What are masks and why do we want to use them?

There are different kinds of masks for different purposes.

• Deep-cleansing, by penetrating the pores.
• Healing acne scars or hyper-pigmentation.
• Brightening, for a gradual illumination of the skin tone.
• hydration to saturate the skin in water.

Some masks dry on the face, others remain wet.

Masking, besides delivering the desired effect of the mask, provides a sense of calm and relaxation.

Makeup Gourmet currently offers one mask which deep cleanses pores in order to minimze them, and, uses Glycolic Acids to aid exfoliation.

GLYCOLIC RENEWAL MASQUE

Formulated with Glycolic Acid to help remove dead skin cells and kaolin clay to extract impurities to clarify complexion and refine pores. Fortified also with botanical extracts and Sodium Hyaluronate.. Glycolic Content: 3.43%. Paraben Free | Sulfate free | Gluten free. Recommended for: All skin types. Made in USA.

Key ingredients

Kaolin Clay

• Purifies and detoxes the skin and makes it moist.
• Contains high content of silica that helps in removing the dead skin and makes it to regenerate.
• Contains minerals and phyto-nutrients which aid in eliminating toxins and excess oil from the skin.

Sodium Hyaluronate
A powerful humectant that attracts and holds on to water, making it the ultimate skin moisturizer. This helps to hydrate skin and keep it moist and supple by binding up to 1000 times its weight in water.

Because it attracts and binds to water, it causes slight swelling. This swelling helps to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles and gives skin a more youthful appearance. The added water reflects light better to physically make skin look younger.

Glycolic Acid

A natural ingredient derived from sugar cane, though it is now often made synthetically.

Glycolic acid safely loosens the outer layer of dead skin cells on the surface your skin, bring fresh new skin to the surface. This is beneficial for those who are looking for ingredients that help with anti-aging. Glycolic acid can also help lighten discoloration of the skin, such as sun spots and help those with acne-prone and blackhead-prone skin.

Bonus: Visit our Skin Care Value Bundles to save time and money.

What to Know about Makeup Gourmet’s Face with a Heart Authentic Beauty Makeup® Skin Care.

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Makeup Gourmet’s Face with a Heart Authentic Beauty Makeup® products are developed alongside the Face with a Heart Authentic Beauty Makeup® method of application. They are customized to give you the best results when applying your makeup.

Please let me know if this blog was of value to you and share your own Authentic Beauty Makeup tips in the comments box below. I would love to hear how you get on trying this new method of makeup application – tell me how useful you find the tutorials and how you found the results. You can also use the comments box to tell me what interests and concerns you when it comes to which makeup colors to choose. Please let me know so I can fashion future blogs that are relevant and interesting to you.

Want to know more? My new best selling book, Face with a Heart: Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup is available on Amazon now.

Warmly,
Chris Scott
21st of October,  2015

CHRIS SCOTT, M.A. is the creator of San Francisco-based Makeup Gourmet®. Over his nearly 30-year career, in addition to doing makeup for top models from every corner of the planet, he also had the honor of working for legends like Paul McCartney, US Vice President Al Gore, Shirley Temple Black, Maya Angelou and Olympic Gold medalists Oksana Baiul and Kristi Yamaguchi. He was the creator and host of the TV show ‘Makeup Gourmet’ from 2008 – 2010. He was a leading Chanel Beauté national artist for over two decades, and is also the creator and guest teacher of Fashion Makeup at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. He created his unique Makeup Gourmet line to ensure his clients and the public could have access to high-quality, ethically produced, ‘green’ makeup and skincare with a low-carbon footprint. Chris is also the author of Cosmetic Counter Survival Guide: How to Buy the Right Skin Care and Makeup and the international #1 bestseller Face with a Heart: Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup.

‘The grass is always greener where you water it.’
CS

Why do we want to attract and keep water in our skin?

Water reflects light. Water makes skin cells full and round and full of light. Increasing your skins ability to absorb and maintain water is paramount in maintaing a skin that reflects light, thus a young looking skin.

The most profound molecule in our skin to attract and maintain water is Hyaluronic Acid.

If maintaining a young looking skin is of interest to you, this is worth the read (plus there is a great video and extra bonus at the end).

Hyaluronic Acid (HA) is a carbohydrate occurring naturally throughout the human body.  Although Hyaluronic Acid can be found naturally in most every cell in the body, it is found in the greatest concentrations in the skin tissue. Almost 50% of the bodies HA is found here. It is found in both the deep underlying dermal areas as well as the visible epidermal top layers.

Young skin is smooth and elastic and contains large amounts of HA that helps keep the skin stay young and healthy. The HA provides continuous moisture to the skin by binding up to 1000 times its weight in water. With age, the ability of the skin to produce HA decreases.

Hyaluronic Acid’s consistency and tissue-friendliness allows it to be beneficial in skin-care products as an excellent moisturizer. Because HA is one of the most hydrophilic (water-loving) molecules in nature with numerous benefits for the human body it can be described as “nature’s moisturizer”.

The fact that Hyaluronic Acid is found naturally in the dermis of the skin makes it even more appealing as a skin care ingredient.

Sodium Hyaluronate is the sodium salt of Hyaluronic Acid. It is a smaller molecule than Hyaluronic Acid that is easily absorbed topically through the skin.

Sodium Hyaluronate is a powerful humectant that attracts and holds on to water, making it the ultimate skin moisturizer. This helps to hydrate skin and keep it moist and supple.

Because it attracts and binds to water, it causes slight swelling. This swelling helps to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles and gives skin a more youthful appearance. In addition, the subtle swelling increases volume, which makes skin look younger.

People are increasingly looking for products that contain natural ingredients that aren’t toxic and won’t harm or irritate skin. Sodium Hyaluronate fits the bill. The Environmental Working Group’s Skin Deep database classifies it as an ingredient with a low potential for toxicity and gives it a high safety rating.

This is why my favorite (and most popular) skin care offering is my Age Defying Serum.

It delivers a concentrated dose of Sodium Hyaluronate to your skin before you moisturize. It dramatically draws and maintains water in your skin.

Because I keep my skin care cost inclusive, it is only $29.

If what you just read makes sense to you, I urge you to try Age Defying Serum.

Bonus:

As a thank you for reading this post, I am offering my Age Defying Serum for only $25 for the rest of October, 2015.

if younger looking skin appeals to you, this is the best nature has to offer. The rest is up to you.

Please apply it all over your face each time before you apply moisturizer.

I will be posting an ongoing series of Makeup Gourmet Authentic Beauty Makeup skin care highlight in upcoming blogs.

Each post will highlight a skin care category Makeup Gourmet offers.

What to Know about Makeup Gourmet’s Face with a Heart Authentic Beauty Makeup® Skin Care.

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Makeup Gourmet’s Face with a Heart Authentic Beauty Makeup® products are developed alongside the Face with a Heart Authentic Beauty Makeup® method of application. They are customized to give you the best results when applying your makeup.

Please let me know if this blog was of value to you and share your own Authentic Beauty Makeup tips in the comments box below. I would love to hear how you get on trying this new method of makeup application – tell me how useful you find the tutorials and how you found the results. You can also use the comments box to tell me what interests and concerns you when it comes to which makeup colors to choose. Please let me know so I can fashion future blogs that are relevant and interesting to you.

Want to know more? My new best selling book, Face with a Heart: Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup is available on Amazon now.

Warmly,
Chris Scott
8h of October,  2015

CHRIS SCOTT, M.A. is the creator of San Francisco-based Makeup Gourmet®. Over his nearly 30-year career, in addition to doing makeup for top models from every corner of the planet, he also had the honor of working for legends like Paul McCartney, US Vice President Al Gore, Shirley Temple Black, Maya Angelou and Olympic Gold medalists Oksana Baiul and Kristi Yamaguchi. He was the creator and host of the TV show ‘Makeup Gourmet’ from 2008 – 2010. He was a leading Chanel Beauté national artist for over two decades, and is also the creator and guest teacher of Fashion Makeup at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. He created his unique Makeup Gourmet line to ensure his clients and the public could have access to high-quality, ethically produced, ‘green’ makeup and skincare with a low-carbon footprint. Chris is also the author of Cosmetic Counter Survival Guide: How to Buy the Right Skin Care and Makeup and the international #1 bestseller Face with a Heart: Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup.

‘The grass is always greener where you water it.’
CS

ps. Not my sister.

I gave my sister a bottle of my Age Defying Serum. She asked, “Will it make me look younger?

As I know my sister is highly analytical, her question made me ask myself, “What does young looking skin look like?”

My answer is, young looking skin is smooth, reflects light, and is translucent.

So what behavior and products promote young looking skin?

Hydration/moisturizer

Water reflects light. Water makes skin cells full and round and full of light. Increasing your skins ability to absorb and maintain water in your skin is paramount in maintaing a skin that reflects light, thus a young looking skin.

Translucency/exfoliation

Skin replenishes itself every 30 days. Once full grown, our body has less incentive to create skin cells at our previous growing-up rate. Surface skin cells die but are still attached. They no longer hold water and light, and mask the brightness of the skin cells below. The weekly removal/exfoliation of surface dead skin cells exposes the fresh living skin cells and promotes more rapid skin cell reproduction. This results in our skin behaving and looking like young translucent skin.

I have studied and worked with skin care long enough to know that as long as you make skin care a daily practice, your skin will look and feel better.  Just like brushing your teeth, if you skip a day, you can see and feel the difference.

There is no miracle cream.  The miracle is in the daily use of the cream.

There are are key ingredients that help promote increased hydration and translucency.  Just remember, it will look better for a day.

Much skin care is exclusive.

Skin care is the most over-priced category in cosmetics as it preys on our need to maintain youthfulness. It attempts to make this simple process of skin care exclusive. To gain access to this exclusive club, you have to pay the fees, in this case, inflated skin care pricing.

I went the inclusive route.

I selected skin care that contains key ingredients to promote hydration and translucency. I then chose to make less on the sale of my skin care than my color product so that most anyone can afford using skin care.

I currently have no skin care product over $29! Guess what?  It is the Age Defying Serum I gave my sister.

I also offer comprehensive Skin Care Bundles to lessen your cost even more.

As far as inclusivity goes, I also developed a skin care line for men. It is my belief that skin is skin and Makeup Gourmet skin care applies to all genders.

However, for some, there is a stigma for using products traditionally targeted for women. I offer the same solutions for maintaing a young looking skin with my men’s skin care line. The products and packaging are streamlined to appeal to a male’s sensibilities that doesn’t see themselves using products ‘made for women’.

The point of this post is to help you understand the simplicity and availability of achieving and maintaining young looking skin. It is not a mystery. It is not what someone has in a bottle and if you pay your membership fee, you can be part of that club.

it is the simple process of daily care using mindful and affordable products.

I will be posting an ongoing series of Makeup Gourmet Authentic Beauty Makeup skin care highlight in upcoming blogs.

Each post will highlight a skin care category Makeup Gourmet offers.

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Makeup Gourmet’s Face with a Heart Authentic Beauty Makeup® products are developed alongside the Face with a Heart Authentic Beauty Makeup® method of application. They are customized to give you the best results when applying your makeup.

Please let me know if this blog was of value to you and share your own Authentic Beauty Makeup tips in the comments box below. I would love to hear how you get on trying this new method of makeup application – tell me how useful you find the tutorials and how you found the results. You can also use the comments box to tell me what interests and concerns you when it comes to which makeup colors to choose. Please let me know so I can fashion future blogs that are relevant and interesting to you.

Want to know more? My new best selling book, Face with a Heart: Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup is available on Amazon now.

Warmly,
Chris Scott
8h of October,  2015

CHRIS SCOTT, M.A. is the creator of San Francisco-based Makeup Gourmet®. Over his nearly 30-year career, in addition to doing makeup for top models from every corner of the planet, he also had the honor of working for legends like Paul McCartney, US Vice President Al Gore, Shirley Temple Black, Maya Angelou and Olympic Gold medalists Oksana Baiul and Kristi Yamaguchi. He was the creator and host of the TV show ‘Makeup Gourmet’ from 2008 – 2010. He was a leading Chanel Beauté national artist for over two decades, and is also the creator and guest teacher of Fashion Makeup at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. He created his unique Makeup Gourmet line to ensure his clients and the public could have access to high-quality, ethically produced, ‘green’ makeup and skincare with a low-carbon footprint. Chris is also the author of Cosmetic Counter Survival Guide: How to Buy the Right Skin Care and Makeup and the international #1 bestseller Face with a Heart: Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup.

‘The grass is always greener where you water it.’
CS

Face with a Heart
Authentic Beauty Makeup®

Value Bundles

Face with a Heart value bundles are sets of products that work cohesively together saving you both time and money when you shop.

Value Bundle Categories

Book Bundles

Brush Bundles

Cheek Bundles

Eye Bundles

Face Bundles

Lip Bundle

Skin Care Bundles

All Value Bundles

Here are my 2 hopes.

1. These Value Bundles prove an easier way for you to get what you want.

2. With your bundle suggestions, I may offer you exactly what you need while saving you time and money!

Please tell me what bundles you want to see offered.

Please email me at info@makeupgourmet.com with bundle ideas that will benefit you.

With your suggestions, I may offer you exactly what you need while saving you time and money!

Face with a Heart
Authentic Beauty Makeup®
Products & Expertise

Makeup Gourmet’s Face with a Heart Authentic Beauty Makeup® products are developed alongside the Face with a Heart Authentic Beauty Makeup® method of application. They are customized to give you the best results when applying your makeup.

Please let me know if this blog was of value to you and share your own Authentic Beauty Makeup tips in the comments box below. I would love to hear how you get on trying this new method of makeup application – tell me how useful you find the tutorials and how you found the results. You can also use the comments box to tell me what interests and concerns you when it comes to which makeup colors to choose. Please let me know so I can fashion future blogs that are relevant and interesting to you.

Want to know more? My new best selling book, Face with a Heart: Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup is available on Amazon now.

Warmly,
Chris Scott
14th of August,  2015

CHRIS SCOTT, M.A. is the creator of San Francisco-based Makeup Gourmet®. Over his nearly 30-year career, in addition to doing makeup for top models from every corner of the planet, he also had the honor of working for legends like Paul McCartney, US Vice President Al Gore, Shirley Temple Black, Maya Angelou and Olympic Gold medalists Oksana Baiul and Kristi Yamaguchi. He was the creator and host of the TV show ‘Makeup Gourmet’ from 2008 – 2010. He was a leading Chanel Beauté national artist for over two decades, and is also the creator and guest teacher of Fashion Makeup at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. He created his unique Makeup Gourmet line to ensure his clients and the public could have access to high-quality, ethically produced, ‘green’ makeup and skincare with a low-carbon footprint. Chris is also the author of Cosmetic Counter Survival Guide: How to Buy the Right Skin Care and Makeup and the international #1 bestseller Face with a Heart: Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup.

‘The grass is always greener where you water it.’
CS

Give  Away  All  My  Makeup  Expertise

 Hello everyone,

If you do not know it, I am on a mission.

From very early on in my beauty makeup career I felt there was something wrong. I watched makeup being applied on top of people’s faces. Makeup was applied in spite of the person to conform to a pre-determined look rather than honoring and fusing makeup with the person and their lifestyle.

From that day to this, I have experimented and tested techniques and products that, regardless of the intensity of the makeup, allow you to be seen more clearly.

This career-long goal has manifested into my unique method,  Face With a Heart Authentic Beauty Makeup®.

There is a better way to wear makeup and this is it. I do not say this boastingly. I say this because it is true.

I want to give away all my makeup expertise.

Until now, only those who I work with personally can benefit from this new-found method. My ambition is to find a way for me to be able to climb through your internet connection and help you personally.

It’s working. This is the latest review on Amazon for Face with a Heart: Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup.

“Really first book EVER to show how to do makeup with links to how to videos on the author’s website for each part if needed. Finally had the opportunity from a book to learn and understand what to do. Why don’t other makeup artists include this information in their books???”

MakeupGourmet.com is fulfilling my ambition.

Here are the highlights:

• Free Face with a Heart companion Online video tutorial courses.
Hundreds of free how-to videos. Newest collections are videos that pair with each step in the now #1 best seller, Face with a Heart: Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup.

•  Virtual Makeup Lesson. The next best thing to meeting in person.  Choose a day time  that is convenient for you and let’s meet face-to-face regardless of the distance between us.

• Face with a Heart Value Bundles. Sets of products that work cohesively together and save you both time and money! This is only the first steps in offering ongoing comprehensive sets of makeup. This is what I am most excited about.

• Virtual Private Shopping.  The most efficient way to get personalized products and expertise.  Choose a day time best for you and we will virtually meet to discuss all of your makeup needs.

• The new #1 bestselling book Face with a Heart: Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup. Both the theory and applicable practice of the Face with a heart Authentic beauty Makeup® method.

• My first book Cosmetic Counter survival Guide: How to Buy the Right Skin Care and Makeup.
My first book that started as a pamphlet for my clients that grew to an indispensable quick-read book for successful shopping.

In this age of information, we can fuse both our sometimes compacted schedules with quality time without missing a beat.  I know what I have to share is important. Clients who have reviewed what I teach have called it ‘life changing’. It is bigger than me. Therefore I need a delivery system bigger than me to reach those who seek a better relationship with makeup.

Authentic Beauty Makeup is real. It works. It is worth every effort and learning curve on my part to get it in your hands. I am not the Internet Gourmet, I am the Makeup Gourmet. Authentic Beauty Makeup is what I know and I am a student of the internet. I study and work daily to master the internet delivery system so I may reach you as clearly as possible.

 I am on a mission.

Face with a Heart
Authentic Beauty Makeup®
Products & Expertise

Makeup Gourmet’s Face with a Heart Authentic Beauty Makeup® products are developed alongside the Face with a Heart Authentic Beauty Makeup® method of application. They are customized to give you the best results when applying your makeup.

Please let me know if this blog was of value to you and share your own Authentic Beauty Makeup tips in the comments box below. I would love to hear how you get on trying this new method of makeup application – tell me how useful you find the tutorials and how you found the results. You can also use the comments box to tell me what interests and concerns you when it comes to which makeup colors to choose. Please let me know so I can fashion future blogs that are relevant and interesting to you.

Want to know more? My new best selling book, Face with a Heart: Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup is available on Amazon now.

Warmly,
Chris Scott
6th of August,  2015

CHRIS SCOTT, M.A. is the creator of San Francisco-based Makeup Gourmet®. Over his nearly 30-year career, in addition to doing makeup for top models from every corner of the planet, he also had the honor of working for legends like Paul McCartney, US Vice President Al Gore, Shirley Temple Black, Maya Angelou and Olympic Gold medalists Oksana Baiul and Kristi Yamaguchi. He was the creator and host of the TV show ‘Makeup Gourmet’ from 2008 – 2010. He was a leading Chanel Beauté national artist for over two decades, and is also the creator and guest teacher of Fashion Makeup at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. He created his unique Makeup Gourmet line to ensure his clients and the public could have access to high-quality, ethically produced, ‘green’ makeup and skincare with a low-carbon footprint. Chris is also the author of Cosmetic Counter Survival Guide: How to Buy the Right Skin Care and Makeup and the international #1 bestseller Face with a Heart: Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup.

‘The grass is always greener where you water it.’
CS