Cargo Cosmetics Bronzers Help Maintain Your Summer Look

I love using bronzer as it adds both depth and dimension to my face. I use it along my jawline, under my cheekbones, at the bottom portion of my nose and all along my forehead where it meets my hairline. Winter is coming and luckily Cargo Cosmetics Bronzers are a wonderful go-to product.

These award-winning bronzers offer a sheer and easily blendable texture. They are available with a touch of shimmer for a built in highlight or you can opt for the matte finish. It's up to you as it should be!

KEY INGREDIENTS

· Light Reflective Mica – Finely milled shimmer particles that give a soft and iridescent quality (exclude in shade Matte Medium)

· Vitamin E – Helps skin fight the damaging effects of the environment while providing moisture

Pro Tip: Use shade Medium Matte for contouring, shade Dark for the hollows of the cheeks and jawline, and shade Medium to contour the nose

SHADES: Medium, Matte Medium & Dark

PRICE: $29

AVAILABILITY: www.Cargocosmetics.com, select Kohl's Departments Stores and Kohls.com/Beauty

New from Rimmel London: Insta Duo Contour Stick

I wear a lot of products from Rimmel London and have been very happy with their variety of beauty categories. Not only are they affordable but they are wonderfully well pigmented.

Get insta-beauty with the newest addition to the Rimmel London makeup collection—the Insta Duo Contour Stick! This game changer will highlight and shape your features instantly.

RIMMEL LONDON INSTA DUO CONTOUR STICK ($6.99)

Swipe and blend, that’s all you need to do with RIMMEL LONDON INSTA DUO CONTOUR STICK. Regardless of where you are, keep this portable duo on hand to define and highlight your features.

Formula & Benefits: Selfie approved formula, Dual sided applicator, Ultra-smooth formula, available in three duos to work with your skin tone. 

Available Shades: Light, Medium and Dark

Profusion Cosmetics Now Available at Target

Profusion Cosmetics is an independently owned brand started in California with over 20 years of experience. 

Profusion Cosmetics has certainly mastered the art of creating visually pleasing palettes. These are quality cosmetics at affordable prices beauty peeps! They are fun and easy to use and I started playing with the products as soon as they arrived. What is truly wonderful is that each palette is created for every skin tone, age, gender, skill level and budget. When you buy from Profusion Cosmetics, you are buying products that can suit everyone. That is a huge selling point for me as I love the idea of inclusivity. 

 

The brand is committed to creating professional-grade cosmetics made with rich-pigments and leading-edge formulations. Profusion takes dedicated time to innovate and perfect each product from concept to creation, while ensuring that all SKUs meet the needs and desires of consumers, inspiring everyone from aspiring makeup artists to seasoned cosmetics aficionados. Each palette is beautiful and fun, making it an essential to spice up your daily makeup routine!

You can find Profusion Cosmetics at Target, Target.com and ProfusionCosmetics.com. The collections range from $4.99 to $19.99.

New: Honest Beauty Contour + Highlight Kit and Buffing Brush

NEW from Honest Beauty, Honest Beauty Contour + Highlight Kit and Buffing Brush that just hit shelves this week! Perfect together or on their own, here are the details on these two  new beauty bag essentials.

Contour + Highlight Kit ($34, HonestBeauty.com)

- The only contour kit you’ll need to sculpt and highlight like a pro in seconds. Two blendable contouring creams and a light-catching luminizer give instant radiance.

Buffing Brush ($34, HonestBeauty.com)

- The ultimate new power tool! Crafted with ultra-luxe synthetic hair fibers so you can buff, build and blend your way to a photo-ready finish. (Plus, the handle is made from 100% FSC wood).

PÜR Cosmetics: Illuminate The Skin You're In

This season’s strobing trend is all about lighting up your face, and these brand new palettes from PÜR Cosmetics contain a trio of coordinating highlighters designed to instantly illuminate skin for a dimensional glow!

The three coordinating shades for warm or cool toned skin highlight your face for a luminescent effect, while the Ceretin Complex helps smooth, firm and lift the skin. This advanced cream-to-powder formula defines more naturally when blended than traditional powders, offering streak-free application with a powdery finish.

Available in two shades: Moonlit Glow and Sun-Kissed Glow. Highlight and define with three coordinating shades to create a custom, lit-from-within look for any skin tone. The silky cream formula glides onto skin for buildable, streak-free coverage and transforms quickly to a self-setting powdery, transfer-resistant finish. A glowing, youthful-looking complexion has never been so easy to achieve.

Available for $34 each on www.purminerals.com

Fiona Stiles Beauty Collection: Exclusively at ULTA

Twenty-year makeup artist veteran Fiona Stiles knows beauty. Having made up the faces of some of the industry’s leading stars, including Jessica Alba, Jennifer Garner, Nicole Richie, Elizabeth Banks and Gabrielle Union, Fiona took her knowledge and expertise, and created Fiona Stiles Beauty, a line of 120 premium-quality eye, lip and face products with innovative formulas in a range of highly pigmented colors.

Exclusively available at Ulta Beauty stores and Ulta.com, the collection provides the next generation of fool-proof makeup set to demystify makeup with a comprehensive mix of easy-to-navigate, non-intimidating, ‘mistake-free’ essentials.

Below is a small sampling of the Fiona Stiles Beauty collection...

Radiant Aqua Veil

An ultra-pigmented, exceptionally blendable, long lasting, crease-resistant liner and eye shadow base in one. Cream eye shadow revolutionized. Innovative water-based texture offers optimal playtime before setting, delivering intensely rich color payoff in a single swipe. Weightless, smudge-resistant formula blends easily and can be layered or worn alone.
Price: $22
Availability: Ulta.com

Artist Eyeshadow Quad

These eyeshadow quads feature highly pigmented, expertly coordinated shades with vivid payoff, designed to work together or be worn alone. Silky, weightless, true-to-color, pressed powder pigments present superior blendability and a smooth and even application. Versatile formula adheres instantly delivering intense color payoff in one swipe.
Price: $28
Availability: Ulta.com

Ultimate Lash Icon Volumizing Mascara

This mascara adds instant exaggerated volume, separation and curl with a false eye-lash effect, creating the look of thicker, fuller, bolder, dramatic lashes. Its innovative double brush is designed to feature two different brushes in one – one for enhanced separation and another that provides ultra volume and curl. Smudge-resistant, clump-free, flake-free.
Price: $16
Availability: Ulta.com

Brow Sculpting Wax

A buildable, smudge-resistant, all-in-one brow shaper in a single, universal shade. All-purpose creamy brow wax glides on smoothly to shape, define, fill and set brows. Formula coats each hair, adding the appearance of fullness to sparse areas, creating a natural frame for the face.
Price: $16
Availability: Ulta.com

Signature Soft Matte Lip Color

A pigment-rich lipstick with a non-drying, velvety, soft matte finish. Matte yet moisturizing, intensely-pigmented lip color in a single stroke. This creamy texture is weightless and comfortable to wear. Does not feather or bleed.
Price: $16
Availability: Ulta.com

Light Illusion Prism Palette

A soft focus, silky powder that captures, diffuses and softens the way light reflects on skin, to give a lit from within appearance. Gently luminous, fool-proof application recreates and enhances the way light reflects on skin to refine complexion appearance. Soft shimmer, sheer natural coverage with a subtle glow that's suitable for all skin tones.
Price: $28
Availability: Ulta.com

Sheer Sculpting Palette

Translucent contouring powders for sculpting, shaping and defining your features. Created to bring realistic shadows and dimension to the face. Sheer buildable coverage for fool-proof usage and application that blends effortlessly into the skin. Suitable for all skin tones.
Price: $28
Availability: Ulta.com

New from Smashbox!

Not only do I use their contour palette on a daily basis, I also love their Liquid Halo HD Foundation, Be Legendary Lipsticks, Always Sharp liners...you get it, right?! The mere fact that Smashbox collaborated with the incredibly well know Fashion Illustrator, Donald Robertson, only made my obsession for Smashbox more intense! Who doesn't love Donald (I know I certainly do)?! Before that my beloved street artist Curtis Culig collaborated with them, too! 

Now it is time to show you what is NEW...

·The most-coveted Contour Palette features deeper shades to help women of all skin tones put their best features forward.$45 at Sephora

·CC Concealer hides imperfections for a full 24-hours with budge-proof Photoset Polymers that work like a liquid bandage to stick to and move with skin. $25 at Smashbox.com

·Camera Ready BB Water works with pigments suspended in water give skin the cocktail it craves for a radiant finish that hydrates all day.Exclusive Photoset Polymers make your look last through happy hour into after-hours, and SPF 30 protects from environmental damage. $42 at Smashbox.com

·Shape Matters Palette includes 1 brow wax, 2 brow powders in Taupe/Soft Brown, 1 highlighter, 1 illuminator, 1 bronzer, 1 contour powder, 9 matte and shimmer shade Photo Op Eye Shadows, 1 double-ended shadow/brow brush, #SHAPEMATTERS inserts with shaping steps for eyes, brows, and face, and interactive #SHAPEMATTERS cards with how-to contouring tips. $65 at Sephora

More swatches and looks to come as this 

palette is FABULOUS!

New From Too Faced Cosmetics: Cocoa Contour and Sugar Pop

Man does Too Faced make deliciously sweet smelling products?! Not only does the Cocoa Contour Chiseled To Perfection ($40) and Sugar Pop Sugary Sweet Eye Shadow Collection ($36) smell delish, their pigments pack a punch and have long lasting wear.

I love the kabuki brush in the contouring kit and there is also a wonderful how to pamphlet to show where to apply the different hues. I like a natural contour look and used a light hand when sculpting my cheekbones and jawline. I found the brochure helpful and the color choices flattering. Someone must teach me how to really do a strong contour yet only for picture sake as I would not feel comfortable being seen in the light without blending  the look to perfection. My take on contouring is that the heavier the hand, the more unnatural one can look if not done well. 

The candy inspired Sugar Pop palette has many wonderful color choices to create a variety of looks. I love playing around and Malted Milk Ball and Blackberry were my go to colors for the look above. 

Available at Sephora, Sephora.com and at toofacedcosmetics.com- these options are delightful! 

Smashbox Cosmetics: Newest Launches

After meeting Smashbox Founder and Celebrity Photographer a few years ago, I knew Davis Factor was a visionary. A creative genius in my opinion. 

"So many music videos, scenes and commercials are shot at Smashbox Studios. We started noticing that certain cameras being used that made everyone look amazing in film. These cameras actually reduced the need for retouching. And from this camera technology, we created light filter technology and infused it into this product." 

Introducing New Photo Filter Powder Foundations ($42) available in 10 shades that act like a photo filter in a compact! 

It is a powder foundation that is infused with light filter technology that refract light in various directions. 

The texture is velvet like and applies with ultra smoothness. The double sided sponge was specially designed to create a range of finishes and coverage levels. The smooth side is for a demi- matte, fuller coverage where the velvety side is for a more natural, lighter coverage. 

Available at Smashbox.com, Sephora, Sephora inside JCPenney, ULTA, Nordstrom, Beauty.com and select Macy's.

Also from Smashbox Cosmetics are the Step-By-Step Contour Stick Trio ( $40) which is a Sephora Exclusive. These three creamy sticks help make contouring your face, no matter what shape, easy! 

"Every day we play with lighting to add depth and dimension to the face. If done right, everyone can have amazing cheekbones, a great nose and a killer jawline. Contouring does the exact same thing, except with makeup" says Davis Factor. 

Key words- if done right. We have all seen Kim K's contouring face chart as well as so many other MUA's and a lot looks quite complex. When not blended correctly, one can look unnatural. I go by the late great Kevyn Aucoin's techniques when contouring and the new Smashbox Contour Stick Trio makes for an easy blend. It is amazing what a little contouring can do! Most people asked if I lost weight when I do it! 

The 3 ultra- blendable creamy sticks glide effortlessly onto the skin. I love that there is a guide called #SHAPEMATTERS that shows you how to apply the sticks based on your face shape. 

I like thinning out my nose and making a stronger jawline. I also apply the darker color to the hollows of my cheeks for a more sculpted cheekbone.

Once again, contouring can work on anyone and I do believe you will be amazed with the results once you get the hang of it. 

Above photo courtesy of Smashbox Cosmetics IG feed. Simply awesome!

My take on a daytime look using Photo Filter Powder Foundation in Shade 2 and the Step-By-Step Contour Stick Trio for an oval shaped face. #SHAPEMATTERS

Milani: Baked Blushes to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth

If you have followed me for a while then you already know of my admiration for Milani Cosmetics. I find their line affordable, colorful and love that they offer a wide variety of products for all skintones.

Ten NEW Baked Blush shades were recently launched for $ 7.29 each at CVS stores nationwide and I was given the opportunity to swatch two of the Baked Blush options. 

These are multi- purpose blushes that shape, contour and highlight parts of your face with ease. For those of you that do not want too much shine- Delizioso Pink and Bella Rose are matte. 

Colors swatched are Luminoso and Rose D' Oro. 

I used Rose D'Oro on the apples of my cheeks yet you can apply it to your forehead, chin and nose if you want a truly radiant glow. Be sure to blend well! 

For more product information, kindly visit www.MilaniCosmetics.com.