20 Beauty Tips to Usher in the New Year

Happy New Year to you all. Hope you had a nice Christmas and hopefully we would all have a prosperous 2007.

This year we are going to strive to remain as beautiful as ever, I'll start off by giving you these twenty beauty tips that will only take a minute or less each. I call it quick fix, look good and feel great beauty master class:

1. Face looking dull?

The quickest way to boost your skin is to put three ice cubes in a basin of cold water and splash your face with it.

2:Dry/Cracking lips:

Apply Vaseline lip balm, the one in the small round tin, available in most pharmacies. In the absence of this, for a quick fix, you can use any lip gloss that is glossy or glossy lipsticks. Use matching lip liner after you've applied them for more definition but without an obvious lip line. Don't make it thick.

3: Dry, flaky face:

Apply your foundation twice, be sure to use an oil based foundation. If you don't have your foundation or if you don't use one, use a face cream to moisturize. It gets the face shining and reduces the appearance of dryness and flakes.

4: Shining face:

On the other hand, if your face is too oily and shining use a matt/oil control face powder to fresher up.

5: Puffy/tired eyes:

Close your eyes for a minute and re-open, then massage the points around your eyes to reduce puffiness, press your fingers gently into the points around and along cheek socket and brow bone, then count to four and release.

6: Pale eyes:

Apply eyeliner and eye shadow, this lifts the eyes and enhances your looks so much that it takes the attention off your pale looking eyes. Make it simple and elegant, nothing complicated considering you have only one minute.

7: Twisted and rough eyelashes:

To highlight eyes quickly, apply two coats of mascara, wait for the first coat to dry before applying the second, as it creates clumps and spidery looking lashes when applied immediately.

8: Rough brows:

Apply brow pencil immediately as this makes it appear neater. If you have bushy brows, there are couple of things you can do to make it look kept, a few seconds to groom your eyebrows is worth it. You can use a damp toothbrush to brush the brows into place or touch a drop of baby oil with your finger and run it over the brows to arrange them into shape.

9: Rough dry hair:

Use some oil sheen spray for instant shine or some baby oil. Don't use hair cream if you only have a minute or less as hair cream is heavy and doesn't disappear easily into the hair. Do this for natural and permed hair but if you have extensions use braid sheen or if your hair is held up in a pony tail or pack-up style, use a hair gel such as Sam gel, it's oil based and when applied to dry hair adds instant gloss.

10: Got a Spot?

There is always one! There is always one annoying spot when you least expect it to pop up on the face. To reduce the size and redness dab on lavender oil and leave it in for 60 seconds, this will rapidly reduce redness and inflammation.

To be cont'd.
Join me in the next edition for the remaining ten beauty quick fix tips. Till then remain radiant and beautiful.