Beauty Tips and Secrets

The nail polish semi-permanent

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:22:08 +0000

When you like to have kept hands and varnished, we see a very dim view of the varnish flaking immediately after installation. But forget all these troubles! Today marks nail polish offer an innovation: the varnish semi-permanent. The semi-permanent coating is a varnish that is applied in a conventional manner, but with acrylic gel formula allows a record duration of three weeks! Cosmo tells you more about this revolutionary product…

To have a perfect manicure that lasts more than two weeks ago the fake nails. But end up with bits of resins at your fingertips, it’s not always pleasant, and it is especially difficult to remove without damaging the nail. Fortunately, for some time brands of nail polish compete inventiveness to find an alternative: the semi-permanent coating.

The varnish semi-permanent Kesako? It is a polish formula gel acrylic and texture that is less fluid than traditional varnish. It applies like a traditional varnish, but is between each layer (of base coat, colored varnish and top coat) passing under a UV lamp for about twenty seconds.

You can choose a semi-permanent nail nude for a french manicure neat, or a semi-permanent nail color, to bring some color into your life!

The result? A manicure perfect, shiny and holds up to three weeks! By the end of the exposure, the varnish is dry and solid. Do not be afraid to rummage in your bag: the varnish will not be damaged, nor flake. A true miracle!

Ideal if you do not change regularly polish color or if you want to go on vacation without having to make retouching varnish! The varnish is flaking that after twenty days, and only the regrowth of natural nail will disturb your perfectly manicured nails.

Many brands offer this type of polish: OPI, Nailic, Shellac … What to do in a salon ask for best results!

To remove the varnish semi-permanent, nothing is easier! You can have this done in a salon or at home thanks to the twists of solvent. Leave on for 10 to 15 minutes, and will remove the varnish at once, like a sticker.

And varnish semi-permanent home, is it possible? Some brands now develop formulas gel varnish to ask at home, like a traditional varnish, but lasts up to two weeks. So you can discover in March in the collection “one second” Bourjois : varnish gel that apply a brush stroke and dry quickly .

At Cosmo we can not wait to test the semi-permanent polish on our toes! The ideal summer when to get out the sandals.

Choose your foundation for a flawless complexion

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:12:33 +0000

Choosing the right foundation is crucial if the goal is a perfect complexion. Want a pale complexion, a light complexion, a matte complexion or good looks? Want a mineral foundation, a liquid foundation or compact foundation? You want to hide a button erase redness or protect your skin? Makeup tips and care tips, Cosmo you the secrets of perfect complexion!

How to choose your foundation? That’s a question that is not simple to answer! Know above all that nothing is worth a trip in store: ask for sales consultants, and do not hesitate to ask for samples to test for a few days or the foundations on which you set your heart. Another tip: in stores, when you test a foundation, get out of the store.

Nothing can replace natural light to judge the color or background Blanket Makeup!

Where to test the foundation?
It is customary to apply the test on the back of the hand or on the wrist … But the complexion of your hands and your wrist is often darker than your face! To test a foundation, apply a small dose … On your face. No other part of your body looks the same or the same color as your face. Hence the importance of asking for samples!

Choosing a color
For optimal results, ALWAYS choose a foundation that perfectly matches the color of your skin.

If you choose a shade of foundation too light, you’ll look like a wax doll mummy.

Conversely, a shade too dark foundation makes you look like a girl who has stayed too long under a UV lamp…

Some tips for choosing your foundation

Ask yourself the right questions: – What you can expect coverage of your foundation? Light, medium or total, each foundation has its specificity. If the packaging does not seem clear, ask again, a sales consultant to enlighten you on the issue. The foundations to the light texture unify the complexion but not conceal. Redness, scars, moles or freckles are clearly visible. The foundation for medium coverage ideal for camouflaging small imperfections. As for foundations to full coverage, as the name suggests, they are especially useful for skin imperfections that need to be magnified. – What type of your skin?

Normal? Mixed? Dry? Fat? The nature of your skin should guide you in choosing your foundation. For example, you can use a moisturizing formula if you have dry skin. Or a mattifying foundation if you have a beautiful shining easily. – How old is your skin? Wrinkles, fine lines, sagging skin … Choose a foundation formula that will help you, again, to your skin as much in value.

You are now equipped with >> some tips that should help you find, at last! The foundation that suits you perfectly. Check our records on the subject to supplement your knowledge on the subject and discover some possible foundations that match your skin!

Mouth naked without lipstick (or almost …)

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:55:57 +0000

Want a beautiful natural and sexy mouth, ready-to-kiss? Moisturize your lips well and choose the right shade of lipstick to effect a “nude lips” ensured.

The fair hue
To find a tone in harmony with his complexion and hair color, dip into the range of 10 beige lipsticks with pigments and effects (pearly, iridescent …) have been worked specifically for blondes, brunettes or auburn. Color Riche Naturals Agreements, € 12.50, L’Oreal Paris.

Background
Pose as a basis a veil of foundation faded cotton swab, or a bit of concealer fluid style concealer brush, containing light-reflecting pigments: they maximize the contour of the lips. Brush Booster Glow, Skinflash, 31 €, Dior.

All in pencil
To effect a zero field archi natural hatching the entire surface of the lips with a pencil, with emphasis on the inside, and then unify the finger and smooth with a little balm for comfort. Waterproof Lip Liner Pencil # 3, Beige Lip, 18 €, Givenchy.

Or live batting Covering and tenacious, but still creamy.

Ask the center of the lips outward without trying to draw the outlines, then fade by biting a Kleenex. Lipstick Fleshpot, 16 €, Mac.
Gloss or quick

To color and shine in one step safely, place a small amount of finger or applicator brush and stretch it, pursing his lips, Gloss Effect 3D Nudes, Brun Poetic, € 10.45, Bourjois .

With advice from Lyne Desnoyers, Senior Make-Up Artist Mac Pro.

Slim arms

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:27:04 +0000

It was all part of our body that we are complex, rightly or wrongly. For you, what are the arms. Flabby, fat, soft, you have them in horror! How to lose weight fast arms, and strengthen the fight against greenhouse bat the arm “hangs”? Cosmo you some tips and tricks to lose arm.

Arms easily store fat. Whether natural or the result of excessive weight loss, it often happens that the skin of the arm is limp, loose and soft. In fact, many of us want to strengthen our arms. To do this, you will: – adopt a balanced diet – make sport – take the right clothes – thanks to some cunning tricks beauty in the most extreme cases, we may use a plastic surgery operation called arm lift arms to slim … but before to arrive at this radical solution, that we would encourage you enough to try to practice a sport to slim arms!

Sports to slim arms

To lose arms, you must strengthen your muscle mass: muscle replaces fat indeed. And if your arm does not seem necessarily thinner (the muscle takes up space!),You can refine it. Here are some sports very effective diet arms: – swimming – the javelin – dance – yoga – pilates for weight loss of arm quickly, you can also train daily and directly to your home with a pair of dumbbells or two bottles full of water.

Do not bother to raise the melting or heavy weight, a pound or a pound and a half are largely sufficient to gain muscle! Repeat every day a series of two or three exercises: Exercise 1 Slimming the arms: – Stand with feet slightly apart and knees flexes, take a dumbbell in each hand – Place the backs of your hands against your thighs, the arms are extended – Fold the arm by bringing your hand towards your arms – Do three sets of 10 movements each day Exercise 2 diet arms: – Lie on the floor, legs bent, take a dumbbell in each hand – Come extend your arms on each side of your body – arms outstretched, bring the dumbbells over your head – Attention back should not dig! – Do three sets of 10 movements each day Exercise 3 to slim arms: – Take a dumbbell in each hand – Stand with feet slightly apart and torso leaning slightly forward, let your arms “hanging” on each side of your body, palms of the hand toward your body and arms slightly bent – Come and stretch the arms backward – Repeat three sets of 10 movements each day.

Fashion tips to make your arms look thinner

Some clothes can help you create the illusion that your arms are thinner. So, adopt without further delay the long sleeves and bat sleeves. Conversely, forget the short sleeves or three-quarter sleeves. As for sleeveless tops, they are validated if they are Spaghetti: senior American or backpack straps very wide focus on the arms.

Beauty tips to make your arms look thinner

Have you noticed that when we tanned, we seem generally thinner? To recreate this effect even in winter, apply a little self tanner on the upper part of your body, arms included.

Hair color: all shades of red

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:53:42 +0000

One of the major trends in hair coloring, the red! Coppery red, Irish red, deep red or mahogany: Cosmo is a small inventory of the most beautiful shades of red hair.

Did you know that red is the color of hair the most rare, far ahead of blond hair and brown hair? For indeed, only 1-2% of the global population has red hair! So if this is your case, you’re sort of an exceptional woman … However, if Mother Nature decided otherwise and gave you a different hair color, know that it is possible to cheat with a Ultra wide range of red.

Red colors are extremely varied: Auburn, Irish red, hair, carrot, copper, mahogany red cherry red or orange are all vibrant tints. To help you choose, one point is clear: Shades juggling between blond and brown have a particularly subtle and rendering is perfectly natural. This is the ideal choice if you have fair skin and blue or green eyes. However, a brunette with brown eyes, the copper tones will be more harmonious. Level coloring, to go from brown to red, no secret is through the discoloration .

The goal? Eliminate dark pigments before adding the red! And good news: Unlike other colors, dyeing bleached hair is not a problem for a red hue as the hair absorbs immediately red pigments. Then impossible to have nasty surprise for the end result. Great color trend of the moment, we find the red manes in the street, but also on the podium and our friends the people. Who does not remember the red locks of sulphurous Rihanna ?

A question arises: For such a passion for this hair color? Maybe because red hair add a touch of eccentricity to any look, they embody the passion and self-confidence? The designers also swear by the coppery red hair. In fact, just the pages of his favorite women’s (Cosmo in mind!) To see that the red dummies are perfectly represented. Then it rolls to the red…

Slim hips

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:40:13 +0000

Your number one resort by far? Your hips. Want to see them melt away like snow as they weigh you … If miracles do not exist, do not worry: losing hips or reduce your love handles, since this is what we are talking about, is the realm of possibility. Cosmo lists all the tips and tricks you need to lose weight fast hips. Go!

By the way, do you know exactly where are the hips?

The hip is a joint that connects the thigh to the pelvis.

Specifically, on your body, the hip is located just above the pelvis.

To help you locate your hips, think about love handles: these fat deposits are placed right in the hips.

How to lose hip?

In terms of thinning as in many areas, there is no secret.

Slim hips is possible, when:

You watch what you eat
You play sports regularly

Sports that allow loose hips

To lose the hips, you must choose a sport that you can make your muscles without volume, on the one hand, and choose exercises localized. Example, you can work your abs in the gym doing: having a stomach tonic and muscular will have a relevant impact in the weight loss of love handles. To do this, choose for example: – gymnastics – the hoola-hoop – swimming, only crawl

Some exercises to do at home to slim hips and lose love handles

Exercise No. 1 to lose hips:

lying on the ground and on the side, stretch your legs
lift your upper leg. The knee should not be dropped
Repeat the exercise 10 times a series of three on each side Exercise 2 to lose hips: – put your hands and knees, resting on hands, arms outstretched – lift one of both legs at 90 ° to the side – repeat three series of 10 movements per side.

Operation JolieBox makeover for the months of March and April 2012

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:20:06 +0000

To celebrate the arrival of spring, JolieBox, beauty mark kits launches its collection of boxes designed by JolieTalents. The program includes four world for four new talents from the worlds of fashion, decoration, illustration and design.

Result: 4 it collectibles
To celebrate spring, the JolieBox of March and April will offer a new wardrobe. 4 new talent (not well known but not for long!) have been privileged to revamp the famous beauty boxes. Pretty meetings which gave 4 JolieBox unique :

My Damsel Pierre & jewelery-links engraved with sweet words, part of her pretty quill those left by “Peter” to his “Demoiselle” in letters all over black and white.

Oelwein & twisted his everyday objects & recolored, decorates a unique silkscreen fluorisee the small box.

Strawberry & Mzelle his pencil stroke girly, powdery, an embryonic way Toile de Jouy print all essential beauty of a kit.

Studio & och its chic minimalism, reinterprets the primary function of the box … to anoter, in a natural craft reminiscent of cardboard packaging purpose.

Chanel was inspired by Las Vegas for its limited edition collection

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:10:39 +0000

The luxury brand Chanel unveiled in February a line of limited edition makeup. Inspired by the city with many casinos, the collection will be called “Las Vegas of Chanel” and will consist of eye, a lip pencil, a lipstick and a nail. The dominant color, gold, adds extra luxury to this collection which will be released in the Parisian shops.

Known as New York as a city “that never sleeps”, with its casinos open at all times and especially the millions of lights that illuminate day and night, Las Vegas inspired Chanel makeup line in a limited edition soberly named “Las Vegas of Chanel”.

MAC opened a boutique on the Champs-Elysees

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:57:53 +0000

The American brand of MAC cosmetics soon invest the Champs Elysees! Despite its some forty outlets in France, MAC was not yet present on the most famous avenue in Paris … A gap soon filled as the famous brand of professional makeup to open a store in the fall. We can already imagine the superb design of the shop…

The American brand of cosmetics MAC Cosmetics (Make-up Art Cosmetics) is offering a prestigious address on the Champs-Elysees (Paris 8), forty professional makeup artists will invest the number 78 of the most beautiful avenue in the world, next fall.

Fans of the American brand of cosmetics can also discover and appreciate all brand products, including the makeup – specialty of MAC Cosmetics, skin care and fragrance or accessories dedicated to make-up. MAC has nearly forty outlets in France.

Be Now, in all the beauty counter

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:47:36 +0000

After the emergence of bars, eyebrow bars and bars to smile, hair Be Now offers a beauty counter all-in-one! Fancy a haircut, a blow dry, extensions, a manicure or evening makeup? Now Be countertops offer a complete service in the metro, RER, airports and shopping centers …

Why go to a bar eyebrows, then in a bar, hair can be achieved if all our beauty treatments in one place? This is the concept has wanted to develop Be Now with his counters, kiosks and corners.

Different formats depending on their locations, the corners Be Now offer various services related to beauty and relaxation.

Haircut, blow dry, buns, braids, nail polish, manicure, make-up of evening or daytime, facial and eyebrow shaping: the range of services is wide. And Be Now do not forget these gentlemen! Size beard, shave, facial … The men can also be pampered!

The strength of the concept be now, it is able to offer many benefits, especially the formulas very complete! Ladies, you can pay a brushing, touching up makeup and nail polish for only € 32.95, all in 35 minutes.

Only downside for the moment counters Be Now only found in Metro Place de la Madeleine in Paris and La Part-Dieu in Lyon . The brand provides four additional openings by summer. Stay current on the site Be Now!