Don't keep your makeup forever

(Times of India)- Most of us women are secretly beauty product junkies. We tend to collect the latest lipgloss, foundation or the trendiest new eye shadow and often end up not using it more than once or twice. Applying the right cosmetics can help enhance your beauty, but using old ones could result in skin infections or a rash. Instead of holding onto that lipstick from your teenage years, read on to find out your favourite products expiration date. Read more here…

How to Read Beauty Product Labels

(Money Talks News)- If you don’t want to waste your money on products that make empty promises, learn which parts of product labels are regulated by the FDA. There’s no other way to know which words on personal care product labels are credible and which could be nonsense.


FDA regulations only address…

1. Ingredients:

The Code of Federal Regulations (Section 701.3) requires cosmetics packaging to “bear a declaration of the name of each ingredient in descending order of predominance.” As seemingly useless as ingredients with unpronounceable names may seem, this is about as trustworthy as a cosmetics product’s label gets. “The ingredient list is the only part of the product’s copy that you can and should rely on,” says Paula Begoun. Read more here…

Someone Just Like Me Said, ‘Buy It’

(New York Times)- MAGAZINES have long been oracles of beauty advice for women. These days, beauty bloggers, celebrities and tweeting makeup artists also dole out tips and tout must-have products — that they may have received free. But Makeup Alley, a 12-year-old low-frills Web site that focuses on user-generated reviews, has quietly come to be the standard bearer for the unvarnished truth about beauty products online. Read more here…

Extreme eyelashes

(The Seattle Times)- When it comes to eyelashes, the mantra has always been "the bigger the better." And now beauty brands aren't stopping at full and lush. They're taking it to the extreme with products that offer intense, almost spider-webby lashes that fall somewhere between a 1960s Twiggy and a 1980s Tammy Faye Bakker.

The look was all over the fall runways — seen at Lanvin, Miu Miu and Chloe — but beauty products offering heavy and dramatic lashes are hitting shelves now, meaning you can start sporting your spidery eyes right away. Or at least you can start practicing to perfect the technique so that you don't end up looking like a mascara wand attacked your face. Read more here…

Texans cheerleaders share beauty secrets

(abc13.com)- Football is back and that means the players are getting ready for the preseason and so are our favorite cheerleaders, the Houston Texans Cheerleaders.

So how do they look so great on and off the field? We found out they have some secret beauty weapons, and they are sharing them with us.

We asked the Texans cheerleaders, what is the one budget beauty product that they can't live without? From Chapstick to fake nails, they know what works and you can find all these products at your area discount store. Read more here…