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- Excerpts from Webmd
- Standing tall, feeling confident, believing in yourself - these are all important ways to feel you best. But as any woman who's ever stood in front of a mirror can tell you, beauty secrets count too!
While the way we look may be only a part on who we are, it is still a part of us. And feeling that you look your best can be a real confidence booster.
Longing to get that Hollywood glow?
So you’re not in Hollywood, prancing down Oscar’s red carpet and clutching at a golden statue. That doesn’t mean you can’t look the part. As gilded and glamorous as these cinema lilies are, beauty experts say getting that red carpet glow is not all that difficult – if you know the right products to try.
“It’s all about the products – it’s knowing what to use and how to use it – that’s what makes Hollywood glamour,” says legendary celebrity makeup artist Adrien Arpel, who now conducts the “world’s largest beauty classroom” seen regularly on the Home Shopping network and HSN.com.
The latest buzz on the lips of Hollywood’s most famous glamour dolls says Arpel is primers – as in skin primers. Mostly silicone-based, she says these “under-makeup makeups” can turn skin that’s been up all night into a face that radiates like the morning sun.
“It’s like spackle for the face. These products cover everything by putting a thin layer of nontoxic silicone between your skin and the make-up. It creates the look of a totally flawless complexion, “she Arpel who was so impressed by the technology she expanded her own Signature Club A makeup line to include nontoxic silicone foundation and blush.
Another bonus: Experts say that with silicone primers you can wave “ba bye” to enlarged pores, acne scars, and even fine line and wrinkles - if only for the moment! Primer use is reportedly so popular on Oscar night, one makeup artist (who dolls up such famous faces we can’t even mention her name!) whispers that most of the gorgeous gals you’ll see waltzing down the red carpet this year would look ‘just dreadful” without at least one coat of primer under it all.