New Year, New You.

With every year comes New Year's resolutions. However, how many have been kept & completed...Lets be realistic! That yearly gym membership will only last for about three months. The new wardrobe that is two sizes too small (you know the one you were going to fit into by the summer) will sit in your closet until next year's resolution. Let's start the New Year with a new attitude & look. Which begins with your makeup bag...take out that black eyeliner (but don't get too Amy Winehouse on me, unless of course that's the look you like) & have fun! And, after all the compliments you get on how great you look you'll actually go to the gym for the next twelve months & realize its not about your size but about how great you'll feel.

Armani Prive' Fall 2007-Collection
Photo: Greg Kessler

a few inspirational looks for New Year's Eve.

Versace, Spring'07 Photos: Greg Kessler Christian Lacroix, Fall'07 Photo: Don Ashby & Olivier Claisse
Oscar de la Renta, Fall'07 Photo: Don Ashby & Olivier Claisse

Badgley Mischka, Spring'08 Photo: Greg Kessler
Valentino, Fall'07 Photo: Greg Kessler
Versace, Fall'06 Photo: Don Ashby

All I want for Christmas is the perfect red lipstick.

The perfect red lips that Hollywood starlets wore in the forties evoked such sexiness and sophistication that trying to replicate the same would seem impossible. However, with so much selection the choice can be stressful and overwhelming. Be it at the drugstore or department store there is such a thing as the "one". The trick is not only in finding the right hue but also in the application. The worst thing that can happen is being at the company annual Christmas party with "bleeding lips". You know the look...the one where it looks like you've been kissing under the mistletoe. However, the only thing you've come close to kissing is that martini in your hand.
The ultimate reds;

• MAC Dubonnet
• MAC Russian Red
• MAC Queen's Sin
• Vincent Longo's Cheery Lipstain
• Revlon Love that Red
• L'Oreal Drumbeat Red
• NYC Retro Red
• Maybelline Moisture Extreme in Midnight Red

It's all in the application;

• Lipbalm-prior to lipstick application & blot with tissue
• Lipliner-either in the matching shade of the lipstick or my fave is using a nude lipliner
• Lipstick application-preferably with a lip brush

Whew...quite the task! However, achieving the perfect red lips is well worth the final look if done properly. Have fun because makeup should never be anything else!

(image: photobucket)