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A Healthy Tan, is there such a thing?

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If you’ve been spending time in the sun this summer to achieve a bronze, kissed-by-the-sun look, then you’re most likely over-exposing your skin to UVA and UVB rays.  But, did you know there is a safer way to get a summer glow?  You don’t have to allow the sun to be the culprit that’s aging your skin more quickly.  With Colorescience Pro Minerals and Jan Marini Sun Care products, you’ll have a beautiful, healthy bronze, without the damaging effects of the sun.

There are 3 main products that we recommend for a healthy tan!  

1. Colorescience Pro Illuminating Serum – in Bronze or Champagne Kiss: This  radiance-boosting formula, rich in peptides, antioxidants, and hydrating hyaluronic acid provides a healthy, luminous base.  Both Bronze and Champagne Kiss work beautifully on their own, but you can also give your skin a hint of bronze and an illuminating glow by blending the two together.

2. Jan Marini Tinted  SPF 30 Antioxidant Block: This skin-friendly iron oxide mineral formula creates a sun-kissed look by adding a warm neutral shade to the skin that compliments virtually any skin tone.  The waterproof formula ensures continuous coverage for extended exposure to the sun’s rays.  Compared to other sunscreens, the Jan Marini Antioxidant Daily Face Protectant provides a lasting oil-free, matte finish, leaving your skin with a soft, silky, conditioned effect.

3. Jan Marini Bioglycolic Sunless Self-Tanner:  This product allows you to enjoy an attractive, glowing tan without over-exposing your skin to the damaging effects of the environment.  Bioglycolic Sunless Self-Tanner is composed of an amino acid that interacts with the skin’s proteins to activate a natural, long-lasting color change without dying your skin.  This means your skin won’t appear orange because the color will adjust to your specific skin type to match its tone and coloration.

Remember to minimize your sun time!

Minimize your time in the sun to maximize your protection against aging.  Exposure to the sun not only causes harmful damage to your skin, such as burns, wrinkles, and fine lines, but also enlarges your pores.  If you’re noticing your pores getting larger, you can learn how to reduce the size of your pores and get that flawless look you desire.

Colorescience Sunforgettable Starter Kit – ON SPECIAL!!

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Special Price - $49

The Colorescience Sunforgettable Starter Kit  is on special for $49 (regularly $60) through August 31st.

The Start Kit includes three easy-to-use, light-weight, barely-there products that ensure your skin is protected against UV rays and help defend against visible signs of aging. To encourage you to keep your skin protected, we have the Starter Kit on special through August 31st for $49 (regularly $60). Call us 805.785.0340 or stop the salon for your Sunforgettable Start Kit, which includes:

1. Sunforgettable Face Primer SPF 30 –The Sunforgettable Primer provides instant sun protection while evening skin tone and creating a softer, more youthful texture.  The soothing formula combines essential oils, antioxidants, and  cactus extract to provide a smooth and hydrated surface for the steps that follow.

2. Sunforgettable Mineral Powder SPF 50 – The Sunforgettable Mineral Powder is a lightweight, water-resistant mineral powder that is easy to apply and re-apply throughout the day to guarantee protection against strong UVA and UVB rays.  Better yet, you won’t feel a thing – it’s that light-weight!

3. Setting Mist All Skin Types Be Still – Be Still Setting Mist can be applied at any time of day to rejuvenate and rehydrate skin.  The nourishing Vitamin E formula soothes and calms the skin from irritating and damaging effects caused by the environment.

Remember! We’re offering this Starter Kit at a special price of $49 (regularly $60) through August 31st.

Always Protect Your Skin from the Sun – Sunforgettable can help!

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What outdoor outings do you have planned this summer as the temperatures rise?  Whether you’ll be enjoying a picnic at the beach, floating down a river, or hiking through the mountains, it’s essential to bring along your SPF protection.  It’s funny how the experiences enjoyed outside make it easy for us to forget the importance of applying our SPF, but harmful UVA and UVB rays always remember to join us for the fun – whether we’re soaking in the warmth of the sun or at the beach on an overcast day. 

If you find that reapplying sun protection is a hassle or you don’t have a favorite product to use, we have one to recommend – the Colorescience Sunforgettable Starter Kit.  Colorescience Sunforgettable products provide a light-weight, barely-there feel that thoroughly protects the skin from damaging effects caused by the environment and is easy to reapply throughout the day.  The Colorescience Sunforgettable Starter Kit includes three easy-to-use products that ensure the skin is protected against the sun’s rays and helps to defend against visible signs of aging.

Special Price $49 Regular Price $60

  1. Sunforgettable Face Primer SPF 30 –The Sunforgettable Primer provides instant sun protection while evening skin tone and creating a softer, more youthful texture.  The soothing formula combines essential oils, antioxidants, and  cactus extract to provide a smooth and hydrated surface for the steps that follow. 

2. Sunforgettable Mineral Powder SPF 50 – The Sunforgettable Mineral Powder is a lightweight, water-resistant mineral powder that is easy to apply and re-apply throughout the day to guarantee protection against strong UVA and UVB rays.  Better yet, you won’t feel a thing – it’s that light-weight!

3. Setting Mist All Skin Types Be Still – Be Still Setting Mist can be applied at any time of day to rejuvenate and rehydrate skin.  The nourishing Vitamin E formula soothes and calms the skin from irritating and damaging effects caused by the environment.

If you’re interested in trying out Colorescience Sunforgettable products, then now’s the time!  We’re offering the Starter Kit at a special price of $49 (regularly $60) through August 31st.

If you forget to apply sun protection while out in the sun and end up with a sunburn, read through Sunburn Recovery Tips and take steps to ensure it doesn’t happen again!

Get to the Core of your Pores

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As your time spent in the sun this summer increases, the chances of your pore sizes getting larger increases as well.  Since pores tend to be most prominent in oily areas on the skin, they tend to be most visible in the T-zone (the sides of the nose, the forehead, and the chin).  The good news is there are ways to get to the core of your pores and minimize their appearance.  By understanding the typical causes of large, visible pores and how to treat the problem, you can get the flawless look you desire, even with large pores.    

Causes of Enlarged Pores

1. Genetics – If you are born with oily or combination skin, your pores will appear larger due to excessive oil production. 

2. Aging – No matter what skin type you have, unfortunately your skin will begin losing its suppleness as you age.  A loss of elasticity in the skin due to aging causes collapsed pores and as a result causes them to appear enlarged.

3. Sun Damage – Similar to the effects of aging, prolonged sun exposure weakens the skin’s collagen, causing the walls of pores to sag as they lose their elasticity and appear larger. 

Two of our Favorite Pore-Minimizing Products

1. SOTHYS Pore Refiner Products – The SOTHYS Complexion Perfector, Smoothing OR Mattifying Refiner Solution, and Pore Refiner Peel-Off Mask all help remove impurities to reduce enlarged pores, refine skin texture, and create long-lasting results for more perfect skin. 

2. Colorescience Pro Minerals Line Tamer – Line Tamer is a skin brightening treatment with SPF.  Not only does the product prevent and repair skin from sun damage, it helps to create a more uniform skin texture to camouflage and prevent the visible appearance of enlarged pores.

Top 5 Michaelisms for Mineral Makeup Application

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1.  Home Depot and A French Touch Salon have more in common than you may have thought.  Both offer their clients the best way to prep, prime, and finish.  Like painting a home, similar steps are required when applying mineral makeup to your facial structure. 

Michael reminds us, “The beauty of mineral makeup is that it responds to its surface, which means you get best results by prepping and priming the skin.  Since minerals enhance a hydrated and prepped surface it’s important to prep the skin with moisturizer, then prime the skin with Line Tamer SPF20 Primer.  Now that your face is prepped and primed, you can apply your Colorescience mineral foundation for a flawless finish.”

2. Most women put their makeup on backwards.  Although most women do the opposite , you should always apply your mineral eye shadow before your foundation.  This order allows you to easily remove excess eye shadow that fell beneath your eyes during the application process.  In addition, dark eye shadows should be worn in the evening, not in the daytime.  

Michael says, “Minerals reflect light.  With this in mind, don’t wear dark smoky shadows during the day because the darker the color you have on your lids the smaller your eyes will look.”

3. You can get authentically new brows without a tattoo or a brow pencil.  Applying natural-looking eyebrows is easy with Colorescience Pro Minerals.  You can use their Brow Gel to create a textured surface on your thin brow hairs to which a brow shadow will adhere, giving you fabulous eyebrows that look oh-so-real and aren’t painted on your skin. 

Michael suggests, “By working from the outer corner toward the inner corner when doing color on the brow, you’ll get better results and more beautiful brows.”

4. The best makeup product to bring with you on a deserted island, after your SPF, is eyeliner.  Most women would say the most important makeup product they can’t live without is mascara, but eyeliner has the capability to create more prominent lashes, while also making your eyes appear larger and more defined. 

 Michael recommends, “Colorescience Pro eyeliner is easy to work with because the length of the eyeliner brush is short, allowing you to get a precise line near the edge of the lid.” 

5. You can’t make a mistake with Colorescience Pro Minerals.  Colorescience Pro Minerals products are easy to change throughout the day when you want to go from a natural and fresh look for the day to having dramatic smoky eyes for the evening. 

Michael raves, “Mineral makeup never has to stay the way it looks when you first put it on.  It is always a work in progress, so you’re never stuck with anything unless you choose to stop moving it.”