Get Gorgeous on the Go, A Traveling Girls Beauty Guide!

Jetting off to warmer weather and vacations this summer? Before you take off make sure you pack these 12 travel beauty essentials for the jet-setting gal!

1. Jack Black Lip Balm

 This hydrating balm contains antioxidants and superior moisturizers to provide lasting treatment benefits. It provides broad-spectrum UVA and UVB protection.

2. Laura Mercier Waterproof Mascara

Keep smudging and smearing at bay with a swipe of this waterproof wand. Even in hot and humid conditions, this lengthening formula is sure to stay put. Is it pool time yet?

3. Mai Couture 2-in-1 Oil Blotting | Bronzing Paper

Eliminate shine and give your skin a glow in one simple swipe. This compact pack of 100 blotting papers fits easily into your makeup bag — saving valuable space.

4. Dior Airflash Foundation

This quick and easy to use spray delivers a fine mist of foundation to provide a soft, velvety complexion. Customize your coverage by choosing to apply straight from the can for a lighter finish, or with a Kabuki brush for fuller coverage. 

5. Color Science Powder Sunscreen

Sunscreen? Powder? This dual-action powerhouse provides both in an easy to dispense, retractable brush applicator. Its sheer coverage is totally travel appropriate, and it handles unwanted shine — all while protecting you from harmful rays!

6. ilia Beauty Stick

A convenient eye, cheek, and lip color — this time-saving, three-in-one product leaves a sheer tint for a natural look while traveling. The moisture-rich formula easily blends and it’s available in four hues.

7. Pravana Dry Shampoo

When the luxury of a shower might not be close at hand, or your hairstyle needs a little reviving, this dry shampoo will absorb excess oil and give you instant volume.

8. Korres After-Sun Cooling Yoghurt

Got a bit too much sun? Korres Yoghurt Cooling Gel is an ultra-cooling cream gel that provides long-lasting freshness and comfort to the face and body. Ideal for after sun exposure, yogurt hydrates the skin, instantly relieving excessive heat and stinging - and can help prevent peeling skin!
9. Vaseline Spray & Go Moisturizer

This quick and convenient spray on body moisturizer, moisturizes skin deeply and dries in seconds without feeling greasy or sticky so you can get on with your day!
10. Elizabeth Arden - Eight Hour Cream

Elizabeth Arden's eponymous Eight Hour Cream needs little introduction, other than to say it's a beauty essential for any travel bag. A complete multitasker, it works wonders on all manner of skin demands, moisturising skin, glossing lips and relieving drying, chapping and even sunburn. So handy are the little magic tubes that it's rumoured two are sold every minute!

11. Tokyo Milk Bon Bon Shea Butter - Dead Sexy

Unexpected essences are crushed & distilled then blended with extracts of Japanese Green Tea, Mimosa Bark & Dandelion and enveloped in moisture-rich Shea Butter to create this coveted treasure. Comes in many different scents. 

12. Evian Moisture Spray

An air travel godsend, Evian's moisture face spray is a top travel must-haves for its ability to refresh and revive in seconds. From the French Alps, Evian natural mineral water has a balanced mineral composition and neutral pH suiting all skin types. The cool mist rehydrates skin suffering from overheated air (or stuffy airplane cabin air!) and it revives your makeup throughout the day and keeps you looking fresh. It also removes perspiration, harmful salt or chlorine, and instantly soothes and rehydrates sun-burned or wind-chapped skin.


AND OF COURSE, SUNSCREEN! My favorite is the Hawaiian Tropic Spray sunscreen for its convenience, scent, and non-sticky formula.

Tips for Packing your Beauty Essentials

We all love to travel but hate to pack! Here are a organizational tips for packing your cosmetics and beauty essentials!

Pack Yourself a Jet-Setting Kit!

With a long flight ahead of you, you'll want to make sure you arrive looking fresh and well-rested! Pack yourself a jet-set kit of TSA-Approved Travel sized products! Make sure you at least have a moisturizer, a lip balm, and under-eye brightener! Even a small Evian moisture spray would be perfect! Keeping your skin moisturized in the stale airplane cabin air is key to arriving fresh-faced on vacation!

If you have a loooong international flight ahead of you, you may want to pack some extra essentials like makeup remover wipes, a night cream, facial wash, and some cosmetics! Make it even more relaxing by giving yourself an in-flight moisturizing facial with the This Works Travel Box.

Make sure you arrive smelling fresh and clean as well! When bringing your favorite full-sized perfume on-board isnt an option, Marc Jacobs' divine solid perfume comes in handy! Packaged in an oh-so-chic silver compact, it dodges the cabin liquids allowance like a dream, and will keep you smelling sweet on your trip. 

Know which makeup products are TSA-friendly!

Pack your Cosmetics Safely!

And the last tip before you jet off is to pack your cosmetics securely and safely and ensure they arrive in one piece! Nothing is worse than arriving to you destination to find that your powder compacts are shattered from being tossed around!

Using cotton balls and cotton pads can cushion any rough handling! If you have palettes of eyeshadows or other powders you can also bubble wrap them or wrap them in tissue paper to make sure they arrive in one piece!

Safe Travels this Summer, Beauties!

Wherever you're jetting off to, kick up your feet and enjoy a cocktail for me!

XOXO,

Lisa Teller | Makeup Artist

Lisa Teller is a professional makeup artist specializing in airbrush makeup in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is extremely passionate about each of her bridal clients and is currently booking for 2013/2014.

For more information, services, bridal portfolio, or to book her for a session, www.lisateller.com

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Makeup Bag Overhaul: Spring Cleaning!

Does your makeup bag need a MAJOR overhaul? When your doing your spring cleaning this year, dont forget to clean out your makeup bag! Some cosmetics should be replaced frequently, some dry out, or even expire - these are not things you want to be spreading on your face! Here's a quick guide of what to look out for to keep clean and organized cosmetics!

PURGE

I suggest you start by emptying out the contents of your makeup bag(s). This way you can easily see all the cosmetics you own including the things that have been buried and forgotten! 

Things to throw out:

-Toss anything you no longer use! If you haven't used it in the last 3 months its time to go, make room for new cosmetics you'll actually use!

-Toss out duplicates. Do you have more than 3 black eyeliners? Do you really need them all, in the same color?

-Toss out your mascara! Especially if you have sensitive eyes, you should buy a new mascara every month.

-Toss out anything that is broken or dried out! Its just taking up space!

MOST IMPORTANTLY:

Toss out ALL old Sunscreen! Sunscreen expires every year and the ingredients are no longer effective in protecting your skin from the sun! This includes all sunscreen sprays and lotions, and any products containing SPF like, moisturizers, primers, BB Creams, foundations, etc. 

CLEAN

Now that you've gone through your bag and gotten rid of some things, give the remaining cosmetics you wish to keep a wipe down including both the inside and outside of your makeup bag. This will clean up anything that may have spilled (or exploded!) or left over powders!

To Sanitize your makeup: fill a travel sized spritzer ($1 at any drugstore) with rubbing alcohol (min. 70%). Then spray (somewhat generously) any pressed powders including blushes, eyeshadows, bronzers, and even your mascara wand. The rubbing alcohol will not damage the integrity of the makeup and will dry in about 90 seconds.

Examine your makeup brushes, can you remember the last time you cleaned them?! If not you definitely need to read my blog on cleaning your makeup brushes!

ORGANIZE

Don't get this far and just dump everything back into the bag(s). When you're rushing and pressed for time the last thing you need to be searching for is your favorite lipstick! Being organized will help those hectic mornings, cut down on your "getting ready" time, and get you out the door faster when your already behind.

There are a few ways to do this depending on which you like best and how much makeup you have:

One simple way is to separate your cosmetics into two piles (two bags). The first would be all the makeup you need to complete one every day look! This includes every thing including foundation, eyeshadow, mascara, eyeliner, etc. All the extra colors of eyeshadows, eyeliners, lipsticks, etc and any other extra cosmetics in another bag. That way the necessities are easily reached and you can even grab it and toss in your purse in a pinch. The other bag is something you can use when you have some more time to dedicate to your look!

If you have a ton of makeup, like me, then you can categorize it by type of product. I have all makeup for eyes in one bag, all makeup for face in another, lipsticks in another, etc. I kind of tend to create my look as I go along, so having all my options in one place works best for me! 

Happy Cleaning! I hope you find yourself more organized and happy! 

XOXO,

Lisa Teller | Makeup Artist

www.lisateller.com

Lisa Teller is a professional makeup artist specializing in airbrush makeup in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is extremely passionate about each of her bridal clients and is currently booking for 2013/2014.

For more information, services, bridal portfolio, or to book her for a session, www.lisateller.com

Stay connected:

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PINTEREST: http://pinterest.com/lisatellermua/
INSTAGRAM: @lisatellermua

iGlow. Glowing Skin anyone?

iGlow.

Winter blues got you down? We all know how harsh winter can be to our skin, hair, nails, etc. and I dont know about you, but I'm dying for some sun, warm weather, and that natural glow summer gives you! Unless you're heading off to a tropical island, the rest of us have to deal with side effects of harsh winter weather.

Now let's get glowing..

First you need to shed all those dead skin cells! Gross right? Well then lets get them off of your face. Use a mild scrub, I like The Body Shop's Seaweed cleansing exfoliator. If you dont have any sort of scrub make your own! Use a little sugar, lemon juice, a little Argan oil if you have some on hand, and cleanser. Now massage your skin gently. :)

Now mix 3 TBSP of baking soda with 1 TBSP of water to make a paste/mask. Spread the mixture evenly over your face in circular motions and marinate on the couch for 5 mins. Rinse completely to reveal your gorgeous glowing skin! Don't forget to moisturize after!

XOXOX

Lisa Teller | Makeup Artist

www.lisateller.com

Extra, Extra! Read all about it: Newspaper nails and my favorite summer nail trends!

Newspaper Nails:

I'm loving this nail trend and its actually really easy to do! If you're like me, you cant afford to be in the nail salon every week but LOVE the all the chic nail trends you've been seeing everywhere - and this is a super chic and different look you can actually create easily at home! I did mine yesterday and they look FABULOUS!

What you'll need:

• A base nail polish color, I recommend a neutral color so you can see the black print clearly! I used "Like Linen" by Essie, its a creamy, off-white color similar to actual the paper that newspapers are printed on!
• Rubbing alcohol - 70-95% - I used 70% and it worked just fine!
• 10 Cut out Newspaper strips - large enough to cover your nail entirely.
• Top coat nail polish

Go ahead and apply a base polish(if you choose) and then 2 coats of your base color polish.
Make sure the nails have dried COMPLETELY before moving to the next step! I waited an hour just to be sure.
Dip your nail into the rubbing alcohol for 5 seconds then dip the newspaper strip in the alcohol.
Apply the newspaper strip to your nail and push down until it dries, about 20-30 seconds.
Remove newspaper and voila! Apply top coat polish to lock in the ink!

Other Summer Nail Trends I'm lovin'!

White nails are super hot this summer! A stark contrast to glowing skin, white nails are a beautiful way to bring out a tan in summer! Make sure you buy a polish that is thick enough to completely cover your nail. A translucent hue just won't look that good. 

I'm also loving bright colors this summer! Warm colors like pale yellows and corals and cool tones like blues are hot summer nail trends!

Happy nail painting ladies!

How to get a flawless summer glow!

June is finally here! And I'm super excited for the warm weather festivities! So todays blog will feature bronzing powders to get that GORGEOUS, healthy looking, summer glow! A golden glow is a summer essential and its super easy to get without soaking up harmful UV rays or baking in a tanning bed.

Taking a cue from the bronzed beauties that floated down the Spring 2011 runways of Gucci, Donna Karan, and Anna Sui, this seasons secret to bronzed beauty lies in the degrees of shimmer. This summer we will be seeing more subtle glows(keyword here is SUBTLE) than the deep, orange-y tans we're used to seeing. Golds and pink undertones are going to be a major stample this season!

But, before you go shoving your makeup brush into your favorite bronzer here are a couple of guidelines!

Dont sweat the technique! Prep your face with your favorite longwear liquid foundation followed by your favorite powder.

Do not use bronzer to set your makeup! You want to apply it over your usual powder and/or setting powder. HINT: Use a big, fluffy face brush to keep the finish seamless and natural looking.

Bronzer is like icing on the cake! My suggestion is to keep your natural skin color and not deviate from it too much. Keeping it sheer will ensure you get an elevated lift of color without going overboard! HINT: DONT FORGET to blend into your neck as well!

My favorite bronzers are from Stila Cosmetics(available at Sephora) because they come in varying colors to go perfect with your skin tone! You want something with a warm undertone with a touch of gold!

For a slightly more modern look I like to apply a little highlighter with a pinkish tone to the cheek bones. My favorite is Shell from MAC. And then blending a light pink blush with a Stila bronzer! It creates a beautiful natural looking glow!