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How to Look Better in Pictures

Many of us wish we photographed better.

In an era where images are taken constantly, it is difficult to control the many instances our picture is taken.

Here are my 2 quick/best tips for photographing better.

The Turtle

This is a quick physical adjustment that tightens the jawline and opens our eyes.

All you do is extend your whole face forward 1-2 inches and then drop your chin 1/2 inch.

A common mistake is to extend only the chin forward 1-2 inches. This will give you an unwanted result.

Practice moving the entire plane of your face and not just your chin in the mirror. Once you get your muscles familiar with this, it becomes easy to replicate.

Also notice with the 2 women that one shoulder is closer to the camera than the other. This tends to reduce flatness and fullness in your image.

Powder the Heart

When possible, lightly powder the heart of your face.

2 changes happen when you isolate and neutralize shine in the heart of your face.

You reduce a shine from distracting from your main features, eyes & lips.
The area outside the heart reflects light better giving a healthy energized appearance.

As a reminder, the area between the lines on the images below is the heart of the face.

Bonus Tip: How to make eyes smolder on camera.

We see this with celebrities all the time. There is an intensity to their gaze.

This is simple. Pretend you are trying to read the bottom line of a chart during an eye exam.

Your bottom eye line raises up as it strains to make out the eye chart bottom line.

This communicates as a smoldering intensity. Try it out. You will laugh but it works.

Famous eye exam culprits include Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts and Tom Cruise.

Translucent Powder Compact Special

In the spirit of looking our best, all shades of Translucent Compact Powder & Invisible Powder (no pigment/high oil control) are only $19 ( usually $24) now through February 14th.

Why not look your best on camera and off.

To better implement the concept of Face with a Heart in your daily makeup application, treat yourself and others to the International Best Seller FACE WITH A HEART MASTERING AUTHENTIC BEAUTY MAKEUP.

When you order from Amazon, you also receive a Free e-book of this same title.

Most people apply makeup generally and they look generally good.

Some people apply their makeup specifically and they look specifically good.

They use the same makeup, only in a more specific way.

Learn the specifics and always look and feel specifically good.

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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
25th of January, 2017

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

19Janauthentic beauty, Blog, book, Chris Scott, concealer, corrector, Deposit brush, deposit technique, eye liner, eye shadow, eye shadow base, Eyes, Lessons, makeup, Makeup Gourmet, News, Online, primer, translucent powder, tutorials

What does your face shape have to do with makeup?

While there are specific techniques to address personal concerns such as wide-set eyes or round cheeks etc, your overall face shape as it relates to makeup stays unchanged.

The goal with Authentic Beauty makeup is: Reduce the Distractions & Enhance the Attractions.

Distractions are anything that catches our attention away from eyes and lips. Examples include redness in skin, darkness under eyes, blemishes etc.

Regardless of face shape, isolating our main attractions, eyes & lips, is key to being seen more clearly.

That is why the Face with a Heart concept is universal and holds true every time makeup is applied.

What is the ‘Heart of the Face?’

It is the area contained within the red lines above.
Think of eyebrows as the top arches of the heart.
The diagonal lines running along the outside corner of eyes and lips are the sides of the heart.
The base of the chin within these diagonal lines is the base of the heart.

Here are examples of face shapes and how the Face with a Heart translates from face to face.

Use this as a guideline as to where you apply and not apply makeup.

As best as possible, minimize/neutralize any distractions within the heart so eyes and lips stand clearly alone.

I always say to make the skin in the interior of the heart level 10 coverage, meaning the fullest coverage you want with your makeup.

Then coverage gradually lessens from 10 to 0 as it moves away from the exterior of the heart line outwards towards the hairline and jaw line. This is automatically achieved by smoothing foundation from the center of the face outwards.

To heighten and better frame the Heart of the Face, have contour and blush fall just outside the Heart Line. This dramatically isolates your eyes and lips while shaping the area of the face outside the heart line. I call it ‘where the face turns the corner’.

from Natural to Dramatic makeup, following this guideline will always make you noticed first.

What you want to hear is ‘You look great’, rather than ‘Your makeup looks great’.

To better implement the concept of Face with a Heart in your daily makeup application, treat yourself and others to the International Best Seller FACE WITH A HEART MASTERING AUTHENTIC BEAUTY MAKEUP.

When you order from Amazon, you also receive a Free e-book of this same title.

Most people apply makeup generally and they look generally good.

Some people apply their makeup specifically and they look specifically good.

They use the same makeup, only in a more specific way.

Learn the specifics and always look and feel specifically good.

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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
19th of January, 2017

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

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Is The Heat On?

a simple solution to an ongoing problem.

When it is cold outside and the heat is on inside our skin gets continually
dehydrated.

Effects of dehydration include a tight feeling to the skin and sometimes even irritation, redness and flaking.

In these cold outside/heat-on inside conditions, moisturizer will last only so long.

Reapplying moisturizer is just not practical for most of us throughout the day.

One answer is misting the skin with water with a fine mist spray bottle. Evian spray is a popular choice.

The downside of a water mist is we only get a momentary hydration relief that quickly evaporates. In the evaporation, even more water is taken from our skin along with the water mist just applied.

What we need is a way to refresh and heal our skin that stays in our skin.

This Is where rosewater, cucumber and sodium hyaluronate become our dehydration friends.

Rosewater Cucumber Balancing Mist

If you don’t already have this, now is a really good time. I discovered this triple action mist about two years ago and, in all the hoopla of launching Face with a Heart, it is one of those essential products that I neglected to share fully with you.

This is an incredible mist that works for you in so many ways it is truly to be experienced.

The Rosewater Cucumber Balancing Mist is positioned to be used when needed throughout the day whether you have makeup on or not.

As I reinvestigated all of its features and benefits, I fell in love with this product all over again.

Here’s why.

Rosewater

Rosewater is an antiseptic that calms irritated skin that can come from dehydration and is full of antioxidants which keeps the surface to skin alive and well.

Cucumber

Cucumber is also a powerful antioxidant with many claims to go along with it. Most importantly it contains vitamin B5 which is a humectant that helps your skin retain moisture the less hydration.

Other benefits of cucumber are vitamin A in the form of retinol that can help fight dark spots and freckles it also has silica which is a precursor to collagen that can help fight wrinkles and vitamin K which fight dark circles under the eyes.

Obviously cucumber kicks some serious skin care booty.

Sodium Hyaluronate

The one key ingredient that is not featured in the name of the product is sodium hyaluronate.

This is the third ingredient in the list of ingredients for this product so its presence is substantial.

Sodium hyaluronate is a water-soluble salt form of hyaluronic acid.

Hyaluronic acid is a natural cell in our body found mostly in our joints. Because of its ability to absorb and maintain up to a thousand times it’s weight in water, it is what helps keep our joints lubricated.

Sodium hyaluronate is a smaller molecule, which allows it to more easily penetrate the skin.

Sodium hyaluronate will attract and keep not only the water that’s in our skin in our skin, it will also attract water from the air and pull it into your skin. That is what a powerful humectant does.

Way awesome ingredient.

How to use

The beauty is you just mist it on your skin whenever you want.

A subtle relaxing yet invigorating scent of rosewater is what envelopes you and immediately gives you a sensoral peace of mind.

Then the rest of the ingredients get to work. You can mist your skin throughout the day as often as you like.

This mist is positioned to also be a way to set your makeup. I am a big fan of using translucent powder to physically set your makeup. For some even the thinnest layer of powder on your skin feels drying or at least visually appears drying.

By using this mist, the thin layer of surface powder is slightly dissolved and the skin becomes more translucent and light is better reflected from the moisture in your skin. Sounds good to me.

Get it while it’s hot (cold)!

So what the heck, the product is only $15 and until the end of January I am making it available for $12.

Although this mist is highly effective throughout the year, using it now when the heat is on is an added bonus.

I hope you enjoy this product as much as I do!

Rosewater Cucumber Balancing Mist

A refreshing mist with natural extracts that soothe and soften the skin. Instantly rehydrates and refreshes all skin types and aids in restoring tone and elasticity as well as setting makeup. Paraben free, sulfate free, gluten free. Made in USA.

Rosewater

Helps soothe and cool sensitive and irritated skin.
Balances oily skin.
Rejuvenates, softens and tones mature skin.
Filled with anti-oxidants and various vitamins to help prevent the signs of aging and nourish the skin.
Natural antiseptic, anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties.

Cucumber

Cucumbers are a source of several compounds that fight inflammation and aging.

Contains vitamin C, an antioxidant and plenty of vitamin K, also an antioxidant, which fights dark circles under the eyes.
Pantothenic acid, or vitamin B-5, helps your skin retain moisture (humectant).
Vitamin A, or retinol, in cucumbers fights dark spots and freckles because it helps control your skin’s production of melanin.
Cucumbers are a source of silica, which, as a precursor to collagen, can help fight wrinkles.

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.

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
12th of January, 2017

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

05JanBlog, concealer, corrector, Deposit brush, deposit technique, eye liner, eye shadow, eye shadow base, Eyes, Lessons, makeup, News, Online, primer, translucent powder, tutorials

Treat Makeup Brushes Like Silverware

kindly share

How often do you clean your silverware?

A client asked, ‘How often do I need to clean my brushes?’.

My knee jerk response was ‘as often as you clean your silverware’.

At first glance, this felt like a ‘smart donkey’ answer.

However upon retrospect, the analogy felt accurate.

Someone once told me, “I know it’s time to clean my brushes when I start breaking out”.

I am chuckling as I write this because it’s at least good to have a system to know when to clean your brushes.

However if you know that the results of not cleaning your brushes is skin irritation perhaps you might want to do it a little sooner. (still a smart donkey)

side note- Cleaning brushes is fast and easy so please don’t sigh and think who has the time. After reading this you will want to clean your brushes and I will share the 2 best methods I know.

Here are my best reasons for keeping makeup brushes clean

Every time our brush touches our skin it picks up some oils and with that bacteria.
Left to its own devices, bacteria will continue to grow in our brush.
The next day we use that brush, we brush that growing bacteria onto our skin while adding new oils/bacteria to our brush.
This cycle continues and accelerates until we put a stop to it.
Bacteria quickly breaks down the integrity of the brush hairs and the brush becomes unmanageable.
Skin oil ‘glazes’ (a layer of congealed oil) our makeup and makes it difficult to pick up with our brush.*
Bacteria breaks down our makeup product and diminishes its quality.

Brush Cleaning methods

1- Quick Dry Brush Cleaner (after each use)

2- Shampoo (suggested weekly if using brushes daily)

1- Quick Dry Brush Cleaner (after each use)

-Problem-

Shampooing my brushes everyday takes time and they take forever to dry.

-Solution-

Quick Dry Brush Cleaner

For brushes used with dry product (eyeshadow, powder etc.)

Spray a tissue or paper towel and swirl the brush hairs vigorously on the paper towel.

Brushes are ready to use in 5-10 seconds.

Also ideal for using the same brush for different colors during the same application.

For brushes used with wet product (foundation, cream corrector/concealer etc.)

Wet product requires deeper cleansing, Spray brush hairs directly and swirl the brush hairs vigorously on the paper towel.

Quick Dry Brush Cleaner Special

Buy the 16 oz. economy refill Quick Dry Brush Cleaner
and get a 2 oz. travel size as our gift.

Watch Complete Quick Dry Brush Clean Video

2- Shampoo (suggested weekly if using brushes daily)

-Problem-

What shampoo do I use?

-Solution-

Pantene shampoo & conditioner in one.

Back Story

When I first started working with beauty makeup I truly knew very little on the subject.

Very early in my makeup career when I was representing Chanel a peer asked me how I clean your brushes?

My response was ‘clean your brushes’?. I never have. She look cross-eyed at me.

I did a little research and it was suggested to clean my brushes with gentle shampoo.

I said what the heck I’ll give it a try.

I half-filled my sink with some warm water and mixed in some gentle shampoo.

I plunged my brushes hair first into the water and to my shock the water turned immediately a deep purple Grey.

As I swished the brush hairs in the water it just turned almost a grey black.

I drained the water and did it again and this time the result was only a light grey so I thought this must be doing something.

After the second wash I rinsed out the brushes. I then squeezed out excess water and let the brushes sit on my bathroom counter with the hair hanging over the edge of the counter to air-dry.

The next day I was blown away how beautifully and softly my brushes applied makeup.

Above is how I suggest you shampoo your brushes.

Watch Complete Brush Shampoo Video

Why Pantene Shampoo & Conditioner in one?

It effectively and thoroughly cleans your brushes while maintaining just the right amount of conditioning to keep brush hairs supple.

A common recommendation for brush shampoo is baby shampoo. I do not recommend this. It is too drying. The idea of a gentle baby shampoo sounds harmless, but it will dry brush hairs and make them brittle. An internet answer to this issue is mixing a little olive oil with baby shampoo. The oil is meant to provide a little conditioning for the hairs of the brush.

I strongly urge you to not follow this recipe.

Olive oil and really almost any kind of household oil molecule is too big for your brush hairs. What happens is the oil gets into the hair but very difficult to take out without completely stripping the integrity of the brush hairs.

The brush becomes somewhat limp and heavy and loses all of its life and playfulness when applying makeup.

Conclusion

My New Year’s resolution wish for you is to treat your makeup brush hygiene the same as your silverware.

Your makeup will go on better.

Your brushes will last longer.

Your makeup will last longer.

Your skin will be happy.

Warmly,
Chris Scott
5th of January, 2017
Happy New Year

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*If you find that makeup is not picking up on your brush well due to glazing, I suggest using a table knife and very gently scraping off just a very thin top surface of your product. What you are doing is removing the glaze from the congealed oils from your skin that have settled on the top of your makeup. By doing this you refresh your makeup so that it is clean once again and much more easy to use. It will also extend the life of your product.

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

16Decauthentic beauty, Blog, book, Chris Scott, concealer, corrector, Deposit brush, deposit technique, eye liner, eye shadow, eye shadow base, Eyes, Lessons, makeup, Makeup Gourmet, News, Online, primer, translucent powder, tutorials

My Favorite Winter Holiday Dessert Drink

Mudslide

My mom had a sweet tooth.

When we went out she ordered Baileys on the rocks before dinner.

I was always surprised that she ordered this sweet drink before a meal.

Once us kids figured out she liked Baileys, she always received Baileys for Christmas and birthdays.

She was also a very light drinker. Consequently, she had so many bottles of Baileys she never get through them.

Because of her fondness of Baileys, I was drawn to a drink called Mudslide.

I mix a Mudslide every winter holiday and it is my holiday dessert drink staple.

It may not warm you up, however, it has the potential to heat you up.

I share my simple and satisfying version with you.

Makeup Gourmet Mudslide

1 part Baileys Irish Cream

1 part Kahlua Coffee Liquer

2 parts Vodka (optional)

Serve over ice or in your favorite hot beverage.

As you enjoy your mudslide, please remember that Makeup Gourmet has 2 great offers during the holidays.

Whether you are gifting yourself or others, here is a reminder of those two offers.

Offer #1

22% off all Gift Certificates (Even cash value certificates!) now through Christmas day.

Extra Bonus

All service gift certificates such as a makeup application or makeup lesson still includes the 15% off all products purchased during the time of service.

The makeup Gourmet cash value gift certificate starts at $25 and goes up to $500. This means if you have a lot of small gifts to give we have that for you. If it is a larger more generous gift you want to offer someone we have that too. All the while saving you 22% with every purchase.

Offer #2

Please accept this gift of $20 and use it towards your next Makeup Gourmet product and/or service selection of $50 or more.

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Give it to others to enjoy and they, in turn, may also re-gift to others and still get to keep theirs.

Please re-gift with wild abandon by sharing this link to your friends, family and social media circles.
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This is the one re-gift that never stops giving up to and including Christmas Day 2016.

*This gift has a one-time use per-person.
This gift does not apply to sale items and may not be combined with any other coupons, promotions or special offers.
Gift has no cash value.
This gift expires the day after Christmas 2016.

MakeupGourmet.com carries a complete line of quality Authentic Beauty Makeup products including:

Cosmetics

Skincare for women and men

Brushes

Supplies such as quick dry brush cleaner

Books

We offer highly reviewed services such as:

Makeup application

Makeup lessons

Personal DVD tutorials

Group makeup lessons

Online Skype virtual lessons so you can give the gift of Makeup Gourmet
to someone anywhere in the world and I can meet with them.

I so truly wish everyone the greatest peace and joy now and always.

With great warmth,

Chris Scott
16th of December, 2016

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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.

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

15Novauthentic beauty, Blog, book, Chris Scott, concealer, corrector, Deposit brush, deposit technique, eye liner, eye shadow, eye shadow base, Eyes, Lessons, makeup, Makeup Gourmet, News, Online, primer, translucent powder, tutorials

Holiday Special 22% off All Gift Certificates

We renovated our holiday gift certificate offer from last year.

Last year we offered a 15% off all service gift certificates while still including the 15% off all products at time of service when the gift certificate is redeemed.

This year we are offering a generous 22% discount on all gift certificates and are including the cash value gift certificates to the special offer.

For example when you give a $50 gift certificate from Makeup Gourmet you pay only $39. Give a $100 gift certificate and you pay only $78. And the math goes on.

There are no limits to how many gift certificates you can buy and remember you can buy them for yourself as well.

Extra Bonus

All service gift certificates such as a makeup application or makeup lesson still includes the 15% off all products purchased during the time of service.

MakeupGourmet.com carries a complete line of quality Authentic Beauty Makeup products including:

Cosmetics

Skincare for women and men

Brushes

Supplies such as quick dry brush cleaner

Books

We offer highly reviewed services such as:

Makeup application

Makeup lessons

Personal DVD tutorials

Group makeup lessons

Online Skype virtual lessons so you can give the gift of Makeup Gourmet
to someone anywhere in the world and I can meet with them.

The makeup Gourmet cash value gift certificate starts at $25 and goes up to $500. This means if you have a lot of small gifts to give we have that for you. If it is a larger more generous gift you want to offer someone we have that too. All the while saving you 22% with every purchase.

Since the cash value gift certificates already includes a 22% discount
there is no further discount when using the cash value gift certificate.

We can all use a good hug right now.
I am hoping that this gesture of an offer brightens you and your’s day!

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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
15th of November, 2016

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

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Daily Intensive Moisturizer: One Size Fits All

Makeup Gourmet Introduces the Simplicity of One Moisturizer for Day & Night

Although there are abundant advantages for using specific moisturizers for day and night, some of us want to simplify our lives.

Makeup Gourmet now has an effective anytime all-purpose moisturizer.

Some moisture is better than no moisture. If Daily Intensive Moisturizer makes it possible for you to hydrate your skin whenever you may feel you need it without the worry of what time of day it is then this is a win!

This emollient crème hydrates and softens skin while protecting delicate skin tissue from harsh environmental damage. Cruelty free, paraben free, sulfate free, gluten free

Key ingredients include:

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.

Pro Vitamin B / Panthenol
As a humectant, provitamin B stabilizes the skin barrier function, reducing the amount of water lost through the skin. By applying a provitamin B5 formulation to the skin, you will not only increase its hydration but improve its softness and elasticity, making provitamin B5 ideal for the treatment of dry, scaly or rough skin.

Panthenol is a humectant–a water-binding substance that attracts and retains water that has been shown to improve the appearance of irritated skin and is often used as rejuvenating agent.

Daily Intensive Moisturizer Intro Special

Normally $25. Now $19. 24% Savings! through 10/31/16
One moisturizer for day and night.
Free shipping within USA / $50 minimum
Size: 2 fl. oz. (59 ml)
Recommended for: All skin types.
Cruelty free | Paraben free | Sulfate Free | Gluten Free
Made in USA

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
19th of October, 2016

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

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Lighting for Makeup

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The good news is Makeup Gourmet is all moved and savoring its new location.

Along with the move came unexpected innovations.

The first is new lighting. I am sharing this in the spirit that if you ever wanted better (oh, let’s just say ideal) lighting at home and not sure how to achieve it, read on.

Although I was always pleased with the ‘Hollywood’ style lights I used in my previous studio, they do not fit the look of my new studio.

I also want more true daylight light as well as energy efficient and not hot lights. All of which my previous lights were not.

It was funny to research this online as so many bloggers said “The best light is natural light”. Well yeah, however, how does one simulate this in an in indoor setting.

Side note. My new studio has a west facing window and if natural light is requested, it is available.

The light source most often mentioned as being clean, true light, energy efficient and not hot is LED light.

After searching and pricing expensive pre-made options, I decided to make my own.

I want to tell you this because it is so simple and so very awesome.

I am using countertop strip lights. These are the lights that are attached to the underside of cupboards and light up kitchen counters in that cool indirect way.

I searched and found these discreet LED strip lights at IKEA.

I put one strip on each side of the mirror and…

Voila!

There are 3 components to order from IKEA online.

The light strips come in three sizes: 15, 18, and 24 inches and range from $35-$45 depending on the length. Click Here to see lights at IKEA.

The other 2 things you need are one power cord ($5) and one electrical transformer ($12 – $30).

The math you need to do is pick a transformer that handles the full wattage of the lights.

I chose the 24 inch lights which use 10 watts each. Because of this, I got the transformer that can handle up to 30 watts and plugged 3 lights into one transformer.

Installation was easy. Screw 2 screws that hold the plastic support plate and then press/snap the light into the plastic support plate.

Next plug each light into the transformer.

Plug the electrical cord into the transformer and a light socket.

The cord comes with a handy switch on it to easily turn on/off the lights.

The light is so clean and balanced you will always be able to see yourself more clearly and thus most precisely achieve the finish you want with every makeup application.

I invite everyone to come and see my new location.

If you mention this post, I will give you a 15% reduction in the full service price and you will still receive a 15% reduction in all product purchases at time of service.
This is a stand-alone offer and may not be combined with any other offer/promotion/coupon. Thank you.

You may book new appointments now by clicking here.
http://makeup-gourmet.genbook.com

Warmly,
Chris Scott
5th of October, 2016

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

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Moving Sale X’s Twenty Two: 22% Cart Discount Code: movinghelp22

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Credit Where Credit is Due

High five’s for all of your help while we move.

As a bonus thank you, I am adding one more use per customer of the movinghelp22 discount code.

Please use and share this Moving Sale 22% Cart Discount Code movinghelp22 with Olympic intensity.

This is truly the greatest moving help you can offer.

The code for the 22% cart discount is:

movinghelp22

It is good for the entire cart regardless of size except for already featured sale items. If you happen to put a sale item into the cart, the code will not work. Simply delete the featured sale item from the cart and the code will work.
Code is now good for 2 rounds of moving help shopping.

Here is a blank-slate sneak-peek of the new
Makeup Gourmet Studio

We will reopen September 6, 2016

You may book new appointments now by clicking here.
http://makeup-gourmet.genbook.com

Thank you for your continued support!

Warmly,
Chris Scott
25th of August, 2016

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

08AugBlog, concealer, corrector, Deposit brush, deposit technique, eye liner, eye shadow, eye shadow base, Eyes, Lessons, makeup, News, Online, primer, translucent powder, tutorials

Moving Sale Help: 22% Cart Discount. Code: movinghelp22

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“Now please stop oozing out – get out.”

Have you ever wanted to say this to someone who, while announcing their departure, finds every reason to stay?

The Character Sheridan Whiteside says this from the play, The Man Who Came To Dinner, by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.

Makeup Gourmet has been ‘oozing out ‘ the last 6 months announcing relocation and all the while staying put.

Our search is over and now we need your help during our move.

You can help us greatly by taking advantage of our ‘movinghelp22‘ 22% cart discount during our move.

The code for the 22% cart discount is:

movinghelp22

Offer expires after Labor Day September 5 2016

It is good for the entire cart regardless of size except for already featured sale items. If you happen to put a sale item into the cart, the code will not work. Simply delete the featured sale item from the cart and the code will work.

Please Note: this is a one per customer code so please fill your cart accordingly. Users are identified by email during checkout.

We will take appointments through Saturday August 20th and then reopen Wednesday September 7, 2016 in our new San Francisco location.

Using and sharing this Moving Sale 22% Cart Discount Code movinghelp22 with wild abandon will be the greatest moving help you can offer while we are closed for the move.

Thank you for your help!

Warmly,
Chris Scott

8th of August, 2016

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