Bridal Beauty By Philip Luque, Director of Artistry & Education, Youngblood® Mineral Cosmetics When it comes to weddings, hair and makeup are just as important as the dress and guest list. Bridal makeup trends vary from season to season, but they also share similar styles throughout the year. Here, are three different looks for three different skin tones: fair, medium, and dark. When picking a…

The Phone: The First Impression by Tammy Taylor This might seem too simple to be important, but it could be the difference between getting a new potential customer or not getting a new potential customer…"We never get a second chance to give a first impression. Have you ever over-heard someone talking on their cell phone too loud, or rudely, and it makes you cringe? With…

Eat Your Water Howard Murad, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCLA and founder of Murad, Inc., is encouraging everyone to “eat their water.” According to a report released by the California Department of Conservation in 2009, billions of empty water bottles are causing serious environmental problems, with more than one billion water bottles winding up in the trash annually in California alone. Instead…

The color of skin depends primarily on a pigment called melanin. It is also influenced by the blood flow through the skin. Melanin is a pigment produced by special cells called melanocytes that manufacture packets of melanin called melanosomes and transfer them to the skin cells of the epidermis the keratinocytes. In white people the darkest area is the upper thigh and the lower back…