Makeup: A Transformation Tool

Today's rant comes from seeing beautiful women constantly questioning how beautiful they really are because they look nothing like the celebrities we idolize on tv or the big screen.  The truth is that there are many reasons they look so amazing!  Lighting, camera... and makeup!

A lot of people feel that we should embrace our natural beauty and I tend to agree.  Even when I give makeup tips, I always tell people that makeup isn't something you should rely on to perfect your flaws.  It's something you use to enhance the beauty you already have!

Makeup should be worn to embrace our natural beauty.  But there are also times when makeup is used to transform you!  It's ok to do this once and a while and experiment.

Makeup, if used in the right way, can change the shape of your face.  It can draw focus to your most fabulous feature!  It's almost mind blowing how much it can change the way you look.

The concern I have for the women in our culture, young and old, is that we have been raised to believe that beauty is measured by the starlets who grace our screens. We see these celebrities with their perfect cheek bones, perfect skin and wish we could look just like that, thinking they look like THAT, all the time.  The truth is, they don't. They aren't any less human then the rest of us.

I'm not saying they aren't naturally beautiful, because they are.  But they aren't perfect, nor do they look perfect all the time.

As a society we need to embrace our natural beauty and learn that makeup is exactly that, a way to make you up!  

I know I am really minimizing the creativity behind creating a makeup look but I cannot emphasize how important it is to work on embracing your inner beauty as much as you work on your outer beauty.

Here are just a 'few' examples of how much makeup can do for someone!

Take the time to think next time you compare yourself to a glammed up celebrity!

It's Sun Kissed, Not Dorito Raped

So I took a little break from the blog and decided to start up again with a little rant of mine......



Spring is fast approaching, and thus will be followed by summer.  This time of year sparks a fire in us to start getting our tan on so we aren't glow in the dark pasty in our swim wear.

Despite it still being frigidly cold I am starting to see more and more fake and bake women out there.

There is a point to which you start looking less and less sun kissed and more and more like you were ganged banged by bag of Zesty Cheese Doritos.  If you look more orange then not, stop applying bronzer, tanning oil, self tanners or what have you.

I do feel that applying a little bronzer and/or self tanner gives you that healthy sun kissed glow is a makeup must have for summer.  In this case, less is definitely more!

I hope I don't have to rant about the effects tanning beds and UV rays from the sun have on your health!  I can't even begin to say how unhealthy it is for you!  Not to mention it defeats the purpose of wanting that youthful glow.  Tanning ages your skin!  If you want wrinkles, this is the way to do it.

Obviously the perfect shade of tan is going to depend on your natural skin tone.  But I thought I would give you some do's and dont's in a visual manner:

Sun Kissed Dos:

A beautiful healthy glow that look natural. These ladies are doing it right!

 Sun Kissed Dont's:

When you need to apply excess make up to push through the tan, or the tan is red or orange. You've gone too far.

 And just to prove my point, I thought I would leave you with a couple of examples of how this obsession can get out of control:

I'm not normally this aggressive when it comes to personal expression.  I believe everyone has a right to express themselves in their own true fashion but there is a point there the expression is unhealthy!