Spring 2012 Hair Trends – Dermstore.com

We can always count on spring to inspire trends that promote fresh, natural beauty. And spring 2012 hair trends are all about looking carelessly chic and effortlessly edgy, which means less time and maintenance! I couldn’t be happier about it. As someone who’s finally stopped fighting my hair’s natural tendencies, surrendering my flat iron has made my life so much easier and my hair significantly healthier. No more dry, straw-like hair that smells like it’s been singed, even after it has just been washed. With the latest spring styles, I can rock the wash and go look and still be right on trend!

Coachella-Bound or Not, Rock Out with These Festival-Ready Finds – BeautyBlitz.com

Starting Friday, Coachella kicks off summer concert season with the first of two weekends of music, art, and frolic. This year, we’re taking inspiration from spring 2012 runway shows like Rag + Bone and DSquared2 (both cited music festivals as an influence) to round up some long lasting, desert-friendly finds to pack for a weekend in the valley.

Top Hair Color Trends & Ideas – LipstickPowdernPaint.com

So you’ve found your bridal makeup artist and you are almost set to go. Now it’s time to pull your look together for the day with the perfect hair and makeup. When it comes to bridal makeup Stephanie Daga, makeup artist and owner of Blush Pretty, knows her stuff. Daga forecasts the hottest makeup looks for the upcoming wedding season.

‘Chinplants’ Fastest Growing Plastic Surgery Trend – EMedist.com

Chin Implants up by 71% vs. 4% Rise in Breast Implants in 2011. A chiseled chin may be the latest “must have” body part. A new report shows “chinplants,” otherwise known as chin augmentation or chin implants, are the fastest-growing plastic surgery trend among men and women. The popularity of chin implants rose by 71% in 2011, more than breast augmentation, botulinum toxin injection, and liposuction combined.

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Are you interested in attending beauty school? If you’ve answered “yes,” then you’ve come to the right place. Whether you’re already a self-proclaimed expert with the subject, or you’re a complete newbie, there are a few tips you should know prior to even filling out a beauty school application. These tips will even help you to look better as well.

1. Learn to Match Foundation Properly
Foundation is a makeup that many women can’t live without, and many women can’t apply correctly. When someone botches their foundation, it ruins their whole entire look. Unless a woman is one of the few to be born with naturally flawless skin, then you’ll need to keep this in mind when you work with clients. At one time, the rule was to match the foundation with the person’s jaw line; however, this rule is quite outdated and has proven not to be true. With a proper skin care regimen of washing your face twice daily and exfoliation each day, the tone of your skin will fade. In other words, your face tends to be a little lighter than the rest of your body, so you should always match foundation with your collarbone. Remember to avoid translucent powder, because it makes skin look dry and gives it a dusty appearance.

2. Love Bright Lip Shades
This makeup trend takes a little time to get used to, but try it one day, and you’ll understand why it is so important. Use a shade like coral that matches both warm or cool skin tones. Fuchsia works well also, but try a sheer stain, so the color isn’t overwhelming. Remember, learning to love bright colors will help you understand the power that these shades have. They’re flirty, fun and fresh, so what’s not to love? Plus, almost anyone can pull this look off.

3. Messy Eyeliner
The straight lines that circle exactly around the eye are so last year. The stuffy look is definitely out! Instead, you should smear, smudge and blend eyeliner to form soft lines around the eye. Used in combination with eye shadow and a cotton swab, you can make a sexy, smoky eye that never goes out of style. Perfect is overdone, and a less than perfect appearance has become the new “black.”

After having recently being seen on the lucky nails of starlets such as Rihanna and Michelle Williams of Destiny’s Child, it is clear that tangerine nail polish is going to be the trend for this spring. Funky, refreshing and eye-catching, tangerine colored nails are a good fit with a yellow, green or white top. Naturally, pairing the nails with a tangerine colored top or dress is a can’t-miss. Indeed, now is the time to peruse your favorite aisles for the latest tangerine nail polishes.

The bright and vibrant color lets the world know that you are ready for the flowers, and other things in life, to bloom. Here are four tangerine polishes from major labels that are sure to draw the attention of people that you meet.

L’Oreal Color Rich Nail Femme Fetale – Tangerine Crush

Any good list should include a product by the French fashion behemoth, and this one can be purchased for only five dollars at most retail outlets. The color is a muted orange that may not pop quite like the rest of the list, but it will go on smooth and look good for weeks on hands that do not preform manual labor.

OPI Totally Tangerine

This is the product you should buy and then run home and try if you currently believe in the power of tangerine. The color is thick and rich and it dries in the same tone that is seen on the bottle. Between five and six dollars per bottle seems like a steal.

Essie – Orange, It’s Obvious!

This polish might be the single most successful attempt at capturing the power of tangerine. Essie flawlessly blends the passion of the color red with the gentle heat of the color yellow, providing users with nails that shine boldly.

N.Y.C. Spring Street

General necessities are typically more expensive in New York than anywhere else, so finding a luscious tangerine nail polish that retails for $1.99 seems almost too good to be true. In any case, ‘Spring Street’ is readily available and highly useful.

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Market Trends in Cosmetic and Skincare Products for Men – Examiner.com

Andrew Newman examined market trends in the male-targeted cosmetics and beauty industry in a 2010 New York Times article “Men’s Cosmetics Becoming a Bull Market.” A market data firm, Euromonitor International, estimated sales of “men’s grooming products” has doubled since 1997 to $4.8 billion. Skin care products are the fastest growing segment of male products sold increasing in sales fivefold over the same period.

Do you like Anne Hathaway’s new short hair? – Starcasm.net

Anne Hathaway was snapped leaving London nightclub The Box with fiancé Adam Shulman late Saturday night sporting much shorter hair!
Stars like Michelle Williams, Emma Watson, and Ginnifer Goodwin have made a short hair a trend lately, but Anne’s cut isn’t by choice. She had to change her hair to play prostitute Fantine in the upcoming movie adaptation of Les Mis. Fantine’s a single mother who sold her hair to pay the bills before she turned to selling sex. The film also stars Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe.

Top Hair Color Trends & Ideas – BecomeGorgeous.com

Check out the top trends in hair coloring and go for a bolder and brighter ‘do this season. A flash of color adds a unique touch and interest to your tresses. If you’re far from being a ‘low maintenance’ girl, experiment with edgy, statement shades. Rock a brilliantly sculpted hairdo and perk it up with a brand new color which radiates style and confidence. The top hair color trends below allow you to get creative and flaunt your artsy skills to mix/match different hues. Try your hand at the coolest hair coloring techniques until you find the one that best suits your personality.

Celebrities Dig Bold Lips as New Beauty Trend – DailyGlow.com

Several celebrities have been brave when it comes to trying out different bold-colored lips for red carpet events. While some go for the traditional bold red color, others try pink and fuchsia shades. These shades bring attention to some bright pearly white teeth or add some color to a darker outfit, such as Angelina Jolie’s black dress at this year’s Oscars. They can also play on color, like with Katy Perry’s pink choice for her blue dress and hair look earlier this month, according to Hollywood Life.

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We all love a nice tan, especially when it comes from natural sunlight. As summer approaches, you might feel ready for a vitamin D boost. Do something different this season and take a closer look at your sunscreen bottle. Is one of the first ingredients water? Is it waterproof? Is there any type of alcohol chemical?
Did you know that water is the ingredient that thins your sunscreen and makes difficult to rub in? Or that the waterproof part of your sunscreen clogs your pores, making it hard for your skin to sweat (which it needs to do in the sun to regulate body temperature)? As for the alcohol and other ingredients you cannot explain, they actually make your skin more sensitive. If you have a child who complains about putting on sunscreen because it stings or hurts, it is because these chemicals are reacting with their sensitive skin.
It’s time to go Absolutely Natural with your sunscreen products. Absolutely Natural is an esthetician‘s dream and is a company that began making sun care products for luxury resorts from Spain to the Hawaiian Islands to the Caribbean. These products are 100% natural, using only uses ingredients such as aloe, rosehips oil, bee pollen, borage seed oil, chamomile extract, jojoba seed oil and other natural vitamin rich plants, minerals and renewable sources.
Some benefits from using Absolutely Natural’s sun care products are that the products are chemical-free, never contain byproducts, are biodegradable, contain no nano-particles and are gentle on the environment. Did I mention they smell amazing and soak into the skin in seconds? Here’s another little secret for all you tan lovers: Absolutely Natural also makes Platinum Tanning Oil and after-sun Rosehip Aloe to help you keep your color for months.
Absolutely Natural products can be bought online, or at the company’s store located in Kauai, Hawaii. Don’t get caught this summer putting harsh chemicals on your skin – get Absolutely Natural sun protection and a 100% natural tan!

As recently as a few years ago, women of all ages were seeking out any cures they could find for gray hair. The belief that gray hair is a bad thing and should be eradicated at all costs is a concept that goes back many generations, perhaps to the invention of hair dye. But in the past year or so, trend-setters from all realms of celebrity have begun to not only embrace their ivory locks, but flaunt them with pride.

Perennial award winning actress Meryl Streep has been openly rocking her beautiful graying hair since 2006, when she said in an interview with Hollywood foreign press that she feels very confident and normal underneath gray locks. Just a few weeks ago she unleashed a new short-haired look at the 2012 Academy Awards, and once again all eyes in the building were glued to her.

Having the love of millions of adoring fans and the attention of the fast-moving fashion world, anything that super-celebs such as Streep do that can qualify as out of the ordinary is sure to become a trend, so salons all over the nation are stocking their shelves with products that can accentuate gray hair. Many salon owners expect women with gray hair to cease asking for it to be colored and those without it requesting it now that it is quickly becoming a national trend.

Indeed, the gray hair wave is building up to tsunami-grade, and a bevy of products have recently been released that are designed to allow you to get the most out of your lighter shade. When treated and conditioned correctly, gray hair can have a luster and a shine that is unrivaled by other hair tones, allowing it to draw a lion’s share of the attention in any social situation.

The current popularity of gray hair may sever a double purpose as it allows women that were once made to feel self-conscious and perhaps even inferior to feel comfortable in their own skin and underneath their natural hair colors.

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Top 6 Spring Makeup Trends – TheBeautyElixir.com

So for the last few weeks I’ve been buying pops of color pieces to add to my spring wardrobe and a couple of colors my eyes have been drawn too are orange & teal. No matter what I’m buying those two colors seem to end up at the register rather it be clothes or jewelry. So they have been my inspiration for some makeup looks I will be rocking this Spring. Here’s a few looks sure to turn heads:

Wet and Wild: A Test-Drive of Spring’s Most Daring Hair – MakeUp.com

I’m always bemoaning how high-maintenance my hair has become since I stopped wearing it in its natural state—curly—and became an obsessive-compulsive flat-iron user. It’s at the point where my locks have the hair equivalent of hot flashes, going limp at the mere sight of any object heated to 300 degrees. My hair is tired, and so am I.

L’Oreal Introduces New Global Hair Research Center – DailyGlow.com

The cosmetics company inaugurated its new $137 million center in Paris featuring a research and innovation program dedicated to all things hair. Every day is a hair day at L’Oreal’s new research center in Saint Ouen, Paris. The L’Oreal Research Centre is the head of six regional centers around the world (including the Europe-focused center in Saint Ouen), the cosmetics company announced on Wednesday. The center’s research and innovation programs will be dedicated to hair care including shampoos, conditioners, stylers, perms, smoothing, and straightening.

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Deciding to chop off locks that you have been walking around with for years can be a lot like jumping off the high dive. It seems like a very scary concept at first, but the thrill and sense of freedom that comes with it can actually become addictive.

Short hair has been showing up on celebrity runways for a handful of years now, but the trend is coming through in full force in 2012 as stylists all over the country are turning long locks into short and stunning looks. Spring has clearly sprung, and many women want to embrace its gentle touch by letting the breeze flow across their face and through short hair. A woman with a great short hairstyle will attract the attention of the masses in a crowded room, and many women that go short often have a slight boost in their overall confidence and moxie as a result.

Aside from being on the cutting edge of fashion and trends, getting your hair away from your cheeks and jawline will give you a clean and refreshing look while showcasing your natural beauty. The short bob and the pixie are some of the classic short cuts for adventurous and bold women, but a quality stylist will be able to do a number of variations of those two styles as well as many others while creating a look that best suits your natural tones and angles. Going choppy or layered are two options currently growing in popularity that stylist learn in hair schools. Creams and waxes can be utilized to create shine, shape and clear distinctions between layers.

Rihanna is always changing up her style, and it’s always with a look that is truly unique. Whether she is flaunting vibrant red hair or sleek, jet black hair, Rihanna knows how to look like a diva. Recently, she was seen rocking a distinctive do closely resembling the ombre trend, only she took it to the extreme.

Her dark roots and blonde hair were a dramatic change from the picture she posted on Twitter in early March that showcased her natural hair color. This particular picture used the caption, “Where have you been all my life?”

If you want to sport Rihanna’s latest hairstyle, it’s quite simple to do at home. To create the dark roots associated with the ombre, use L’Oreal Paris Feria Multi-Faceted Shimmering Colour, Starry Night. This particular color is ideal for this trend, since it creates depth with its dramatic bright black color. In order to achieve the blonde color, use L’Oreal Feria Pure Intense Lightening Kit – Extra Bleach Blonde. It is strong enough to create the color you want without damaging your hair like many other hair bleaches are known to do. You can have celebrity hair without the celebrity price tag that comes along with it. By using L’Oreal products, you may get the look for less—less than $20 that is.

Rihanna’s style isn’t the only aspect of her life that gets people talking. In fact, her recent duet with ex-boyfriend Chris Brown really received some backlash. Despite anything that happened in the past between the couple, the two were able to come together and collaborate on the track, Birthday Cake.

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From the miniskirt to monochrome, how Mad Men embraced the fashion trends of 1966 – Dailymail.co.uk

Some tuned in to see if Don Draper had actually wed his sexy secretary Megan Calvet. But it was Mad Men’s take on Sixties fashion that captured the imagination of the style set last night. The award-winning AMC television series returned with a double episode to launch its highly-anticipated fifth season.

Punk Chic Hair Color Ideas 2012 – BecomeGorgeous.com

Check out the newest punk hair color ideas for 2012 coming from the A-list world of hairdressers who know how to create a smashing visual impact with the combination of different shades. Discover your new season punk hairdo here! Skim through this colorful parade of punk hair color ideas 2012. Find out how to pick a flattering and voguish new shade. Consider your skin tone and the impact you wish to create before making the best beauty commitment. If your locks are in need of an extra oomph discover the positive impact of hair highlights and bright shades.

CVS to shut upscale Beauty 360 stores, including 23 in California – LATimes.com

Drugstore operator CVS Caremark Corp. is planning to close all 25 of its upscale Beauty 360 stores and accompanying website as it looks to expand other cosmetic offerings.Twenty-three of those shops are located in California, including four Southland stores in Manhattan Beach, Rolling Hills Estates, Yorba Linda and Mission Viejo. All stores will be shuttered by May 19, the company said.

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