Holiday party looks for the 2011 season

The holidays are nearly here, and besides all the frantic baking, planning, shopping, and entertaining, it’s a great time to do some fun and major makeup looks. Here are three that I’ve created to get you going.

 
Rimmel's new spring products: lip gloss, foundation, eye shadow sets and mascara

Drugstore favorite Rimmel has a few new products to covet this spring, including a new mascara formulation, a new foundation, lip glosses, and new eyeshadow quads and trios.

 
Simply Ageless by Cover Girl is a nice surprise

I recently received the entire CoverGirl Simply Ageless collection from BzzAgent, and I have to say, I’m impressed with the entire line. I was concerned that they would be really heavy and too moisturizing, based on the fact that they have the Olay anti-aging ingredients already mixed in, and the formulation is solid. But after trying them, I have to say that even my oily skin did really well with these products.

 
Three new innovative drugstore foundations

Drugstore and mass market cosmetic companies have really been bringing it lately, haven’t they? New products are being rolled out all the time, and they are getting closer and closer to their department store counterparts.

Three different foundations from three different companies have been launched recently, and I’ve tried them all. Are there any that compare to high end foundations?

 
A Video Tour of Susan Posnick Cosmetics: Part One

While in Dallas last month, I had the amazing opportunity to visit Susan Posnick’s office and studio. You may best know her as the amazing mineral cosmetic line, and I had the chance to get the insider’s view, along with a fabulous makeover. There are several videos in this series, and this one begins, well, at the beginning. Enjoy!

 
Product Review: Estee Lauder Nutritious Vita-Mineral Makeup SPF 10

I am so fickle when it comes to my foundation. Sometimes I like just a light luminizing coverage to get that glowy, dewy look, and other times I want full coverage that mattifies my face and creates a perfect canvas. I have lots of foundation in my stash, from powder to liquid, to pancake, and I love them all. Estee Lauder’s Nutritious Vita-Mineral Makeup SPF 10 is a solid in the middle daily foundation that anyone would do well with. It goes on smoothly both with fingers or a foundation brush, and comes in six “intensity” shades. It doesn’t feel [...]

 
Beauty Bubbles: Foundation You Can't Live Without

Makeup: The Foundation You Can’t Live Without One of these 14 crowd pleasers could give your skin a flawless finish — sans airbrush experts We’ve heard complaints about foundation ranging from too heavy and drying to too light and oily, not to mention “too few shades” and “too expensive.” So we’ve gathered the foundations that garnered praise from TotalBeauty.com members. See products

 
Another of my Beauty Secrets for You

Since I’m not being very good about keeping up with my regular features…hey! I have a great excuse. I’m not kidding when I say that in the past seven days, my holiday tree has fallen down twice. The first time it was a funny story. The second time I announced that I was canceling the holidays. I’m that serious about not decorating it again. However, this isn’t about me or my doomed holiday tree which is upright in my living room again but is so pathetic that I can’t bring myself to do anything about it. No, this is about [...]

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