Soft Spoken

There’s no need to spend 30 minutes preening over perfect makeup in the summer – it’s all about looking fresh and pretty without the fuss. With a few key products and a little know-how, courtesy of Soft Surroundings Makeup ArtistDavid Shannon, you can achieve a flawless-looking face in less than five minutes.
1. Apply your foundation [...]

Long, complicated beauty routines go out the window once the sun shines. For summer, makeup is all about looking fresh and natural without the fuss. Here’s the scoop on getting a clean, summer-fresh face in four simple steps that take five minutes or less – combined.
Step 1: Face
Skip the hassle (and caked-on look) of applying [...]

Find out what makeup expert Bobbi Brown has to say about how jewelry highlights her eye color and skin tone. Learn what jewelry you should wear!
“A few years ago I received a pair of pink pearl earrings for my birthday. I instantly fell in love with these earrings because of the way the pink tones of [...]

If you have a wide, round or a full face, you can’t change your bone structure. But there are optical illusions you can create that will make your face appear slimmer. Type of hairstyle and actual cosmetic tricks can work to slenderize your face and de-emphasize the size of your face. Accessory and strategic clothing [...]

Full, luscious lips are all-the-rage on red carpets and runways this season. It all begins with a healthy pout.
Lips are skin, remember. They require moisture, nourishment and exfoliation just like the rest of your face. In fact, even more so. Lips are protected by a mere three to five layers of skin cells compare to [...]

Put down that tweezers! Before you take another pluck, first take a good look in the mirror at what could easily become your defining feature.
The Perfect Brow
Simply put, the brow should begin on the same point as your nostril and extend just beyond each corner of your eye. Have you overplucked? Hide the tweezers for [...]

The ultimate beauty secret is to maintain a healthy glow. Drink plenty of water, exercise regularly and insist on eight hours of sleep to allow your natural color to radiate outwardly.
For those inevitable days when your look is dulled, it might be time to blush.
Use blush to achieve a natural, pinched-cheek look:
1. Choose a blusher [...]

Your wardrobe isn’t all you need to change out for the season! Revamp your spring look too with paler shades, light weight (but effective) moisturizers and quick-time, easy to apply makeup.
We’ve been studying makeup trends and we’re seeing lots of light and breezy color combinations – but some interesting intense directions as well.
Dior features a [...]

The difference between a mask-y, cake-y cover-up job and a barely there slight-of-hand to blur imperfections is choosing the right type and shade of concealer to get the task done. Whether you need to camouflage splotchy skin, hide a blemish or send under-eye bags packing, here are a few tips to try for perfecting skin [...]

Nothing ruins a makeup look as fast as a clownishly applied blush or streaky swipe of bronzer. We want cheek color to look natural, adding just a hint of hue without overpowering the face, giving us an effortless, youthful pick-me-up glow. All you need for a perfectly pretty flush is the right formula, a skin-complementing [...]