Lipstick, Ladies

I can't tell you how many times I see women trashing their looks because they have nothing on their lips. Even if you go out without anything on your face [heaven forbid] do not neglect the mouth. I know, good oral hygiene is first on your list. Do not avoid that poor guy or gal sitting in a room all day playing with their drills, called dentists. Your lips can make or break you and tells people immediately the type of person you are, as first impressions cannot be undone. Even if you don't work in an office and your only pressing appointment is with your manicurist, never go out in public without taking care of that most important thing on your face, the mouth, what you use to speak, to smile, with everything else on your face coming in second.

You don't need to coat your lips with heavy matte color, but you need something on your lips to complete your polished look, whether heading for the nearest cafe or to the nearest board room. Here are some examples so you can see how simple it is to maintain a healthy polished look without spending a lot of money or time in front of a mirror. Lipstick to go, baby, that's the ticket, and I am here to get you that ticket to success. Do not neglect those lips, ladies, lipstick is ageless, you won't regret it.

Everyday wear: Burt's Bees makes a variety of glosses and lip balms to condition your lips and provide nice color. Toss a bunch of colors in your makeup bag.

Interviews, business meetings, the board room: You can use a matte color or a satin finish for the work place; choose a color to compliment your skin tone. You can go with a dark color if you have clear skin and very white teeth, otherwise use a neutral color. Remember, if you are wearing more color or a heavier lipstick, dab before eating or drinking, then reapply later. A few good brands are Clinique, YSL, and Bobbi Brown.

For evening wear, you can just about do whatever you want. Experiment with bolder colors or deep pigments, it's your call. Careful of keeping the lipstick on your lips and not on your teeth or slipping off the lips. If you wear a lip liner, stick within the same color tone, none of that dark line around the lips with a lighter color on the lips; big mistake.

If you need inspiration, here's a good example of Margot Robbie. Notice the dark eye and light lip color on the left as opposed to the lighter eye and bright red lip color. Easy looks you can copy too and can go from day to night. Have fun with lipsticks and glosses, you are doing your lips a favor keeping them conditioned and the skin around them will stay younger and firmer much longer than the average girl who doesn't read this blog.

Celebrity Cosmetic Skin Care Products - Avoid?

Bottom line, the aged celebrities need to make money so they target the women out there who don't go to stores and rely on what they see on television and order the product on their computers. They don't read the latest fashion magazines and are bargain hunters, hunting in all the wrong places. Am I insulting anyone out there? Good, because it's called making stars rich while you stare at the same reflection in your mirror day after day.

There are dozens of topical skin creams, and as a rule of thumb, stay clear of any products with a celebrity's name stamped on them. Most are products packaged overseas and contain ingredients that do nothing at best, they don't want lawsuits if you react badly to an ingredient, they don't want negative attention, and it helps aging stars to pocket some dough because their careers are over.

Facelifts, fillers and wigs,
that is the secret to aged
celebs looking young on
a red carpet with bright
lights and airbrushed
photos. 

Christie Brinkley is the latest with a topical skin cream that the commercials say will provide firming and toning and a beautiful complexion. Well, of course it will, providing you already have great skin and have no bagging or sagging to begin with, let's say, a woman under 30 years old. if anyone has seen Christie lately, she is a specimen of many years of plastic surgery, nips and tucks, and fillers injected to freeze the face. You name it that woman has done it. Much like any wealthy celebrity heading for the shelf.

Cindy Crawford is in the same boat. Topical creams that are designed to pretend the woman has not been running to her plastic surgeon throughout her professional career. A nose job is only a portion of the work she has had done to perfect her face for the camera. Well, her modeling days are long gone, and she has to market some packaged stuff from overseas, puts her name on it and boom, she's got a a nice nest egg for herself for doing nothing but market do-nothing products on television and the Internet.

Cindy has the typical tight
and frozen forehead of any
aged celebrity and the swollen
cheeks from fillers and possibly
an implant.  The point? This face
 is a product of doctors and
not over-the-counter face creams.

Easy basic steps to maintaining youth and gorgeous skin? Don't age. Okay, not practical, but here are a few basic tips to live by no matter what your age: use sunblock everyday, avoid heavy foundation makeup especially when you are young, it will stretch and clog pores and you will have damage from many years of use. Avoid yo-yo dieting which causes bag and sag later in life. Use the topical cream or gel Retin-A. You might need a prescription for it depending on where you live. A tiny dot goes a long away no matter what your age. Dab it between the eyes, around the outer edges of the eye area, along jawline, and you can mix it with Nivea cream as a daily routine to avoid any major dryness or peeling. 

This blog site does mention products that are not celebrity endorsements, some brands I like: Natura Bisse, Amore Pacific, Nivea, Mario Badescu, as well as stressing the importance of a healthy diet primarily avoiding sugary snacks and desserts, avoid beef, lamb, pork and poultry food products, and go light on the dairy products.

Remember ladies and gents, when you are in your teens and twenties, focus on skin care, get yourself a good dermatologist and stick with that person throughout your life. Start reading, look up various products on the Internet, in magazines, sometimes trial and error work best until you find the products that can help you. If you are short on funds, no worries, even celebs can't fight the clock, time will make us all even in the end, it's how you feel along that path and your priorities. Basic creams like Nivea do not cost a lot of money, basic sunblocks can also be a part of anyone's budget. If you wear makeup foundation, choose one with a sunblock built in. 

Think about enriching yourself, and not dumping your hard earned money into celeb's pockets. And don't fret, avoid drama and tragedy, and you are on your way to an awesome outlook as you save your money for what's important in your life, and it's not making celebs richer than they already are and pretending that they don't have a private plastic surgeon in their hip pocket.

Remember to smile everyday and develop your own unique style and outlook on life. What do they say? Happiness is not found in a bottle, any bottle, cosmetic or otherwise.