My Top 7 Beauty Tips

So, you’re looking for those top beauty tips? There seems to be a host of advice when you want to find the most important secrets to your beauty arsenal, but the best advice is to keep your top tips simple. Here are the most essential things you will want to do every time - and for special occasions you have all the priming done for your primping.

1) Skin Beauty Tips

Moisturize and keep your skin in the best condition at all times, and you will look radiant even without makeup. Whatever your skin type, make sure to avoid excessive exposure to the sun and wind, always making sure to use sunscreen.

Cleansing and exfoliating are the most important step to beautiful skin. For a budget friendly trick, try adding regular table sugar to olive oil and scrubbing in the shower. Your skin will be silky smooth and refreshed, with all the dead skin rinsed away. After cleansing and exfoliating your skin, remember to moisturize!

Apply moisturizers while still damp to help lock in the moisture, and make sure to pick the right type for your skin. Oil free for oily skin, a thick oil based for dry skin and alternating between the two if you have combination skin. Make sure that you are applying moisturizing products to more than just your face - pay special attention to your dry skin areas on elbows and knees, as well as the rest of your body.

2) How to get a beautiful Smile

A smile will make you more approachable and will make you feel better about yourself. When you smile, make sure that you make it the best possible smile it can be. Keep your teeth whitened with either home remedies or store products, apply your lipstick properly and then you can let your inner happiness glow.

Chew on sugar free gum throughout the day to keep your teeth stain free and to give your fresh breath. This will keep you confident when talking with clients or co-workers.

Pick a color that compliments your skin tone, line your lips to make them fuller or thinner with a color that blends well, and then voila! Add your gloss or color to bring your lips to life!

3) Hair Care

Your "crown and your glory" - the hair, is one of the most important parts of your look. In addition to keeping your hair in good condition with quality shampoo and conditioner, you can find a product that will help with frizz on those humid days.

When shampooing and conditioning your hair, use the shower process to steam out split ends. To do this, apply your shampoo as soon as you get in the shower, and then put your conditioner in. Leave your conditioner in until the end of the shower. This will allow the shower to steam your hair and lets the conditioner do the work - this takes no extra time and works wonders.

The last thing you want to battle at the end of a work day before meeting friends is frizzy hair, so keep some anti-frizz gel or other styling product in your purse to put in before you leave. Simply run it through your hair with your fingers and let it air dry. As someone with very curly prone hair, this trick has saved the day many times.

4) Sun Kissed Skin

When applying bronzers to your skin, you can achieve that fresh sun kissed look of summer. This is a gorgeous and timeless look, and will leave your feeling beautiful. Keep these secrets in mind when choosing and applying your bronzer. First, don’t go more than two shades darker than your natural skin color. When applying your bronzer, start where the sun first hits (nose, chin, forehead), and finish with a little bit of blush on the cheeks.

5) Fingers and Toes

Manicured fingers and toes give you that polished look that will let you feel confident with the strappy sandals and pretty rings. When picking your colors, the best way to keep the rules is to use the same color on finger and toe nails. If you decide to go with a different color, stay in the same color family, and go darker on the toenails. Make sure your cuticles are cleaned up so your look is perfect!

6) Eyes

Your eyes are the proverbial windows to your soul - make them beautiful for others to gaze into. Your eyebrows are the most important feature of your eyes, so make sure that you have them shaped to enhance your beautiful eyes. Eyebrows that are well shaped provide space to allow your shadow to show, and for your lashes to curl into. This will give you some artistic license when applying your eye makeup.

The newest beauty trend in eye color is lighter shadow, with a hint of colored mascara. Don’t over-do this, just apply a hint of color over your regular black mascara.

7) Breasts

One thing that is often overlooked when we dress is a good bra. Invest in several good quality bras to make your breasts "lifted". The proper way to put your breasts in your bra is by lifting and "setting" them in the bra. A good bra can take several pounds off (visually) by creating space between your breasts and your belly. Once I learned this secret all my clothes suddenly fit so much better!

There are of course a host of secrets that you can use, and for every person they will work differently. Find the ones that work for you, and keep the most important ones going every day. This will streamline your routines in the morning once you know what your regime will be.