2017

After sleeping on a cotton pillow-case all of your life, have you ever awakened one day to find a pattern from the material engraved onto your face? This can occur when the skin begins to lose elasticity and is no longer tight and can take up to an hour before those lines begin to fade. The solution to the problem is relatively simple. You need to take a trip to the store (where bedding is sold) and purchase a less abrasive material. I have found silk or sateen to work best for me.  

I mentioned my falling asleep in the sun when I was a teenager in my last blog: however, I didn’t mention when at age twenty I spent the summer in Spain and gradually worked up a significant tan including my face. No bad sunburn or the need to soak in a boiling hot tub: however, two months later I developed two deep lines on my forehead. Yikes! I have never laid down again in the sun allowing my face to be exposed to the rays. Of course I go to the beach and wear my heavy duty sun block but if I lie in it directly, I “cover” my face with a cloth for extra protection. The good news is that to this day I have never found another deep line on my forehead or any place else. I suggest that you take a simple piece of material and cut out a hole for your nose so that you don’t suffocate. This is just yet another way to avoid those dreaded wrinkles and avoiding a laser peel.

Back when I was a teen, I went on Spring break to Miami with friends. After two days, all three of my friends were in bed suffering from painful sun poisoning along with a significant fever and I was taking every precaution so that it wouldn’t happen to me. That is, until I fell asleep in the sun. As I was walking home barely able to move my baked legs with tears streaming down my face, I was contemplating joining my friends in misery. That is until a guardian angel who appeared in the form of an elderly Floridian man, spotted my fried carcass dragging its way back to the hotel. “I see that you have a bad sun burn but if you follow my advice you are going to be okay.” He instructed me to immediately run a bath as hot as I could tolerate and to sit in the steaming water for a good hour. I was greatly surprised as I would have thought that ice would have been the best alternative. Upon arriving back to the hotel and running the steaming hot bath, my friends would have agreed as they thought that the man was crazy and me even more so for complying. One look at them and I was willing to do anything that could perhaps help my situation. I am pleased to share that his wonderful advise was indeed right on and I was able to go out that night and enjoy the rest of my vacation. There was no preventing the peeling that occurred within a few days but I escaped a very unpleasant fate. I hope that this story will be helpful to any of you who might incur a similar mishap. Wishing you all a wonderful summer!

As I’ve been busy working on weekends, I haven’t had the opportunity to get to a beach and am sporting white legs; therefore, have turned to tanning spray when wearing a shorter dress. Unfortunately, the three I’ve tried have been far too yellow to match my skin tone. I’ve also found them to be a bit flat and missing a glow. Perhaps I am missing out on the right product; however, I found a solution to make the ones I purchased work for me. By taking a large brush and and a “shimmery” powder from my pink or peach pallet, I found a way to make it work. Just a dust of powder over my legs provided the color I hoped to find when I made my purchase.  

For those of you who may be self conscious of “spider veins” on your legs and feel uncomfortable wearing shorter dresses or shorts, there is a way to help conceal them with makeup. Apply concealer with a brush or a concealer pencil directly over the veins. As they are blue, use a slightly lighter color with a pinker tone to counteract the blue. If you have a tan or the area you’ve worked on appears lighter, daub on a darker powder matching the tone of your skin. I hope this is helpful!

At the risk of sounding redundant, please keep your face out of the sun regarding your skin type. Gone are the days from the 1900’s when people sat in their back yards using a sun visor over their face slathered with baby oil. The sun has moved up a notch and unfortunately its rays may give you more than a sun tan. We hear the warnings every day; however, occasionally someone will sit in my chair with acute sunburn on their face. I’ve even heard “I have darker skin so the sun won’t hurt me.” Perhaps you won’t burn as easily but you are still a candidate for the big C and acute wrinkles down the road. Always remember your sun block, sun glasses and perhaps that big fabulous hat!

If you have enhanced your lips by making them larger it is best to avoid lip gloss as your new line will probably bleed off. I suggest you daub on light shimmering eye shadow to your bottom lip as it will give the same effect without removing your art work.

Spring is here and its a great time to rock a new makeup look! I am offering a 15% discount for the month of May. Please ring me up and mention May make-up lesson discount. Looking forward to hearing from you!   Lorin (917) 306-0120

If you choose to enhance your lips by making them fuller, make sure that the evidence is untraceable. Once you pencil in the line above your upper lip, you’ll want to go back and flatten out the area. What I’m referring to is lightening the former lip line so that it is no longer visible. You may also need to darken the area slightly between the former and new lip line. Never use gloss over that upper area as it will bleed off easily.

Spring is here and colorful lips are in vogue. I’ve always utilized my products in various creative ways, so I suggest you dip your lip brush into your bright eye shadow pallet (pink, orange, violet), add lip gloss and you’re good to go!