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Younger-looking you make-up tips

Expert make-up tips to give you a radiant glow {they're also anti-ageing!}

* To get radiant skin: Use a luminising primer and stick to liquid or cream foundation, as powder can be drying. Make sure your foundation is not too pale - lighter is not always more natural and it can make you look washed out. Set with powder only where you are oily.

* Remember concealer is your friend: Use it not just to conceal redness but also to highlight. Brush or pat it under your eyes, blending it down so it fans out into the middle of your face. {It can be very ageing if it sinks into wrinkles, so use as little as possible.}

*Spend time on your eyes: Eyes are the area that show your age fastest. A touch of glowing shadow on the centre of your lid and inner corner will instantly brighten your eyes. {Avoid shimmer, which brings out texture like fine lines.} Give your eyes a lift, line the top lash line with a brown pencil or shadow and highlight your brow bone, which adds a beautiful halo around the eye.

*Define your brows: Use a pencil in a tone slightly lighter than your hair colour - and blend well with a spool brush.

*Max out your lashes: A few individual false lashes create a youthful and wide-eyed look. Stay clear of thickening mascara as it can weigh down thin lashes and cause clumps - so look for one that separates and curls.

* Cream blush adds an instant glow: Apply it with a foundation brush so you can control where it goes. If you have oily skin or large pores use a powder instead.

* Lip liner can work miracles: In your 40s, the sides of your top lip lose fullness so use a neutral lip pencil to softly round the outer corners of the lips and soften the Cupid's bow. A satin-finish lipstick will add moisture and give good coverage - anything that's rosy or beigey is most flattering.

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The sneaky thing making you look older

Young-looking skin is all about luminosity - if your skin is dry, rough and scaly skin it stops light in its tracks making you look older... 

So what's the 'take-the-years-back solution'? For a dewy, 'I-just-got-a-facial skin year-round' complexion, you need to be using a moisturiser that’s right for you.

Here's what to look for: 
* If you have normal to acne-prone skin, choose a light, noncomedogenic lotion.
* Oily skin types can get away with just swiping on serum.
* For those with super-dry complexions, choose a rich hydrator with shea butter or dimethicone.
* If you have mature skin, try BioLogica Serum. From France, it's a natural and biologically safe anti-ageing serum that provides the most efficient combination of ingredients for moisturising, firming and treating wrinkles. CLICK HERE for more information

And don’t forget to hydrate at night, too. Before bed, smear on an anti-ageing night moisturiser that will multi-task while you sleep.

If you’re already religious about face cream but still suffer from parched skin, your diet could be to blame... Overloading on carbohydrates and sweets can add years to skin’s appearance. Excess sugar binds to proteins, which results in damage to elastin and collagen making your skin dry, brittle and less springy. So instead of that third cupcake or chocolate, try munching on skin-protecting antioxidants like those found in green tea, berries, and dark-coloured vegetables such as spinach, beets and broccoli. 

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Insider skincare tip

If you experience unpleasant reactions to your anti-ageing skincare products, that contain ingredients such as Retin A, we have the insider solution for you...

Try a "moisturiser sandwich." First apply a layer of moisturiser, then your anti-ageing skin product, then another layer of moisturiser. The first layer of moisturiser creates a barrier to protect your skin, and the last keeps it from taking all the moisture away.

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Introducing Beautiphication

BEAUTIPHICATION is all about seeking beauty is not just about restoring youthfulness – it resides in pleasing facial proportions that give you a more natural looking result...

BEAUTIPHICATION is a non-surgical facial procedure that follows Leonardo Da Vinci’s mathematical principle of beauty and harmony through “divine” proportion. A caliper measuring tool, similar to the one used by the Renaissance master, maps out the injection of cosmetic injectables and dermal fillers with the precision necessary to enhance features and restore smooth contours.

All practitioners are not the same ~ PHI skills sets your practitioner apart
A trend-setter in the rapidly developing field of cosmetic injectables, Dr. Swift has pioneered and trademarked this revolutionary approach to non-surgical facial enhancement called BEAUTIPHICATION. It is a medical application of the concept that ideal beauty might be a universal notion, provable by the mathematical concept of “phi” (the golden ratio) long used by artists and architects.

According to Dr. Swift’s experience, deploying a combination of subtle, strategically placed therapies (such as injectable high tech dermal fillers and muscle relaxers to put things simply) in specific proportions, he is able to maximize a person’s beauty potential by restoring symmetry, harmony and balance. The entire treatment process takes less than 1 hour, during which time there is minimal pain as Dr. Swift patiently explains each step concurrent with his unique injection method.

 

CLICK HERE for more information

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Happy weekend

Wishing you a very happy {relaxing} Mothers Day weekend...

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