Michele Papenheim Make Up at Cole Street Salon

Going to prom this Spring?

Your makeup is a key way to define your prom style. It can be over­whelm­ing to choose your look, espe­cially if it is your first time get­ting this gussied up for for­mal event… but it should be really fun.  Look through magazines, YouTube videos, and pho­tos online with your friends to see which styles are most appeal­ing to you.

There are many trends for makeup for 2012.  After you have cho­sen your hair­style, your makeup col­ors and appli­ca­tion tech­niques will set the stage for your gor­geous look. When it comes to your prom hair­style, why not try some­thing dif­fer­ent to set your­self apart from the crowd?  “In” for 2012 are hair knots, braided updos, side-swept pony­tails, and half up half down looks.

Now, for prom makeup, you will want to test your look out with a trial before prom night. You may choose to get your makeup done by a pro­fes­sional makeup artist, like me, or do it your­self. The lat­est trends  include bold, red lips, dra­matic long, thick lashes, winged black eye­liner, smokey eyes, blue eye­shad­ows, and adding lots of shim­mer to eyes. We have seen these dra­matic looks since 2010 and they are still going strong.

Dra­matic Eyes and Stand Out Shimmer!

Feel­ing Alive Spring 2012 Jane Iredale

You can do a smokey look that incor­po­rates brighter col­ors rather than the nor­mal dark hues such as grey and black. Or use three tone col­ors to cre­ate a dra­matic look like a com­bi­na­tion of bold red, elec­tric pur­ple, bright blue, neon-green, and intense orange.

An awe­some prod­uct to be sure to check out is Jane Iredale’s Feel­ing Alive Makeup Col­lec­tion.  For exam­ple, check out this Aqua Silk Eye Gloss!

Eye Gloss in Aqua Slik

How often can you give your eyes a stand-out sul­try shim­mer? Don’t be afraid to com­bined an array of colors.

Speak­ing of Blue…

2012 shades range from light blues, teals, and turquoises, to out­right neon or elec­tric and boy, do your eyes get noticed. Back in the 80’s, blue shadow was a huge hit back in the 80’s and celebri­ties are rock­ing this look all over agan this year.  Selena Gomez popped elec­tric blue eyes with a thick, bold eye­liner.  Tyra Banks added blue-grey to top and bot­tom of her eyer, and Ashanti used a dark navy smokey eye with winged liner to cre­ate som drama.  Don’t be afraid of light blue or dark, or even pas­tel!  Any­thing goes.

Rock Out Your Eyeliner!

Try an open edged liner tech­nique or thick and squared.  How about cat eyes or dou­ble sided cat eyes?  You can also do a graphic look, fairy wings, or a mir­rored wing effect.  Light and sub­tle works, too, if you are opt­ing for a sweeter, more nat­ural look, but blend it out for a smokey effect.  Want a great liner?  Try this look!

Bold, Kiss­able Lips!

Pucker up and add some bright­ness to make your lips scream “Gor­geous.” Bold reds, bright pur­ples, deep fuch­sias, Bold oranges, and all sorts of neon shades are hot!  Check out this plumper and hot Just-Kissed color from Jane Iredale!

LA Just-Kissed Lip Plumper

Choose col­ors that com­pli­ment your skin tone, eye and dress color, and have FUN!

If you have any ques­tions on what makeup look is right for you, ask them here… or come in to see me.  You can stop by dur­ing my stu­dio hours to ask a quick ques­tion or browse through my in-stock makeup, or you can sched­ule an appoint­ment for a con­sul­ta­tion or a pro­fes­sional makeup appli­ca­tion by call­ing 1.248.645.2653.  Have a great prom!

On March 19th I started a series about car­ing for your skin and this week I com­plete the tri­fecta and talk about pro­tect­ing your skin.

There are many ways to pro­tect our skin and many dif­fer­ent things we need to pro­tect against.  We all need to pro­tect our skin as it forms the first line of defense for our bod­ies against the ele­ments.  The process does not have to be time-consuming, dif­fi­cult, or expen­sive, and if you make it part of your daily rou­tine (the way you pro­tect your teeth by brush­ing them), you can help your skin look and feel gorgeous!

We’ve already spo­ken about hydra­tion and exfo­li­a­tion, so I am not going to cover those here.

1. Take Pre­cau­tions with your Health

Nasty things like cold sores can be caused by a viral infec­tion of the skin that bor­ders the lips.  Bac­te­ria con­tribute to acne and other skin con­di­tions and infec­tions if not kept in check.  Pay close atten­tion to every­thing that comes into con­tact with your skin, to lower your chances of expo­sure to germs, and fol­low proper make up han­dling.

2. Use Gen­tle Skin Care

Wash your face!  This removes dirt, oils, germs, and if you exfo­li­ate, removes icky dead cells.

• Wash twice daily with warm water and mild cleanser.
• Gen­tly mas­sage with a wash­cloth using a cir­cu­lar motion.
• Rinse thor­oughly to remove all soap and debris.
• Pat dry — never rub — then apply moisturizer.

3. Get to Know your Skin

Odd freck­les, moles, and growths on the skin should be mon­i­tored, and your doc­tor con­sulted when/if you notice any changes. Changes in a mole might indi­cate poten­tial skin can­cer. Treat any cuts to ward off infection.

If you have any of these skin con­di­tions (Which might be signs of one of the many types of der­mati­tis, or skin inflam­ma­tion), you may want to visit your dermatologist:

• fre­quent acne
• inflamed or irri­tated dry skin
• skin rashes and irri­ta­tions that don’t go away

4. Use Sun Block!

When you care for your skin both inside and out, pro­tect­ing it comes down to a few sim­ple steps. Remem­ber, though, should you ever notice any­thing out of the ordi­nary, get med­ical atten­tion to resolve them quickly and avoid putting you and/or your skin at risk.

Why Exfo­li­ate?

We have all heard the word exfo­li­a­tion, but what exactly does it mean, why do we need to do it, what are the dif­fer­ent choices.

Let me address all of these for you.

What is exfoliation?

Exfo­li­a­tion is remov­ing the dead cells from the lay­ers of your skin to reveal the live cells beneath.

On March 19 we talked about how to make your skin look it’s very best:

1. Exfo­li­ate
2. Hydrate
3. Pro­tect

Why exfo­li­ate????

Dead skin dulls your com­plex­ion, mak­ing your skin appear life­less.  By remov­ing dead cells you allow your fresh live cells to sur­face.  This gives the skin a youth­ful, healthy glow.  True to their name, dead cells are dead.  You can­not ressurect them! Moisturizers and other cos­met­ics can wet these cells down, but then they dry back out and stay put.  If you remove them before you mois­tur­ize, you are nour­ish­ing your live cells rather than wast­ing prod­uct on the dead ones.  And, finally, dead cells play goalie and block needed oxy­gen from reach­ing your skin.  this can make it appear even more life­less and inhibit breath­ing.  Worse, those cells can clog pores and cause break outs.

Here are the best ways to exfo­li­ate your skin:

1. Beta Hydroxy Acids(BHA) (Sal­i­cylic) This prod­uct loves oil!! It exfo­li­ates not only the sur­face of the skin, but it also digs deep and is pulled into the oily pores, exfo­li­at­ing the lin­ing of each pore. Using a prod­uct con­tain­ing this may help elim­i­nate the nasty, dif­fi­cult black heads.
2. Alpha Hydroxy Acids(AHA) These come from nat­ural sources.  Yummy sug­ar­cane, (not so yummy) sour milk, and fruits like grapes and apples con­tain these acids which help burn off dead cells. Each source of acid is a dif­fer­ent size (mol­e­c­u­larly) which gov­erns how far the acid penetrates.
3. Scrubs A favorite, are gran­u­lar prod­ucts that buff away the upper lay­ers of dead skin.
4. Enzyme Masks  Organic and yummy for the skin, these can be made from green papaya, pump­kin, mango, pineapple, and many more.  The enzymes lit­er­ally digest the dead cells, pen­e­trat­ing the skin to elim­i­nate dead cells that are glued in place. Lunch for enzymes!

See why exfo­li­a­tion is an impor­tant and vital step in your skin rou­tine?  You can waste a lot of money on prod­ucts if they never get past the dead cells to nour­ish the live ones.  Treat your skin to an exfo­li­a­tion today!

So, how do you exfo­li­ate?  Weigh in on the Face­book page and tell us your favorites!

Keep a look out for the next blog… More ways to iden­tify the right exfo­li­a­tion choice for you and your skin type.

Wow, this weather has been unbe­liev­able hasn’t it?  As the tem­per­a­ture begins to rise, it’s impor­tant to keep hydrating!

In the win­ter, it is drier, and our bod­ies crave water, prompt­ing us to work on our hydra­tion by drink­ing enough water and flu­ids.  How­ever, as tem­per­a­ture and humid­ity rises, it can be more dif­fi­cult to remem­ber to quench your body’s cells.

There are three ways you can help make sure your skin looks the very best:

1. Exfo­li­ate
2. Hydrate
3. Pro­tect

I will dis­cuss how to best exfo­li­ate at a later time.  Today, I want to talk about hydrat­ing your body and your skin.

Drink­ing water is very impor­tant.  When we hydrate from the inside, water is absorbed into all our cells, not just our skin cells.  An ade­quate amount of water is impor­tant for over­all good health because water is involved in and helps improve bod­ily func­tions like diges­tion, absorp­tion, cir­cu­la­tion, and excretion.

Hydra­tion with water aids in the flush­ing or removal of harm­ful tox­ins from the body. With­out suf­fi­cient water, meta­bolic wastes are not removed effi­ciently. The body would hold in tox­ins rather than expelling them as required for proper health. This toxin removal is per­formed in the kid­neys and drink­ing water allows the kid­neys to per­form this task properly.

Drink­ing water is ben­e­fi­cial for mus­cles, help­ing main­tain proper mus­cle tone and pre­vent­ing painful mus­cle cramp­ing.  Your facial mus­cle tone helps with sag­ging and wrin­kling, also.

The pre­ven­tion of kid­ney stones or at least the reduc­tion of risk of devel­op­ing kid­ney stones is another ben­e­fit of drink­ing water in the right quantities.

Drink­ing water also helps to increase our energy lev­els lubri­cate our joints.

Hydrat­ing from the inside is going to help your body and your skin.  It will help you main­tain a good mois­ture bal­ance, elim­i­nate wastes prop­erly, and help with tox­i­c­ity.  So, take care of your­self and drink away!

If you have been in my chair as a client, you most likely know why I carry and use the lines of make up prod­ucts that I do.  My store­front is filled with high qual­ity cos­met­ics and I am metic­u­lous with clean­ing brushes and using fresh applicators.

Make up man­u­fac­tur­ing is not well reg­u­lated in the United States. Nei­ther is the process for how cos­met­ics are han­dled at retail­ers.  The health depart­ment mon­i­tors restau­rants, help­ing reg­u­late the qual­ity of things we put in our bod­ies, but there is noth­ing to reg­u­late how coun­ters han­dle what we put on our bodies.

I recently came across a 1998 report that shows how make up is improp­erly han­dled at make up coun­ters.  In that report, depart­ment stores were the worst in car­ry­ing testers and using make up and skin care testers that con­tained high lev­els of con­t­a­m­i­na­tion.  This hap­pens from improper han­dling of the prod­ucts.  Not much has changed since 1998!

Here are some things you should be aware of at make up coun­ters in depart­ment stores and even the make up you have at home in your own drawers:

1.  Never share make up.  Ever.  If you are at a make up counter try­ing on make up, make sure the sales per­son uses clean appli­ca­tors and is clean­ing brushes between each per­son and application.

2.  Check your make up (and any you are sam­pling) for bad smells or dis­col­orations.  Throw out any make up that is old.  Pow­der based prod­ucts last longer (6–8 months) but if it looks or smells funny, dis­card it!

3. If you have had Pink Eye, or another skin infec­tion, throw away all make up prod­ucts that were used near the eye or infec­tion site.

4.  When pur­chas­ing make up or skin care, look for the expi­ra­tion date.

Things you should watch for when deal­ing with a make up artist:

1.  They should wash their hands before each client.

2.  They should be using one time appli­ca­tors on you for try­ing on lip­stick, or they should be clean­ing their brushes in between clients with an anti-bacterial cleanser.  The pro­fes­sional should be dis­card­ing the top of the lip­stick (cut­ting off the top) before using it on the next client.

3.  If you try a prod­uct on your­self, ask for a make up appli­ca­tor.  Do not use your hands, fin­gers, or “dou­ble dip” the applicator.

4.  Artists should be sharp­en­ing lip and eye pen­cils before use on each client.

5.  Artists should be using dis­in­fec­tants with their brushes.

6.  Mas­cara is trick­ier… it should be replaced on a reg­u­lar basis.  If you are hav­ing your make up done at a depart­ment store counter, it is safer for you to pur­chase a new mas­cara that will only be used on you, or bring your own.

Use these tips at home and when shop­ping to ensure that you pro­tect your­self from unwanted germs, bac­te­ria, and even infection.

Fresh for Spring 2012, Jane Iredale wants you to “Feel Alive”!

Feel­ing Alive Spring 2012 Jane Iredale

Rose Dawn Bronzer

Rose Dawn Bronzer

Eye Gloss - Aqua Silk

The Aqua Silk Eye Gloss is great for that pop for your eyes. I use it like a metal­lic eye liner on the edges of the eye.  This long-lasting, quick-drying liq­uid eye shadow won’t crease or smear and is easy to apply, mak­ing it ideal for at home or on the go. Retail Price: $15.50

Eye Gloss in Aqua Silk

And, these other amaz­ing prod­ucts are fea­tured in the Feel­ing Alive Spring 2012 collection:

Eye Gloss - Pink Silk

Pink Silk Eye Gloss

Like the Aqua Silk pic­tured above, you can add a pop of color to your eye­lids by smooth­ing on the Pink Silk Eye Gloss, the other new color for this sea­son. Retail Price: $15.50

Check out the Just Kissed Lip Plumper –  Rio and L.A: 

The best way to get full, kiss­able lips is to apply a Jane Iredale Just Kissed Lip Plumper. Her unique for­mula uti­lizes time-released pep­tides to increase lip hydra­tion and stim­u­late your own nat­ural col­la­gen syn­the­sis. She adds essen­tial oils of lemon and tan­ger­ine to exfo­li­ate the lips and shea but­ter, sun­flower oil and avo­cado soften and hydrate your pretty pucker-uppers! Choose from Rio, a rosy brown or L.A., a shim­mer­ing, sub­tle pink. Retail Price: $25

LA Just-Kissed Lip Plumper

Rio Just-Kissed Lip Plumper

Add a touch of color to the edges of your lips with the Lip Definer pen­cil in Pink

You can use this rose petal pink pen­cil to enhance your nat­ural lip color.  Lip Definer glides on smoothly and fills in to define your lips and pro­vide a long-lasting base for any lip­stick or gloss. Retail Price: $11

Pink Lip Definer Pencil

The trends of the sea­son are in and the ver­dict is… imper­fec­tion! Yes, I did say imper­fec­tion. The dic­tio­nary defines this word as the qual­ity of a state of being imper­fect or not completed.

So, in the world of fash­ion that means effort­less make up. Which I can hear a lot of you sigh­ing with relieve about the pres­sure of the mag­a­zines telling us we most be per­fect at all times.

So, the Kim Kar­dasians of the world need to know its OK to be seen with­out  heav­ily applied matte foun­da­tions and heavy smoky eyes.  Defined lip liner …OUT! Eye­brows should be man­i­cured, but not per­fectly filled in and if you need to color them in… use lighter colors.

The younger gen­er­a­tion looks great in softer metal­lic or wet look­ing eye­lids. The fash­ion world calls it a mod­ern under­stated 70s glam rocker. I’m see­ing a lot of aqua/grey col­ors. For mature women, we can still wear metal­lic, but need to know exactly where to accent with it on our own per­sonal eyes.

Even mas­cara are tak­ing on a dif­fer­ent look. The trend is a softer brown­ish shade with your color of hair…not always black! Addi­tion­ally, eye lin­ing the entire eye is now out of vogue. The outer part of your eye being lined is now the new year’s style.

We also need to talk about the lips. Ladies, don’t be afraid of some color this year!! But, find the right color for your skin tone.  Try bright-colored lips in the cen­ter of your mouth but fade the color as you go out towards the cor­ner of the mouth. This is known as Popsicle-stained lips. Electric-colored lips are in but only if they are not per­fectly lined.

So to sum it up, we will still need the basic make up brushes, but apply­ing make up with your fin­ger­tips will just be fine.

A mois­tur­iz­ing, nat­ural bronzer and self-tanner for face and body.

• Bronzer pro­vides instant, healthy-looking color.
• Builds a grad­ual, nat­ural look­ing tan within three days, for opti­mum con­trol and customization.
• Fresh cit­rus fragrance.
• Streak-free for­mula.
• Sen­si­tiv­ity tested for use on face and body.
• Pro­vides nat­ural hydra­tion to the skin.

Appli­ca­tion for Face:
• Squeeze a dime-sized amount onto your fin­ger.
• Touch the fore­head, nose, cheeks, and chin with the fin­ger to dis­trib­ute prod­uct.
• Using sweep­ing motions, start at the cen­ter of the face and blend out­wards until you’re pleased with the cov­er­age.
• Wash hands thor­oughly.
• Apply daily until a golden tan has been achieved.

Appli­ca­tion for Body:
• Squeeze an amount the size of a quar­ter in the palm of hand.
• Rub hands together two to three times to dis­trib­ute the prod­uct across palms.
• Smooth on one sec­tion at a time until prod­uct is absorbed using long, back-and-forth strokes.
• Repeat the steps above until the desired cov­er­age is reached.
• Wash hands thor­oughly.
• Apply daily until a golden tan has been achieved.

Ingre­di­ents: Water/Eau/Aqua, Dime­thicone, Cyclopen­tasilox­ane, Vitex Agnus Cas­tus Extract, Glyc­erin, PEGCrosspoly­mer, Acetyl Tyro­sine, Cop­per Glu­conate, Dihy­drox­y­ace­tone, Hydrolyzed Wheat Pro­tein, Mica (CI 77019), Caramel, Cit­rus Gran­dis (Grape­fruit) Peel Extract, Cit­rus Med­ica Limonum (Lemon) Fruit Extract, Xan­than Gum, Toco­pherol, Sodium Chlo­ride, Raphanus Sativus (Radish) Root Extract, Iron Oxides (CI 77489).

We’re hav­ing an After Christ­mas In Stock Prod­uct Sale!  Details are only avail­able on the Face­book Page.  Click here for more information!

From New Beauty Magazine:

Long before the min­eral makeup craze hit the beauty scene, a Hol­ly­wood fix­ture named Jane Iredale decided it was time to cre­ate makeup that not only made skin look good, but was actu­ally good for it too. Since then, her brand, Iredale Min­eral Cos­met­ics, Inc. has spread around the world, and helps us feel and look beau­ti­ful every day.

Check out our inter­view with her below: