I don’t know about you, but I spend a lot of time in the kitchen cooking!  Most recently, I have really enjoyed learning how to cook more healthy meals. I have also started whipping up recipes not to eat…but to apply on my face and body!  Yep!  Healthy foods we eat can also be used as important components in your beauty routine! These natural ingredients can be used to achieve healthier, hydrated skin, as well as shinier, silkier hair. The best thing is that you don’t have to

They say we don’t know what we have until its gone. This old cliché could have many connotations, but one thing is for certain, it is defiantly true for aging! Loss of volume in the face is the first noticeable sign of aging, and each year we lose one percent of collagen in our faces. Not to mention, the loss of facial fatty tissue, and facial bone density. Recently, a colleague told me about a non-surgical procedure that helps restore a more youthful look to your skin, natur

They say we don’t know what we have until its gone. This old cliché could have many connotations, but one thing is for certain, it is defiantly true for aging! Loss of volume in the face is the first noticeable sign of aging, and each year we lose one percent of collagen in our faces. Not to mention, the loss of facial fatty tissue, and facial bone density. Recently, a friend of mine told me about a non-surgical procedure that helps restore a more youthful look to your skin,

This week's featured product is the Hydroxatone Active Infusion Moisture Mask. Try it for yourself... click here Now more than ever, we are overwhelmed with images of what the media views as beauty. This episode of "The Beauty Investigator" empowers women to break free from the crushing pressures in our media driven culture. As a mom of daughters, I want to encourage my girls, and you, to find the right balance. That is not to say that striving for beauty is negative, but

It’s mind blowing to see many of the same celebrities year after looking as if they haven’t aged, in fact they appear to be looking younger every year. How do they do that? Often times, celebs have personal chefs, trainers, and their dermatologists/estheticians/plastic surgeons on speed dial. Good news girls…You don’t need to be rich and famous to have the same privileges… As an expert in the world of beauty for 20 years working as a celebrity makeup artist and skincare exper

For a moment I felt like a weirdo. Then in the next few seconds I thought, no I am not a weirdo! I want beige! In fact, I began loving the idea of beige even more as I started to think about what beige represents to me.   It’s soft, simple, clean, timeless, like a pottery barn magazine, a spa, a zen place. Personally, I am gearing up for the change of season by creating more zen in my home as well as some zen in my daily life.   As a busy mom, I am running around taking care

Over the years I’ve worked backstage at the world-famous Fashion Weeks in New York City with the teeny-tiny models and the outrageous designs they wear and you know what? I loved every minute of it! While I understand those wild, over-the-top ensembles along with the makeup and hairstyles we created to compliment them might seem outlandish, the reality is that all that creativity and the total fearlessness of the designer, inspires the rest of us. When those innovative ideas

We are among the first generations of women who have the ability to be or do anything we want. The women before us fought long and hard so that we could lead countries or corporations, or stay home as mothers and lead our families and communities. We are stronger and smarter . . . yet we are lost! We’re stuck between what we could be and what we think we should be, searching to balance that with our femininity. We’re grasping to attain our ideal of beauty with the belief that

By Celebrity Makeup Artist, Life Coach, and Bestselling Author Michelle Phillips Nature has a beautiful way of cleansing to purge what is no longer serving it and make way for renewal. Old leaves fall off and gentle winds carry them away to help the trees gather water and brace for the cold. With the spring thaw comes a flurry of new foliage to cover the bare branches and the growth starts anew. In many ways, we as people have adopted a similar schedule for our own cleansin