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Natural Beauty: Pamper Yourself with Salon Secrets at Home
Salon Secrets at a Fraction of the Cost
Now it is easy to look and feel beautiful, without spending a fortune. Did you know that a mix of equal parts vegetable oil and sugar is not only the cheapest way to exfoliate your face, but it's also the best? Or that by combining specific amounts of sugar, water, and lemon juice, you can create a homemade "wax" and comfortably eliminate unwanted hair for over six?
Beauty expert and aesthetician Laura DuPriest offers countless ideas and recipes that will help you create the natural and attractive look you desire while providing motivational tips to enhance your inner beauty. Inside, you'll find simple recipes and step-by-step directions
·Strawberry Citrus Mask
·Egyptian-Style Milk Bath
·Basic Cleanser for All Skin Types
·Homemade Moisturizing Shampoo
·Aromatherapy Bath Salts
·Baby Massage Oil
·Foot-Soaking Fizzies
·Salon-Style Hand Treatment
·And much more!
Pamper yourself, easily and You'll look better, feel better, and discover that natural beauty is a way of life you love.
Now it is easy to look and feel beautiful, without spending a fortune. Did you know that a mix of equal parts vegetable oil and sugar is not only the cheapest way to exfoliate your face, but it's also the best? Or that by combining specific amounts of sugar, water, and lemon juice, you can create a homemade "wax" and comfortably eliminate unwanted hair for over six?
Beauty expert and aesthetician Laura DuPriest offers countless ideas and recipes that will help you create the natural and attractive look you desire while providing motivational tips to enhance your inner beauty. Inside, you'll find simple recipes and step-by-step directions
·Strawberry Citrus Mask
·Egyptian-Style Milk Bath
·Basic Cleanser for All Skin Types
·Homemade Moisturizing Shampoo
·Aromatherapy Bath Salts
·Baby Massage Oil
·Foot-Soaking Fizzies
·Salon-Style Hand Treatment
·And much more!
Pamper yourself, easily and You'll look better, feel better, and discover that natural beauty is a way of life you love.
240 pages, Paperback
First published September 24, 2002
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November 22, 2020
Establish your "look, " and then make a plan with magazines. Focus on ads (try to pick out one idea from it), editorials (one or 2 ideas: length of hemlines, cut of pants, color statement, solids or prints, shoe silhouette, accessories, fabrics), and buyers' guides (where to find and price). Tear out a few pages and keep in a folder; from these pages you develop your look. Make a list of items to buy. Ask for help from sales clerk/buyer. Look at store displays for ideas. If you see something you like, buy that outfit.Build wardrobe: start with a few basics; shop for a season and purchase one really great suit or outfit, then buy a few coordinating tops and accessories to go with it. Go for quality, not quantity.
Skin Routine:
-Night: mild cleanser and washcloth for exfoliation, toner, (commercially prepared) lightweight moisturizer w/glycolic acid
-Morning: rinse face, toner, (commercially prepared) moisturizer with sun block
-Weekly: exfoliation (for body too), acid treatment or specialty mask
(She provides recipes for homemade cleansers based on skin type (e.g. 1 t. yogurt + 1/2 t. honey), and also for toners (e.g. witch hazel), exfoliation (e.g., 1 T sugar + 1 T vegetable oil), acid masks (e.g., 2-3 strawberries + 1 t. lemon juice), and specialty masks (e.g, half a banana + 1 t. honey)
Makeup (apply foundation, and then go from brows on down):
-brows: apply brow powder that matches brow shade to fill in brows; she gives instructions in chapter 8, with very clear illustrations, about how to shape brows with tweezing (if you go to a professional, make sure highly recommended)
-Eyes: eyeshadow is for shaping eyes using contouring (introducing darker colors) and highlighting (introducing lighter colors to face). Use a matte shadow and 1) make eyelid pale in comparison to skin shade (beige or oatmeal) and cover entire eyelid, 2) contour the crease to simulate almond shape (start at outer corner with/soft medium brown/taupe and fade it as you move toward nasal side of crease), 3) deepen the crease and lashline w black eyeshadow; start at eyelash line at temple side of eyelashes and apply a smudgy line to lashes all the way across, tapering as you near the inside corner, 4) apply and blend some of the darker color at outermost corner of crease area, 5) apply and blend darker color on outer third of eyelid. She has clear illustrations of each step.
- Eyeliner: to thicken look of eyelashes. Apply wherever there are eyelashes, and in proportion to their size. Line should be broader on outside corner and more narrow toward inner corner.Use brown for light brunettes.
-Mascara: Apply on bottom first; hold wand vertically, hold it horizontally for top lashes and stroke down on top side, then stroke up.
-Blush: to give cheeks color and lift (shape, soft neutral rose). Apply in straight line from tip of cheekbone to hairline at ear. Don't circle brush; hold at a 45-degree angle to floor to create deeper shade at bottom of area where applying shade.
-Lips: apply liner (outline with 'v' on upper lip in middle and extend to corners) and then lipstick, blending over lip liner. She gives clear illustrations for this.
-Powder and finishing touches: to control shine and keep colors from moving, especially under eyes to prevent mascara from smearing.
Hair:
-make sure you get a step-by-step guide from hair stylist on how to style hair at home. Choose a style based on hair type (e.g., if thin, wavy, fine, should build volume and thickness). Look at fashion magazine editorials to find out what's in, and for a style you like worn by a woman with similar hair type. Pick out obvious details like straight or curly, long or short...and tear out some pictures. Most styles achieved with brush, blow dryer, styling product, finishing product. She gives a list of hardware and liquid styling tools (e.g., mousse (for shape, volume, and lift); root lifter to give volume and thickness to thin, fine hair; to give shine and texture) and their uses. Blow-drying: apply styling product to towel-dried hair and comb through. Turn head upside down and dry roots while lifting hair away from scalp until hair 80% dry. Section hair with yoyettes or clamp clips into a top layer, temple layer (one clamp on each side), hair above ears and to the back (one clip). Now you have one large layer on bottom hanging down. Divide this hair into top and bottom with a clip. Now blow dry with a brush. section by section, turning up the hair, flipping it under, or pulling it straight. Dry completely. Once top section done, wait about one minute, and then put finishing product in. Alternatives to blow drying (e.g., set hair w/self-adhering rollers after blow drying hair upside down and while hair is still warm, hairspray, wait 10 minutes, and continue with finishing products; dry hair upside down, divide and clip, work curling iron through hair layer by layer). Apply finishing product (using fingerss mostly rather than comb/brush), following a picture of your hairstyle, and apply hairspray (small spritzes to targeted areas).
Skin Routine:
-Night: mild cleanser and washcloth for exfoliation, toner, (commercially prepared) lightweight moisturizer w/glycolic acid
-Morning: rinse face, toner, (commercially prepared) moisturizer with sun block
-Weekly: exfoliation (for body too), acid treatment or specialty mask
(She provides recipes for homemade cleansers based on skin type (e.g. 1 t. yogurt + 1/2 t. honey), and also for toners (e.g. witch hazel), exfoliation (e.g., 1 T sugar + 1 T vegetable oil), acid masks (e.g., 2-3 strawberries + 1 t. lemon juice), and specialty masks (e.g, half a banana + 1 t. honey)
Makeup (apply foundation, and then go from brows on down):
-brows: apply brow powder that matches brow shade to fill in brows; she gives instructions in chapter 8, with very clear illustrations, about how to shape brows with tweezing (if you go to a professional, make sure highly recommended)
-Eyes: eyeshadow is for shaping eyes using contouring (introducing darker colors) and highlighting (introducing lighter colors to face). Use a matte shadow and 1) make eyelid pale in comparison to skin shade (beige or oatmeal) and cover entire eyelid, 2) contour the crease to simulate almond shape (start at outer corner with/soft medium brown/taupe and fade it as you move toward nasal side of crease), 3) deepen the crease and lashline w black eyeshadow; start at eyelash line at temple side of eyelashes and apply a smudgy line to lashes all the way across, tapering as you near the inside corner, 4) apply and blend some of the darker color at outermost corner of crease area, 5) apply and blend darker color on outer third of eyelid. She has clear illustrations of each step.
- Eyeliner: to thicken look of eyelashes. Apply wherever there are eyelashes, and in proportion to their size. Line should be broader on outside corner and more narrow toward inner corner.Use brown for light brunettes.
-Mascara: Apply on bottom first; hold wand vertically, hold it horizontally for top lashes and stroke down on top side, then stroke up.
-Blush: to give cheeks color and lift (shape, soft neutral rose). Apply in straight line from tip of cheekbone to hairline at ear. Don't circle brush; hold at a 45-degree angle to floor to create deeper shade at bottom of area where applying shade.
-Lips: apply liner (outline with 'v' on upper lip in middle and extend to corners) and then lipstick, blending over lip liner. She gives clear illustrations for this.
-Powder and finishing touches: to control shine and keep colors from moving, especially under eyes to prevent mascara from smearing.
Hair:
-make sure you get a step-by-step guide from hair stylist on how to style hair at home. Choose a style based on hair type (e.g., if thin, wavy, fine, should build volume and thickness). Look at fashion magazine editorials to find out what's in, and for a style you like worn by a woman with similar hair type. Pick out obvious details like straight or curly, long or short...and tear out some pictures. Most styles achieved with brush, blow dryer, styling product, finishing product. She gives a list of hardware and liquid styling tools (e.g., mousse (for shape, volume, and lift); root lifter to give volume and thickness to thin, fine hair; to give shine and texture) and their uses. Blow-drying: apply styling product to towel-dried hair and comb through. Turn head upside down and dry roots while lifting hair away from scalp until hair 80% dry. Section hair with yoyettes or clamp clips into a top layer, temple layer (one clamp on each side), hair above ears and to the back (one clip). Now you have one large layer on bottom hanging down. Divide this hair into top and bottom with a clip. Now blow dry with a brush. section by section, turning up the hair, flipping it under, or pulling it straight. Dry completely. Once top section done, wait about one minute, and then put finishing product in. Alternatives to blow drying (e.g., set hair w/self-adhering rollers after blow drying hair upside down and while hair is still warm, hairspray, wait 10 minutes, and continue with finishing products; dry hair upside down, divide and clip, work curling iron through hair layer by layer). Apply finishing product (using fingerss mostly rather than comb/brush), following a picture of your hairstyle, and apply hairspray (small spritzes to targeted areas).
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