Winter Skin Care

Dry winter air can make your skin dry, itchy, and irritated. However there are number of simple ways to nourish your skin in winter.

Top 10 Tips for Winter Skin Care

• Use a humidifier. By using a humidifier in your home or office you can add moisture to dry winter air and help keep your skin to be hydrated.

• Lower the thermostat. When it’s very chill outside, crank up the heat! Set the thermostat at a cool, yet comfortable setting — 68°F to 72°F.

• Do not use hot showers. Although it may be tempting to warm up with a long, steamy shower, hot water dries out your skin by stripping it of its natural oils. Instead, take a 5- to 10-minute lukewarm shower (or bath). You should also avoid using excessively hot water when washing your hands — if the water causes your skin to turn red, it’s too hot.

• Choose cleanser wisely. The wrong soap can worsen itchy, dry skin. For instance, steer clear of regular bar soaps, since they tend to contain irritating ingredients and fragrances. Instead, start washing with a fragrance-free, moisturizing cleanser or gel. You can also prevent winter skin problems by using less soap, so limit your lathering to necessary areas, such as your hands, armpits, genitals, and feet.

• Modify your facial skin care regimen for the season. During the winter months, choose cream-based cleansers, and apply toners and astringents sparingly, if at all. Many astringents contain alcohol, which can further dry your skin. Look for products that contain little or no alcohol — unless your skin is excessively oily. At night, use a richer moisturizer on your face.

• Moisturize your skin daily. As soon as you come out after washing up use a good quality moisturizer on complete area of body which is uncovered. Use hand cream after washing hands every time. This will help to maintain moisture in hands and will remove roughness from hands.

• Apply sunscreen when you go out— even in winter. It is still important to protect your skin from harmful UV rays on cold, dreary days in winter. Before going outside, apply a moisturizing, broad-spectrum sunscreen with an SPF of 15 or higher to all exposed areas of your body.

• Wear suitable clothes. Some cold-weather fabrics can aggravate dry winter skin. "Keep wool and rough clothing from directly touching your skin. Protect your hands from cold winter air with gloves or mittens. Remember to choose a pair that won’t irritate your skin. If you prefer wool gloves, put cotton or silk glove liners on first.

• Eat seasonal vegetables and fruits that have rich source of vitamins. Vitamins are really important for your skin.

• Wet clothes can irritate the skin, so Change out wet clothes quickly. Remove the wet clothes, shoes, gloves etc. as soon as possible.

Makeup for Night Party

Makeup for night party should be very flashy so that you could look most attractive among all. Night party makeup sometimes is confusing for some people, because every time they want to look something different and for this they want to do something different. To get notices in the eye of everyone you should have a comfortable makeup and should not be done in a hurry. You must start your makeup early. Here are some of the points that you must remember while doing a makeup for party.

Wash your face properly with cold water and apply moisturizing lotion. Massage the lotion, this will help to keep your makeup for long. Now your face is ready for applying the makeup.

Now it comes to apply foundation on face. If you have pimples on your face, then apply concealer before applying the foundation. You need to apply concealer only on the affected areas, not on whole face. Color of foundation should be little lighter than your skin color.

Next is to select your eye shadows and lipstick colors. For the night party makeup you should use some dark colors, but the eye shadows and lipstick colors should never be contrast to each other.

If you thing that your lips have no proper shape, then first give a outline to your lips before applying lipstick. Don't use too much lipstick. It should be in natural way.

If you have dark circles under your eyes, then use a light concealer with white eye shadow. Don't use dark blushers on your face. Blushers should always be light as compare to your lipstick color.

You can also use some sparkles to look different and attractive in party.

Makeup Tips for Dark Girls

This is the world of fashion and everyone wants to look better than the other. Especially people with dark skin want to make them more clearer and fair. For this sometimes they apply lots of cosmetics products and other surgeries to make them brighter. But sometimes this may harm their skin, if not applied in proper way. This article has been written on make tips that is very useful for the dark skin tone and can give a natural look to a dark skin.

Dark skin is more formable than the fair skin tone. Make up is like skill. Make up is applied to hide the imperfection, defect of the skin. Make up is also said to be fruitful, productive, appraising and softness.

Here we are presenting you some make tips for dark skin tone mentioned below:

It is true that the dark skin can cause the keratin layer thicker. There are number of girls that complaints about their oily or greasy skin. This present of oiliness will disappear after thirty. It is very essential to clean or take care of the skin. For the dark skin tone it is very essential to control the moisture. So always use the light soothing creams for nourishing your skin. It is also taking care that always used the moisturizer under the make up. It is also very essential to prevent your skin from the dry winds.

You can also take shower in the lukewarm water not hot and remember always use lotions to make the skin soft and it brings the natural brightness.

Dark skin requires little or no tinged foundations or powder because they mostly have the natural glow and good tone.

For the dark skin girls remember always use the light baby color foundation. This is very useful to give the skin a brightness and not heavy. Also sidestep to applying the heavy powder.

For dark skin, it appears excellent with the dark purple and blue colors for eye make up. Dark metallic colors also look good on dark skin tone. In the end finishes your eyes with the help of eyeliner and black mascara.

"Mixing It Up" with Russian Designer Vika Gazinskaya

I thought I'd throw some variety into the mix of Models Off Duty, so here is Russian designer Vika Gazinskaya applying make up while at New York Fashion Week. Back to regular street style shots tomorrow.

Stila Makeup Player

The Stila Makeup Player ($69.90) is one part makeup train case and one part sound system where you can easily plug in your iPhone, iPod Touch (or any other video compatible player) to watch Stila how-to videos you can download from their site.

Mini Lip Glaze Collection

Stila has created a set featuring 8 mini versions of their best-selling Lip Glaze. The Mini Lip Glaze Collection includes 4 top-selling existing shades (Starfruit, Kitten, Cranberry and Blackberry) and 4 new limited-edition shades (Marmalade, Pinkle Twinkle, Plum Fairy and Candy), each in a travel-friendly size. A great gift idea-- wrap it with festive paper in it's package, divide them among friends, create stocking stuffer duos, or keep them all for yourself. $80.00 value. $25 sephora.com