Crazy Busy Beautiful

Carmindy

• 15 april 2010
• 9780061852022

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Want your pout to look like Angelina's? Forgot to pack your eye-liner? Can't get that last bit of blush to come off? Traumatised by age spots that just won't go away? From creating perfect smoky eyes to a DIY sugar scrub, this title offers tips for daytime routines, nighttime glamour, travel, and other times you want to look and feel beautiful.

Women today are crazy busy. And they want to be beautiful!

Beauty can be overwhelming. Walk by any cosmetics counter or into any drugstore and you're suddenly surrounded by thousands of products promising to make you look younger, fuller, lusher, thicker, and just about every other "er" you can think of. It sounds too good to be true and most of it is. But who has the time to navigate though all the beauty myths out there (or even her own makeup bag!) to find the tricks that will help you be your most beautiful? Is it really that hard to look and feel your best?

Not anymore! Carmindy, the makeup artist on TLC's hit show What Not to Wear, is opening her beauty treasure chest and sharing more than 600 beauty tips and secrets she's learned on the show and during her years as a makeup artist across the globe. Try these tips from Carmindy:

• Blackheads be gone! Elmer's Glue is just as good as a pore strip for removing blackheads from your nose.
• Forgot to pack your eyeliner? In a pinch, mascara can pull double duty as eyeliner. Use a brush to pick up a little color from the mascara wand and smudge it into the lash line.
• Can't get that last bit of blush to come off? Swipe a cotton ball dipped in mineral oil across stubborn makeup. It will melt off.
• Traumatized by age spots that just won't go away? Put lemon juice on age spots at night to help fade them. But never apply lemon juice to the skin right before sun exposure.

"Crazy Busy Beautiful: Beauty Secrets for Getting Gorgeous Fast" unveils nearly 600 quick and easy beauty tips for everyday women in an accessible trade paperback original format, so it's easy to tuck in your handbag or makeup bag. Want your pout to look like Angelina's? Carmindy achieves full lips with this trick: 'Take a little highlighting cream or shadow and add a dab on top of the Cupid's bow of the lips and just below the lower lip. This gives the illusion of naturally fuller lips'. Blackheads be gone! Carmindy says that Elmer's Glue is just as good as a pore strip for removing blackheads from your nose. Forgot to pack your eye-liner? In a pinch, Carmindy says 'mascara can pull double-duty as an eyeliner. Use an brush to pick up a little colour from the mascara wand and smudge it into the lash line'. Can't get that last bit of blush to come off? Carmindy says to 'Swipe a cotton ball dipped in mineral oil across stubborn makeup. It will melt off'. Traumatised by age spots that just won't go away? Follow Carmindy's tip and 'Put lemon juice on age spots at night to help fade them. But never apply lemon juice to the skin right before sun exposure'. From creating perfect smoky eyes to a DIY sugar scrub, "Crazy Busy Beautiful" is chock-full of tips for daytime routines, nighttime glamour, travel, and every other time you want to look and feel beautiful in your crazy, busy life.