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Your Guide to Overnight Body Treatments
Create a Spa Environment
The key ingredient to a spa atmosphere has to be room fragrance. Aromatherapy clay rings fit around the base of light bulbs—the warmth of the bulb diffuses the scent you choose into your bedroom. Apply a soothing essential oil such as lavender to the ring at least one hour before bed.Link....Your Guide to Overnight Body Treatments
Take a Bath For the ultimate, soothing pre-bed ritual, fill the tub with warm water and lavender, which induces feelings of calmness by relaxing the body and relieving muscle tension, and chamomile, an excellent skin soother and anti-inflammatory agent, also acknowledged to bring down swelling and pain in the skin and mucous membranes. Link.....
Powder, Blush and Highlighter
Once you've applied your three foundation shades, powder it with a shade that matches your natural skin tone. The powder will not negate all the work you have just done, just set everything beautifully. If you want your results to be even more dramatic, you can finish with three shades of powder: one that matches your true foundation shade, one that matches your highlight shade, and a darker or bronzing powder to match your contour shade. This will reinforce your work and give you a beautifully sculpted effect that will make any face shape appear more oval and more youthful. Link...Pear-Shaped Face
The pear-shaped face is narrow at the temples and forehead and wider at the cheeks and jawline. When envisioning your oval, your cheeks and jaw will extend past your oval, so this is the area you need to minimize. This is probably the most common face shape. If you have a pear-shaped face:
- Highlight your forehead to create the illusion of width, and highlight underneath the eyes on top of the cheekbones and the tip of your chin.
- Contour from your cheeks down along your jaw to minimize the width of this area.Link...
Wear Your Hair High
Hair styles that create height will immediately will give you a slimmer appearance. To achieve this, wear your hair half up and half down, in an up 'do, or in a high pony tail. Link..
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