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Flair Yourself Friday: Finding the Best Hairstyle for the Round Face Shape

October 7, 2011 Amy Everyday Beauty, Flair Yourself Friday

I know by now you’ve all done your homework on finding your face shape, and for you ladies with the round face shape is it going to pay off today. We are going to help you gorgeous gals find the right hairstyles to complement your lovely faces!

If your face is round, that means the length and width of your face measures the same, or close to the same, and your jaw line is more curved than square.

Such celebrities as Kelly Clarkson and Kirsten Dunst have this amazing face shape and know what styles to sport to accentuate their features! Here’s the dos, and don’ts when you have a round face!

  • You do want hairstyles with height and fullness at the crown. This will give you the illusion of a narrower face, especially if you go with a short ‘do.
  • Go for longer hairstyles, or if going shorter keep the cut close to the cheeks and avoid adding with to prevent your face from appearing wider than it is!
  • This is a face shape where you can totally rock a middle part! Winning! Middle parts help create the illusion of having longer face length.
  • Avoid bangs at all costs! Bangs will avert your attention to the bridge of your nose making your face appear more oval. If you really have your heart set on bangs then stick with side-swept bangs. If you must have a blunt bang, make sure you have plenty of height at the top with your hairstyle for balance!
  • Also great, short cuts with height are the bomb when having a round face shape because they don’t suffocate small faces. You know no good could come from that business.
  • Make sure to avoid any hairstyles that add width to the sides of your face! As I explained before, this will make your face appear much wider than it actually is! Height is the key to this face shape. Make sure to avoid bobs and hairstyles that flip out at the bottom.
  • Make sure to avoid side parts and heavy blunt bangs, especially on hairstyles that have no height!

Follow these simple rules and you could find a banging hairstyle that suits you and your round face shape!



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Flair Yourself Friday: Whiter Teeth for a Beautiful Smile

July 1, 2011 Jessi Everyday Beauty, Flair Yourself Friday, Health

There is nothing more glamorous, sexy, or stunning than a bright, white smile! Today on “Flair Yourself Friday,” I would like to focus on the benefits of oral hygiene and give some inexpensive tips on how to keep your pearly whites looking their best!

Dentists claim that with proper flossing, brushing and professional teeth cleaning also comes a healthy body. Thi is because poor oral hygiene leads to bacteria making its way into your blood stream, leading to heart problems and infections in those with diabetes or artificial joints. Also, bacteria from your mouth that enters your bloodstream can cause other infections elsewhere in your body. Furthermore, individuals who develop gum disease from lack of proper oral care, can compromise their bodies’ abilities to ward off infections.

If you suffer from chronic health problems such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or diabetes it is recommend you see your dentist more frequently for a professional cleaning, usually every three months instead of the recommended six. It is also of the utmost importance that expectant moms pay careful attention to their oral hygiene since there is a link between infants with low birth weight and moms with periodontal disease.

Most dentists will recommend that each person should floss and brush at least twice a day. One of the best times to brush is immediately upon waking, before you eat or drink anything. Eating or drinking before you brush helps spread bacteria which leads to more cavities. The other important time to brush is right before bed. This cleans away bacteria and rogue food particles stowing away between your teeth and around your gums.

To help keep your smile whiter, I recommend an Arm and Hammer Spinbrush which retails for approximately $28 or less. It will help remove up to 70% of plague in hard to reach places. Also using peroxide as a mouthwash and brushing with baking soda can help leave teeth whiter and brighter by removing surface stains, and as an extra bonus, it’s inexpensive.

So remember, ladies, it’s important for us, as well as our families, to regularly floss and brush our teeth!

~Amy~

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Flair Yourself Friday: Celebrating Your Self-Value

June 24, 2011 Jessi Everyday Beauty, Flair Yourself Friday

Beauty can’t be found in eyeshadow or a bottle of hair dye. True beauty comes from within yourself. Finding out who you are and embracing that wonderful person in your own heart and mind is an invaluable step in feeling beautiful and projecting how attractive you are to the rest of the world.

It’s not always easy finding that beautiful woman who lives inside you when their are people out there who thoughtlessly put you down or point out something they view as a flaw. These senseless, and sometimes unintentionally harsh, comments are damaging and hurtful.

On this journey of finding that pretty person we all can be, I would like to offer you some advice that was given to me. Look at your own talents, and even though we all make mistakes, still look forward. Learn from your mistakes, but embrace all your achievements, both great and small. Build your own light in your corner of the world and bask in its glow whenever you look in the mirror.

No one person can give you self-worth. That is a journey we each must take into our own hands. To truly be beautiful, we have to be able to look in the mirror and love ourselves, warts and all.

There are some self-taught exercises that you can do to help you along your journey.

  1. When looking at yourself in the mirror, focus on all the features you love about yourself and say, “I am beautiful and valuable as a person.” Sure, some mommies may have stretch marks, scars or extra skin from pregnancy, but think of it as a badge of honor from bringing a beautiful child, or children, into this world.
  2. Do for others while doing for yourself. We all have our individual gifts in this world, and using those talents to help others feel wonderful, in turn makes us feel good about who we are. Change your own corner of the world by embracing and sharing what you are good at. Every woman has something to contribute, and giving always yields its dividends.
  3. Do something just for you. Perhaps you have always wanted to go to school? Maybe set up a day or two of daycare for your children and take a class. Whatever your interest, there’s something you can and should do for yourself, like redecorate a room, buy a new book or simply have coffee with the girls one morning a week. The list is limitless.

The point is for you to love yourself and find value in yourself for yourself. When you recognize and embrace your own self-value, there will be no end to how truly beautiful you feel!

~AMY~

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Flair Yourself Friday: Take Time for an At-Home Couple’s Massage

June 17, 2011 Jessi Everyday Beauty, Flair Yourself Friday, Relationships, Romance

couple massage

The beauty in being with someone is getting to fall in love all over again. Couples have to cherish what few, precious moments they get together after long days of juggling all the responsibilities that come with raising children and running a household.

Nothing will make you feel more rejuvenated than the tender touch of your spouse. I’m talking a personal massage, ladies! From head to toe, nothing is more intimate and personal than massaging some beautifully fragrant lotion on you or your sweetheart.

Massages are intimate and relaxing, which every couple needs. This Father’s Day week it’s time to set the mood by dimming the lights, lighting those candles, putting on some romantic tunes and massaging one another from head to toe! Ooo la la!

If you don’t have massage oils, I recommend such products as Johnson and Johnson’s baby oil gel in lavender and chamomile, or if you prefer a lotion to an oil, I enjoy Oil of Olay’s Purely Pristine body lotion. Take turns tenderly massaging each other using your palms and fingertips and with varying degrees of pressure. You’ll both feel amazing, relaxed and…um…amorous.

You deserve to feel special during these moments that you get alone together. Enjoy one anothers’ company, and just to be romantic. So say “I love you” with some tender loving touch!

~Amy~

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Flair Yourself Friday: Beauty for Every Mama

March 25, 2011 Jessi Everyday Beauty, Flair Yourself Friday

With the great response to my Birthday Bash Makeover Series…which has barely even started…it became overwhelmingly clear, that there are many women, like my sister and me, who are aching to know more about beauty, style and just feeling good about themselves.

My sister-in-law, Amy, and I agree that beauty is individual and every woman deserves to feel wonderful in her own skin. After talking about it at length, we’ve decided to start a new feature, devoted to feeling beautiful, inside and out. And so, “Flair Yourself Friday: Beauty for Every Mama” has come to be.

Amy has graciously agreed to share a wealth of beauty tips and tricks from applying cosmetics and pampering your tootsies to eating foods that help your skin and exercises to tone all the wonderful parts that make you beautifully you.

I’m extremely excited and honored to have her on board, and will be learning right along with you all. Thank you so much, Amy.

And now, our resident beauty expert, Amy Arias…

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Hello readers!

I am so exited to be doing a guest post for Mama’s Got Flair’s “Flair Yourself Friday.”

In this first post, I want to take a moment to give you my view point on beauty and womanhood.

As some of you may know from reading Jessi’s last post, I was blessed with the opportunity to grow up around certified cosmetologists. I know not every woman gets to have that experience, so I am here to pass along my knowledge to all you lovely ladies out there.

There was much I picked up from the women in my family, and I continuted to learn a lot on my own over the years, too. One lesson that I hold nearest to my heart is: All women are different, and it’s their uniqueness that is their true beauty. It truly saddens me that that is not the lesson that most women are taught.

I, myself, have felt the pressures of most popular magazines telling me I must weigh a certain amount, like a certain style, or do my hair in a specific way to be beautiful, but I never felt truly gorgeous until I learned to except myself and embrace what makes me feel glamourous.

Beauty is about experimentation. Sometimes it goes well and other times you find you didn’t like something you thought you would. Beauty is also about surrounding yourself with positive people who appreciate you and all your qualities, so that you as a person can grow. Beauty is not an age or a certain size, but a feeling that comes from looking in the mirror and loving yourself.

As a woman, there are many fun tips and tricks you can add to your daily routine to put a little extra pep in your step. I can’t wait to get started teaching you all I know and have learned. I’m also excited to keep learning new stuff along the way, so we can all benefit from it.

So, let us embrace womanhood together, and celebrate what makes us each uniquely beautiful Mama’sGotFlair-style.

~Amy~

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Flair Yourself Friday: Plucking Your Brows

March 1, 2011 Jessi Everyday Beauty, Flair Yourself Friday, Tips and Tricks

Welcome to another exciting addition of “Flair Yourself Friday!”

eyebrow

Eyebrows, the crowning glory on every woman’s face!

They’re one of your most important facial features. With clean, well-shaped brows, your face will look more polished and you, too, can rock it with flair!

Before we begin, here are a few tools of the trade you’ll need to get started.

  • Good pair of tweezers
  • Brow pencil (matched to your hair color for a more natural look)
  • Brow brush
  • Mini scissors (typically found in the manicure aisle of the beauty department)

Important: Keep in mind, it’s better to tweeze a little hair at a time, because most of the brow hair you’ll remove either won’t grow back the same, or at all. Also, have a clear idea of what shape you are trying to create. If you want a better idea of what shape you’ll like, most stores typically sell eyebrow stencils in the beauty department, which can be very helpful to first timers. No two brows are the same, but with a little patience and effort you can make both brows as similar as possible.

Here are some basics before getting started. (See the illustration with corresponding numbers.)

  1. Taking your brow pencil, and holding the unsharpened end of the pencil over the eyebrow groomingright nostril, angle the tip of the pencil to the right side of your forehead. Make a mark. Then do the same for the left side of your face. Only the hairs after those marks are to be removed when you start to tweeze.
  2. On each side, take your pencil and holding it from your nostril to the start of your brow above your nose make a mark. Only hairs before this mark will be removed when you begin the tweezing process.
  3. Your arch is to be two thirds of the way from your inner eyebrow.

Let’s begin:

  1. Before plucking, take your brow brush, and brush your eyebrows upward, starting at the inner corner.
  2. With your brow pencil, draw over your eyebrow the shape you have chosen. Make sure both brows are symmetrical.
  3. Then, brush down the hairs you wish to remove with your brow brush.
  4. Begin by plucking the hairs outside of the brow line you drew. Pull the hairs out with the tweezers from as close to the root as possible, in the direction that they grow, using sharp swift movements.
  5. When you’ve finished plucking, use your brow brush to brush them into shape.
  6. If the hairs are considerably long, take your brow brush and brush them up towards the shape line at the top of your brow and nip the tips with your mini scissors. Be careful not to over trim.
  7. You can fill in any natural gaps and make your brows more symmetrical using your brow pencil. When drawing in your brows start from the inside edge and gently do a feathering motion for a more natural look.
  8. Finally, gently run your brow brush through your eyebrows to blend in the brow pencil.

Now, you know the eyebrow basics!

Bonus tip: To soothe soreness after plucking, apply a warm, damp washcloth to your brows.

Stay tuned next week when we learn about how to add highlights to your brows and face for a fresh and youthful look.

Meet Amy: I may be a girly girl, but I’m no push over! I’m the proud mama of three Amy bio pickids, one handsome boy and two lovely girls. Thanks to my husband, an amazing attorney, I’m a stay at home mom! I love art, beauty, cosmetics, DIY, video games and various books. I’m a Jill of all trades, so to speak. My goal is to reach out to other women and connect and learn about many funtabulous things. If you have questions feel free to email me at amy_arias [at] yahoo (dot) com. I look forward to hearing from you!

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