Single Girl's Guide to Makeover Magic

Let's face it, friends. Thanks to cable TV, we are now to endless episodes of the makeover show addict, where each "Plain Jane" with her closet-from-hell, you learn to choose the right clothes, makeup and hair, then right before our eyes is transformed into a real beauty! And look regard, whatever makes her feel great power? And all this in less than an hour! Amazing!

But what if this new self-confident charmer is one of the millions of your single sisters in the huntfor Prince Charming, who in pursuit of his Princess Charming is happening? Well, in this case, this might be the perfect time to familiarize yourself with your Mirror, mirror on the wall to see how you fair with all the increased competition.

You know, Cinderella, this was so easy. With the wave of a wall, and a little 'bibbity bobbity boo, "her fairy godmother transforms her from rags to riches, then sent them to the ball looked like the princess she was to be around, and the rest isHistory!

In the real world, this is all a bit complicated. For the beginning the odds of your prince, first, you see dressed for the mall, not the ball. Plus, your chances of the next TV makeover are quite low. You could rent a fashion savvy godmother, AKA fashion consultant, but if a fee of $ 200 + is not in your budget, what a girl like you do when everything depends on a first impression that a potential princes want to leave more leaves is?

Well, a girl like youwill take over their lives. Presentation of the makeover, I do it myself!

You start with your face. Of course, if you're thinking, "How 'bout I start with something else," Cindy Crawford remember the immortal words: "And I do not wake up looking like Cindy Crawford." So, here is your face is your priority, especially in the colors of your face. I promise you, if you are using to learn how to compliment the power of color to your eyes, skin and natural hair color, just like on the makeover shows, magicwill happen! These eyes will sparkle and shine your complexion. And remember to be glowing is definitely a plus for the first impression, especially if your prince always the first time he saw the face.

On the other hand, is burning practically impossible if you wear colors that do not with their own. For example, if you imagine Watercolor eyes, translucent skin, hair and the color of wheat, the catastrophe of the deep bronze make-up, with two black eyeliner, and day-glow colorsDark dress with chunky jewelry. Right! Not good! The strong colors, you overwhelm your own, and poof! They disappear. Wearing a pale color as a separate wash your natural glow, so you have to look tired and older than you. Also not good. To take the heat, here are the "must know" that make it happen!

Understanding Basic Color Analysis

Many fashion consultants rely on the Munsell Color System accurately determine a client's color palette. This scientific system based on threeComponents: Hue, Value and Chroma:

HUE is simply the color of the name.
Easy Hues: Red, yellow, green, blue and violet.
Compound colors: yellow, red, green, yellow, blue, green, violet-blue and red-violet.
VALUE: How bright or dark a color.
The more white in color, the higher the value. True Black has the lowest value, true white has the highest.
CHROMA: The clarity and strength of color.
Stumm, gray colors have low chroma, bright, vivid, bright colors have a high color intensity.

HOW TO MAKEUP COLORS

FOUNDATION: to match the skin tone on the outer corner of your eyes. Blend the makeup on his face and neck, and then match the skin tone in indoor lighting and sunlight. Note: Guarantee To choose the right foundation color, bring a friend for a second opinion.

Eye Make-up: Use your eyelashes and eyebrows color for everyday mascara, eyeliner and brow pencil. For> Dramatic effect of increasing the make-up 's color. Choose eye shadow in your eye or brow color. Note: Your eyes contain a free rainbow colors. Use a magnifying mirror to see the entire spectrum.

Lipstick and Blush: Match the lips and cheeks. Gently pinch both cheeks and lips, noting if the color is pink, red or orange.

With a little practice, your makeup routine that you take from ordinary to hot in five minutes orless.

HOW TO CABINET COLORS

If you take a lifetime, you can not believe that certain colors, then understanding of Hue, Value and Chroma opens up a whole new world. Imagine that! Red is not just a color, but a whole series of options, from yellow-red to purple-red color, from pastel pink to deepest Burgundy, all of which you select the wines that you compliment.

REDS: Her cheeks and lips colors
GREENS / BLUES: For green or blue eyes, use your eye color. Forbrown or black eyes, use green or blue in your eye "rainbow", or use a color wheel to match your eye color to free green or blue. http://www.realcolorwheel.com/colorwheel.htm
Yellow determine: the most difficult of all colors. Usually Summers and springs soft yellow, golden yellow carry case, carry Winters intense, bright yellow.
Neutral: current or former (if your hair is colored or gray) natural hair color and eyes, if brown or black in the first place. UseNeutrals for suits, jackets, skirts, pants, jackets, shoes and bags.

BASIC STYLE DESCRIPTIONS

Color analysts often use the four seasons on the skin, eye and hair color to harmonize with the complimentary fashion style. To define the style of each season, I have summarized celebrities through their season, based on publicity photographs. Note: Over 50% of us also have a secondary season. When a celebrity's photo shows a secondary, it is indicated in parentheses.

SUMMER: UsingYesterday
COMPLEXION: Clear, cool, delicate
Hair: Ash blonde, light to medium-cool white red or brown; matures, salt and pepper, cool or icy
Eye Color: Iris soft green, blue, hazel, yellow or brown cool; sclera (white surrounding the iris) - gray or white
COLORS: Low to moderate intensity, soft, gray, transparent, water colors
Neutral: tan cool tones, beige, soft, white, Cool Gray
FASHION STYLE: Soft, delicate, refined, delicate, quiet,nostalgic, Blended tone on tone, minimal contrast
JEWELRY: silver, white gold, crystals
Wedding Dress: Cool white, silver
AVOID: High contrast, dark colors, warm / earthy colors, gold and copper accessories.

Celebrities: Jane Seymore, Charlize Theron (Spring secondary), Cate Blanchett, Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Grace Kelly, Sarah Jessica Parker (Spring secondary), Scarlett Johansson (Spring secondary), Mia Farrow, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Queen Elizabeth, Diane Sawyer, Celine Dion (casesecondary)

Fall: Based on the nature
COMPLEXION: Warm tones of olive and gold, may appear freckles or blotchy
HAIR COLOR: Warm gold, brown, red, chestnut brown, maturing to warm white, salt and pepper
Eye Color: Iris - Warm gold, green, hazel, yellow, brown, sclera - Warm off-white
COLORS: Warm, golden colors, if not limited to earth tones
Neutral: Warm browns, tans, dark green, khaki, dark rust
FASHION STYLE: earthy, warm, fiery, golden, exotic,layered, sensual
JEWELRY: Gold, copper, tortoise shell, semi-precious stones, feathers, wood, shells
BRIDAL GOWN: Warm off-white, beige, champagne
AVOID: Black, black with white, pastels, clear chroma

CELEBS: Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Lopez, Cindy Crawford (winter secondary), Oprah Winfrey, Julia Roberts (Summer secondary), Halle Berry, Salma Hayek, Julianne Moore, Sophia Loren, Annette Bening (Summer secondary), Queen Latifah (Spring secondary), Barbra Streisand (Summer secondary), secondary) Penelope Cruz (winter.

WINTER: Based on the sophistication
COMPLEXION: Pearlized, clear, cool, translucent
Hair Color: black, ebony, dark, cool brown, silver or matures on icy white
Note: Notes Lightening or highlighting hair, the POWER-contrast winter's.
Eye Color: Iris - black or very dark, sclera - Pure White = High Contrast
Colors: Icy, high intensity, bright, decorative colors effortless, clear and cool
Note: Only wear black or winterBlack and white as colors.
Neutrals: Black, Cool Gray, pure white.
JEWELRY: silver, white gold, gem stones, rhinestones.
FASHION STYLE: Sophisticated, sleek, high contrast, dramatic, expensive, strong, clear, angled modern, vibrant
Wedding Dress: Icy White
AVOID: earth tones, pastels, fluff!

Celebrities: Snow White, Catherine Zeta Jones (Fall secondary), Elizabeth Taylor (Summer secondary), Liza Minnelli, Marlo Thomas, Eva Longoria, Lucy Liu, ElizabethHurley, Judith Dench (Spring secondary), Juliette Binoche (Fall secondary), Anjelica Huston, Isabella Rossellini (Summer secondary)

SPRING: On the basis of today
COMPLEXION: Clear cool, moderately warm to moderate
Hair Color: Golden, strawberry or ash blond, brown, red, light to dark warm brown, maturing, seasoning salt and pepper, warm gray or white.
Eye Color: Iris - green, blue, hazel, brown, yellow, sclera - Cream on a white field
Colors: clear, warm, bright
Neutral: WarmWhite, beige, tans, brown, dark blue, black, soft,
FASHION STYLE: Crisp, modern, bright, sunny, curvy, energetic, youthful
JEWELRY: Gold, silver, precious stones, plastic
Wedding Dress: Off-White
AVOID: Mute or high-intensity color

Celebrities: Reese Witherspoon, Rene Zellweger (Summer secondary), Cameron Diaz, Rachel Ray (Fall secondary), Jennifer Aniston, Reba McEntire (Fall secondary), Ellen DeGeneres, Jada Pinkett Smith (Fall secondary), Meg Ryan, Katie Holmes (Wintersecondary),) Kirsten Dunst (Summer secondary, Dakota Fanning (Summer secondary), Debra Messing (Fall secondary), Diane Keaton (Summer secondary).

These descriptions only touch the surface, such as color transforms your self-image and creates an unforgettable first impressions! The services of a professional advisor, preferably one trained in the Munsell system for the assessment of your color palette, free prints, accessories, makeup, body proportion of inestimable value, and fashionand hairstyle. The fees can range from $ 200 to $ 1000 + range, but when you consider the money you've wasted my make-up that just never worked, and clothes with price tags still hanging in the back of your wardrobe as "cry I have nothing to wear! " , A professional analysis is a bargain. In the meantime, here is a list of shopping tips to start your conversion!

SHOPPING TIPS:

* To build a coordinated and based workable wardrobe to determine your basic needs on your lifestyle,how professional, casual, evening, hobby and sports clothing. For each area, the purchase of a core outfit as a professional suit, cocktail dress, trousers and jacket free, plus a couple of blouses, sweaters and accessories.

* You do not need a King's Ransom look like a million! Drugstores also carry quality makeup. Shop end of the season and sold and thrift stores for quality clothes and accessories. Many princess does!

* Collect samples of materialSave a substance or asks you to save in order to tailor messages. Do not forget your wardrobe! If you own colors in the palette, then snip a swatch from the inside of the hem. Keep bringing the swatches in an envelope when you shop.

* When shopping, first game of the items in your colors. Next, check in a mirror. Hold the position of your face, then ask the $ 64,000 question: "Does the color compliment or clash with my natural color?" If "yes", they try to examine whether the fit flatters your body.If color and shape are the two "yes", to buy it. If color and fit are "no", no matter how much you love it, pass. Remember, you light up when the colors that compliment you wear the colors that you are.

* In order to spice up any outfit, think accessories. Before you are in the mall in the great fitting jeans, sunglasses and earrings add, or take a beautiful scarf around the collar of your coat. They radiate "I care how I look and I look and feel great!" Not a bad mood first, especially for aunsuspecting prince just extraordinary, you create a normal amount of buyers.

* Your other seasons, "Sisters gather for a cabinet" swap meet. "Some of my favorite clothes, scarves and jewelry are coming from such an event!

A final fashion accessory that you get hot every moment of every day promises: Do you think the princess worthy of the prince, you dream about. Then dress to prove it.

Tips on Coloring Your Hair

Like everyone else, I understand the need to save money and budget. To save costs, some of my clients went so far as to cut their own hair! It is true that the maintenance of your hair can be quite expensive, depending on doing what you. This is why more and more people are choosing their own home hair color. If you opt for a dramatic change in your hair color, I would suggest would be, a salon, instead of himself. Before you apply permanent dye to your head,Read these tips for coloring your hair.

1) It is always advisable to follow the manufacturer's instructions, but not generally assume that your hair, written for the full amount of time on the box-making loop. People with gray hair or resistant to handle the full amount of time. If you fine hair, very little gray is the general rule 30-35 minutes.

* Fine hair is like a sponge, and the ends could be darker than the others.
* If the color left on your hairtoo long, it can obscure the process!

2) Wash your hair! I know some of these dyes available to the public to say, applied to clean hair only. That is one thing that makes me furious's. You can actually burn when you wash your scalp to dry and you apply your hair in front of you long-lasting color. Hair dye processes quickly with heat. Washing and drying your hair is the blood in the scalp, generating heat. This is how you can burn your scalp. If your scalp itching shortly after application ofColor, then either burn your scalp or you may be allergic to the chemicals.

* It's ok to have styling products already in your hair because the color process is the same. In fact, I use hair spray to control when I'm highlighting with foils.
* It's ok, the cable clutter from your hair before using the comb, but not to a stimulation of the scalp too much. Never use a brush.
* Mix together a tiny amount of color and developer, and follow the manufacturer'sInstructions on allergy tests.

3) When washing your color, shampoo twice. You do not want any color in your hair left, right?

4) Do not shampoo hair for 48 hours after dyeing it. You can always rinse your hair with water and then with air conditioning. This way, your color stays and can heal the hair to "him.

Nettles

Parts Used: Aerial parts of young plants

Main uses

General: In hair shampoos and rinses

Culinary: As vegetable or soup

Medical: Arthritis, eczema, anemia.

Nettles grow wherever human beings disturb the land. Although we may curse the nettle for its sting, it is invaluable as a food, rich in vitamins and minerals, and as a medicine. In spring, the fresh green leaves may be cooked and eaten like spinach, made into a delicious soup or drunk as a Tea.

Nettles, a valuable tonic after the long winter months for them one of the best sources of minerals. They are an excellent remedy for the treatment of anemia of their vitamin C content ensures that the iron they contain is properly recorded.

Nettle has long been one of my favorite herbs. Once you get the last part of stinging, they make a fabulous hair lotion, hair breakage on the practice (a problem that is getting worse for me the longer my hair.)

Hair TonicIngredients:

Fresh nettles

Fresh rosemary

* Fresh sage (for dark hair)

* Fresh Chamomile (for blond or red hair)

Apple Cider Vinegar

(Dried herbs can be used instead of fresh. I am just prefer the fresh.)

Instructions:

Fill a medium pot with water, throw in a few handfuls of: Nettle, rosemary and sage. This is for dark hair. Chamomile substitute for sage, if you have blond or red hair. Bring the pot to a boil, then reduce heatand let the herbs steep for an hour or so. Remove from heat and cool the mixture. Strain the liquid through gauze or a non-printed paper towel. Add 1 to 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar tonic.

Storage:

While this is a great hair lotion, it contains no preservatives and most are stored in the refrigerator.

Use:

Purchase a small to medium-sized spray bottle and fill with tonic. Wash hair as a rule, dry towel, thenSpray thoroughly on hair tonic and comb out. Do not rinse the tonic. The slight smell of vinegar disappears within a few minutes.

Within a week you will be subject to a significant improvement in the gloss, texture and thickness of your hair.