Fall's Top Three Beauty Trends

Our sweltering summer is over and the weather gets cool.  This means my favorite fall beauty trends come into play finally, and I break out all the cozy fall fashion I have been waiting to put into rotation…

Key fall beauty trends this season:

Cat's Eye

 This trend had its roots in Mad Men 1960’s.  It hit a lot of runways for fall 2012.  To make this work for today, you can modify it a bit.  Turn up your eyeliner just a bit on the corner, or add a stroke of bold color to ‘accessorize’ it above the black.  Liquid eyeliner gives a clean line, but tough for newbies to use.  A modern cat’s eye doesn’t need to be that sharp, make it part smoky eye/part cat, especially if you’re bringing another color into play.  Start with a sharpened tip of eyeliner on the top outside edge of the lid and delicately bring it in to the center.  To finish, start at the inside corner of the eye and bring it to meet your outside line.

Deep Red Lip. 

Pin-up girls and vamps know what they are doing.  The dramatic red lip strikes a look no matter who you are.  For fall, the red goes a bit deeper and darker.  There’s a red for every skin tone (I like cooler reds).  Make sure you moisturize your lips well before you apply your red to avoid caking and make sure it stays put all day.

Metallics

 Shiny, precious metals turned up in clothing, accessories and makeup too.  I love it in eye shadows and even more in nail polish.  Platinum nails give pop to my many black NYC outfits and is a quickie stand-in for jewelry. 

SMILES!

I cannot stress this enough, the most sexy/pretty/dazzling thing you can do for fall beauty is hone your smile.  Smiles are also free (as anyone who saw an old McDonald’s menu can tell you)!

You can however, enhance your smile with brighter teeth.  I have been using Rembrandt’s Intense Stain Dissolving strips over the summer to whiten things up.  They have been super-easy to use (no trays, no soaking in sticky gels). They are tiny strips that you place over your teeth that dissolve within minutes.  They have been especially helpful on late nights (and subsequent mornings) for erasing the damage of red wine and coffee.  Check out Rembrandt's Facebook page for more information.

Photos by Adam Weinstein

REMBRANDT® INTENSE STAIN® Stain Dissolving Strips dissolve on your teeth in minutes to easily remove tough stains caused by coffee and wine. Get a whiter smile in 2 weeks.
Visit www.rembrandtboutique.com to learn more or purchase REMBRANDT® products.

REMBRANDT® INTENSE STAIN® Stain Dissolving Strips & REMBRANDT® INTENSE STAIN® toothpaste together:

REMBRANDT® INTENSE STAIN® platform uses 3x Triple Action ActiShield™ technology to:
• Remove: helps gently remove tough stains like coffee, red wine and tea
• Repel: works like an invisible shield to help repel future stains
• Restore: strengthens the enamel to help prevent daily acid wear

Visit rembrandtboutique.com to learn more or purchase REMBRANDT® products.


Disclosure: Compensation and product was provided by REMBRANDT® via Glam Media to facilitate for my review. Johnson & Johnson Family of Consumer Companies is a sponsor of Glam.com. The opinions expressed herein are those of the author and are not indicative of the opinions or positions of REMBRANDT® or Johnson & Johnson Family of Consumer Companies.

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Rembrandt THERSday at Townhouse Spa

It's nice to be pampered.  One of my favorite spas in the city, Townhouse Spa in Midtown Manhattan hosted a ladies day of spa treatments.  My fellow bloggers and I were treated to manicures, massages, red cocktails and treats courtesy of Rembrandt's line of teeth whitening products.

I tried and reviewed their new whitening strips which I really like.  My hubby is partial to their more traditional toothpaste and trays for your teeth method.   Also in the goodie bag were a bunch of Aveeno skin care products.  They're not fancy, but I find that I come back to them again and again because they have been the most effective on my skin (especially the times when I went through months of hives!) They were also the brand my allergist recommended.

If you love the couples spa experience, Townhouse Spa is the perfect venue.  A year ago, I booked Hubby and I for a romance package.  While many spas have the pink and frou frou thing going for it, this one is decorated in (male-friendly) rich browns and woods.  Their lounge serves cappucino and have tables serving up snacks and the New York Times (both of which Hubby promptly attacked).  Beside the still intact mani-pedi I had from the Rembrandt event, I had one of the best massages I have ever had with the therapist at this spa.  (Another male-friendly note, there are big flat screen tv's in the treatment rooms).

Ok, what you waiting for?  Treat yourself to something pretty today!
Photos courtesy of Glam Media

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Spring Beauty: Smile Style

Mothers, grandmothers, boyfriends, strangers will all tell you that the prettiest thing on a woman is her smile.  My husband claims it was my smile that he noticed on the night we met.  You can put lip gloss and lipstick on your lips; even pump it full of collagen.  You can wax above and below.  However, you can’t add cosmetics on your teeth.

To battle this glaring void in the marketplace, dentists found ways to brighten up your not-so-pearly whites.  For those with the time and money, there were custom molds and prescription peroxide or laser treatments.  For most people the above options weren’t practical.

I was asked to try Rembrandt’s Intense Stain Dissolving Strips for two weeks.  I have to admit I was rather skeptical.  I had tried other strips before without much success.  The dissolving nature of them however, makes it much more convenient than I expected.  You just peel them out of their little packs and place them over your teeth.  About ten minutes later, the strips are gone, leaving a minty aftertaste. 

Just a caveat…Before those ten minutes are up, you might not want to engage in conversation with anyone important.  The strips in the process of dissolving look like sticky threads of spittle, so time your whitening ritual.

The real question of course, is do they work?  Yes, I did find a noticeable difference after a week and a half.  I’m not a smoker or a red wine drinker, so I couldn’t test them against those stains.  However, I am definitely partial to tea and I found them much easier to use than my previous attempts at whitening. 

So if a great smile is the biggest trend for your spring style, you know what you need to add to your season’s wardrobe.

REMBRANDT® INTENSE STAIN® Stain Dissolving Strips dissolve on your teeth in minutes to easily remove tough stains caused by coffee and wine. Get a whiter smile in 2 weeks. Visit www.rembrandtboutique.com to learn more or purchase REMBRANDT® products.


REMBRANDT® INTENSE STAIN® Stain Dissolving Strips & REMBRANDT®  INTENSE STAIN® toothpaste together:


REMBRANDT® INTENSE STAIN® platform uses 3x Triple Action ActiShiel technology to:


Remove: helps gently remove tough stains like coffee, red wine and tea
Repel: works like an invisible shield to help repel future stains
Restore: strengthens the enamel to help prevent daily acid wear


Visit www.rembrandtboutique.com to learn more or purchase REMBRANDT® products.



Compensation and product was provided by REMBRANDT® via Glam Media to facilitate my review. Johnson & Johnson Family of Consumer Companies is a sponsor of Glam.com. The opinions expressed herein are those of the author and are not indicative of the opinions or positions of REMBRANDT® or Johnson & Johnson Family of Consumer Companies.

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