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:

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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 to help get that bee stung look is to blow “smoke rings.”
• Pucker your lips into a small ‘o’ and blow out.

Neutral smile

• Practicing a neutral smile in the mirror will also help prevent wrinkles around your lips.
• To achieve this neutral smile, just think about pulling the corners of your mouth toward your ears and open your eyes really wide.
• Do a few reps to create “muscle memory” so it’s incorporated into your normal range of motion.

Here is another video from Howdini.com and Annelise about how to minimize wrinkles around the eyes with face yoga.

What do you think of face yoga? Does it work?

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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 dish on motherhood, and Giuliana Rancic and Molly Sims count down the seasons hottest trends for Glamour TV Glamour mag’s new television destination site.  The three shows premiere this week, each with four new episodes running over the month of September.  Check it out here: www.glamour.tv

· Beauty Wars features Debi Mazur of Entourage in this competitive makeover show with the world’s top makeup artists vying to create a winning look for an American woman. Presented by Revlon

· Moms Working It is an interview-style show that delves into the lives of hot Hollywood Moms including Molly Shannon, Jennie Garth, Solange Knowles and Nikki Taylor. Presented by Dockers

· The List stars Giuliana Rancic and Molly Simms counting down the hottest trends in entertainment. Presented by Estee Lauder and Burberry.

Let me know what you think!!

Image: Glamour.tv (used with permission)

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Here are the first three videos in the series – keep an eye on the MAC channel on YouTube to see when the other two make it out.  And put your coffee down before you watch.  These guys are nutso.

Catch the other two videos after the jump…

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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 eye stencil WAS indeed a great idea!).  After some time working on film and television in Los Angeles, she moved to NYC to break in to beauty in the Big Apple.  She has since returned her company to LA, and has expanded her product line into eye shadows, cheek and lip color and more.  Beth blogs about her line and makeup artistry in general at Beth Bender‘s Best of Beauty Blog.  Now, lets get to the goodies!

Starting with my favorite:

Remember the superfantastic Get In Line Eye Kit?  How could you forget my fabulous Cat Eye video (HA!)?  Well, Beth Bender Beauty has a BUNCH of different colors out in that kit coming for summer.  Purples, rich browns, grays – really I thought the first one was absolutely perfect, but each one of these new shades are amazing too.  Must. get. purple.

Also new at Beth Bender:

The Girl on the Go Travel Kit:  One navy liner, 2 shades of blue mineral eye shadows, one blush and a liquid lip glaze in Sky High, a soft pink/beige – $39.

Lip Love:  a twist down type of lip balm/color/glaze with a built in brush, Lip Love contains avocado butter, jojoba gel and oil.  Available in 4 new colors for $14.00 (I can’t find this link yet, hopefully it will be available on the site soon!).  

A new eye color trio is also available, Sexy Eyes Evening – a trio of colors from a deep navy blue to a lighter shimmery silver.  Gorgeous!  $32

This is a fun video from Beth about her smokey and cat eye stencils (which are worth the price alone, without the shadows). 

If you love to support indie companies, like I do, Beth Bender is a wonderful one to support.  She truly has a great product here that is useful for all of us makeup junkies.  I have mentioned before what a doll Beth is, and it is such a pleasure to support her, it really is.  In addition to all of the goodness above, Beth will be donating 15% of her profits through the end of July to the American Red Cross, earmarked to help the China earthquake victims.  I do so love shopping for a cause, don’t you?

***If you love indie designers, don’t miss IndieStyleFile, our blog of the month, right here at the b5media Beauty & Style channel!***

Images:Beth Bender Beauty

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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…

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