I keep on getting emails with how-to’s on how to blow out your hair. I am grateful..and yet, I know that many of us cannot learn such an invovled task simply by reading a few paragraphs!
I just discovered MonkeySee, though, a free how-to video site featuring real experts offering instruction, demonstrations and advice on almost any topic imaginable. Turns out there’s a whole channel devoted to this sort of thing, and one is … blowouts!
How to Blow Dry your hair, Mona Harb, salon and spa owner:

Many women look to get fuller lips with collagen injections, lip plumping cosmetics and other treatments. In this video, Yoga teacher Annelise Hagen, author of The Yoga Face, tells you how to create fuller lips with face yoga.
Face yoga is aimed at making your facial muscles stay firm and smooth without plastic surgery. Here are a few of the simple face exercises she suggests to get you fuller lips by promoting resistance in the ring muscles around your lips.
Blowing kisses

Blow kisses, using your hand to create pressure against your lips.
Puckering and pressing into something creates muscle resistance.

Blow “smoke rings”

Another exercise …read more

While you are waiting to get your mascara from Lucky Magazine, and pressing F5 over and over again, you might want to check out Glamour TV, which launched yesterday.  I have been trying to get to watch Beauty Wars all morning, but keep getting interrupted/having technical difficulties (my problem, not theirs). 
What I have seen is super slick and super cool, so I hope you will go check it out.  Here is a bit about the shows on Glamour TV:
I WANT MY GLAMOUR TV! Debi Mazur helps makeover real women, Molly Shannon, Jennie Garth, Solange Knowles and Nikki Taylor …read more

Those crazy folks at MAC are working the crazy DJ’s Andrew Andrew on a series of, uh, dance instruction videos.  I’m not sure what to say here, but have a cocktail or 5 and get a chuckle.  And when you’re done chuckling, do not forget about good ol MAC.  They have had some FABULOUS collections out this summer and are moving right on into fall.  There IS no better eyeshadow than MAC.  Don’t get these goofballs make you think otherwise. 
Here are the first three videos in the series – keep an eye on the MAC channel on YouTube to …read more

To kick off the month of independent beauty companies here at eBeautyDaily, I want to talk about really my favorite indie beauty designer, Beth Bender Beauty.  I have talked a good bit about Beth’s products over the last year, but once more never hurts, especially when Beth has some fun new things to promote for the summer.  First, a little information about Beth Bender herself.  Beth is formerly a makeup artist for Bobbi Brown, who, while on duty and drawing gorgeous cat eyes on everyone, came up with her great idea of the cat eye stencil (and the cat …read more

After my post the other day on the Eye Candy book, by makeup artist Linda Mason, the publisher emailed me with a link to this YouTube video for the book.  This, I believe shows all of the looks from the book – just quick enough to really tempt you and see what the book is all about.  Check it out, then I know you’ll want to buy the book!
 

In a fun twist combining beauty and music, Madonna has premiered her first single from her upcoming album, Hard Candy, in a Sunsilk hair products commercial.  The commercial, which premiered today, features the song 4 Minutes (To Save The World):

If you’re a Madonna fan (or a Sunsilk fan!), you might know that another Sunsilk commercial premiered at the Superbowl this year and featured Madonna as well as Shakira and Marilyn Monroe.  You can check that one out after the jump if you’re curious…