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Total Beauty's Backstage Beauty Tips That Work in Real Life

Get a false lash look using only mascara

You don't have to go through the trouble of applying faux lashes to get a dramatic lash look. Instead, layer different formulas of mascara, starting with a thickening one (try Bobbi Brown Extreme Party Mascara, $24) and finishing with a lengthening one (try YSL Everlong Mascara, $30). And, to minimize clumping, which is likely to happen when you're swiping on multiple coats, always wipe or blot your wand of excess mascara before applying. -- Kim Soane, Bobbi Brown makeup artist

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Total Beauty's Backstage Beauty Tips That Work in Real Life

Get uber-flirty lashes

You've heard that applying a couple of clumps of false lashes to your outer corners creates a sexy effect, but try placing them in the middle of your top lashlines or directly above the outer edge of the iris of your eye. It will give you an amazing flirty effect. -- Andy Koh for Maybelline New York

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Total Beauty's Backstage Beauty Tips That Work in Real Life

Calm down too-tight curls

If you've curled your hair with an iron or rollers and you're looking more Shirley Temple than you'd like, you can tame them in seconds. How? Easy. Simply spritz them with light-hold hairspray (try Ted Gibson Beautiful Hold Hairspray, $24.95), then hit them gently with air from your blow dryer while pulling down on them. It will instantly soften the curl. -- Devin Toth, stylist at the Ted Gibson salon in New York City

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Total Beauty's Backstage Beauty Tips That Work in Real Life

Make small eyes look bigger

When creating a smoky eye look on smaller eyes, don't apply the shadow much past your creases -- keep the intensity of the color close to your lashline. And avoid lining your inner rims; skipping it will make eyes look bigger/more open. -- Nadine Luke, MAC makeup artist 

If you're going for a more natural look, apply a flesh-toned metallic eyeshadow (try Stila Eye Shadow in Kitten, $18 along your top lashlines. Apply it with a damp, flat shadow brush or angled liner brush for a more precise and pigmented finish. This will instantly brighten up your eyes and make them appear bigger. -- Sarah Lucero, Stila makeup artis

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Total Beauty's Backstage Beauty Tips That Work in Real Life

Get natural-looking texture

Want to get bed head-inspired waves that look effortless? Here's how:

• Apply styling or setting lotion all over (try Bumble and bumble Styling Lotion, $24, then create two to four braids (depending on the thickness of your hair) -- that are the exact same width -- with all of your hair.
• Using a flat iron, press down on the braid -- along the entire length. Run the iron through the ends too. Remove braids for a lived-in, wavy texture. Finish with hairspray for hold. -- Antoinette Beenders, Aveda hairstylist

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Total Beauty's Backstage Beauty Tips That Work in Real Life

Apply foundation for a flawless finish


To make your foundation look less like makeup and more like naturally flawless skin … "use a good primer and an illuminating foundation (tryStila Illuminating Liquid Foundation). After applying your foundation, take a dab of moisturizer and warm it in your hands, then pat it over your skin for a more natural look. It softens your foundation." -- Val Garland for MAC


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Total Beauty's Backstage Beauty Tips That Work in Real Life

Get expensive-looking hair

In order to create hair that looks healthy, full and shiny (AKA "rich girl hair" as designer Zac Posen calls it), follow these quick steps:

• Blow dry your hair using a combination of mousse and dry shampoo. This will add volume.

• Curl all of your hair section by section using a one and a quarter-inch iron. Wrap (don't clamp) hair horizontally around the iron -- only to ear height. Use the same sized sections all over.

• Brush out your hair completely. The end result will be soft, shiny, touchable, glam waves. -- Larry Sims, Got2b celebrity hairstylist

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Allure's 5 Easy Makeup Tricks That Make You Look Younger—Now

1. Take it easy - less is more, just dot a little concealor on well-hydrated skin
2. lighten up - tinted moisturizer with luminiscent particles or lightweight liquid foundations applied with damp sponge or foudnation brush, dot it all over face in tiny amounts, powder to set, avoid eye areas
3. open eyes - curl lashes, shimmering shadow, brow powder
4. Warm it up - neutral rose color tolips and apples of cheeks, brightens, instead of nude lipstick and matte bronzer.  For medium skin, try L'Oréal Paris Infallible Le Rouge Lip Color in Eternal Rose.
5. Give it a little lip - trace with clear lip liner for stay-put lipstick

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Allure Says: The 10 Newest Makeup Shades That Look Amazing on Every Skin Tone

Nars Single Eyeshadow in Daphne and Maybelline New York Expert Wear Eye Shadow Single in Amethyst.- deep purple eyeshadow


Smashbox Blush Rush in Paradise or Benefit Georgia -Women with fair skin should wear peach blush right on the apples of their cheeks, while those with dark skin should move the placement up to the cheekbones "so it's more of a highlighter," she says. 


Make Up For Ever Aqua Eyes Eyeliner in 3L and L'Oréal HIP Studio Secrets Professional Color Truth Cream Eyeliner in Midnight Blue - navy eyeliner, makes eyes look awake, emphasizes whites of eyes, pencil or cream eyeliner, not liquid

Lancôme Color Design Eye Shadow in Filigree andRevlon Luxurious Color Perle Eye Shadow in Sparkling Gold. - gold eyeshadow, pearlescent, light wash on lids or subtle highlight under brows





Shu Uemura Rouge Unlimited Crème Matte in 165m and Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick in Love That Red  - true red lipstick


Clinique True Bronze Pressed Powder Bronzer in Sunsweptand Yves Saint Laurent Sun Poudre de Soleil Sun Powder SPF 10 in Golden Sun, - bronzer with subtle shimmer, "On black women, bronzer is more like a highlighter," Verel says, adding that they should apply it on the tops of the cheekbones. On fair and medium skin, women should lightly dust it everywhere the sun naturally hits: temples, cheeks, and chin. The bonus? It can double as an eye shadow that's equally flattering.


Bobbi Brown Shimmer Lip Gloss in Rose Sugar or Estée Lauder Pure Color Gloss in Tempting Tearose, - semi-sheer gloss, sheer rosy pink lips


Chanel Quadra Eye Shadow in Dunes andL'Oréal Studio Secrets Professional Eye Shadow Quad in Canyon Stone have the perfect mix of shades of brown eye shadow quad. Women with fair skin can create soft or smoky looks, while those with dark skin can use the light shades as a highlighter under the brows and the deeper browns on the lids as an everyday shadow




Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil in Flipside and Sephora Collection Flashy Liner Waterproof in Flashy Blue - turquoise eyeliner


Dior Powder Mono Eyeshadow in Bronzy Night and Cover Girl Eye Enhancers in Brown Smolder. - shimmery deep bronze eye shadow, all skin tones can pull it off on lids or in crease


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Allure's Best of Beauty: The Big Breakthroughs

Living Proof Full Thickening Mousse. Most body builders help hair defy gravity with a gluelike ingredient—called PVP/VA copolymer—that suspends hair off the scalp. But an encounter with a brush, wind, or your restless hands breaks down this brittle coating, and hair sinks like a fallen soufflé. Living Proof scientists ignored the traditional target (roots) and instead created a flexible polymer that adds volume through the length of the hair and stays effective—through mussing and fussing—until the next shampoo.

Advanced Home Actives Brazilian Peel Professional Strength Facial Treatment.Who isn't a little greedy? We want more ingredients, greater feats, instant results—or, to quote Kanye West, "harder, better, faster, stronger." He wasn't talking about face peels, but he could've been. High concentrations of glycolic acid leave skin glowing and reduce lines but, used improperly, can irritate or cause a burning feeling. That's why the 30 percent or higher glycolic peels have always been best left to dermatologists and aestheticians. Until now.

Garnier Fructis Style Sleek & Shine Blow Dry Perfector. First, the Japanese ruled the salon hair-straightening trend; then the Brazilians came along with their sexy, looser approach. Both treatments involve long appointments with repeated applications of noxious straightening chemicals—adding up to hours at the salon and a price tag that could make your hair curl. That's why Garnier researchers set out to allow you to get sleek hair quickly and easily with an at-home kit that keeps hair frizz-free for up to seven shampoos when used with a standard blow-dryer.

Aveeno Ageless Vitality Elasticity Recharging System, Neutrogena Clinical, and RoC Brilliance lines. "Keep the lines of communication open" may be a hackneyed phrase at the office (and in therapy). But now scientists from Johnson & Johnson, which owns Aveeno, Neutrogena, and RoC, are applying that principle to help skin cells enhance collagen and elastin production.

Lancôme Ôscillation PowerFoundation. Mineral foundation has its fans (it's natural; it's long-lasting) and its detractors (it's heavy, cakey, messy). But this new battery-powered sponge applicator silences the naysayers by producing a smoother, more uniform finish

Pantene Pro-V Fine Hair Solutions Flat to Volume Shampoo and Medium-Thick Hair Solutions Frizzy to Smooth Shampoo. For a product with a simple purpose, shampoo can seem awfully complicated. There's the whole hair type decision, and then you have to parse the labels to find one that promises to build body, obliterate frizz, repair damage, or whatever your hair fantasy is. Pantene has devised a new way to categorize products that actually results in better-looking hair. The key factor, they found, is hair structure. After doing hundreds of technical tests, Pantene discovered that 98 percent of women fall into one of four groups: fine, medium-thick, curly, or color-treated hair. They did tests on 20,000 women and tried over 600 prototype formulas, creating two shampoos with new polymers in the process of reformulating many of their products.

Eau Thermale Avène Tolérance Extrême Cleansing Lotion andTolérance Extrême Cream.Women with sensitive skin tend to be cautious in the beauty aisles, wary of any products that sting and burn. One culprit is preservatives. They aggravate some women's skin, but without them, products quickly turn rancid and impotent. Eau Thermale Avène came up with a solution that's almost poetically simple: a cap that keeps its preservative-, color-, and fragrance-free sterile cream and cleanser fresh until the tubes are empty.

Microskin simulated second skin. Most women count cover-up as the essential product in their makeup bags. For women who have large birthmarks, vitiligo, or severe rosacea, a good concealer is truly life-changing—and maddeningly hard to find. The only options are thick foundations that look heavy and masklike, feel like paint, and rub off easily. Microskin dries into a flexible film and doesn't budge for several days—even if you swim, sweat, or apply (and then remove) other makeup.

 Clarisonic Opal Sonic Infusion System. Most of us apply eye cream with the gentle tap, tap, tap of a finger. But while this pressure is sufficient for smearing, it deposits the product only on the surface of the skin. The Clarisonic machine offers a more sophisticated—and effective—approach, using sonic waves to massage the product in deeply.

 

Remington Style Therapy Frizz Therapy flatiron. The effort it takes for women to straighten their curly hair every morning would make Sisyphus weep. Wash, dry, spray, section, hot-iron, hot-iron, hot-iron. Remington scientists took pity on them and developed a straightening iron that combines the most crucial steps into one.

 

L'Oréal Professionnel INOA color. Women who dye their hair have always suffered a bit in the process. The chemicals can sting the scalp and stink up the hair. And the results are fleeting, as the color starts fading with the first shampoo. INOA professional hair dye challenges a 100-year-old technology and offers a way to coax dye into hair in the salon permanently without the side effects.

Allure's Best of Beauty: Base

L'Oréal Paris Studio Secrets Professional Magic Perfecting Base. - primer
Guerlain Lingerie De Peau Invisible Skin-Fusion Foundation- light coverage, skin-improving difference, felt naked
Giorgio Armani Beauty Lasting Silk Foundation - med coverage, doesn't look or feel like a mask, yet it hides lines and discoloration as effectively as one.
L'Oréal Paris True Match Super-Blendable Makeup - oil-free, light and smooth



 M.A.C. Studio Moisture Tint SPF 15 - tinted moisturizer, coverage and hydration, no caking
L'Oréal Paris True Match Super-Blendable Powder - no shine, covers lines and pores, skip foundation
Make Up For Ever HD High Definition Microfinish Powder. - loose powder, weightless, translucent, soft light over face
 Laura Mercier Secret Camouflage - blemishes

Allure's Best of Beauty: Hair

(Left to right:  normal hair, fine, dry, color-treated)


(Dry hair mask, volumizer, volumizer, defrizzer for fine/normal hair)



(Defrizzer for thick hair, curl definer, wave enhancer, straightening balm - no flatiron needed!)



(Hair spray - budgeproof and brushable, heat protectant and hold, shine spray, glaze)



(wax/pomade - no stickiness, dry shampoo, dry shampoo for curly hair with no frizz)