Designer Rachel Roy is as well known for her flawless appearance as she is her great style and design sense, so when she offered up some beauty tips, I knew Makeup Minute readers would want the scoop!
Check out Rachel’s tidbits below and if you have any questions or comments, please share!

Rachel says:

I feel a great mascara can open the eye and instantly make you look as though you’ve have a good night’s sleep, even when that is not the case.  I use 2-3 coats of Lancome Fatale on the top, bottom, and also on the back of the top lashes.
Because …read more

As a woman of Italian descent, I’m blessed with brows that go on for days.  They’re naturally thick and each individual hair is quite long.  It’s among the beauty banes of my existence.
While I have my brows tweezed regularly (love the precision of tweezing!), I still need a little something to add control and polish to my everyday look, so recently, I began shopping around for a clear brow gel.
I started in the aisles of the drugstore and found nada (Revlon, Cover Girl, Almay, are you listening?). Then I went to beauty Mecca – Sephora.  After cruising the aisles for a few …read more

 
Next up in our series of Makeup Minute How To’s are tips on making foundation last.  Foundation is an essential for women who want coverage but getting your makeup to last the duration of the day can be a challenge.
Celebrity makeup artist Brett Freedman (who keeps stars like Reba McIntyre and Jenna Fischer looking gorgeous) gave us his top three tips for foundation with staying power:
1. My first trick to getting a foundation that holds up is to find a long wear formulation. I LOVE Revlon’s ColorStay Active Light Foundation. It’s super sheer, comes in an amazing color range and has SPF 25. …read more

The Revlon Eyeglide Shimmer Shadow is reminiscent of e.l.f.’s Moisture Care Lip Color with the twist tube and cushiony-soft tip. You twist the tube and small globlets of color pop up for you to glide on.
I bought mine in Sandstone, which is a beautiful goldenfleck color. Although on Revlon’s website, they make it appear brown (it doesn’t look like the color shown at all). The picture here to the left is Jade, which is a light green color.
The directions say you’ll see the globlets after 10 full twists, but it was more like 20. Once the color pops through, you …read more

A bit ago Revlon came out with their new Limited Edition Collection. We’ve already seen the commercials for two of the fifteen products (Sugar Sugar and Midnight Swirl).
When I had first saw the Sugar Sugar, I thought it looked like a great idea, but after reading some reviews, it sounds really messy and like it doesn’t live up to expectations. The print ads also make it look like your sprinkling baby bottle pop on your lips and that it might not be so fun to smack your lips together.

 
Midnight Swirl is created with black pearls and has a port wine …read more