Daily Cosmic Tips

When you write down your shopping list, as you punch a phone number into your cell, while you wash dishes, do the ironing, clean the windows, or do one hundred other things that women do on any given day – do you take notice of the condition of your nails?

Our hands are such an integral part of our daily lives, and constantly, we risk their health and strength, often without even noticing, because of the hustle and bustle of our day-to-day activities. Take a few moments each day, or at least a few times a week, to monitor the condition of your nails – the color, the texture, the appearance of ridges or white marks.

Make a greater effort to take good care of your nails, and you will be thrilled with the way they complement your wardrobe and your own personal style. Consider the following tips as a way to enhance the health and quality of your nails.


Great, Healthy Nails

Apply speed-dry nail polish when time is of the essence.

Drink lots of water. Keep your body hydrated everyday to maintain healthy nails.

Fortify your diet with FDA approved vitamins or supplements. Your fingernails count on you to be responsible with your health and your diet. Unless instructed otherwise by your physician, increase your daily doses of Vitamin A, Vitamin C, calcium, folic acid, protein, Vitamin B12, and zinc.

Touch up your manicure on a daily basis to prevent chips and cracks.

Your nails depend on you to maintain a healthy diet. Take in lots.


Nail polish tips:

Finish with a clear topcoat to add gloss and sheen.

Start with a base coat to strengthen and protect the nails.

Store nail polish in the refrigerator to maintain a smooth consistency.

Try not to store nail polish in a room that becomes cold. The nail polish bottles may break without warning, leaving you with a big mess.

To avoid breaking nails or brittle nails:

Avoid using your nails as tools. This means no picking, scratching, digging, pinching, etc. You know who you are!

Increase the amount of calcium in your diet.

Use products containing alcohol, especially perfumed lotions, sparingly. These items can make nails prone to breaking.

Wear rubber gloves when you do chores that involve continual submersion in water or contact with harsh detergents or chemicals.

Step-by-Step Instructions on How to Apply Eye Shadow

There are two basic ways to apply eye shadow in shape shading, "rounded" and "winged". Now you want to determine what is the best shading shape in your case.
You can try applying one shading shape (rounded) to one eye and the other shading shape (winged) to the other eye (this would save you time). Then go look in the mirror and see which one looks best on you.

Experiment and try all the different shading. You may be surprised to find that several of them may look great on you (the rounded technique seems to look good on the majority of women).

If you don't have much room between the crease of your eye and your eyebrow then you need to use the winged shape (unless there is some sagging).

Winged Shading

Looks best where the skin towards the corner of the eye is not sagging such as on younger women because their skin is still firm.

Round Shading
Use when your brow bone markedly curves around the eye and don't use the winged style because it will make any sag more obvious.


Rounded Eye Shadow Application


1. Highlighter eye shadow across the eyelid, from the lash line to slightly beyond the crease, and all the way to the eyebrow.

2. Mid tone eye shadow to the eyelid and smudge under the bottom eyelashes.

3. Accent eye shadow in the wedge at the outer corner of the eye and blend well.

4. Line upper and lower lashes with eyeliner pencil.


Advanced Rounded Eye Shadow Application



1. Highlighter eye shadow across the eyelid, from the lash line to slightly beyond the crease, and all the way to the eyebrow.

2. Mid tone eye shadow on inner corner of lid.

3. Accent eye shadow on crease and in wedge; blend all well.

4. Line upper and lower lashes with with eyeliner pencil.

Winged Eye Shadow Application


1. Highlighter eye shadow from lash line to brow.

2. Mid tone eye shadow color on lid.

3. Accent eye shadow in wedge at outer corner; blend well.

4. Line upper and lower lashes with eyeliner pencil.

Learning how to apply eye make up tips may seem more complicated than for other types of make-up because there is such a variety of colors, tools, and techniques to use. Yet, it is the most important because your eyes are the most expressive facial feature you have.

Keep Your Eyes in Focus Applying Eye Make Up Tips...

After all, when you look into someone's face, what is the first feature you focus on?!
Their eyes!! Yes, the eyes have it! We communicate through our eyes and convey our emotions through them. That's why eye make up (eye shadow) should enhance your eyes (as far as eye color and shape) and not be just excessive (that actually looks nasty and it definitely gets attention but not the kind you want!)..

You can have lots of fun while learning to apply eye make up tips. If you have never taken an art class, this is your chance to learn to paint on a living canvas. You can call up a few girl friends and play around while learning how to apply eye make up tips. The techniques you will learn here should give you the courage to give it a try.

Applying Eye Make Up Tips to Create the Illusion of Depth ...

Eye shadows come in in several textures, powders (compacts), pencils, and creams:
Eye makeup tips

* Powder can be used either dry or wet and it's really easy to control. Make sure you look for a powder that feels moist.

* Pencils are fairly easy to use, but you need to remember to smear the line as you go or you'll have lines all over your face.

* Creams tend to be hard to control. They can look beautiful and stay that way if you use a good quality eye foundation (eye primer), otherwise they can slip and slide into the creases on your eyes and eyelids.

As you already know, eye make up come in a wide range of beautiful colors. But don't think that just because you have blue eyes you have to wear blue eye make up!

Experiment with Eye Make Up Tips to Find the Balance...


You really need to experiment and play with new colors and have fun learning to apply eye shadow that is within the same shade and that complement each other (you can soften and blend similar colors easier). That's why matte, neutral eye make up is a favorite. When applied properly it draws people's gazes "into" your beautiful eyes, not "at" your eyes.

The ideal behind eye make up tips application is to create illusions that minimize "faults" and increase the perception of picture perfect expressive eyes. Eye makeup should enhance your eye's shape and color. To outline the contour of the eye, you can use eyeliners or pencils.

Eye make up tips can be used for shading and shaping the eye, and mascara to give eyelashes the illusion of length and thickness. When it comes to creating the illusion of light and shadow, eye makeup does a wonderful job, once you can apply eye make up tips appropriately.

Here's the general rule to apply eye make up tips. You need to use four different-colored shadows as follows;

* a neutral-toned base
* a main color
* a lighter shade for highlighting
* a darker shade for emphasizing

It is also important that you have access to a magnifying mirror, and to have a set of variety-sized brushes, and/or cosmetic sponges handy to blend the eye make up.

Should Your Eye Shadow Match Your Eye Color???

As mentioned earlier, excess color detracts from your eyes and becomes counter productive, especially when you try to match it to your eye color. Many times, in trying to match the eye make up to your eye color you end up distracting away from your eyes because the matching color (mismatching in some cases!) becomes the attraction (this is especially true with non-neutral colors).

So, in following eye make up tips, you'll find that neutral eye shadows are the smart choice because they are easy to work with and complement your skin tone. Of course, neutral doesn't have to mean every shade of brown. Any of the following colors can be considered neutral in the appropriate shade: gray, gold, blue, vanilla, olive, brown, pale purple, mauve, beige.

Applying Eye Make Up Tips to Shade and Highlight...

The techniques of shading and highlighting are used to enhance the natural shape of the eye. Of course, the colors that work the best using these techniques are neutral shades (matte), especially light colored high lighter such as white or cream, and shading color.

You must always remember that: light colors advance (make an area seem larger or closer) while dark colors recede (make an area seem smaller or further away). To create the desired illusion, it is essential to apply eye make up in a way that works with light and dark together and keeps your eyelid shape in mind.