Look Hot

By Lily Wood

Copyright 2011 by Lily Wood

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ISBN 978-0-615-48894-3

Table of Contents

Intro

Face

Teeth

Hair

Poise

Attitude

Body

Hands and Nails

Accessorize

Style

Fragrance

INTRO

I am sick and tired of reading beauty advice in beauty magazines that does not work. The advice, found in beauty magazines is often worded to catch your attention and make you feel that you have finally found the answer to your problems. Reading about how a new specific brand of lip-gloss can actually plump your lips, or how a certain over-priced brand of face cream is the only thing that will remove wrinkles makes one think they have found the holy grail of beauty products. These cleverly written pieces of beauty advice are often pure lies. I mean really, from years of being my own guinea pig and actually testing out these products at home on myself I have never once removed my own wrinkles or plumped my own lips from these products. Magazine beauty editors are lying to their readers!

I have found and researched what really does work on me and my beautiful friends. I confirmed the information in this book through surveys and focus groups with beautiful women, both naturally and through artificial means. I am finally starting to find out what works. What works is detailed throughout this book in ten different categories. The tutorials in this book detail how one can look insanely hot through certain skilled beauty techniques, and the inclusion of a dozen or so ingredients in a well-formulated product to produce the overall beautiful effect desired. Brands do not mean a lot in this book. There is no certain line of facial or hair care products that is the cure all. A lot of money is not necessary to look drop dead gorgeous. If you really want to look beautiful you need to be willing to research your products and be willing to spend the time to practice the beauty techniques found in this book. Take away from this book what you like. I know you will be pleased.

FACE

EYEBROW SHAPING

Everyone's face can look dramatically different after shaping the eyebrows. By shaping of the eyebrows I mean plucking any strays around the natural shape of one's eyebrows to enhance and clean up the appearance. If you look at someone before and after they have had their eyebrows tweezed their face and features can look dramatically different. I think everyone looks like they have had a mini-facelift, and much more fresh faced after a good eyebrow shaping.

We have just detailed why you need to shape your eyebrows and now let's talk about how to do it.

I would like to preface this by saying that there are so many helpful videos and tutorials online that will tell you near identical instructions to the following, and that they may be very helpful in shaping your own eyebrows. Here are the basics.

The beginning of an eyebrow (the end near the center of your face) should start from the place where if there was an imaginary line drawn from the outside tip of your nose straight up should be.

The "arch" of the brow where the lifted appearance of one's eye will really be most noticeable should be at the point where one imagines a line runs from the outside tip of the nose through the iris and is extrapolated through the eyebrow.

Lastly the brow should end (outside edge on the far side of your face) where an imaginary line runs from the outside edge of the tip of your nose through the outside corner of your eye.

Keep the maintenance up on routinely shaping your brows and you will not be disappointed by how amazing your face will look. I find the best time to tweeze stray hairs to be at night, because time in the morning is always so limited and any inflammation and/or redness from plucking will disappear overnight. Slant tipped tweezers work the best if you plan to tweeze your own brows at home.

Trimming of the longer brow hairs is a grooming step that some of you may need to learn if you have long eyebrow hairs. After you shape your brows you can brush all your eyebrows straight up and carefully trim the longer eyebrow hairs (if you have any) that loom over the edge of your brow shape. Then reverse the direction and brush all your eyebrow hairs straight down and again trim the tips of any of the longer hairs that fall out of shape. An old clean mascara wand works great as an eyebrow brush.

For those of you who over-tweeze, you know who you are, fill those stick thin little brows back in with a good brow powder or pencil, following the same eyebrow shaping diagram. If your eyebrow hair refuses to grow or fill back in and you want a more permanent fix than cosmetics, try carefully applying a little 5% minoxidil or one of those lash growth serums like Latisse or Rapid Lash right on your brows. Read the lash growth serum section for more clarification on which serums work and which do not.

SKINCARE SPF

Wearing a daily sunscreen is so important for your health and your beauty. The number one sign of aging comes from sun damage. Everyone looks seriously older with brown spots from sun damage, and wrinkles from one too many summers spent not protecting their skin. I wish I had started using SPF 15 moisturizers earlier in life. I now put an SPF on every day in the form of my moisturizer, foundation, or my pressed powder. Even on cloudy days or when I don't think I am going anywhere. I have seen a dramatic difference in my skin in the last few years that I have been wearing it religiously. My skin LOOKS better. My aging has been significantly reduced from when I wasn't wearing my SPF products daily. Even in the car or sitting by a window you can have UV rays hitting your skin through the glass and damaging your skin. Grrr the lessons we have to learn in life can be tough. So start wearing the stuff now!

About application, apply this stuff liberally folks. That means to use a good amount in your application, because most people do not apply enough SPF to their skin. I like the physical barrier found in ingredients like titanium dioxide and zinc. In fact I now buy only SPF moisturizers, foundations, and pressed powders that have this listed as their active ingredients. I know some ladies have more oily skin so they try to stay away from the more emollient moisturizers and they can still get their sun protection from using pressed powders and foundations that have an SPF 15 in them.

Many people show signs of aging by the skin appearance on their chest and the back of their hands, more so than their face. We may have been taking care of our face for years, but neglecting the delicate skin on the back of our hands and chest, only to find sun damage start to appear on these unprotected areas. Apply DAILY to ANY exposed skin on your body. That may mean your arms if you are wearing a t-shirt, but definitely your face, neck, chest, and back of hands as these are the most commonly exposed parts of our body.

SKINCARE EXFOLIATION

Our skin sheds itself naturally to produce healthier newer skin underneath. We can help this process along through exfoliation. Skin looks so much healthier after proper exfoliation by removing the built up layer of dry dead skin cells. Products like moisturizers and skincare treatments absorb much better into exfoliated skin, and the texture and appearance is greatly improved upon exfoliation.

Types of exfoliation vary from manually applied scrubs to liquid exfoliants in the form of alpha-hydroxy or beta-hydroxy acids. Physical exfoliation of the facial skin can best be done with a simple washcloth and facial cleanser. Many scrubs have particles that are too harsh or abrasive and can tear our delicate skin. Liquid exfoliants can truly be a godsend. Alpha hydroxy acids exfoliate the top layer of our skin, and come in a variety of concentrations. OTC varieties near 8-10% work best, but higher percentages can be found in dermatologist offices in the form of various glycolic acid and lactic acid peels to name a few. The most amazing liquid exfoliants I have come across are BHAs (beta-hydroxy acids) containing Salicylic Acid. Salicylic Acid has anti-inflammatory properties that help reduce redness and inflammation, but most importantly this liquid exfoliant can exfoliate inside the pore as well as on the surface of the skin. So it really does the AHAs (alpha-hydroxy acids) one better. Try a 1-2% BHA on your facial skin and watch the difference after a week. Your skin will feel so smooth and look just radiant. If you feel the percentage is a little high you can also try using only every other night after cleansing. Can also be used on the little bumps found from shaving as well as on the upper arms where the pores can get clogged resulting in keratosis pilaris.