Fall Fashion '09

Wide belt

Cinching a wide belt around the smallest part of your torso – your natural waist – emphasizes and slims this very feminine zone while accentuating sexy curves.

Thick belts create the most dramatic, waist-narrowing looks since they brace your body in a corset-like fashion. Look for sturdy or stretchy materials such as solid and woven leathers, reinforced layers of satin, and thick, wide elastic bands that can comfortably resist all the bending and sitting you're likely to do over the course of a day.

If you want to stand out, get creative and fashion yourself a belt out of unconventional materials. Belts can be made out of a variety of innovative fabrics and closures. Mix it up by swapping buckles for bows, hooks and snaps, and trade the usual leather wrap-around for stretchy elastics, menswear-inspired cummerbunds, kimono-inspired silky obi sashes, and bands of fabric.

Skinny belts

Skinny belts are a lovely complement to dainty dresses and separates; extra long slender belts look super stylish when wound many times around the waist or hips.

Skinny belts are often fabricated out of barely-there strips of leather, chain links and rope. And because skinny belts are so slim, you can go for a bright splash of color or a shimmering metallic finish without dominating the outfit.

Remember to keep in mind your body's proportions when choosing a belt; an ultra slinky skinny belt might visually add weight to a plus sized woman, whereas a slightly thicker medium width belt will produce a more balanced skinny-belt look.

Highlight Brown Hair

1.Purchase the commonly available hydrogen peroxide, not the much stronger product sold at beauty supply stores (unless you want very bleached hair).


2.Wash your hair and remove excess moisture with a towel. Your hair should be damp. For an all-over highlight, pour the hydrogen peroxide, undiluted, over your head and hair.


3.For chunks of highlight, take sections of your hair and wipe them with a cloth saturated with the hydrogen peroxide. Make sure to get all the way up to the roots.


4.For highlights on the top hair layer only, take your hydrogen peroxide-soaked cloth and wipe it over the top layer of your hair


5.Once you've applied the hydrogen peroxide to get the results you want, go outside and stay there until your hair dries. For best results choose a sunny day when the weather is warm and a breeze is blowing.


6.You can repeat this procedure to make your highlights even lighter. Enjoy your new look!

Make Homemade Perfume

1.Tear your rose petals into small slivers and spread them out on the surface you are working on. If you must use dried or dead roses, spray with water to rehydrate and leave on the surface for 10 minutes.

2. Squeeze the orange rind over the petals and into the spray bottle for a preservative effect on your rose petal oils. These oils are essential in your perfume, it is what makes the scent linger when you wear it.

3. Add three tablespoons of water to your spray bottle combined with a handful of rose petal slivers. Close up your bottle and shake for 30 seconds.

4.Now place 1 teaspoon of rubbing alcohol to your spray bottle, and shake for 30 seconds. This keeps your perfume water from molding in the month that you store it.

5.Leave your mixture for 12 hours in a well lit area. This allows the scents to mix together without harboring mold. Store your perfume in a dry, well lit area to inhibit molding and souring of the rose petals. If you find this is a problem, remove the rose petals after 12 hours of mixing and do not replace them in the bottle.

Know When to Wear Different Types of Perfume
  1. Choose light florals and citrus scents for spring and summer. Heavier scents can be overpowering during the hotter days, especially when they mix with body sweat.


  2. Pick scents that are fresh and invigorating for the hottest days. Wearing citrus or a synthetic “ocean breeze” type of scent will actually make you feel cooler

  3. Choose a sophisticated but light perfume for everyday and office wear. Many synthetic blends strike just the right note for a professional woman.

  4. Be a little daring for dates and nights on the town. Experiment with perfumes that have an Oriental base such as musk or civet.

  5. Suit your perfume to the season as well as the occasion. Choose lighter perfumes for warmer weather, and heavier notes for winter wear.

  6. Wear sophisticated and romantic florals for weddings and special functions.

  7. Pick up your spirits with a light, fresh floral scent or a citrus splash.

  8. Express your sensual side with a perfume based in woodsy and Oriental tones.

  9. Be playful with fruity scents.

  10. Enjoy the calming effects of lavender and vanilla.

Makeup Tips for Different Eye Shapes

Eyes are the most expressive feature of your face, so why not play them up for an incredible effect? While, we all have our own desires and needs when it comes to makeup, even so makeup and beauty applications can do wonders. Eyes hold the intensity of captivating others’ souls, with merely a glance. If eyes, as they say, are the window to the soul, then they require our immediate attention first, before we can steal others.

Here’s a piece of advice:

"when applying makeup to your eyes, choose shades and ways of applying makeup depending on the shape of your eyes. This way you can easily make your eyes look any way you want!"

We all want beautiful, long eyelashes, well-groomed brows, and eyes that make the heart skip a beat. Follow our lead and educate yourself on how to makeup your eyes, depending on their shape.

Eye Makeup for Deep Set Eyes

For deep set eyes, always go for luminous and lustrous shades. This way, your eyes will appear appealingly bigger. Apply pale eyeshadows, starting from your eyelid from the inner corner of your eye, stretching it till outer corner. Use lighter colors in the middle of the lid, and darker colors on and just above the socket line. Blend the darker shade up and out. Eureka! There you have it – dazzling eyes to bedazzle the crowd!

Eye Makeup for Wide Set Eyes

If your eyes are wide, makeup can amazingly reduce the distance between them, giving them look. This is what to do: apply a darker shade, starting from the outer corner of your eye till the middle of your eyelid.

"Use a lighter eye shadow from the middle of your eyelid to the inner corner of your eye."

Finally, blend in different shades in the middle of the eyelid and get amazing results.

Eye Makeup for Close Set Eyes

Those with close set eyes (narrower than one eye width) should no longer frown, because help is at hand! Simple, apply some corrector on the inner corners of both eyes. Then, with help of an eyeliner, draw a very thin line edging along the upper eyelashes, so that it appears thicker near the outer corner of your eyes. Following that, apply a very thin layer of light eye-shades, from the inner corner of your eyes till the middle of the eyelids.

"Apply darker shades, neatly starting from the middle of your eyelid to the outer corner."

In the end, blend the colors properly. Also, make sure to use more mascara on the outer corners.

Eye Makeup for Down Turned Eyes

Down-turned eyes? No more worries! To make down-turned eyes look sensational and appealing, the trick is to apply your eye shadow upwards and outwards. Apply eyeliner, edging it closer along the upper lash line, blend in the shade along the length of the socket line in the outer two thirds of the eyes. For a dramatic glaze, apply dense mascara.

Eye Makeup for Asian Eyes

For upward-pointing Asian eyes, remember to use light eye shades along the length of your eyelids. Draw a thick smoky line along upper eyelashes with an eye pencil. Make sure that the line is thick enough to be seen well when your eyes are open. Beneath the lower eyelashes draw a thinner line.

"To make them appear strikingly wider and beautiful, apply brown eyeshadow on your eyebrows."

Two or three coats of dense mascara would make you resemble a calendar model. That’s a promise!

Eye Makeup for Those Wearing Spectacles

If you worry that your spectacles will cover your eyes, then today would be the last day of that misery. After reading this tip, you will surely reach out for your make up and perk up your looks!

If the frame of your spectacles is bright, it is better to pay attention to your eyelashes and put the accent on them, rather using too bright eye shades. If you usually prefer brown mascara, how about try a black one for a change.

"To enhance your eyelashes, giving them more volume and curl, apply a coat of dense mascara, from the roots to the tips."

Those among you, who wear tortoise-shaped or horn-rimmed spectacles, concentrate on the shape of eyebrows. Coloring is also a good idea.

Now you would believe that, creating the large, wide-eyed illusion isn’t all that difficult, after all. Whether big or small, just remember you all beautiful the way you have been made. With a few tricks, you can perk up your looks and look ‘the most gorgeous women on the block!