Christopher Stephens Beauty Blog

A Couple Celebrity Beauty Tips

Celebrity Nail Secret: Uma Thurman’s nail expert uses a cotton ball dipped in facial skin toner to wipe nails clean of residues and natural oils before applying base coat or color. This helps the polishes stick to the nails.

Celebrity Hair Secret: How does Angelina Jolie's hairstylist add "emergency"volume to the roots of Angelina's hair? He does this with a little sprinkling of baby powder and a hair dryer. You rub the bady powder into your roots and then blow dry it away. Viola!

Celebrity Nail Secret: Uma Thurman’s nail expert uses a cotton ball dipped in facial skin toner to wipe nails clean of residues and natural oils before applying base coat or color. This helps the polishes stick to the nails.

Celebrity Hair Secret: How does Angelina Jolie's hairstylist add "emergency"volume to the roots of Angelina's hair? He does this with a little sprinkling of baby powder and a hair dryer. You rub the bady powder into your roots and then blow dry it away. Viola!

Top celebrity beauty secrets

Here are some simple beauty secrets used by celebrities to look beautiful!

1. “Skincare, skincare, and skincare”-IMAN.

2. “Wash your face every night, and moisturize your entire body!”-Audrina Patridge.

3. “Mints for fresh breath and lip gloss and moisturizer for the body..To me, I feel looking natural and healthy is the best way to look”-Carrie Ann Inaba.

Tweezing your brows like a star

Here are some tips for grooming and tweezing your brows, from celebrity eyebrow stylist Anatasia Soare, who has worked with clients like Hayden Panettiere, Heidi Klum, Naomi Campbell and countless other models.

2008's most chosen hairstyle of celebs

Celebrities seem to set the trends of clothing, jewelry and hair, and it seems they have spoken and the number one most chosen hairstyle for fine dress occasions in 2008 was the pull back.

The pull back hairstyle refers to any of a wealth of styles where long hair is pulled back to the neckline and captured in some beautiful hair piece. Many pull back hair designs featured no hair jewelry at all. The hair seems only to hold itself, as if bound by nature itself. I wonder what the focus of 2009 will be?

More beauty secrets from Hollywood insiders!

Following are some more beauty secrets from Hollywood insiders:

• "To care for end-of-summer hair, [clients like Evangeline Lilly] coat theirs midway down to the ends with a deep conditioner first, followed with a bodifying shampoo on the roots only." -- Clyde Haygood
• According to  facialist Nerida Joy, "Exfoliating is the most important thing you can do to make skin prettier. By cleansing your face every night with a fresh washcloth -- which is more sanitary than reusing a sponge -- and using masks on a regular basis, the outer layer of dead cells is eliminated, leaving the newest, softest skin."
• "To perk up eyes in record time, dab under the eye area with aloe vera gel for temporary firming." -- Sonya Dakar
   

Beauty secrets from Hollywood insiders!

Looking for some beauty secrets from Hollywood insiders? Here are a few:

• According to facialist Nerida Joy, "Exfoliating is the most important thing you can do to make skin prettier. By cleansing your face every night with a fresh washcloth -- which is more sanitary than reusing a sponge -- and using a deep exfoliating mask on a regular basis, the outer layer of dead cells is eliminated, leaving the newest, softest skin."

Four simple steps to looking younger

1. One trick to looking younger is to avoid brown lipstick shades and matte lipstick. Matte lipstick tends to settle into your lip lines which creates an aged appearance. Instead, try creamier lipsticks or glosses.

Head turning lip tips

Charlize Theron is the master when it comes to soft and sexy looks. Want to borrow some of her makeup tips for your lips? Start off with a plum or raspberry color lip liner. Next, fill in the rest of your lips with a berry shade of lipstick and top it off with a high-shine pink gloss over the top to give your lips a lush and colorful look and watch the heads turn in your direction.

Eliminate Dark Circles & Under-Eye Puffiness

One of our clients asked me today what she could do about the puffiness and dark circles under her eyes. I explained to her that under-eye puffiness can be caused by a lot of things including - stress, long work days in front of a computer, too much TV, or just plain being tired. I asked her, "Wouldn't it be great if a good long nap would take care of the problem?" She told me tried and that didn't help, what else could she do or use?

Quick Beauty Tips

Following are some quick beauty tips that I thought you might find useful:

• Your nail polish will always be smooth and easy to apply if you store it in the refrigerator.
• When polishing your nails don´t skip the base coat or topcoat! What is a base coat you ask? Well for those of you that don't know it is a tacky, non-shiny coat that prevents the colored polish from discoloring your nails and helps the colored polish to adhere to the nail surface. Following up with a topcoat ensures shine and protection.