Your Festive Face

 During this holiday season, why not sparkle with a twinkle in our eye and and a luminous look to our face? If you are dressing up, don't forget your face! That lit-from-within luminosity gives a youthful glow. Here's how to get it and achieve a festive face.

Liquid Super Loaded Tinted Highlight

Your skin, supercharged. This product not only gives you an instant ethereal glow, it offers long term benefits. I want to try this #cleanbeauty product.

Westman Atelier and Sephora

Dior Forever Couture Luminizer 

It's a limited edition which comes in two highlighting colors. The case itself is worth the price! Pearlescent pigments instantly light up the face!

Dior

Chanel Les Beiges

Sheer Healthy Glow Highlighter

Though I have not used this product yet, I did try it on my tanned hands at the Chanel counter. It was a wow look! The lighter color is new and adds a pinky pearl glow. Wear this over your makeup or mix it with your foundation. Just gorgeous!

Chanel

Dior Liquid Sequins Lipstick

A limited edition made just for this festive season. This product dresses your lips in pigmented color with an ultra glittery finish. It will light up your lips with transfer proof color that will stay on for 12 hours. I'm guessing no kissing allowed. :) It's sold out most places. Saks still has 11 shades, and it is on sale!

Saks Fifth Avenue

Celebrate Glow Face & Eye Palette

It's your Highlight, Blush & Eyeshadow all in one Palette! Save 30% automatically in your cart.

It Cosmetics

Gucci Crystal Holiday False Eyelashes

I think these are so very festive. One would think that they might be more than the $28. Fun!

 Sephora

Victoria Beckham Lid Lusture

"A crystal-infused, fine pressed shadow that delivers ethereal shine and luscious color."  Available in 9 chic colors.

Bergdorf Goodman

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Guerlain Meteorites Setting & Finishing Pearls of Powder
I have used this powder before and really loved it. It gives a very professional finish to your makeup. Choose from three colorways. Gorgeous!

Bergdorf Goodman

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Milk Makeup Grip & Glow

Illuminating Primer

So pretty! This product grips makeup for up to 12 hours. The light reflecting pearls add a warm, luminous glow. Don't wear makup? Use this just to add luminosity to your complexion.

Sephora 

Hourglass Cosmetics Ambient Light Palette

Available in three volumes and colors, these palettes are just the prettiest. They put your face in a light that blurs and finishes your skin with a soft focus. This is volume one, and I love mine.

Hourglass Cosmetics     Sephora

Bobbi Brown Highlighting Powder

This powder gives a true lit from within look. One can achieve a subtle luminosity or a full-on-glow. I have the pale peach in my cosmetic bag now.

Bobbi Brown

Mac Cosmetics Strobe Cream
I always have a tube of this on hand. It's a radiant moisturizer that illuminates the skin with iridescent particles. I use the original color ` pinklight. I like to mix it with my foundation. Now 25% off.

Mac Cosmetics

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Bronzers For That Sun Kissed Look

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I must be glowing today. I spent all day yesterday outside (with mineral sunscreen on) shopping bronzers. Who knew that there were so many? Though I no longer get sun on my face, I do on my body. Bronzer is the best way to even your complexion to match your body. It's also how one gets that sun kissed healthy look. These bronzers rank high in my book!

Guerlain Terracotta Light Healthy Glow Bronzer

The OG of bronzers, and the first one I ever tried. It lasts forever, while it plays double duty as a blush, bronzer and highlighter. $60 but 15% off now with Free Two Day Shipping from....

Nordstrom

Saile Sun Melt Cream Bronzer

First of all this brand is #cleanbeauty, and it is made with "good for you" ingredients. It's lightweight and offers a natural finish. $32 This was an Allure Beauty winner in 2022.

Sephora

Chanel Healthy Glow Sun Kissed Powder

New. I think that we all need one of these. It's a trio of shades to be worn blended or individually. In each compact you get a bronzer, blush, and highlighter. Together they give you a healthy glow that will last up to 8 hours. $95

Chanel     Saks  

Laura Mercier Sheer Cream Bronzer
Laura creates beautiful products. It's the next generation of her terrific tinted moisturizer. This little tube is  infused with 6 pearl blends. You will get 12 hours of hydration, and a gorgeous glow. Now 15% off at...

Nordstrom

Westman Atelier Beauty Butter Bronzer

It's simply gorgeous and totally clean beauty. With the beautiful ingredients, your skin will not only look naturally bronzed, it will feel like buttah!

Westman Atelier     Sephora

Jones Road Beauty Miracle Balm

I have been wanting to try this clean beauty product ever since it was introduced. It's secret is that it helps you to achieve the no make up look.It gives your complexion a wash of soft focus moisture. Wear it alone or over your foundation. The Color shown here is "Magic Hour." It's a cool sheer bronze with a bit of silver shimmer.  By the way, this brand is totally clean beauty and created by Bobbi Brown. $38

Jones Road Beauty

Nars Laguna Bronzing Powder
This is pure powder perfection. It's finely milled, talc free, and silky. It will add a warmth to your complexion as light or dark as you want it. Now 25% off with Code: FRIENDS. Free Shipping on all orders. $40 (less 25%)

Nars Cosmetics

RMS Beauty Buriti Bronzer

I just think this is the prettiest. It's not too pink, peach or bronze. It offers an authentic sun kissed glow.A clean beauty fave. $29

RMS Beauty    Nordstrom

Pat McGrath Divine Bronzer

This matte finish bronzer leaves skin perfected and blurred with a natural radient glow. Available in 5 sun kissed shades. $39

Sephora

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New Makeup For Spring 2024

Having spent yesterday playing in the beauty aisles of the Internet, I have come to several conclusions. Spring makeup looks really glow, blush pops, and blue is THE hue! My favorite trend is lit from within. Scroll down for all of the right elements.

Dive Into The Blue at Chanel

Chanel's Spring 2024 beauty looks feature  subtle shades of azure blue illuminated by transparent highlights. I could see the blue nail color on pedicured feet for fun! The collection is so popular it is all sold out at Chanel. But I found it all at Saks.

Le Vernis Lagune Polish,  Lumiere Iere De L'Ocean Illuminating Powder  and Stylo Yeux Waterproof Eyeliner

Dior Forever Glow Star Filter

This new product serves as a highlighter, blush, and bronzer, depending on the shade you choose. It illuminates, blurs, and hydrates your skin. Your complexion will love the long wearing  and radiant photo filter. Wear it alone or blend it with your foundation.

Dior   or    Sephora

Charlotte Tilbury Glowgasm

If you love a good palette, this is it. Though not exactly new, it went on vacation for a while, and now it is back, but only for a limited time. Inside you will find everything you need for an all over glow - Powder Highlighter, 2 blushes, and bronzer.

Charlotte Tilbury  and  Sephora

YSL Love Shine Lip Oil Stick
This new product is part lip oil and part lipstick. It offers the color of a lipstick, and a slip of an oil. And it comes in so many chic shades.
Sephora   or  YSL

Guerlain Meteorites

Light Revealing Powder Pearls

One-of-a-kind, handmade finishing pearls of powder that set makeup, color correct, mattify shine, and illuminate the complexion, housed in a luxurious reusable case. It was launched in 1982, and I was addicted to it at once. New for Spring, the formula has been revamped and now comes in three colorways, as compared to the original one shade formula. So so pretty! Find it at....

Guerlain     Macy's

Westman Atelier

New Squeaky Clean Liquid Lip Balm & Lit Up Highlight Stick

This clean beauty brand is just fabulous.  I have only used their Face Trace for contouring. But this Lip Balm is next.

Westman Atelier

Unlocked Soft Matte Lipstick
This new product is infused with primer and lip conditioning ingredients. It will last all day and will not bleed. Sounds like a winner.

Hourglass Cosmetics and  Sephora

Kevyn Aucion Face Forward Color Corrector
Ultra creamy with skin loving ingredients. Each color has a purpose for neutralizing blemishes, brightening dark under eyes, and more.

Blue Mercury

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Sun Kissed:: Bronzers That Give You The Look

One of the best ways to give your complexion  warmth and luminosity is with a bronzer.  Remember, you are looking for a sun kissed look, so apply only where the sun would naturally land on your face. Today, I've rounded up some of the best bronzers by luxury beauty brands.

Terracotta Flower Blossom Bronzing Powder 

The iconic healthy glow powder returns in an exquisite new limited edition, designed by artist and painter Laura Gulshani. Guerlain's Bronzing Powders have long been some of my favorites. They last forever! Love that the formula is derived from 96% natural ingredients.

This item is so new and so popular, it appears no one has it yet ! Sorry to do that to you, but it was too pretty not to include. It will be on the shelves soon. OR....head to Bergdorf Goodman and get the Guerlain Terracotta Light Healthy Glow Bronzer, which is almost the same, without the flowers.

Hourglass Cosmetics Ambient Lighting Bronzer

I love this powder bronzer! It fuses an illuminating effect (in the softest of ways) with the dimension of multiple tones in one color.  The powder is sheer. so you won't over do it, but it is also buildable. 

Sephora  and Nordstrom

Manasi 7 Bronzelighter Cream Bronzer

I thought this was the prettiest color, and perfect for those who really want a light touch. This award winning non oily bronzer has been made with wild harvested ingredients. It really is the perfect non-orange golden rose shade.

Saks Fifth Avenue

Hulla Matte Bronzer
This product is award winning and has a cult following, including "Ms. Shop This." It comes in four perfect shades in the cutest mirrored case. Medium priced at $35. 

Benefit Cosmetics and Sephora

Chanel Les Beiges Healthy Glow Cream Bronzer

As you can see, this product delivers an effortless and minimalist glow. It features light reflecting pigments which give you a smooth and natural looking luminosity. It's so good that Chanel is sold out but you can find it at

Saks Fifth Avenue  

Kevin Aucoin Neo Bronzer

Go from naturally sun-kissed to tropically-bronzed with Neo-Bronzers. I love this idea, it is  a bronzer, blush, and highlighter in one palette. Each shade can be used individually or all in one fell sweep of a brush.

Saks Fifth Avenue

Westman Atelier Face Trace

Checkbones in a snap!  Face Trace Contour Sticks ultra-blendable creamy formula makes it easy to sculpt cheekbones, and instantly give definition to sides of nose, jawline and eyelids.  It's a versatile product, and bronzing is the the icing on the cake. #cleanbeauty

Credo Beauty  and  Bergdorf Goodman
  

Tower 28

Bronzino Illuminating Bronzer

Another #cleanbeauty option that is intriguing to me. First of all, the price is good at $20. It will add a healthy glow and subtle shimmer to your complexion. It's a cream and looks magical to me.  Available in five shades. I like the "sun coast."

Credo Beauty  and   Sephora

Filmstar Bronze & Glow

Contour & Highlighting palette for light to medium skin tones. The bronzer side features a blend of pearl and pigments. The Glow side has a golden base that will flatter any skin tone. I would really use this palette.

Charlotte Tilbury

Laguna Bronzing Cream vs Laguna Bronzing Powder

Two ways to bronze: Cream or silky powder. The powder is talc free They both provide instant warmth.

Nars Cosmetics  and Neiman Marcus

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