Lighten Up Already! It's Summer

Wow, don't we get into a rut easily with our make up and beauty routines? So often when I'm at work I see women dressed in gorgeous sun dresses and light, strappy sandals - and then when you look up from the cute outfits to the makeup, Yikes! The amount of makeup these women are wearing! You'd think they were going to their husbands' company Christmas party! Layer upon layer of primer, concealer, foundation, powder, bronzer, blush, 4 or 5 eyeshadows, 25 coats of mascara, lipliner, lipstick, lipgloss...

...don't get me wrong. I'm the QUEEN of makeup! It's been my industry for 30 years (yes, I started when I was 8). I love every step of makeup application! And I REALLY, REALLY love those skin care lines that consist of 10 or 12 steps: Daytime cleanser, night time cleanser, daytime toner, night time toner, day cream, night cream, day eye cream, night eye cream, Day serum, night serum. Gott a love all the pretty bottles! It's almost like buying fine jewelry - at least it's almost as expensive!

Let's try to develop a new Summertime habit! Just for fun! Just to be fresh and bold and unconventional! Just to be different and rebellious! Let's try this.

FIrst of all, wash your face with a bar of soap! WHAAAAaa???? Soap? Yes. Dove for about $1.89. Amore Pacific for about $30. Sisley for about $50 - I'm estimating the prices, but I want to illustrate to you that there are BARS OF SOAP FOR EVERY LEVEL OF PRODUCT SNOB!! It's fresh and clean feeling! You'll love the simplicity of it!!!

Next, unless you're using a special toner that is targeted for break outs or some other specific skin concern, SKIP IT!

Then, assess how oily you are. Pretty darn oily? Check out a serum. Make it oil-free. If you're pretty darn oily, that serum might be all you need!! Trish McEvoy's Beauty Booster Serum costs $125 and will last you all Summer! Oily people like me will not need a moisturizer over it even though it feels as light as water!

If you are dry and need a little more moisture, keep it light weight! Use a little more of a light weight product, rather than going with something heavy. The humidity level this time of year will keep you reasonably well hydrated!

SUNSCREEN! Don't leave home without it! Lots of companies make Sunscreen that is mixed in with your moisturizer! Some companies, like Laura Mercier and Chanel and Khiel's make wonderful sunscreens that are not oily at all and feel like exactly NOTHING on your skin. INVEST! It's worth it.

Then check out one of those cool mineral powders like the original one that everyone tries to copy and can't: Bare Minerals. Yes, it's messy, yes, you need to buy a brush to use it, stop whining. Go get your color. They have TONS to choose from. You will get all the coverage you need and your face will feel naked! NAKED and FRESH in the Summer!! FABULOUS!! If you really can't stand the thought of a loose mineral powder, Trish McEvoy makes a nice pressed one. Not great coverage, but light and in great colors.

If powder doesn't do it for you, get a lightweight tinted moisturizer. Clarins is FABULOUS. Lancome has one, too. Chanel does also. Again, a product for every price point!

Then, BRONZER! Use it as eyeshadow! WHAT????? Yes! Use it as eyeshadow! Use it as BLUSH! Use it to fake a tan because of course, you're tanning your body and NOT your face. Use your bronzer to catch up!

Mascara! One or two coats! Get one of those Lash Growth products. NeuLash works like a dream, but can be a little stingy. Trish McEvoy works well, too. Latisse works great if you are willing to risk the side effects. Best price point: Trish at $125. for a 4 to 6 month supply. In a few weeks your lashes will grow and you can go with out mascara altogether!

And last but not least: SKIP THE LIPSTICK. Put it in the fridge till Fall! Break out the gloss. Sheer, shiny or full coverage it doesn't matter. Just stay away from the super crazy drying "all day" ones. Really......how long do you need it to stay on anyway??? It takes exactly 2 seconds to reapply your lip gloss!! And Gloss will fade much more gently that lipstick will. With lipstick you can end up with that pretty Lucille Ball over the lip line after you eat. Gloss will never let you down like that!

START NOW!! START FRESH!! LIGHTEN UP!! Pare down your makeup bag and remember this:

If you're afraid to let your boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife see you with out makeup, you're wearing WAAAaaaay too much!!!

LIGHTEN UP, GLAM GIRL!!

Convenience of Makeup

Wouldn't it be convenient to have all of your make up in one nice, neat, organized place. Easy to access and then easy to put away. And enough room for your skin care products as well! Wouldn't it be nice it if was a black leather case, maybe even quilted! Tres chic!

So what would you put into it if it was possible to have such a great thing?




Well first, let's talk about the planner. It's approximately 5 inches by 8 inches by 4 inches deep. Maybe a little less that 4 inches deep.

You unzip the main compartment to find a page. Like a planner page....but it has a magnet to hold all of your little metal pans of color securely in place. A large magnet that measures approximately 4 inches by 7 inches, and fits on rings inside the planner like a binder! On this page you can fit your foundation, your powder. Also, your eyeshadows, your eyeliner, your blush, bronzer, and brow color.

It's wonderful to know that if you want to, you can add another page to hold even more colors that you love!

On the other side of the planner you'll see a few little pouches! What could go in there? I'll tell you what! ALL of your brushes. And not just ANY brushes, but the finest make up brushes ever made. The kind of brushes that if you take care of them, will last you years and years and years. There's also room over there for your mascara and other "tubular" products!

Wow. Put your make up on in no time at all. It's all lined up in there, in perfect order so that you can move from one product to the next quickly and easily. And when you have to wake up at 5 am to get to work and you have mere minutes to get your look together, you'll LOVE how fast this little system works for you!! Just imagine!!

When you open the second zipper compartment, what will you find? I large empty compartment that will comfortably hold EVERYTHING you want to put in there. Skin care, toiletries, anything you want.

it's the ultimate in organization for the Make Up Diva. It's like your personal Paint by Numbers Kit. It's all the make up that used to fill drawers and drawers all condensed into a cute zip around planner!

WANT ONE!????



Get in touch with me and I'll tell you how. OK, OK. I'll tell you now. It's Trish McEvoy. I'd love to show you how to put your planner together. Trish had an brilliant idea. They best organizational system for your cosmetics that you'll ever see!!!

Get in touch with me and I'll put one together for you!!!

Starting to get it.

OK. I think I'm beginning to understand this blog. I'm looking at other blogs and finding cute things to add. I hope when I find CUTER things to add that I can remember how to remove the first cute things I've added. Geeze.

I remember my old days on MySpace. My page was plain and actually sort of ugly for a very long time. Then one day a friend came over and showed me how to add the code to make things right! From that day on, I wasted at least 4 hours each day hunting relentlessly for items that would make MY Myspace page cooler than yours! Then came Facebook, where you can't do much but update your status. I liked it. No wasted time. Just status and photos. Then Twitter. Just status. Quick. Simple. To the point.

...but a blog is different...

I NEED to find a way to make my blog cool, interesting, engaging, rapturous! I think this is going to be a long process. You see, now, I have a job to go to. I have a husband and a dog and a car that need maintenance and laundry that needs to be folded. I CAN'T waste much time on my blog. I have to MAKE IT COUNT!!!

...so far today I've spent 3 hours just to get it as you see it now. Pathetic, I know. But it's a start. Besides, no one is reading it yet anyway. I found a counter to add and last time I looked, it said 20 people have been to my blog. Honestly, I think all 20 of those people are ME.

Hopefully I'll make some friends soon.

Getting to know GLAM

Wow, this is the first day of my GLAMARAMABABY blog and I must tell you I'm very excited about it. I know that I have a great deal to learn about blogging and how this system of writing works, so please be patient with me while I figure it all out. My plan, at least initially, in this blog is to share with you my many, many years of experience in the Beauty/Cosmetics/Glamour Industry. I've been in this business for over 30 years, so really, I've pretty much seen int all. And since I'm STILL in the industry, I have access to an enormous amount of research and training. SO I'll answer and questions that arise and basically, share my "pearls of wisdom" with you!

...again, please be patient with me.

Glamaramababy

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