Six Secrets of beauty

In the summertime of 2006, I was interviewed for Stillagirl, a Website for women and girls, on my best accepted adorableness tips and tricks. Here's the interview:

1. What is your cardinal one abstruse adorableness tip?

My admired adorableness tip is one I use every day (actually every night): Vaseline. I use it to abolish my eye makeup. It's cheaper than over-the-market products, doesn't bother my eyes and I apprehend it can absolutely advice assure the aerial bark about your eyes. Again in winter Vaseline provides the absolute cure for chapped lips: Simply slather it on, again beating aperture for a few account with an old toothbrush. Continue alert a day until aperture are cottony and smooth.

2. What is the easiest way to accomplish up your eyes, after spending a affluence or hours in advanced of a mirror?

Here's a quick (and inexpensive) 4-step accepted to use if you don't accept abundant time:

Step 1: Dot concealer on lids. This hides cruddy veins.

Step 2: Sweep a aloof adumbration like taupe (which I acquisition adulation every bark tone) over eyelids. Add a bit of blinking if it's nighttime.

Step 3: Skip the bargain pencil liners and use an eyeliner besom and a aphotic eyeshadow for eyeliner. Wet the besom aboriginal for a added affecting line. Administer band forth the top and basal lashes, authoritative abiding to get blush in amid lashes (you appetite the band to attending as accustomed as possible). Don't band central rim of eyes -- it makes eyes arise smaller. Smudge basal baste so band isn't obvious.

Step 4: Mascara can accomplish anyone's eyes attending bigger and brighter. If you accept abbreviate or beeline eyelashes, coil them aboriginal afore applying mascara.

3. Are there any abstruse beard tips that our readers should apperceive for bad beard days?

Absolutely! My admired ambush for medium-to-long beard is the blowzy bun. Not alone do buns attending adult and hip, they adumbrate bad ends and awkwark cowlicks. Plus, the messier, the sexier! I additionally adulation the bandana look, which is absolutely in appropriate now. As continued as you accept architecture on, you won't attending as if you're meant to be alive on a farm. Plus, the bandana attending is beautiful on beard of all lengths.

4. What is the one bark affliction or architecture artefact that every woman should accept in her purse?

Lipstick or gloss. Provided a woman has abundant skin, all she absolutely needs is mascara (which you alone accept to administer already in the morning, so no charge to backpack it your purse) and lipstick or appearance to attending put together.

5. What is the best way to accord with the casual blemish?

Camouflage it with concealer. But accomplish abiding to dot the concealer on with the pad of your average finger. You never appetite to rub concealer in like you would sunscreen or foundation.

6. What is the best hasty adorableness abstruse you accept apparent over the years?

There are two. The aboriginal is that the beneath architecture a woman wears, the adolescent she looks. The additional is how a acceptable skincare accepted can booty years off your face. By skincare, I beggarly cutting sunscreen circadian again appliance antioxidants, peels and scrubs to shop for aback absent time and fix damaged skin. I anticipation all those skincare articles were a agglomeration of mumbo colossal until I approved them. Now my accepted is 50 percent skincare, 50% architecture application.