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For us moms, nights of quality sleep are often few and far between. What's the secret to looking more awake and alive than we feel? Our Dior Beauty Pro, Natalie Fanell, share these great pick-me-up tips:
Great skincare is where it all starts! Depriving our bodies of adequate rest definitely has a negative effect on our skin. Spending a few minutes to give your sleep-starved skin some attention will give you great results.
Jen's TV schedule has her alarm going off at 2:45 am! She uses several of these products and says they've made a big, positive difference:
Dior's Capture Totale skincare line is really the best way to make tired skin look healthy, youthful and more luminous. The Capture Totale products use Aminolumine, an ingrediant 6 times more effective than Vitamin C, which reduces protein oxidation levels of the skin by 85%, giving your skin a "child like glow" everyday.
The Capture Totale Night Cream is crucial for skin on long, tired days. This night cream has Calamansi, which helps repair and restore the skin while you sleep, leaving your skin always looking "rested" and energized in the morning. Capture Totale eye cream along with Capture Totale Eye Essential helps to increase circulation around the eye helping those dark circles, from lack of sleep, appear lighter and more rested.
Complexion- After prepping your skin properly, foundation helps keep your skin looking more even-toned and flawless. On-the-go moms, need Airflash (it's what Jen uses). This spray-on foundation is quick, fast and easy, and it lasts and lasts making your skin look poreless and radiant. You can apply Airflash by spraying directly on the face, and buffing with a big fluffy brush; or by spraying it on the brush and buffing on the face. You can use it as a stand alone foundation, or as a finishing powder to a liquid foundation. Airflash dries down to a powder so, don't use powder of any kind after applying this onto the skin. The mother of pearl inside this product makes skin look amazing!
Forever Liquid or Powder foundation is another "go to" for tired, busy moms. This all-day wearing foundation, once applied, actually "reads" your skin, and adapts if you are dry or oily, so you will always have the perfect flawless finish.
Skinflash also helps tired eyes look more rested. This exclusive and unique product is a hybrid in may ways. It acts as a concealer, shadow primer, and line smoother. And, it is designed to plump and tighten the skin, creating a light-reflecting effect for an instant boost of radiance.
Eyes- No matter if you get 8 or 4 hours of sleep a night, doing a pop of color on the eyes, with a little liner and lashes always makes the difference. Dior 5 pan eyeshadows are the perfect way to create many different looks in a compact case. Whether you use one or all five shadows on your eyes at a time, the intense colors, and the way they blend, will make your eyes look more rested. Diorshow Mascara is a must have for any woman. In four different formulas, this revolutionary mascara makes your eyes look wider and making your lashes always looking fuller, thicker, longer, and, even more curled!
Cheeks-Dior blush in Strawberry Sorbet is the perfect blush for those on-the-run days. This long-lasting blush helps the skin look smoother by creating either a light or bright cheek, depending on your preference.
Lips-All of us need a little color on the lips to make us look alive. Dior Rouge 644 is an amazing reddish pink that gives the lips a naturally rosy look. This collection of lipsticks, provides ultimate color intensity and radiance to the lips while also giving exceptional hydration to those dry chapped lips from the cold weather.
To contact Natalie Fanell, Education/Selling Specialist for Christian Dior Parfums: natalie.fanell@gmail.com
Do you have fair skin, and wonder how to warm it up...especially during the chilly winter months? Here are some great tips from our Dior beauty pro, Natalie Fanell:
Colors best for women with fair skin tones depend on the undertone of their skin; however, most women with fair skin tones have a red undertone. Colors best for red undertones are browns, golds, and most earth tones.
For eyes: Browns and colors in the gold family will warm and compliment fair skin tones with still keeping a natural look. Golds are in trend now. Keep browns in the crease of the eye while using beige, white, and even peach for a base color, all of the eye, or just on the lid. Dior's five pan and three pan shadows are the best for keeping your eyes looking good all day long. The colors are rich in pigment, and they have a soft texture that blends easily on the eye with little effort.
Brown eyeliner is great to keep a natural look for the eye, but when going to holiday parties, using a thin line of black on the top of the eye can help give the eye a more defined shape while giving a "smoky" appearance to the eyes. Using black on the lash line, then using colored eyeliner on the bottom line of the eye can help bring out the eye's color. The one thing to remember if you're a woman who tends to have a lot of red inside your eyes, stay away from using purple eyeliner, will make the eyes look even redder. Dior's waterproof black eyeliner is by far the best black liner on the market. The liners are a crayon texture and glide smooth onto the eye while depositing rich, full color. This eyeliner does not bleed under the eye or even fade throughout the day! Dior's other liners are amazing as well; the variety of colors is a great addition to anyone's holiday look.
Blush: Women with fair skin need to be careful on how they choose their blush color. Using roses or even peach colors will compliment better than pink or red base blushes. In most cases, the red in the under tone of the skin will make the red or the pink in the blush even brighter. It's nice to contour with bronzer at the top of the cheek (making a "c" with the bronzer on the temple of the face and blending to the middle of the cheek.) Concentrate on the apples of the cheeks for blush. Remember the "striped" look is out. Dior's blush is more than just a flat, one-dimensional color. It combines a highlighter and a blush. It has a soft texture, helping dry skin look smoother. Dior's shimmer bricks are also a great addition for special occasion looks. Use the shimmer on the cheeks as well as on the bridge of the nose to give the skin a healthier glow.
Lips: Women with fair skin should use some color on their lips. The depth of color depends on your comfort level. People who have more of a red undertone need some color, or the face will look washed out. A good addition to lipstick is Dior's lip glow. It is a hydrating lip balm that changes to the natural color of your lips. Lip glow can be used under lipstick, to enhance your natural lip tone or by itself, or as a gloss on top of lip color.
Dior Rouge lip color is rich in pigment and long wearing. It's hydrating benefit helps dry winter lips. Color 999 is the perfect red for the holiday season!
Cold winter wind, forced air, and even seasonal colds and flu can take a toll on your skin, and dry you out. What kind of foundation is best for dry winter skin?
Remember your foundation is only as good as the skin care you have on underneath it! Foundation that improves the quality of your skin instead of just covering the imperfections will give you the best look.
Powder of any kind is a "no-no" for dry skin. Hydrating foundation is much better to give the skin a smoother texture. Powder should be put over foundation instead of being your foundation alone, especially if you have dry skin.
Dior Forever foundation is amazing. This all-day wearing foundation is for any skin type. The technology makes this foundation great for dry skin. It has two different delivery systems. This foundation binds to your ski, and then actually "reads" it. If you are dry, the foundation will hydrate, if you are oily, it will change to a matte finish. Forever foundation offers a medium to full coverage which makes your skin look flawless.
Dior Nude foundation is for those who like a more mineral approach. It is a hydrating mineralized water foundation. It takes all of the benefits of the minerals, and infuses water into the foundation to help your skin look healthy and natural.
Dior Capture Totale foundation is a fabulous for those skin care junkies. Infused with the benefits of Dior's global Capture Totale skincare, it helps dry skin feel at ease. This flawless HD look helps hydrate skin making it look healthy and radiant.
Dior Airflash is a must have for any holiday pictures or parties. This airbrush foundation can be sprayed onto the skin, or buffed onto the face with a brush. It is made with mother of pearl, making your skin look flawless and poreless. It dries down to a powder, so you can use this as foundation alone or over top of liquid. Airflash is a better alternative to powder. (*Note-this is the foundation Jen uses every day for TV).
Natalie Fanell defines her creativity as an artist by recognizing a woman's uniqueness and giving her the tools she needs to enhance her best qualities. As part of this philosophy, Natalie doesn't believe in using one "standard" color palette and feels by expermenting with color, she "inspires new emotions and confidence within a person."
Natalie's career as a makeup artist has included work in theater, as well as extensive training with a variety of cosmetic companies. In college Natalie worked in cosmetics, training and doing artistry, but ending up in the television news industry. Now, she's traded her microphone for makeup brushes. Natalie's creativity has led her back to the cosmetic world, making women feel good about themselves.
Natalie was trained by Celebrity Makeup Artist and a Elite group of Trainers from specific brand companies. She travels Pittsburgh, Cleveland and parts of NY training and specializing in in artistry and skin care.
As an Artist and Selling Specialist - Natalie encourages every woman to project their inner beauty by using the incredible resources available from Dior. Her love and knowledge of skin care allows her clients to feel confident with or without makeup. Natalie says, "There are many looks each woman can wear, but each should always reflect who you are, and who you're looking to be."
To contact Natalie: natalie.fanell@gmail.com
Here are some ways to take care of your hands and nails and keep them pretty and protected:
• Don't try to trim your cuticles yourself. Cuticles serve the important purpose of protecting the nail bed from bacteria. Professionals know proper trimming techniques, the rest of us are better off pushing our cuticles back with a washcloth in the shower or lightly with an organgewood stick and some cuticle oil.
• Use a cuticle lotion or oil (even the olive oil from your kitchen cupboard does the trick!) - best time to massage it in and get maximum soak time is right before bed. Keep a little bottle on your night stand, and use it!
• Keep a hand lotion at the sinks. Use it after washing your hands.
• Exfoliate your hands with the same kinds of scrubs you use on the rest of your body. Once or twice a week does the trick. This process removes dry, dead skin cells. Follow up with lotion.
• Use sunscreen on your hands! Think of driving...your hands need that protection!
• Try light, natural nail colors. They give a nice, clean finish, and you don't have to worry about refreshing them as often because chipping isn't as noticeable.
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