What's hot this season?

Tough Love!

The best way to whip your skin into shape is to be firm and kiss old, dead skin goodbye by getting stuck into a first class exfoliator. Exfoliated and well moisturized skin will give you that breathtaking radiance you deserve. Beauty Marked! wholeheartedly believes that when it comes to exfoliating, you've got to take the upperhand and show that errant skin who's boss.

Using body and facial scrubs once a week on intact skin will work wonders by freeing supple, fresh and glowy skin from where it is hidden beneath the old, dull and dry skin. Release the inner dominatrix in you and get cracking!

Le Corps

• Pure Fiji - Pineapple Infusion Sugar Scrub.
• L'Occitane - Ruban D'Orange Soft Skin Scrub & Crushed Grape Polish.
• Richesse de L'Afrique - Anago Salt Scrub.
• MOR - Hot Salt Rub in Grapefruit.
• Botanics of Australia - Sundried Murray River Salt & Macadamia Oil Mineral Flake Exfoliator.
• OP Therapy - Sea Salt Glow.
• Clarins - Gommage Exfoliant Peau Neuve With Bamboo Powders.
• [A'Kin] - Sandalwood & Sweet Orange Invigorating Body Scrub.
• ModelCo - EXFOLIATE Body Wipes.

Le Visage

• Dr. LeWinn's Private Formula - Facial Polishing Gel Gentle Exfoliant.
• LUSH - Ocean Salt & Angels On Bare Skin.
• SKINN - by Merz & Wines Face Scrub for Men.
• Alpha-H - MICRO CLEANSE with 12% Glycolic Acid.

All That Glitters!

Beauty Marked! can never pass by a bit of shimmery sass. This season the trend of glowing skin and beguiling magnetism continues. We're not talking the full on Mardi Gras Bling, but rather the sensual allure of metals, highlighting our best features, which are plentiful. What's Haute this season is all about using just the right amount of well placed shimmer, opalescence, finely milled glitters, and illuminizing intrigue. Choose an asset and then set it a glow!

• Base
• Face
• Eyes
• Lips
• Body & Hair

Base

M.A.C. Strobe Cream used as a primer adds glowy vitality to your skin when used under your foundation. M.A.C.'s Hydratant Lumineux can be used all over the face or just on the specific areas you wish to illuminate, such as over cheekbones or along the bridge of the nose. Beauty Marked! loves the subtle fragrance too. BECCA Shimmering Skin Perfector in Gold is another glimmering secret weapon which gives the skin a sensual smoulder that's unmistakable. This bottle of water based gorgeousness has an SPF of 20. BECCA Shimmering Skin Perfector can be used as a moisturiser or dabbed on top of your foundation to the areas you wish to highlight. The Body Shop has a a little gem that answers by the name of Tinted Glow Enhancer. Tinted Glow Enhancer can be mixed with your favourite foundation to impart a subtle angelic glow in an instant without settling into your pores. Elizabeth Arden's Sheer Lights Illuminating Pen can be deftly used to highlight, contour, and brighten. The Sheer Lights Illuminating Pen is full of optical diffusers, which are brushed on to blur fine lines and perceived imperfections making the skin look radiant, brighter, and instantly refreshed.

Face

Benefit has created Valley of the Stars Mini Iridescence Kit, which is a veritable one-stop-highlighting-shop! Valley of the Stars is a mirrored box compact that contains mini bottles of Highbeam aka "Supermodel in a Bottle", Moonbeam, Her Glossiness lip gloss, and eyeshadows in Tequila Gold and Snow White (both of which, by the way, are perfect for that inner corner of the eye/wide awake twinkle that we love). Bloom Sheer Colour Cream in Aloha is a lavender scented cream base that gives any area a non greasy, light bronzed shimmer that lasts. Beauty Marked! considers it our civic duty to point you in the direction of Jane Iredale's Moonglow. Moonglow is made from pore-friendly 24 karat food grade gold flakes! Moonglow is a luxe quad of golden, bronze, and copper toned shades. The sections can be used anywhere, individually, or swirled together to make a glamourous bronzer to brighten up the complexion. M.A.C. Iridescent Pressed Powder in Star! and Belightful are two compact powders that are simply magic. The aim of the game with any highlighter is to use them to create the look of candlelight gracefully illuminating the forehead, cheekbones, temples and the tip of the nose. These finely-milled lovelies do just that, but all the while doing away with any oiliness. For the cheeks, especially, Beauty Marked! wouldn't be without Clinique Shimmering Tones Powder in Peach Bronze. If you can bring yourself to swipe the compact, this LE patchwork compact gives the cheeks a most glamourous glow. The patchwork squares used individually also work famously as eyeshadows. The choice is yours. Max Factor Terra Mediteerranea Poudre Bronzante in Golden works as a gorgeous burnished blush too.

Tool-wise, the M.A.C. #187 Duo Fibre brush is Beauty Marked!'s pick of the lightweight circular brushes used to apply the perfect amount of glitz and glamour to your face and body. Fan brushes also come into their own when used for highlighting. Beauty Marked! finds expertly placing powdered cheek highlights child's play when using BECCA's Bronzer/Shimmer Fan #39. This badger haired brush picks up all the powder you need, making it practically impossible to overdo.

Eyes

For alluring eyes, your first port of call has to be your local M.A.C. counter to pick up M.A.C.'s Fluidlines in Frostlite and Graphic Brown. These two gel eyeliners make a long lasting and effortless eyeliner but also a killer base. As a base, have a look at how gorgeous M.A.C.'s Blue Brown pigment looks on top. Blue Brown pigment gives the eye a glossy wet look that is reminiscent of an exotic Egyptian Scarab. Divine! Another M.A.C. eye essential for the season of beguilling magnetism is the Glitter Eye Liner in Peacocky. This bejewelled tourquise liner just takes your look into fun party mode without compromising on class.

Beauty Marked! was also able to recreate the eyes of the season with the assistance of BECCA Line and Illuminate Pencil in Mustique. Mustique is a dual ended pencil with a shimmery rich brown eyeliner on one end and a pearly pink highlighter on the other. This long wearing pencil can be smudged and blended to create a scintillating eye. Cover Girl Eye Slicks gel eye colour pencil in Glistening Gold is a marvelous, totally not gaudy gold, for the corners of the inner eye that adds sparkle.

Lips

No self respecting doyen of beauty would be without the perfect gloss in her arsenal. What's Haute this season are moisterising lip glosses packed with sensational shine. Trucco Divinyls Lip Gloss in Baby Doll, is that perfect warm, super pigmented, shimmery pink gloss that you have always been looking for. M.A.C. Lip Gelee in Gemshine, from the Jewelescent Collection, is another absolute "must have". This bronzey peach gloss with silver microsparkle just exudes opulence that so befits this look. Divine!

Body & Hair

Creative Scentsations Hand and Body Lotion in Vanilla Shimmer by Creative is an ultra affordable bit of luxuriousness to enswathe yourself in. Brilliance Powder in Bronze Satin from The Body Shop is a "big girls" fairy dust wand that casts the most glorious glittery spell over you for those magical Summer evenings. Lush Glam Rock Hair Glitter. What fun! This round block of bicarbonate glittery gorgeousness smells unreal and when lightly stroked through your hair deposits masses of sparkles which are guaranteed to rock on as long as you do!

Have fun, fun, fun, fun with this Beauty Marked! Haute look for the season. After all, that's what it's all about!

"Now What Blush Am I Meant To Wear With This Lipstick?"

You've found your Holy Grail of lipsticks and blush, but they don't actually go together. Ugh ... now what? Beauty Marked! has picked a few fabbo lip and cheek combinations for you and hopefully taken some of the guess work out of finding the perfect match. Plus, don't forget, you can always be creative and mix and match the unconventional with the traditional and rock it like the hottest thing this season and have it work. We have coupled a few classic products together and encourage you to check out some of the hottest new dual cheek and lip products, just to be sure to be sure... Wink.

Red lips always look fantastic with hint of a natural red rose flush.

• NARS Creme Blush in Turkish Red
• OPI Lipstick in Most Honorable Red
• Naked Kiss Plump + Polish Lipstick in Diva 1

Rosy bronze or plummy bronze lips look extra special with bronzy blushes with a bit of shimmer.

• NARS Powder Blush in Oasis
• The Body Shop Cheek Blush Creme in Rose Dore'
• Elizabeth Arden Ceramide Plump Perfect Lipstick in Perfect Currant

Pink cheeks adore a pinky lip especially when they have a bit of a warm golden shimmer added for good measure.

• Cargo Powder Blush in Catalina
• BECCA Glossy Lip Tint in Flirtini
• Lip Fusion in Kiss by Fusion Beauty

Apricots, oranges and pinky Peach blushes are breathtaking with a peachy- pink coral lip.

• BECCA Lip and Cheek Creme in Petal
• MAC Lip Varnish in Hard Coral
• Bloom Powder Blush in Rosebud
• Max Factor Lasting Colour Lipstick in Pink Brandy

Beauty Marked! also believes that by having a few dual lip/cheek products in your arsenal, you will, forevermore, be free of the "what lip with what blush?" conundrum... That's got to be a good thing!

Just a few of BM!'s Favourite Multi-Use products

• Stila - Convertible Colour in Petunia, Lillium and Rose
• Bobbi Brown - Pot Rouge for Lips and Cheeks in Blushed Rose
• BECCA - Lip and Cheek Creme in Rosebud
• NARS - The Multiple in Sumatra
• Bloom - Sheer Colour Cream in Who Me?
• M.A.C Cream Colour Base in Fabulush

**NARS, Stila, and Lip Fusion cosmetics are available from Mecca Cosmetica Australia-wide. Bobbi Brown is available from select David Jones Stores nationally.

Beauty Marked! Bombshell Beauty 101

• BM! Beauty Lesson #1
• BM! Beauty Lesson #2

BM! Beauty Lesson #1

Bombshell Beauty is all about self-assuredness, great grooming, and a generous spirit. It's all about you! The most important thing to remember about being a Bombshell Beauty is that at the core of breathtaking beauty is a heartfelt smile. Everything else from there is just "old school" Beauty Marked!Bombshell Beauty basics 101.

A Beauty Marked! Bombshell is one who pays attention to the little things. A Beauty Marked! Bombshell harnesses all the finer beauty details and utilises them to showcase her inner beauty. Beauty is, absolutely, in the detail.

The basics:

Sunscreen is an absolute must. It matters not if you think you'll be indoors most of the day or if it's looking a bit overcast when you start your day. When it comes to sunscreen, "if it's not on... it's not on". Think nothing of adding a protective layer of sun block, with a decent SPF, prior to applying your makeup in the mornings. Clinique Super City Block SPF 30+ is a great oil free option that also doubles as a primer.

Speaking of primers, there's certainly nothing like a good primer to prep the best canvas in anticipation for your makeup. Primers serve many purposes. For instance, they add longevity to your makeup and allow it to apply and sit better on your face. A good primer can fill in fine lines and pores, and help keep shine at bay. Clarins Instant Smooth Perfecting Touch is one such primer not to be missed. The next step is to apply all the requisite foundation bits. BECCA's 3-Step Skin Perfecting Make-Up System has, easily, the widest range of shades available. You will be pretty hard pressed not to find your perfect foundation match in the myriad of colours that comprise BECCA Luminous and Stick foundations, Concealers, and Fine Loose Finishing powders. If wearing foundation is not your thing and you do like a bit of colour on your skin Beauty Marked! would love to introduce you to Vani-T Body Custard. This little gem is a bronzing moisturiser with a hint of active self tanner for a healthy looking glow. Ideal for combating the dreaded post lurgy pallor.

As for the brows, they not only frame our face, but set the tone for our image. A Beauty Marked! Bombshell Beauty is uncompromising when it comes to her brows. Brows are to be immaculately groomed and maintained. Rubis Slant Point Tweezers (available from www.datelinecity.com) are the Bentleys of brow tools. Great tweezers are the one brow tool one shouldn't be without. We recommend that every Beauty Marked! Bombshell visit a highly recommended brow specialist at least once in her life. Use your tweezers to maintain the expert shape created by a brow specialist and to disappear any rogue strays. Brows may benefit from a wee bit of subtle filling in, quite possibly due to a variety of reasons, stemming from genetics, ill health, stress, or overzealous plucking. Brow powders often give a more natural finish to our cherished arches, but quality pencils can also do the trick. Do keep in mind, that black pencils and powders aren't ever called for in defining the brows, even if your hair is black. Black can look a tad Marxian (as in Groucho Marx-ian) and harsh. DuWop Browwow is a natty mirrored compact filled with a defining powder paired with a finishing gloss for shine and control and a shimmer cream to highlight the brow bone. DuWop Browwow is available from MECCA Cosmetica Australia-wide. Pencil-wise, checkout The Body Shop Brow Definer for a long-lasting, super pigmented pencil.

It's all about the lashes for a Beauty Marked Bombshell. It's imperative that eyelashes be va Va Voom gorgeous. Lashes are to be curled to perfection and lovingly caressed by lashings of mascara. Beauty Marked! is quite taken by Max Factor Masterpiece Volume & Defining Mascara. The fantastic thing about Max Factor Masterpiece Mascara is not only it's groovy rubber wand, but that it gets even better with use. Add a tad of alluring, polished colour to your lashes with YSL Mascara Longuer Intense in Purple. On initial approach this gorgeous purple mascara looks like most other quality dark mascaras, but on closer inspection, it's true, captivating brilliance is revealed. If your concerned with the length of your lashes or feel they are sparser than you'd like, Elizabeth Arden Lash Optimizer is for you. Elizabeth Arden Lash Optimizer is a lash primer with conditioners. This primer optimizes the look of your lashes by enhancing the effect of your mascara. When applied under your mascara, the eyelashes appear thicker and longer. If you're a waterproof mascara kinda gal, and still searching for your Holy Grail WP mascara, then you will just adore Clarins Fix Mascara. Clarins Fix Mascara waterproofs your favourite mascara. This little Clarins number is applied, after you have used your preferred mascara, in a thin, but mega effective, final coat. Ta da! Waterproofed lashes!

BM! Beauty Lesson #2

A Beauty Marked! Bombshell's eyes are elegant and devastatingly classy. The lids are awash with classic, pigment-rich, shadows and well placed liner. If you prefer a more streamline eyeshadow collection, having a few eyeshadow palettes on hand will be the way to go. The Body Shop Shimmer Cubes are a Beauty Marked! Bombshell's staple. TBS Shimmer Cube Palette 07 is a great choice. It consists of Argyle Pink, Rich Bronze, Ruby, and Silver separate shimmer cubes that can be used both wet and dry. Bobbi Brown LE Gold Shimmer Brick Compact is a lovely palette of five golden pressed-powder stripes that can be used individually or swirled together for a divine un-garish gold. The Bobbi Brown Gold Shimmer Brick Compact can be used on the eyes and makes a fierce highlighter for the rest of the face as well. Eyeliner certainly has a place in the Beauty Marked! Bombshell's repertoire. Eyes lined to perfection add much appreciated definition to your face. If you fancy liquid eyeliner, Beauty Marked! recommends you have a squizz at Bloom Liquid Eyeliner in Ebony Brown. Bloom's Ebony Brown liquid liner is pigment packed, just that little bit different and slightly more subtle than straight black liquid liner. For long-wearing, hard working eyeliners, that don't budge, Beauty Marked! wouldn't consider being without Bobbi Brown Gel Eyeliners in both Graphite Shimmer and Violet Ink. Bobbi Brown's Graphite Shimmer and Violet Ink are two gel liners that are exceedingly pretty and extraordinarily long-lasting. They can even handle tight lining and the waterline without a hitch. Pencil lined eyes are also alluring. Clinique Cream Shaper Starry Plum is your "must have" coolish plum liner with a modicum of shimmer that applies like a dream and will hang around until you ask it to stand down. Ever wish your favourite eyeshadow or pigment came as an eyeliner? Well thanks to ModelCo Magic Water Powder To Line, you can now easily transform eyeshadow into a water resistant eyeliner. This nifty little box of ModelCo "magic" comes with it's own mini mixing dish and brush. How handy is that?

The Beauty Marked! Bombshell Beauty's blush can vary from the cheek of the innocent to the emboldened. It's all about what excites you at the time. Bourjois Paris is back in town and still making it's wonderful baked, highly pigmented blushes we remember. Bourjois blush in Brun Illusion is a gorgeous little shimmery number to take note of. BECCA Creme Blush in Lotus is divine worn solo, but takes on a whole new dimension, when a bit of BECCA Pressed Shimmer Powder in Athena is gracefully brushed on top. Divine!

Lips in mint condition are a Beauty Marked! Bombshell Beauty's trademark. Be they nude, classic red, or many colours in between. The one thing we do know is that a lady and her lip gloss are never parted. In keeping with this tradition, Cover Girl Outlast Double in Bronze Goddess is a long-lasting lip gloss that is sure to stay faithful to you throughout the day. The quintessential red lip is synonymous with Bombshell beauty. M.A.C. Lustre Lipstick Rouge Noir is just that red. Elizabeth Arden Jewels & Velvet Compact for Lips immediately caught Beauty Marked!'s eye. This sophisticated red quilted case filled with four jewel-tone shades of lipstick in Elizabeth Arden's Plump Perfect formula delivers lip plumping, moisturising, and voluptuous colour. For days when you choose to go without colour and sport your lips in all their deserved, well pampered perfection, [A'kin] Sweet Blossom & Jojoba Pure Essential Lip Balm is a fantastic way to soothe, soften, and protect the lips from the elements.

To finish it all off, a Beauty Marked! Bombshell Beauty may like to spritz her hair in Narciso Rodriguez - for Her Hair Mist for the ultimate in glamour. Her Hair Mist refines and polishes the hair, is infused with Narciso Rodriquez signature scent, Her, and is available from selected MYER stores nationally. This special touch provides beauty and grace that lingers. Need we say more?

Always remember, ladies, that the hallmark of a Bombshell Beauty is that she remains uncompromisingly true to herself and reflects outwardly the abundance of beauty that lies within. The real lesson to be learned in Beauty Marked! Bombshell Beauty Basics 101, is that You Are Beautiful!