Carrie Underwood looked absolutely stunning in her glittering gold floor length Zuhair Murad gown with at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards! She rocked uber sexy smoky eyes that were created with DEX New York’s “City Center Brass” eyeshadow from their new natural Modern Minerals Loose Pigment line and ginger lip color. DEX also offers a collection of mineral based foundations, blushes, bronzers, lip colors, mascara and a self-tanner. CLICK HERE to check out my friend’s Dex splendiferously divine products! Love muffins get into this!

I’m about to tell you the quickest way to get that “glow” that is so coveted. It’s the look of clean polished skin that reflects light in just the right places ala Beyonce, J.Lo, and Charlize. You want to know the products, and I’m about to call them out!

If your skin is a rich olive tan to the deepest ebony, please choose a hilighter with a warm golden or bronze tone such as M.A.C. Creme Colour Base in Bronze ($16.50 at maccosmetics.com) or NARS Sparkling Pressed Powder in Gold Rush ($30 at narscosmetics.com).

If your skin is fair to medium, go pick up High Beam from Benefit Cosmetics ($24 at benefitcosmetics.com) or e.l.f. Mineral Glow in Shimmer ($8.00 at eyelipsface.com) featured above, which have more of a pink tone.

Now here are the rules to glow by Love Muffins. If your skin is naturaly oily, choose a powder based product and blend it from the apples of the cheeks to your cheekbone only. If your skin is more normal to dry, you can apply either liquid, cream or powder (preferably cream if you’re drier) to your cheeks, bridge of nose and forhead. Blending is the key for a natural look. Have fun with this Love Muffins and try mixing your highlighter with your favorite cheek color and see what you get!

I know all of you makeup diva love muffins have a drawer full mascaras that you don’t even use! If I were to ask you why, I’m sure the answer would be, “They jus didn’t work for me.” Well, I’m about to give you the lash-down on what’s up with some new and oldie-but-goodie mascaras out there.

If you want those club-worthy lashes, you need to go pick up a tube of new Volume Clubbing Mascara from Parisian cosmetics company, Bourjois. Known for their mascaras, they have designed one with a special lash pumping comb/brush! This mascara is not for the timid. $17

If your looking for something to give you clean, defined lashes than Lancomes Definicils High Def Mascara is a go to. This has long been the top selling mascara in department stores, due to is design to lengthen and separate lashes in one clean swipe. $23.50

If you lack lashes and just want more, than go get a tube of Jane Cosmetis’ Hi-Fiber mascara. The brush separates, while the formula contains natural fibers that attach and extend to your natural lashes. It’s like a lash weave in a tube! $3.89 at drugstore.com

For those out-doorsy, active Love Muffins, we have Clinique’s new Lash Powder mascara. What’s great about this one is that the brush is tiny enough to get those baby lashes, while the formula has a 12 hour staying power, which removes easily with warm water! $14

We all know that what we put in our bodies effects our health. So it makes since that our complexion tells all when we adopt a poor diet. That’s why Scott Vicent Borba, the Founder of Borba Nutraceuticals developed BORBA Skin Balance Waters! A nutraceutical beverage scientifically developed to work with the chemistry of our body to give you gorgeous skin. Available in four sugar-free, carb-free, bio-vitamin and mineral packed drinks: Clarifying with Pomegrante for Oily, Blemish-prone skin, Age Defying with Acai Berry to combat Lines and Wrinkles, Replenishing with Lychee Fruit for Dehydrated, Sensitive skin, and Firming with Guanabana for increased Elasticity and Celulite reduction. Once availbale exclusively to celebrities, you can now grab your bottle of BORBA at major beauty retail stores such as Sephora, Ulta Beauty, Nordstrom, and Borba.com for $3 each.

I was told by a rep that you can actually mix two parts BORBA water with one part Vodka to create a BORBAtinni! The addition of BORBA water reverses the bad effects of alcohol on your skin.

How beautiful spring makeup is, blossoming in fresh shades of raspberry, and soft-toned neutrals. This season love muffins, think extra pretty. Foundation should look fresh faced, not caked faced. Try Virtual Fresh Skin Refining Makeup ($32.50) from Prescriptives. It uses specially coated pigments to optically refinish the look of imperfections and visible pores, while looking “virtually” undetectable. Give cheeks a healthy flush with raspberry tinted cream colors like Blush More or Less in Corsica Hibiscus or Thai Orchid ($21.50) from Prescriptives. Decorate eyes in shades of shimmering taupes and matte creams like Fog and Navajo from Bobbi Brown’s Pink Raspberry Face Pallette($55), which also features sheer lip colors in juicy shades of raspberry for every skintone.

Iconic fashion house and international cosmetics brand, Christian Dior, has developed a new technology that promises not to reduce facial wrinkles, but to “cure” them as we know it. Just imagine love muffins, everyone may be walking around with baby-like skin…well those that can afford these products. There is a facial cream, serum, and eye cream launching from this collection called R 60/80 XP. Just watch the video and judge for yourselves! The above Capture R60/80 XP Ultimate Wrinkle Restoring Serum retails for $90.

At least it does with a New O-Gloss Intuitive Lip Gloss from Smashbox Cosmetics. This product features the extract of Goji Berry, that helps the clear gloss turn into a “fits you best” lip color! That’s right Love Muffins, a gloss that turns into your most flattering shade. It looks different on every skin-tone, but always looks right. This is the child of Smashbox’s ever so popular O-Glow Intuitive Cheek Color, a gel blush that changes to a healthy glow for your skin. Cop these at www.smashbox.com

One of the most asked questions regarding eye makeup is how to enhance your own natural eye color. How do you make brown eyes smolder, or make those blue eyes pop? It’s simple Love Muffins…well complementary actually! I’m about to break it down nice and easy for you. The easiest way to enhance your natural eye color is with the an eye liner that complements your eye color.

Blue eyes are enhanced when lined with golden brown shades, since orange/gold complements blue. Try M.A.C. Eye Khol in Teddy.

Green eyes are enhanced by cranberry or coppery shades, since red complements green. Try Sue Devitt Eye Intensifier Pencil in Kanpur.

Brown eyes’ golden tones are enhanced by lining with blue shades, since blue complements any golden/orange tone. Try L’Oreal Wear Infinite Soft Powder Eye Liner in Deep Sapphire.

Remember Love Muffins, never line your eyes with a color that is stronger in tone than your own eyes, expecting them to be enhanced. Placing a bolder green shade next to green eyes only makes the colors fight for title of “Who’s Greener”. You may notice your eyes look green (because they already were), but you’ve actually weakened your own eyes color by making them compete with a richer shade.

After you’ve lined your eyes, use a q-tip or finger and smudge the line into a softly diffused finish. Add few coats of black mascara. Bat those lashes, and wait for the complements to come your way.

This year, M.A.C. cosmetics teams up with pop French designer, Fafi, to create a must-have collection for any makeup queen! Fafi, who is known for her edgy, cute, grafittiesque dolls images will design characters to be printed on the products. This is set to be released in Febuary to anniversy the ever so popular “Barbie Loves M.A.C.” collection from last year. I know all of the M.A.C. addicts out there remember how a majority of the Barbie collection sold out in it’s first day of launching. So Love Muffins, this is a fair warning!

Here is an image from the Barbie Loves M.A.C. collection for all of the Love Muffins who missed out.

You’ll love the shade in 40 Winks! It’s a sheer to die for juicy peach. Click HERE to view and order all the splendiferous shades!

Lisa Price began creating beauty products in her kitchen in the 80s. Her experimentation eventually led to a mail-order and online business in 1993, followed by the Brooklyn opening of a store in 1999. Now, Carol’s Daughter is carried by Sephora and Macy’s nationwide. The beauty line offers over 300 products for women, men, and children. Check out some of their best sellers after the jump! (...) Continue Reading →.

Eve and Dita Von Teese looked just orgasmic at Mac Viva Glam VI’s AIDS Fund celebration in New York City yesterday. Kudos to their glam squads! The fund raised $100 million to fight the AIDS crisis.

Diana Ross, Debbie Harry, Mary J. Blige, Jennifer Lopez. Just a few divas who work the false eyelashes! They are true confidence boosters and can change any look from so so to go go. Now you to, Love Muffins, can rock the glamorous look with the new Eye Lash Collection from M.A.C. Cosmetics! Created in collaboration with Celebrity Eyelash designer, Christina Smith, this new line features 11 new designs. At $11 a set, who can resist?

Keira Knightly is the new face of Chanel’s new fragrance “Coco Mademoiselle”. The ad features the Pirates of The Caribbean star along with the sounds of Joss Stone belting out her soulful rendition of the Nat King Cole classic “L-O-V-E”. It’s not quite on the level the Nicole Kidman’s ad for Chanel No. 5 but it’s still hot! PS, I’ve attached the Joss Stone’s signature song as well. Enjoy love muffins.

Joss Stone – L.O.V.E.

If my memory isn’t failing me, I do believe that Alicia Keys appeared in a Proactiv infomercial in 2004. So that’s why I’m so shocked to see these mini volcanoes on her otherwise beautiful mug! AK was photographed out and about in Beverly Hills doing a little shopping yesterday displaying her highly reactive face that a little of the Proactiv she advertised would most certainly clean right up!

Alica Keys needs to practice what she preaches and checkout The Proactiv Solution 3- Piece System below that retails 39.95! To buy click HERE!

Sexy. Seductive. Sophisticated. The smokey eye is back this season, with a more elegant spin. The look is more of a balancing act: Intense eyes with a soft lip, or soft eyes with an intense lip. For intense eyes, try the new Smoking Eyes: 4 palette from M.A.C..

Don’t over do it Love Muffins! Remember, you want to go for simplicity. Just line your eyes with a black eye pencil, and blend the deepest shade in the palette over the line, smudging the line a bit to create a diffused look. Blend the shade upward into your crease using the mid-tone color in the palette. This shade is also great for lining the bottom lash line. Use the lightest shade to highlight brow bones and inner corners of your eyes for a look that is erotically orgasmic! Don’t forget the top it off with a copule coats of volumizing mascara. Soft cheeks and lips give all of the attention to your smokey eyes. Try using MAX Factors Colour Perfection Lipstick in Caramel and Cinnamon Natural Brush-On Satin Blush for deeper skintones. Lighter skintones should try Colour Perfection Lipstick in Apricot and Natural Brush-On Satin Blush in Peach Spice, both by MAX Factor. Please do top lips off with little bit of IMAN Crystal Luxury Lip Shimmer.

When working soft eyes, apply color the same way you did the intense eye colors. Just use softer colors like shimmery taupes and soft chocolates. Balance the look with a juicy berry lip gloss. Try Clinique’s Glosswear for Lips Intense Sparkle in Stellar Plum.

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Beyonce can add another prime customer to her growing list of endorsements. This chick is getting paid.

It was announced back in May that Beyonce would be the new face of Emperio Armani’s fragrance “Diamonds”. After repping Tommy Hilfiger’s “Star” perfume Beyonce took a huge step up in the fragrance promotion by scoring the Armani deal. Now the campaign is officially in order and you can check out the new commercial. I really like it. It reminds me of the “Naughty Girl” video she did with Usher back in the day. She puts a modern spin on the classic Marilyn Monroe song “Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend”. Marilyn’s version was cute but Beyonce definitely brings the heat. Enjoy Love muffins!

I think it’s safe to assume B is no longer repping for Tommy Hilfiger’s Star perfume. It doesn’t matter because Armani is a huge step up in the fragrance and promotion component.

Check out a brief clip of the making of the commercial.

Brandy was recently made the new spokeswoman of Ultima Hair. I’ve never heard of this company but I think Brandy looks splendiferous. In the pictures she’s sporting various hair styles ranging from sultry straight to bohemian curls. It’s good to see her looking happy. I can’t wait for the new album.

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In a previous post, we showed you the dusty crusties that turned out to belong to none other than Oprah herself! The past couple of months have presented ample opportunities for all of us to see ashy and inappropriate toes and heels exposed when they otherwise should not be! This might be random, but we wanted to feature this product as one of the best ones on the market right now. Olay Body Thermal Pedicure is no joke. It literally heats and scrubs upon contact with your skin, leaving your feet smoother each day. Combine this treatment with a pumice stone, and you’ll be good to go. This is just our advice to you love muffins. Take it or leave it!