For people like me, who do not know much about the make up industry, but wish to purchase makeup products, there is a new site to help us, MakeupProducts.com.
The Makeup Product Reviews section is perfect. The makeup product review section is a huge list of make up products that explains what each product does, how it works and other facts we should know before purchasing the product. Even if we are unfamiliar with the products brand there is a brand page filled with reviews of the brand. This is great for learning for gift giving. The best part of the site is they allow users to submit tricks and comments. This way we know what we can do to make our selves look better then good with the product. It gets better, its all free, you don't even need to buy, just absorb and share knowledge of make products.
MakeupProducts.com helped me find the a gift for my mothers birthday. My mother loved her Lauren Hutton Face Disc, prior I never heard of anyone using Lauren Huttons face disc. My mother liked the face disc so much she stopped using her other make up products and now only uses Lauren Huttons. It was great getting my mother stuck on something new
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Is Eyelid Surgery Right for me?
Eyelid SurgeryIs Eyelid Surgery Right for me?Over the years, our clients have talked to us about why they decided on having Eyelid Surgery. We gathered together their reasons and created a survey for our potential clients: * I always look tired or sleepy in pictures. * People always ask me if I I'm tired, even when I get plenty of sleep. * I feel young but my eyes look tired and puffy. * Although I'm pretty young, the bags under my eyes make me look older. * I work in a business which is very image conscious and I need to project a lot of energy. * Applying makeup is very difficult because my eyelids are puffy. * I have used different creams and gels to improve the way my eyes look but they are not effective. * I recently had a significant change in my life and want to start meeting people again. Looking my best would help me feel better about myself. * I exercise and eat right but my eyes don't look as good as I feel. * I have some important social engagements coming up and I would like to look as happy as I feel.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Move Your Photos From Camera to Coffee Table
OLDENBURG, Germany, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- CeWe Color -- (CWC: FRA), the world leader in photofinishing, today launches its U.S. presence by introducing SmileBooks and the Smiles of Summer Contest. SmileBooks are the latest way to create and share life's moments in a beautiful, personalized photo album. For generations, millions of Europeans have trusted CeWe to transform their memories into print - now Americans can do the same."We are so excited about our launch and know that Americans will have fun seeing their photos come to life in their SmileBooks," said Dominic Brezinski, General Manager, CeWe Color. "We make it so easy to build a SmileBook that we think digital photos will spend less time in the hard drive and more time in a coffee table book for all to see."In conjunction with the launch, CeWe invites Americans to submit their best smile to the "Smiles of Summer" contest. Set to run through August 29, photo fans can submit their favorite picture for judging. Winners will be announced on September 8. For contest rules, see www.smilebooks.com . * The top photo submission will win a $1500 travel gift certificate, a new digital camera, plus a $100 SmileBook gift certificate. * Ten second place winners will receive a new digital camera and $100 SmileBook gift certificate. * Twenty third place winners will receive a $100 SmileBook gift certificate. * Additionally, one hundred runners-up will have the opportunity to create a SmileBook of their own, valued at $50."It's always exciting to see an established vendor such as CeWe expand to new markets," said Alan Bullock, Associate Director of InfoTrends. "SmileBooks, with its European expertise and success, will offer U.S. consumers attractive new options for sharing and preserving their digital image collections beyond basic prints."After downloading the free software, users can easily make a SmileBook in three easy steps. * As photo fans download the software, they can work on their SmileBooks anywhere, without the hassle of maintaining a Web connection or waiting a long time to upload photos. * You can create a SmileBook in just a few minutes. Give it a go! The SmileBooks Assistant helps you create your photo book with just a few clicks. Select your images and then just hit the "Create a SmileBook" button. * By simply clicking and dragging an image folder into the photo album window, the SmileBooks software automatically arranges chosen photos by date to produce a sample photo book. It can be used as is, or changed in any way to create the perfect photo book, something a pro would be proud of. * Personalize backgrounds from our collection or, if you prefer, use any one of your own photos as a background on one page or as a customized two page spread. Choose a special photo for the cover, too. * Add text anywhere. Write poems, insert titles, quotes or other text on any page even personalize the binding- the possibilities are endless! * With the click of the mouse, users can easily correct red eye, change the color of any picture (sepia, black & white, etc.), resize, create 3-D style images, crop and/or enhance any digital photo. * Select from a variety of covers - in fact, put your own mug on the front of your SmileBook.SmileBooks start as low as $9.95 for the 5"x5.5" pocket version to $68.95 for the Deluxe SmileBooks at 12"x12." These wonderful keepsakes can be in your hands in a matter of days.About CeWeFounded in 1961, CeWe Color is the leader in photofinishing and an innovator in digital imaging technology, producing over 1 million photo books and almost 3 billion color prints each year. Its printing facility houses the largest number of digital presses in Europe. To meet the demands of today's consumers, the company employs a workforce of over 2,900 employees in 15 different facilities worldwide. CeWe Color is headquartered in Oldenburg, Germany with a U.S. office in Farmingdale, NY.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2008
About-Face
By Jonathan Van Meter
A woman I have known for many years did something to her face not all that long ago, and for a few weeks afterward, I was not able to put my finger on it. Did she get her eyes done? Restylane injections? Botox? Then I thought, Oh dear God, she got a face-lift. No one whom I consider a friend and a contemporary had yet gone that far. But there was no denying she had done something major, and frankly I was worried. Had she ruined her pretty face? As the curtain of hair slowly parted a little each week, I could see that her lips were bigger. Nowhere near overcooked-hot-dog-turning-inside-out bigger like Meg Ryan’s, and not even duck-bill bigger like Courteney Cox’s—but big enough to make me feel uncomfortable looking at her mouth when she talked. Don’t look at her lips!
Then one day, about a month later, I ran into her at a party and she looked stunning. The puffiness had settled, the fire under the skin had gone out. Even her lips looked like they belonged on her face. They were shaped just like her old lips, but … juicier. Her whole face looked as if it had been pushed out and plumped up—not unlike a slightly tired but still very stylish down-filled sofa that looks almost new if you keep those cushions fluffed. I cannot say that she looked exactly like her old self—but so close! A fantastic approximation! An uncanny resemblance! She looks like a very impressive artist’s rendering of her.
But there was also a faint likeness to someone else. She looked a little like … Madonna? Strange, I know, since Madonna and my friend have little in common, at least physically. But when I saw the Big Ciccone on the cover of Vanity Fair a couple of months later, I couldn’t help but notice the similarities: the Mount Rushmore cheekbones, the angular jawline, the smoothed forehead, the plumped skin, the heartlike shape of the face. Their faces didn’t seem pulled tight in that typical face-lift way; they seemed pushed out. Looking at Madonna, I kept thinking of the British expression for reconditioning a saddle: having it “restuffed.” Perhaps that’s where she got the idea to have some work done. After the hunt, Madge dismounted her trusty steed and thought, My saddle needs restuffing. And, by George, so does my face!
Women have been availing themselves of new faces since the dawn of plastic surgery, but suddenly it seemed that there was a better new face to be had. There is a New New Face, very different from the old one, and both my friend and Madonna now have it. Once I starting thinking of it in these terms—the face as the new handbag, say—I started seeing New New Faces everywhere: Demi Moore, Michelle Pfeiffer, Liz Hurley, Naomi Campbell, Stephanie Seymour. They all have it! Even the Olsen twins seem to have a starter version of the New New Face, with their big crazy doll eyes and plush lips. Just to be clear, I don’t presume to know exactly what any of these women have done to their faces, if anything at all. It’s possible (though in some cases before-and-after pictures would seem to suggest otherwise) that this face is occurring entirely naturally—after all, these are women who are famous for being beautiful. The point is that there is a noticeable aesthetic shift happening in the face, and that it’s dovetailing with quantum leaps in plastic surgery and dermatology.
Through some unholy marriage of extreme fitness and calorie restriction (and maybe a little lipo), women have figured out how to tame their aging bodies for longer than ever. You see them everywhere in New York City: forty- and fiftysomethings who look better than a 25-year-old in a fitted little dress or a tight pair of jeans. But this level of fitness has created a new problem to which the New New Face is the solution—gauntness. Past a certain age, to paraphrase Catherine Deneuve, it’s either your fanny or your face. In other words, if your body is fierce (from yoga, Pilates, and the treadmill), your face will have no fat on it either and it will be … unfierce. It was only a matter of time before a certain segment of the female population would figure out how to have it both ways, even if it means working out two hours a day and then paying someone to volumize their faces, as they say in the dermatology business. As a friend of mine recently pointed out, there is now a whole new class of women walking around with wiry little bodies and “big ol’ baby faces.” And they look, well, if not exactly young, then attractive in a different way. A yoga body plus the New New Face may not be a fountain of youth, but it’s a fountain of indeterminate age.
"Face lifts are becoming more and more important. Due to the media putting such an emphasize on looks, we all feel insecure and wish we looked like our favorite celebrity. The idea behind cosmetic surgery is it makes us feel young and beautiful again. Feeling old and ugly, is just a state of mind but when you look into the mirror and see something you dont like how can you not get insecure. The idea of getting eye lifts to remove those puffy eyes, using face creams to remove those wrinkles, younger attractive people out and about, alone will make someone feel more insecure. But the idea of having those features surgerical removed or enhanced gives us a piece of mind especially if you find a trust worthy surgeon."
A woman I have known for many years did something to her face not all that long ago, and for a few weeks afterward, I was not able to put my finger on it. Did she get her eyes done? Restylane injections? Botox? Then I thought, Oh dear God, she got a face-lift. No one whom I consider a friend and a contemporary had yet gone that far. But there was no denying she had done something major, and frankly I was worried. Had she ruined her pretty face? As the curtain of hair slowly parted a little each week, I could see that her lips were bigger. Nowhere near overcooked-hot-dog-turning-inside-out bigger like Meg Ryan’s, and not even duck-bill bigger like Courteney Cox’s—but big enough to make me feel uncomfortable looking at her mouth when she talked. Don’t look at her lips!
Then one day, about a month later, I ran into her at a party and she looked stunning. The puffiness had settled, the fire under the skin had gone out. Even her lips looked like they belonged on her face. They were shaped just like her old lips, but … juicier. Her whole face looked as if it had been pushed out and plumped up—not unlike a slightly tired but still very stylish down-filled sofa that looks almost new if you keep those cushions fluffed. I cannot say that she looked exactly like her old self—but so close! A fantastic approximation! An uncanny resemblance! She looks like a very impressive artist’s rendering of her.
But there was also a faint likeness to someone else. She looked a little like … Madonna? Strange, I know, since Madonna and my friend have little in common, at least physically. But when I saw the Big Ciccone on the cover of Vanity Fair a couple of months later, I couldn’t help but notice the similarities: the Mount Rushmore cheekbones, the angular jawline, the smoothed forehead, the plumped skin, the heartlike shape of the face. Their faces didn’t seem pulled tight in that typical face-lift way; they seemed pushed out. Looking at Madonna, I kept thinking of the British expression for reconditioning a saddle: having it “restuffed.” Perhaps that’s where she got the idea to have some work done. After the hunt, Madge dismounted her trusty steed and thought, My saddle needs restuffing. And, by George, so does my face!
Women have been availing themselves of new faces since the dawn of plastic surgery, but suddenly it seemed that there was a better new face to be had. There is a New New Face, very different from the old one, and both my friend and Madonna now have it. Once I starting thinking of it in these terms—the face as the new handbag, say—I started seeing New New Faces everywhere: Demi Moore, Michelle Pfeiffer, Liz Hurley, Naomi Campbell, Stephanie Seymour. They all have it! Even the Olsen twins seem to have a starter version of the New New Face, with their big crazy doll eyes and plush lips. Just to be clear, I don’t presume to know exactly what any of these women have done to their faces, if anything at all. It’s possible (though in some cases before-and-after pictures would seem to suggest otherwise) that this face is occurring entirely naturally—after all, these are women who are famous for being beautiful. The point is that there is a noticeable aesthetic shift happening in the face, and that it’s dovetailing with quantum leaps in plastic surgery and dermatology.
Through some unholy marriage of extreme fitness and calorie restriction (and maybe a little lipo), women have figured out how to tame their aging bodies for longer than ever. You see them everywhere in New York City: forty- and fiftysomethings who look better than a 25-year-old in a fitted little dress or a tight pair of jeans. But this level of fitness has created a new problem to which the New New Face is the solution—gauntness. Past a certain age, to paraphrase Catherine Deneuve, it’s either your fanny or your face. In other words, if your body is fierce (from yoga, Pilates, and the treadmill), your face will have no fat on it either and it will be … unfierce. It was only a matter of time before a certain segment of the female population would figure out how to have it both ways, even if it means working out two hours a day and then paying someone to volumize their faces, as they say in the dermatology business. As a friend of mine recently pointed out, there is now a whole new class of women walking around with wiry little bodies and “big ol’ baby faces.” And they look, well, if not exactly young, then attractive in a different way. A yoga body plus the New New Face may not be a fountain of youth, but it’s a fountain of indeterminate age.
Big Pappas Thoughts
"Face lifts are becoming more and more important. Due to the media putting such an emphasize on looks, we all feel insecure and wish we looked like our favorite celebrity. The idea behind cosmetic surgery is it makes us feel young and beautiful again. Feeling old and ugly, is just a state of mind but when you look into the mirror and see something you dont like how can you not get insecure. The idea of getting eye lifts to remove those puffy eyes, using face creams to remove those wrinkles, younger attractive people out and about, alone will make someone feel more insecure. But the idea of having those features surgerical removed or enhanced gives us a piece of mind especially if you find a trust worthy surgeon."
Cruelty-Free Label Does Not Necessarily Mean Cruelty Free
Buyer Beware: A "Cruelty-Free" Label Does Not Necessarily Mean a Cruelty Free Business"Cruelty-free" labels on cosmetic products are certainly a reasonably dependable indication that the product was not tested on a laboratory animal. However, it does not mean that other products released by that same company are also cruelty free. Most companies will not directly lie to consumers about their animal testing policies because if discovered, their credibility and profit gain will likely plummet. But many of them do count on the consumer assumption that a policy on one product will hold truth on all, thus successfully deceiving consumers without legal liability.But there is some good news for our defenders of the defenseless. A new standard for animal cruelty-free companies was established by a coalition of nine animal protection organizations to guarantee that products are truly not tested on animals. Robyn Wesley, the cruelty-free product campaign coordinator for PETA says the organizations have banded together to develop their own beauty product labeling system. The Coalition for Consumer Information on Cosmetics was developed with a standardized method for labeling cruelty-free beauty products. This includes being tested by either the product manufacturer or any associated contract testing labs. Companies who comply with this standard are required to receive, from all of their suppliers and intermediary agents, written certification that no ingredient, formulation or product supplied has been tested on animals. If approved they will be issued a cruelty-free standard by the coalition and will be allowed to place a cruelty-free label on product packaging.Still, even though one product contains a cruelty-free label, other items from the same maker could have still been experimented on animals. Even the new stricter standard does not specify that a cosmetic be free of animal byproducts before being given the cruelty-free label. For example, Clairol does not test their Herbal Essences range on animals, but the rest of their cosmetic line still uses animal experimentation. A reliable source to refer to when searching for animal cruelty-free companies is compiled by PETA, which updates a list every two to four months on companies that do not test animals.So remember, if you think that you’re in the clear just because you have purchased a cruelty-free product from a company in the past, do your research; you may not be. Your new desired cosmetic may not be as animal-friendly as you would hope.- Samantha Manning
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Monday, August 4, 2008
22 Reasons Why You Need Cosmetic Surgery
* My high school reunion is coming up. I feel great, but my eyes make me look older and tired. * I spent a lot of time in the sun and now have "crows feet" lines around my eyes. * I am young but because I have bags under my eyes, my co-workers think I�m not getting enough sleep or I�m always tired. * I have always had puffy upper eyelids, even when I was a child. When I wear eye shadow, it gets smudged and doesn�t stay on. * I do presentations at work where my audience and colleagues are in their 20s and 30s. I feel self conscious with bags under my eyes. * I exercise and keep myself fit. My body is in good shape but my eyes make me look tired. * To make my eyes look better, I have tried all the creams and "miracle" lotions with no results. * Puffy eyes run in my family and my eyes have been puffy since I was young. I am tired of always looking tired. * I�m Asian and I want my eyes to look more open. * My eyes have always been my best feature. As I�ve gotten older, they are sagging and looking awful. * The skin under my eyes are dark and wrinkled. * I just had a major operation and am happy to be alive. I want to live my life to the fullest. * I am recently divorced and am back on the "dating scene". * For a long time, I have done everything for everybody. Now I am doing something for myself. * I�ve had my children a little older than a lot of people. When I pick up my child from school, people think I am the grandparent and not the parent. * I�m an actor and when I audition, I can�t wear make-up. I noticed my eyes were not looking good in my last film even with make-up. * I�m about to get married and I want my wedding pictures to look great. * Ever since I was young, people called me "sleepy eyes". * When I pick up my upper eyelids, I actually see better. * I have used Retin-A and other anti-wrinkle creams. They initially made my skin look good but they have leveled off in their effectiveness. * My son is getting married and I want to look good for the wedding. * I just had laser vision correction. Now I see better but I just realized how my glasses used to hide the bags under my eyes.
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