Here are the top 5 Fall Make-Up Trends from our Beauty Experts. Best new make-up shades are gutsy and unexpected, yet still surprisingly flattering to all complexions.

1.    Seafoam (soft silver or blue shimmer) shadows are perfect cool weather pastels. You can even make your eyes look stylishly smokey by adding a jolt of violet eyeliner for a more intense look.

2.    Russet, Bronzey Cheeks – with a metallic sheen. Smart Cover’s Believable Bronzer can give you this look in a minute. And, you can build the color as you go. Helps to contour and create the illusion of high cheek bones.

3.    Lips colors run the gamut from soft baby pink glosses to bold deep purple and magenta lipsticks. Our Hollywood Make-Up Artist Christina Smith loves the new lip stains that stay on all day. Christina says, “Always outline your lips with a matching lip pencil to define the shape.” To avoid smearing, why not try Smart Cover’s Anti-Feathering Stick?

4.    Dare to go a little darker than your skin tone with a creamy foundation. This will help your skin span the seasons and get ready for the richer colors that are trending for Fall. Also helps to avoid the washed out look that can come with the end of Summer. And for every season, all the experts say cover your skin flaws first. Smart Cover can help you there!

5.    Play up your Brows to create balance. If you are wearing a strong lip color and nothing but mascara, your face can look naked. Darkening and defining your brows with brush-on shadows or a soft pencil can balance your features and open up your eyes.

Experiment. Find your own look. And, get ready for the new season!

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Many women have excess facial hair. If you’re one, you should know you’re not alone. Sometimes this excess hair on the face comes with aging. Other women are just predisposed to facial hair related to hormones or heredity. The extra hair is often concentrated above the lip, on the chin and cheek areas.

There are several options you can look into to help correct the situation. Waxing is a very common practice, as well as the use of depilatories (a cream that removes the hair). However, the hair does grow back.

Some other long-term choices are electrolysis by a qualified technician, and now the non-invasive Laser therapy. You can speak with a Dermatologist or Aesthetician about these treatments.

If you need to cover your skin after the redness that may occur from any of these methods, Smart Cover will do the trick!

We’d love to answer your personal lifestyle or beauty question. Just email us at nancyandflori@smartcover.com

We are always looking for before and after pictures of skin imperfections. If you have Melasma or another skin condition that you would like to share with us, please email your photos to nancyandflori@smartcover.com. If we use your photo, we pay you a $100 model fee!

Did you ever wish you could change your nose? Or your chin?

Well, contouring can help change your facial features temporarily. By using darker shades of make-up to contour, and lighter shades to highlight; imperfect features can appear more attractive so you can enjoy looking in the mirror.

Smart Cover is ideal for contouring. You can highlight with the Perfect Touch Camouflage Crème to soften undesirable shadows under the eyes, at the corners of your mouth, or wherever deep wrinkles or furrows appear. You can even make a receding chin have better definition by highlighting the jaw bones.

Use dark shades to contour a nose that’s too wide. Apply down both sides to make the nose appear slimmer. For a forehead that’s too broad, apply a shading product like the Smart Cover Stick to the outer corners and blend to the hairline. You can also watch chubby cheeks seem much thinner by shadowing beneath the natural cheekbone to create a more sculpted look.

Don’t let the idea of contouring scare you. Use just small amounts of a crème makeup to get started. And, make sure to blend the edges so it looks natural to your eye and set it with some finishing powder and apply with a brush.

Remember our golden rule — highlight your best and contour or shadow away the rest!

We’d love to answer your personal lifestyle or beauty question. Just email us at nancyandflori@smartcover.com

TAKING CARE OF YOUR SKIN THROUGH THE DECADES

We’ve had many emails from our customers of all ages asking us about how to take care their skin relative to their age.

We will begin with how to care for your skin in your Thirties. We know that this can be the hectic decade; balancing work, family and your home. Time is precious to you and there’s always stress associated with trying to do it all! Well, just be sure you make time for yourself and a simplified beauty regime.

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Here are a few must dos from the experts:

• After you wash your face, using a good moisturizer is key (it can even be tinted with a hint of color). You can use one with sunscreen in it with a 15 SPF or higher.

• Use a skin compatible eye cream every night to keep those fine lines from appearing.

• A concealer such as Smart Cover is a must to hide dark eye circles or other noticeable skin imperfections.

• A blush or a bronzer – to give your cheeks a natural, healthy glow.

• A lip color that’s neutral and works with whatever you wear.

• And of course, you have to take it off. Have some cleansing pads available.

You can start and maintain your perfect skin care regimen with the complete selection of skin care products and make up available from Smart Cover.

We recommend our Hollywood Make up Artist Kit.  A 17-piece collection that includes everything you need to look flawless all day and night along with gentle cleansers for removing make up as well.

We’d love to answer your personal lifestyle or beauty question. Just email us at nancyandflori@smartcover.com

The summer sun is here, but you can start getting tan right now the Smart Cover way! Introducing our Smart Tan Essentials — four products that give your skin a golden glow! You get a Believable Bronzer, Golden Tan Concealing Creme, Moisture Primer Lotion and a Bronzer Brush.

Click here to order the Smart Tan kit for only $24.50

Why do we call it the Believable Bronzer and why is it different than most bronzers on the market today? Because Smart Cover offers new technology that allows you to build the color you want on your face and body. This way, you will have a natural tan without looking orangey or cakey. Just apply the color slowly with the brush until it looks right to you.

Also included is our Golden Tan Concealing Creme that can be worn as a leg cover to hide your skin imperfections while giving your legs at a sleek, tanned look at the same time. And, as a bonus, use the Moisture Primer Lotion to prime and smooth the skin right before applying the Golden Tan concealer.

Smart Tan will give you a tan, enhance your tan, or just make you look heathly and sensual now that Summer is here!

Order Smart Tan now and you will get all four products for only $24.50. You’d pay $59.00 if you purchased all the products separately.

Happy Summer!