheeks, I grew up glad I had a parent who never pushed me to be too focused on my external appearance.
The friends around me who I cherished the most never mentioned that my first breast prosthesis' lack of movement compared to my natural (rather jiggly) breast was somewhat disorientating, or that in a dress it looked a little like a mannequin's forward pointing nipple-less mound. They said they loved my new short hair - which I had cut thinking it would soften the blow when I started chemotherapy, and it began falling out. It didn't. I can remember the day I sat on a chair in my bedroom, my mum and I both crying as she shaved my head with a pair of clippers. Somehow this was not the worst it would get.
Feeling ridiculous in a wig, I turned to scarves and learned how to wear them with some dignity. I became so adept at tying them that a nail technician told me she loved my retro style, reading my pinchbeck Carmen Miranda headwear as an aesthetic choice rather than a necessity.
After I had become somewhat used to my bald head, more of my hair began to fall out. You never think about that. The bikini line was nice - no razor rash. When it came to my eyelashes and eyebrows I felt utterly destroyed. It wasn't that I was so attached to my eyebrows: I've been plucking away a unibrow since the age of 12. It was that without them it was obvious there was something very wrong with me. Even when I dug my wig out it looked strange perched on my ghostly white expressionless face. I thought often about an Iggy Pop anecdote where he shaves his eyebrows off, paints himself in glitter, then while sweating profusely, discovers how important eyebrows are, as I blinked away sweat droplets on hot summer days.
I went bare headed and bare faced often - I am lazy as well as vain. But learning how to create a face on my blank hairless canvas became an obsession. In the day time, I watched cooking shows to compensate for losing my sense of taste to a puffy ulcer-filled mouth. At night, when the rest of the world was asleep, I turned my reading lamp to shine straight on to my face and surrounded myself with eyeshadow palettes and lip liners.
First I learned how to work black liner deep into my waterline to mask the blank space between where my natural lashes would have been, and the false ones I glued on in their place. When my eyebrows fell out I spent months watching YouTube tutorials learning how to draw them back on becoming so practiced at it that a make-up artist on a TV show I was a guest on (talking about cancer, naturally) rubbed her thumb hard across them refusing to believe they were not real. Make-up became not just artifice, but armour. Protection.
At my core I know that the beauty industry is not a benevolent place. It markets make-up to us so that we will correct flaws we didn't know we had. But when you step away from the rhetoric and look at how people use make-up out in the real world, you see its true power. What we wear and how we present ourselves isn't just to attract a mate: it's an expression of who we are and what we want to be.
Before cancer my make-up bag consisted of one tube of concealer, a mascara, and maybe five or so lipsticks. After cancer I had to invest in 'storage solutions' from Muji to contain it all. There is, in my front room, a suitcase that exists solely to house make-up that isn't my colour, but that I would like to keep and use on willing guinea pigs. My fridge now devotes equal space to sheet masks and doubles of limited edition lip colours as it does to food.
I won't say that I spend my time drawing my face in to terrify or confuse every morning. At 32 I already feel too old and too normal to be experimenting with my make-up in a way that lies outside of the boundaries of convention. When I do my face I still want to be beautiful. Since treatment ended my hair and eyelashes have grown back and my eyebrows are still sparse but grow thicker with every week. It makes me happy to have someone tell me they love my lipstick or that my eyeshadow is the most stunning colour. Rather than being obsessed with the transformative power of make-up, I am interested in how it can shape what is already there. I know now that there is power in the colours and strokes that I use. When I am nervous, or sad, or tired, or simply fed up with the world, I can dig into my make-up boxes and pull out a new person.
Now that I no longer 'need' make-up to go incognito in the normal world I am happy to go without it most days. When my boyfriend comes over for an unexpected lunch date, I no longer find myself hurriedly painting my eyebrows on before he arrives, because I know his first reaction - everyone's reaction - upon seeing my bare face will not be "Oh god, are you okay?". Make-up isn't an armour anymore. It doesn't have to be.
I look back on pictures of me at my sickest, covered in make-up and maniacally grinning for a photo and I am able to appreciate how hard I worked while sick, how much fortitude it took to make it through that year, and the year after where I suffered with the worst depressive episode of my adult life, and come out of it as a functioning person with a life, hobbies, friends, and even a new set of skills.
In reclaiming my vanity, and allowing myself to indulge in it at a time where I was a shiny, spotty, puffy faced, red-skinned, goblin means that I was able to find a way to separate myself from the awful reality of cancer treatment. 
Of course, I wish I had run a marathon or been saved from imminent death by an adorable puppy, but I found a reserve inside me that I can tap into whenever I need to escape from reality. And I can draw in really, really great eyebrows.
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Less than a minute into her latest YouTube tutorial, makeup artist Fernanda Machado, under her nom de brush Pompberry, is visited by an unexpected guest: The grey-furred, seed-toting forest spirit Totoro, who proceeds to amble across her skin in a charming, captivating stop-motion makeup animation homage to Hayao Miyazaki’s beloved creature hero.Totoro’s delightful cameo in Machado’s latest viral makeup video begins simply, then blossoms into a wholly unique new way of experiencing the magic of My Neighbor Totoro, Miyazaki’s critically acclaimed 1988 classic. As he plants a forest that springs up across her chest, rainfall brings the iconic Catbus and then, a flurry of susuwatari take over the entire scene—which has unfolded on Machado’s face and body.YouTube is already dominated by an estimated 14.9 billion beauty videos teaching amateurs how to achieve that perfect cat eye, or how to contour like a Kardashian. But amid the endless basicness inundating the world of highly-paid online makeup pros, celebrity vloggers, unboxers, and amateurs—the elite of whom make millions per year for telling their public what cosmetics to use and how to use them—Pompberry has quickly amassed over 2 million views from a global fan base responding to her work using makeup as a richly creative medium of expression, not just adornment.Machado, 25, is currently competing in the NYX Face Awards, which runs in multiple stages through August seeking the next great beauty vlogger. (View the field and vote here: http://www.nyxfaceawards.com.) But in a tight competition stacked with popular beauty vloggers, some with camera crews and impressive production budgets, she tells The Daily Beast, she had to draw on ingenuity to create something new with limited resources.“I was like, ‘Okay, I do not have access to all of that, I don’t have a crew to film for me,’” recalled the Chilean-born Brazilian, who is currently based in Los Angeles. “Studio Ghibli has some of my favorite movies, and Totoro is pretty special. It’s one of my favorite movies of theirs. And I’ve never seen an animation done with makeup.”She created her viral Totoro video for the contest’s anime-themed Top 20 competition drawing on her lifelong love for the animated masterpieces of Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli, and shot the entire video herself with two Canon cameras, painstakingly applying and reapplying paint to her body over the course of 60+ consecutive hours. On the last day—the Catbus day, in which she created the memorable forest transport on her face using a cheated perspective trick she teaches in the video—she didn’t eat or sleep at all.The work paid off: Within days of posting her Top 20 contest entry, Machado racked up over 140,000 views and glowing write-ups from geek blogs across the web.  Her subscriber base has nearly tripled, and the messages pouring in so far from around the world are, surprisingly, deeply emotional.“I’m getting an insane amount of people contacting me, telling me they cried watching it because they grew up watching Totoro,” Machado shared. “I got a message from a mom who said she started crying when she saw her little boys watching it, and they just became so happy watching it they asked to watch it over and over again. I thought sure, people like Totoro so they might like this—but I never expected people to have such an emotional response.”Machado, the daughter of a diplomat who grew up living all around the world, traces her influences back to comic books, video games, the movies—and YouTube. “I’ve always drawn and painted since I was a kid. I wanted to be an illustrator and work in video games doing concept design for games,” she said. “But I started learning beauty makeup off of YouTube.”Mostly self-taught from online tutorials and online courses, Machado got into makeup artistry before crafting her first pair of homemade prosthetics, a “rudimentary” pair of clay-molded Elf ears, inspired by The Lord of the Rings films. She got hooked on special effects makeup by watching Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, which took home three Academy Awards including Best Makeup.“I watched the behind the scenes of Pan’s Labyrinth and saw photos of them applying the Faun makeup,” she remembered. “I was like, ‘Whoa—people do this for a living! They make creatures! This is something that happens!’ And that’s what made me want to get into prosthetics.”Click through Machado’s earlier posts and you’ll find similarly inventive, outside the box uses of makeup beyond beauty and cosplay, two of the most popular kinds of videos on YouTube. Her “Needles and Brushes” project is an ongoing series of makeup videos replicating two-dimensional tattoos on her face and body, creating the effect of a living tattoo that brings some of her favorite tattoo artists’ work to life.via Instagram“That’s a really special project for me,” said Machado, who created her first tattoo makeup video inspired by her favorite tattoo artist, whose waitlist for new clients was two years long. Instead of waiting, Machado decided to recreate the art on herself using her own skin as her canvas. “I’d seen people do paintings and characters, but I had never seen anyone take a tattoo and do makeup with it. I’ve always loved that world. I think it’s an art form that’s really underappreciated and I wanted to do what I could to pay tribute.”The idea of creating tutorials for her unusual makeup art was planted when she began posting makeup videos for fun on her YouTube channel. “I started because my friends were like, how the fuck do you do this?”Her future goals include putting together a book of her tattoo looks in collaboration with a tattoo artist, and continuing to create new ways of expressing never before seen artistic visions using makeup—and teaching others how to see makeup as a medium of vast creative potential.“I want to continue to try to push myself to make things that people haven’t seen yet,” she said. “I think that’s essentially what I’m trying to do with my makeup, to innovate and make something new, which is really hard to do. Usually in this world you draw inspiration from something else, or your work is influenced by other people.”Her dream job, however, is working in special effects makeup for film—preferably science fiction or fantasy. “I would die happy if I worked on Star Wars,” she said. “I really want to work in the movie industry. I really want to work with prosthetics. And I’m super squeamish. My main goal is to make pretty creatures instead of blowing someone’s head up.”]]></description><link>http://blog.travmaga.com/the-miyazaki-of-makeup-inside-the-fantastical-creations-of-pompberry-daily-beast</link><guid>2462</guid><author>Diva</author><dc:content >http://cdn.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2016/06/22/the-miyazaki-of-makeup-inside-the-fantastical-creations-of-pompberry/jcr:content/body/inlineimage.img.800.jpg/48885954.cached.jpg</dc:content ><dc:text>The Miyazaki of Makeup: Inside the Fantastical Creations of Pompberry - Daily Beast</dc:text></item><item><title>How to Recreate Kim Kardashian's 'Everyday Glam' Makeup - Us Weekly</title><description><![CDATA[ 
                
                    
                        
                        
    
        
            
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                Oh, to be Kim K. for a day! Celeb makeup artist Patrick Ta, who works with Kim Kardashian, did just that when he gave model Sarah Stage a makeover for a new video on Kardashian’s site and app. 
    
        
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            The pro, who also works with Gigi Hadid and Chrissy Teigen, gave Stage, the fit model who posed in her bikini just five weeks after giving birth, Kardashian’s “everyday glam” look. While half-sister Kylie Jenner’s everyday look takes 13 products, Kardashian needs 22 separate items.Starting with the eyes, Ta applies MAC Cosmetics Paint Pot on her lids. “It prevents the eyeshadow from creasing. You want this makeup to be able to wear all day long,” he says. He tops that with Giorgio Armani Designer Lift Foundation applied with a Beautyblender, then sets it with a loose powder. 
        
    
    
Now that the eyes are prepped, Ta begins to create Kardashian’s signature smoky eye with no fewer than three different shades of brown shadow smudged into the creases and along the lash lines. For a touch of shine, he layers on MAC Cosmetics Mineralize Skinfinish in Global Glow. “This is actually meant to be a highlighter,” he explains. “I think it’s so pretty that I can just put it on the eyelids.”Kim Kardashian
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Because no Kim Kardashian–inspired makeup is complete without contouring and strobing, Ta applies Giorgio Armani Maestro Liquid Summer in the hollows of Stage's cheek, along her hairline and the jawlines. He then brushes Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector in Champagne Pop on the highest part of her cheekbone.For the rest of Kardashian’s “everyday glam” routine, including the false lashes used for her wide-awake look, check out kimkardashianwest.com.Can't get enough of Us? Sign up now for the Us Weekly newsletter packed with the latest celeb news, hot pics and more!


                
                    
                

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                It’s getting hot in here! One of Gigi Hadid’s six sizzling looks from the iHeartRadio Much Music Video Awards 2016 in Toronto includes her red carpet look: a red Mugler pantsuit with a bold lip that matched. Patrick Ta was responsible for her look on Sunday, June 19, and tells Us Weekly that his inspiration came directly from Hadid.
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            “Gigi loves a fresh and natural look, but still glam at the same time,” he said. “The inspiration for her look this year came from Gigi herself, which I was able to execute and make it my own. She wanted a bronze and beautiful eye with a bold aspect to it which was the red lip.” The finished product turned out to be what Ta called his “fav red carpet look to date” in a June 20 Instagram.
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        Ta applied Master Prime Blur + Illuminate to prep the Maybelline brand ambassador’s skin and smoothed on Dream Velvet Foundation for a clean look. He then swept on Fit Me! Bronzer to contour her cheekbones and highlighted with Master Strobe Highlighting Stick.1. Maybelline New York Dream Velvet Foundation, $10.99, maybelline.com, 2. Maybelline New York Fit Me! Bronzer, $5.50, maybelline.com, 3. Maybelline New York Superstay Better Skin Concealer, $9.99, maybelline.com 
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To brighten her eyes, Ta used a light brown color from the Nudes Palette on her crease and a shade that matched her skin on the lid. For the touch of shimmer, Ta, who works with Shay Mitchell and Chrissy Teigen, used the metallic shade from the palette. To finish, he swiped on two coats of Spider Effect Mascara and touched up her brows with Brow Precise Micro in Blonde, which launches in July.1. Maybelline New York The Nudes Palette, $11.99, maybelline.com, 2. Maybelline New York Volum' Express The Colossal Spider Effect Washable Mascara, $7.77, maybelline.comFor the lips, Ta used a flesh-colored lipstick as a base to complement the color on her cheeks. And to create the perfect hue, he combined two shades: Orange Danger and Smoking Red from The Loaded Bolds collection, which features honey nectar that provides a rich finish.1. Maybelline Color Sensational The Loaded Bolds in Orange Dancer, $7.49, maybelline.com, 2. Maybelline Color Sensational The Loaded Bolds in Smoking Red, $7.49, maybelline.comGet celeb fashion, beauty tips, and more delivered directly to your inbox. Sign up for the Us Weekly Style &amp; Beauty newsletter now!

                
                    
                

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	 			    			There's a reason you get ready to go out (do your hair, put your face on, etc.) before you start drinking.Mixing alcohol and makeup can quite easily be a recipe for disaster. Once the booze starts flowing, the chances of you dropping your favorite compact and crumbling your go-to bronzer is incredibly likely. But with that said, sometimes, the problem can actually be the solution...allow us to elaborate.It's Monday morning and the above scenario happened over the weekend. What do you do? Turn to vodka.

								
				
				
			    		
			    		
			    		
 			    			Grab your "destroyed" compact and pour a tiny amount (1/3 of a shot glass worth) of neat vodka or ethanol onto the powder. Wait for the alcohol to be completely absorbed by the powder, once this happens it'll look and feel like paste, then, using your finger, mold the makeup back into shape. It's that easy.Say goodbye to throwing away a perfectly good blush ever again.]]></description><link>http://blog.travmaga.com/how-to-fix-your-broken-makeupin-seconds-e-online</link><guid>2460</guid><author>Diva</author><dc:content /><dc:text>How to Fix Your Broken Makeup—In Seconds - E! Online</dc:text></item><item><title>How to do Bowie make-up if you're going to Glastonbury - Telegraph.co.uk</title><description><![CDATA[
It's Glastonbury this week and you're looking for a brilliant make-up look to rock - there's only one that we'd be obsessed with trying, and that's the iconic Ziggy Stardust lightening strike. 
You would be hard pushed to find a better festival make-up look, but it's even more appropriate this year as there will be a tribute to the late musician at Worthy Farm.
So here, Chloe Habachi, the brand ambassador for Illamasqua, tells us how to do Bowie make-up in four simple steps. 
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						Like your closest friend pulling you aside at dinner to quietly whisper in your ear that yes, you do have a tiny cilantro stowaway on your lower incisor, a well-timed piece of makeup advice can save the day. With more daytime outings—and all of their sunlit, optical truth-telling—taking place over the summer months, we asked a few of our favorite editorial makeup masters to reveal the lipstick-, eyeshadow-, and contour-derived mistakes they notice most frequently, and how best to avoid them. Because, who better to deliver the hard-hitting advice than the pros? Below, we’ve put together a guide to your virtual “do I have something on my face?” check—hopefully before you ever need it.

		
			
				

						
			
			
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Too Much Contouring“Makeup is about bringing out your best features, not changing who you are,” says makeup artist Violette, known for her supernatural touch on French faces like Léa Seydoux and Laetitia Casta. She deems the practice of sculpting, in natural light and without the soft-focus filters of social media, “too fake” and “too heavy.” Instead, Violette prefers to highlight key features—the cheekbones, the bridge of your nose—with subtle, light reflective formulas, like MAC Strobe Cream, which she applies with a fluffy brush. “It will make your skin appear much more fresh.”
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The Wrong Foundation Shade“Wearing a foundation that is too pink, too gray, or too orange can be instantly aging,” advises Charlotte Tilbury, who recently launched her own 15-shade line of Magic Foundation to solve exactly this problem. Whichever formula you choose, “test your foundation across your jawline in daylight for accuracy,” she says. “And always remember to blend, blend, blend!”
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Heavy-Handed EyebrowsWhen working with clients like Karlie Kloss and Christina Ricci, editorial pro Francelle Daly doesn’t shy away from an outside-the-box makeup risk—but there’s one trend that she prefers to avoid: “Eyebrows that walk into the room before you do,” says Daly of stenciled, overly penciled looks that attempt to re-create naturally bold arches like Cara Delevingne’s famous set. “The mistake I see most often is that the shade is too dark,” says Daly, who suggests matching the pencil to your actual hair color and using a light touch. “Make sure to follow the natural shape, then softly elongate it out using a clean mascara wand or attached spoolie brush to blend.”
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A Poorly Prepped Mouth for LipstickFor Violette, a parched mouth is “not just a detail.” She considers it a canvas that’s not yet fit to be painted. “Putting lipstick on dry lips won’t look nice,” she explains, recommending to first exfoliate with a Kiko Milano Scrub and Peel Wipes (also a favorite of makeup artist Tom Pecheux), followed by a layer of Lucas’ Papaw Ointment, then an optional coat of your chosen lip color. “Even if I don’t use lipstick, it creates a dewy look and makes lips look plumper and healthier!”
Kiko Milano Pure Clean Scrub and Peel Wipes, $9, buy it now

		
			
				

						
			
			
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Mascara Primer That’s Still Visible“I love a mascara primer,” says Daly of the product’s ability to add staying power to your favorite inky formula—with one caveat: “Make sure to then coat lashes completely with mascara, don’t leave them half-painted.” To add impact to your gaze, Daly suggests opting for a dark primer (rather than a traditional white one) or taking time to follow primer with a pitch-black mascara, working carefully from root to tip, to prevent a visible thin stripe of chalky residue at the root. Because, as she puts it, “that zebra look is not a good one.”
IT Cosmetics Tightline Full Lash Length Black Mascara Primer, $24, buy it now


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          Confession time. No matter how much I obsess about beauty, I am the worst when it comes to makeup removal. I will fully admit there have been nights where I slap a wipe across my face and call it quits, only to wake up with crusty remnants of my creation from the night before. We’ve all been told a thousand times that failing to really remove your makeup could cause skin issues, so what gives with the lack of effort in our removal routine?
For me, it’s that I don’t really have a game plan, so I talked to celebrity makeup artist, Nick Barose, (who’s client list includes Lupita Nyong’o, Brie Larson, Amy Poehler!) to get the scoop on how to remove every type of makeup with minimal effort.
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For eye makeup, like mascara and eyeliner:
Barose recommends taking a gentle approach. He likes to soak cotton swabs with Lancome Bi-Facil Double-Action Makeup Remover ($15, lancome-usa.com) and lets them sit on the eyes for a few seconds before wiping. “This will take things off without being too aggressive,” he explains. To avoid raccoon eyes from stubborn eyeliner, he suggests dipping cotton swabs, like DHC Olive Virgin Oil swabs ($6, dhccare.com), in the Lancome Bi-Facil to gently target the area where makeup is sticking around.
For face makeup, like foundation, concealer, and blush:
You can start by massaging your face with cleansing water to break down the makeup. Barose likes Koh Gen Do Spa Cleansing Water ($39, sephora.com). Then, he uses a makeup remover wipe, like Pixi By Petra Moisturizing Cleansing Cloths ($10, target.com), to pick up anything left over. The next step would be to rinse your face and cleanse.
However, you can skip that step if you don’t have a ton of product on. “If you don’t wear that much makeup, then usually the cleansing water is enough followed by washing the face,” he explains.
For lip makeup, like lipstick, lip gloss, and lip gloss:
It really depends on how longwearing the product is, explains Nick. “In general, if it is a soft color and not a long-wearing formula, then just a makeup wipe is enough.”
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For more stubborn color and bold shades (hello, Taylor Swift red), he uses DHC Eye and Lips Remover ($12.50, dhccare.com) to fully remove the hue. No matter what, you should always always end any lip makeup removal with a lip balm to keep your puckers from looking like the Sahara desert. 
So no more excuses for me—and I hope none for you either. With this easy routine, you can hit the pillows with a fresh face every night. Your skin will thank you. 
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	People on Instagram love showing off two things: Selfies and pictures of food. We’ve even shown you this Instagram makeup artist, Tim O — who goes by skelotim on social media — who combines the two to create amazing makeup looks inspired by junk food.


And now he’s gone further. He recently posted a video of how to contour using actual food… because apparently he had nothing else to use.
If this catches on, I’d look into what holding up a burrito to your face does to your skin, but for Tim, it’s apparently the perfect contouring tool.
Makeup and application tools can be pretty pricey so I totally get not having anything else but hot sauce to use for lip gloss.
He literally holds up a french fry to his eye to do a cat eye — or what I’m going to call, a french freye.
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He doesn’t limit himself to only using the edible parts of food. He’s really resourceful.

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Yeah, that’s a burrito.

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You know this probably tastes better than actual lip gloss.

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The burrito thing seems to really do it for him.

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I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anyone who loves food and makeup this much.

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This guy is out of fucks to give. I love it.

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My question is, did he finish eating the hamburger after it touched his makeup and face? Or did he save it for the next time he needed to apply makeup?
People use food for a handful of beauty-related routines, like face masks. This just seems like the natural next step.
I honestly couldn’t tell you much about contouring to save my life, but this makeup artist is basically Picasso, breaking all the rules and everything.
Aside from the genius insanity of using junk food as makeup tools, skelotim shows us we should all embrace our inner junk food-obsessed selves. If anything, his looks are really just a great excuse to go out and buy some burritos.
In a weird way, it makes sense that the combination of food and makeup looks this good. Next time I want to try a new makeup technique, I’m just going to open my fridge.
Here’s his tasty tutorial in full:


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            Even with our best intentions, makeup application doesn't always go as planned — especially when we're test-driving new products. Sometimes we over-powder our faces. Other times, in an attempt to even out our ever-elusive cat-eyes, we over-draw our liner. (Don't you hate that?)But before you wipe off all your cosmetics and start from square one — which nobody has time for — we've got news for you: There are smart ways to tweak your existing makeup without taking it all off. We chatted with makeup artist Allie Smith to find out how. Check out her advice, ahead.Begin Slideshow
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												 Keep the laziness away. Not following simple rules can lead to skin infections and allergies. (Source: Thinkstock Images)
As monsoon approaches, it is important to keep one’s make-up safe from humidity and dampness. Here’s how.
Beauty expert Ishika Taneja, Executive Director, Alps Group, lists a few steps that one can take to safeguard make-up during the rainy season.
Store well: As powder-based products emerge as your best friends in rainy weather, prove them your love by storing them well. Place all your powder-based products like compact face powder, eye shadows and other items in an airy and dry cabinet to keep dampness away from it.
Re-sealing task: Keeping the laziness away, make sure to close the covers and lids of each product tightly after every use to not have your products face the monsoon air. In addition, this prevents it by getting dampened which, might further affect their quality and results.
Waterproof travel: As we never know of sudden shower surprises during rains, use a waterproof bag or slip pouch to store the make-up while travelling in the rainy season.
Zip-it-up: Besides products, make-up brushes can also lose their shape and working ability if not kept dry and safe during monsoon. Make sure to seal the bristles in separate zip pouches and then place in the drawers to keep humidity and fungus at a distance.
Blow dryer to the rescue: Even after taking vigorous precautions, if one accidentally ends up wetting the products, dry them using a blow dryer to get them back in action. But refrain from overdoing it or doing it too frequently as it may result in degrading the colour and quality of the item.
Check the condition: Make sure to apply these powder make-up items after checking their condition, as dampening can mingle with environmental bacteria and make these products cause infections and allergy when applied to the skin. Therefore, so use only when dry.
Smell matters: In case of a foul smell or discolouration in the product, take it as a red signal and discard it right away.
								
																
								
								
																
																
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        It's a good idea to change up your makeup routine for winterLaura Mercier global make up artist Benjamin Ruiz gave FEMAIL his tipsHe says to choose more hydrating primers and foundations in winterOnly use sponges or your fingers for foundation for a flawless finishThe right technique when applying powder is key to setting your makeup By

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Now that winter has officially hit and the temperature is finally dropping, it might be time to update your makeup routine.Everyone's skin reacts differently to cold weather compared to hot, meaning you need different products and techniques to ensure your face remains flawless all day.Femail spoke to Benjamin Ruiz, the global makeup artist for Laura Mercier, about how to get the best base to see you through winter.          Expert advice: Global make up artist for Laura Mercier Benjamin Ruiz (centre) gave Daily Mail his top tips for getting a flawless base during winter          More moisture: Mr Ruiz says that a hydrating primer is key to help avoid dry, flaky patches when you put your makeup on                            PERFECTING YOUR WINTER BASE                                                                                         Use a hydrating primer to ensure no dry, flaky patches on the face You may need a fuller coverage foundation in winter, so work that in using a makeup sponge Use concealer to build coverage around the nose and on the cheeksWith a make up brush, gently add concealer under the eyes if neededLock in your foundation with a powder on a puff                         PRIMER One of the first things, according to Mr Ruiz, is to understand your skin. Many people have skin that gets drier in the winter, meaning they need more hydration to stop makeup flaking off during the day.'Select a hydrating primer for drier skin,' he explains. 'It will help on the areas that get red and dry in cold and windy weather, like around your nose.'Technique is also important, ensuring the product has time to be absorbed. Mr Ruiz says to gently massage the primer into the skin and give it a little time to sink in before moving on. 

          Less can be more: When it comes to foundation, many people need a fuller coverage for their base, but Mr Ruiz says only ever layer on your base where you need it          Simple is best: If you want a 'second skin' look, only use a sponge or your fingers to apply foundation, never a brush FOUNDATIONFor foundation, you also might need to change the formula you use. Whilst tinted moisturiser can work well in the summer, a fuller coverage is often needed in the winter months. 'Take heed of the havoc the season can cause on your skin,' Mr Ruiz says. 'Looking for more hydrating, fuller coverage formulas.'The make up artist also says that application is key. 'Never use a brush, only ever apply foundation with a sponge or your fingers,' he says. 'You're never going to get an everyday, second skin look using a brush. It doesn't look as natural.'The other key is to only apply foundation where it's needed. You don't have to apply it all over your face, and take your time so you don't put on too much at first.           Be prepared: With concealer, always have two different shades so you can customise your perfect match in any season          Careful placement: Use concealer to give more coverage to areas that get red in the colder weather, like around your nose or on your cheeksCONCEALER Concealer can be key in the winter for getting a flawless finish. Mr Ruiz says to use the product in areas that need a little more coverage, like around the nose and on the cheeks, or under the eyes.'Always have two different shades of concealer so you can customise your perfect match,' he says. 'Use a brush and apply in sheer layers.'Like with foundation, the make up artist says to only use what you need for a better result. 'Don't be anxious to get to the end quickly,' he advises.           Technique is key: When applying powder, make the puff into the shape of a taco and roll onto the face to 'marry' the powder to the foundation          Base to build on: By following his steps, Mr Ruiz says that you'll have a flawless face for winterPOWDERThe essential final step, according to Mr Ruiz, is setting everything with a translucent loose powder. This will lock in your foundation and make sure it stays on as long as possible. And technique is especially important with powder to ensure your skin doesn't end up looking too dry. 'Using a powder puff, pick up some powder,' he explains. 'Fold the puff in and massage it together. Fold the puff the other way, in the shape of a taco, then roll it onto your skin.'Mr Ruiz assures Daily Mail that follow these steps and you will have the perfect base to build upon for your winter make up looks.  
        
        
    
      
    
    
    
    
    
 
    
    
    
    

  
    
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					Different skin tones require different makeup, so a fast and easy way to see what would work for you is to pick a star who looks similar and follow her lead! Get Lupita’s exact makeup from the Tony Awards below!
Lupita Nyong’o, 33, looked absolutely stunning, with colorful blue eye makeup and a rust-colored lip, at the Tony Awards on June 12 in New York City. Read tips from her makeup artist below!

	
	Makeup artist Nick Barose told HollywoodLife.com: “The look is fresh and summery, with warm orange and coral tones to play off of Lupita’s Hugo Boss dress. For Lupita’s eyes, I used deep blue and navy shades for definition – it’s a softer look that pops against her glowing skin.”
Makeup For Dark Skin — Copy Lupita Nyong’o &amp; Her Gorgeous Makeup At Tonys
Here’s how to copy her exact look with tips from Nick:
“I believe that every great makeup look needs to start with a good canvas. To prep her skin, I used Lancôme Advanced Génifique Youth Activating Concentrate Serum and Lancôme Advanced Génifique Eye Light Pearl.
In order to control shine, I applied Lancôme La Base Pro Pore Eraser Mattifying Primer on the T-Zone area. As her foundation, I used Lancôme Teint Idole Ultra Makeup Stick in 550 Suede C all over her face and Lancôme Maquicomplet Complete Coverage Concealer in Deep Suede under the eyes and around the mouth. Finally, I used Lancôme Translucence Mattifying Silky Pressed Powder in 550 Suedeon the T-Zone area and perimeter of her face.”
“On the apples of her her cheeks, I used Lancôme Blush Subtil Palette in Rum Raisin, along with Lancôme Glow Subtil Silky Crème Highlighter in Rosegold Lights on the top of her cheekbones to highlight.”
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“To fill in brows and add shape, I used Lancôme Sourcils Gel Waterproof Eyebrow Gel-Cream in 06 Noir. Her eye lids were prepped with Lancôme Aquatique Waterproof Eyecolour Base in 06 Sienne, then dusted with Lancôme Translucence Mattifying Silky Pressed Powder in 550 Suede to set. Across the whole lid, I used Lancôme Color Design Sensational Effects Eyeshadow in Sapphire Lace. Next, I lined her eyes with Lancôme Drama Liqui-Pencil in Parisian Night and Lancôme Grandiôse Liquid Liner in 01 Matte Black. For added drama, I coated her lashes with Lancôme Grandiôse Extreme Mascara in 01 Noire Excès.”
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“For moisturized lips, I used Lancôme Absolue Precious Cells Nourishing Lip Balm in Honey-In-Rose to prep, and lined her lips with Lancôme Le Lipstique in Sheer Chocolate. For a pop of coral color, I applied Lancôme L’Absolu Rouge in Sienna Ultime as the finishing touch.”
Will you copy Lupita’s colorful makeup look this summer, HollywoodLifers?

				
													
						
				

			

			

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        The 2016 Tony Awards have just begun, but Saoirse Ronan is already working one of the night's winning beauty looks with her rose gold eyeshadow, which her makeup artist Talia Sparrow paired with a sheer petal pink lip.
"We went for a modern and romantic look with youthful, dewy skin," Sparrow explains. "We wanted to keep the look clean and fresh, while sculpting without contouring." After a layer of Laura Mercier's Blemish-less Foundation Primer ($36; nordstrom.com), she applied the Candleglow Soft Luminous Foundation ($48; nordstrom.com), and followed with the Secret Camouflage Concealer ($35; nordstrom.com) over any areas that needed extra love. Sparrow picked up the Laura Mercier Face Illuminators in Devotion, a pale pink, and the tawny brown Seduction hue ($44 each; nordstrom.com). She used the lighter tone over the high points of Ronan's face, then did some slight contouring with the darker shade.
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After a layer of setting powder, Sparrow moved on to the eyes. She applied the Laura Mercier Caviar Eye Stick in Seashell, followed by the Pink Opal tone ($29 each; nordstrom.com) to create the rose gold tone, then defined her lash line using the Laura Mercier Kajal D'Orient Eye Liner in Noir ($28; nordstrom.com). To finish off the eye area, Sparrow cocktailed a few layers of the Long Lash Mascara ($26; nordstrom.com) along with three coats of the Full Blown Volume Mascara ($26; nordstrom.com).
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She tied each of the elements togeether by applying the Laura Mercier Paint Wash Liquid Colour in Petal Pink on Ronan's lips ($28; nordstrom.com).
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Industry experts predict that American women will spend $16 billion on cosmetics and it’s no wonder why. The promise of something that will make us look and feel better is so hard to resist, and marketers know that. "GMA" teaming up with Jeanie Ahn of Yahoo! Finance to determine the biggest wastes of money in your makeup stash and how to spend less but still look and feel your best.

According to a 2013 study by the financial service Mint, in the average American woman’s lifetime, she spends $1,780 on lipstick, $2,750 on eye shadow and $3,770 on mascara! When we look at the total amount spent the figures are staggering, but Jeanie points out that we make impulse purchases one lipstick, blush, and eye-shadow at a time. She says, “nail polish can cost anywhere from 3 to 25 dollars a bottle.”

Beauty or a Benjamin?

So we conduct a savings experiment. In Walnut Creek, California I hit the street with 20 bottles of nail polish that cost $100 and a bunch of $100 bills.
I stop the first woman I see, a college student named Amirah. “I’m offering you 20 new bottles of nail polish, cute colors OR $100 in cash?” I said. Guess what? She took the cash, as did the other two women I stop with the same offer.

I ask one of the women why. “You said you love nail polish, why not take the 20 bottles?” I said.

Her answer proves my point completely. “Because I can see the $100 and I want that more,” she replied.

Studies have shown our brains experience tiny hits of pleasure-inducing hormones when we make purchases. Saving money is discipline, taming those hormones for the delayed gratification of having, in this case, $100 in the bank.

Next question. I ask women on the street how many beauty products they own “25,” “45,” “50,” with one woman confessing to makeup hoarding with 75 products in her bathroom cabinet.

I ask: “But how many have you used in the last 2 to 3 weeks?” Her answer? “Maybe 10.”

And that ratio jibes with a 2015 study that showed women owning 40 beauty products at a time but using only 5 regularly.

Stop with the Samples

Another way we waste money is purchasing sample sized items that can be marked up considerably. As you wait in line for a cashier at most beauty stores, rows and rows of cute little lipsticks, brushes, hair products and creams promise a quick trial of a new product. But not only are they impulse buys – they can be seriously marked up. Not all products were inflated, but I found quite a few that were. In one case a conditioner was three times the price of the regular bottle.

Monthly Samples: Think Twice or 12 Times a Year

$10-a-month sample boxes are all the rage, but think twice before dropping $100 a year or more on products that may not be suited to your skin or taste. A Facebook group of thousands of members exists only to swap or sell the products subscribers don’t want or can’t use. Over 10 years of membership you’ll have hundreds of tiny plastic tubes in your bathroom and be $1,000 poorer.

BB &amp; CC creams: 3-in-one products

Another unnecessary makeup habit, applying concealer, foundation, and sunscreen. Instead buy them all in one with a BB (blemish balm) or CC (color correcting) cream. They have all three products combined and can cost less and save time and money. Sure you might own the other three, but you will use them less and stretch the more expensive products like concealer over time.

Buy Online Only When You Are Sure

With the rise of online shopping for cosmetics there’s a warning here too: don’t buy it online unless you are 100 percent sure of the shade. This is especially true with “oh-so-tricky-to-match” foundation. Yahoo's Jeannie Ahn says: “Yes, opened products can be returned to many online beauty retailers." But returns are a hassle. So do you really want to play pin the tail on the donkey with foundation when it would be so much easier to go to a department store and try them out? 
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I'm a big advocate of doing anything that makes you feel more beautiful and self expressed, including with beauty, makeup, and fashion (you can read this article on how my favorite denim jumpsuit changed my life, and this article on my favorite mantras for beauty). However, after years in fashion marketing, I came to realize just how much advertising damages us by making us think we need something. This is especially true in make-up ads that sell us an idea of how we'll be a certain kind of woman if we just buy this lipstick, that eyeliner. Oh but, my beautiful woman, that's not how true beauty works! So we're taking back makeup from the manufacturers (a $60 billion industry, by the way!) and taking our power to feel naturally beautiful for being ourselves back!
Please note: this is not a call to action to stop using makeup. On the contrary; it's a call to start using it to empower yourself rather than diminish yourself. It's a call to use makeup, and everything you do for and with your body, as a way to respect yourself more!



5 Ways Makeup Actually Makes You Feel LESS Beautiful

By making you focus on covering up your flaws
Remember that what makes you unique is your strength, not your weakness. In many European cultures, the flaw-obsession simply isn't the point, because unique is the foundation of beauty. That which is imperfect and different is endearing and admired, because it's what sets a person apart. So if most of your makeup routine is a stress session in which you focus on all the things you hate about your looks rather than adoring all the things that make you who you are (all those beautiful angles and features your mother gave you!), then it's time to re-evaluate your routine.

Because You're trying to look like someone else
The internet is a veritable treasure trove of tutorials, but a balance must be struck between taking tutelage and still attempting a bit of individual expression. Fads come and go, but in the fashion world we know that true beauty comes from being willing to stand out by being yourself. While you might learn tricks from youtube videos and online makeup how-to guides, be sure you're still allowing yourself to have fun and be the best version of yourself with this ancient form of artful vanity.

Throwing Shade Rather Than Spreading the Light: Contouring VS Highlighting
Like contouring over highlighting? Think again: This point came to light after reading the beauty and makeup tricks of French makeup artists. In France, beauty is about drawing attention to your strengths, and so they spend less time and energy (if any) creating shadows and instead highlight where they want the eye to go. This is a novel and empowering approach to beauty because it simultaneously enhances your traits while charging you with being putting your looks out there, rather than hiding parts of yourself.

You Use it to Criticize Yourself
A few years ago, I underwent an experiment of not looking in the mirror for an entire week. The idea was that I needed a way to stop the self-hating morning routine where I criticized myself every day trying to get ready. It was incredibly challenging (I was forced with finding my confidence while knowing I didn't look my best) but it worked. Now I realize that if your morning makeup routine is just a chance to criticize yourself ("I hate my nose", "my lips aren't full enough") and stress yourself out, then you're doing daily damage to your self esteem. Remember to treasure your body; it's the only one you've got. If you need help, try working with these empowering affirmations for self-esteem.

You Believe You Need It
It's not your fault, it's the marketing companies' fault. They've done this on purpose, by associating a particular product with an emotional pursuit like love and romance (blush and mascara), or confidence and authority (red lipstick). But you're smarter than that: know that you're gorgeous exactly as you are, and the only thing you need to feel beautiful is the realization that you are perfect and worthy of receiving love just as you are.



Rachael Yahne is an award-winning blogger, writer, cancer survivor and inspirational speaker. She writes lifestyle articles to help women find their purpose, feel more beautiful, and fall back in love with their lives. Her latest ebook:
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					Eva Longoria looked so glam and gorgeous at her wedding to José Antonio Bastón — read about her stunning hair and makeup look and copy it with drugstore products below!
Some of Hollywood’s biggest stars traveled to Mexico to see Eva Longoria, 41, marry José Antonio Bastón, 47, on May 21. After dating for three years, the couple looked happier than ever as they wed. Here’s how to get Eva’s stunning wedding hair and makeup!

	
	The wedding was held in Mexico and Eva looked like a princess.
Her hair was in old Hollywood waves, and pulled to one side. Her makeup focused on a smokey eye and a pretty, light pink lip.
Eva Longoria’s Wedding Hair — Makeup How To
We don’t know the exact products she wore at her wedding yet, but she is a L’Oreal brand ambassador, so we can assume she is wearing L’Oreal makeup!
She just wore the following products at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, and looked stunning! Copy her exact look below!
For a gorgeous glow, start with the L’Oréal Paris Sublime Bronze Summer Express Face Cream. For a base, use the L’Oréal Paris True Match Lumi Cushion Foundation — it’s weightless and perfect for summer.
On cheeks, use the L’Oréal Paris Glam Bronze Bronzer. If you need a more dramatic look (for wedding pics!), use the L’Oréal Paris Infallible Pro-Contour Kit. 
I personally love to layer mascaras for a wide-eyed effect without falsies. Eva just wore both the L’Oréal Paris Voluminous Butterfly Sculpt Mascara and the L’Oréal Paris Voluminous Superstar Mascara on the Cannes red carpet. 
Use the L’Oréal Paris Colour Riche La Palette Nude Intense palette, followed by the L’Oréal Paris Infallible Lacquer 24H Liner in Black to make eyes pop.
On your lips, try this nude shade with a hint of coral, that Eva wore in Cannes: L’Oréal Paris Colour Riche Lipcolor in Fairest Nude.
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For gorgeous hair, use the L’Oréal Paris Advanced Hairstyle Boost It Air-Spun Texture Mist for lift and volume and the L’Oréal Paris Advanced Haircare Nutri-Gloss High Shine Glossing Mist for stunning, shiny locks — something every girl wants on their wedding day! Stream music, completely unlimited and ad-free, RIGHT HERE
Are you obsessed with Eva’s wedding hair and makeup? Are you going to copy her look for your wedding or next big event?

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Tips from Nars director of global artistry James Boehmer on how to use their new Tahiti Bronze collection

May 18, 2016Mary Logan Bikoff 
Photograph by Aspen EvansNars Cosmetics, now open at the Shops Buckhead Atlanta, recently launched its new Tahiti Bronze collection. We asked James Boehmer, Nars’s director of global artistry, for tips on achieving a sun-kissed look that says “French Polynesia” (where founder François Nars owns an island).
1. Laguna Tiare Bronzer ($59, top left) comes in a powder compact and is easy to apply with a big, fluffy brush. “Apply to the areas of the face that receive the most sun: cheekbones, hairline, temples, bridge of the nose, and a little on the jaw line and chin,” says Boehmer.

2. If you’re not a powder kind of girl, there’s the Liquid Laguna Bronzer ($40, bottom right). Boehmer suggests using your fingers to apply to bare skin (focusing on the same spots recommended above), or mixing with foundation or moisturizer for a diffuse, all-over glow. According to Boehmer, “it is completely seamless, transparent, and edgeless, so it’s virtually foolproof.”
3. Monoi Body Glow ($59, top right) is inspired by the hydrating, fragrant body oils of French Polynesia. This coffee-colored oil is infused with Tiare flower, the “Tahitian gardenia.” “Rub it on damp skin immediately after the bath or shower,” says Boehmer. Then allow it to soak in. Not looking to tan? There’s also a non-bronzing version.
This article originally appeared in our May 2016 issue.
Tags: beauty, bronzer, Makeup, Nars
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        In 2006, Donald Trump made plans to purchase the Menie Estate, near Aberdeen, Scotland, aiming to convert the dunes and grassland into a luxury golf resort. He and the estate’s owner, Tom Griffin, sat down to discuss the transaction at the Cock &amp; Bull restaurant. Griffin recalls that Trump was a hard-nosed negotiator, reluctant to give in on even the tiniest details. But, as Michael D’Antonio writes in his recent biography of Trump, Never Enough, Griffin’s most vivid recollection of the evening pertains to the theatrics. It was as if the golden-haired guest sitting across the table were an actor playing a part on the London stage.“It was Donald Trump playing Donald Trump,” Griffin observed. There was something unreal about it.The same feeling perplexed Mark Singer in the late 1990s when he was working on a profile of Trump for The New Yorker. Singer wondered what went through his mind when he was not playing the public role of Donald Trump. What are you thinking about, Singer asked him, when you are shaving in front of the mirror in the morning? Trump, Singer writes, appeared baffled. Hoping to uncover the man behind the actor’s mask, Singer tried a different tack:“O.K., I guess I’m asking, do you consider yourself ideal company?”“You really want to know what I consider ideal company?,” Trump replied. “A total piece of ass.”I might have phrased Singer’s question this way: Who are you, Mr. Trump, when you are alone? Singer never got an answer, leaving him to conclude that the real-estate mogul who would become a reality-TV star and, after that, a leading candidate for president of the United States had managed to achieve something remarkable: “an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul.”From Our June 2016 Issue

    
        
        
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Is Singer’s assessment too harsh? Perhaps it is, in at least one sense. As brainy social animals, human beings evolved to be consummate actors whose survival and ability to reproduce depend on the quality of our performances. We enter the world prepared to perform roles and manage the impressions of others, with the ultimate evolutionary aim of getting along and getting ahead in the social groups that define who we are.More than even Ronald Reagan, Trump seems supremely cognizant of the fact that he is always acting. He moves through life like a man who knows he is always being observed. If all human beings are, by their very nature, social actors, then Donald Trump seems to be more so—superhuman, in this one primal sense.Many questions have arisen about Trump during this campaign season—about his platform, his knowledge of issues, his inflammatory language, his level of comfort with political violence. This article touches on some of that. But its central aim is to create a psychological portrait of the man. Who is he, really? How does his mind work? How might he go about making decisions in office, were he to become president? And what does all that suggest about the sort of president he’d be?
Mark Peterson / ReduxIn creating this portrait, I will draw from well-validated concepts in the fields of personality, developmental, and social psychology. Ever since Sigmund Freud analyzed the life and art of Leonardo da Vinci, in 1910, scholars have applied psychological lenses to the lives of famous people. Many early efforts relied upon untested, nonscientific ideas. In recent years, however, psychologists have increasingly used the tools and concepts of psychological science to shed light on notable lives, as I did in a 2011 book on George W. Bush. A large and rapidly growing body of research shows that people’s temperament, their characteristic motivations and goals, and their internal conceptions of themselves are powerful predictors of what they will feel, think, and do in the future, and powerful aids in explaining why. In the realm of politics, psychologists have recently demonstrated how fundamental features of human personality—such as extroversion and narcissism—shaped the distinctive leadership styles of past U. S. presidents, and the decisions they made. While a range of factors, such as world events and political realities, determine what political leaders can and will do in office, foundational tendencies in human personality, which differ dramatically from one leader to the next, are among them.Trump’s personality is certainly extreme by any standard, and particularly rare for a presidential candidate; many people who encounter the man—in negotiations or in interviews or on a debate stage or watching that debate on television—seem to find him flummoxing. In this essay, I will seek to uncover the key dispositions, cognitive styles, motivations, and self-conceptions that together comprise his unique psychological makeup. Trump declined to be interviewed for this story, but his life history has been well documented in his own books and speeches, in biographical sources, and in the press. My aim is to develop a dispassionate and analytical perspective on Trump, drawing upon some of the most important ideas and research findings in psychological science today.I. His DispositionFifty years of empirical research in personality psychology have resulted in a scientific consensus regarding the most basic dimensions of human variability. There are countless ways to differentiate one person from the next, but psychological scientists have settled on a relatively simple taxonomy, known widely as the Big Five:Extroversion: gregariousness, social dominance, enthusiasm, reward-seeking behaviorNeuroticism: anxiety, emotional instability, depressive tendencies, negative emotionsConscientiousness: industriousness, discipline, rule abidance, organizationAgreeableness: warmth, care for others, altruism, compassion, modestyOpenness: curiosity, unconventionality, imagination, receptivity to new ideasMost people score near the middle on any given dimension, but some score toward one pole or the other. Research decisively shows that higher scores on extroversion are associated with greater happiness and broader social connections, higher scores on conscientiousness predict greater success in school and at work, and higher scores on agreeableness are associated with deeper relationships. By contrast, higher scores on neuroticism are always bad, having proved to be a risk factor for unhappiness, dysfunctional relationships, and mental-health problems. From adolescence through midlife, many people tend to become more conscientious and agreeable, and less neurotic, but these changes are typically slight: The Big Five personality traits are pretty stable across a person’s lifetime.The psychologists Steven J. Rubenzer and Thomas R. Faschingbauer, in conjunction with about 120 historians and other experts, have rated all the former U.S. presidents, going back to George Washington, on all five of the trait dimensions. George W. Bush comes out as especially high on extroversion and low on openness to experience—a highly enthusiastic and outgoing social actor who tends to be incurious and intellectually rigid. Barack Obama is relatively introverted, at least for a politician, and almost preternaturally low on neuroticism—emotionally calm and dispassionate, perhaps to a fault.Across his lifetime, Donald Trump has exhibited a trait profile that you would not expect of a U.S. president: sky-high extroversion combined with off-the-chart low agreeableness. This is my own judgment, of course, but I believe that a great majority of people who observe Trump would agree. There is nothing especially subtle about trait attributions. We are not talking here about deep, unconscious processes or clinical diagnoses. As social actors, our performances are out there for everyone to see.Like George W. Bush and Bill Clinton (and Teddy Roosevelt, who tops the presidential extroversion list), Trump plays his role in an outgoing, exuberant, and socially dominant manner. He is a dynamo—driven, restless, unable to keep still. He gets by with very little sleep. In his 1987 book, The Art of the Deal, Trump described his days as stuffed with meetings and phone calls. Some 30 years later, he is still constantly interacting with other people—at rallies, in interviews, on social media. Presidential candidates on the campaign trail are studies in perpetual motion. But nobody else seems to embrace the campaign with the gusto of Trump. And no other candidate seems to have so much fun. A sampling of his tweets at the time of this writing:&#13;
3:13 a.m., April 12: “WOW, great new poll—New York! Thank you for your support!”&#13;
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4:22 a.m., April 9: “Bernie Sanders says that Hillary Clinton is unqualified to be president. Based on her decision making ability, I can go along with that!”&#13;
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5:03 a.m., April 8: “So great to be in New York. Catching up on many things (remember, I am still running a major business while I campaign), and loving it!”&#13;
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12:25 p.m., April 5: “Wow, @Politico is in total disarray with almost everyone quitting. Good news—bad, dishonest journalists!”&#13;
A cardinal feature of high extroversion is relentless reward-seeking. Prompted by the activity of dopamine circuits in the brain, highly extroverted actors are driven to pursue positive emotional experiences, whether they come in the form of social approval, fame, or wealth. Indeed, it is the pursuit itself, more so even than the actual attainment of the goal, that extroverts find so gratifying. When Barbara Walters asked Trump in 1987 whether he would like to be appointed president of the United States, rather than having to run for the job, Trump said no: “It’s the hunt that I believe I love.”Trump’s agreeableness seems even more extreme than his extroversion, but in the opposite direction. Arguably the most highly valued human trait the world over, agreeableness pertains to the extent to which a person appears to be caring, loving, affectionate, polite, and kind. Trump loves his family, for sure. He is reported to be a generous and fair-minded boss. There is even a famous story about his meeting with a boy who was dying of cancer. A fan of The Apprentice, the young boy simply wanted Trump to tell him, “You’re fired!” Trump could not bring himself to do it, but instead wrote the boy a check for several thousand dollars and told him, “Go and have the time of your life.” But like extroversion and the other Big Five traits, agreeableness is about an overall style of relating to others and to the world, and these noteworthy exceptions run against the broad social reputation Trump has garnered as a remarkably disagreeable person, based upon a lifetime of widely observed interactions. People low in agreeableness are described as callous, rude, arrogant, and lacking in empathy. If Donald Trump does not score low on this personality dimension, then probably nobody does.Researchers rank Richard Nixon as the nation’s most disagreeable president. But he was sweetness and light compared with the man who once sent The New York Times’ Gail Collins a copy of her own column with her photo circled and the words “The Face of a Dog!” scrawled on it. Complaining in Never Enough about “some nasty shit” that Cher, the singer and actress, once said about him, Trump bragged: “I knocked the shit out of her” on Twitter, “and she never said a thing about me after that.” At campaign rallies, Trump has encouraged his supporters to rough up protesters. “Get ’em out of here!” he yells. “I’d like to punch him in the face.” From unsympathetic journalists to political rivals, Trump calls his opponents “disgusting” and writes them off as “losers.” By the standards of reality TV, Trump’s disagreeableness may not be so shocking. But political candidates who want people to vote for them rarely behave like this.Trump’s tendencies toward social ambition and aggressiveness were evident very early in his life, as we will see later. (By his own account, he once punched his second-grade music teacher, giving him a black eye.) According to Barbara Res, who in the early 1980s served as vice president in charge of construction of Trump Tower in Manhattan, the emotional core around which Donald Trump’s personality constellates is anger: “As far as the anger is concerned, that’s real for sure. He’s not faking it,” she told The Daily Beast in February.  “The fact that he gets mad, that’s his personality.” Indeed, anger may be the operative emotion behind Trump’s high extroversion as well as his low agreeableness. Anger can fuel malice, but it can also motivate social dominance, stoking a desire to win the adoration of others. Combined with a considerable gift for humor (which may also be aggressive), anger lies at the heart of Trump’s charisma. And anger permeates his political rhetoric.Imagine Donald Trump in the White House. What kind of decision maker might he be?It is very difficult to predict the actions a president will take. When the dust settled after the 2000 election, did anybody foresee that George W. Bush would someday launch a preemptive invasion of Iraq? If so, I haven’t read about it. Bush probably would never have gone after Saddam Hussein if 9/11 had not happened. But world events invariably hijack a presidency. Obama inherited a devastating recession, and after the 2010 midterm elections, he struggled with a recalcitrant Republican Congress. What kinds of decisions might he have made had these events not occurred? We will never know.
Mark Peterson / ReduxStill, dispositional personality traits may provide clues to a president’s decision-making style. Research suggests that extroverts tend to take high-stakes risks and that people with low levels of openness rarely question their deepest convictions. Entering office with high levels of extroversion and very low openness, Bush was predisposed to make bold decisions aimed at achieving big rewards, and to make them with the assurance that he could not be wrong. As I argued in my psychological biography of Bush, the game-changing decision to invade Iraq was the kind of decision he was likely to make. As world events transpired to open up an opportunity for the invasion, Bush found additional psychological affirmation both in his lifelong desire—pursued again and again before he ever became president—to defend his beloved father from enemies (think: Saddam Hussein) and in his own life story, wherein the hero liberates himself from oppressive forces (think: sin, alcohol) to restore peace and freedom.Like Bush, a President Trump might try to swing for the fences in an effort to deliver big payoffs—to make America great again, as his campaign slogan says. As a real-estate developer, he has certainly taken big risks, although he has become a more conservative businessman following setbacks in the 1990s. As a result of the risks he has taken, Trump can (and does) point to luxurious urban towers, lavish golf courses, and a personal fortune that is, by some estimates, in the billions, all of which clearly bring him big psychic rewards. Risky decisions have also resulted in four Chapter 11 business bankruptcies involving some of his casinos and resorts. Because he is not burdened with Bush’s low level of openness (psychologists have rated Bush at the bottom of the list on this trait), Trump may be a more flexible and pragmatic decision maker, more like Bill Clinton than Bush: He may look longer and harder than Bush did before he leaps. And because he is viewed as markedly less ideological than most presidential candidates (political observers note that on some issues he seems conservative, on others liberal, and on still others nonclassifiable), Trump may be able to switch positions easily, leaving room to maneuver in negotiations with Congress and foreign leaders. But on balance, he’s unlikely to shy away from risky decisions that, should they work out, could burnish his legacy and provide him an emotional payoff.The real psychological wild card, however, is Trump’s agreeableness—or lack thereof. There has probably never been a U.S. president as consistently and overtly disagreeable on the public stage as Donald Trump is. If Nixon comes closest, we might predict that Trump’s style of decision making would look like the hard-nosed realpolitik that Nixon and his secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, displayed in international affairs during the early 1970s, along with its bare-knuckled domestic analog. That may not be all bad, depending on one’s perspective. Not readily swayed by warm sentiments or humanitarian impulses, decision makers who, like Nixon, are dispositionally low on agreeableness might hold certain advantages when it comes to balancing competing interests or bargaining with adversaries, such as China in Nixon’s time. In international affairs, Nixon was tough, pragmatic, and coolly rational. Trump seems capable of a similar toughness and strategic pragmatism, although the cool rationality does not always seem to fit, probably because Trump’s disagreeableness appears so strongly motivated by anger.In domestic politics, Nixon was widely recognized to be cunning, callous, cynical, and Machiavellian, even by the standards of American politicians. Empathy was not his strong suit. This sounds a lot like Donald Trump, too—except you have to add the ebullient extroversion, the relentless showmanship, and the larger-than-life celebrity. Nixon could never fill a room the way Trump can.Research shows that people low in agreeableness are typically viewed as untrustworthy. Dishonesty and deceit brought down Nixon and damaged the institution of the presidency. It is generally believed today that all politicians lie, or at least dissemble, but Trump appears extreme in this regard. Assessing the truthfulness of the 2016 candidates’ campaign statements, PolitiFact recently calculated that only 2 percent of the claims made by Trump are true, 7 percent are mostly true, 15 percent are half true, 15 percent are mostly false, 42 percent are false, and 18 percent are “pants on fire.” Adding up the last three numbers (from mostly false to flagrantly so), Trump scores 75 percent. The corresponding figures for Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Bernie Sanders, and Hillary Clinton, respectively, are 66, 32, 31, and 29 percent.In sum, Donald Trump’s basic personality traits suggest a presidency that could be highly combustible. One possible yield is an energetic, activist president who has a less than cordial relationship with the truth. He could be a daring and ruthlessly aggressive decision maker who desperately desires to create the strongest, tallest, shiniest, and most awesome result—and who never thinks twice about the collateral damage he will leave behind. Tough. Bellicose. Threatening. Explosive.In the presidential contest of 1824, Andrew Jackson won the most electoral votes, edging out John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and William Crawford. Because Jackson did not have a majority, however, the election was decided in the House of Representatives, where Adams prevailed. Adams subsequently chose Clay as his secretary of state. Jackson’s supporters were infuriated by what they described as a “corrupt bargain” between Adams and Clay. The Washington establishment had defied the will of the people, they believed. Jackson rode the wave of public resentment to victory four years later, marking a dramatic turning point in American politics. A beloved hero of western farmers and frontiersmen, Jackson was the first nonaristocrat to become president. He was the first president to invite everyday folk to the inaugural reception. To the horror of the political elite, throngs tracked mud through the White House and broke dishes and decorative objects. Washington insiders reviled Jackson. They saw him as intemperate, vulgar, and stupid. Opponents called him a jackass—the origin of the donkey symbol for the Democratic Party. In a conversation with Daniel Webster in 1824, Thomas Jefferson described Jackson as “one of the most unfit men I know of” to become president of the United States, “a dangerous man” who cannot speak in a civilized manner because he “choke[s] with rage,” a man whose “passions are terrible.” Jefferson feared that the slightest insult from a foreign leader could impel Jackson to declare war. Even Jackson’s friends and admiring colleagues feared his volcanic temper. Jackson fought at least 14 duels in his life, leaving him with bullet fragments lodged throughout his body. On the last day of his presidency, he admitted to only two regrets: that he was never able to shoot Henry Clay or hang John C. Calhoun.The similarities between Andrew Jackson and Donald Trump do not end with their aggressive temperaments and their respective positions as Washington outsiders. The similarities extend to the dynamic created between these dominant social actors and their adoring audiences—or, to be fairer to Jackson, what Jackson’s political opponents consistently feared that dynamic to be. They named Jackson “King Mob” for what they perceived as his demagoguery. Jackson was an angry populist, they believed—a wild-haired mountain man who channeled the crude sensibilities of the masses. More than 100 years before social scientists would invent the concept of the authoritarian personality to explain the people who are drawn to autocratic leaders, Jackson’s detractors feared what a popular strongman might do when encouraged by an angry mob.During and after World War II, psychologists conceived of the authoritarian personality as a pattern of attitudes and values revolving around adherence to society’s traditional norms, submission to authorities who personify or reinforce those norms, and antipathy—to the point of hatred and aggression—toward those who either challenge in-group norms or lie outside their orbit. Among white Americans, high scores on measures of authoritarianism today tend to be associated with prejudice against a wide range of “out-groups,” including homosexuals, African Americans, immigrants, and Muslims. Authoritarianism is also associated with suspiciousness of the humanities and the arts, and with cognitive rigidity, militaristic sentiments, and Christian fundamentalism.When individuals with authoritarian proclivities fear that their way of life is being threatened, they may turn to strong leaders who promise to keep them safe—leaders like Donald Trump. In a national poll conducted recently by the political scientist Matthew MacWilliams, high levels of authoritarianism emerged as the single strongest predictor of expressing political support for Donald Trump. Trump’s promise to build a wall on the Mexican border to keep illegal immigrants out and his railing against Muslims and other outsiders have presumably fed that dynamic.As the social psychologist Jesse Graham has noted, Trump appeals to an ancient fear of contagion, which analogizes out-groups to parasites, poisons, and other impurities. In this regard, it is perhaps no psychological accident that Trump displays a phobia of germs, and seems repulsed by bodily fluids, especially women’s. He famously remarked that Megyn Kelly of Fox News had “blood coming out of her wherever,” and he repeatedly characterized Hillary Clinton’s bathroom break during a Democratic debate as “disgusting.” Disgust is a primal response to impurity. On a daily basis, Trump seems to experience more disgust, or at least to say he does, than most people do.The authoritarian mandate is to ensure the security, purity, and goodness of the in-group—to keep the good stuff in and the bad stuff out. In the 1820s, white settlers in Georgia and other frontier areas lived in constant fear of American Indian tribes. They resented the federal government for not keeping them safe from what they perceived to be a mortal threat and a corrupting contagion. Responding to these fears, President Jackson pushed hard for the passage of the Indian Removal Act, which eventually led to the forced relocation of 45,000 American Indians. At least 4,000 Cherokees died on the Trail of Tears, which ran from Georgia to the Oklahoma territory.An American strand of authoritarianism may help explain why the thrice-married, foul-mouthed Donald Trump should prove to be so attractive to white Christian evangelicals. As Jerry Falwell Jr. told The New York Times in February, “All the social issues—traditional family values, abortion—are moot if isis blows up some of our cities or if the borders are not fortified.” Rank-and-file evangelicals “are trying to save the country,” Falwell said. Being “saved” has a special resonance among evangelicals—saved from sin and damnation, of course, but also saved from the threats and impurities of a corrupt and dangerous world.When my research associates and I once asked politically conservative Christians scoring high on authoritarianism to imagine what their life (and their world) might have been like had they never found religious faith, many described utter chaos—families torn apart, rampant infidelity and hate, cities on fire, the inner rings of hell. By contrast, equally devout politically liberal Christians who scored low on authoritarianism described a barren world depleted of all resources, joyless and bleak, like the arid surface of the moon. For authoritarian Christians, a strong faith—like a strong leader—saves them from chaos and tamps down fears and conflicts. Donald Trump is a savior, even if he preens and swears, and waffles on the issue of abortion.In December, on the campaign trail in Raleigh, North Carolina, Trump stoked fears in his audience by repeatedly saying that “something bad is happening” and “something really dangerous is going on.” He was asked by a 12-year-old girl from Virginia, “I’m scared—what are you going to do to protect this country?”Trump responded: “You know what, darling? You’re not going to be scared anymore. They’re going to be scared.”II. His Mental HabitsIn The Art of the Deal, Trump counsels executives, CEOs, and other deal makers to “think big,” “use your leverage,” and always “fight back.” When you go into a negotiation, you must begin from a position of unassailable strength. You must project bigness. “I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I’m after,” he writes.For Trump, the concept of “the deal” represents what psychologists call a personal schema—a way of knowing the world that permeates his thoughts. Cognitive-science research suggests that people rely on personal schemata to process new social information efficiently and effectively. By their very nature, however, schemata narrow a person’s focus to a few well-worn approaches that may have worked in the past, but may not necessarily bend to accommodate changing circumstances. A key to successful decision making is knowing what your schemata are, so that you can change them when you need to.Trump, shown here at the opening of the Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City in 1990, is dispositionally inclined to high-risk, high-reward decisions, as are many extroverts. His personality is similar to George W. Bush’s in this respect. (Mike Derer / AP)In the negotiations for the Menie Estate in Scotland, Trump wore Tom Griffin down by making one outlandish demand after another and bargaining hard on even the most trivial issues of disagreement. He never quit fighting. “Sometimes, part of making a deal is denigrating your competition,” Trump writes. When local residents refused to sell properties that Trump needed in order to finish the golf resort, he ridiculed them on the Late Show With David Letterman and in newspapers, describing the locals as rubes who lived in “disgusting” ramshackle hovels. As D’Antonio recounts in Never Enough, Trump’s attacks incurred the enmity of millions in the British Isles, inspired an award-winning documentary highly critical of Trump (You’ve Been Trumped), and transformed a local farmer and part-time fisherman named Michael Forbes into a national hero. After painting the words no golf course on his barn and telling Trump he could “take his money and shove it up his arse,” Forbes received the 2012 Top Scot honor at the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards. (That same year, Trump’s golf course was completed nonetheless. He promised that its construction would create 1,200 permanent jobs in the Aberdeen area, but to date, only about 200 have been documented.)Trump’s recommendations for successful deal making include less antagonistic strategies: “protect the downside” (anticipate what can go wrong), “maximize your options,” “know your market,” “get the word out,” and “have fun.” As president, Trump would negotiate better trade deals with China, he says, guarantee a better health-care system by making deals with pharmaceutical companies and hospitals, and force Mexico to agree to a deal whereby it would pay for a border wall. On the campaign trail, he has often said that he would simply pick up the phone and call people—say, a CEO wishing to move his company to Mexico—in order to make propitious deals for the American people.Trump’s focus on personal relationships and one-on-one negotiating pays respect to a venerable political tradition. For example, a contributor to Lyndon B. Johnson’s success in pushing through civil-rights legislation and other social programs in the 1960s was his unparalleled expertise in cajoling lawmakers. Obama, by contrast, has been accused of failing to put in the personal effort needed to forge close and productive relationships with individual members of Congress.Having said that, deal making is an apt description for only some presidential activities, and the modern presidency is too complex to rely mainly on personal relationships. Presidents work within institutional frameworks that transcend the idiosyncratic relationships between specific people, be they heads of state, Cabinet secretaries, or members of Congress. The most-effective leaders are able to maintain some measure of distance from the social and emotional fray of everyday politics. Keeping the big picture in mind and balancing a myriad of competing interests, they cannot afford to invest too heavily in any particular relationship. For U.S. presidents, the political is not merely personal. It has to be much more.Trump has hinted at other means through which he might address the kind of complex, long-standing problems that presidents face. “Here’s the way I work,” he writes in Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again, the campaign manifesto he published late last year. “I find the people who are the best in the world at what needs to be done, then I hire them to do it, and then I let them do it … but I always watch over them.” And Trump knows that he cannot do it alone:Many of our problems, caused by years of stupid decisions, or no decisions at all, have grown into a huge mess. If I could wave a magic wand and fix them, I’d do it. But there are a lot of different voices—and interests—that have to be considered when working toward solutions. This involves getting people into a room and negotiating compromises until everyone walks out of that room on the same page.Amid the polarized political rhetoric of 2016, it is refreshing to hear a candidate invoke the concept of compromise and acknowledge that different voices need to be heard. Still, Trump’s image of a bunch of people in a room hashing things out connotes a neater and more self-contained process than political reality affords. It is possible that Trump could prove to be adept as the helmsman of an unwieldy government whose operation involves much more than striking deals—but that would require a set of schemata and skills that appear to lie outside his accustomed way of solving problems.III. His MotivationsFor psychologists, it is almost impossible to talk about Donald Trump without using the word narcissism. Asked to sum up Trump’s personality for an article in Vanity Fair, Howard Gardner, a psychologist at Harvard, responded, “Remarkably narcissistic.” George Simon, a clinical psychologist who conducts seminars on manipulative behavior, says Trump is “so classic that I’m archiving video clips of him to use in workshops because there’s no better example” of narcissism. “Otherwise I would have had to hire actors and write vignettes. He’s like a dream come true.”When I walk north on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, where I live, I often stop to admire the sleek tower that Trump built on the Chicago River. But why did he have to stencil his name in 20‑foot letters across the front? As nearly everybody knows, Trump has attached his name to pretty much everything he has ever touched—from casinos to steaks to a so-called university that promised to teach students how to become rich. Self-references pervade Trump’s speeches and conversations, too. When, in the summer of 1999, he stood up to offer remarks at his father’s funeral, Trump spoke mainly about himself. It was the toughest day of his own life, Trump began. He went on to talk about Fred Trump’s greatest achievement: raising a brilliant and renowned son. As Gwenda Blair writes in her three-generation biography of the Trump family, The Trumps, “the first-person singular pronouns, the I and me and my, eclipsed the he and his. Where others spoke of their memories of Fred Trump, [Donald] spoke of Fred Trump’s endorsement.”In the ancient Greek legend, the beautiful boy Narcissus falls so completely in love with the reflection of himself in a pool that he plunges into the water and drowns. The story provides the mythical source for the modern concept of narcissism, which is conceived as excessive self-love and the attendant qualities of grandiosity and a sense of entitlement. Highly narcissistic people are always trying to draw attention to themselves. Repeated and inordinate self-reference is a distinguishing feature of their personality.To consider the role of narcissism in Donald Trump’s life is to go beyond the dispositional traits of the social actor—beyond the high extroversion and low agreeableness, beyond his personal schemata for decision making—to try to figure out what motivates the man. What does Donald Trump really want? What are his most valued life goals?Narcissus wanted, more than anything else, to love himself. People with strong narcissistic needs want to love themselves, and they desperately want others to love them too—or at least admire them, see them as brilliant and powerful and beautiful, even just see them, period. The fundamental life goal is to promote the greatness of the self, for all to see. “I’m the king of Palm Beach,” Trump told the journalist Timothy O’Brien for his 2005 book, TrumpNation. Celebrities and rich people “all come over” to Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s exclusive Palm Beach estate. “They all eat, they all love me, they all kiss my ass. And then they all leave and say, ‘Isn’t he horrible.’ But I’m the king.”The renowned psychoanalytic theorist Heinz Kohut argued that narcissism stems from a deficiency in early-life mirroring: The parents fail to lovingly reflect back the young boy’s (or girl’s) own budding grandiosity, leaving the child in desperate need of affirmation from others. Accordingly, some experts insist that narcissistic motivations cover up an underlying insecurity. But others argue that there is nothing necessarily compensatory, or even immature, about certain forms of narcissism. Consistent with this view, I can find no evidence in the biographical record to suggest that Donald Trump experienced anything but a loving relationship with his mother and father. Narcissistic people like Trump may seek glorification over and over, but not necessarily because they suffered from negative family dynamics as children. Rather, they simply cannot get enough. The parental praise and strong encouragement that might reinforce a sense of security for most boys and young men may instead have added rocket fuel to Donald Trump’s hot ambitions.Ever since grade school, Trump has wanted to be No. 1. Attending New York Military Academy for high school, he was relatively popular among his peers and with the faculty, but he did not have any close confidants. As both a coach and an admiring classmate recall in The Trumps, Donald stood out for being the most competitive young man in a very competitive environment. His need to excel—to be the best athlete in school, for example, and to chart out the most ambitious future career—may have crowded out intense friendships by making it impossible for him to show the kind of weakness and vulnerability that true intimacy typically requires.Whereas you might think that narcissism would be part of the job description for anybody aspiring to become the chief executive of the United States, American presidents appear to have varied widely on this psychological construct. In a 2013 Psychological Science research article, behavioral scientists ranked U.S. presidents on characteristics of what the authors called “grandiose narcissism.” Lyndon Johnson scored the highest, followed closely by Teddy Roosevelt and Andrew Jackson. Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Nixon, and Clinton were next. Millard Fillmore ranked the lowest. Correlating these ranks with objective indices of presidential performance, the researchers found that narcissism in presidents is something of a double-edged sword. On the positive side, grandiose narcissism is associated with initiating legislation, public persuasiveness, agenda setting, and historians’ ratings of “greatness.” On the negative side, it is also associated with unethical behavior and congressional impeachment resolutions.
Mark Peterson / ReduxIn business, government, sports, and many other arenas, people will put up with a great deal of self-serving and obnoxious behavior on the part of narcissists as long as the narcissists continually perform at high levels. Steve Jobs was, in my opinion, every bit Trump’s equal when it comes to grandiose narcissism. He heaped abuse on colleagues, subordinates, and friends; cried, at age 27, when he learned that Time magazine had not chosen him to be Man of the Year; and got upset when he received a congratulatory phone call, following the iPad’s introduction in 2010, from President Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, rather than the president himself. Unlike Trump, he basically ignored his kids, to the point of refusing to acknowledge for some time that one of them was his.Psychological research demonstrates that many narcissists come across as charming, witty, and charismatic upon initial acquaintance. They can attain high levels of popularity and esteem in the short term. As long as they prove to be successful and brilliant—like Steve Jobs—they may be able to weather criticism and retain their exalted status. But more often than not, narcissists wear out their welcome. Over time, people become annoyed, if not infuriated, by their self-centeredness. When narcissists begin to disappoint those whom they once dazzled, their descent can be especially precipitous. There is still truth today in the ancient proverb: Pride goeth before the fall.IV. His Self-ConceptionThe president of the United States is more than a chief executive. He (or she) is also a symbol, for the nation and for the world, of what it means to be an American. Much of the president’s power to represent and to inspire comes from narrative. It is largely through the stories he tells or personifies, and through the stories told about him, that a president exerts moral force and fashions a nation-defining legacy.Like all of us, presidents create in their minds personal life stories—or what psychologists call narrative identities—to explain how they came to be who they are. This process is often unconscious, involving the selective reinterpretation of the past and imagination of the future. A growing body of research in personality, developmental, and social psychology demonstrates that a life story provides adults with a sense of coherence, purpose, and continuity over time. Presidents’ narratives about themselves can also color their view of national identity, and influence their understanding of national priorities and progress.In middle age, George W. Bush formulated a life story that traced the transformation of a drunken ne’er-do-well into a self-regulated man of God. Key events in the story were his decision to marry a steady librarian at age 31, his conversion to evangelical Christianity in his late 30s, and his giving up alcohol forever the day after his 40th birthday party. By atoning for his sins and breaking his addiction, Bush was able to recover the feeling of control and freedom that he had enjoyed as a young boy growing up in Midland, Texas. Extending his narrative to the story of his country, Bush believed that American society could recapture the wholesome family values and small-town decency of yesteryear, by embracing a brand of compassionate conservatism. On the international front, he believed that oppressed people everywhere could enjoy the same kind of God-given rights—self-determination and freedom—if they could be emancipated from their oppressors. His redemptive story helped him justify, for better and for worse, a foreign war aimed at overthrowing a tyrant.In Dreams From My Father, Barack Obama told his own redemptive life story, tracking a move from enslavement to liberation. Obama, of course, did not directly experience the horrors of slavery or the indignities of Jim Crow discrimination. But he imagined himself as the heir to that legacy, the Joshua to the Moses of Martin Luther King Jr. and other past advocates for human rights who had cleared a path for him. His story was a progressive narrative of ascent that mirrored the nation’s march toward equality and freedom—the long arc of history that bends toward justice, as King described it. Obama had already identified himself as a protagonist in this grand narrative by the time he married Michelle Robinson, at age 31.What about Donald Trump? What is the narrative he has constructed in his own mind about how he came to be the person he is today? And can we find inspiration there for a compelling American story?Trump in 1987 with his father, Fred, his sister-in-law Blaine, and his brother Robert. When Trump was a child, his father encouraged him to be a “killer,” and sought to channel his aggression. (Robert Maass / Corbis)Our narrative identities typically begin with our earliest memories of childhood. Rather than faithful reenactments of the past as it actually was, these distant memories are more like mythic renderings of what we imagine the world to have been. Bush’s earliest recollections were about innocence, freedom, and good times growing up on the West Texas plains. For Obama, there is a sense of wonder but also confusion about his place in the world. Donald Trump grew up in a wealthy 1950s family with a mother who was devoted to the children and a father who was devoted to work. Parked in front of their mansion in Jamaica Estates, Queens, was a Cadillac for him and a Rolls-Royce for her. All five Trump children—Donald was the fourth—enjoyed a family environment in which their parents loved them and loved each other. And yet the first chapter in Donald Trump’s story, as he tells it today, expresses nothing like Bush’s gentle nostalgia or Obama’s curiosity. Instead, it is saturated with a sense of danger and a need for toughness: The world cannot be trusted.Fred Trump made a fortune building, owning, and managing apartment complexes in Queens and Brooklyn. On weekends, he would occasionally take one or two of his children along to inspect buildings. “He would drag me around with him while he collected small rents in tough sections of Brooklyn,” Donald recalls in Crippled America. “It’s not fun being a landlord. You have to be tough.” On one such trip, Donald asked Fred why he always stood to the side of the tenant’s door after ringing the bell. “Because sometimes they shoot right through the door,” his father replied. While Fred’s response may have been an exaggeration, it reflected his worldview. He trained his sons to be tough competitors, because his own experience taught him that if you were not vigilant and fierce, you would never survive in business. His lessons in toughness dovetailed with Donald’s inborn aggressive temperament. “Growing up in Queens, I was a pretty tough kid,” Trump writes. “I wanted to be the toughest kid in the neighborhood.”Fred applauded Donald’s toughness and encouraged him to be a “killer,” but he was not too keen about the prospects of juvenile delinquency. His decision to send his 13-year-old son off to military school, so as to alloy aggression with discipline, followed Donald’s trip on the subway into Manhattan, with a friend, to purchase switchblades. As Trump tells it decades later, New York Military Academy was “a tough, tough place. There were ex–drill sergeants all over the place.” The instructors “used to beat the shit out of you; those guys were rough.”Military school reinforced the strong work ethic and sense of discipline Trump had learned from his father. And it taught him how to deal with aggressive men, like his intimidating baseball coach, Theodore Dobias:What I did, basically, was to convey that I respected his authority, but that he didn’t intimidate me. It was a delicate balance. Like so many strong guys, Dobias had a tendency to go for the jugular if he smelled weakness. On the other hand, if he sensed strength but you didn’t try to undermine him, he treated you like a man.Trump has never forgotten the lesson he learned from his father and from his teachers at the academy: The world is a dangerous place. You have to be ready to fight. The same lesson was reinforced in the greatest tragedy that Trump has heretofore known—the death of his older brother at age 43. Freddy Trump was never able to thrive in the competitive environment that his father created. Described by Blair in The Trumps as “too much the sweet lightweight, a mawkish but lovable loser,” Freddy failed to impress his father in the family business and eventually became an airline pilot. Alcoholism contributed to his early death. Donald, who doesn’t drink, loved his brother and grieved when he died. “Freddy just wasn’t a killer,” he concluded.In Trump’s own words from a 1981 People interview, the fundamental backdrop for his life narrative is this: “Man is the most vicious of all animals, and life is a series of battles ending in victory or defeat.” The protagonist of this story is akin to what the great 20th-century scholar and psychoanalyst Carl Jung identified in myth and folklore as the archetypal warrior. According to Jung, the warrior’s greatest gifts are courage, discipline, and skill; his central life task is to fight for what matters; his typical response to a problem is to slay it or otherwise defeat it; his greatest fear is weakness or impotence. The greatest risk for the warrior is that he incites gratuitous violence in others, and brings it upon himself.Trump loves boxing and football, and once owned a professional football team. In the opening segment of The Apprentice, he welcomes the television audience to a brutal Darwinian world:New York. My city. Where the wheels of the global economy never stop turning. A concrete metropolis of unparalleled strength and purpose that drives the business world. Manhattan is a tough place. This island is the real jungle. If you’re not careful, it can chew you up and spit you out. But if you work hard, you can really hit it big, and I mean really big.The story here is not so much about making money. As Trump has written, “money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score.” The story instead is about coming out on top.As president, Donald Trump promises, he would make America great again. In Crippled America, he says that a first step toward victory is building up the armed forces: “Everything begins with a strong military. Everything.” The enemies facing the United States are more terrifying than those the hero has confronted in Queens and Manhattan. “There has never been a more dangerous time,” Trump says. Members of isis “are medieval barbarians” who must be pursued “relentlessly wherever they are, without stopping, until every one of them is dead.” Less frightening but no less belligerent are our economic competitors, like the Chinese. They keep beating us. We have to beat them.Economic victory is one thing; starting and winning real wars is quite another. In some ways, Trump appears to be less prone to military action than certain other candidates. He has strongly criticized George W. Bush’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003, and has cautioned against sending American troops to Syria.That said, I believe there is good reason to fear Trump’s incendiary language regarding America’s enemies. David Winter, a psychologist at the University of Michigan, analyzed U.S. presidential inaugural addresses and found that those presidents who laced their speeches with power-oriented, aggressive imagery were more likely than those who didn’t to lead the country into war. The rhetoric that Trump uses to characterize both his own life story and his attitudes toward America’s foes is certainly aggressive. And, as noted, his extroversion and narcissism suggest a willingness to take big risks—actions that history will remember. Tough talk can sometimes prevent armed conflict, as when a potential adversary steps down in fear. But belligerent language may also incite nationalistic anger among Trump’s supporters, and provoke the rival nations at whom Trump takes aim.Across the world’s cultures, warrior narratives have traditionally been about and for young men. But Trump has kept this same kind of story going throughout his life. Even now, as he approaches the age of 70, he is still the warrior. Going back to ancient times, victorious young combatants enjoyed the spoils of war—material bounty, beautiful women. Trump has always been a big winner there. His life story in full tracks his strategic maneuvering in the 1970s, his spectacular victories (the Grand Hyatt Hotel, Trump Tower) in the 1980s, his defeats in the early 1990s, his comeback later in that same decade, and the expansion of his brand and celebrity ever since. Throughout it all, he has remained the ferocious combatant who fights to win.But what broader purpose does winning the battle serve? What higher prize will victory secure? Here the story seems to go mute. You can listen all day to footage of Donald Trump on the campaign trail, you can read his books, you can watch his interviews—and you will rarely, if ever, witness his stepping back from the fray, coming home from the battlefront, to reflect upon the purpose of fighting to win—whether it is winning in his own life, or winning for America.Trump’s persona as a warrior may inspire some Americans to believe that he will indeed be able to make America great again, whatever that may mean. But his narrative seems thematically underdeveloped compared with those lived and projected by previous presidents, and by his competitors. Although his candidacy never caught fire, Marco Rubio told an inspiring story of upward mobility in the context of immigration and ethnic pluralism. Ted Cruz boasts his own Horatio Alger narrative, ideologically grounded in a profoundly conservative vision for America. The story of Hillary Clinton’s life journey, from Goldwater girl to secretary of state, speaks to women’s progress—her election as president would be historic. Bernie Sanders channels a narrative of progressive liberal politics that Democrats trace back to the 1960s, reflected both in his biography and in his policy positions. To be sure, all of these candidates are fighters who want to win, and all want to make America great (again). But their life stories tell Americans what they may be fighting for, and what winning might mean.Victories have given Trump’s life clarity and purpose. And he must relish the prospect of another big win, as the potential GOP nominee. But what principles for governing can be drawn from a narrative such as his? What guidance can such a story provide after the election, once the more nebulous challenge of actually being the president of the United States begins?Donald Trump’s story—of himself and of America—tells us very little about what he might do as president, what philosophy of governing he might follow, what agenda he might lay out for the nation and the world, where he might direct his energy and anger. More important, Donald Trump’s story tells him very little about these same things.Nearly two centuries ago, President Andrew Jackson displayed many of the same psychological characteristics we see in Donald Trump—the extroversion and social dominance, the volatile temper, the shades of narcissism, the populist authoritarian appeal. Jackson was, and remains, a controversial figure in American history. Nonetheless, it appears that Thomas Jefferson had it wrong when he characterized Jackson as completely unfit to be president, a dangerous man who choked on his own rage. 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What’s more, Jackson personified a narrative that inspired large parts of America and informed his presidential agenda. His life story appealed to the common man because Jackson himself was a common man—one who rose from abject poverty and privation to the most exalted political position in the land. Amid the early rumblings of Southern secession, Jackson mobilized Americans to believe in and work hard for the Union. The populism that his detractors feared would lead to mob rule instead connected common Americans to a higher calling—a sovereign unity of states committed to democracy. The Frenchman Michel Chevalier, a witness to American life in the 1830s, wrote that the throngs of everyday people who admired Jackson and found sustenance and substance for their own life story in his “belong to history, they partake of the grand; they are the episodes of a wondrous epic which will bequeath a lasting memory to posterity, that of the coming of democracy.”Who, really, is Donald Trump? What’s behind the actor’s mask? I can discern little more than narcissistic motivations and a complementary personal narrative about winning at any cost. It is as if Trump has invested so much of himself in developing and refining his socially dominant role that he has nothing left over to create a meaningful story for his life, or for the nation. It is always Donald Trump playing Donald Trump, fighting to win, but never knowing why.Related Video&#13;
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