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EYELASH EXTENSIONS AND MAKEUP – EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

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Eyelash extensions certainly have their perks. They make it possible to flaunt thick, lush lashes at all hours of the day, keep our eyes looking huge and totally help us pull off a no-makeup makeup look when we’re actually wearing no-makeup (because fake lashes don’t count as makeup, right?). But even when we have extensions, we sometimes want to wear more makeup. But what are the rules to putting on makeup with eyelash extensions? What products should be avoided, and what products won’t damage our precious lashes? Because obviously we’d hate to have them  removed . RULE 1: Avoid oil. Oil can cause the glue in extensions to break down. In addition to using oil-free makeup, you need to make sure that your makeup remover and daily skin regimen is oil-free as well.  Cristina Monaco , PA-C specializing in cosmetic dermatology at the  Schweiger Dermatology Group   explains, “ Using a makeup remover that is oil based will cause those lashes to slide right off.” E ven though these

Spray Tanning is for All Skin Tones

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Yep, Even You Lovely, Dark-Skinned Beauties Close your eyes and think of spray tans and the people who get them. Do you immediately think of a blonde woman with a sun-kissed glow? Or perhaps a fair-haired man lounging, tanned, on a beach somewhere? Possibly. But spray tans are so much more versatile than that. Spray Tans by Kathryn’s very own founder, Kathryn herself, is a gorgeous woman of Italian and African American descent. She, along with others, have found numerous benefits to spray tanning. Spray Tanning for all Complexions But isn’t the point of spray tanning to get, well, darker? Yes, but spray tanning, while of course darkening skin pigment, also serves other purposes. Alexis Bennett in  this article  for  Self , says she was born with a “naturally deep caramel” skin tone, and had never thought of getting a spray tan until watching reality TV, when she saw someone with her complexion getting a spray tan. She decided to try it. “What I loved the most was t